What Zelda and Metroid for the 3DS should be

[Mr Khan]

RolStoppable said:

Conegamer said:

But if the WiiU does flop (which it most likely won't), then they'll be too scared to go back to what they used to do in fear of alienating their new fans, disappointing old-time fans and not drawing in the new crowd, so they'll go onto creating something completely different anyway.

I just don't see it happening, sadly. But let's face it. If you want to play a game like Super Metroid or Zelda 1, play Super Metroid or Zelda 1. They aren't going anyway...

If the Wii U flops, then Nintendo will have disappointed pretty much everyone. Otherwise the Wii U wouldn't have flopped. Please think before you post.

I like your final thought. If I want to play games that are like the old ones, I should just keep playing the old ones. Meanwhile, when I say that one 3D Mario game per console is enough, I have people raging at me.

It's been 20 years since ALttP and almost 20 years since Super Metroid. The era of 2D games came to a sudden end with the advent of 3D. Since then 2D games were never really allowed to benefit from the technological progress. There's at best a handful of exceptions, everything else has either been never given a chance or been transformed into something else. This decision was made solely by developers, not the gamers. The games didn't stop selling, they were stopped being made. It's about time that these classics get a fair chance to prove themselves in today's market. I am confident that they would succeed.

Whatever happened to hope, i ask? I'll grant that Aonuma needs a smack in the head for ever contemplating Skyward Sword *not* being a Motion Plus game, but otherwise i think the results will speak for themselves. Other M's sales (which given likely high costs for all that CG, meant it was unprofitable) will likely either scare Nintendo off of that direction for Metroid, or just scare them off Metroid (and we can only pray its not the latter)

And while there are demands of continuous excellence from Zelda, we need to examine how Skyward Sword fares in the market. Remember that Twilight Princess is the best-selling game, so that as far as Nintendo can be expected to know, that's the ideal formula