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MTZehvor on 24 September 2017
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mZuzek said:
MTZehvor said:
I'd say the answer should largely depend on what exactly they want to do with the game, because both the Prime games and the 2D titles are better at different things. If it's going to focus on the teaser image that you get after 100%ing the game, however, I think I'd lean towards a first person Prime title. Prime's emphasis on atmosphere from a first person perspective and the ability to scan lore would both be very useful for a game that would probably be extremely atmospheric and focus heavily on background knowledge.

Eh, it's too early to tell. I personally feel like the Metroid 5 coming out of that image is a more narrative-driven one with the story being very active rather than passive, and out of the Metroid games that have tried to do that so far (Fusion, Corruption, Other M) I think the best one was easily the 2D one.

The issue is, with a storyline like this, there's going to be the need for a lot of passive storytelling to explain how we got here (i.e. what caused this group to rebel in the first place, what they have been doing since the the SR-388 masssacre, who that leader is and why he chose to slaughter the elders on SR-388, etc.). On top of that, players would probably want some insight into Chozo culture altogether; this would be the first time we've actively seen the Chozo in the series and the game will probably need to go to some effort to explain some of the mysteries behind the species. I don't see this as something that a game can accomplish without quite a bit of text, and I think Prime style scans would be a superior way to get info across as opposed to bringing back Adam and having explain stuff to us again.

Something of a minor point, but I wouldn't really consider Prime 3 an example of an active story, either. Most of the scans are dedicated to events that happened before the events of the game, and while the three other hunters do constitute more active characters, they're basically removed from that role as soon as they're corrupted and basically just used to establish how serious of a threat Phazon is.