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TheRealSamusAran 8 hours ago
firebush03 said:

I must say— this game has to be one of the most “you either love it or hate it” kind of games I’ve ever seen. I’ve heard many call MP4:Beyond a mediocre 5/10 mess (and most of these people I can tell are genuine Metroid fans judging by their critiques); I’ve also heard many praise this entry as being worthy of the Metroid Prime label, with some even calling it the best in the franchise. It sits with a highly polarized User Score across different sites (high on MC, not as high on HLTB nor Backloggd).

The consensus is clear: MP4:Beyond is a compromised experience. How impactful these compromises are on your personal enjoyment, however, varies radically from person-to-person.

Not even M&L:Brothership was this divided. I don’t like saying this… but it seems a lot closer to discourse surrounding PM:Color Splash or The Origami King, where you’ll have some “die on a hill” for the game, but a majority left feeling very disappointed.

A 8.6 on Metacritic is not "a majority left feeling very disappointed", that's more like a minority.



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firebush03 7 hours ago
TheRealSamusAran said:
firebush03 said:

I must say— this game has to be one of the most “you either love it or hate it” kind of games I’ve ever seen. I’ve heard many call MP4:Beyond a mediocre 5/10 mess (and most of these people I can tell are genuine Metroid fans judging by their critiques); I’ve also heard many praise this entry as being worthy of the Metroid Prime label, with some even calling it the best in the franchise. It sits with a highly polarized User Score across different sites (high on MC, not as high on HLTB nor Backloggd).

The consensus is clear: MP4:Beyond is a compromised experience. How impactful these compromises are on your personal enjoyment, however, varies radically from person-to-person.

Not even M&L:Brothership was this divided. I don’t like saying this… but it seems a lot closer to discourse surrounding PM:Color Splash or The Origami King, where you’ll have some “die on a hill” for the game, but a majority left feeling very disappointed.

A 8.6 on Metacritic is not "a majority left feeling very disappointed", that's more like a minority.

Sure but a 3.2 on Backloggd and 71% on HLTB is lower than that of Brothership and concerningly similar to Paper Mario: Color Splash— two very controversial entries in their respective franchises which are often viewed with a minority favorability perspective. MC is often review bombed (whether in the negative manner of MKWorld or positive manner of Sonic Racing Crossworld); the other two are not so much due to their sites focus not being on review scores.

Mmm… IDK I feel kinda bad arguing that “well actly everyone hates the game you’re enjoying!” I’d say just ignore what others think— I remember a highly vocal minority trying to convince everyone back in 2023 that actually TotK was actually an underwhelming follow up to BotW. Same thing with Pikmin 4, two games I consider to be among the greatest of all time.



firebush03 7 hours ago

In other news: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond performed only 15% lower than Metroid Dread in UK launch week. Very solid start! Likely a bigger opening when digital is accounted for. Seems primed for 2-3mil this holiday quarter— again, great news for Metroid!

Ratio between NS1:NS2 was 17:83.



sc94597 4 hours ago

If it sells as well as Dread (or close to it) I definitely think we'll have a Prime 5 and maybe even Prime 6 depending on how that game sells.

That probably would be a slight loss or breaking even, but only because of the development hell the game went through (would be a profit for a game with say 3-5 years of dev time), and Nintendo likes to keep franchises alive for their IP strength, so long as they aren't extremely unprofitable.

Hoping it does even better than that though and the series experiences real user-growth.



curl-6 1 hour ago

Digital Foundry have done an analysis of the game:

- In Switch 2's quality mode, the game is native 1440p/60fps in docked mode, (with Samus's visor rendered at 4K) and 1080p/60fps in portable mode.

- In Switch 2's performance mode, the game is 1080p/120fps in docked mode, and 720p/120fps in portable mode.

- Switch 1 is 720p/60fps docked with a 900p visor, and 504p/60fps in portable mode with a 576p visor.

- Performance is near perfect, with only a few very rare single dropped frames that are basically imperceptible. 

- Switch 2 version has higher resolution textures, the addition of SMAA, and faster load times