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[SuperSah]

More footage, you can get out of your mech and sneak around for some stealth sections https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSTm-q1esNc

Okay, this looks just stupid. Like, what? The 'stealth' is literally hide in a gap in the wall then run out.

Why

 

[zigg]

Animal Crossing seems to have taught them a harsh lesson about printing amiibos for one half-baked idea.

Kirby got a full set of amiibo. I bought them all ❤️

 

[Aldric]

"Gamers" downvoting stuff on youtube

l'll always find it hilarious that downvoting a Youtube video is now apparently an offensive and immature thing to do that's one step away from online harrassment.

Oh no they're using an option available to them and clicking "dislike" on something they dislike! These entitled manbabbys!!

 

[Red Hood]

Let's all buy this, guys! Let them show Metroid isn't dead!!


With our luck they'd interpret that as demand for Federation Force 2.

 

[TheDinoman]

But for real though, if Nintendo could get some new blood in here for Metroid/Metroid Prime like they've done so with Splatoon and Zelda BOTW, maybe we could get these series back on their feet again. Relegate Tanabe and Sakamoto to the sidelines considering they've kinda gone off the deep end (to be fair Sakamoto hasn't touch Metroid in forever though).

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

l'll always find it hilarious that downvoting a Youtube video is now apparently an offensive and immature thing to do that's one step away from online harrassment.

Oh no they're using an option available to them and clicking "dislike" on something they dislike! These entitled manbabbys!!

Well said.

Don't forget "entitled."

 

[vinnygambini]

The comment section

Dead

 

[BatDan]

l'll always find it hilarious that downvoting a Youtube video is now apparently an offensive and immature thing to do that's one step away from online harrassment.

Oh no they're using an option available to them and clicking "dislike" on something they dislike! These entitled manbabbys!!

Seriously, the dislike bar is there for a reason. If you're going to put something out there, people will have an opinion of it. If you don't like what you hear, improve, don't try to shift the blame *cough*Ghostbusters*cough*
... I do miss the days of the 5-Star rating though. At least there you had people that thought it was just "okay"

 

[Spyder_Monkey]

Is this a drive-by shitpost?
*reads the post
Yep, it is.

I guess when you get so angry at something you can read anything resembling dissent as a drive by shit-post.

 

[Berordn]

Kirby got a full set of amiibo. I bought them all ❤️

Well, yeah. Kirby's still a relatively acclaimed franchise.

Spoiler

i also bought them all

 

[LiK]

New update: The Samus amiibo provide perks for the main game mode.

Perks as of yet unexplained.

This just makes me sad.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

I guess when you get so angry at something you can read anything resembling dissent as a drive by shit-post.

I'm not angry.

Could you explain why Metroid fans are the worst?

 

[javac]

Not every piece of Amiibo content is supposed to be amazing, I don't see the issue.

 

[Toxi]

Okay, this looks just stupid. Like, what? The 'stealth' is literally hide in a gap in the wall then run out.

Why

It boggles my mind that games keep doing these forced stealth sections despite them being so loathed. Has there ever been a game where they actually added to the experience?

I guess when you get so angry at something you can read anything resembling dissent as a drive by shit-post.

"Dissent" requires an actual argument. Just own up to your shit-post.

 

[Oddish1]

But for real though, if Nintendo could get some new blood in here for Metroid/Metroid Prime like they've done so with Splatoon and Zelda BOTW, maybe we could get these series back on their feet again. Relegate Tanabe and Sakamoto to the sidelines considering they've kinda gone off the deep end (to be fair Sakamoto hasn't touch Metroid in forever though).

Sakamoto and Tanabe have a produced a lot of successful games for Nintendo. They're not going to sideline them because a couple of their games were poorly received.

 

[Spyder_Monkey]

I'm not angry.

Could you explain why Metroid fans are the worst?

Because they're getting angry over a video game. It's pathetic no matter how "tone death" it is.

 

[grandjedi6]

Damn, when did they give Samus baby bearing hips? D=

Samus amiibo is based on her Smash 4 design which is based off of her Other M design.

