| Airaku said: Metroid needs to go darker and embrace the M rating. I loved Prime as a pre-teen and a teenage but honestly... it hardly does well with the younger generation. They want Halo. Metroid is a far more complex and more mature themed game than Halo is and Metroid needs to embrace that. It's great as it is but it's influenced by some pretty hardcore R rated shit like Aliens. All the gore on the visor and stuff, the violence game off more realistic than the cartoony looking blood in Halo way back when. I remember when people wanted Prime 4 to take on a horror feel to it. Basically I want it to be an FPS again. It feels too natural and Metroid needs to stick with the exploration vibe with heavy action sequences and unique boss fights. Oh and if the VR rumor is true, lets play a bit with that. I'm sure most guys have no problem being Samus xD I mean lets be real. She's probably more Alpha as fuck than they are. |
Halo is a game where you run around and go pew pew. Metroid is a game where you spend half of your time wandering around hopefully stumbling upon a cracked wall you missed.
Halo being more popular doesn't have much to do with it being M rated, particularly because Halo isn't exceptionally violent. It's just that Halo is a very accessible pick up and play title, and Metroid is the exact opposite.
Veknoid_Outcast said:
I love me some Metroid but relative to other Nintendo series it is niche. It can't hold a candle to the selling power of Pokémon, Animal Crossing, Mario Kart, Super Mario, etc. Zelda's a bigger seller. Smash is a bigger seller. Heck, Splatoon is a bigger seller, based on what we've seen so far. |
Its not about selling power. Its about showing fans that Nintendo is serious about making quality games and not just the annual franchises and the same old.
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bunchanumbers said:
Its not about selling power. Its about showing fans that Nintendo is serious about making quality games and not just the annual franchises and the same old. |
OK, but your original post seemed to suggest that Nintendo, by ignoring Metroid, was ignoring a large number of sales. I think the highest-selling Metroid game failed to clear 3 million units sold.
What annual franchises? We got a Zelda game in 2011, 2013, and now 2017. Smash Bros. in 2001, 2008, and 2014. Mario Kart in 2005, 2008, 2011, 2014, and now 2017. Animal Crossing in 2005, 2008, 2013, and, in 2015, a couple spin-offs.
Same old? What about Splatoon, which cleared 4 million units sold? Mario Maker? Code Name: S.T.E.A.M.? What about Arms, which will arrive on Switch shortly?
Nintendo's first party includes racers, fighters, sims, strategy games, action-adventure games, platformers, lots of RPGs, puzzle games, party games, shooters, and sports games.
What exactly are you looking for?
Veknoid_Outcast said:
What annual franchises? We got a Zelda game in 2011, 2013, and now 2017. Smash Bros. in 2001, 2008, and 2014. Mario Kart in 2005, 2008, 2011, 2014, and now 2017. Animal Crossing in 2005, 2008, 2013, and, in 2015, a couple spin-offs. |
Your Zelda list is ignoring Ocarine of Time 3D, Majora's Mask 3D, Wind Waker HD, Twilight Princess HD, Hyrule Warriors, Hyrule Warriors Legends and Triforce Heroes. Zelda basically is an annual franchise now.
| Airaku said: Metroid needs to go darker and embrace the M rating. I loved Prime as a pre-teen and a teenage but honestly... it hardly does well with the younger generation. They want Halo. Metroid is a far more complex and more mature themed game than Halo is and Metroid needs to embrace that. It's great as it is but it's influenced by some pretty hardcore R rated shit like Aliens. All the gore on the visor and stuff, the violence game off more realistic than the cartoony looking blood in Halo way back when. I remember when people wanted Prime 4 to take on a horror feel to it. Basically I want it to be an FPS again. It feels too natural and Metroid needs to stick with the exploration vibe with heavy action sequences and unique boss fights. Oh and if the VR rumor is true, lets play a bit with that. I'm sure most guys have no problem being Samus xD I mean lets be real. She's probably more Alpha as fuck than they are. |
That's a complete contradiction. The M rating isn't needed at all and I don't really think the last two sentences resonate with anyone who actually wants a new metroid game specifically.
As long it is not something like the Other M crap bring it on.
| AZWification said: “Oh, so earlier today I got asked about Mother 3; maybe you can ask me about Metroid. Look, again, I am proud as an executive with Nintendo to say that we look at all of the boards and all of the comments and we really have a good understanding of what our consumers want. And believe me, we take that to heart as we work to create content. So I have nothing to announce–here. But we are aware that there are some key IP that consumers just can’t wait for the next true installment in that franchise’s legacy. Suffice it to say, we’re aware of it, and talk to me in a year and let’s look back and see what’s happened.” |
He's kidding right? If Nintendo knew what we wanted they wouldn't have made Color Splash, amiibo Festival, Star Fox Zero, Pikmin 3DS and Federation Force. Nintendo has no idea what we want in the slightest and the Switch is another perfect example for that.
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VGPolyglot said:
Your Zelda list is ignoring Ocarine of Time 3D, Majora's Mask 3D, Wind Waker HD, Twilight Princess HD, Hyrule Warriors, Hyrule Warriors Legends and Triforce Heroes. Zelda basically is an annual franchise now. |
I agree there has been a regrettable number of Zelda remasters lately but mainline games typically arrive every 2-3 years. I'm sure that will be the case moving forward.
bunchanumbers said:
Its not about selling power. Its about showing fans that Nintendo is serious about making quality games and not just the annual franchises and the same old. |
Also, imo, Metroid has been misused in terms of potential selling power. Now is the perfect time to resurrect Metroid Prime. People love scifi, exploration, etc. Give it that and a story like Fusion and great graphics and you could sell that all day. Also, worth pointing out that with Monolith in their fold they have an excellent team of monster designers to help with enemy designs. And with regards to controls, beauty of the Switch is options. As we have seen with Arms, Nintendo can and will provide both traditional and motion based controls.
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