IGN - Which era of Metroid games comes out on top?
Game developers have already started to confirm that they will support the Nintendo Switch 2 with their future titles.
Hanzala from eXputer: "As Nintendo takes out 20 years' worth of stuff from Garry's Mod, I watch in shock, thinking why it continues to hurt and discourage its fans."
The irony that some of the most disgusting business practices come from companies like Disney or Nintendo, i can't even begin to understand what terrible damage was Garrys Mod making to Nintendo bottom line, imho they're getting pretty nervous about where they're heading in the future, handhelds are no longer something exclusive to Nintendo, from Steam Deck to many others, now you can play the latest games and pay a fraction of the price on Steam sales, so it's up to their exclusives, which just on their own would make hard to justify purchasing a closed overpriced hardware with outrageous price policies (Super Mario Odyssey is still 60 euro 6 years later!), and as a home console they're always underperforming compared to Sony or Xbox.
i cam guarantee you, that their exclusives alone is what drives switch sales. they sell in the 10s of millions of copies.
nintendo created their franchises to be sort of nostalgia driven, exclusive only on nintendo.
people will always buy the pkmn games as they always bring in new younger fans amd is family friendly
mario kart, the same thing, mario games in general.
zelda games are system sellers. animal crossing for the casual gamers.
nintendo doesnt need third vame devs essentially. they made sure with the switch and the limitations that they looked more to pc ps and xbox.
its sad, but nintendo is more than fine with what they're doing. they positioned themselves to appeal to the more casual gamers.
but to your point, im not sure why they're doing this rly.
Look at how they handled Nintendo games being streamed or uploaded on YouTube in the past. They killed Yuzu and Citra even when they had nothing to do with ToTK being leaked, not to mention it was basically unplayable on emulation the week it was leaked. Smash Bros tournament, that was fairly recent. They shut down their online services without any care for purchases made. I bought a switch after skipping their last 2 consoles and handhelds but I don't plan on buying anything Nintendo in the future. They take things to the extremes, they legitimately hate their fans. They're honestly right up there with the likes of Acti, EA, and Ubi, only difference is that they disguise themselves as being family friendly all the while being shady.
Super Metroid was a monumental triumph of interactive art, a game that achieved new heights in presentation, level design, and pacing, and despite a few flaws, manages to hold up astoundingly well to this day.
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.