Thread 716155958

Metroid thread. What are your hopes, fears, and expectations for Prime 4? What about for Metroid 6?

>>716155958 (OP)
>Expectations
Metroid Prime 4 will certainly be a good game, and a good metroidvania. HOW good, whether it lives up to the legacy of its predecessors is what remains to be seen
>Hopes
The psychic powers is more creative than what has been demonstrated so far - being able to control trajectory of shots is a cool idea but it slows down the combat significantly and seems like it'll overused with puzzles.
I hope Sylux is worth the wait. I don't even mind if he's a jobber throughout, it's becoming part of his charm, but I want him to have something going on that's interesting and at least answer WHY he's seething so much over Samus

Most of all I'm curious to see what optional motion controls are there. It's uncommon for something after a trilogy to top any of the trilogy, so my expectations are tempered and I hope it'll be just more enjoyable exploration in the Metroid universe, Prime style.

>>716155958 (OP)
My fear is that they play it too safe like Dread and we get a dull game. It being another Prime game instead of a new 1st person series is another warning sign.

Should I get a 120fps monitor for this game?

>>716156902
Do you people honestly believe there’s even the slightest chance Prime 4 has a 120 FPS mode?

I worry they'll lean far too into the gimmick powerups/abilities or borrow too much from the BotW/TotK paradigm.
I at least am the SLIGHTEST bit hopeful that if they actually do try and have open world sensibilities it at least means it'd steer clear from another Prime 3.

>>716157185
bait?

>>716157185
it's literally been advertised you retard

>hopes
For it to be more like prime 1+2 rather than 3 which given the kiwi talkz posts on famiboards it appears to be. Bunch of cool new abilities that don't come across as filler like most of dread's new stuff. Heavy exploration focus as opposed to action.

>fears
Bad exploration

>expectations
Quality in between prime 1/2 and 3

>thoughts on metroid 6
I think they should go 3D third person, they're out of ideas for 2d metroid based on what i played with dread

>>716155958 (OP)
>Prime 4
I hope it's about as good as Corruption. I don't expect anything better than that, just a satisfactory return to the series.
>Metroid 6
I have a deep running fear that they're going to try and remake Super instead of just making a new title in the main games. This is something no one in their right mind actually wants.

In like a month time, I played 1,2 and Hunters. Gonna play 3 and Baby to prepare for 4.

>>716157538
FSR upscaled*

>>716157817
Hunters was not good but not bad either. But if anybody ever want to play it, just play the MelonPrime DS version, makes it playable on PC.
https://github.com/makinori/melonPrimeDS

>>716155958 (OP)
I hope they don't rely too much on the "Mochtroid for weakpoint" we saw in the 2 bosses shown so far

>>716157740
>play 3
it's good, even if a bit too linear
>and baby
godspeed, you mad cunt

>>716158140
I just hope they tone down the "SCAN" of everything. Just give me a way to see what I didnt scan yet

>>716157945
I'm currently going through the Primes for the first time so that -is- very good info, thanks.

>>716158243
Hunters is like a Micro Prime Diet. It's 4 small planet but you dont do the whole Metroid upgrade stuff. You just get new weapons, more missile and health, that's it. A lot of new weapons. The game is impressive for a DS game, but you can see that it's a DS game by how many limitation there is.

And the music sucks. But all GBA and DS games sound bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QD-hF38hCM

Meta Kraid controls his claw sickle projectiles with psychic power

>>716158571
Thinking about the multiplayer, I liked Prime 2 version of it but if they're going to do something multiplayer with Metroid the best way would be to leave it out of Prime 4 and remake or have direct successor to Hunters.
Could have a tight campaign again, without the limitations, but the focus being the multiplayer.

Maybe do the roster Warriors style and have all sorts of characters from across the series duke it out.
Could have stuff like a Fed trooper or a Luminoth warrior. Though the specific focus on the hunters had it's own appeal.

>>716159760
I mean, Nintendo having a FPS Unreal Tournement game would probably be a hit. Hunters already has a bunch of people, so they could easily do a Splatoon and make a FPS game. 5 min time limit style most kills and ect.

>expectations
It will be good.
>hopes
It will be great, and the psychic abilities were merely poorly presented initially. I want to play with some fucked up psyker shit and force space pirates to kill themselves.
>dreams
The cool red suit is the speed booster and Beyond is secretly a kino movement shooter with 10/10 exploration.

