Topic: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond

@Ralizah ahh yea thanks. It’s pretty rough. Can’t even put pressure on it at the moment. You don’t realize how much you use your thumb until you can’t 😂. Soon enough lll be back on MP4

As the guy who predicted that it would score about the same as Other M, I'd like to point out a couple of things in its defence.

Firstly, there's been a fair amount of grade deflation over the years with review scores and it's much harder to get the high scores of the trilogy era. Prime Remastered is the one game that bucked the trend, but I'd think that reviewers cut it a lot of slack for being an old game with updated graphics and controls. They probably wouldn't have been nearly so friendly if a new game played similarly to it.

Secondly, Other M isn't nearly as bad as its reputation suggests. Sure, it's one of the weaker games in the series, but Metroid fans are a demanding bunch and prone to going in with sky high expectations that are difficult to meet.

@Matt_Barber
My issues with Other M were not anything to do with the game itself, but rather, the abomination of a control scheme it enforced.

D-pad for 3D movement and changing position of the controller in hand any time you shoot missiles... how did that ever get past the suits at Nintendo and end up on store shelves?

If Other M had normal controls (remaster when?) I'd think it a great game, from what portion I've played. I couldn't stick with it cause ya, that control scheme.

I don't know if there's been score deflation so much as there's been a paradigm shift in the culture where more and more, games are judged according to a different set of criteria than in the past. Such as marks against games wherever they don't conform to expectations of what is believed to be "allowed", as well as a desire to conform opinions to whatever direction the cultural current is perceived to be flowing. If a game has some controversy before release, that signals to many they should harp on that aspect critically because that's what will be expected of them. I think many reviewers are less independent than they used to be in their assessments. And I think there's more rogue review outlets nowadays that abuse their position to enact agendas- if they're upset with a company for which we see ebb and flow be it against EA, Ubisoft, Nintendo, etc, they tend to take it out on their games.

I think Ubisoft has been the biggest victim of this. At least 2 of their games are on my all time faves list, both of which are severely underrated. And released at a time when it was popular to hate Ubisoft for everything they did.