Nintendo has reassured newcomers to the Metroid Prime series that Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is the beginning of a brand new story, stating that the Metroid Prime Trilogy ended its arc with Metroid Prime 3. This means that you can jump into Metroid Prime 4: Beyond not having played any of the other games in the Prime series. This is especially handy because Nintendo has yet to release Metroid Prime 2 Remastered or Metroid Prime 3 Remastered on the Nintendo Switch with only the first game available for the system.
“The main series up to Metroid Prime 3: Corruption revolved around the story of Phazon, an energy substance that mutates living things, but Metroid Prime 4: Beyond begins a new story, so even if you haven’t played the previous titles in the series, you can still enjoy it.”
More sequels woohoo!!!!
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This is awesome news, can’t wait to play the sequel when I’m nearly 70! I hope I’m not blind by then🤞
Nice. This is a fresh new start for those who are new to the series.
If this flops does Retro close down? Sorry but such a long wait and now the annoying side character added to be more western with bad millennial influence.
The recent comments on these Metroid posts have convinced me that Metroid fans are some of the whiniest, most pathetic neckbeards in all of gaming and very much deserve to have their series die again like it did in the 2010s.
I hope this game never gets a sequel and all you pathetic manchildren live miserable lives.
Did the quippy guy get you to say that
The one doing the most whining here is you, sir…
Metroid fans waited 18-19 years for Metroid 5 aka Metroid Dread. I myself wanted nothing more than a crumb for any info for anything Metroid, hardly received anything. Multiple times Metroid fans have dealt with getting nothing (multiple times throughout the years of periods of no games 4 year gaps, 6 year gaps, etc. etc.), and dealing with it patiently. Don’t lump the whole community together, we just want a quality product, this game was restarted once already which delayed it.
It’s awfully convenient they waited till less than a month for the game’s release to all of a sudden have this character pop up, almost like they knew it wouldn’t go over well, just saying. They also focused a bit too much on the bike in the marketing.
Meanwhile I see Legend Of Zelda fans whining constantly when they don’t get a game almost every year. I saw tons of them saying Hyrule Warriors “didn’t count” as a game because it was a spinoff, when the game at the time released hyrule warriors age of calamity had actual lore of breath of the wild. The legend of zelda is my 2nd favorite series, the fanbase because of the above reason I stated and more, are highly entitled, whiny, and ungrateful.
So please, don’t tell me the fans of a series that is one of the most underrated, underappreciated, is carried 90% or more by the western fanbase(hardly any fans in Japan care about it, nowhere near as much as the fans in the west). are “whiny”, and “manchildren”, kindly get bent, because god forbid people be concerned with the product, and just want it to be good, and most will reserve final judgement for when the game is released, including myself, I’ve got it pre-ordered for the switch 1, ready to go, got the 2 of each of the prime 4 amiibos too.
I have no comment on this character everyone is complaining about… yet. Of course, I enjoyed Navi & Fi so I probably won’t be bothered. But I’ll never say never.
Only problem is it takes nesrly a decade to produce a sequel to a game and many consumers have to buy a new console to play it.
They’ll have to explain why Prime is still in the title then, since, as of Prime 3, and SPOILERS for anyone who hasn’t played the games yet-
-Metroid Prime and Phazon do not exist anymore.
So why is it still a Prime game if it’s a new story? Hopefully 4 addresses that.
It might have been ‘Metroid Federation Force: Beyond’, but as we know that’s been laid to rest. So back to the proven branding
Actually, Federation was a Prime game, so I don’t think it’s a “proven branding” thing, or at least not in the way you’re suggesting.
Unless Prime is just what they’re going to call any first-person Metroid game, I have no idea what else the name is supposed to mean for this sub-series.
Yeah it was also a Prime game. I guess I’m thinking that they are trying to give the federation aspect a lot more focus for the sake of where they see Metroid going in the future, and perhaps that will come back into the title naming once again in some fashion. But despite that, Prime is yes probably synonymous with ‘3D Metroid’ as branding distinction separate from any narrative decisions.
They removed the Metroid Prime name from the Remastered version of the game’s scan logs, so it’s just simply Dark Samus now. Or as the space pirates call it, Dark Hunter since they call Samus by the Hunter.
So I can’t play Metroid Prime 5 without putting up with MacKenzie in Metroid Prime 4 first?
Most likely sequels should come faster as retro has now new assets that can be reused. The reason why MP4 took so long was the complete reboot
Prime 4 had a nothingburger of a story, what the heck are they setting up for this new arc? More boring Federation plots?