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[IbizaPocholo]

Metroid Prime 4 is finally here, making this the perfect time to look back on this incredible sci-fi action franchise and the tons of great games it's given us.

These are the ten best Metroid games ever made.

00:00 Intro
00:34 Metroid II: Return of Samus
01:53 Metroid
03:26 Metroid: Samus Returns
04:37 Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
05:51 Metroid Fusion
07:00 Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
08:08 Metroid: Zero Mission
09:11 Metroid Dread
10:32 Metroid Prime
11:54 Super Metroid

 

[REDRZA MWS]

OG NES was the best. The end.

 

[bender]

Give me Zero Mission, AM2R, and Super Metroid and you can keep the rest.

 

[Poppinfresh]

It really sucks that Prime 2 and 3 aren't available for modern consoles, especially with 4 about to be released.

When Nintendo released the Prime 1 remaster, I was hoping they would follow it up with 2 & 3 before releasing Prime 4. There's a whole generation of gamers who will pick up Prime 4 having never played the original Prime trilogy.

 

[Kuranghi]

No AM2R, I would've put that high on the list and Dread as much as I really liked it shouldn't be above Prime 2, I think Prime 3 should be much lower. I haven't played the original 2 or 1 though so I can't speak for them.

I think I just wouldn't put the Primes and the 2D ones together on the same list. If I did I'd feel like I was doing a disservice to one or the other. With both I feel like its so hard to say whether Zero Mission or Super is better, its very tempting to say Super but then I think I just liked the gravity more in ZM (and AM2R), but then Super had my favourite secrets, some really cunty ones. Even after I looked up a couple of ZM ones I just could never perform the moves even on runahead emulation where theres no lag it feels like, maybe I'm just rubbish though.

It really sucks that Prime 2 and 3 aren't available for modern consoles, especially with 4 about to be released.

When Nintendo released the Prime 1 remaster, I was hoping they would follow it up with 2 & 3 before releasing Prime 4. There's a whole generation of gamers who will pick up Prime 4 having never played the original Prime trilogy.

Yes I wish I could've played through 2 with 1080p/2160p upscale and locked 60fps at least after Prime Remastered.

 

[simpatico]

Super
Nes/Gameboy
Prime 1

Metroid Gameboy was the real mobile gaming revolution.

 

[MrJangles]

Prime Remastered by a mile.

 

[IAmRei]

for me all metroid are damn fine game, cept understandable other m
but at least new metroid is better than no new metroid

i like metroid 2, which is kind of more open approach and had set semi linear goals such as hunting metroids and keep 'em in check.
i wish there will be more things like that in the future

 

[Icymanipulator]

OG NES was the best. The end.

Nope. Not even in top 5

 

[Team Skoda]

Dread being so far up made me once again point and laugh at IGN.

 

[ssringo]

Top 10 of a franchise with barely more than 10 games. The ones outside the "top 10" are simply the ones not even worth mentioning in the first place.

That said, I generally agree with the placements. I prefer the side scrolling games to the Prime series. The franchise is pretty great (outside the omitted crap).

 

[Nostalgic Nightmare]

Zero mission should have been above dread.

 

[Buggy Loop]

Prime 2 is a tad too low in the list imo. I prefered it over Prime 1 even. It was less of a shock maybe that its good but it was so damn good.

 

[Arsic]

Prime remastered is king of the hill for me. One of Nintendos best games ever up there with ocarina of time.

 

[Halo2redvsblue]

Swap Prime 3 with Fusion and I agree with this list

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

I feel like Prime 2 never gets the respect it deserves. I don't think it's quite as good as Prime 1, but it is a game that I enjoy more every single time I play it. My biggest issue with the game when it came out was that it wasn't just Prime 1 again - the light and dark worlds and downright oppressive atmosphere, along with the difficulty, was more of a shift than I'd really expected. Initially, I was hoping for more environments like Phendrana Drifts, and that's just not the direction Prime 2 wants to go in.Taking that game on its own merits, it's incredibly successful. Everything just works. The world feels super dangerous, and the atmosphere is so incredibly well done. The music's also killer. The design is absolutely phenomenal. For me, it's easily 3rd place, after Super Metroid and Prime 1.

 

[Pimpbaa]

I like almost all except for Dread. Way too linear (any good Metroid or "Metroidvania" type game will be very open).

 

[Paltheos]

There's a ton of picks I can disagree with, but high Super placement always gets a big thumbs down from me. As one the game's biggest haters on GAF, I think the thing's a dinosaur, eclipsed by its franchise brethren and by just about everyone else in the past 30 years since it came out.

As is tradition when Metroid tier lists are discussed, I'll drag out my own:

1) AM2R
2) Zero Mission
3) Prime 2
4) Prime
5) Fusion
6) Dread
7) Metroid II
8) Prime 3
9) Super
10) Samus Returns
11) Other M
12) Hunters
13) Metroid

 

[TerribleAtThisGame]

AM2R is fantastic, co-signed.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

Prime 2 was the best Prime.

 

[LavitzSlambert]

Fusion and Dread are both way too high, but at least they got Prime and Super being the top.

 

[Spukc]

Give me Zero Mission, AM2R, and Super Metroid and you can keep the rest.

Fusion is not THAT bad

 

[Variahunter]

Dread is way too high in that list.
Art is bad, music is terrible, the game is super linear… is that even a Metroid game ? Also the game is horrendous on replays with the robot phases…

The only good things are the new powers and the boss fights. Rest is shit really.

 

[Robb]

Surprisingly solid listing imo, very few I'd swap around.

It really sucks that Prime 2 and 3 aren't available for modern consoles, especially with 4 about to be released.

When Nintendo released the Prime 1 remaster, I was hoping they would follow it up with 2 & 3 before releasing Prime 4. There's a whole generation of gamers who will pick up Prime 4 having never played the original Prime trilogy.

I really hope they're still planing to give them the remaster treatment.

Given how much better the character models look in the new engine Metroid Prime 3 especially would be amazing to see get a facelift. Not to mention seeing a updated Elysia/SkyTown..

 

[UnrealEck]

I've only ever played one Metroid game.
Super Metroid on a Super Famicom (and a CRT TV) a few months ago.

I never had a SNES back in the day. I was stuck on Master System and never had a 16-bit console.

The new Prime game doesn't look interesting to me though. The original Prime never even interested me back in the day (I do still have my old Gamecube) but that original would've been good for its time. The new one looks dated to me.

 

[MacReady13]

Super Metroid and then Prime 1 are stone cold classics. I still can't believe we get Prime 4 this coming week. I'm so pumped for it.

 

[L*][*N*K]

metroid is a very successful series, everyone have different opinions about it and to me that means every game in the series is loved, except for Other M.

 

[Lightbreak]

I was playing Dread until i found it to be really messy and super linear and dropped it

 

[ChoosableOne]

Great. Make "the 10 best half life games" list next.

 

[kunonabi]

metroid is a very successful series, everyone have different opinions about it and to me that means every game in the series is loved, except for Other M.

Other M is my 3rd, possibly 2nd, favorite game in the series only beaten by Super Metroid and at the moment Prime 1. But considering how much more I replay Other M over Prime that might not stand.

Of course I hate pretty much every game in the series outside of the original trilogy, Prime 1, and Other M so I'm an extreme outlier.