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What's your opinion on Dread so far?

  • It's good

    Votes: 157 49.7%

  • It's bad

    Votes: 17 5.4%

  • It's too linear, I don't like fusion and I don't like this

    Votes: 17 5.4%

  • It's not as linear as I thought it would be

    Votes: 14 4.4%

  • I haven't played it lol

    Votes: 56 17.7%

  • Where's Super Metroid 2?

    Votes: 33 10.4%

  • I don't care, where the fuck is Prime 4?

    Votes: 25 7.9%

  • Why can't Metroid crawl?

    Votes: 84 26.6%
  • Total voters
    316
Hemorrhoy Rogers said:
Hasn't happened yet but I dread finding a door that needs either dark or light and not having ammo. Finished Agon and going to the swamps now.
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If you're out of beam ammo, you can charge it up for a normal shot. A feature that I feel rarely comes up, but it's important nonetheless.
 
Saw a comment on "But the past games had funny characters", but the examples were all from the 3d games, as if the series wasn't 16 years old by the time of Prime 1.

It can work if the writing is good, but it doesn't seem to be the case.
 
Dodongo said:
People complaining about the NPCs in Prime 4 are probably making a mountain out of a molehill but it's still justified because Metroid is supposed to be a molehill-free experience.
Like the best thing I've heard about them is "it's not that bad" which might be true but nobody is saying it's good.
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The concerning bit is for their showcase, the limited footage we have of the game. They chose to show him off.. Which makes me believe he may be more than a small bump in the road.
 

Not gonna lie, former Metroid Prime fan here. This is fucking hilarious watching Metroid Prime 4 crash and burn. But in all seriousness we can't let this game sell well.​

 
Out of curiosity, what was the very first time you discovered Metroid as a franchise?
Mine was when I was playing with a MAME that my dad had downloaded from the internet with something like 800 working roms and one of them was "play choice 10: Metroid".
Game did also came with a partial map of Brinstar and Norfair.
 

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Dodongo said:
People complaining about the NPCs in Prime 4 are probably making a mountain out of a molehill but it's still justified because Metroid is supposed to be a molehill-free experience.
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Please. No Metroid game is without something for fans to bitch about. Prime 3 had NPC interactions and corny dialogue and they treated that as the worst thing in the world back then. Dread had a slew of complaints about it's bad art direction, story and ironically enough its lack of exploration. Samus Returns was shat on for not being AMR. These all got swept away when those games wound up being good inspite of it so all thats going to happen is that these people are going to wound up looking silly for sperging over a fucking NPC before release if Prime 4 turns out good.
 

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Strangolapreti said:
Out of curiosity, what was the very first time you discovered Metroid as a franchise?
Mine was when I was playing with a MAME that my dad had downloaded from the internet with something like 800 working roms and one of them was "play choice 10: Metroid".
Game did also came with a partial map of Brinstar and Norfair.
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Super Smash Bros in 1999. I thought that Samus guy was pretty cool, which led me to get Metroid Prime years later and I’ve loved the series since. I grew up on Sega Genesis, so I missed the SNES and Metroid prior to the Gamecube.
 
Strangolapreti said:
Out of curiosity, what was the very first time you discovered Metroid as a franchise?
Mine was when I was playing with a MAME that my dad had downloaded from the internet with something like 800 working roms and one of them was "play choice 10: Metroid".
Game did also came with a partial map of Brinstar and Norfair.
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Super Metroid around 94 or 95. I didn't play the first one till 99 or so on NESticle. The lack of a map is one of the reasons I never finished it.

I really prefer my Metroid games when its only Samus and no one else, like Fusion was already too much interaction with another "character" for me.
Great game otherwise though.

PS: "The Fag" in Prime 4 looks just like Rick Moranis.
 
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Xarpho's Return said:
Relax, Metroid games always sell poorly in Japan.
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He's the same guy who said he'd buy it no matter what like a day ago. Irony can be funny or very obvious and gay.
Chocolate Rain said:
Please. No Metroid game is without something for fans to bitch about. Prime 3 had NPC interactions and corny dialogue and they treated that as the worst thing in the world back then.
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Incorrect, fans loved and still love Rundas. Rundas also was barely in the game and didn't have a chance to annoy anyone, unlike mr. quirk who already has, and the dieversity brigade who will undoubtedly be a presence throughout the game.
 
