Did you skip the Metroid Prime series because it was First-Person?

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While I can understand Valkyria00's opinion on FPS games (I really only like Battlefield's style so far), I wholeheartedly disagree that a 3rd person view of a Metroid game would be better.

The classic 2D Metroids were awesome for what they are with Super Metroid as the top of its class. However, the realism and immersion you get with the Prime series is so much better in every way its inconceivable how someone who likes Metroid game play wouldn't immediately like these games.

I think you really should try Metroid Prime again and at least play for a couple hours. This should easily get you past the "training" part of the game and into the real game. You can easily get it off of ebay for a few dollars.

Also, Prime games are NOT FPS. They are FP Action-Adventure. Its just that there are no other games that really fit that genre so no one has it as an option in their lists so it either gets classified as FPS or Action game. FPS games are directed, simple, quick action/response shooting sprees. Metroid Prime is much closer to Zelda or similar than any FPS game.