Titanfall 2 did it very well, but only for a single level.
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Tanabe talked about his plans for Metroid Prime 4 in 2015. Let's revisit them.
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Titanfall 2 did it very well, but only for a single level.
Lanayru was best region in that game by far.
And yeah, Skyward Sword is a game to think about: the Metroid Zelda to Prime 2s Zelda Metroid.
TheDinoman
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To be fair, Prime 4 was first teased at the end of Corruption, which was like, 10 years ago...
"For some reason" lol. Hmmm what might that reason be...
And Tanabe presented it in this interview as "I want to make Prime 4 but there's no team assigned to do it with me. I managed to get a team for FF, though."
Sammy Samusu
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Fucking casuals. That game was glorious. The boss battles were so intense. Ugh. Perfection. Where's the HD Trilogy for Switch?
And please no story shit in MP4. You guys have already ruined MP3 and OM.
Well, we don't even know if Sylux is human. Gender, age, and race are all unknown. We just know that Sylux seems out for Samus and has hatred for the Federation.
SatoAilDarko
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Yeah. It doesn't help that several Metroid games go directly into the next one (Metroid II to Super, Metroid Prime 2 to 3) and they've released games that fill in gaps between games (Hunters between Prime 1 and 2, Other M between Super and Fusion). That timeline is locked pretty tight. It's hard to have the Prime games keep happening in between Metroid and Metroid II.
Best to treat them as two forks off of the original Metroid.
"Guy who doesn't like Samus and looks like a plastic toy designed by a 5 year old"
Fans can't get enough! Bring him back! Sylus! Sylus! Stylox? Whatever he is, he's essential because of that attitude he seemed to have in that one cutscene in that one spin-off game where he wanted to shoot his gun! His gun! How badass is that?
Besides having a climatic boss battle with Samus, Sylux character hasn't been touched in the game at all. All we have is his backstory in which he hates the GF, Samus and uses stolen prototype tech. Tanabe probably wants to use Sylux to bring the GF' darker side. Someone that has access to such tech and hates the GF obviously was screwed somehow.
One aspect which is usually overlooked in Hunters is that there is another Bounty Hunter, Noxus, who is described as good alingned and just want to keep the game's "ultimate power" away from evil hands...and proceeds to fight Samus. This seems to hint that the Galactic Federation, and Samus by affiliation, is not perceived by everyone as benevolent, which fits the darker side of GF that we see in Other: M and Fusion
You mean like Boba Fett?
Claude Augario
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Outside of some deep seated hatred for Samus and the Federation, Sylux is a blank slate. They can do whatever the fuck they want with that character, so the moaning is a bit premature.
Kind of, except that Boba Fett's design actually has a semblance of character.
Sounds a lot like Prince of Persia Warrior Within. (Thats a very good thing from a design perspective. Just dont borrow the tone)
Personally i disliked the time shifting mechanic as it tends to overcomplicate and design philosophy that can already be too complex for the general audience. Besides Time Manipulation is more of a Zelda staple. Hopefully its more like a Day/Night cycle where both parts of the cycle have different hazards.
Personally i disliked the time shifting mechanic as it tends to overcomplicate and design philosophy that can already be too complex for the general audience. Besides Time Manipulation is more of a Zelda staple. Hopefully its more like a Day/Night cycle where both parts of the cycle have different hazards.
UnemployedVillain
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Just because it missed a single generation (Wii U), which was always a poor reason considering the series skipped the N64 and series much older have skipped generations without being considered "dead" (Punchout, Kid Icarus, Mother, Wars, etc)
Also, while I appreciate Nintendo listening to fans, they need to ignore the ones who refuse to want the series to advance. There's nothing inherently bad about having some sort of narrative or other sentient characters. I definitely don't want it to turn into every other generic narrative based game or FPS, but I don't mind some experimenting with more than just Samus and no one else.
I basically don't want another Starfox Zero situation. It came off to me as Nintendo trying to reconcile fans desires for the series to be only Arwing, only on rails (and occasionally all range) when it would have made more sense to actually develop a competently made Starfox Assault type game
The Last One
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Let's dream a little
Premature moaning is kinda what Metroid fans do. I couldn't believe the complaints I saw from people who claimed they wanted Prime 4 until it was actually announced.
Let's dream a little
I would hope the game would look a lot better than that.
chicken_pasta
Banned
Let's dream a little
That would be terrible.
Let's dream a little
Your dream is concept art everyone saw already six years ago?
I really don't know, you tell me.
The Last One
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Maybe it will.
Why?
I know it's old but it's so good.
reelbigtink
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Let's dream a little
I understand your hype for a dark, HD Metroid Prime, and we're getting that, but this isn't the best concept
Edit: for clarification, this looks like a Doom 3 corridor
I wouldn't say that but it's your dream, dude. Who am I to judge?
