| Samus Aran said: Nintendo wouldn't have made Metroid: Other M or Metroid Prime: Federation Force if they made decisions that made sense from a corporate viewpoint. Prime 3 sold more than Prime 2. Fusion sold more than Super Metroid. 1.9M sales aren't as terrible as most people seem to think here. Not every game can be a Mario or Zelda. And I'm confident that an ambitious new Metroid game (FPA or 2.5D) can sell over 2M now after the long break (last good Metroid game was 2007). I don't even mind if the series goes on a break, but instead of doing that they're releasing shovelware. I'd rather have no Metroid game than Other M or Federation Force. It only destroys the confidence fans have in the franchise and will do more harm than good in the long run. So yeah, people suggesting Metroid should become a third person shooter or going to destroy the franchise if they keep it up. Besides, I can think of many cool things to add to a FPA Metroid game with the gamepad, I can't think of anything cool with a third person shooter Metroid. Nintendo just needs to advertise their games correctly. I'd even be glad with Metroid Maker DLC to Super Mario Maker (or its sequel). Other M bombed (most of the copies were sold at a very low price unlike other Metroid games that never dropped in price) because fans didn't want such a drastic new experience that is totally un-metroid. Federation Force will probably bomb even harder. |
Other M wasn't a TPS. Other M didn't bomb because "fans didn't want a drastic change." Other M bombed because it was a shit game with a shit story and shit controls for shit gameplay with shit level design. You couldn't try harder to make a worse game. A TPS Metroid not made by incompitent idiots and the team behind DoA: Extreme Beach volleyball would do much better, and franky, I'm sure it would do better than Prime. TPS is in now. A TPS wouldn't destroy anything but your heart. It would elevate the franchise even higher if done right. And even higher still if they just scrapped the absolute mess of a canon the franchise has now thanks to Fusion, Zero Mission, and Other M and just rebooted the whole thing.
Like someone else said in this thread, just because Metroid was done in FP first and it was good doesn't mean it couldn't be done even better in TPS.
