Why did it fail?

Why did it fail?

I'm not sure this failed but I wouldn't have called it a raging success either. Which sounds about right, I think they knew what this would achieve.
I do enjoy watching people here try to rep this game super hard though. I remember someone going nuts over it outselling SMASH BROS and FIRE EMBLEM like fuck I'd hope so.

it didn't

I did my part, like hell I wasn't going to but the first 2D Metroid in 13 years

>failed
>on the list of best sellers on Amazon for a month
>bestsellers list on both Gamestop and Nintendo's site
>according to Nintendo it even exceeded their expectations and sold better than Awakening at its launch reportedly
>even one "Best Handheld" at Game Awards
>failed

Like Zero Mission, it didn't.

>But
Buy damn it

>It didn't fai-

>VGChartz
Please ban this site.

I don't know how well it sold, but I liked it.

I still like the original Metroid II more, but I enjoyed Samus Returns quite a bit nonetheless.

game was dope though. I had my grandpa goggles on for the first quarter of the game but then I loved it.

Play without using the scan pulse if you want a classic experience.

>V
>G
>FUCKING
>CHARTZ
I want reddit to leave

It didn't have Zero Suit Samus crying and posing like a piece of meat for players to drool over.

Go away, Doug.

>Doug Harris is in the thread
It's going to be a party now.

Rampant 3ds piracy.

Because it was soulless, like every other MS developed game.

>30 fps at 240p

>soulless
Another meaningless word people use to make them sound smart and whine about something with zero effort.

Piracy does not have near as big of an impact on sales as you think.

Because AM2R not only beat it to the punch, but was better

I've tried to play SR (pirated it) and I just can't force myself to care. Low poly 2.5D makes me want to vomit

On AAA games, perhaps. For small titles/studio it's the same as death to them.

Graphicswhores need to leave.

Would sterile be better? MS has a great art department, but the rest of company is paint by numbers horeshit.

Don't tell me you DON'T want crisp 2D sprites for the next Metroid.

I do, there has never been a good looking 2.5D game ever.

I don't have your autistic hatred of 3D models or 2.5D game designs, so I don't give a shit how the next Metroid is set up as long as it's fun for me.

>oh boy, this thread again

Define "sterile". How was Samus Returns "sterile" and "soulless"?

This

>For small titles/studio
Does this accurately fit Samus Returns, though? I know Metroid isn't a very big IP but when I think of a game being hurt by piracy I think of something like Ghost Trick; a game with zero marketing and name recognition.

>I like the older pixel art over low effort 3D modeling
>FUCKING GRAPHICSWHORES
Sure dude, whatever

Metroid isn't as big as you think.

But if you were given the option between sprites or polygons, you'd choose the former.

>play all metroid titles that existed on gamecube
>love them
>play mr on 3ds and hate the style gameplay and general shitty feeling of a map ressembling something of a collapsed anus.
>easy as all hell with no risk boss fights
>supposed exploration game is reduced to auto map abbilities and the occasional bullshit "puzzle" aka hard to control controls.
>whew. Gg

Is "fun" and "comfy" any better? Or do you approve of those because they compliment the game you're trying to market?

I heard it sold pretty well for a 3DS game in 2017.

I feel like it tried a little too hard to be a reintroduction to the franchise. It should have focused on iterating on Metroid 2 specifically. I’m not sure how to eloquently get my point across, but it really felt like a Metroid game without a sense of identity beyond being a title in the Metroid franchise.

Also they don’t need to try so hard to introduce action moves to Samus’ move set. Between this and Other M, I’m a little worried Nintendo wants her to be sci-fi Bayonetta.

>hurr making 3D models is sooooo low-effort to me and insults me, hand-making a thousand sprites is the only true way to do video games because love and effort and sweat and tears and yadda yadda
You sound like those old people who bitch about younger people not working in coal mines or construction like they did.

Don't tell me what I'd want, fucktard, just because you fly into fits over 3D models doesn't mean the rest of the world does or should.

are those grips made of ducktape?

Can you answer my question before you start sperging out?

I played the game regardless, and the 2.5D effect actually looked cool on a 3D screen, but that's literally the only reason I think it would ever be preferable. I'd much rather see a game with high resolution sprites.

I'm not even the person you were originally talking to but I have a hard time believing that if you were given the choice, with no repercussions, that would opt for the art direction of Samus Returns over Super/ZM/Fusion.

It didn't you stupid nigger

Refer to

>vgchartz

You can't look at 3D models somewhere between 5th and 6th gen and think there was a lot of time put into them. Yes, they have to be made by someone, and yes, the people who made them put effort into them, but the size of the team was obviously small. It's a very low budget title and it shows, so in that sense, it's collectively low effort. We could have got something with at least DKCTF's level of art direction but instead Nintendo didn't give a shit enough about the series to even make it inhouse, and they outsourced it to some shithole that just craps out games. It shows. It's a low budget, low effort title that has the Metroid brand name slapped onto it even though no one who made the classic games was remotely involved beyond footing the bill.

This is what soulless means. No one gave a shit except to turn 1 dollar into 2 and I'm glad they failed at doing that.

Underage.

It wouldnt be a metroid thread without ACfag

>easy as all hell with no risk boss fights
SR is significantly more challenging than any of the Prime games aside from, maybe, 2.

What is it about Metroid that attracts so much underage falseflagging?