UERISIMILITUDO said:
This reminds me of some old guy bitching about how Samus in the 2D Metroid games is an acrobat, but she just walks around while facing the enemy in the Prime games. He made a decent point.
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That is just gibberish. 2D Metroid was a side-scrolling platform. Unless they wanted to keep Metroid as a side-scroller when they made the jump to 3D, things were obviously going to be different. Is the Mario franchise terrible after Super Mario 64 because he is no longer just jumping on his enemies in order to defeat them?

It sounds to me that this guy is another sperg like Dobson and Moviebob who was angry at Metroid becoming a FPS game.
Strangolapreti said:
Out of curiosity, what was the very first time you discovered Metroid as a franchise?
Mine was when I was playing with a MAME that my dad had downloaded from the internet with something like 800 working roms and one of them was "play choice 10: Metroid".
Game did also came with a partial map of Brinstar and Norfair.
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Prime. I grew up in the Gamecube and Gameboy advance era. This was the golden era to me of what Metroid meant and was capable of.
Lone MacReady II said:
Incorrect, fans loved and still love Rundas. Rundas also was barely in the game and didn't have a chance to annoy anyone, unlike mr. quirk who already has, and the dieversity brigade who will undoubtedly be a presence throughout the game.
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I wish people stopped talking about Prime 3 because there is a lot of revisionism going around due to the backlash over 4. No one really hated the NPCs in Prime 3. Why? Because they were barely there and were only used sparingly to advance elements of the story. Or provide some sort of challenge like the bounty hunter boss fights or that segment where you have to escort that demolition team on the Pirate home world. On top of that, they were all written like normal characters that felt like they belonged in the Metroid universe.

They didn't have a single NPC following Samus around for a big chunk of the game. Who has been written terrible and has a horrible personality that no one wants.

The major issues that people had with 3 were things involving the controls, which given that this was the Wii is understandable, and having the game take place across multiple planets instead of only one planet with multiple environments.
 
Chocolate Rain said:
Please. No Metroid game is without something for fans to bitch about. Prime 3 had NPC interactions and corny dialogue and they treated that as the worst thing in the world back then. Dread had a slew of complaints about it's bad art direction, story and ironically enough its lack of exploration. Samus Returns was shat on for not being AMR. These all got swept away when those games wound up being good inspite of it so all thats going to happen is that these people are going to wound up looking silly for sperging over a fucking NPC before release if Prime 4 turns out good.
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I didn't hear complaints from fans till maybe Fusion (the linearity). And then Prime 2. It's been justified since then though. Other M was the lowest point of the series and the games that followed were all lukewarm at best. The series sadly peaked after just 3 games.

TrainWreckWatcher said:
The concerning bit is for their showcase, the limited footage we have of the game. They chose to show him off.. Which makes me believe he may be more than a small bump in the road.
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This is my thought as well. It took them forever to show the bike, and now this aspect of the game for some reason (notably after the amiibos went on sale). Feels like they're trying to coax us into getting used to these characters.

Not gonna lie, former Metroid Prime fan here. This is fucking hilarious watching Metroid Prime 4 crash and burn. But in all seriousness we can't let this game sell well.​

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It'll probably sell decently. Although one thing that scares new people away from buying later releases in a series is a number in the title and the thought of having to play the older games to get up to speed. Plus how difficult it can be to even have access to them. This is why capcom started hiding the numbers of the latest RE games behind ambiguous titles like Village and Requiem. They don't want you playing the older cheaper games and only care about hitting immediate sales on overpriced crap.
 
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Strangolapreti said:
Out of curiosity, what was the very first time you discovered Metroid as a franchise?
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Heard about it before I played Super Metroid. I remember going to a Walmart and they had Super Metroid at a kiosk. And I played the shit out of it. Luckily nobody else seemed to want to play it when I was there.
 
Hemorrhoy Rogers said:
It'll probably sell decently.
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The thing is, the switch 2 is expensive, new, and doesn't have a lot of games. If this game was supposed to be a draw in for people to buy the console a lot of people are on the fence about it.
I'm old enough to remember how bad Other M was. Probably a lot of younger people don't remember it, but man. What I am seeing is giving me worse than Other M vibes. I can't see people going out of their way to buy it and the console though unless reputable people actually give it raving reviews.
 
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