I've always enjoyed the Metroid series, but I've always been bad at them. I think it's because of my ADHD. I'd start one with two or three other games, then I'd forget what I was doing and get lost. Metroid Prime Hunters was the only one I was able to beat as a kid.

I started a list of all the games I've beaten over the years and decided to keep going with the list (it's to supplant trophies which I used to get into until I realized I started buying games for trophies not for fun). I ended up beating Metroid Prime 1 and then Super Metroid. After the announcement of Dread I decided it was time. For a series I've been so interested in I can't keep treating it this way. So, I beat Metroid Other M, then Zero Mission. I went back to Samus Returns and beat that, then I beat Fusion and just yesterday I beat Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and started number 3.

I can now officially say I LOVE the series. They are really great games. Frustrating sometimes, but great games!

The first console game I ever played was Metroid Prime on my brothers' GameCube. They supposedly were punished by their mother (they're half brothers) and my father took their GameCube away. But, of course, he was so cool that he let them play it at his house, anyway. I remember my brothers went away on a Saturday and I got to play with the machine a few minutes. The cover of Prime got my attention and that's the game I played. I loaded it up and immediately got lost, noticed that the game played in first person, but my deepest memory to this day is watching Samus in her Morph Ball. I tried to go somewhere, but it seemed I was just going in circles. It was incredibly confusing, so I dropped the game and went to the next one, Mario Party 6, if I'm not mistaken.

I also watched my brothers finishing the game and the scene where Samus reveals her face. It was cool as hell. Metroid Prime was a huge factor in my desire to get a GameCube, though I only got to properly play it a decade later, when it released for the Wii U. That's when I realized I had overlooked one of the most amazing games, period. Had I played this game ten years earlier... life would probably be different, lol. IDK. I still don't remember why I didn't want to get the game when I finally got my GameCube, but perhaps the fact that it was too overwhelming (I was 6-7 when I first touched it) probably was the reason.

Super Metroid was the first game in the series I thoroughly played, also when it released for Wii U. I gladly bought it and immediately loved it, played it for over 50 hours, and adored to blow the shit out of everything. The power ups are on point and Samus' progression as a whole is so satisfying. I seriously think this is arguably the most beautiful game from the era, it just oozes awesomeness.

Metroid is amazing, dude. Most of these games are timeless.

I remember getting super metroid from a friend, some day in 1996, it was a rainy day, and god the intro, the space station, the figth with that dino like monster (Ridley) and then the music and the count down to get to my ship, and then going to that planet (Zebes), the sci-fi music while you are landing, oh look its raining there too, and there are mountains in the horizon, a lot of strange bacterian life, oh!! and the music... the music and ambience it's so cool and scary just like Alien the movie, WOW THIS GAME IS AMAZING.

One of my favorite memories of Metroid is hanging out on VGC in the months, weeks, and days before a release and hearing how hyped everyone is. This launch has delivered on that as well, which is nice considering how quiet VGC can be these days.

Thank you all for all the Metroid threads, the discussions, and the hype.

One day to go…let’s go!

I've already equipped myself with nachos, salsa and guacamole dips, and lots of beer. I can't wait! It's gonna be an awesome weekend. I'm actually listening to Metroid soundtracks all the time these days to pump myself up.

I work might shifts and don’t usually switch to daytime living during my days off (to not mess with my always precarious sleeping cycle…), so I’m used to hear my stuff through headphones, and man, you are not gonna be disappointed with this soundtrack!

Metroid Dread is such an amazing game! It keeps getting better and better, I think this might be me my second favorite Metroid game ever. Nintendo and Mercury Steam did an outstanding job!

That ending is insane! I still have goosebumps. It's absolutely mindblowing. Such a fantastic game!

That's ok. You're more of a  Mega Man guy, aren't you. I forgive you. Hope you'll have fun with Dread! Keep us up with your experience.

When I was very young, there was this NES setup in the mall that let you play 10 different NES games. I tried them all and Metroid seemed pretty cool.

Later on, I had a Gameboy and Metroid II released. As soon as I saw it, I bought it and it immediately became one of my all time favorite games. A few years later, Super Metroid came out for the SNES and I felt like "This is MY series", a feeling I previously had when my brother and I played/beat the two NES Metal Gear titles. I (foolishly) felt like nobody but me understood the series.

Decades passed and I would love every game that released in the series--even Other M which literally made me cry tears of joy.

Smash Bros was my first renewed hope that Nintendo hadn’t forgotten Samus. I still eagerly awaited a Metroid 64. In hindsight it might be best that we didn’t get one, but we’ll never know what that game could have looked like.