>it's soulless because it's not super-dee-duper graphics and Nintendo didn't make it and all these personal reasons and waaaah
The SNES Country games were made by a British company with crappy pre-rendered models turned into sprites on smaller budgets than most Mario games, guess they're soulless and evil as well. Also Diddy Kong Racing, Mario + Rabbids, and oh yeah the Metroid Prime games and DKC Returns and TF were made by Retro not Nintendo so they're soulless abominations too.

Who fucking knows, but it's always the same 2Dfags, Primefags, falseflaggers goading both sides on, shitposters like ACfag, waifufags, and Sonys falseflagging with sales figures from known shit websites.

This game got docked points for difficulty.
I'm not saying it's super hard for anyone here or anything but people thought this game was mean

ACfag imitators.

I know you're being facetious but TF is legitimately one of the best games to come out within the past ten years. Retro have been a great second party asset for Nintendo.

...

It sold pretty well given it was a side project given to an entirely different team and did pretty good

The next internal 2D Metroid is gonna be great

>second party
If it's not made by Nintendo themselves it's half-assed soulless garbage.

I think it’s because it’s a flailing Nintendo franchise. It hasn’t been able to get a foothold for over a decade. Seems to attract a lot of malcontents and overly defensive fanboys.

looks 3D printed.

Rare was basically a 1st party studio, and I guarantee you the budget of DKC was larger than any Zelda or Mario game before it. They dumped truckloads of money into trying to keep the SNES graphically competitive with the PSX and rendering CGI wasn't cheap back then

Your a fucking retard

>The next internal 2D Metroid is gonna be great
Assuming one even happens.

it only needed to sell 200k to break even

I actually don't want sprites because believe it or not the 3D models allowed SR to have a lot of life and crazy background details that you couldn't do with sprites

no I don't because spritework takes a lot of either time or money and nintendo can't afford to spend either on traditional metroids

>falseflagging
Here's your problem. You think anyone criticizing Nintendo can't possibly be fan, but not everyone eats shit as happily as you do. Some of us grew up with Nintendo back when they were actually good, in particular back when classics like Metroid came out, and it's painful to watch the series be delegated to outsourced, low budget garbage.

Low effort.

>nintendo can't afford to spend either on traditional metroids

>assuming and accusing
Try not to do that, fagboy. Also stop acting like the old people who "Back in my day everything these days is horrible ebcause iot's not my day grrrr".

SR has way more detail in it's background then these games

I don't know, Halo has the same problem, could be Sonyfags, could be literal autist, or it could be that Sup Forums just hate sci-fi, I just don't know.

>The next internal 2D Metroid is gonna be great
I can't wait for Metroid 5 when it hits the Switch.

And still managed to look and run worse.

all of those were made back in the days when professional sprite artists had more that double digit numbers, finding good sprite artists (who can actualy keep the pace they need to) nowadays is basicaly impossible

No, I don't

Yes, you do.

Yes, I do

The SNES is the best console ever made when you look at its library. Modern Nintendo is a shadow of its former self, for the fact alone that it's lost almost all 3rd party support. Disregarding all but their most popular franchises is really a moot point when you look at how much they've casualized the ones they haven't abandoned. If Metroid gets brought back from the grave just to turn into no-challenge trash like Odyssey, I'd honestly rather it stay dead. I'll take AM2R any day of the week over another Other:M abortion. Only fans know what was good about the games, Nintendo only knows how to jew money

Hey ACfag.

Where else would one figure out sales?

Why would someone lie on the internet like that?

Why these retarded threads always come up during australian posting times? Moot was right

Board meta culture is really retarded. All you're doing is propagating a meme that it's impossible to have conversations about the Metroid series when ironically all you've done is refused to participate in a conversation by childish name calling. Is that the joke? That anyone calling out "ACfag" is as retarded as barneyfag calling other people barneyfag because he's too stupid to realize that it refers to him? If so, I commend you on the levels of irony that you yourself are not even aware of. Great debate, would roll my eyes again

Says who? You?
Who the fuck are YOU?

60 FPS is objectively superior to 30 FPS.

>go down empty hallway
>sub 20fps
Great performance, bro

>60fps
>on a handheld
>in AD 2018
What's your point?

Oh baby, another one of these threads. Seriously, what the hell happened to the Metroid fanbase, it's like they're trying to tear themselves appart from the inside ever since the M2 incident.

And how did you measure that? With an emulator?

Everything you said is exactly what ACfag says. At least you didn't also whine about cinematic experiences and Metroid threads being filled with nothing but porn.

A better company would've contacted DoctorM64 and work out a deal to sell his fangame.

I played the game on my N3DS, retard. Just because you’re blind doesn’t mean others are.

Shut the fuck up ACfag

Actually, I get 60 on an emulator.

>people constantly talking about framerate problems
>have never experienced them ro seen streamers have them
Hmmm

No, I don't

>Everything you said is exactly what ACfag says
Because I mentioned Other M? Yes, I'm the only person on the planet who didn't like it, and I'm always on Sup Forums, all the time, and every time someone says something you don't like, it's me

Please tell me you're not this retarded. Countless people grew up with an SNES and regard Super as one of the best games ever made. I can't help if my arguments might sound similar to theirs because we share the same opinion.

NPD

National Democratic Party of Germany?

MaZe, is that you?

No, the National Purchase Diary Group