Topic: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond

What I think will happen now is that we been waiting so long people will be sick of the wait and hate the game

I genuinely forgot this game was supposed to be coming to the Switch. Would still be super excited to play it if it happens.

It feels that there's 2 feasible scenarios:
1. The scenario that has been discussed to death about Prime 4 being a launch title for the Switch's successor.
2. Nintendo made a deal with Geoff Keighley (back when Reggie was still at Nintendo) to have the proper reveal of Prime 4 be at Game Awards 2018. Prime 4 restarted development but the deal remained meaning Prime 4's proper reveal happens at Game Awards 2023 with a release date announcement. Perhaps alongside a shadow drop of Prime 2+3 as December is empty on the 1st party front at the moment.

Option 1 seems more likely but option 2 is the much better outcome.

Cross gen MP4 makes a lot of sense at this point. Build the game for Switch, and then have the next gen version be the ray tracing showcase for that system. Assuming those rumors are true, but with Nvidia building the chip it also makes sense.

LMAO, 7 years.

Yeah, look I'm sure I'll pick this one up, but eight years into the console's life in what shapes as its last hurrah when it was initially scrapped two-and-a-bit years in?
I hope I become more enthusiastic over the next six or so months but the initial disappointment followed by years of being drip-fed updates and hanging off every word in hope has somewhat killed the buzz for me - right now.

Then again, it's Metroid, a series I've followed for three decades, so I'm just as likely to let bygones be bygones and be right on board by the time of its release.

Let's just cross our fingers it's not a 'Holiday 2025' title - now THAT would be one last kick in the balls.

NO WAY NO WAY NO WAY ITS OFFICIAL ITS ACTUALLY HAPPENING NOW!!! FINALLY!!!

I'm wondering if they'll ever do a multiplayer mode again...I knew Sylux from Hunters would be in a new Prime game if it ever happened because of the ending of Corruption. But it's making me think, maybe a multiplayer mode from Hunters and bring all the characters back for that mode...? I think, a main Prime game already did multiplayer before (Echoes)...maybe they could try it again.

Hunters wasn't that great, but I'll admit the multiplayer was kinda fun, I miss being Trace. lol

I wasn't super excited from the footage, but its very clearly going for the same thing Metroid Prime 3's opening does (including going through a huge morph ball section while a battle is happening around you). I don't put any stock into that, they just showed something purely to show its a real video game.

I felt the same after seeing it. Looked like nothing new. And after being led a merry dance for five-and-a-half years, it was underwhelming.

Then again, imagine the complaints if they'd strayed away from the tried and tested Metroid Prime model. Are there really so many ways to skin a cat when it comes to Metroid? Who knows.

Honestly, because I have played next to nothing of MP2 and MP3, I was wondering if it was a remaster or remake of one of those at first...

Mechanically, it looks identical to the original Metroid Prime. I must admit seeing the same movement style with the side hops and lock on has confused me.

I'll give it the benefit of doubt though. I didn't personally feel Metroid Prime Remastered felt antiquated and I always understood why they went for that control method, as it's more of an adventure game than a FPS.

Yeah on one hand, Doom 2016 is literally the one video game that made me think Metroid Prime could learn something from it so it'd be a shame to not at least try to use that as a format for some combat improvements.

On the other hand Metroid Prime is still the best game I've ever played, so failing to improve upon the best video game I've ever played is not a problem that's gonna affect my interest in this much. (nor most people based on the remaster's reviews) And I don't think the combat adjustments in 3 or (arguably) Hunters did much to improve them as Metroid games.

But again, fairly certain this is the story opening anyway, it means nothing for a game series defined by exploring to get upgrades.

I'm a little disappointed that the trailer doesn't show anything new either, but I would hold off before we declare that there's nothing new in the game PERIOD. It's an early look at the game, probably of the game's tutorial segment (I suspect what we saw is the game's equivalent to the Frigate Orpheon or G.F.S. Olympus), that only goes on for about a minute. There's PLENTY more of this game we haven't seen yet. I suspect there's some new gameplay things they did that they're holding off for later reveals, possibly even new things in the section of the game that they recorded (they did cut to a few different sections, it's possible that they're cutting away from gameplay mechanics they're not ready to reveal yet). So the gameplay might not be as similar as we think it looks right now. They just didn't want to make any changes to the core gameplay, controls, or design structure (which are things I don't think they should've changed anyway aside from maybe scaling up the size of the overworld, but again, too early to declare that). Give them time to cook some more before you blast them for not changing stuff.

I think it's too early to judge this one yet. The very beginning had me thinking this might be a teaser for another remaster until a couple seconds after the trailer cut to first-person.

I'm still pretty excited for this and think MP4 was a good way to wrap up what was an amazing Direct. More than anything, I'm relieved the game, at the very least, appears like it benefited from the dev reset.

I'm not hyped but i'm not disappointed either?

7 years since announcement, 17 years since the last real prime game, and it looks exactly like prime 1.

Part of me is thankful its being conservative to the original prime games, cause that's guaranteed to scratch that itch the same way they did and they didn't rework the framework of prime games (like BOTW did which kinda alienated the OOT/TP/WW/SS preferred crowd), another part feels like.... it really took them 5-7 years and hiring devs from all over including ex-halo devs just to make prime 1 with different environments?

I hope it lives up to prime 1 at least, there will probably be a new gimmick to give it an identity from the other 3, but between the release timing + just being more of the same I really hope it doesn't flop from being forgotten when next gen console comes out + mixed reception.

24 hours later, I still can't help think that Metroid Prime 4 trailer looked surprisingly boring & empty. I know they had to restart development, but for a game that's a year away, I don't know what's going on there.

I still remember the excitement I felt when Nintendo showed the first shot of the pastel painted, happy-looking town in Mario Odyssey's Sand Kingdom, or the T-rex, or New Donk City, or the first glimpse of BOTW, TOTK. Even the remake of Links Awakening reveal was exciting. First glimpses of these games were shiney & new, showed innovation. That MP4 trailer just looked empty to me. Is Nintendo saving the exciting parts of MP4 for later? I could see them not wanting to reveal innovative mechanics that other companies can steal, but I'm a bit skeptical right now.

@WoomyNNYes I mean we literally only saw the tutorial area, which you probably won't be able to revisit once the game starts proper. I doubt it'd be filled to the brim with stuff to explore.

Frankly, I'm just glad it doesn't look like it'll be super long and tedious like Prime 3's is.

@RygelXVIII Well I think the disagreement is on if it was a trailer or a teaser. In my book that was a teaser, it was designed to get people talking, but saved any actual reveals for when they start its marketing cycle sometime next year.

It's like how Mario Odyssey started with a teaser that was just "More Super Mario 64" before revealing what the game was actually about at E3.

But yeah, if you classify it as a trailer? Not good. I just don't think that was it's purpose.

(Also on Zelda, do you remember how many BotW teasers we got before revealing what the games deal was? That's how it be sometimes. Even TOTK started with a teaser that had no real hints about what made the game different gameplay wise. Echoes is coming out in a few months, so it got a full reveal off the bat.)

@RygelXVIII lol you and me both. There's plenty of room for things to go wrong.

Edit: Also, I love your username, just had to say.

This is the best reveal for a Metroid game I've seen since my start with the series with Metroid Prime Hunters. There's plenty already that I like from this introduction to Beyond, and I'm extremely happy and excited to see Sylux back. No more endings teasing anymore!