nial
Member
Very first time you have an actual based take. It wouldn't have taken 7 years to make, either.
SeriousCrayon
Member
Would have been cool if it came out 15 years ago..Today not so much. Looks very mediocre
fallingdove
Member
Not even close. Hell, Xenoblade Chronicles X looks miles better and that’s a Wii U remaster.Seriously though, normal neogaf users technical knowledge about graphics are much worse than resetera lol
How is the game at N64, GameCube, PS3 level graphically? It's pretty much the best-looking Switch game.
It might still be fun but the game is extremely underwhelming.
GigaBowser
The bear of bad news
BEST LOOKING SWITCH GAME ARM IN LOVE
ResilientBanana
Member
Looks dated
Zannegan
Member
It's not exactly cel-shaded, but did the artstyle get more cartoony this time around? Granted, I've only watched it on my phone while on my lunch break, so for all I know, it's just streaming issues on Youtube giving it that flat look.
Here's hoping the psychic abilities are for more than just opening invisible doors.
Here's hoping the psychic abilities are for more than just opening invisible doors.
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Lunarorbit
Gold Member
Oh psychic powers. You get to touch the screen for 3 seconds in a circle.
It just looks really basic and I've always enjoyed 2d metroid way more. Never liked the feel of jumping in prime games. Too floaty and completely unlike the 2d games
It doesn't look like it's going for a cel-shaded look to me. Watching on a large screen a ton of the level geometry is very basic.
I'm sure it's doing a ton of tricks to get performance out of the aging hardware. But I'd place it better than Uncharted 1, but below 2 in simple graphics terms.
ResurrectedContrarian
Suffers with mild autism
Doesn't look great, but they have a history of trailers I found underwhelming for various Nintendo games that turned out much better in the end. They rarely show any of the big moments and surprises in their pre-release content. Could still be great.
JayK47
Member
Metroid will never be the game I want it to be. Which is fine I guess. I can't even remember the last one I played and I hated it since they tried to mimic the old side scroller games in a first person game. I feel like they could do so much more with it and not simply make it a 3D version of the older games. But that is Nintendo for you. Stick to the formula. Sell millions of copies.
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
But is a 30fps shitshow.
keefged4
Member
Day one. It's never going to be as good as MP1 & 2, but it'll still be much better than most of the slop that's been churned out in recent years. Will get on Switch 2 though, IQ is really rough on the original switch by the looks of it. I'll probably play it in 4k without the use of a Nintendo console tbh.
fallingdove
Member
The claim was that Metroid Prime 4 was the best ‘looking’ game on Switch.
nkarafo
Member
Please, no.
She spoke in Other M. And we all wish she didn't.
Silent protagonists are OK. They can exist. Metroid's storytelling doesn't need to be like it already is in 99% of videogames. Let one series be different.
Expand the audience? Why? You do know the vast majority of casual gamers don't care about Metroid's design and gameplay, right? Backtracking? Being lost for more than 15 seconds? Those are crimes in modern videogames, didn't you know?
Most people would rather play some cinematic, linear, easy to digest slop. Metroid doesn't need to be for "everyone" it has a good enough fan base and can sell well enough with a reasonable budget. It doesn't need to be another "AAA" super expensive cinematic game with lots of voice actors and writers involved. We already have tons of such games. This one can be different.
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LordOcidax
Member
I have XCX and Prime Remaster, and Prime Remaster looks way better… Is the best looking game on Switch by far, Luigis Mansion 3 is close.
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
I think it looks great and looks like more PRIME which is fine by me
James Sawyer Ford
Member
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HYDE
Member
This man gets it…plus everyone whines about Nintendo graphics since the GameCube/Wii era. Were people actually expecting it to look incredible?
SupaComputa
Neo Member
Don't mind the graphics much, but if you make a sequel after 15 years I expect something special, a new hook gameplay wise. Psychic powers, what they've shown is less interesting than Star Wars Dark Forces 2 from 1997.
Balducci30
Member
Lol didn’t some leaker say Metroid prime 4 would blow people away
Robb
Gold Member
I think that was a Switch 2 rumor, but outside of a texture/resolutions bump I don’t really see it looking all that different.
If this blows everything else at the Switch 2 presentation out of the water we should be worried.
Donkusei
Neo Member
I expect the exact opposite, when I play a sequel I want the game to "similar" to the old games. While you need new things, it has to feel "the same" in a way.
That's why BOTW / TOTK will never feel as real Zelda games to me. It's just too different, Prime 2 is a good sequel, Tropical Freeze is a good sequel, Majora's Mask is a good sequel... But BOTW is not a good sequel, it's just a reboot, something different, it doesn't feel like a Zelda game.
