>Prime 4 didn't sell a million copies on either Switch 1 and Switch 2On a scale from 1 to NST, how fucked is Retro?
>Prime 4 can't even beat kirby spinoff shovelwareI... I don't feel so good, primesisters
>no longer in a cubicle with Phil... so, win?Suck my dick. Choke on it
>>732187862We can only pray this is the end and attention can finally be put back on the Metroid sequel we all want
Has there been a Metroid release in the last 20 years that Meteoid fans haven't complained about?
>>732187862What makes you think that a niche series not suddenly selling way better than it used to will be worse for Retro than having all their pitches turned down and games in development canceled for a decade? They survived that whole debacle with no repercussions, at least they finally put a game out now.
>>732192263>blah blah blahHoly cope. And I genuinely tried to parse the drivel you posted.
>>732192079My memory is bad but what were the complaints for Prime Remaster and Dread?
Good. Make a Metroid Prime game next time.
>>732192363sorry, now the series is shelved for the next 15 yearsyou should have bought the bad sloppa
>>732192568After 20 years you think I care?
>>732187862I thought it was weird there wasn't a thread yet.>normalfags are confused on Twitter about how such a """great""" game can do that badLMAOShit, man, there's a non-zero chance that there were more people playing my shit-tier game on Itch than people who played MP4 on Switch 2. Pic related.>>732192362Prime remastered got a little flak for changing how some of the beams look, and Dread got a little flak for the EMMIs being shit compared to SA-X and for having a little too much dialogue.Both were still great games though.>>732192263>Nintendo changed Metroid Prime 4 to suck Tanabe's dick and to pull in the "mainstream audience" despite Metroid always only being bought by existing Metroid fans and nobody else>the changes scare off everyone that gives two fucks about Metroid>the Metroid curse continues in that ONLY the people who buy Metroid buy Metroid>results in some of the worst reviews and lowest sales of the franchise while the few normalfags that actually DID buy the game are confused as hell because even shit Metroid is still more sovlful than anything else on the market>all this while allegedly the game cost $100m to makeMetroid fans warned them, we said it a fuckin' million times, they saw the backlash and everything. They catered to an audience that wont buy the game, cut out about half the Fed dialogue at the last second to try to mitigate the damage, but it was too little and too late.Definitely one of the biggest "fuckin' L, bozo" moments of the decade, I'd put it somewhere in the same ballpark as Concord. Not quite the same, but in that general realm.
>>732192363This.>tight-knit, hand crafted maps full of secrets>lots of optional lore via scans, even if only lorehounds end up reading it>minimal dialogue from anyone (some is fine)>varied worlds with different environments>god-tier soundtrack>memorable bosses (at least one)>interesting weapons and powerups>don't hamfist Sylux into the game, retcon him out, I still don't get why he's got such a stick up his ass about Samus>suicide Tanabe with three shots to the back of the head (self-inflicted)>a minor collectathon aspect to get the player to backtrack at least once, so they can collect secrets they missed and get a little power trip from being more powerful on the second run through, even if the backtracking makes people whine a little
>>732191941
>from the studio that brought you project harmony comes... metroid prime 4
>>732188078>Kirby only sold about 1m copies too, according to the recent sales figures, despite the Switch 2 selling 15m-ish systemsMakes me wonder if Kirby flopped too?Most of the news seemed pretty bleak when it came out.>>732187862Fucked, both Retro and the Prime franchise.
lmao
>>732191941There hasn't been a good, competent Metroid or old Nintendo IP game in general released in 20 years that isn't also a fan game.
>>732197618Kid Icarus Uprising was fire (apparently) and so was Dread (I concur)
is he to blame?
>>732194550This studio has such dogshit original IP I'm surprised Nintendo let's them anywhere near their own properties.
>>732198456Yes
>>732198456literally who
Good, I'm glad. Shit like this is why I hope a franchise like Rayman is never revived. Sometimes dead is better.
>>732198720I'm kinda dreading Star Fox being revived, what if it's got a non-binary character creator for the online mode or some shit?
>>732198570They're the Zack Snyder of game studios, they can only make decent stuff when they're working with IP they didn't create
>>732191941You won't get a Metroid anything for at least 10 years
>>732187862Regardless of the number of copies they sold they deserved to sell fewer.
