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SanAndreasX on 02 May 2022
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Pemalite said:



Illusion said:

Sorry about the garbage and having your thread hijacked.  I am not sure why people feel so compelled to jump to the defense of a giant company that makes a secondary business out of destroying the lives of average people.  Honestly, I used to be a huge Nintendo fan but not so much anymore after seeing how they treat some of their biggest and most loyal fans.  Just because the law allows a company to do something, doesn't mean that they should do it or that it's even moral.

Protecting I.P is absolutely important.

You can embrace the fan community like Bethesda... Which pays off, or you can be protectionist like Nintendo which has also paid off.

It is what it is... I honestly love seeing these fan projects.

This Metroid one is interesting... But I need to ask... What would the gameplay have been like? Super Metroid is regarded as one of the best games of all time... And is certainly one of my favorite games of all time... So would it have been better to do another 2D title? Or rudimentary 3D that ages poorly? I would argue the N64 was lacking in quality 2D titles anyway...

I have no quarrel with people or companies protecting IP myself. 

On the subject of 3D Metroid, a 3D Metroid, done right, would have done much more for the series than a 2D Metroid would have. A 2-D Zelda on N64 would have never achieved anywhere close to the kind of atmospheric immersion, let alone the huge sales, of Ocarina of Time or Majora's Mask, and that immersion is what really sold those games. They also set the stage for Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword, and Breath of the Wild, which are all excellent games that are more contemporary, so it doesn't necessarily matter if they "aged well" or not. A 2-D Zelda would have just been seen as more of the same. Zelda is a series that shattered the 3D ceiling in spectacular fashion where series like Castlevania hit the ceiling with a resounding thud. Given a chance on the N64, Metroid might have done the same. The N64 didn't really seem to be cut out for 2-D games anyway. A lot of the 2D games we did get looked like blurrier, more inferior versions of the same games we saw on the SNES. 

Last edited by SanAndreasX - on 02 May 2022