I don't want Retro to make the next Metroid game.

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spemanig said:

Samus Aran said:
Super Metroid is one of the worst selling metroid games. And platforming in Other M was clunkier than in Prime.
Third person ruins the immersion way too much.

Super Metroid is also arguably the best Metroid game. Everything was bad in Other M. Other M shouldn't ever be used as an example for anything in Metroid. Look at 3D Mario, or literally any successful 3D platformer, since that is half of what the Metroid franchise is based on. Linear platforming. That's how 3D Metroid should be, and that is completely lacking in the Prime Trilogy.

3rd Person doesn't ruin anything. It didn't ruin the immersion in and of the 2D Metroid games, and adding a 3rd dimention doesn't somehow change that. And it definitely wasn't the reason Other M was bad. Metroid is a 3rd person franchise, and the Prime trilogy's jump into 1st person added nothing and took out many things. Nothing you do in the 1st person in that game gains anything from switching to the first person, aside from debatably the Scan Visor. In that case, a Metroid game could simply put you in first person when using it, just like how you're put into first person whenever you're using the Morph Ball. Or they could just let you scan things in the 3rd person. All the combat visors gain nothing from being in the 1st person, and could just be done in the 3rd person.

I'd argue it's much more immersive to see through a character's eyes than to be watching them in third person from a disembodied camera.