Anyway, about MP4 it looks like a new Prime game, if you love Metroid Prime this is just the best thing ever. I waited almost 20 years to live this moment. And the game looks beautiful, the music is great, the art direction is great... It was not a very good trailer, but it will be a 90+ meta game for sure.
The psychic power looks good, there can be a lot of ways to use it. And it's not like they revealed some of the core mechanics of this game yet (they barely talked about the space-time faults but didn't show anything about it). It will have big implications on the level-design obviously.
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yes, no, yes and yes.
If it was first half they would have said so. 1st half ends in 3 months.
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Ass of Can Whooping
Gold Member
How does this dogshit take six years lmao
Thank god for Doom Dark Ages.
Thank god for Doom Dark Ages.
Donkusei
Neo Member
Don't show something good to people who can't appreciate good things.Boxart:
SupaComputa
Neo Member
Sure Metroid and Super Metroid are similar, but there's a clear evolution. I was disappointed when fusion came out, because design wise it felt like a step back. Still a good game. I don't believe they are hiding anything this close from the release with prime 4, all cards are on the table.
brownfedora
Member
This may be the end of Metroid as a premium Nintendo series. If it was any good, they would have broken away from the Prime brand.
EverydayBeast
ChatGPT 0.001
Metroid has always mattered to Nintendo (except on the N64 and Wii U) this is going to be great for the Switch.
Donkusei
Neo Member
Nintendo always reveal big features at the end. They didn't even reveal the ultrahand and fuse abilities in TOTK before February 2023 (which was 2 months before the release, and years after the first teaser).
They didn't show anything about MP4 yet, we only saw one area (the first one), they teased a new suit but we don't know what abilities it gives you, and again we didn't see the space-time faults.
ResurrectedContrarian
Suffers with mild autism
there were so many amazing things in BOTW that they never showed in trailers... I feel like most companies would have had just about all those surprises and locations on sizzle reels but they held it back. So I'm hopeful.
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
In motion it may be.
Balducci30
Member
Yeah… I can’t imagine this is their showcase for the power of switch 2 at all. It’s not gonna level up to some brilliant looking game
Gambit2483
Member
Nintendo pulled out ALL of the stops for each and every showing of BOTW leading up to the Switch release...but for this game we get two back-to-back low effort trailers, with the most recent sandwiched in between a life sim and indie schlock.....I'm starting to think Nintendo has little faith in this game if this is how they choose to present it.
I'll reserve judgment for the Switch 2 direct, but so far all they've done is ensure that hype and anticipation for this 6 YEAR ANTICIPATIED game has mostly deflated for all but the most die-hard of Metroid fans (and even some of those are barely impressed thus far).
I'll reserve judgment for the Switch 2 direct, but so far all they've done is ensure that hype and anticipation for this 6 YEAR ANTICIPATIED game has mostly deflated for all but the most die-hard of Metroid fans (and even some of those are barely impressed thus far).
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HYDE
Member
It’s a tiny snippet of a huge game
E-Cat
Member
Given the pedigree..
The MP1 remake looks incredible to me, this does not. It’s a subtle difference in realism
CartesianMan
Member
Day 1 for Switch 2
I luve Metroid
I luve Metroid
Vaquilla
Member
I'm not worried.
Nintendo is notorious for giving their games vague/basic trailers early on while holding back the game's key features til later showings. Tears of the Kingdom's showings in Sept 2022 and Feb 2023 were awfully dull yet the final game was brilliant.
The trailer's issues were mostly poor pacing and bad narration, nothing to do with the game itself. I'm confident I'll love the end results, Retro have yet to miss.
Nintendo is notorious for giving their games vague/basic trailers early on while holding back the game's key features til later showings. Tears of the Kingdom's showings in Sept 2022 and Feb 2023 were awfully dull yet the final game was brilliant.
The trailer's issues were mostly poor pacing and bad narration, nothing to do with the game itself. I'm confident I'll love the end results, Retro have yet to miss.
Unknown Soldier
Member
This had better also be a Switch 2 launch title with massively upgraded visuals
I thought people were exaggerating when they said it looks like a PS3 game, then I watched this trailer and....
It looks like a PS3 game
Also apparently you need PSYCHIC POWERS to operate mechanisms and open doors LMAO
I thought people were exaggerating when they said it looks like a PS3 game, then I watched this trailer and....
It looks like a PS3 game
Also apparently you need PSYCHIC POWERS to operate mechanisms and open doors LMAO
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