Yeah. I went to Youtube to watch and remind myself of the cutscenes and, yeah....
Assault is a good game.
You seem very upset that people dislike this game. Way more hyperbole here than the posts you claim are hyperbolic.
Sure, some more that others. But in most cases, it's justifiable. Its not the worst game ever made, that's hyperbole, and it even has some cool parts (i really liked the implementation of the speed boost) but saying its overal the worst main Metroid game is a legit opinion with legit arguments to back it up.
I fully agree that the combining of platforms was the best decision Nintendo could have made. It was clear especially during the Wii U's time that it and the 3DS were cannibalizing each other in terms of development resources and that both platforms (though particularly the Wii U) suffered from it.
No, what is complete fucking bullshit is for people to lay blame at the fans’ feet when a developer largely betrays what’s made a franchise what it is. Like it or not, a franchise beholdens a developer to specific design tenets that have been foundational to an IPs identity, and that has attracted a specific audience. When a developer eschews or largely strays from those principles of established gameplay that’ve come to define an experience, how is it the fanbase’s fault when it strays and falters?
This is absolutely not true. They were terrible.
Okay, hold the phone.
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It's not though. If you wanted to design a game based on the Prime series and put it on 3DS, it's really not bad at all. You'd cater to the quick pick-up-and-play nature of the 3DS and have more bite sized missions. You'd use gyro aiming since there's no 2nd stick. At the time they experimented a lot with co-op games as well (Triforce Heroes is great). Everything about it works well. People just didn't want to give it a chance. I mean, I got it for $30 on day one and it was a lot of fun I thought. Next Level Games literally always makes good games.
Sonic is if anything, the luckiest, they can make a really bad game, yet they will bounce back inmediately. it has happened several times, yet the series is somehow sitll afloat.
Sonic is a very popular classic series but sometimes, like Sonic Forces, 2006 or Unleashed they really struggle, there has not been a high budget AAA Sonic since Unleashed and other projects like Boom totally failed, Mania did well but it was a smaller 2d game with no sequel.
i guess so, but compared to Metroid, Sonic was in a better place. atleast they still did games.
Detail doesn't have much to do with impressing visually unless you are a particular type of bean counter, and no one really has any idea of what people are expecting.
I hear what you’re saying but I remain sceptical. I think the first person perspective by default makes us expect certain things that would never be important in a more zoomed out perspective which is what Nintendo usually go for.
I'd argue that the reason Sonic is able to "recover" from slumps more quickly is, kinda sadly, that the fanbase, which is way more split and with less of a consensus of quality than Metroid fans, will just accept whatever Sonic Team puts out as long as it's not outright horrible. (The sales of Sonic Forces is presented as my evidence for this. Arguably the most mediocre, soulless cash-in mainline entry ever put out, yet somehow it stops a sales slump in Sonic games simply by not being another Rise of Lyric.)
*Fzero intensifies*
They could go with a slightly stylized art style. I don't mean Borderlands cell shading, but making things a little simpler and blockier and then relying on lighting effects and art direction to make up the difference.
I dunno, 10 years with only Other M and Federation force? That puts Metroid in a slump for almost as long as Mass Effect was a premier franchise, literally from the time ME1 released to ME:A.
What’s the score if you remove the M from the title?
I get the feeling you didn’t play it at all. It wasn’t the best Metroid but it certainly was still a solid 7.5 game.
The same? Why would it be different?
That's a decent point, but I very much doubt it will affect sales, as it would have done so before.
