>>745797774
It's not. That's why don't bother to release any games. Mario, Pokemon and Zelda are the heavy hitters. Metroid is for the fans

>>745797774
No one's calling Metroid a heavy hitter. It's common knowledge that the series sells pretty badly in Japan

>>745797857
then maybe prime 4 should have stayed in the oven a bit longer so the fans wouldn't shit all over it.
Dread was good though.

>>745797774
Because it was completely mediocre in every aspect
Only fake Metroid fans glazed it

>>745797774
>forgotten
Why do you need to bait all the time? Is your life that sad?

>>745798153
You faggots wouldn't stop bitching about how long it was taking. Completely fucking ignoring another studio was working on it and it was scrapped.

>>745797774
How the fuck has it been 5 years man...

>>745797774
game sucked ass, sold it as soon as I beat it. if dread and 4 are the future of Metroid is rather have the series die for good

Too much bait, thread deserves to die

>>745797774
Go woke
Go broke

Metroid would be so much better if they remove her gayass armor and let you play as her in her skimpy suit

>>745797774
Cause metroid is one of the very few if not the only nintendo franchise that isn‘t made specifically for toddlers

>>745800767
Isn't the whole appeal that it's actually a woman behind the armor? Yeah, it's more common now, but it was a big deal when the first Metroid came out and everyone assumed it was a guy. They have to keep the gimmick going and the armor's essential to it

>>745797774
Because they're not releasing games and when they do release games, then they do not appeal to Metroid's target audience.
Dread is a simplified, checklist Adventure-Line Metroidvania, but at least it's a Metroidvania that doesn't shoot itself in the foot unlike games like Other M, Federation Force and Prime4 that have barely anything in common with what people expect out of the series.
>>745798153
>Stayed in the oven longer
They should have thrown everything after 2004 out and developed a new game in 2-3 years like they used to, there is no excuse for a professional studio to take more than 4 years to make a game if things are going smoothly.
>A delayed game racks up technical and design debt, discards work due to shifting specifications and likely has catastrophic failures that are causing the delay, a rushed game at least releases to sink or swim on its own hyperfocused merits and you can just make another game right after - Miguel Shiyamoto

>>745798153
>longer development time = better game
I can't believe it's 2026 and you retards still believe this. A game going over its natural development cycle (2-5 years) is as bad for its health as being rushed. I can count on one hand the number of games that took 6+ years to make and were good

>>745798953
It had the best bosses and combat of any Metroid, easily. The level design and music could've been better, but still

>>745800767
Samus is hottest in a (form-fitting) Power Suit. The Zero Suit is for low IQ retards
>DUHHH, ME LIKE SKIMPY BATHING SUIT. MAKE SAMUS LOOK LIKE WIDOWMAKOW FROM OVOWATCH

>>745804071
>it had the best bosses
no it doesn't Fusion does
>and combat
You're right about that though

>>745797774
it's literally the only metroid game people remember, more than the last one that came out, whatever that name was

>>745797774
i feel that if this game was released on other consoles as well or at least pc it'd sell more only because the jp nintendo playerbase aren't interested in this IP as much as the west...

Metroid is important to nintendo for varieties sake.

ruined by retarded chase segments for screaming youtubers

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>>745797774
Legacy franchise propped up by games released 20+ years ago. They keep it as a vanity project and toss some money at it from time to time, JUST for the low probability of the next game being a banger. This low-risk gamble is a better use of an IP than locking it away in a vault and never touching it.

>>745805878
It really sucks to be a Metroid fan that otherwise hates Nintendo. I refuse to buy a Switch, so I only play Metroid through emulation. It sucks pirating games I genuinely like and want to support

Is Metroid Prime Origins worth playing?

>>745806216
lmao what a crybaby

>>745797774
Its the best metroid game tho
sad they didnt make a S2 version

>>745806216
I bet most are like this. In my case I used to play Metroid games on gameboy handhelds and gamecube and wii but I never got tempted to buy wii u or switch 1 & 2...

>>745806490
Retard

>>745806216
You are a retard eric, we know.

>>745806529
gonna cry?

I think about this game everyday ever since Ravenous was leaked

>>745806216
Same boat here. I‘m about to buy a switch 2 just for the dread sequel

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>>745805878
I don't think Dread going multiplat would greatly increase game's sales. It'd help but not THAT much

>>745806635
You're gonna spend $520 ($450 Switch 2 + $70 game) for a single game?

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>>745797774
>i don't actually have any criticisms for this game so i am just going to talk about how many people bought it

>>745806845
if people did it for astro bot(lmao)

>>745806845
Yea, i loved dread. Looking at how fucked hardware prices are i can probably sell the console for a profit after. I‘m also looking at used consoles which i should be able to get for around 300€

>>745806845
it's cheaper than buying a ps5/ps5pro for gta6

>>745797774
>pulled an sonicmania
games for this feeling?

