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Most excited I’ve been for a game in a long time.

I’ve seen complaints that it’s “just” more Metroid Prime and…so? That’s exactly what I want. It’s been 18 years since the last one and there’s never been anything like the Prime games since.

And I’m not giving it unfair expectations like many people I’ve seen. It’s largely a different studio to the one that made the original games and it’s their return to the series after a very long time. If I come away from it thinking it was a good Prime game I’ll be happy.

Adored Shovel Knight but I wasn’t smitten with the demo for this…

I haven’t been this excited for a game since BotW.

@LazyDaisy Nintendo’s other racing game is number 2 but sure

Will never stop being disappointing that Nintendo didn’t buy the Stamper’s shares of Rare. Who knows what else they could have gone on to make under Nintendo 😔

That whole situation was absurd.

Never could get into any of the AC games I’ve tried (even Black Flag) but I think this could be the one for me. It’s Ubisoft though so it’ll be sub £30 soon enough (and I’m not paying more than that for a key card).

Probably announce Switch 2 Editions/patches for the other games when they reveal the next one

@LastFootnote I agree, but as you can see from the reactions to the pre-release info so far the consensus is “this isn’t Metroid Prime!” (again, despite it not being particularly shocking considering where they went with Prime 3). I think a new subtitle would have allowed them to relieve some of the expectations of what the game should be. Probably wouldn’t matter anyway because people would complain regardless but still.

Either way I think calling it 4 without re-releasing 2 and 3 is a bad move in itself even when it’s not necessary to play the rest of the trilogy. Already seen people say they don’t want to jump into 4 without playing the other games, they’d have been better off dropping the number and not having to explain that it’s a new story.

I really don’t think they should have called this Prime 4. Should have gone with a new subseries (Prime Beyond?) to convey that yes this is Prime gameplay and follows on from the trilogy but it’s going to try new things.

Not that it should really surprise anyone that they’re going down this path anyway because Prime 3 already flipped the script on what a Prime game is and set the stage for a more cinematic and story focused direction. Honestly seeing Metroid get this kind of lavish production is exciting as hell and if Dread is any indication of the future of the series we’re not going to stop seeing games where Samus is properly isolated.

@luciobar1980 Nail on the head. People forget so easily that Prime itself was ripped to shreds when it was first talked about by people decrying the idea of a Metroid FPS made in Texas.

@molkom Switch 2 is a mobile chipset so I would imagine experience working on mobile would help (assuming that’s what the job is for)

Desperate to see what this studio’s take on Prime 4 was looking like before it got shelved (assuming the rumors they were at the helm are true). Crying shame there’s no special edition with an art book delving into the early development.

Honestly I can look past the cutbacks given how cheap it is and how well it runs otherwise. Hopefully the other two games make it over as I never got around to playing them.

I was hoping they’d ditched whatever that game was the last time they showed it off but I guess not. Just make an actual direct sequel and it’ll probably be a modest success at least- nothing they do is going to make it the hit they seem to want it to be.

@Axecon It’s a sequel to a niche GameCube game starring a character who isn’t nearly as popular as Mario or Sonic over here, both of whom have just had kart games released over the last few months. It’s really not a shock that it’s not selling huge numbers.

I’m a big fan of Kirby and even I’m not rushing out to get it. I know it’s a very different game to Mario Kart but with World I’m good for mascot racers for a while and I imagine most people are the same.

@H3X3NH4MM3R Honestly I don’t think the wider audience cares and at this point it’s better than having nothing physical at all (though I won’t pay more than £30 for one myself).

Can’t wait for it and nothing I’ve seen so far has dampened my hype. More NPCs etc. isn’t really that surprising when they already headed in that direction with Prime 3. Didn’t bother me then and it doesn’t bother me here. Even Miles’ dialogue isn’t offensive to me; seems well acted and I’ve seen much worse writing.

Obviously I hope there’ll still be plenty of moments where you are left to your own devices but from everything I’ve seen that appears to be the case. Ultimately I don’t really mind if the 2D entries going forwards are the ones that stay truest to the formula while the 3D games experiment.

I want Age of Imprisonment for sure but I’m saving my money for Prime 4. £60 is a lot to drop on a new game these days. I’ll get around to it when releases are thin, maybe in the new year.

I loved Clair Obscur but I think it’s got to be Bananza for me. Haven’t finished Silksong yet and though I’ve adored it up until now the difficulty really is getting in the way of my enjoyment to be honest. Just feels much less balanced than the original to me. Still up there with the best games I’ve played this year and I will beat it eventually but it’s tiring hitting your head against the wall with the same boss or area over and over when I have such limited time to play games nowadays.

