Thousands of Fans Outraged About Metroid’s Direction They’re Petitioning to Get Them Cancelled

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Nintendo, in it’s E3 2015 Direct, showed off two Metroid games after having not released a title in the series since Metroid: Other M for the Wii in 2010. It should have been a glorious, beautiful return to form – bringing a fan favourite franchise back from the dead to give new life to Samus’s adventures through pirate infested space – but instead it was met with a Change.org petition to cancel the games.Do I agree with this reaction? Not necessarily, but I can definitely see where it’s coming from. What was once an isolating, terrifying and thought-provoking quest into deep space has been strapped on to a multiplayer shoot-em-up, and a 3v3 space soccer simulator. Of course, we’ve seen but a few seconds of each game, and it isn’t fair to completely write them off without first at least playing them – but let’s think about them for a second.

[obener]

Haters gonna hate?

[MrSwankSinatra]

The hate is perfectly justified.

[RocknRolla]

Agreed. Nintendo switched to digital events to stop problems and awkward moments, but this one just fell flat.

The hate is completely justified.

[joab777]

If they revealed these alongside a new Metro I'd game, then
...well, no...not even then. It's like they are using the Metro I'd name to sell games. Could have called them something else entirely.

[Utalkin2me]

I quit watching the Nintendo direct it was so bad. I was really disappointed in what they had to show. I had high hopes too.

[DragonKnight]

Thank God for Axiom Verge then. Hope the guy that made it made good money off it and continues the series. If Nintendo won't make the Metroid game everyone wants, someone else will.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[jholden3249]

No it's not. People are morons if they think this is actually Nintendo's plans for the franchise.

It's just a little spin off game. We all know retro is working on a proper entry for Wii U. This is just a little stopgap game based in the Metroid Universe, like hey guys you like a metroid right? We'll have super missiles and beams and space world and it will feel nice and familiar to you.

Gosh darn people are idiots. Just enjoy the little side game they're giving us until the real one comes out. It's not like this is theif "big Metroid reveal". Once the proper game is ready they'll show it!

Not to mention this game actually looks fun!

[Lightning Mr Bubbles]

I'm telling you, it's the end of days for Nintendo. Maybe

[ShinMaster]

Fans: "New Metroid game please"

Nintendo: "Here's a spin off. On 3DS. No Metroid gameplay mechanics, atmosphere or exploration. And no Samus Aran".

wtf

[TheDivine]

Why waste time, money, and marketing on a side game nobody wants. The same dev could've easily made a 2d Metroid or whatever else. Nintendo doesn't have a clue and Iwata/Myamoto need to step down. Give Myamoto an office to make whatever he wants with zero input on other company functions and games.

They let killer ip's like Kid Icarus, Metroid, and The Last Story rot and pay to produce this garbage?

This isn't Metroid.

[Studio-YaMi]

I don't see anyone talking about it here so I'll be the one to say it,Nintendo needs to ditch those stupid brain-washing amiibo toys,they are catering mostly to collectors and the kids,if they focused more on making their games better instead of focusing so much on these shitty amiibos then you would have gotten a great game focused event instead of a farce one riddled with these stupid toys on every freaking game.

Nintendo fans,it's YOUR fault that this event sucked,you jumped on the bandwagon that is "Amiibos" and look how it turned back to bite you in the ass,now Nintendo is giving up on resources in order to make these and stick them to every game possible on the freaking console.

it's like "hey,you want that awesome Link costume for your smash game,or want to have retro Mario invading your game,buy this Amiibo figure for 18 dollars or so and you'll get just that PLUS the figure! YAY :D"

When in reality they could have spared us that with a simple dlc ranging from 2 dollars to 5 dollars instead of forcing me to buy this stupid little figure to cash in on another 15 dollars.

The Amiibo shit needs to stop! :|

[TheTwelve]

No company in their right minds would stop producing something that makes them so much money. Amiibos are here to stay but Nintendo should invest their money into better directions for the rest of us.

[garrettbobbyferguson]

You realize that manufacturing toys and producing games are two separate entities and Nintendo has been doing this for ages, right?

[Studio-YaMi]

@garret
I never said that nintendo should stop making "toys",don't try to be a smartass,I was mainly talking about the "Amiibos" and how they are getting first priority over anything else.

[SilentNegotiator]

More like, "fans gonna tell Nintendo what they actually want when they completely screw up and try to give them something that is no where near what they've been asking for for years".

Nintendo has disconnected too much with its fans and the industry as a whole. It's great that they're still doing their thing in the handheld market, but as far as their consoles have gone...it has been more misses than hits.

[GavinHarlow]

Please understand.......

[KwietStorm_BLM]

Overused memes gonna get overused?

