IGN - Which era of Metroid games comes out on top?
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
Danish from eXputer: "Nintendo has historically gone against player-made content and emulation of its games. This has done much to harm the company's image."
They need to stop announcing these mods and fan remakes until they're finished. Finish it, upload it, and then if Nintendo dmca's it tough shit. Once it's online, people can share it around, even if the original download gets taken down.
This is all coming from the mouth of short-sighted fandom and grifting madness.
No.... it wont. There is a clear defined reason why they don't. This is nothing new. Make your own shi7 from your own original ideas especially if you are trying to capitalize of it it. Duh.
Yeah, hire people that have zero respect or understanding for an established process. Wow. Yep. Totally makes sense.
My vote is for a new 2D Metroid. Like Jose said, Retro nailed it the first time with Metroid Prime. With Retro taking time to focus on 2D lately with Donkey Kong Country Returns and Tropical Freeze I would like to think that it was a warm up to a solid new take on a 2D Metroid game.
Like they all said, in the end if its a new 2D or 3D Metroid game I will be totally pumped and excited to play it!
super metroid destroys any other metroid game. 2D metroid > 3D metroid.
@Allsystemgamer - metroid prime was great imo, and so was metroid fusion, but super metroid is imo the greatest game i've ever played.
I hope 3DS gets a new Metroid game. I highly doubt it tho.
I know I'll get disagrees, but IMO 3D Metroid > 2D Metroid. 2D can never achieve the level of immersion that the Prime series had.You actually felt the isolation. Though 2D had more iconic Bosses (Mother Brain, Kraid and the sort). By the way, when I say 3D Metroid I exclude Other M, that game was just terrible.
I never played the 2D Metroid games and I never wanted to. The only thing I've ever liked where someone's in a spacesuit is the Alien series of films. Why? Because it's not really about space. It's about complacent humans being shown their own greed. It's a twist on the old haunted house murder mystery idea where people are picked off. The difference is that everyone knows the culprit but even all staying together would be no guarantee of safety because it's non-human and can't be reasoned with, can't be bought.
So I got a bit of a sense of that from the first Metroid Prime game. They could have called it Aliens really.
I played MP2: Echoes for a short while and felt that it had lost what I found interesting about the first game. Echoes was a sci-fi game, it wasn't one where the mystery of the level design or art direction was giving me a feeling of specialness.
I liked the first MP game on the Cube because it was more or less like playing Resident Evil crossed with Banjo Kazooie type upgrading.
It was the fact that the sci-fi was downplayed that endeared it to be. The synhthy music, the ice and fire worlds just like a Mario or Zelda game.
I doubt I'll ever feel the need to play another Metroid game. It can't add to what the first 3D one did for me without overdoing it. Only a reboot , a remimagining of the first Metroid Prime game but with different puzzles and extra rooms or an extra level would probably satisfy me. but I stress- it's not about being a sci-fi game for me. Maybe it is for you but, if it is, I bet there are other sci-fi games you prefer much more. In which case you are not a primary Metroid Prime fan. MP is about superb level design, puzzles, atmosphere, and music. The sci-fi is secondary.