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burninmylight on 18 June 2017
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mZuzek said:
burninmylight said:

The Metroid fanbase is the most one of the most insular, intolerant, socially inept, circle-jerking groups in all of gaming. To the overwhelming majority of it, Super Metroid is Jesus, and nothing will ever compare. The original Metroid Prime is the only worthy successor, and the base is split on which of the two MP sequels is the second best Prime after that. One camp prefers MP2 because it is the most "Metroidy" of the three games in terms of gameplay while MP3 is the most linear, the other prefers MP3 because it opens up the worldbuilding, plot and NPC relationships a bit more, along with some cool Wiimote things that weren't available for the other two until the Prime Trilogy for Wii. I'm in the MP3 camp.

But getting back to Super Metroid. It's a masterpiece of a game, for sure. But just like with Citizen Kane, Sienfeld, The Simpsons and Super Mario Bros., if you weren't there for the dawn of it, then it's not going to blow your face off. Don't let anyone in this forum or anywhere else overhype the game to oblivion for you.

So the Metroid fanbase is one of the most insular, intolerant, socially inept, circle-jerking groups in all of gaming... because they have different tastes? Wow, that is truly a horrible thing to have.

As for Super Metroid, it really is Jesus, and no I wasn't there for the dawn of it, I played it for the first time in 2014 and it holds up so well it hardly felt like I was playing a 20-year old game at all.

Uh no... read that again, sir. I bolded the key parts for you.

And I never said Super Metroid doesn't hold up well. I played it back when it was the hot new thing two decades ago, and I played it again in 2013 or '14, where I actually sat down and finished the game all the way through. I remember the feeling it gave me way back then, and was constantly comparing it to my feelings on it years later. Like I said, it's a masterpiece, but I'm sick of people acting like it's the Highlander of the Metroid series and everything else is a distant second. Other Metroid games can very much be enjoyed just as much as Super, and *sit down before you read this* enjoyed more than Super as well. You can enjoy the Metroid series, lore and universe without ever having played Super, and guess what? I did just that for many years. And when I finally got around to playing it again, I enjoyed a well-crafted game that definitely felt 16-bit, with all the good and bad that comes with it. I'm not ready to worship at its altar; oh well, deal with it.

Also, it's ironically hilarious that you respond to a post about a fanbase being intolerant of people having different tastes after having said this:

mZuzek said:
Jumpin said:

I thought Metroid 2 looked awesome. My issue is the platform. I don't want to have to deal with 3DS anymore.

But Metroid 2 was really the only Metroid game I ever got much into, I played the first one a lot, but never got into any of the later games, especially the FPS Metroids.

You must have truly awful taste, then. Those are far and away the worst Metroid games outside of anything released this decade.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8458571

Believe it or not mZuzek, you are one of my favorite members of this site, and I usually like your input. I hope that doesn't change.

mZuzek said:
Jumpin said:

Awful taste because I was a fan of the first two games? I would argue that at the time of their releases Metroid was the best console game available (challenged only by Super Mario Bros.), and Metroid 2 was the best handheld game available.

The same can certainly not be argued for any of the future Metroids.

You just can't be serious. Super Metroid and Metroid Prime were not only hailed as possibly the best console games around their time, they still are to this day. Saying there are numerous "top 100" lists without these games means nothing when there's also loads of these lists with them - if anything, I don't recall ever seeing Metroid 1 or 2 listed among these, in fact both these games aged so badly they ended up being the only Metroid games to be remade.

Of course I was already being a bit agressive from the start of this argument, but it's because it truly bothers me that someone would enjoy these dated entries and not the masterpieces that followed. So I'm just telling you to go back, and try these games again, because it's not even conceivable you wouldn't like them.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8459842

....And shit like that isn't helping. Now I see why you took my post so personally. I'm not normally one to say something like this, but I think we've reached the point where this is appropriate: chill out and go get laid, dude.