I have a feeling Prime 4 will knock DK off my top spot though (I know it’s not in the running for the Game Awards due to its late release but whatever).

@Elektrogeist1287 I honestly don’t think there’s a way to do it without it looking like those kinds of skits and that’s just yet another reason it should have been animated. They look as good as you could hope for but the issue is even at its most realistic (Twilight Princess) Zelda has always been rooted in a more cartoony style so it’s always going to look off in live action.

Given that Fallout 4 Anniversary was just announced but coming later than other versions plus Indiana Jones confirmed for next year I’d assume more things are happening but they’re just taking longer for whatever reason. It’s also no surprise that bigger games wouldn’t get announced yet as Nintendo like to show them in Directs- something like Halo would be one such game.

I think next year will be when the floodgates start to open for Xbox games. Won’t be shocked to see the Halo remake, HiFi Rush and the new Doom get announced and released next year.

@jamesRainbowBoy Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D is Unreal 4 and that got a 60FPS/resolution patch for Switch 2 🤷‍♂️

Plus there’s Misc: A Tiny Tale that was made with UE4 and that got a performance boost by using a dynamic resolution and uncapping the frame rate. Not that all games are made equal, maybe it could be down to the engine but I would imagine they could improve the performance if they wanted to.

@SearchingS “Microsoft - Bla bla bla still not happend“

Fallout 4 and Indiana Jones

Considering Sylux is supposedly an integral part of the story it wouldn’t shock me if other characters from Hunters make an appearance. It’s always struck as me as so bizarre that they would focus on Sylux as important to anything anyway, right from the teaser in Prime 3 to everything we’ve seen of Beyond. Nothing of Hunters seemed important to any of the wider Prime lore so it’s baffling they’d choose to bring that into the new game- not that I mind, I think it’s cool but still.

To that end though I do think they’d have done well to separate this from Prime in general. Same gameplay etc. but make it its own thing- maybe just Prime Beyond as its own subset of games rather than Prime 4. I fear that people will see the 4 and won’t buy it because they don’t have easy access to the rest of the trilogy even though knowledge of the old games likely won’t matter in the long run.

Comes as no surprise to me that it’s doing well. Nintendo have done most things right so far. The main thing they can really be criticized for is the pricing and even then it’s mostly in line with what everybody else is doing (besides Mario Kart World’s standalone price) and the price of the system itself is pretty fair all considered.

@Fiskern Same here. I knew 1 person who got a Switch within the first year of release- I know 5 people who got a Switch 2 at launch (and these are all people I’ve known for decades).

This should have been the trailer in the last Direct.

@Fighting_Game_Loser They’ve been doing this for years though. Off the top of my head Age of Calamity and Xenoblade X for Switch were just randomly announced out of nowhere.

X&Y. They’ve clearly always been ambitious and remain so but once they made the jump into full 3D things went south. It was obviously easier for them to make mostly sprite based games quickly while maintaining a high level of quality but they haven’t been able to match that moving to more powerful hardware.

There really should have been a big shift in how things get made as they moved to Switch- more outsourcing of projects (especially remakes) so GF can focus on less games should have been the priority. Even when they did that with ILCA and BDSP though it seems they gave them a small budget and not a lot of time to do it so does it even matter? Especially when GF were still spread thin across several projects in house. Ultimately they clearly just don’t care because the games are wildly successful regardless of quality, but that’s just weirdly at odds with how they ambitious they still are with the series.

@TOMAWOLF Not necessarily. Having several platforms on the market keeps things competitive and keeps hardware manufacturers from becoming complacent or engaging in anti-consumer practices because they can get away with it (Xbox One always online/digital licenses were ditched because of Sony’s approach for example). The main thing that drives people to different platforms is exclusives and without them it’s harder to flourish as we’ve seen with Xbox over the past decade or so.

On the face of it yeah, exclusives aren’t great for consumers as you have to buy multiple systems but then again it keeps platform holders putting their best foot forwards as they need their hardware to sell. I think we’d see a very different Nintendo for example if they were purely focused on software and not for the better.

It’s all about having the right exclusives which Microsoft haven’t had in a very long time despite endless acquisitions.

NA/Europe is the only good boxart of the trilogy

I can imagine we’ll just get MP2 on GameCube NSO and Prime 3 whenever Wii gets added to the service. Would absolutely love for them both to get the full remake treatment though.

