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Subject: Metroid Dread (Primed and Dready) Tue 15 Jun 2021 - 17:46
Well this looks tremendous. Releasing 8th October and it'll be the first new 2D Metroid I buy on launch. Can't wait.
masofdas The Next Aonuma
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Subject: Re: Metroid Dread (Primed and Dready) Tue 15 Jun 2021 - 17:49
As someone that hasn't been much of a Metroid fan, this looked wonderful and I want the amiibo.
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Subject: Re: Metroid Dread (Primed and Dready) Tue 15 Jun 2021 - 18:01
Don't want to be controversial, but my absolute 100% won't regret saying this later hyper educated based on nothing thoughts say: this is going to be better than Metroid Prime 4 turns out to be. Can't wait for this.
Also neat as this was a title that people batted around the internet as some kind of cancelled project, almost an urban legend. It does sound made up - "Nintendo were making a game called Metroid Dread, and also Mario Destiny, and also Pokemon Death Edition". But here we are!
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Subject: Re: Metroid Dread (Primed and Dready) Tue 15 Jun 2021 - 18:02
I absolutely hooted when they revealed the title, as Buska (stuck 20 seconds behind me) can testify!
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Subject: Re: Metroid Dread (Primed and Dready) Tue 15 Jun 2021 - 19:31
Jimbob wrote:
Also neat as this was a title that people batted around the internet as some kind of cancelled project, almost an urban legend. It does sound made up - "Nintendo were making a game called Metroid Dread, and also Mario Destiny, and also Pokemon Death Edition". But here we are!
Absolutely - it's been a rumour for so long.
I am beyond excited for this. It looks like a brilliant mashup of Fusion and Samus Returns, and while my immediate reaction was "I wonder how they'll make robots as creepy and aggro as aliens" I immediately realised just how they can do that. Cannae wait!
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Subject: Re: Metroid Dread (Primed and Dready) Tue 15 Jun 2021 - 22:05
And it's only 4 months away.
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Subject: Re: Metroid Dread (Primed and Dready) Tue 15 Jun 2021 - 22:10
That's... a lot of bouncy fellows.
masofdas The Next Aonuma
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Subject: Re: Metroid Dread (Primed and Dready) Tue 15 Jun 2021 - 22:11
Watched Treehouse and yeah sold.
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Subject: Re: Metroid Dread (Primed and Dready) Wed 16 Jun 2021 - 2:08
Guess I'm taking a stroll to the game shop to pick up Zero Mission, Fusion and Samus Returns this weekend . . .
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Subject: Re: Metroid Dread (Primed and Dready) Wed 16 Jun 2021 - 8:21
Times like this, why I'd like to see a improved retro selection on Switch, then again I'd likely Metroid myself out by time Dread comes.
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Subject: Re: Metroid Dread (Primed and Dready) Wed 16 Jun 2021 - 12:46
This’ll surely be the Metroid game that I give a chance. Because of my prolific bargain-hunting I’ve managed to get all the Metroid games up to this point in some form or fashion, but apart from Metroid Pinball (!) I don’t think I’ve spent any longer than an hour with any of them – including the really, really good ones.
I wasn’t wanting a new Metroid game from yesterday’s Direct, but I was wanting to play either Fusion, Zero Mission or Samus Returns at some point later this year. I might park that for now, buy into Dread’s hype and make this the first Metroid that I truly commit myself to.
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Subject: Re: Metroid Dread (Primed and Dready) Wed 16 Jun 2021 - 13:30
The_Jaster wrote:
And it's only 4 months away.
I did see that Eurogamer and Nintendo Life both went "10TH OF AUGUST??!!" and then realised they'd misinterpreted the stupid American dating system. If only.
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Subject: Re: Metroid Dread (Primed and Dready) Wed 16 Jun 2021 - 13:55
Yeh if Nintendo had done that then surely that would have been the ender for the direct.
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Subject: Re: Metroid Dread (Primed and Dready) Wed 16 Jun 2021 - 19:15
I'd say that it should still have been, but I think we tend to massively overestimate how much the wider world cares about Metroid.
Subject: Re: Metroid Dread (Primed and Dready) Wed 16 Jun 2021 - 19:39
Pre-ordered this already. Cannot wait
masofdas The Next Aonuma
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Subject: Re: Metroid Dread (Primed and Dready) Wed 16 Jun 2021 - 19:39
Yeah, Metroid isn't a big series in terms of what even matters to Nintendo salezzz. However, I wouldn't be surprised if this ends up be like the best-selling Metroid because it's on Switch.
So have I
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Subject: Re: Metroid Dread (Primed and Dready) Thu 17 Jun 2021 - 1:03
masofdas wrote:
However, I wouldn't be surprised if this ends up be like the best-selling Metroid because it's on Switch.
So have I
You've been the best-selling Metroid because you're on Switch?
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Subject: Re: Metroid Dread (Primed and Dready) Thu 17 Jun 2021 - 7:30
What a showoff
masofdas The Next Aonuma
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Subject: Re: Metroid Dread (Primed and Dready) Thu 17 Jun 2021 - 10:57
Buskalilly wrote:
masofdas wrote:
However, I wouldn't be surprised if this ends up be like the best-selling Metroid because it's on Switch.
So have I
You've been the best-selling Metroid because you're on Switch?
Well going through the eShop sale (that was pain) there's Adventure of Chris available, maybe that's a best seller.
But no I've preordered the game, only standard version of it though.
Jimbob Bargain Hunter
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Subject: Re: Metroid Dread (Primed and Dready) Thu 17 Jun 2021 - 20:40
masofdas wrote:
Well going through the eShop sale (that was pain) there's Adventure of Chris available, maybe that's a best seller.
Oh no! Had a quick look at that - is it ironically good, or just crap? Unless it's a scathing commentary, it seems a bit of a mess.
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Subject: Re: Metroid Dread (Primed and Dready) Sat 10 Jul 2021 - 15:36
Incredibly up for this. It's great to see the lads behind Samus Returns are being trusted to keep the 2D Metroid train going as they did a great job with the previous game. I'm not expecting any revolutionary leaps ahead of Samus Returns, but I think they nailed how that game felt to play and it was really only the design of the original Game Boy game holding the game back at all. A Metroid that doesn't have to build upon 25 year old design from a limited handheld console is going to be a special one indeed.
And that name!
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Subject: Re: Metroid Dread (Primed and Dready) Sat 10 Jul 2021 - 16:17
The only slight thing I'm concerned about from the MercurySteam pedigree is that it doesn't feel a bit too action-y. Lots of punching robots in the face and that. Both of their previous Metroidvanias (one of each in fact!) that I've played felt a bit in that vein, whereas I want my Metroids to be mostly about me having to keep my distance from gribbly creatures.
masofdas The Next Aonuma
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Subject: Re: Metroid Dread (Primed and Dready) Sat 10 Jul 2021 - 16:21
I don't know much about Metroid but couldn't it be that Samus has been a bounty hunter longer, got better gear etc that she is more action then the first game.
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Subject: Re: Metroid Dread (Primed and Dready) Sat 10 Jul 2021 - 16:33
The parry mechanic definitely means that battling mooks feels more action-y as you put it, but I think the big ol' robot fella will lean into having to keep your distance and I do recall the Metroid enemies being more about dodging and choosing your shots in Samus Returns.
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Subject: Re: Metroid Dread (Primed and Dready) Sun 11 Jul 2021 - 12:25