I wonder if they will have a lot of upgrades or go with a skill tree for some stuff. Nintendo seem to like Skill trees lately

>>716157185
This is a Metroid Prime game, not Nintendo's mainstream franchise slop. These ones are actually impressive for the hardware performance wise.

>>716160196
>fucked up psyker shit
You will use the psychic powers to flush alien plumbing and you will like it.

>>716160557
What they've currently shown is pretty all-in on this being a gold-standard Prime game.
That doesn't mean they can't mix it up, but I myself wouldn't expect them to change it like that.
Put another way, if they only have it very lightly it would be unenjoyable or pointless, and if they do it seriously it might deviate from the core design too much.

>expectations
It’ll be a pretty good shooter with some dated enemy design judging by the footage we have. Mouse controls seem like they’ll elevate the gameplay by a fair bit, and apparently there are directional air-dashes? Seems cool. The psychic gimmick seems pretty dumb so far but I’m optimistic they’ll get real weird and cool with it.
>hopes
That it takes after Echoes more than it does Corruption. So far it seems a mix of both. I don’t hate Corruption or anything but it felt like more of a cinematic setpiece gauntlet than a proper Prime game in its tone.
>dreams
Sylux doesn’t die at the end and either becomes a permanent addition Samus’s rogues gallery or fills some other role as a recurring character. They’ve hyped this sperg up for twenty years, surely they won’t toss him so soon.
>metroid 6
Samus’s Metroid abilities are kept in a way that doesn’t intrude on the main conceit of the game. I.E. she just eats bosses to absorb her enemies instead of looting their corpses. Aside from Mystery Bird there should be literally zero reference to previous games, of any other Chozo exist they’re entirely unrelated to the Thoha and Mawkin, and the space pirates are gone for good.

>>716161321
*eats bosses to absorb their abilities

Fucking hate phobeposting

>>716155958 (OP)
Feels like a TOTK situation where theyre waiting too long to tip their hand on the actual big feature of the game

I am so fucking SICK OF WAITING

WHY DO WE NOT HAVE A RELEASE DATE

>>716161454
But anon, that's Echoes whole mechanic. It was the best part of it, seeing the bosses ability and then gaining it.

>>716160196
>first-person speed booster suit
That would honestly make sense as to why we have barely seen anything about this game.

WHY THE FUCK DID THEY NOT THE TRILOGY ON SWITCH AHEAD OF THIS
I STILL HAVEN"T PLAYED 3 BECAUSE I REFUSE TO BUY A WII

>>716162090
You can just emulate it. It's pretty easy. There is even a way to have Mouse Keyboard controls.
https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-fork-primehack-fps-controls-and-more-for-metroid-prime

>>716162295
Sure but them not porting it is leaving free money on the table.

>>716162467
I agree. I played Metroid remastered and playing Echoes on Gamecube after was a nightmare at the start. I tried playing on a CRT, and the map is unreadable, so I went on my Wii with a HDMI upscaler and it was visible at least, but only having lock on control in fights is annoying

I don’t know if anyone’s noticed but Prime 4 has airdashing as some people who’ve played the demo had pointed out. You can actually notice it in a certain part of the official Treehouse playthrough as well.

>>716163094
Does it? I thought it just had a double input for a super dodge.

What I did notice is that Samus seems to move a lot faster than in the previous games. Her strafing looks like it's +20-25% faster, with more acceleration and deceleration, it's visible even in the Treehouse gameplay. Turning into/out of morph ball is also a lot faster.

>>716162295
I got so used to emulating Metroid, I'm not sure how I'm going to play Prime4. I haven't bought a Nintendo console since the Wii with Prime 3.

I bought Samus Returns and played it on Citra, bought Dread and played it on Ryujinx, but will Prime 4 be playable day 1? I'm not really sure. I might have to buy a Switch2 for this.

>>716163094
Was that not available in 3 or any of the earlier Primes? I definitely know it wasn't in 1

>>716163094
>Zoom Eternal dashing
yikes

>>716165703
No, you had dodging when locked on side to side but this is a separate unique dash

>>716168835
>Look up Rundas out of curiosity
>Voiced by Christopher fucking Sabat

>>716161160
I know it's not how the Varia Suit works but gear head Samus tinkering with her equipment is a nice image