>>732198456I wouldn't know, I turned the video off after he said Super Metroid was the second Metroid game and called SoTN "Castlevania of the Night"
Considering Nintendo didn't give the game its own Direct shows all the faith they had on the project.
>>732198887Metroid 6 is probably in development already, as for Prime 5... they might drop the number on the title to free it from the baggage of 4, fortunately for it, it ends in a way in which 4's story can mostly be ignored
>>732198823Star Fox was already Kursed long ago. You have more hope of a new, good Sin & Punishment.
>>732198997Its very cynical how they treated Prime 4, but who can blame them when it was in the oven since 2017?
>>732187862Good hope they rot
>>732187862Thank fuckMore dread type games isn't a bad thing and Metroid prime concluded at 3 just fine.
>>732198823Star Fox 64 was the only good Star FoxKrystalfags who even pretend like Adventure was good just due to it having their basic bitch anthro wankbait character in it can go neck themselves.
>>732198823You know damn well theyre catering to fur fags
>>732198720Did Ubisoft recently bring back Rayman in a cartoon as an edgy Conker type character or something?
>>732192079DreadSamus returnsAm2r
>>732198997I mean that was clear when soon after release they did a very in-depth interview about the struggles of its development. This is a product that they just put out quietly at the end of 2025 because it had been promised for so long. They had invested too much time and money to just can it
>>732199843I'll give it to them, they know the games market, they are one of the few that still make fun games, they knew the game was super mid.
>Metroid Prime 4 was in development since 2017>Apparently, they have only released 1 remaster in that time gapWhat took them so long? In comparison, Monolith Soft released one mainline Xeno, two remasters and helped on two Zelda games.
>>732199589They can do that by appealing to waifufags and fags, but nintendo is too woke now to lean on the female character fanservice
>>732199667Apparently but I've never seen it.
>>732199574Assault is alright and the SNES entries are respectable historical pieces.
>>732200154Not just Zelda, they also helped with Splatoon 2 and 3, Animal Crossing and MK World.
>>732198970>least deranged tendie
>>732192079all the 2d ones have gotten praise. the 3d entries have had 2 solid titles (mp1 and 2) and the rest are all cheeks. i think Prime as a series might be dead, they'll either reboot a 3d metroid with a new story and maybe try to revamp or revisit what made mp1 so good, or they'll kill off 3d entirely and stick to putting out a platformer every 5 years.
>>732200154Development was initially handled by Bamco, and that build ended up scrapped around 2019. Nintendo pivoted to Retro, but as it had been over a decade since they worked on Prime they no longer had the "infrastructure" to make one. They effectively had to relearn how to make a Prime game, of which Prime Remastered in 2023 was almost certainly the end result of. I'd be surprised if Prime 4 had more than 2 years of fully focused work put into it, and that's to say nothing of Nintendon confirming that trying to iron out Bamco's shitty ideas (like the desert) would've been too costly for how long development had been delayed, so they forced it anyways. This thing was doomed 8 ways to Sunday.
>>732201270I think 3 is fine. I put it on par with Fusion.
>>732192079>Has there been a Metroid release in the last 20 years that Meteoid fans haven't complained about?
>>732187862>Prime 4 didn't sell a million copies on either Switch 1 and Switch 2Ok but the chuds didn't buy our game so...win?
It was in development for almost a decade and didn't have anything interesting to offer so who is even surprised? The dork that won't shut the fuck up was icing on the shit cake.
>>732187862nintendo is most likely solely responsible for this fuck up imho, but the team who did this has been known to do this shit doesn't deserve any leniancy either. the picture of the woke writer for this trash is yeet inducing.
>>732202035best metroid games in many years now have been developed by fans. nintendo is washed.
>>732202109I'd call it a win, and I loved the Prime trilogy back in the 00s. We never needed a 4.
>>732202325>NintendoTanabe. Dude has a hardon for the Galactic Federation, but he's also the producer of the Metroid Prime series at large. You can blame him for Federation Force. He's also responsible for ruining Paper Mario
>>732192079.....No
>>732198456Holy shit that video was so fucking terrible. I couldn't make it halfway through it. Embodiment of the retards on /v/ who don't like Prime 4.
>>732190323Calm down Phil
>>732192079Metroidfags are the worst fanbase in all of gaming.
>>732202035>>732202349It’s such a sad state of affairs…
