Topic: "Metroid vs The Legend Of Zelda; Which is the better Game series?"

@Anti-Matter I never played it as it got bad reviews, if I remember rightly.

@Zeldafan79 I always liked futuristic settings too, even back when I was younger. It's part of the reason why I like stuff like Metroid, F-Zero, and Mega Man. I do like fantasy settings as well, though.

Zalda fo sho, but I love both.

Not every Zelda game I have played has clicked with me yet as I've only beaten five Zelda games: Phantom Hourglass, Spirit Tracks, Ocarina of Time 3D, A Link Between Worlds and Breath of the Wild. All five have been great games. With Metroid, I've beaten all Metroid games and I consider a majority of them to be great games. Metroid ultimately though has both Metroid Prime Hunters and Metroid Prime: Federation Force, both of which I have gotten more enjoyment out of than the Zelda games I've beaten. Metroid Prime Hunters itself is significantly farther ahead of those five Zelda games. I would have to go with Metroid as the better series if only because of how special those two games have been.

This is a really tough question. Metroid's more my style of the two, but I also really enjoy Zelda. I'm a little tempted to say Metroid, though I need to play the Prime games before I can say for sure.

I prefer Zelda!

It'd definitely be Zelda for me, but Metroid is a series worth playing

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2D? Metroid.
3D? Zelda.

I'd agree if we pretended Metroid started with Super (or at least 2).

Both are great. I would say Zelda has more going for it in regards to scope and variety, but I prefer Metroid. It does less things, but I enjoy the things it does more.

Well, the first two Zeldas aren't quite the greatest either...

Zelda 1 is significantly better than Metroid 1, I feel confident in saying that. And while I like Metroid 2 more than Zelda 2, I'm not sure how much of that is because its "better" and how much of it is that I utterly failed to git gud at Zelda 2.

Also there's more 2D Zeldas, so a lesser one doesn't cause the average quality of all of them combined to drop as much.

Zelda 1 is definitely easier to enjoy and more accessible than Metroid 1. You might need a map or a guide for both, but Metroid just feels more... Aged? But in a bad way.

And yes, the roles swap with the sequels. Metroid 2 is much nicer to play than Zelda 2.

It's rich coming from me since I haven't played a single Metroid game but I believe Zelda is the "better" franchise. For starts there's been more games, so there's been more areas for it to succeed, and to fail likewise (looking at you, Tri Force Heroes). Sidescrolling Zelda's atrocious however.

Zelda.