2012-12-08, 09:19 PM
Polantaris Wrote:What could Nintendo have done for Metroid? Remake Metroid 2. It's one of the few games that has not received a remake that could make amazing use of the concept. That game was an amazing GB game, but it would be an even more amazing DS or 3DS game. Or better yet...I don't know...make a new 2D Metroid in general? It's been 9 years (10 now). But instead, they acted like it didn't exist.
The thing is, they may well have planned to make another metroid game for the eshop for he 25th anniversary. But there had been a ton of bad backlash for other M that landed it in the bargain bin very quickly, and it sold badly. And metroid 2 never made it into the eshop charts in europe either.
Honestly, I think we're going to be lucky if we see metroid for a while now. Other M being a bad game won't be the reason nintendo sees for the worse than expected sales, they probably see "no-one wants metroid any more". Because Nintendos logic is retarded some times
Nintendo makes terrible decisions sometimes, and then decides to stop making the games. It's why we haven't had a new F-zero (They made several bad GBA games which sold badly, as admitted by Miyamoto for the reason we haven't seen any more). I'm willing to bet it's why we haven't seen a new starfox since command (They pineappleed the game up horribly, turning it into a really bad turn based strategy, which then rightly sold poorly), adn they're in the process of pineappleing paper mario up right now too (Plot in an RPG, who needs that in our most lively, story based Mario games! Wait, it sold badly? They must have just gotten bored of the series, better cut it off!).
AS for 2D games. I would kill for a brand new 2D Zelda nad Metroid, but Nintendo just doesn't seem interested in making them.
They'd make great eShop titles, but Nintendo would probably find a way to pineapple them up, like forced touch screen controls (Ugh , phantom hourglass)