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>>745806854
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>>745797774
Forced "stealth" sections completely ruin the replay value. People play it once, hate 20 % of the game

>>745806925
I guess I should thank you for fighting the good fight of contributing to Metroid's commercial success, but financially irresponsible people will always be a pet peeve of mine. People will spend $500+ on a single 10 hour video-game and then lament how unfair the economy has been to them

>>745807028
They‘re not stealth and once you know the route you can blitz through them

>>745806957
The PS5 actually has games though. The Switch 2 doesn't, unless you're a dumb tendie who considers Pokemon slop games

>>745807095
lol

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>>745804071
>best bosses and combat

>>745807124
yes, thats how bad it used to be

metroid is a heavy hitter in a portfolio sense.
>we have a property for enthusiast nerds
if nintendo wants to send that message metroid is the go to lever they pull.

>>745797774
Feministslop

>>745807193
Donkey kong was another franchise that used to have games that weren‘t made for babies but they killed that

>>745807124
Show me any other Metroid boss that is even 10% as good as Raven Beak

>>745807056
You can look at it that way but on a scale of irresponsible financial decisions buying a console is way down. It has no maintenance costs and you can always resell it for at least 70% of its value. Same for games you buy for it. It‘s not like i‘m buying a bmw car that‘s gonna burn my wallet every day

>>745807281
when you have an extremely barren, isolated setting the bit of extra intrigue from the female form goes a long way.

>>745807589
Not really

It isn't. Nintendo's Big Three are Mario, Zelda, and Pokemon and nothing else comes close. It's been like this for over 25 years.

>>745807703
You forgot Halo

>>745804038
Out of curiosity, in that criteria which games would you consider to be good? I struggle to think of any.

>>745807095
aren't most of the ps5 exclusives on PC tho?

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dread was fucking ace you guys just want to complain about everything

>>745797774
Dread blows. EMMI zones aren't scary or tense, they're just trial and error aggravation. The music isn't good either.

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>>745807589
This guy gets it. The rough survival setting juxtaposed against the soft female form that has to content with untold horrors.

>>745807781
"After nine years in development, hopefully it will have been worth the wait". TF2, of course. Though that was mainly because Valve kept starting from scratch, so the actual final build of TF2 was probably only in development for 2 or 3 years. I was gonna say RDR2 but I guess that depends on how exactly you measure dev time. It started development in 2010, but it's not like Rockstar fans were given 8 solid years of radio silence, since GTAV came out in 2013. So honestly yeah there are pretty much no good video-games with unreasonably long development cycles

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>>745804148
Based

>>745807786
No one said anything about exclusives

>>745806216
If you really wanted to you could just buy the game to support it then pirate it.
Not that I'd recommend doing that, but it's an option

>>745808083
That's an idea. I could buy it for a friend with a Switch 2, even if he or she doesn't play it. The only problem is that I literally don't have any friends with a Switch 2, because why would I associate with tendies lol

The only Metroid game that reminds in the popular consciousness is Other M for all the wrong reasons

>>745804071
Dread's bosses feel like the game ended right as it was peaking up steam. Raven Beak would be a great midgame boss but he's actually the final one, and everything else before is kind of underpowered fodder.

>>745808180
Idk what sort of cheese-grater-on-balls Soulslike difficulty you were expecting out of a Metroid game but Dread's difficulty pacing was literally pitch-perfect. If it was even slightly harder it would've been a weaker game (and if you really want to torture yourself, Dread mode exists)

Is there a chance that metroid ravenous releases on switch 1 too or am i delusional

>>745808535
If Mario Kart World and the Ocarina of Time remake are Switch 2 exclusives then why the FUCK wouldn't Ravenous be exclusive?

>>745808609
Cause metroid doesn‘t sell consoles so maybe they‘d want to maximize software sales from it instead

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>>745808672
Oh yeah I forgot Prime 4 was on Switch 1. Perhaps

>>745808534
I suppose I should have mentioned that I wasn't disagreeing with Anon's statement about Dread bosses being a high for the series. And I do also agree that Dread has a good difficulty curve, with Raven Beak also being the hardest boss in the game, even if, again, I do wish moveset diversity and expected utilization of several of your tools had quicked in sooner.
But again, fair enough overall, I wasn't expecting something harder nor am I begging for it, rather it left me with a certain craving for the quality Raven Beak presented.

>>745797774
It peaked at Super Metroid everything after it is a downfall

>>745807336
AM2R's genesis fight.

>>745797774
>can't break 3 million copies sold?
Dread sold 3.1 million 3 years ago. Why do you have to be such mindbroken tranny?

>>745809609
The thing in the Thoth? That one's ridiculously easy to get into a pattern

>>745810151
It doesn't have any part of it that retroactively ruins the whole fight. It's a little on the easy side, but it's at least a consistently fun fight.

Raven Beak is okay until he becomes Raven Beak X, then it becomes putrid shit.

>>745810307
The final omega hyper beam that leads into the escape? That's all?
The entire actual battle until the ship crash is fine?

>>745810537
That and it being one of the few fights where those dumb parries are mandatory.

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Are there any fangames or romhacks that are actually worth checking out other than AM2R?

>>745811602
The creator of FNAF actually did a Super Metroid ROMhack. It's not good though

>>745808854
Prime 4 released on Switch one because they kinda promised they'd do that in 2017, similar to BOTW

Its crazy that dread is the best switch game by a longshot and the best game nintendo has published since the wii