| Abishai92 said: i was actually just thinking about how much i'd love a new 2-D metroid this morning. we haven't had squat since zero mission, which was like what? '04? as for 3D, Metroid Prime is my favorite console game ever, but with echoes and corruption retro just bit off more than they could chew. echoes was great overall but suffered so much by the implementation of the ammo system for the beams, and corruption just tried too much to be a shooter and ended up losing so much of the metroid atmosphere with its attempt at being a halo clone in a couple of places, along with intrusive character interaction. corruption had some great new characters that it implemented, but the stupid AI and GF commander popping up every time you entered your ship was just too much. worse than all of that combined though, was the ridiculous load times for the doors. in prime 1 and 2, you would occasionally have to wait an extra second for the door to open. in corruption, it was not uncommon to wait a solid 5-15 seconds or so for the next room to load! it really just killed the atmosphere for me. and zelda? i would love to get one for wii. Twilight princess ranks among my favorite games ever, but it was too easy to nitpick many aspects of it, especially graphically, where the artistry is gorgeous, but technically, it's incredibly obvious this is a 'cube port. galaxy is so far the only game i have that allows me to feel that the wii is capable of serious eye-candy, and i hope that changes soon. speaking of which, i've got my mario fix with galaxy. i think i can put many many hours still into it before i get tired, so no rush for a new mario |
I personally have never had to wait more than 5 seconds for a door to open in prime 3, prime 1 & 2 on the other hand frequently gave me ~20 second loading times. I'd also like to more about this 'stupid A.I' you mention. If your talking about the enemies; they retreat, duck and use cover and are certainly smarter than any of the typical enemies in the previous primes and if you mean the GF soldiers the same goes for them. I found them to be smarter than Halos friendly A.I ( of course Metroids were required to do less but i never had an issue). I didn't like it as much as the first Prime but I found it to be better than Prime 2 as well as all of the 2D games. It's okay if you don't agree and i can sympathize to an extent why, but many of your reasons why are problems that simply don't exist.
Anyway, as far as a new Mario goes we only ge one main Mario platformer per generation and it's been like this since the SNES. A 2D Metroid would be nice but i'd prefer a Zelda as it's been ~4 years since TP and we're on cue for another one.
