@Samuel-Flutter They gave roughly equal time to Blast Ball, and the fact that they're trying to make this into "two games in one" is also a problem. Making a game focusing on the uninteresting generic NPCs was a strange move to begin with, devoting some of the development resources to also including a second game? That's downright bizarre.
@Samuel-Flutter You seem to be trying very hard to convince me that I'm being unreasonable for thinking that a soccer game about generic footsoldiers was not what Nintendo should've done with Metroid after Other M was so badly received that Reggie had to admit it was a failure in interview and say that Nintendo was looking into what went wrong.
You can stop. I'm pretty firmly committed to thinking they dropped the (morph) ball with this. Maybe the gameplay will be stellar, but nothing is going to change the fact that the timing is abysmal and the choice of playable characters is remarkably dull.
@Samuel-Flutter Tingle and Warior were not faceless mooks. You said it yourself - they're nameless redshirts, and the fact that you get a team of them with the same faceless helmets doesn't bode well for them having a speck of personality. Moreover, Warioware and Tingle's Rosie Rupeeland came out when the Mario and Zelda games were in good shape. Right now Metroid is badly in need of a strong game to repair the damage to the franchise's name done by Other M. A Space Soccer game where you get to play as subpar stormtrooper knockoffs is not what the doctor ordered.
People are bringing up things like Hyrule Warriors, Captain Toad, and Pokemon Dash.
But this is nothing like those games. It's not a title where you get to play as one of the other well-established larger-than-life characters from a franchise.
It's an opportunity to play as the faceless mooks that get slaughtered by the bucketload by other cannon-fodder mooks. It's an opportunity to play as people that Other M and Fusion told us were evil, but a really inept and boring type of evil.
And "formula-changers" like Hyrule Warriors, Captain Toad, and Pokemon Dash didn't come out right after something as poorly received and deeply divisive as Other M.
People were accepting of Hunters and Metroid Pinball because those games came out when the Metroid franchise was in good shape. This really isn't a good time for a game focusing on faceless Federation goons playing space soccer.
Nintendo badly broke the fanbase with Other M. Samus' high-heeled adventures in Smash haven't exactly made Metroid fans feel that Nintendo is taking the franchise that seriously. A chibi soccer game is about as far as you can get from what the series needs right now.
Luigi's Mansion didn't come after a Mario game that was so badly received that Reggie had to tell an interviewer that Nintendo was looking into where they went wrong.
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Re: Metroid Prime: Federation Force Producer Explains Why Samus Aran Isn't In The Game
@Samuel-Flutter
They gave roughly equal time to Blast Ball, and the fact that they're trying to make this into "two games in one" is also a problem. Making a game focusing on the uninteresting generic NPCs was a strange move to begin with, devoting some of the development resources to also including a second game? That's downright bizarre.
Re: Metroid Prime: Federation Force Producer Explains Why Samus Aran Isn't In The Game
@Samuel-Flutter You seem to be trying very hard to convince me that I'm being unreasonable for thinking that a soccer game about generic footsoldiers was not what Nintendo should've done with Metroid after Other M was so badly received that Reggie had to admit it was a failure in interview and say that Nintendo was looking into what went wrong.
You can stop. I'm pretty firmly committed to thinking they dropped the (morph) ball with this. Maybe the gameplay will be stellar, but nothing is going to change the fact that the timing is abysmal and the choice of playable characters is remarkably dull.
Re: Metroid Prime: Federation Force Producer Explains Why Samus Aran Isn't In The Game
@Samuel-Flutter
Tingle and Warior were not faceless mooks. You said it yourself - they're nameless redshirts, and the fact that you get a team of them with the same faceless helmets doesn't bode well for them having a speck of personality. Moreover, Warioware and Tingle's Rosie Rupeeland came out when the Mario and Zelda games were in good shape. Right now Metroid is badly in need of a strong game to repair the damage to the franchise's name done by Other M. A Space Soccer game where you get to play as subpar stormtrooper knockoffs is not what the doctor ordered.
Re: Metroid Prime: Federation Force Producer Explains Why Samus Aran Isn't In The Game
People are bringing up things like Hyrule Warriors, Captain Toad, and Pokemon Dash.
But this is nothing like those games. It's not a title where you get to play as one of the other well-established larger-than-life characters from a franchise.
It's an opportunity to play as the faceless mooks that get slaughtered by the bucketload by other cannon-fodder mooks. It's an opportunity to play as people that Other M and Fusion told us were evil, but a really inept and boring type of evil.
And "formula-changers" like Hyrule Warriors, Captain Toad, and Pokemon Dash didn't come out right after something as poorly received and deeply divisive as Other M.
People were accepting of Hunters and Metroid Pinball because those games came out when the Metroid franchise was in good shape. This really isn't a good time for a game focusing on faceless Federation goons playing space soccer.
Re: Talking Point: Metroid Prime: Federation Force and Entitled Fury
The anger is justified.
Nintendo badly broke the fanbase with Other M. Samus' high-heeled adventures in Smash haven't exactly made Metroid fans feel that Nintendo is taking the franchise that seriously. A chibi soccer game is about as far as you can get from what the series needs right now.
Luigi's Mansion didn't come after a Mario game that was so badly received that Reggie had to tell an interviewer that Nintendo was looking into where they went wrong.