sc94597 said:
Onyxmeth said:
sc94597 said:
Slash said:
I think Metroid is taking alittle break for now. |
Go look at superchunks sig. |
That's speculation what's in his sig. Confirmation is Nintendo announcing a new Metroid. To be honest, I'd like a small hiatus to give other franchises and new IPs a chance at some development time. We've had 4 Metroid Prime games in five years. It's almost in yearly additions territory like Madden and Call of Duty. In comparison we get usually one or at most two Zelda games in the same time frame. Genius takes time and reinvention of a series takes time also. Let's all hope other IPs get some star time this gen and not the same couple of franchises receiving all the attention. |
We actually had 3 zelda's in the last 5 years. We had 5 metroid game Fusion,Hunters,Metroid Prime 1,2,3. 2 of these games were made by a different developers. All of these games were of high quality. The difference between CoD and metroid is that some of the games in CoD sucked such as 3 and 5 is planned to suck. Now The worse metroid game is hunters imo and that was a very good game still. Hunters also got a rating of 84% on game rankings. http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/920760.asp |
I purposely said Metroid Prime because I wasn't including Fusion since it's radically different as I also didn't include Metroid Prime Pinball for the same reason. If you look at the Metroid Prime games critically, they get increasingly lower scores as time passes. You can chalk that up to reviewer bias or understand that maybe Metroid isn't feeling so fresh anymore. If you look at reviews for Metroid Prime 3, you'll actually notice a trend of reviewers attitudes being "been there done that". Metroid needs a break and others need to shine. That will make Metroid feel fresh again 3-5 years from now in a grand return. If you can't understand why Prime felt so fresh it was because it was a great game to a series we hadn't seen in almost 10 years. Metroid is oversaturated right now and Nintendo only has so many developers to work on projects. I would enjoy new IPs or a fresh perspective of overlooked franchises, and leave characters like Samus to rest a bit for now and come back stronger than ever. Give me a killer Kirby console title for gods sake! It's been FOREVER!
