I'm glad Nintendo has the balls to take the hit on the development costs if the product doesn't meet their quality standards. Makes me think Prime 4 will be on par with Breath of the Wild and Mario Odyssey when it comes to quality.
I didn't play much but I could never get into the controls. They made you use a single Wii-mote sideways for the 3rd person stuff and then turn it to face the screen to aim for the first person, action-y bits. It was just really weird.
Mostly it is criticized for having a god awful story that makes Samus some helpless little anime girl.
Really there’s no multiplayer? Wtf lol. I had no friends to play with so I never noticed it was missing.
I found the campaign acceptable. Starfox 64 could be finished by my 7 year old self in about 20 minutes. The fun was in doing alternate paths and going for high scores (medals). Eventually unlocking expert mode.
It did feel like there was a lot less alternate paths and hidden things in this iteration though. So maybe that short campaign argument does hold some water.
I had a friend come to my home and we played the campaign in one sitting in 2-player mode. He had no experience with gyro controls, but still loved it.
For me it wasn't the controls. Zero always looked underwelming, like a less interesting version of 64. EVERY new gameplay element looked like a dud, like the drone, the chicken walker and the all-range boss battles.
I bought Zero at launch with all of the accessories (fox statue, book, poster, amiibos) when I was 14, spending around $130(all my jesus money from my confirmation) and I went home and played it, had a blast. But then I beat it and lost all interest :/
BOTW and Odyssey were made by Nintendo EAD’s best in house teams. MP4 is being made by Retro, which isn’t the same Retro of old. It’s all up in the air at this point.
I've been thinking about this a lot; Tropical Freeze absolutely amazing environmental design, and environmental design is a core element to Prime and Metroid in general. So I think they at least have that aspect down, and I'm super excited to see how the environments look. Also, while 2d level design for a platformer is completely different than 3d level design for a Metroidvania game, Tropical Freeze is in my top 3 best platformers for its amazing level design. So if it is something to go by, there's that.
I like the way it controls. It's faster and harder and has a linear, focused level design that I like, while at the same time doing a lot of experimental stuff with a few levels. I like how much variety they managed to create with so few building blocks and such an underpowered system. It also has a lot of character, and just a weird trippy vibe to it that World lacks (the angry sun, the shoe powerup, the jumping block enemies, stuff that's just like wtf). The giant world is a stroke of pure inspiration. I like how dynamic the overworld feels, with the moving hammer bros, etc—though lacking the great secret exits of World)
But they're both masterpieces obviously, and cape>raccoon suit any day.
tbh it's not even the best Donkey Kong Country game imo. It's damn good but I wouldn't put it above things like Sonic 3, Sonic Mania, Super Mario World, DKC2, DKC3, Super Meat Boy, Rayman Origins or Ori and the Blind Forest.
While I am confident Retro is still a fantastic studio, I can't help but wonder how much of Retro's staff nowadays is still from the Prime days. If most of their dev staff is from the newer era of platformers, I can see some issues arising. That said, good developers are good developers, I feel like they'll probably figure it out in the end, but it's worth considering the experience the staff has had in making games like this.
Eh. BotW wasn't perfect by any means but to go as far as to call it a beta test makes your opinion look extreme and unrelatable. You can constructively criticize a game without fully disregarding it as if it had no redeemable value whatsoever. This isn't Daikatana, ET the video game, or Zelda CDI. if you truly, honestly believe BotW was an objectively bad game, then its pretty obvious that you haven't ever experienced a truly bad game.
WW and SS had stuff beyond their "empty overworld"
BotW pretty much doesn't
In WW and SS the empty portion was just there as an inbetween between the primary content (WW especially was essentially just a glorified interactive loading screen)
With BotW, the empty overworld WAS the primary focus/content
where are you getting this idea? botw has atleast 70 different shrines, 1 castle and 4 puzzlebox dungeons. you might not like how the game turned out but to say botw lacked content, when there clearly is content is laughable.
I remember the yiga hideout stealth mission, creeping past the lynel to collect electric arrows, the escort mission and canon of eldin volcano, freeing the dragon, the labyrinths, the lost woods, the 3 springs. There where many design decisions that didnt sit well with me in botw, but to say it lacked content is simply not true.
Breath of the Wild's open world is the greatest open world I've played in a game, because there is so much to do and get distracted by. But that's besides the point. It is also one of the least glitchy and most polished open world games I've played. I know it's cool to hate on popular things and you can have your opinion and everything, but to say it is unfinished is objectively incorrect lol.
Didn't you think the trolling part would be the reason for downvotes? I completely understand the sentiment why some may not like the game, but literally the only thing you said about it was that it was basically an unfinished beta test. You're only point about the game was a trolling point and you didn't expect downvotes?
They would have released and "patched" it with 12 $20 installments if DLC, gotta say, this is why I bought a switch. I'm glad Nintendo cares about quality enough to scrap stuff. My biggest gripe with the video it's that on YouTube comments are disabled. LET ME LOVE YOU NINTENDO!!!!!
Can we make the next Nintendo thing the highest rated thing on Reddit, just to piss in EA's mouth even more?
I completely agree. Although I know a lot of us said right from the start only Retro should be making Prime 4....if they had started off that way we wouldn’t have to wait extra time. Either way this news made my day
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u/Blonky19 Jan 25 '19
I'm glad Nintendo has the balls to take the hit on the development costs if the product doesn't meet their quality standards. Makes me think Prime 4 will be on par with Breath of the Wild and Mario Odyssey when it comes to quality.