Soundwave said:
Metroid is just too hard of a concept to get into. It's slow, it's tedious at times, it's solitary. It's a great game, but it's not very mass market friendly. It's not much of a surprise that the "Metroid Prime" on GameCube or even with the red-hot Wii behind it, never really could fill the void that GoldenEye did on the N64 or do what Halo did for the XBox. |
On the nose. Metroid is like Star Trek. As Halo, being a simliar type of game to Metroid Prime, is to Star Wars.
Star Wars will normally out do Star Trek. In box office money. This Genre type, is just more beloved by a larger people. Because the many type of people it hits.
Examples: Star Wars caters to people who want action. People who will watch anything. As long as it has action. Even if the story doesn't exsist. Or it's a low budget unknown movie. IE: Transformers film franchise, Nemesis movie franchise, for unknown low budget action films. Star Wars stories are simple and straight forward. Bad team VS Good team. The characters are beloved. Each section hits different people.
Star Trek is different. Examples: Star Trek caters to intelecual types. People who like to see conflict resolved through talking. Capt. Picard will do lectures, over a lightsaber fight. The characters are smart. The tech of the show defines the stories plots and outcome. IE: It can be harder for people to watch an episode. Because Data will solve the problem, by using a tech reason. If you don't really get it, you won't really like the show. It be like if CSI explaned and showed how they do DNA test. And never did the cool CGI zoom ins. And explained it in lamens terms. You wouldn't find it compelling. More like a college course. Yes, Star Trek does have action. That can either equal or exceed Star Wars, in many ways. But it's not there all the time. So people who would like Star Wars, won't all like Star Trek.
Metroid is a slow paced FPS shooter. Or sidescroller. Filled with text, and back tracking. Not a lot of people want that. They want Master Chief. Beloved characters kicking ass. People who like Star Wars Battlefront. Samus can and does kick ass. But not in the same way. If they change Metroid. Then the series is just like Resident Evil. Going for a new audiance. But Capcom is never happy with RE. Because they know they lost the people who want RE0-3. If they were happy. They never try to constantly cater to people who want those games, in their advertisments. They stick to action over horror. And not try to say it's a scary game.
