RolStoppable said:
It doesn't look like you've played the game, so why brush off my post like that?
If you aren't interested in the quality of the game, then you won't be able to make a proper sales analysis and subsequently fail to draw valid conclusions. What I am seeing in this thread is very similar to the aftermath of Skyward Sword sales on Wii where people were in plain denial regarding the question if Skyward Sword is a good Zelda game. Instead they came up with excuses such as "Wii audience are primarily non-gamers", "People have moved on from Wii" and "SS required Motion Plus to play, so the userbase it could sell to was limited". Today Skyward Sword isn't look at in the same way anymore, because Breath of the Wild happened, so Zelda fans are more open to the idea that SS wasn't all that great. What we have here with Samus Returns is a Metroid fanbase that has been starved for a new game, so they'll defend an at best decent game as if it were a great entry in a long-running series. But the Metroid fanbase that is usually not posting on gaming forums looks at Samus Returns as a questionable game with melee moves and a lack of d-pad controls, developed by the same studio that already killed the Castlevania series. Their voices are not heard here, but it shows in sales, or rather the lack thereof. Metroid fans who own a 3DS have skipped Samus Returns, just like a lot of Metroid fans skipped Other M despite owning a Wii. Or put another way, does anyone here honestly want Mercury Steam to get another shot at making a Metroid game? Those guys couldn't even manage to make Metroid music sound good despite having the benefit of being able to fall back on lots of classic themes.
Not really. |
I would have no problem with Mercury Steam making another Metroid game. Even though I actually do like Metroid II better than Returns.
