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@Slapshot: Not to be picky, but none of the games in the Metroid Prime series needed more than one stick. In the Gamecube games the second stick was used to choose beam weapons, something that's just as easy to do with a touch screen.

Let's all just forget about this and pretend it never existed and going back to just being happy (or disappointed, whatever) with our 3DS's ... because ... seriously, that tumor needs to go away.

This game was barely an eight when it came out 26 years ago or whatever it is now. Adding 3D visuals and some crappy gyro controls I won't ever use doesn't justify this at all. Pass.

Okay so I get the NES and the Game Boy coverage, but ... the Advance SP? Am I missing something here? D:

I know all the hardcore Dragon Quest fans probably hate this because that damn newfangled internet thing wasn't around when I played Japanese role-playing games, but I like the idea. Hours of endless grinding for experience and money would be seventeen times more enjoyable with actual people instead of those generic PCs you build in Dragon Quest IX.

But I know I should just shut up because I don't understand Dragon Quest and it's supposed to play like it's older than sin.

MACH RIDER~

That's not Des! That person capitalizes!

If they could just make a game where it's just go out in your Arwing and blow s**t up like it used to be, that would be great, but they want to add so much superfluous crap that I haven't been able to get into StarFox since the 64 days.

COMPLETE has difficulty settings?! Well I know which one I'm getting now ... I can put it on easy and actually beat one of the games set it on hard and show everyone how much of a REAL HARDCORE GAMER I am!

It's getting marked down as Rhythm Phantom Thief R: Inheritance of the Emperor Napoleon on my BL, because that is the only name I will accept for this game.

I love the people who point to Nintendo's ridiculous VC pricing and try to convince us that we're getting the better deal monetarily out of this. Seriously, you all hold a special place in my heart.

I, personally, would have bought none of these NES games again, so that's a boost of $0 personally. And from the GBA list I might have bought two ... even if I pretend they'd be priced at $20 a piece I'm still $40 short in our hypothetical little game ...

But whatever! It's free. We should just not complain because of that.

Roll on the GBA line-up! All these NES games are games I've played before/never wanted to play in the first place, so it's not exciting at all ... but that GBA line-up is totally different personally.

Oh, if only I had any money at all ... I'd love these figures in ways that are probably not appropriate enough to describe on this site.

Can't wait for Rythehem Fantum Theef Ar: Enhiretents uv teh Imperor Napelion~

I'm so, so glad we get another Kirby game on the Wii instead of something interesting like F-Zero.

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I dunno about you guys, but I abjectly refuse to be happy Europeans get to play an excellent JRPG. It's not like they ever had to wait years to play amazing JRPGs such as Chrono Trigger! You all suck and I hope your Wiis explode when you put the Xenoblade disc in! BLEH!

Do you play games, @powderedtoast, or did you join a damn cult? Sheesh...

@Otaku Why would it be any different then? If, suddenly, all the games I had to buy a PS3 for were coming to Wii U, then I'd be ecstatic too. Not having to drop big amounts of cash on new systems would be a godsend, honestly, no matter who's system it ended up being. This article is about Nintendo though, which is why I was slanted that way, you know...

It's, of course, never gonna happen either way, I don't believe, so I guess I'll have to continue buying consoles and handhelds from two different companies.

Why would third-party Nintendo be a nightmare? If I could get nearly all of my favorite franchises on one system, that sounds like a paradise to me.

3rd party Nintendo sounds like too much of a dream for it to ever become reality. Oh well.

Woooh, glad I got my second Wii before this nonsense started. D:

hugs Gamecube ports

OhmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodOHMYGOD.

Please do this, Kojima, this game alone would make my 3DS worth it twice over. I freaking loooooooove Zone of the Enders. Make it happen!

If it's a return to the series' roots, does that mean we get hilariously bad voice acting coupled with cheesy bad writing?

I wonder if we'll ever reach a point where N64 graphics are considered charmingly retro enough for Nintendo to make a retro-themed Metroid 64 third-person shooter with period clunky control style.

No? Oh well, I can dream.

Devil Survivor Overclocked is gonna rooooooock.

Somehow I'm gonna need to get money for that one ... though Persona 2: Innocent Sin on the PSP takes priority over that. D:

All of you know how to run a business.

