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Re: UK Charts: Metroid Prime 4 Falls From The Top Ten

Crimson_Ridley

As a huge Metroid fan, I can honestly say I don't think I'll ever go back to Prime 4. I finished it 100% and for the most part, I was just bored.

The characters had no personality and I couldn't even attempt to care about any of them. The ending felt rushed whilst trying to be emotional and it fell harder than a miss-timed bomb jump.

The green energy grind to open the final area was pointless busy work that learned nothing from Wind Waker's triforce piece hunt.

The main pull of Metroid, solving puzzles and opening secret areas to find power-ups was so incredibly easy, coupled with the ability to just have them show on the map, it took away all challenge of the game.

The enemies and bosses were just as easy to kill with the standard beam that it rendered using anything else useless.

The open world served no purpose other than padding out the time to get to another area because the developers knew they couldn't connect these areas with any kind of cohesion.

The upgrades were boring, even Samus' suit was dull and the Legacy suit was just a recolour with nothing added to it or any kind of wow factor.

This game was stuck in development hell and even after development was restarted, it looks like they sat on it for 6 years before even thinking of what to do with it. The game was clearly unfinished, slapped together and sent out just to get it off of the release schedule.

It's not a "bad" game, but a terrible Metroid and Nintendo's most disappointing game for a long time. As sad as it to accept, I don't think we'll see Metroid again for a long, long time.

Re: Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection Switch 1 & 2 Physical Release Does Not Include Mortal Kombat 4 On The Game Card

breach187

Lots of people arguing in bad faith on the side of the abusers as if it’s justified simply because they do it. Please show us on the doll where the publisher hit you.

And when you’re done with that, please tell me how Square-Enix can revoke my license to my physical copy of Chrono Trigger on SNES and make it unplayable. I see at least one person arguing this is possible.
Oh it’s only possible with newer, internet-connected devices? Well maybe we should strengthen up those consumer protection and first sale rights instead of shrugging our shoulders, doing nothing, and going “oh well, they had every right to do what they do.” That’s how we’re here today.

Re: Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection Switch 1 & 2 Physical Release Does Not Include Mortal Kombat 4 On The Game Card

Pat_trick

@EarthboundBenjy I agree it’s terrible that a game can disappear like that.

The key difference though, is that Warbirds wasn’t revoked from the physical cartridge, it was removed by an optional update that overwrote existing content. The cart still worked exactly as sold until that update was applied, and an unpatched version still preserved the game even if rolling back is difficult.

So to me this shows the risk comes from post-sale updates, not from physical ownership itself. If anything, it reinforces why people care about complete, offline-playable builds and get nervous about “physical” releases that require ongoing downloads such as Mortal Kombat 4.

I’m glad it was restored, but I agree it never should’ve been removable in the first place.

Re: Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection Switch 1 & 2 Physical Release Does Not Include Mortal Kombat 4 On The Game Card

RoboCube

@EarthboundBenjy yeah I remember that, I thought it was strange playing it after launch thinking could of sworn there was another lyxn game here last week only to discover it was removed and had to delete the update just to play it since when I first got I didn't play it when I was gonna try it they removed it.. as you said it's back now but man this is annoying.

Re: Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection Switch 1 & 2 Physical Release Does Not Include Mortal Kombat 4 On The Game Card

EarthboundBenjy

@Pat_trick
Not sure how this affects the argument here, but I did want to mention - There is one precedent for an update patching out access to a game that I can think of.

the Atari 50 physical version includes the Lynx game Warbirds as part of the collection.
However the game was patched out of the collection in a software update. After this update, in order to play Warbirds, you had to somehow play unpatched, which Nintendo makes it very difficult to do if you have ever installed the update.

Warbirds was patched back in in a later patch. But the precedent is there.

I find it absolutely terrible that a whole game can just vanish from a compilation like that.

Re: Multiple Switch Games Have Received Switch 2 Compatibility Fixes

mlt

@AG_Awesome @darkswabber
No motion control at all? This is crazy, I mean the nintendo crowd has had access to the Wii version for ages which still has the best motion aiming of any RE4 re-release. And they decide to just skip it?

Apparently 7/8/9 are supposed to get the feature but let's hope it will be well implemented because looking at R1/R2/5/6 it does not bode well.

Come on Capcom! Even Nintendo who is famous for never giving options for freaking anything, even them have an incredible set of options for MP4! I've fiddled around with it last time and it's just awesome the amount of personalization you have access to.

Re: Review: Terminator 2D: NO FATE (Switch) - A Simplistic Yet Fascinating 16-Bit Love Letter

MysticWangForce

Surely i cannot be the only person who remembers or who played the Gameboy Terminator 2 game. the sidescrolling shooter version. very much like this it had different stages. God i hated the reporgramming puzzle, the truck chase in this looks lifted directly from the gameboy game and i do not mean that negatively either. That game was ***** hard and unforgiving. didn't even have any joy using my game genie on it.

Re: UK Charts: Metroid Prime 4 Falls From The Top Ten

Rattustheratt

@somnambulance I'm 3 keys in and loving it too. True, it's much more linear than MP1 but with my limited gaming time these days I actually don't mind. What I'm not looking forward to is the upcoming hunt for Green Energy I hear people talking about. I've been trying to find crystals everywhere I go but I've only hit about 25% so far (1st unlock in the Altar of Legacy).

Re: UK Charts: Metroid Prime 4 Falls From The Top Ten

Rattustheratt

@Moistnado same here. I seem to be one of the few people who enjoy the bike (although the desert could use a lot more content). The training bits reminded me of Extreme-G. In my answer to the Nintendo Survey this morning I asked them to consider making a spin-off bike racing/combat game á la Extreme-G! I can already imagine the outraged YouTubers if such a game got announced!

Re: UK Charts: Metroid Prime 4 Falls From The Top Ten

Chibi

I think although it’s to be expected, being number 15 at this time of year isn’t too bad, as it’s a very competitive time of year. Even at #15 I’d imagine its sales are still pretty substantial. I’d love to see it have some legs and still see it in the top 40 in the new year though.

Re: UK Charts: Metroid Prime 4 Falls From The Top Ten

the_beaver

@WheresWaveRace Nintendo does sell well in the UK, but pretty much "casual" games, like Mario and Pokemon...
Actually, having a deep look at the chart, one could think only kids and casual gamers own the console over there... (I know it's not true, but it looks like it).
Metroid is about to go away at this pace, Hyrule Warriors is nowhere to be seen, games like Star Wars and Assassins Creed are selling much worse on the Switch 2 than on PS5 (despite being much more recent),...
That makes me hope Metroid is selling better in other places, to compensate this.

Re: UK Charts: Metroid Prime 4 Falls From The Top Ten

somnambulance

Shame about Metroid Prime 4. I’m 4 keys in now and I’m absolutely loving the game. I’d even go so far as to say I think it might be better than Prime 2 so far. Sure, it doesn’t top the original, but honestly… what does? It’s the best first party game this year, outside Bananza, of course.

I hope the game has legs and grows in reputation over time.

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