What emulators are recommended nowadays?
I completely agree, I really liked the GFed in Prime 3. It was the climax of the trilogy, and Samus ended up leading them to >War<. It needed at least some increase in scope. And everything I already mentioned previously just made them utilitarian and cool.
First time?
I think mainly Citron the Yuzu fork is getting updated, along with Ryubing the Ryujinx fork, but I tried both and they crash on boot, so I'm having to dust off my switch
They have to.
Except for Bayonetta 3, all of these games met or exceeded their sales expectations. If Nintendo looked at sales numbers the way you imagine they do, they would have changed their business model to be more like EA or Take-Two years ago, but that’s not the case. Nintendo makes games as if they are the only publisher making games for their systems. It is not even close to realistic to expect that they’ll turn every project into a 5-year development cycle on the basis of two games that were naturally going to become open world games as the tech improved.
Some Japanese studios are 10-15 years behind the West. They're now approaching the cancerous state we did towards the end of 7th gen/start of 8th gen, and it will take them a while to follow in our hubris too. Nintendo is a business first and foremost, and when they see slop making money, they will churn out more slop. Not like Nintendo fans are connoisseurs or anything like that, if they see a big bing-bing wahoo IP they will blindly buy it anyways. Everyone else who already bought a Switch will too, what are they gonna just let it collect dust? Sunk cost fallacy at it's finest.
Chief and Samus drinking round after round in a run down bar, I can already picture it
You are forgetting this part:
It makes no sense for Nintendo to bloat their development cycles to the point that they are putting out 3 games a year because of trying to make every game big. For some Nintendo games, they are putting the money and dev time into making a big game. For the rest, they are on smaller budgets and timelines because they can’t afford to rely on 3rd parties to pick up the slack for them.
There was also dialogue of random soldiers talking about Samus as if she was some sort of legend in Metroid Prime 2. Guess what, that didn't devolve into reddit writing filled with random quips, in fact that entire game was kind of dark.
Yeah, that sounds like the giant robot in the end of Mother. Escorting someone who's much more powerful is fun, at least.
