Topic: Metroid Prime 4: The Long(er) Wait

I've played the first Metroid Prime and loved it. Soon, I hope to start Prime 2 (both as part of MPT on my Wii U). I love the series, so needless to say I'm hyped about this one! I'm also not bothered about the wait.

I'm still coming down from cloud 9 here..........anyways I thought some would like to see some reactions from others and this was me to an extent.

There is a bit of language here if that might offend you.

Under
water,
please!

Wow - already more than 50 posts in response to nothing more than a title screen...

I, for one, am also obscenely excited, however. This is one of the things I Switched up for. I'd love to see the 3DS's 2D title come to Switch as well, though, even if the 3DS gets a six- or twelve-month exclusivity first.

The best and only thing real, confirmed positive about this announcement is that Nintendo is spending its development resources on Metroid Prime instead of another 2D game, sports game, etc.

Won't this be the first first-person game Nintendo Japan has ever made? Certainly the first first-person shooter.

I would put money down that this game won't be out until early 2019 at the earliest.

@iKhan I think that's a safe bet.

I'm excited and I'll buy, but Sylux is due to return. If he doesn't have a big role after the teasing, my excitement is going to plummet a bit. If Sylux is there though, I'll lose my sh:t.

The absolute opposite, haha. Get those Hunters characters OUTTA THERE, new story! I just hope Nintendo can storyboard and write cutscenes and lore as well as Retro.

I hope it's more like the first Prime. Opening scene starts, Sylux crashes, start with a new slate. I think the game is going to be relatively ''safe'' in terms of what it's going to do. The last thing Nintendo wants is another Metroid backlash, so I think the game is going to resemble the first Prime in many ways, and I'm fine with that.

@Tsurii I think it's going to be first person. Like I said, I think Nintendo is going to play it safe. I'd love a third person Metroid though.

If Metroid Prime 4 is like the first game it will have color-coded enemies, generic fire/water/desert/ice areas, a painful amount of unavoidable backtracking, and some real bad combat and boss battles. The Prime games improved, markedly, as they went on. I'm tired of all this nostalgia that ignores the flaws of things.

Staying on one planet the entire game was limiting, and all of the lore entries basically said, "Phazon mutates and corrupts life, the impact crater infected and poisoned our planet, and the Space Pirates are mining it to do evil stuff."

The scans in Metroid Prime 2 and 3 became much more varied and interesting, as did the environments, so taking after Metroid Prime 1 would feel like a step back.

@Haru17 I'm replaying Prime for the first time in years and I have to agree. Echoes is fresher in my mind and I can tell it's a much more cohesive game environment-wise.

Prime's s selling point was the way it translated Super's template to a 3D space. It was an an incredible achievement back in 2002, but that template is something we can do without now. Retro knew this, or Corruption wouldn't have the structure it has.

That said, they can make a single planet interesting, they just have to communicate better the placement of each area with respect to one another and not rely on what they've already done in previous games. I too hope they give us something new.

@MarcelRguez That's not to say they can't make a single planet's lore interesting, I just hear a lot of people say that's why the first game was better. Which really doesn't add up when you consider that Echoes was also on a single planet and Corruption was certainly as interesting as the first game or more across many different locations.

I just really want the planet-hopping of Corruption back with more direct gameplay added to Samus' ship. Plus, there's honestly nothing in the series that replicates the atmosphere of the GFS Valhalla wreck, and feeling that alone in space is a major highlight for me.

I'd like there to be other hunters/characters again, and I think they were really brilliantly designed in Corruption. They provided story moments, but it always felt as though you couldn't trust these people, and the environments felt dangerous because you knew they were around, a feeling which the story reinforces (I got the same feeling with Dark Samus in Echoes). I think those moments only enhance the isolation of the Metroid levels by their contrast, and that they're much more interesting than just dogmatic isolation. Total isolation is less work put in from the developers if you think about it — that's why a lot of indie games do it. Apparently Metroid Prime 1 was developed in like a year and a half.

I was watching the Spotlight on my phone at work, and when I saw the 4 and the music kicked in... I ran out of the back office (literally ran) screaming "They did it! They announced Metroid Prime 4!" My 63 year old coworker looked up, like huh? I didn't bother explaining. Happily skipped back into the office to watch the rest of the Spotlight

@Haru17
If if doesn't push the series forward it'll feel like a step back. I'm perfectly fine with the enemies in Prime. But Prime 2 was by far my favorite. Organic world and some of the most awesome boss battles I've ever experienced. Quadraxis is legend.

I agree. Well, agree but Corruption is my favorite for taking the time and advancing the series in almost every way (scope, controls, puzzling, combat, environments, story). Prime 1 is still a ten or thereabouts — I just think it was improved upon.

@BLP_Software I like backtracking in Metroid and Zelda, it just sucks how Prime 1 — specifically Magmoor Caverns — has long, single-file chains of caverns that you have to traverse again and again to get from one side of the map to the other, even long after you've done all the puzzling and found all the secrets. Echoes' world structure/unlockable shortcuts and Corruption's ship docks were such a relief because I could actually get where I wanted to go in a reasonable amount of time.

Come to think of it, I want optional bosses like the Metroid Hatchers to return. That's such a cool feeling!

@Haru17 Unavoidable backtracking? Well...let me introduce you to Metroid...

Anyhow, confirmed FPS but we don't know who is making it, so it may not even be Japan.

Completely agree on both accounts. I've always seen Valhalla as the closest the Prime trilogy has gotten to Tourian's dreadful atmosphere. About other characters appearing, Sylux is pretty much guaranteed. The devs can flesh him out and make him a compelling antagonist, I have no doubts about that, and maybe turn him into something with as strong a presence as Dark Samus in Echoes, if we're lucky.

Urgh...

I believe I mistook another game in the Nintendo Spotlight with '2018' at the end.

At least we have Metroid: Samus Returns on the 3DS to hold us over until 2019 (!)

@Peek-a-boo I would even be surprised it is a 2019 game. It said ''now in development'' (and I do believe they literally just started it) and it's a big project.