I never finished this despite being a huge Pikmin fan…it just didn’t hit like the original trilogy of games, not sure why. I’d go back to it if it gets an FPS/resolution update for Switch 2, hopefully that’s something they’ll announce closer to this update releasing. Bizarre that they’d work on new content for it and not work on updating it for Switch 2 🤷‍♂️

@ShadLink I wonder how many people who don’t have a Switch 2 yet are just buying the Switch 2 version for when they eventually upgrade

@RenanKJ Bingo. Literally nothing will change until they see a drastic drop off in sales and they have to look at what needs fixing and in their eyes nothing is broken if they still sell record numbers time and time again. It’s really just that simple.

@NolandC Switch is the 2nd best selling console of all time so…no. Handhelds aren’t a niche thing especially not in NA.

And I’ve had a Steam Deck since launch. It’s a great device, but the amount of technical headaches it’s given me versus any console I’ve owned in the past is enough for me to give pause when recommending one to other people. I’d really only recommend it to people I know who already have PCs and are happy dealing with PC gaming in general. As an adult I’d prefer things to just work, hence why I’ve barely used my Deck since getting a Switch 2 (in fact it won’t even boot properly because it was powered off for so long even after charging it, once again another frustration of it not being a dedicated console).

@NolandC You hit the nail on the head though. It’s a PC which means it comes with all the jank and quirks that come with the Windows experience. Great if you want flexibility and more power, not great if you want something that’s just plug in and play with no fuss and that’s half the appeal of a console.

Handheld PCs are great but they’re niche and these Xbox ones aren’t going to change things especially at the price points they’re selling them at.

Think I’d rather just play Arceus again which is much more interesting to me on practically every level. Wish they’d made another game in that vein.

First ever mainline game I’m going to skip I think. The setting isn’t very appealing to me and overall the franchise deserves so much better from how these games are presented overall. Tired of the quick dev cycles on low budgets even if the games are still solid at the end of the day- they could and should be so much more.

@BaldB3lper78 People just have an expectation that Nintendo upends everything with each new generation and it’s just not true. They’ve made safe successors plenty of times before when the previous console did well (and even when they didn’t sell great)- GBA, 3DS, GameCube were all pretty much just better versions of what came before. They typically do something drastic when their back is against the wall and since Switch was one of the most successful consoles of all time it’s beyond me why anyone expected they would mess with the formula going forwards.

It’s not much of an innovation at all but it is great.

Anti-climactic considering how cryptic the whole thing was. They got the publicity I guess but did they really need to tease like they did just for this announcement?

@Chibi Above everything there is a music cue that is literally note for note from Pikmin

That was one of the most boring Nintendo ads I’ve ever seen

Galaxy movie teaser with Pikmin making a cameo. The pacifier landing on the mobile towards the end with what looks like little launch stars is the giveaway I think.

@Lizuka I seriously hated how slow it is. It looks absolutely stunning even 7 years later but I got bored of the gameplay very early on and never went back.

Feel like this is a case where they really should have developed it for Switch first and ported up. Nothing about it looks beyond what the OG Switch is capable of, I get it that it’s built on different tech to P5R but that’s why it would have made more sense to start on Switch especially when it’s such a powerhouse for JRPGs.

@Nintendo4Sonic Even comparing it to Series S is unfair though. Switch 2 has to be able to run solely on a battery, power a screen and everything else on top of that all while maintaining a decent battery life (which is subjective but I’ve been happy enough with how much I get out of a charge). Not to mention it has to do all that in a form factor that’s as slim as it is.

If this were a dedicated home console then I’d be underwhelmed but it’s ultimately a handheld no matter how you cut it. The fact that it can even get close to Series S performance is pretty amazing all things considered.

These games are timeless so great scores aren’t surprising (and they’re deserved). But the fact that they held Galaxy 2 back from 3D All Stars so they could sell Galaxy again alongside it 5 years later just leaves a very bitter taste, and forcing those who did buy 3DAS to pay £33 for the second game is just insulting.

Typically I can understand why Nintendo charges what they do for re-releases. I don’t like it but I get it. There is a point though where goodwill should take precedent and they had the opportunity here to re-release 3DAS with Galaxy 2 included while charging a more modest update fee (say £15-£20) for fans who already bought the collection to get the second game. As much as I’d love to revisit Galaxy 2 I’m not supporting this.

@canaryfarmer I’d imagine so but the first game is dirt cheap on the eShop until the end of the month, I’d recommend just playing that and getting the 2nd if you like it enough. Better than paying full price for the sequel and not enjoying it. It’s an incredible game anyway and well worth the £5 odd that it’s selling for atm.