If this does turn out to be true this coming Wednesday, what kind of Metroid game would you guys like it to be?


Personally I'm hoping for a proper Metroid Prime/Hunters game on the 3DS, and by that I mean a fully-featured single-player campaign akin to the first Prime game, coupled with online versus play. Maybe some cool use of the StreetPass feature too.

I'd like it to be a sidescrolling Metroid, but that doesn't seem like a very good way to show off the 3D capabilities of the hardware.

I could handle a side-scrolling retro-style Metroid with 3D elements (monsters coming out of the background, depth-of-field, etc.).

I don't believe this. That dude's probably just messing with us.

I am surprised that there might be some new game announcements at this event, though. I figured it would just be 3DS North American/European release dates with playable demos for all the games we're aware of.

Actually, what are the odds there might be a title or two announced that was developed for the US (EU?) launch by one of Nintendo's American developers?

Well if its true I hope its an evolution of M:OM. There is no point in chasing Super Metroid and there are enough Prime games already. I loved M:OM and hold no nostalgia value or ties to the franchise so I'm sure in the minority. I doubt this is true anyways,

Aren't their only American developers NST and Retro Studios?

Could be something from Factor5 or whatever they are called now.

Nintendo is pretty damn secretive and could have any number of games in development in EUR/US that we wouldn't know about till they were announced. Or atleast we can hope, this system was made with input from all the 3rd party devs that Nintendo wanted input from, so who knows what else could be up their sleeve that wasn't ready to be announced before the show.

Whatever this game ends up being, I really hope it isn't going to one of these following titles:

1) Metroid Prime Hunters 2
2) Metroid Other M 2
3) Metroid Pinball 2

Anything else is fine.

Given the right circumstances, I wouldn't mind any of those.

I'm extremely excited at this prospect, but in a broader sense, I'll be very glad if Nintendo announces anything at these events that is more directed at Western audiences. Metroid would definitely fit the bill.

Wasn't Metroid Prime Pinball  well liked? Or is there another reason you don't want it?

After reading more of the Twitter back-and-forth leading up to this remark, I'm a bit skeptical of what this guy knows. Some follower of his mentioned how he wanted Ocarina of Time and Nintendogs + Cats at launch, and Ross replies, "Have they all been announced?" Hmm.  Then says, "A few other faves coming as well -- plus a few unexpected revivals!"  I bet he's talking about Kid Icarus and/or Pilotwings, and thinks the gaming public isn't aware of these even if they are.  The Metroid comment is certainly enticing, but I'm just not sure how much stock we can put in this dude's off-handed Tweet.  A bit unsettling, actually, that tweets are becoming the source for "News" items on websites.

EDIT: Oh right, I see this article was categorized as "Rumor."  I feel better now. 

It isn't what I'm looking for in a Metroid game.

Metroid Dread 3DS?

It's just depressing to think how awesome yet how incredibly unlikely that would be.

For the record though, I think this guy is full of shit. Why the hell would they announce this now when there's pretty much no chance it's coming any time soon? Even the exact same announcement would carry so much more weight at E3.

So a British celebrity knows about that stuff when Nintendo notoriously won't even clue in their European branch on things like that beforehand?

Anyway, I think Metroid needs a major overhaul, re-using the same old powerups just removes a large chunk of the discovery aspect.

As the article states, Mr. Ross will be part of the European press event.

I agree with that.  I was thinking that a really good Metroid game would probably sell me on a 3DS.  But I no longer can trust that "Metroid" = good.  I would have to wait for reviews and impressions of such a game.  That's a real bummer.  It used to be that any Metroid game was a must-own.  Come to think of it the DS Zeldas have made it so I can't trust Zelda anymore either and Mario always had too many spin-offs to completely trust.  So what Nintendo franchise do I trust?  Pikmin?

I like Metroid Prime but I would be skeptical of a Metroid Prime not made by Retro.  Even if they announced Metroid Prime 4, if it had a different dev I would have to wait and see.

Everyone on this forum is going to hate me for saying this but I would mind a Metroid: Other M sequel on the 3DS, but done right. I thought that game was pretty good and I hope to see more like it in the future. Although a 2D hybrid between Fusion and Other M would be even nicer.

I think Nindendo needs to move the Metroid franchise forward. Prime was a good side-track, but I really wanna see a return to 2D side-scrolling. The gap between Metroid IV (Fusion) and V (Dread?) has gotten big enough, damnit!

And Ian, yes. You trust Pikmin. . .if Pikmin 3 ever comes out.

For me that depends on what "done right" means. I don't think Metroid is done right unless there's a large interconnected world that you explore, using upgrades that change the way you play the game from combat to basic movement.

I don't consider the Pirme games a side-track, I see them as the evolution of the series. It would be like saying the 3D Mario's are just a side-track.

Apply this to the Other M formula and I would buy it.

The lack of it is the reason I didn't buy Other M.

I'd argue that that's not a very good comparison. The 3D Marios, while great, play significantly differently than the 2D games, whereas Metroid Prime is essentially the same game as the 2D Metroids, just from a different visual perspective. I think a better analog would be between 2D and 3D Zelda games.

No, the 3D Zelda games are pretty different from the 2D ones too.

Prime is a side-track story wise, it doesn't continue the Metroid storyline, only pad it out a bit. A proper sequel would continue after Fusion but it didn't look like Samus was going to avoid the court martial at the end of Fusion so the story probably cannot continue there.

I doubt there's any truth to this. Metroid games haven't sold all that well as of recent, so we likely won't see another one for some time.

Metroid Other M has those, they're just presented differently than usual.

Returning to gameplay from the 90's isn't moving forward.

Metroid: Other M "done right" in my mind would be... well pretty much the only thing I would suggest keeping would be the third dimensional view.  I liked jumping around and shooting things.  The way Samus controlled was overall fine, except the first person aiming which I felt was really clunky and hard to use in the heat of the moment.  I say the first person view should be ditched outright.

So they would have to ditch the shitty storytelling, and the linear progression, and the focus on action over exploration and then you're probably fine.  So you're left with Super Metroid with polygons?  What the hell did they get even remotely right with Other M?  It's like everything it introduced to Metroid was a clusterfuck disaster.

There is nothing wrong with moving forward.  But when you step forward into a pile of shit, you step back, clean off your shoes and head in a slightly different direction.

Agreed. Upgrades should be something you receive from the hands of ancient statues; not something you already have but are just forbidden to use without authorization. I hope we NEVER see a Metroid game do that ever again. It was sad enough that we had to see it happen in Other M.

I agree. You didn't need to switch to first person in order to use your beam weapon, but you needed to in order to use the missiles which made no sense. I remember dying needlessly because I would switch to my missile weapon and getting hit because I'd end up facing the wrong direction and it would take me a few moments to gather my bearings. That sucked.

I actually enjoyed Other M, but that damn Ridley I just can not beat for the life of me!

The authorized power-ups in Other M are like giving a kid unwrapped Christmas presents.  It just misses the whole point.

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By "moving forward" I meant getting on with the series. The games were all sequencial until the Prime series, taking place between 2 games, and Other: M, also between 2 games. The main series hasn't been touched in forever.
And I wouldn't call it "returning to gameplay from the 90s" because it'd have to be evolved somewhat to justify a proper sequel.

I'd call them a side track because they're basically their own mini-series within the franchise. I don't think it compares with Super Mario because the series moved almost entirely to 3D on the N64, and stayed that way until New Super Mario Bros. Metroid had stayed a 2D franchise through the main entries until the Prime series came along.