Why did shítendo abandon their only non-shit IP?
Why did shítendo abandon their only non-shit IP?
Bentley Collins
Jace Nelson
why are westerners so obsessed with metroid don't they have enough guns to obsesses over in real life
Jonathan Peterson
More like they aren't as shit publishers as other companies and they saw their product was turning out to be shit, so they started all over again so the game was good.
James Thompson
>Americans can't get enough Dakka
A-are we Orks?
Cooper James
because Nintendo themselves ruined it
Connor Cooper
Here's your IP bro
Tyler Jackson
>any other IP gets a spinoff
>totally fine
>Metroid gets a spinoff
>everyone loses their mind
Aaron Howard
But most people liked Metroid Prime Pinball. At most, people were indifferent to it.
Matthew Butler
>Metroid Prime
>non-shit
>Samus, supposedly an agile bounty hunter, moves like a senior citizen who just got released from the hip replacement ward. She is slower than a generic FPS protagonist. This is especially egregious since the game has a ton of backtracking
>can't even strafe freely, can't even look up and down while moving, What is up with these weird limitations?
>you don't even have to aim because of lock-on (thus completely negating the advantage of going with a first-person perspective, so why did they even choose it?)
>bosses are boring HP sponges that barely even move and are basically stationary and boil down to 'scan for weak spot and wait for boss to open their sphincter to reveal their weak spot'
>they prioritized graphics over gameplay, so the exploration is constantly broken up with corridors that are disguised loading screens, which also makes the level design feel very artificial
>instead of building to a proper climax, last stretch of game is literally one giant fetch quest
>instead of letting you explore and examine things yourself (which the first-person perspective is ideally suited for), you have a scanner that spoonfeeds you everything you need
>third-person transitions like the morph ball transformation are too long and interrupt the flow of gameplay
>does a bad job of immersing the players with constantimmersion-breaking third person cutscenes of Samus riding an elevator or doing some other pointless shit (again, why even use first-person then?)
Metroid Prime is a prime example (no pun intended) of how NOT to translate a 2d game into 3d.
Daniel Mitchell
But Metroid Prime pinball and hunters were fucking awesome.