 

[KingBroly]

So what? Buy it or leave it.
"Gamers" downvoting stuff on youtube and crying on social media about how game x is not the game z they wanted are the worst. Equal to that GG nonsense.

They don't want the franchise to go in that direction and are frustrated with how they've treated the franchise as a 'whatever we feel like doing' IP. Plus, there's not many ways people can influence Nintendo, but this is clearly one of them.

 

[TheDinoman]

Sakamoto and Tanabe have a produced a lot of successful games for Nintendo. They're not going to sideline them because a couple of their games were poorly received.

I didn't mean for them to be downright fired, just let other younger people take the mantle of handling their respective Metroid series, getting new blood in there like with Splatoon/BOTW, you know? Sakamoto already kinda has stepped away from Metroid for the time being, focusing on quirky games like Tomodachi Life which seems to be doing well for him.

 

[Ridley327]

The Japanese overview trailer is bizarre, to say the least. They go for a weird RvB setup with the Japanese VAs having a conversation through their characters as they swap screens.

The enemies sound like they burp when they die.

 

[udivision]

Because they're getting angry over a video game. It's pathetic no matter how "tone death" it is.

Metroid fans are the worst because they are getting angry over a video game?

 

[kamineko]

Because they're getting angry over a video game. It's pathetic no matter how "tone death" it is.

Spending a few minutes on this forum will reveal that this is not a Metroid-specific phenomenon.

Do you mean to say that being angry about this specific game makes Metroid fans the worst?

 

[KingBroly]

The Japanese overview trailer is bizarre, to say the least. They go for a weird RvB setup with the Japanese VAs having a conversation through their characters as they swap screens.

The enemies sound like they burp when they die.

I don't think there's English VA work in Fed Farce. So...either it's a narration or they're trying to cater towards the Japanese audience again.

 

[Interceptor]

l'll always find it hilarious that downvoting a Youtube video is now apparently an offensive and immature thing to do that's one step away from online harrassment.

Oh no they're using an option available to them and clicking "dislike" on something they dislike! These entitled manbabbys!!

In this case they didnt downvote because they didnt like the content. They did it because it was the cool thing to do for the moment in a very annoying lets be offended and cry about it culture.

They don't want the franchise to go in that direction and are frustrated with how they've treated the franchise as a 'whatever we feel like doing' IP. Plus, there's not many ways people can influence Nintendo, but this is clearly one of them.

The "franchise" is not going in that direction. Federation Force is. A spinoff doing its thing. "Wah wah thats not Samus i want Samus"- lets downvote all the media we can find! Lets show those developers how shit they are..
Pathetic.

 

[Toxi]

I don't think there's English VA work in Fed Farce. So...either it's a narration or they're trying to cater towards the Japanese audience again.

There is.

Though this might be the first indication of more than one voice actor for the player characters.

 

[Oddish1]

I didn't mean for them to be downright fired, just let other younger people take the mantle of handling their respective Metroid series, getting new blood in there like with Splatoon/BOTW, you know? Sakamoto already kinda has stepped away from Metroid for the time being, focusing on quirky games like Tomodachi Life which seems to be doing well for him.

I mean, giving the series to Team Ninja and Next Level Games probably falls under what you mean by "new blood" working on the series. Not younger, but new voices.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

Because they're getting angry over a video game. It's pathetic no matter how "tone death" it is.

How can you tell it's anger and not just disappointment?

 

[Striek]

Is it the execution? It seems like there's really not much you can do with a concept that's so antithetical to what the series is known for other than carrying it to term.

If it winds up being a bad game, I really don't think it will be because NLG didn't do enough.

You can make a squad-based multiplayer shooter that looks good and plays well, for starters. There are a fuck-ton of games that manage to do so.

Theres no redeeming qualities on hand from all the footage so far. The art is terrible and the realisation in-game is worse, the gameplay looks slow, plodding, AI looks dumb/the encounters are boring, all the environments showcased are bland and narrow, the stealth section posted above is as poorly designed as it could possibly be, it just adds up to a mechanically uninteresting game.

