am i the only person on planet earth that can't seem to like any metroid?

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vlad321 said:

ilovetogame said:
while i certainly like the metroid games a lot, i do have to disagree with the seemingly universal opinion that super metroid is one of the best games ever. certainly an amazing game, but i wouldn't go quite so far to say one of the top few ever. but the metroid series is pretty much the highest quality franchise in gaming. there isn't a single not-great metroid. even mario and zelda franchises have some off games.

 

This. Only Diablo and Half-Life can boast such an achievement and they are young when compared to Metroid.

 

I always felt that the original Diablo sucked donkey balls. The second one was fun, but it really hasn't aged gracefully enough for me to put it on the pedestal you seem to have it on.

As for Metroid, it's about exploration punctuated with boss fights. If you aren't an explorer, you aren't going to much appreciate it. That's okay. You can have your linear shoot-'em-ups, and I'll have my lovely adventure games (and prehaps a sample of your shoot-'em-ups here and there).