[bondigamer]

I thought Nintendo Digital Event this morning was pretty weak, but to announce two Medtroid titles that are basically just cashing in on the series name, I can understand why fans are pissed off. That doesn't warrant a petition to cancel a game, but still...

[obener]

Yeah but we can't have everything we want in life, correct?

[MrSwankSinatra]

Half of those game we knew were coming for the past 2-3 years and the other half was full of crap no one asked for.

[jholden3249]

And yet I bet your favorite games of all time were games you never asked for. It's their job to make games we never knew we wanted until we play, NOT to take orders like a table waitress. Because if there's one thing fans want, it's the SAME REGURGITATED CRAP OVER AND OVER. And then complain that they don't do anything new!

So tired of hearing people say this isn't what they asked for. You want somebody to take orders go to Denny's. If you want to play video games, let the men do what they do best and make fun games. Did anyone ASK a for Metroid Prime? Or Pikmin? Or Splatoon? And yet these are some of the greatest Nintendo games ever made.

So please could you at least try to not automatically dismiss the game just because it doesn't conform perfectly into the cookie-cutter image that you had in mind? I understand that this game will probably not live up to a main series entry. Ok, not probably, it WON'T. But then again I don't think it's supposed to! This is just a little side game they're giving us in the meantime. Should be happy they're paying attention to the franchise- this is good!

But you guys keep spazzing out every time they announce a Metroid game of any kind, or even games by known Prime developers just because it's not Metroid, and they might toss the franchise in the permanent trashcan. On the other hand if people acted like rational human beings and judged this game based on its merits once they learn more about it rather than panning the game after a 10 second preview, and maybe even act a little bit excited that Nintendo has not forgotten the franchise, perhaps Nintendo would be more inclined to tell us about that new mainline entry they have coming on the Wii U rather than scrapping it entirely.

Good grief...

[fr0sty]

Sony seems to disagree...

[jholden3249]

Sony had a good conference. MS was better with the BC. But they actually announced very very little themselves. I saw two announcements by Sony worth their salt- Last Guardian and Horizon Zero Dawn. The rest of the credit goes to developers like Bethesda and Square Enix. And many of those games will not be releasing until 2017 to 2018.

[MasterCornholio]

@j

I actually thought Sonys was better because of the games that were announced.

But that's just my opinion.

[Paulino30]

You're right, but don't give us that crap. Ain't nobody got time for that.

[SilentNegotiator]

Yeah, kinda like how Nintendo can't have my money for this game.

[Doge]

I'm pretty disappointed that it's not the Metroid game I expected to be announced. But a petition to cancel it? Get the hell outta here with that crap.

[fr0sty]

Can't hate on them... money and resources are being diverted into these projects that could be spent making a proper Metroid game.

[Doge]

We're talking about a rather large company here with a pretty large amount of cash and resources that can handle many projects simultaneously. Not an indie studio with like 3 people and a tiny budget.

[fr0sty]

Doesn't matter... taking any budget or time away from a proper metroid game to make spinoffs only makes the real thing take longer or makes it lower quality. Nintendo's resources are finite, so even if they have a lot of them, the gamers want metroid yesterday.

I'm really starting to think these AAA games are getting development shifted to the NX so it can launch with big name games early on. that was a big mistake they made with wii u, rushed hardware out long before software was ready.

[OtakuDJK1NG-Rory]

right a couple thousand yens fro 3DS game for Wii U game

LOL get out of here.

[_-EDMIX-_]

The press event was pure trash. That isn't Metroid, its another game with the same name.

They seem to think they can just release anything and call it the same name and all is well.

[franwex]

They did the same when Metroid was announce for the Gamecube as an FPS by an American Team. Yawn.

[Paulino30]

So you're comparing the metroid prime series with samus,exploration,upgrades, storyline and boss fights to a soccer spin off and a coop game without samus and n64 graphics.

It only takes 2 seconds to see these games are crap. Two completely different situations.
Just stop guy.

[franwex]

How do you know I'm a guy?

Actually, yes I am comparing-and NO I won't stop. No matter how butthurt you or other depressed fanboys get.

Before Metroid Prime first came out the last Metroid game on a console was Super Metroid and it was a masterpiece (still is).

Then years later a newly form American development team from Texas creates the next one as an FPS right after Halo. Fanbitches-like yourself-where crying non-stop and spewing the same usual bs-the Gamecube is DOOMED, Nintendo doesn't listen to fans, why does Nintendo keep raping my childhood in the ass, lets boycott, etc, etc....

Then Metroid came out and it was a masterpiece (not my personal favorite...I actually didn't like it-however I'm in the minority and I know it).

Now I'm not stoOpied. I understand that these new games are a different genre. But at that time we didn't know that Prime was going to be indeed a Metroid game. We figured it was going to be a Halo clone w/ Samus and basically a cheap answer to Microsoft's uber popular FPS franchise.