RIGHT INTO A FLAMING CONCRETE WALL.

Ohohoho. puffs pipe Yes, indeed my good fellows. pats self on back

Meh, why do we always need to scrutinize female characters about the fact that they're girls? I don't think I've ever seen an article about how well male characters portray their own gender. Is that not sexist too? Seems to me video games do a pretty terrible portrayal of both genders, so I don't think "gender equality" is really the problem here, as much as people seem to want to make it that.

What I really want to see, and I guess I don't care what system it comes out on, is a Metroid game that largely incorporates ideas from both the stealth and the survival-horror genres. I mean, I can see spots where Metroid has been influenced by these games, but I want something full-on. A game where Samus is without her Power Suit and is forced to explore a gigantic compound with limited resources and enemies that will kill her if she doesn't find a place to hide. It'd kind of be like the extended ending of Zero Mission, only made into a full game, and I'd want it in third-person perspective in a 3D world.

Other than that, Metroid Dread needs to be released as a 2D sidescroller for the 3DS, and I think Metroid II should be remade.

I still feel like this is the weakest Metroid game ever. Was adding an ammo system to the beams really all that necessary? I thought we had missiles for that nonsense. The Dark World should have been thrown right out the door too. The never-ending black and purple really grated on my eyes, not to mention seriously hampered exploration. Have to stand around in light bubbles for ten minutes every step just to keep my energy at an acceptable level, yup, that's really fun. Not to mention it took the Artifact quest from Prime and made it ten times worse than it already was. Couldn't get off Aether fast enough.

Oh well, at least the Screw Attack came back ... all gimped. And the Dark Suit was pretty cool-looking too, even if the shoulders were even more ridiculous than normal.

@SunnySnivy: If you can get your hands on Metroid: Zero Mission, that would basically be perfect, at least in my opinion. As a modern remake of the first game, you get to experience Samus' origins in a way that's much more palatable than the original. I mean, I love the original, but it has some seriously old gameplay. Zero Mission is much easier to get engaged with. Also I think it has the most forgiving difficulty curve of any of the games I've played while also giving you the hard mode if you finish it and think "that's it?"

There are few games that truly deserve a 10/10. This game is one of those games. All flaws are washed away under how very perfect this transition into 3D was. Heck, it had years of hype and the looming vision of Super Metroid to deal with, and it still came out transcendentally.

My earliest memories of Metroid were of hatred, lol. That was because my first encounter with Samus was in Super Smash Bros. on the N64. I had a friend who would always beat the crap out of me with her. I got a little sick of that annoying orange robot thing.

A few years after that, Metroid Fusion piqued my interest on my newly-acquired Game Boy Advance. I still had residual bad feelings for the huge-shouldered, orange-armored version of the Lady, but this game she was in sexy blue attire. Not to mention I got to beat up the SA-X later on, which really helped absolve any bad feelings between us. Besides all that, though, I was able to fall in love with the type of gameplay the game provided. A large, lonely space station filled with secret passages to explore; a brooding, dark, tension-filled atmosphere to go along with it, and along with it all, a Nintendo character with some personality! I'm still kind of prejudiced against the silent version of Samus in like almost every other game, and it was all due to Fusion.

The final nail in the coffin of my eternal Metroid love was playing Metroid Prime on a friend's shiny new Gamecube. It was true love at Frigate Orpheon. No other game has busted through my innate dislike of the first-person perspective so casually like Prime did. And the feeling of being behind the visor, working my way through a world that slowly opened up to me... I don't think anything else will quite match it.

Those are the two most special experiences I've had with Metroid ... not just a memory, but a string of memories, all held in high regard. There were moments to come after, yes; things like the extended Zero Suit ending in Zero Mission, blasting Mother Brain with the Hyper Beam through tears and abject rage in Super Metroid, running away in fear of the Omega Metroids in II, but none were so potent as Fusion and Prime were. For those two games, I am a fan of Metroid and a fan of the galactic hero Samus Aran for all time.

Happy 25th Anniversary, Metroid~

Marry me, Samus! I've only been asking for years... I'd be your baby.