Its a shitty realisation of the concept, thats why its NLGs fault.

 

[JazzmanZ]

This has gotta be the weakest example of amiibo unlocks in any game so far.

what? this is about the same as Wooly world and Ace combat 3DS in terms of Amiibo unlocks

 

[WarioFan63]

Hey does that trailer say the game takes place in 20X6?

I'm hightly anticipating Stinkoman cameo

 

[dangeraaron10]

Because they're getting angry over a video game. It's pathetic no matter how "tone death" it is.

I've seen some anger on this forum buddy. Just look at that one guy who keeps making XCX threads that smear blood and feces on the walls in protest. No one here really looks furious, we're all just saying a bad game looks bad. I'm having a ball actually.

 

[Toxi]

In this case they didnt downvote because they didnt like the content. They did it because it was the cool thing to do for the moment in a very annoying lets be offended and cry about it culture.

Or maybe, like me, they just didn't fucking like it.

 

[KingBroly]

I mean, giving the series to Team Ninja and Next Level Games probably falls under what you mean by "new blood" working on the series. Not younger, but new voices.

Continuing to outsource to people who don't know how to make a Metroid game is never going to get the series back on track. And simply not passing the series onto younger talent internally means it's just going to continue to rot.

 

[Oddish1]

Metroid fans are the worst because they are getting angry over a video game?

I mean, I can imagine a lot of situations where being angry at a video game is justified and called for. This probably isn't one of them.

 

[Ridley327]

The highlight of the Japanese trailer is definitely SUPAAAAAAA MISAIRU, but the end of it did show that appears to be a lot of bosses in the game. I guess they heard that complaint about Hunters!

 

[TheDinoman]

Continuing to outsource to people who don't know how to make a Metroid game is never going to get the series back on track. And simply not passing the series onto younger talent internally means it's just going to continue to rot.

Yeah, I meant younger talent within Nintendo's internal studios, lol. I mean, look at this interview regarding BOTW.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1234103

This is definitely the first time we’ve created a game this large. We didn’t know where to start. So it happened to be there was a team that was working on creating a larger world. And this team was a group of younger developers. So we had our old programmers from the Zelda team take a step aside, so we could introduce this new group of programmers.

But then these new, younger developers had no clue about how past Zeldas had been created. The group of new staff actually would ask us, like ‘Well I know that it’s been done, traditionally, in other Zelda titles, but why does it have to be that way?’ And among those questions there were some I just couldn’t answer, that I didn’t know the answer to myself. That was because I just took those things on as a tradition, and I didn’t really know why the tradition existed.

When you think about it, maybe those things really didn’t need to be there in the modern world, those traditions. So I started destroying these traditions I’d inherited in the series one by one. But it’s a process that takes a lot of time. And because we were destroying everything we’d done in the past, and rebuild new ideas from the ground up, that was the hardest thing, and it’s really taken a long time to create the thing I most wanted to create.

I want to see something like this applied to Metroid.

 

[Toa TAK]

This just makes me sad.

I think the skins themselves look pretty neat.

It's just the game they're coming in I'm not that thrilled about.

 

[Satch]

 

[MegaManTrigger]

Because they're getting angry over a video game. It's pathetic no matter how "tone death" it is.

You must not be here long enough, or maybe completely unaware of other fanbases getting mad at something about a video game. For instance, Paper Mario fans, FFXV fans, Sonic fans, and the list goes on...

Also, getting mad is understandable considering that the company completely missed the point. Why even bother with this game when Metroid fans have been craving for a main series game for nearly 10 years now? If this game was released alongside or after a main series game, no one would be complaining.

 

[Ridley327]

You can make a squad-based multiplayer shooter that looks good and plays well, for starters. There are a fuck-ton of games that manage to do so.