So basically no, they are not completely diferent situations. They are rather similar. Nintendo changed something and now you are crying. Yet you will still buy. Yawn.

[crazychris4124]

Just don't buy it. With poor sales they will learn their lesson...hopefully

[Metallox]

Not only poor sales but also a very, VERY poor reception.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Nintendo won't care a thing about the criticism towards this game, they are going to release it, anyway. However, all this negative feedback can accelerate the developmente of proper Metroid games, hopefully.

[vickers500]

Unlikely. When the game doesn't sell well, theyll probably think "derp, I guess people don't actually want a metroid game, we shouldn't make anymore. /derp"

This is kind of like what square enix did a year or two ago with that "big announcement" of the final fantasy 7 (remaster of pc version) coming to ps4.

Nintendos event was pure garbage IMO.

[Double_O_Revan]

I would like to think the same. However, they'll see poor sales as 'See?! People don't want Metroid Games after all. No point in funding another one.'

[Captain_Wormy]

Wow. Who at Nintendo even thought this game was a good idea?

[DonkeyDoner]

3ds print money casual will buy everything with nintento IP label on them

[Paulino30]

people on drugs..lol

[Ark_]

Meanwhile at Nintendos - wild 30th anniversary mario party.

Reggie (in panic) to staff:
"What the hell is going on here! You weren't supposed to it the mushroom decoration!"

[GreetingsfromCanada]

The end is nigh for Nintendo as a primary console dev.

[Metallox]

It was a terrible presentation, but it wasn't that bad to make collapse Nintendo's business.

[GreetingsfromCanada]

I mean this is the moment Nintendo jumps ship and becomes a mainly mobile dev, not die.

[SilentNegotiator]

They've done an incredibly iffy job with their console sales since the n64, though, but they usually ultimately make a profit with them.

If not for the big success of their handheld systems, it would be a big problem.

[Studio-YaMi]

You'd wish for that but it won't happen,thankfully.

[xwilldemise]

Lol sheesh, Nintendo fanboys are nothing to mess around with, this is the sh*t u get when u hurt their feelings lol I wanted a new Metroid as much as anyone else but this backlash is crazy. But hey, maybe I'm the crazy one here & maybe just possibly this will have their voices heard.

[Skankinruby]

Not falling for this crap again. I bought a Wii strictly for metroid other m and it was the biggest mistake of my life

[Zodiac]

I don't think i have ever seen a petition to cancel a game. I hope Nintendo is following and paying attention to the response to this digital event.

[davemyrose92]

The hate is justified fck Nintendo right now,,, that was the biggest garbage show everrrr, you just killed metroid one of the greatest franchises with this garbage, I agree 100/ Nintendo is the anti sonyyy

[DualWielding]

good for Nintendo that they didn't have a life presentation, otherwise they would have been booed out of the stage

[HexxedAvenger]

i think if they had a conference, people would have just left after the trailer.

[SilentNegotiator]

Their last couple of proper E3 conferences were awful and they knew it. They didn't stop doing those to be innovative; they stopped doing those avoid the embarrassment.

[DimensionalSound]

All 3k+ of those who signed this petition better not buy the games when they come out.

[OtakuDJK1NG-Rory]

oh trust me they will
all those no voice chat splatoon did

[maniacmayhem]

Couldn't believe that Nintendo conference. And I agree, this is just another game with Metroid slapped on for recognition.

[Gamer777]

I greatly enjoyed the Metroid Prime trilogy but I will not support this game. It has the Metroid Prime title slapped on it to try and draw fans in. The game looks cheap and gimmicky, even the art style is poor they should of called this game 'Chibiroid:Federation Trooper'! Jokes aside they should of just presented this as Federation Trooper and label it as a spin off.

[Big_Game_Hunters]

The petition should be to change the name, The game itself is fine, but i don't want metriod slapped onto random games for sales like Mario is.

[greenmeanie]

This game looks like complete crap! This coming from a major Metroid fan! I own ALL the Metroid games that have come out over the years. I will NOT be getting this crap! What is wrong with Nintendo? They are obviously trying to kill the wii u! We should have had a brand new 2d/3d hybrid Metroid game for the wii u. Instead we get this rushed POS for the 3ds. This crap looks like an N64 game! As a die hard Nintendo fan, I am NOT happy with Nintendo after E3 this year!

[tweet75]

whats next yarn metroid?

[G3n3raL86]

Well, we saw Yarn Samus stuff on Wolly World:D

[Relientk77]

Yarn Metroid lol

He shoots balls of yarn

[Zjet]

It's a spin off get over it, personally i'm looking forward to it, i couldn't give a crap that its metroid or not it's a co-op shooter for 3DS

[blackblades]

Might be gearing up for NX next year probably who knows.

