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Have you heard of Metroid before?

Never heard of it. 26 6.21%
 
Heard of it, don't know what it is. 6 1.43%
 
Heard of it, never played. 45 10.74%
 
Played one of the games. 55 13.13%
 
Played multiple Metroid games. 117 27.92%
 
Played multiple, includin... 170 40.57%
 
Total:419
Jumpin on 18 May 2015

That's another thing as well. Nintendo fans on this site talk about Metroid a lot. So people hear about it. You don't really hear about Metroid on other gaming sites.



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Goodnightmoon on 18 May 2015
Jumpin said:

That's another thing as well. Nintendo fans on this site talk about Metroid a lot. So people hear about it. You don't really hear about Metroid on other gaming sites.

Have you heard about Persona? People talk a lot about it here too.

Persona: 6m

Metroid: 18m

Metroid is 3 times bigger than Persona.

Also

Devil May Cry: 15m

Castlevania: 14 m

You are trying to justify your lack of knowledge, anybody who don´t know what Metroid is, has no idea about videogame history, also, the best selling ones are not the oldest, Metroid Prime (2002) sold 3m on GC, Metroid Prime 3 Corruption was close to 2m on 2007, those are not pokemon numbers, but they are good enough, Also Super Metroid is widely considered one of the best games ever made and Metroid Prime has a freaking 97 on Meta, is one of the best scored games ever.

The saga has been pretty consistent between 1.5m - 2m (Fusion, Echoes, Corruption, Metroid 2, Super Metroid , Other M) with 2 games around 3m (Metroid and Metroid Prime). Those are good numbers overall.






Angelv577 on 18 May 2015

I remembered watching gameplay on SNES a long time ago. Later heard about the prime series and watch gameplay on youtube. I still haven't played a Metroid game.



Skullwaker on 18 May 2015
Jumpin said:

That's another thing as well. Nintendo fans on this site talk about Metroid a lot. So people hear about it. You don't really hear about Metroid on other gaming sites.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm getting the feeling that you made this thread in hopes that people wouldn't know about Metroid.

We're on a gaming forum. Most people that play games have heard about Metroid. Does the casual gamer? Probably not, but they don't know many franchises to begin with.

You got your data. I'm not sure what else you want.



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Pavolink on 18 May 2015

Super Metroid > Other M > Prime1 = Prime 2 > Prime 3 > Fusion



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Bman54 on 18 May 2015

You mean my second favourite franchise? Nope, never heard of it.



sc94597 on 18 May 2015
Jumpin said:

Nearly 5% here, which is fairly low, but I am willing to bet some of the Nintendo people on this site will have found it surprising. WEven more surprising, you'll discover that it's not necessarily that well known in the US either. Of these 10 American teenaged gamers, 5 of the 10 have never heard of Metroid before.

That is kind of a stretch. Many of them aren't gamers and one isn't American (she is an English celebrity.)



fleischr on 18 May 2015

My experience with it has been 3 minutes of Super Metroid in Amiibo Tap and about an hours worth of Prime 1 on Wii.



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Snoorlax on 18 May 2015
hsrob said:
I would think it a little shameful if you called yourself a gamer and hadn't at least heard of Metroid.

Having said that it's always been a critically acclaimed but under-appreciated franchise (except for the game that we shall not name).


Yeah, Metroid Prime Echoes was terrible. Other M was amazing doh.

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Anyway i think its clear that based on sales and the comments section, gamers always hear about Metroid but just dont give a damn about it since its not Halo or Call of Duty.



curl-6 on 18 May 2015
the-pi-guy said:
Samus Aran said:

Fire Emblem, Advance Wars, Golden Sun, Pikmin, xenoblade chronicles, Punch-Out!, Kirby, Kid Icarus, F-Zero, etc.

You don't know a lot about Nintendo, do you?

Oh and the Wii brand of games are dead. Nintendogs won't last much longer either.
curl-6 said:
the-pi-guy said:

The only Nintendo franchise I can name smaller than Metroid is Star Fox.  So yeah, pretty darn small.

Xenoblade? F-Zero? Advance Wars? Pilot Wings? Wave Race? Pikmin? Golden Sun? Fire Emblem? Custom Robo?

Kirby is bigger, historically at least.  

Never heard of any of the bolded ones, even on VGC.  Never played any of the Italicized games.  Even though I really want to play Xeno and Pikmin.  

Well, now you can name 11 Nintendo franchises smaller than Metroid, 12 if you count Starfox. :P