The original concept for Metroid Prime was a 3rd-person shooter. Thanks to Miyamoto-sama's intervention it became first-person. Now that there are quasi 3rd-person shooter-exploration games like Uncharted that concept can finally be realized. Would it be wise to revisit or did the original Metroid creator's take on it with Other M soured the fandom enough to not want a second helping?
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If Metroid NX played like an Uncharted or Tom Braider would you go Hulk?
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pinkurocket
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Tom Braider... I went to high school with him.
Probably a long lost relative of Capitan Todd.
BakkaGames
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Tom Braider?
I think it would be awesome if the new Metroid was a top NFL player.
I think it would be awesome if the new Metroid was a top NFL player.
FloweryMarston
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but they don't have anything to do with metroid
NinjamicWZ
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This would never happen.
kinaesthete
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Why would it be anything like Uncharted/TR? The range for 3rd person action/adventure with shooting is much bigger than those two games. Hopefully nothing like Other M though, of course.
LiquidMetal14
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Nintedno fans are going to be high even if it ends up being an isometric RPG.
I'll take a Castlevania 64 style 3rd person exloration game.
I'll take a Castlevania 64 style 3rd person exloration game.
ViewtifulJC
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Tom Bradier, ready for adventure
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Uncharted is hardly quasi-exploration. 90% of the game is running down linear paths shooting shit and engaging in rudimentary ledge grabbing and path finding.
If you're asking if I'd be okay with a Metroid game that in combat played like a third person shooter then sure. There's room for one. But Prime succeeds because despite the first person perspective the core design philosophy in level design, exploration, and puzzling remains faithful to the Metroid formula. It's just as poignant in 2D-to-3D franchise transformations as Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time. And so an "Uncharted Metroid" has to not be Uncharted Metroid at all, but instead a 3D Metroid true to the formula that also just so happens to be third person.
Uncharted Metroid in the literal sense might be a fun game, but it will put the franchise in the same position it is now with Federation Force (though less horrendous feedback), in that fans are still not getting the Metroid game they're asking for as established by the franchise, but instead a game that isn't Metroid by design but Metroid in aesthetic.
If you're asking if I'd be okay with a Metroid game that in combat played like a third person shooter then sure. There's room for one. But Prime succeeds because despite the first person perspective the core design philosophy in level design, exploration, and puzzling remains faithful to the Metroid formula. It's just as poignant in 2D-to-3D franchise transformations as Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time. And so an "Uncharted Metroid" has to not be Uncharted Metroid at all, but instead a 3D Metroid true to the formula that also just so happens to be third person.
Uncharted Metroid in the literal sense might be a fun game, but it will put the franchise in the same position it is now with Federation Force (though less horrendous feedback), in that fans are still not getting the Metroid game they're asking for as established by the franchise, but instead a game that isn't Metroid by design but Metroid in aesthetic.
sixteen-bit
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I recently played Tomb Raider 2013 and it definitely has some Metroid-like elements with new areas to explore once u have additional gear later in the game. I could work.
Crab Milk Mickey
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This would be a worst case scenario that'd kill any interest in the game for me. The Uncharted games and the recent Tomb Raiders are not particularly well-made (beyond production values) in my eyes.
Cosmonaut X
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Y CANT TOM BRAIDER CRAWL?
If it was just third person I wouldn't really care. As long as it made a suitable transition to it, the Prime games worked very well in first person.
But what do you mean by "like "Uncharted"? Because I wouldn't want Metroid to be anything like that. Metroid is all about isolation and extrapolation, while Uncharted is a linear action game. Do not want.
But what do you mean by "like "Uncharted"? Because I wouldn't want Metroid to be anything like that. Metroid is all about isolation and extrapolation, while Uncharted is a linear action game. Do not want.
It is the perfect storm.
DownGrader
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Reading the title for the first time, I thought Tom Braider is some gaming industry expert I don't know.
Tye The Czar
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Well it being in 3rd person doesn't mean it would be like those games, but yes if they made a Metroid that played like either of those games I would not be happy.
Rockin' Ranger
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Same here! He went on to be a porn star after college. What was his latest movie? Rise of the Tom Braider, I believe?
evilromero
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And just like that Tom Braider was born.
Ugh, I wouldn't go HULK but I might be disappointed in that it's a missed opportunity. The series plays so differently.
Ugh, I wouldn't go HULK but I might be disappointed in that it's a missed opportunity. The series plays so differently.
KoopaTheCasual
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Typo of the year aside.... I do think Other M soured the fanbase. It's a shame too, because I think Metroid has the potential to make a GotF type of 3D platformer/shooter.
But I wouldn't want it to play like uncharted. There's more to 3D games than Nathan Drake and Tom Braider
But I wouldn't want it to play like uncharted. There's more to 3D games than Nathan Drake and Tom Braider
Metroid has its fair share of set pieces. Short cinematic moments, but they are spread throughout the 2D games
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Of couse I'd be mad. The last thing Metroid franchise needs after that violently blow named Force Federation is to change its gameplay formula to a blend of dull mechanics and cutscenes, that, as we've seen in MP3, don't harmonize at all with the series.
Of couse I'd be mad. The last thing Metroid franchise needs after that violently blow named Force Federation is to change its gameplay formula to a blend of dull mechanics and cutscenes, that, as we've seen in MP3, don't harmonize at all with the series.
GoldandBlue
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Get people riled up about something not happening, duh
TheOhrenberger.
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I'd play that gameTom Braider?
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