Obsolete games

Are Metroid and Metroid 2 obsolete? Is there a single reason to play them other than historic curiosity and nostalgia? What are other game that may be considered obsolete?

>Are Metroid and Metroid 2 obsolete?
Nope.
>Is there a single reason to play them other than historic curiosity and nostalgia?
ZM is not Metroid and AM2R is not Metroid 2, you sound like those guys who say turn based is obsolete when they never had played a Wizardry game or even a Wizardry-like

>Obsolete
go be autistic somewhere else
preferably a place without oxygen

>BIG WORDS SCARE ME SO I TAKE THEM OFFENSIVELY

Grow up. You've been on Sup Forums too long and forgotten how to live.

I would always play the original version of a game before a remake, provided the original is available to me.

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Same. Only reason I haven't beaten RE1 yet. Tried it on DS but I couldn't tell how faithful it was so I dropped it.

Calling the originals obsolete is unfair, sure they've not aged particularly well next to Super Metroid, mostly because of all the quality of life features added in that game but the originals are always important to look back on.

>playing these original shits when AM2R is out

This, more or less.

I played Metroid II for the first time less than a year ago and I had a great time with it. It's a great game.

The Original Perfect Dark
I love the N64 and PD so much, and trust me despite the framerate I've dumped literally weeks into playing it and while I can still tolerate playing the original, the enhanced versions on 360 and Xbone are so much better, only thing I can't do in that version is blow Miyamoto's brains out, but we get Peter Molyneux instead so actually it's much better.

>ZM is not Metroid and AM2R is not Metroid 2,
Except they are the same game. Just with more features and better hardware and aesthetics.
>you sound like those guys who say turn based is obsolete when they never had played a Wizardry game or even a Wizardry-like
Not even remotely.
New games under the same genre do not make other games under that genre obsolete. But when a new game is literally a prettied up and better working version of a previous game in the series, The older game is factually obsolete. The new game is doing the exact same thing the old game was doing to a tee but better.
The two Untold games in the Etrian Odyssey series make 1 and 2 obsolete because they are the exact same game but now with added specific story mode to boot.

The Devil survivor remakes for 3ds make the NDS ones obsolete.

Metroid 1 isn't obsolete in the slightest, but you have to play it like a traditional NES game where you make the map and go in completely blind. Zero mission doesn't give a proper representation of the original's design.

Metroid 2 was obsolete due to being a fucking gameboy title. AM2R was made to save it from being lost forever, and it still doesn't convey the right feel. It's not Zero Mission levels of rape though, because actual fans made it.

Metroid 1 always deserves to be played at least once.

Play AM2R and tell me Metroid 2 is not obsolete.
It is the exact same game + better aesthetic, controls, and camera.

AM2R was relatively faithful to the original, but the original is still distinct in large part thanks to its music and visuals, which I like.

>visuals
GB green and black and samus taking up 45% of the screen is unique. but also a terrible fault in the aesthetics department.

Video games are never obsolete, as long as theyre enjoyed. Believe or not op, lots of people still love Metroid and Metroid2.

They're shit

Metroid 2 was obsolete at release.
I dunno whose brilliant idea was to make Samus a giant, not being able to see 5 feet away from you and put the game on a low res monochrome device so everything looks the same and you get lost even easier.
On this supposed to be exploration game.

>It is the exact same game
Except it isn't, just like how Zero Mission isn't exactly the same game as Metroid.

Sure, but if a new player decides to try Metroid series why should they play the original versions? Just to see what features they lacked?

Metroid is. Just play Zero Mission. Not only does it update everything but once you beat it you unlock the original game.

So there's no point to play the original metroid, when Zero mission has it and the improved version

After I beat Deus Ex Mankind Divided and then Metroid Prime 3 for my first time, I fully intend on playing Metroid NES with a pen+paper to draw my own map.

I played ZM a million years ago and it was fun, but this is a very different style of game and I'm compelled to try it.