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Yeah, somewhat agree.

It's great just to see it exist. And not every game needs to reinvent the wheel, especially when the series hasn't had a game in 15 years.

But by the end of it, I was kinda left wanting some new hook.

Sylux showing up was a cool moment though. I didn't expect them to honor that tease from Prime 3, and I appreciate it.

Let's face it: that trailer was just bad. We already knew MP4 was in the works; there was nothing that was shown for us to get excited for. No new enemies, no new suits, no new abilities, no new weapons. If I had to guess, I'd say the team was told to put something together for Nintendo Direct at the last minute, so they threw together footage from the intro level. It worries me that Nintendo wants to drive the hype from the existence of MP4, instead of the content of MP4.

My personal view is that I rather have more traditional gameplay than upgrade trees and whatnot.

In retrospect yeah. I was very excited just to see a trailer at all. After sitting with it for a while I’m kinda like, that’s it? To me it looks exactly like the recent Metroid Prime remaster (which to be fair I did really like).

I wonder if the reveal of the big baddie was intended to carry more weight than it ultimately did.

Still amped for this game anyway.

They did great with Metroid Dread, putting a new spin on an old classic.

I have some faith that they won't just be rehashing an old formula and that this "Beyond" aspect will have some gameplay twists.

This trailer seems meant to reassure those of us who have been waiting decades for a true successor to Prime that "yes, in fact this is it".

I expect we will see more trailers as it gets closer, teasing some of the new story and gameplay innovations once they are more polished.

yeah this was one of my most anticipated games, until I saw this trailer and noticed the gameplay looks completely unchanged, now all my interest has disappeared.

No doubt it will come to both consoles. I just wonder what upgrades there will be on the new console.

I feel like I'm the only one who prefers the original, gamecube controls. Playing through the switch remake, I played with the new controls for, like, 10 minutes before switching to the original control scheme and playing the rest of the game with it.

Yeah, Switch pointer controls were pretty YMMV, simply because the joycons themselves aren't nearly as reliable in that regard as the Wiimotes were.

Switch remaster has a motion controls option. I quite like it. Is that comparable to how it played on the Wii?

I guess you forgot about the Wii remote turning being too slow for fighting the hive queen

Oh man, Wiimote and nunchuck on Metroid Prime was incredible. So goddamn intuitive. You just... point at everything. I've actually been holding off on the remake because my one and only playthrough of MP1 was with the wiimote. It ruled.

With Primehack you can play the OG prime series (I think the Wii U version?) on PC with a controller for dual joystick control like a modern FPS, or even m+k. It also runs well on steam deck, I have it on mine. It's very excellent, highly recommend.

Prime is why Nintendo needs to embrace VR.

Halo is more "figuring out how to defeat this room of enemies IS the puzzle" whereas Metroid's puzzles are platforming and figuring out how to apply this new item to the areas you've already visited, and there just happen to also be enemies to fight.

Visually maybe but not gameplay wise. They are very much Metroidvanias (that genre isn't called that by chance) where you collect gear to open up the maps more and more and shoot aliens on the way.

I really loved Prime 3 on the Wii. One of the few shooters that played well on there. I got the trilogy when that was ported but got stuck somewhere in the first game. Was too proud to look up a walkthrough.

Devs tend to go with simplified or cartoony graphics for legibility on the small integrated screen, but that's just an art style choice. Doesn't look too far off from Xenoblade 3, especially given polygons will be saved by not having to render a mile out. Or consider that Doom 2016 runs decently on the Switch.

I thought that too. But this is the end of the consoles life and devs now know every trick. Also the areas in the trailer are pretty limited, so it's a bit less taxing than an open world game for example.