Theres no redeeming qualities on hand from all the footage so far. The art is terrible and the realisation in-game is worse, the gameplay looks slow, plodding, AI looks dumb/the encounters are boring, all the environments showcased are bland and narrow, the stealth section posted above is as poorly designed as it could possibly be, it just adds up to a mechanically uninteresting game.

Its a shitty realisation of the concept, thats why its NLGs fault.

From what it sounds like, Tanabe's hands are all over this in a way that wasn't the case with the Retro games, so this seems like what he actually wants. Considering how much he's been brought out to speak on behalf of the game and how strongly he feels about the concept, including how long he's been keeping at it, I feel like you're blaming the wrong party.

 

[Spyder_Monkey]

I've seen some anger on this forum buddy. Just look at that one guy who keeps making XCX threads that smear blood and feces on the walls in protest. No one here really looks furious, we're all just saying a bad game looks bad. I'm having a ball actually.

Then what's the point? Don't buy the game. Stop wasting energy posting how much the game sucks in vague and nonconstructive terms. There's a dime a dozen Metroid clones out there that you can support. Instead anytime new info on this game came out it's a shitstorm. It's awful and being on here saying "a bad game looks bad" doesn't help your case, it only makes it worse. Metroid fans only prove that that fandom is a mess when you don't get what YOU want. Just like every other fandom. It's sad when you look at it.

 

[KingBroly]

Yeah, I meant younger talent within Nintendo's internal studios, lol. I mean, look at this interview regarding BOTW.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1234103

I want to see something like this applied to Metroid.

Given the series' current state, it's going to be a long time before a normal Metroid game happens, let alone a young blood revolution.

 

[Oddish1]

Continuing to outsource to people who don't know how to make a Metroid game is never going to get the series back on track. And simply not passing the series onto younger talent internally means it's just going to continue to rot.

Okay, but you're assuming that these unknown younger talents will automatically know how to make a Metroid game. I don't think a dev team being younger necessarily mean it's better.

 

[KingBroly]

Okay, but you're assuming that these unknown younger talents will automatically know how to make a Metroid game. I don't think a dev team being younger necessarily mean it's better.

My point is that the older talent is leaving the series behind without passing on the knowledge of how to make a Metroid game before moving on, which I think is absolutely the case right now.

 

[Nilaul]

Well after the backlash this game has recieved you would had thought that they would had changed something... But nope.

 

[Hibiki Kurosawa]

Well come on guys. You've gotta be excited about this now, right?

 

[dangeraaron10]

Then what's the point? Don't buy the game. Stop wasting energy posting how much the game sucks in vague and nonconstructive terms. There's a dime a dozen Metroid clones out there that you can support. Instead anytime new info on this game came out it's a shitstorm. It's awful and being on here saying "a bad game looks bad" doesn't help your case, it only makes it worse. Metroid fans only prove that that fandom is a mess when you don't get what YOU want. Just like every other fandom. It's sad when you look at it.

Because pointing and laughing at bad games is fun. I'm a terrible person and I enjoy it. I'm not even a fan of the Metroid series.

Be careful not to fall off your high horse now, you could break something.

 

[NOLA_Gaffer]

Here's the first 10 minutes of Federation Force. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n79BY89o6U4

How much you want to bet a bunch of bitter Metroid fans are going to downvote the hell out of this video as well?

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

Then what's the point? Don't buy the game. Stop wasting energy posting how much the game sucks in vague and nonconstructive terms. There's a dime a dozen Metroid clones out there that you can support. Instead anytime new info on this game came out it's a shitstorm. It's awful and being on here saying "a bad game looks bad" doesn't help your case, it only makes it worse. Metroid fans only prove that that fandom is a mess when you don't get what YOU want. Just like every other fandom. It's sad when you look at it.

You're wasting your energy getting angry at people who are disappointed.

For someone who hates complaining, you sure do like to complain.

 

[NOLA_Gaffer]

Well after the backlash this game has recieved you would had thought that they would had changed something... But nope.

I don't think you could change this game enough to satiate the folks that hate it.

It's either cancel it or nothing.