Samus' DNA goes back to its original condition at the end. She's no longer a Metroid hybrid. The reason she becomes a criminal is that she destroyed a space station and a planet and has no proof that she did it to save the Galaxy. She doesn't sound like she plans to run. She'll stand trial and try to make the Galaxy understand what she did. Afterall, the Federation as a whole isn't evil.
And they treat certain major components so differently. Like in the mainline games the Space Pirates are a rag-tag nomadic group wherein destroying Zebes in Super wiped them out as an organization. Prime treats them as a major militaristic force with their own planet. And they're run by a "high command" instead of Ridley and Ridley is treated like a bioweapon. The Federation is also handled much more militaristically to the point you wonder why they would ever need to employ Samus. The events of Prime 3 got so insanely high-stakes that it completely overshadows the mainline games in scope, and the series lost the more personal aspects of Samus' relationship to the Chozo, Metroids, and Ridley. It kinda helps that the mainline games focus pretty much just on 2 planets and had a couple of space stations that were trying to replicate one of those 2 planets. The Prime games spread across too many planets.
So yeah, just keep them both going in the direction they're going, though they really need to stop pussyfooting around it cuz it causes confusion. They can't use the "well the Prime games could go anywhere!" excuse forever cuz they will continue to cause continuity errors.
Other M probablyDo you think they will use this Samus design from earlier Metroid Primes or go for the more popular design from the 2D games, Other M & Smash.
I find this design way better
Jorok Goldblade
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Metroid timeline is pretty weird. Originally, the Prime series was meant to fit between
Do you think they will use this Samus design from earlier Metroid Primes or go for the more popular design from the 2D games, Other M & Smash.
I find this design way better
I think realism is an artifact from a time when Nintendo competed on horsepower. We'll probably get something more stylized now.
Dormant for 10 years, with the only attention given to it being Nintendo spitting on its gravestone a couple times. Yeah obviously it can come back any time, and we happened to get it finally, but it's extremely obvious why fans were cynical.
It's just a generic sci-fi hallway with instagram filters.
The actual game will be 100x better.
AmayaPapaya
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Actually, the design for this may be in Dishonored 2. That Dishonored 2 level + Metroid design...That might turn out extremely good.
MAtgS
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To be fair, he was designed with the DS in mind.
Haven't played Dishonored. Youtube link?
YoshiStrife
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Do you think they will use this Samus design from earlier Metroid Primes or go for the more popular design from the 2D games, Other M & Smash.
I find this design way better
Unfortunately, they'll likely keep using the anime-esque design. My personal fave is the SM Samus designs, which depicted her as more of a hardened warrior. But even Prime 1 is much better than her current design.
OmegaSmash
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I feel that I'm one of the few who really like Samus' design from the JP only Melee trophy. Very 80s anime looking imo.
This pic made me realize that MP4 could very well be a UE4 game, which would be funny as hell when one remembers the misconception that MP1 was made with a heavily customized UE2 engine. It's like poetry...Let's dream a little
TheDinoman
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Do you think they will use this Samus design from earlier Metroid Primes or go for the more popular design from the 2D games, Other M & Smash.
I find this design way better
I'd assume they'd keep using the design from Metroid Prime 3, or a new design that looks similar in appearance to it.
I don't see them using anything from the 2D games/OM/Smash. The Prime series has its own distinct art design/art style from the Sakamoto helmed games. One of the most obvious examples of this are the space pirates.
EDIT: oh you probably mean like her actual face and not the armor. I guess they'll unfortunately make it look more like Smash 4/Other M or something, like how they incorporated the zero suit into Prime 2 and beyond.
Nintendo has been sitting on the Hunters formula for 10 years and haven't done anything with it. They are not going to make a new IP for it, specially when they already hit the jackpot with Splatoon.
Let's be honest, I get why fans are wary of adding multiplayer. It has been 10 years since the last good Metroid and we are salivating for a good exploration and isolation campaing.
But Metroid needs to start sell better or droughts like the last one will keep happening. A multiplayer mode is one of the possible solutions to boost the franchise' appeal without interfering too much with the single player campaing,
Hunters has the perfect foundation for a multiplayer in the Metroid series specially after the recent rise of hero shooters.
Not a good excuse. Samus was born on the NES and established her look on SNES.
To be fair, Sylux is a fucking nobody.
AmayaPapaya
Banned
Here you go.
There is something here that could be used to great effect in the Metroid Universe, I think.
Obvious spoilers for those who may want to play Dishonored 2.
Leatherface
Member
Let's dream a little
God damn it Nintendo. I need this NOW!! Give us remake/remasters ot the Prime Trilogy for now at least! Please! I can't take it anymore. Gaaah
CertifiedFP
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A whole game built around Dishonored 2's Crack in the Slab might be quite interesting, actually.
Prime 2 was somewhat there, but as far as I recall neither world actually interacted with the other.
EDIT
Uhh... That's Halo. That's literally Halo 3's HUD with some more gauges added, in an environment that looks like it's from Halo.
They already confirmed it's first person