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« Last post by Khushrenada on November 24, 2025, 11:52:53 PM »
Sort of skimming through the above posts since I'm not looking for more information and thus possible spoilers as well as some of the argument (or is it discussion?) didn't really interest me all that much.
I continue to be less surrounded by game discussion these days. Don't keep up with Discord like I used to and these forums are pretty slow now. Don't use any social media like Twitter, BlueSky, Tumblr, and others. Don't follow any YouTube talking heads or channels. No more Nintendo Power to keep up the hype on upcoming games. As such, there are times I keep forgetting that Prime 4 is actually soon to release. Which is wild since it was a game I was waiting on for years after its announcement at the 2017 E3.
It's also kind of a good thing as it's allowed me to stay pretty unspoiled about the game. Nintendo's been doing this Metroid Monday thing on the Switch news app which I've been dismissing as I don't need more information about the game. I was sold when it was just announce with the text image of Metroid Prime 4. Still, maybe it is that lack of knowledge which has made me keep forgetting about it. Aside from the last Nintendo Direct which showed more of the game and the Vi-Ol-A mobile, I haven't heard much about this game until recently with some talk about a Myles character that I see is brought up and complaining about him telling Samus what to do or where to go or something. To which I just roll my eyes. Feels like the past 25 years of a Metroid game releasing has always been a negative overreaction to something about it and how it will "ruin" Metroid and then the game turns out to be good or great after all. Even Federation Force was a good game and great fun if you could get a crew together. It took me awhile to finally get around to Other M (I think it was 2019 or so that I finally played it) and liked it way more than I was expecting based on the reaction it had and continues to get. So, I don't give a rip about the opinions and "concern" trolling of people over a bit of footage from a game they haven't even played or know what the complete product is like. At this point, the Metroid series has proven itself by consistently delivering a quality product in my eyes over the last 30 years. It easily gets the benefit of the doubt over some rando on social media I've never heard of whinging about some aspect of the game they don't like. There was a post I had seen somewhere a few months back along the lines of how Switch 2 has created the most desperate Nintendo haters and this just feels like a further part of that desperation.
For myself, my only real question about the game is whether I should get it now or wait a few months as I'll likely get a Switch 2 then. And when I do, should I get the Switch 2 version and make Prime 4 my initial launch game. I guess the less hyped I stay about the game then the easier it may be to wait until that time.
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