Hmm.....How about a control scheme more similar to MPT allowing for precise aiming while maintaing a lock on system? I think a third person game would allow them to make platforming more prevalent. I don't know, maybe I'm just baised because I prefer TPS to FPS.

Franchises do not need to limited by the intentions of their original 30-year-old debuts. That's how you end up with stagnant retreads like the New Super Mario Bros series.

...Have you played a Metroid game that isn't Prime 3? That is the exact opposite of what the franchise is. If Nintendo wants something like Mass Effect, they need to make a new franchise, because that makes no sense in Metroid.

If Nintendo does a Mass Effect style game, it should be with Star Fox. They're a team of mercenaries in a heavily populated system of planets with diverse cultures and races, yet we never see those people and the only ones that seem to hire this elite mercenary team is the central government, whenever system-wide war comes around. Let's fix that. Explore all the worlds to the depth that Adventures explored Dinosaur Planet, and let's see how the team makes money between wars. Have the Great Fox as a hub to go on ground and space based missions from. Some combat, some stealth, some reconnaissance. Metroid is just humans, space pirates, and a bunch of dead and dying races. Star Fox has MUCH more potential for a Mass Effect style game.

[...]but that distinctly eerie and unnerving feeling is almost completely absent from the Prime series.[...]

[...]But even the way they portray alien worlds is different. I rarely felt like I was exploring underground alien tunnels in the Prime games. It always felt like it took a more realistic approach to how these worlds would look like. In Super Metroid, it would rain spores and pollen. There would be entire catacombs lined with what looked like bubbles or fish eggs. Prime didn't do things like that in any of the games with the exception of the much more intentional phazon and one time where it rained static electricity.[...]

Dude, I've played Prime. I know about the scan logs. Even with them, they don't have the same atmoshpere as Super. It's not a constest. I'm not saying those games didn't have creepy moments. I'm saying they didn't have the same type of atmospere as Super. When they were creepy, it was for a difference reason and in a completely different way. I don't think Retro would. I think they would make a game that tries to be Prime, because that's what is expected of them. Even if it isn't called Prime 4, it would be Prime 4. I don't want Prime 4. I want a completely different game. Maybe in ten year when there's been three of that, I'll have the pallet for another Retro Metroid again.

And I'm not talking about 2D Metroid at all with this. I want 2D to be on the 3DS as well.

[...]I don't consider Samus an avatar for the player, so I see no tangable benefit to seeing the world through her eyes.[...]

If Nintendo does a Mass Effect style game, it should be with Star Fox. They're a team of mercenaries in a heavily populated system of planets with diverse cultures and races, yet we never see those people and the only ones that seem to hire this elite mercenary team is the central government, whenever system-wide war comes around. Let's fix that. Explore all the worlds to the depth that Adventures explored Dinosaur Planet, and let's see how the team makes money between wars. Have the Great Fox as a hub to go on ground and space based missions from. Some combat, some stealth, some reconnaissance. Metroid is just humans, space pirates, and a bunch of dead and dying races. Star Fox has MUCH more potential for a Mass Effect style game.