Topic: Metroid Prime 1 Remastered

@JaxonH I get it. I've been a gamer since I could hold a controller in my tiny hands at age 3. Started with the nes, gameboy, genesis, 64, psone, dreamcast, then gamecube. I rarely kept up with gaming news myself. It was always word of mouth, or commercials I'd seen on TV. Or just a random game I saw on sale, or gift from a relative.

The wii was such a weird console for me. I couldn't wait to have it, searched high and low, and once I got my hands on it, I quickly became bored with it due to the "casual-Ness" of it. I had a few first party games games for it, but I can honestly say it's my least favorite nintendo console of all time.

@NintendoByNature
Though I recognize the significance of the NES and its impact for its time, I think NES is my least favorite, as the only games I feel still hold up are Mega Man 1-4 and Super Mario Bros 3.

And though I spent 4 years playing Mario Kart 64 and F-Zero X, with a bit of Mario 64, Waverace, 1080p, Goldeneye and wrestling, I think N64 is my next least favorite.

I'd say Wii is my 3rd least favorite. I also didn't like the casual focus, but it had some gems. Getting Metroid Prime 3 and DKC Returns, two of my favorite games ever, is enough to keep it off the bottom of the list, at the very least.

I'd say Switch is my favorite, then GameCube, then SNES, then Wii U, then Wii, then N64, then NES. I would have ranked Wii U as my favorite before Switch released, but all its games are on Switch now, with the hybrid advantage, so it's current ranking is based solely on Xenoblade X, NintendoLand, Yoshi's Wooly World, Splatoon, Zelda Windwaker HD and Twilight Princess HD, Star Fox Zero and Guard, Paper Mario Color Splash, Kirby's Rainbow Curse and Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate. Which isn't much for a total generational library.

@JaxonH funny, aside from us both claiming switch as our all time favorite, we're the complete opposite. I'd probably go switch > n64 > nes > wii u > gamecube > snes > wii.

I actually think the nes holds up fairly well depending on what you're playing. I could sit for hours on end playing nes/64. I suppose cube and snes as well. The wii u has some amazing titles and a phenomenal vc library. The wii was just so bland for me. I tried and tried to like it, but it just wasn't cutting it. Aside from party games, or NSMB + Wario Land Shake It, I rarely touched it.

@NintendoByNature
I think Wii was kind of like Wii U, inasmuch that there wasn't quantity of great games, but the quality of the ones it did have was exceptional.

Though I didn't play very many games at the time, I have gone back since (mainly in the Wii U era) and played many newly discovered gems. I'd list my notable picks as follows:

• Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
• DKC Returns
• Xenoblade Chronicles
• The Last Story
• Wii Sports
• Wii Sports Resort
• Zelda Twilight Princess
• Zelda Skyward Sword
• New Super Mario Bros Wii
• Super Mario Galaxy
• Super Mario Galaxy 2
• Super Paper Mario
• Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn
• Sin & Punishment 2: Star Successor
• Kirby's Return to Dreamland
• Warioland Shake It
• Warioware Smooth Moves
• Monster Hunter Tri

Not that many games (very similar to Wii U, it's just that Wii U was missing all the shovelware), but Metroid Prime 3 is among my all time faves, as is DKC Returns, and Sin & Punishment 2 is my favorite on-rails shooter ever made. Xenoblade is one of my favorite JRPGs (though it's completely dated by the new remaster now), The Last Story is just as good if not better than Lost Odyssey on 360 as Sakaguchi's last great console Final Fantasy-style JRPG, Mario Galaxy games are two of the best platformers ever made... it's uh, it's got some gems. N64 also doesn't have that many games (and tbh, neither does GC), but there's not a single N64 game I currently count among my all time faves, simply because the games are so dated now (F-Zero X would be closest but it's blown away by GX on the Cube, same for the original Sin & Punishment being blown away by Star Successor on Wii).

I think I wrote off the Wii for a long time, until I became a collector and researched all the good games and bought them for my physical collection. That helped bring awareness to how good the games were it had. I was kinda surprised, actually.

But N64, GC and Wii all suffered from not having that many games. The ones they got were great. Some serious bangers. But it feels like a new era with Switch. The quantity has practically doubled, in addition to soooo many great 3rd party games, and of course, having actual practical utility of the hybrid advantage for every single game on the system makes each and every one exponentially more desirable.

@JaxonH Sorry for the late reponse, yeah, I also really like Prime 2 and I also have the same fear of critics and players not appreciating the uniqueness of that entry. Maybe it's just me but I always found funny how both Samus Returns and Echoes both share that they are the second entries in their respective series, are darker, change certain core aspects of the gameplay and are also somewhat divisive compared to the first one. Both are among my favourite games precisely because of that.

I really like Prime 3 even if it was the least enjoyable for me mostly because it feels more linear. It's still a great entry and I appreciate how every Prime game offered something different as you said. The least "good"one in a fantastic trilogy is still one of Nintendo's finest. However I do see people disagreeing with us, specially nowadays that I just find everyone being more bitter in general. I usually don't care that much about that but when it comes to this franchise it scares me that it impacts it in a negative way, specially now that we are so close to Metroid finally reaching larger audiences. I Would be heartbroken if Metroid ends up with a similar fate as the Star Fox franchise, although I suppose that after Dread and Prime Remastered (apparently) doing so well it's unlikely nowadays, but it was a reality for such a long time that it's kind of hard not feeling a bit paranoid.

I also agree that it would be tragic not to get those 2. It's been years since I played them and yet I feel sure that they hold up incredibly well and I really want to revisit them. I really hope that if they do, they also get the same remastered treatment so that there's a bigger chance of people actually appreciating them as they deserve.

@TheBigBlue Yeah, I do see Nintendo doing that approach. Let's hope that regardless of the other two releasing or not, that at least Prime's Remastered's reception gives Nintendo the motivation to make Prime 4 one of the best games on Switch.

At least now that we have this remastered version the wait for Prime 4 will be a bit easier. Well, kinda haha. It also made the wait the wait harder at the same time because I was really impressed with what they delivered and I just can't imagine what they are planning to do with Prime 4 to match or surpass that but I have faith that they will deliver. In my opinion Nintendo has been really strong this generation.

@roy130390
Given Prime Remastered is consistently selling out the physical copies even a month later, and it's still topping the eShop charts, I expect this game's success to make Nintendo seriously think about doing the same for Prime 2 and 3.

It sends a clear "if, then" message. "If you remaster these games close to a remake, each one will sell millions and millions of units". A simple HD port would still sell to some extent, but how much isn't yet known. The surefire success of this level of remastering may be enough for them to say ok, you know what? Let's go ahead and get the other two remastered all the way. Let's do what we know will sell millions of copies.

I can't help but wonder if the real reason Prime Remastered was ready for 18 months before release wasn't just due to releasing closer to Prime 4's launch, but giving time for the other games to be remastered also. Maybe they weren't completely done when this released, but they'd be 18 months closer to being done. Perhaps enough so that come the summer direct (or Sept direct), they can do another shadow drop.