Anyways, happy 25th anniversary, Metroid! How different my life would have been without that first Fusion cart I bought so many years ago. Heck, I might not even have bought myself a Gamecube if Prime hadn't so completely captured my consciousness like it did back in the day. It's been a fun ride, traversing all those dark caves for all those Missile Expansions. Hope to do it for another 25 years~

THE 3DS VIRTUAL CONSOLE IS DEAD

woe to us and our future generations, pestilence upon our enemy Nintendo

Ah, to be a pervy lesbian Japanese schoolgirl with money to burn. Sadly I'll never get my hands on these beauties. This beauty. Of a game. And definitely not the boobs.

Somebody already did the Capcom joke, booooo.

_{You guys should really join the Dev Room this time you know, just in case.}

As for me, they can con me into buying Ocarina of Time for the fourth time, but nothing will con me into buying this mess again. Might not mind a new Zelda game, though, you know...

This is why this game will be amazing. I love you Debbie Ghirahim, you're so fabulous.

@Tasuki: And buying their games sends them what kind of message, exactly? That we'll put up with their bullsh*t, allow ourselves to be kicked in the balls, and buy re-releases of the same game over and over again like idiot sheep?

Either way I fail to see how a port of a 20-year-old Game Boy game changes anything. Who the hell determines anything by looking at the sales of a VC game?

Don't think I'll be able to muster any excitement for anything of yours, Capcom, not even a Mega Man X9.

gives dragon a hug

I wish I knew if there was a way to turn this all around, but the way they canceled it without even releasing the Prototype makes me feel like there's nothing to be done.

As a life-long Mega Man fan, one who sat behind her SNES and played Mega Man X to death, who at school lunches would stick her lunchbox on the end of her arm and pretend it was a Mega Buster, who at this point owns nearly every side-scrolling Mega Man game to be had and has beaten most of them several times, I am severely disappointed right now. To see one of my heroes be treated like this makes me sick, and right now I'm not sure if I ever want to support Capcom anymore right now, if this is the kind of bulls**t they're gonna give us.

Man, and when I woke up today I was hoping this was all just a bad dream ... it's really happening, isn't it. ;___;

Maybe I'll just let Doctor Wahwee take over the world this time. I don't have the motivation to save anything right now. ;____;

This is a thousand times worse than Nintendo refusing to localize the Last Story/Xenoblade/Pandora's Tower. Maybe that's fangirlish of me, but damn, anyone who really wants those games has a legitimate chance at getting them. This, a game a whole effing lot of people have waited a decade to play, a game with such a unique fan-assisted development run, something ACTUALLY ORIGINAL for the 3DS, and above all, a new Mega Man game when NOTHING else related to the Blue Bomber is coming out, this will never see the light of day in any foreseeable future. And that is truly disgraceful. Way to get everyone's hopes up and then spit in their faces, Capcom. Disgusting.

Damn you, Justin Richmond. I don't know who you are, but damn you for saying something perfectly reasonable. I will hate Sony for a thousand years, and my children will hate Sony, and my children's children will hate Sony, to the thirtieth generation! So go crawl in a ditch and die!

Woah woah woah, this guy worked on Shadow Complex?!

Oh man, c'mon Nintendo, it's not like you're opposed to letting Metroid be lent out, let Chair and Epic make a new 2D one for the Wii U ... that would be like an answer to so many prayers.

I saw this last night on MDB. Very cool; can't wait to download it~ Looking forward to celebrating Metroid's 25th, and I'm glad NL has things planned. I hope actual Nintendo does too.

Unexciting? Can I choose that instead?

Though I suppose a lot of that has to do with how bad the reveal was. I honestly thought it was another peripheral after watching the presentation, not to mention next-to-no games were shown. I don't see how you can do so well one year with unveiling the 3DS and then turn around and drop it so hard the next time.

... But it will have Smash Brothers! _{...which you won't see for like another three or four years.}

Ick, I turned automatic downloads off on my PS3 cause it gave me stuff I'd never play anyways. If you want to add something actually helpful, Nintendo, allow us to download stuff in the background while we play something else.

I actually kind of like the way this sounds (Chibicloud versus Chibisephiroth to One-Winged Angel would be pretty cool in my book), but I still want an actual RPG too, Squeenix. >__>

I could kill, kill, for a Wayforward-designed Alien game with Metroid-style gameplay. That just blows my mind. o___o