The reaction to the quality has been strong? Not from the mixed reception I've been seeing here and hearing elsewhere.
Rockstar: Announce Bully 2 already and make gamers proud!
Kojima: Come out with Project S already!
MaxwellGT2000 said:
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Hey, I'm sure Khuurtra has no clue why they bothered to make Mother 3, but he's glad they did.
Liking unpopular things doesn't mean you think it's a good idea for them to actually do it.
It's like if Bill Gates decided to give me a billion dollars.
I'd have no reasonable reason for why he should do it, or why it'd be a good idea for him....
but I sure as hell would take it with a smile.
they should poll gamers and see wht went wrong other then some less desirable reveiw scores.
MaxwellGT2000 said:
You an Earthbound fan questioning this? Why make Mother 3 if they knew it was late in the GBAs life, not coming to America, nor going to sell a million? Because it's a solid game that people would enjoy! I know that isn't really the case for Other M but it's not outside of Nintendos realm, they don't just make series that sell gangbusters they focus on the little guys too with things like Fire Emblem, Punch-Out!!!, and Sin and Punishment, those are all lower tier franchises (Metroid being queen of low tier) for Nintendo and the one series that they seem to try and push to Zelda tier is Metroid and has yet to make it. |
They made Mother 3 because Itoi is an auteur who's able to foot the bill for production!
Making a game with a budget like Other M's would make no sense if they expected Fire Emblem-esque sales.
I agree with forest-spirit that their expectations were unrealistic for Other M, but if their expectations were in line with his then they shouldn't fund a game that expensive.
I believe that to many cutscenes and bad script and acting cut down on sales.
I bought it and player 2hours but it was not metriod to me. Didn't feel like I was playing metriod.
When prime came out I had doubts with the FP perspective but I was pleasantly surprised as to feel of the game
It was good but I think that it turned people off because.
1. Too brisk of a change
2. Samus was not that silent bounty hunter anymore
3. Gameplay was too different from older Metroids
4. They took away the item get sounds [=(]
5. It felt too alien
I think for the next Metroid they should do another 2D Metroid game for the Wii. Gameplay similar to Super Metroid but with a new story and bosses, and weapons and what not, and you are alone, spooky music and creepy music and backgrounds. I am sure that will bring fans back.
But hey. At least they tried something new.
"To play or not to play, that is the question."- A wise man
Lifetime sales prediction
Wii 79/150 million
Xbox 360 47.7/73 Million
PS3 43.6/69 Million
Conegamer said:
I'm afraid you can't compare 2D and 3D mario, they are like seperate franchise... Oh, right ;) |
they can't be compared because 2d sells boat loads of games and systems
2D is beloved by more gamers
I like them almost the same
I have this bad feeling that nintendo suits are out of touch. they will attribute poor sales and missed expectations to the wrong things.
They made a mistake of alienating a major portion of metriod fans like me and made it a niche title
| Aiddon said: I'm going to go for the far more cynical reason why it didn't sell: it wasn't another Prime game. Nothing to do with quality, nothing to do with it being story-based, it was simply because it was a radically different design than what most people had known for the past ten years. It shows that for all of gamers' talk of wanting innovation and new ideas, they're still too gutless to try new, risky titles and instead will just bet on the sure thing. @xcot That's...actually something that's been bothering me about Western culture more and more lately. Badass is a character trait (though an extremeley SHALLOW one at that) and you can't have a character trait without something BEING A CHARACTER. Samus was nothing more than a Mary Sue, a player proxy that we projected onto. It's the same thing with Gordon Freeman, Master Chief, Marcus Fenix, Commander Shepard, and just about every protagonist in Western RPGs. Even with the characters that DO have 3 dimensional personalities, writers still have made a very bad habit of making them unflappable stoics instead of heroic underdogs. It's probably why I like more characters from Japanese games than I do from Western games, I just found them to be more well-rounded. Plus last time I checked "wimps" don't shove their arm cannons into space dragons' mouths or fish lava monsters out of magma. |
I loved the 2d metriod then when it was made into a FP adventure I bought and enjoyed it. So your arrogant and insulting premise is wrong. Samus was taken out of each players hand and turned into sakamotos wet dream. They could of made a 2d metriod and created whole new worlds. Could of used time travel. But they threw her in with a bunch of soldiers and ruined the dreaded isolated worlds.
| mhsillen said: I have this bad feeling that nintendo suits are out of touch. they will attribute poor sales and missed expectations to the wrong things. They made a mistake of alienating a major portion of metriod fans like me and made it a niche title |
Metroid is already a niche title. The majority of games in the franchise are stuck in a box of 1-2 million sales, and this was clearly an attempt to break out of that box, which is equally clear to have failed (though not spectacularly. It'll cruise to a million handily enough, but still on the low end for the franchise thus far
There is significant question as to how the suits will interpret it, though i think in this case the results are clear: the most controversial changes were the ones generally disliked
The question is if they mandate that the entire gameplay system of Other M be trashed along with the increased focus on story. Loss of the former would be quite tragic.
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
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) I think it was madness to expect that much. The competition that Benga brought up doesn't help either. 500k-750k would've been a good target and anything above that would be icing on the cake.