[G3n3raL86]

I really want to believe that Retro is working on a proper Metroid title. We can expect a announcement via a ND, since ND are known for having suprises.

[comebackkid9891]

I'll sign lolz

[Darkfist]

hope for another "other m" thats the only metroid game i liked

[masterfox]

so after seeing the video for the first time I will just.......................... .....

http://www.reactiongifs.com...

[MetroidFREAK21]

Yep, I even signed it. This isn't even Metroid... Its trash, pure trash... I was so mad about that when they announced it... To have the balls to call that "Metroid Prime" pfft... Yeah right

[Lng101010]

Thousands of fans. Okay, that will make a dent.

[ManAnimalX]

Lol, I want to feel sorry for Nintendo fans, I do.

But its hard too, Why? because Nintendo has been screwing you fans since the Original Wii.

And most, most fans still are trying to hang on to Nintendo and refuse to admit that Nintendo has abandoned you.

You don't see it?, what more is it going to take?, its like an abused wife who refuses to leave her abusive husband.

You fans need to recognize and acknowledge with YOUR ACTIONS, not just your words, that Nintendo has ABANDONED the Core gamer.

I know, no one can make the games that Nintendo does, yea I agree, but they REFUSE to make them for you guys, what else are you going to do?

Casuals are still going to purchase Nintendo products and games, I'm sorry, I don't know why Nintendo doesn't care, I don't know why they keep saying there listening to you fans when there actions say the opposite.

But you gotta see your only going to continue to become more bitter, angry and dissatisfied.

Its not fair, but I'm assuming without saying it, Nintendo is holding back those titles for the NX, what other reason could there be?, hmm I'm sure its not just 1 thing, but I'm pretty sure the NX is 1 of them.

[Nodoze]

Metroid Federation FARCE!!! Nice move Nintendo!

[Bronxs15]

better than petitioning just don't buy it! you waste no time and effort and nintendo gets the message loud and clear.

[Nodoze]

Nintendo did the exact opposite of both Sony and Microsoft.

Sony fans have been asking for a FF7 remake, Shenmue 3, and The Last Guardian
Xbox fans have been asking for backwards compatibility, gears collection, etc

The fans voices made this happen

Nintendo just ignores what is being asked for and wonders why they are losing both market and mindshare.

Fans have been asking for a true Metroid game for Wii U
Fans have been asking for an HD collection for Super Mario Galaxy
Fans have been asking for a new Super Mario Galaxy
Fans have been asking for Animal Crossing on Wii U
Fans have been asking for better 3rd party support

The list could go on and on... the point is they are still asking and Nintendo is still NOT DELIVERING.

When you don't listen to your customers, THEY STOP BEING YOUR CUSTOMERS

Both Sony and Microsoft have really done an outstanding job this generation of listening to their fans and to the consumers. Microsoft made radical changes to their console to align to the market demands. Sony aligned software desires, and very importantly the entire architecture of the PS4 to meet fan and developer asks.

Nintendo released a Wii HD (thats what it is) which was a bit more powerful and called it a day.

Look I like the WiiU, but they have yet to produce a single title that justifies the controller second screen. It is a distraction, but they cannot admit that and make changes due to saving face.

IWATA needs to go. It is time for new blood at the healm. Someone who listens and explains to the Nintendo board that they need to make radical changes or they will end up being entirely irrelevant.

Look at Square Enix. They were heading WAY off course, pissing off fans, ignoring requests etc...new leadership and they are almost a new company. Their show this year proved that THEY LISTENED.

Wake up Nintendo.

[Bronxs15]

fans have also been asking for gamecube virtual console.

it's sad too that we don't have it considering gamecube, wii, and wii u are all similar in architecture .

microsoft gave its fans BC going from power pc to x86.

[Lukejrl]

The problem is not that these games are being made, it is that the true good ones are not. The major releases have mostly been mario games. We do not have a new Zelda or metroid, and star fox comes out 3 years after the console releases. that is terrible timing. i owned every nintendo console so i have invested money and time into nintendo.

we have purchased the console only for nintendo to tell us what we should want. not giving us return for buying it. this will be the last nintendo console i buy at launch

[WizzroSupreme]

I'm not insulted that this game exists, but I'm more than disappointed. This is no more than a confirmation of the fact that Nintendo's got no more Metroid love in it this generation and we might as well hold out to see if the NX does. It's no reason to bar anyone else from playing this game, but I sure won't be.

[Flames76]

Nintendo's days in the console industry are numbered.They need to get out now while they still have a little money.Put that money towards their handheld put their games on mobile,tablets,PS4,and the XOne.The Wii U is a flop here it is almost 3 years and its yet to hit 10 million units.Sells are so low they are doing abot 40,000 a month in america.It's a safe bet that the console they was working on the NX or whatever it was has been canceled