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@igotnopicks
I’d rather wait, and get it at my local Walmart, because Switch games are $10 cheaper there.

@Mikey
Sounds like I’ll like it then.

I think the game journalists/critics saying it’s “too hard,” probably aren’t used to Metroid games, or zero handholding.

My status in Dread:

Good news: I met an old Chozo named Old Robe, who tells me about the intelligent, power-hungry Chozo traitor named Raven Beak, who corrupted the EMMIs in order to fatally steal the Metroid DNA from me, and he unlocked one of the earlier gates.

Bad news: Old Robe shortly dies from being shot in the back by a Chozo robot. Let’s hope I’ll be able to blow Raven Beak’s brains out in revenge for killing who I saw as a father figure in those few short moments.

@Beau Skunky
I saw a bunch of copies at Best Buy today.

@Beau Skunky
I pre-ordered it, got it day one, and beat in less than a week. I absolutely love it. My personal game of the year. It is pretty challenging, like Fusion, but it’s a good challenge, and it’s great to see a new Metroid with a lot of what made the series great, zero handholding, exploration.

Guess, I’ll revive the thread.
So anyone got Metroid Dread yet?

My store was sold out, so I have to wait a week to get it, I’ll see if I can get it soon.

Apparently, fans love it, but some game journalists are putting the game down for “being too hard,” not having an easy mode, and such.
Oy vey…

@Beau Skunky  
Yeah alright fair enough.

@Mikey  
Still counts as an official rerelease even if it is a yearly service.  
Yeah, but I’m just saying there’s nothing wrong with paying for the official releases, and I tire of some actually shaming people for that. Like the nerds mocking people for buying the SNES Classic, and such.  
And emulation is technically a mild form of piracy, as much as we try to deny it. Though, it has helped game preservation, and allowed access to games unlikely to get a rerelease, (whether due to obscurity, hardware issues, or legal licensing issues) so I can’t deny that classic game emulation sharing has done some good. It probably even helped encourage the creation of services like Virtual Console. So it probably helped the retro game market too.
 
And yeah, I’d wish they’d bring us GBA games (and N64 and GameCube) whether individual Eshop/VC releases, (with a NSO subscriber, or WiiU purchase discount) or on NSO.
 
I think we’re kinda getting off topic, as I kinda wanna go back to just discussing the Metroid series, not debating about Nintendo’s business practices, or emulation issues, and such.

@Beau Skunky  
I’d hardly call NSO a re-release. They’re a large handful of two consoles that you pay a yearly fee to be able to access. And they keep drip feeding. That’s what gets me. And the selection is a lot smaller than VC. They barely even do official rereleases either. Super Metroid has only ever been released again on VC and now NSO. Emulation really doesn’t hurt their bottom line because most of their profits come from current gen games, like Mario Kart 8 deluxe or Splatoon 2. And man, I just wanna play Metroid Fusion on my Switch.

@Mikey  
Eh, I hate to debate this, but the games are legally Nintendo’s copyritten property, whether we like it, or not. And while it’s nice fan emulation allows hard to find games to be preserved, and such it does kinda take away sales from official rereleases. So I can sort’ve understand Nintendo. (And granted they haven’t shut anything down lately.)  
Frankly if you don’t support/buy the official game rereleases, then you can’t really complain about them not updating their classic library enough. (And I admit, I miss Virtual Console, and honestly they were cheap games. And you fail to mention, you do get a discount on them on WiiU if you previously bought them on Wii.)  
As for the Switch subscription thing, I can’t complain about getting free games cheaper then a Netflix yearly subscription, (and I assume they did this to solve the “rebuying VC games” issue you complain about) but I admit Nintendo has neglected it a bit.  
(They don’t even have “Star Tropics 2” or “Mach Rider” yet.)
 
As for the fangame issue, in fairness there are many many fangames Nintendo lets be, so they’ve gotten better about that, and they aren’t C&D’ing everything.
 
Less lock is fine, but I miss Amiibo actually being easier to find/buy. One thing I will fault Nintendo on is how bad they are at supplying them now. They used to be easier to get.

@Beau Skunky  
Sega always lets Sonic fangames be. And then they hire said fans to make a new game.  
Nintendo would lose nothing by letting fangames be. And then their attitude towards emulation is awful. They wanna take ROMs down for old games that are no longer manufactured, and yet they give no good permanent way of playing their retro games, only forcing you to rebuy the same Virutal console games again, or charging to $20 a year to even access a smallish library of NES and SNES games, only to take them away when you unsub, they can’t even put more games, like at least give us GB and GBA on NSO.  
And I’m personally not a fan of amiibo, so the less the lock, the better.

@Mikey  
I understand, they should’ve had more alternative methods for unlock, much like the Mario Maker 1 Amiibo costumes. The Amiibo could be utalized, but not the only requirement, and just be a quicker bonus for those that have them.
 
I guess Nintendo learned their leason, but sadly when they do, they oftentimes overcompensate.  
That’s why Amiibo are so rarely utalized in games now, hard to obtain, and more niche’. Which is a shame as an Amiibo collector like myself, whom misses being able to buy/find them in any store. The Nintendo.com store’s page has zero Amiibo available.  
Even one released months ago like the Banjo Kazooie SSBU ones are already out of print, and command high prices online. That should tell them Amiibo still have a market.  
If Ninty has such a hard time keeping them in stock, or mass producing them, they should hire Bandai or something to help make the figurines.
 
You just know the new Metroid Dread Amiibo will be gone quickly too… Heck I still want just a SSB Samus.
 
In fairness, I think Sega has C&D’d stuff before too.  
Square/Enix nixed the impressive fan Chrono Trigger remake, and such. So it’s not just Nintendo.

@Beau Skunky  
It frustrates me when an entire goddamn mode is locked behind Amiibo. That’s just bullshit.  
I want Metroid Dread to sell well and I’m glad the amiibo are only for additional health and ammo. I’m extremely excited for it(even more than Prime 4, because I’ve been wanting this particular game for years). And I just wish Nintendo would embrace non profit fangames like Sega does.

As I said before, I can kinda understand the C&D, as Nintendo was making their own remake, (and the fangame was reusing some graphics from “Zero Mission”) and they probably didn’t want the games to compete, or the free fangame to steal sales.
 
There was also drama over the Amiibo-locked bonus features, and the new Amiibo being hard to get. Which sadly also basically killed Amiibo, (along with drama over “Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival”) as fans began to see them as a “cash grab,” then a collectable figurine that adds more to a game. Ironically making Amiibo even more niche’ now.
 
That Amiibo drama also sullied “Samus Returns’” reputation. (I wish Nintendo would restock them more, I wanted the squishy Metroid.)
 
But as I said I don’t wanna get into the drama, and the fangame is apparently now widely available. Nintendo has relented on the C&Ds lately a bit now, so I wouldn’t continue being mad at them.  
(Hell, Nintendo’s a saint compared to Blizzard, EA, or Activision. And let’s not forget Square/Enix killed that Chrono Trigger 3D remake fangame.)
 
I actually wanna beg fans to support “Metroid Dread,” because Metroid is a series that needs more support and sales. We need to show Nintendo we want more then Mario, Zelda, and Pokemon. (As much as I love those, I also love Metroid, StarFox, F-Zero, and such.)

@Sparx  
I was mostly referring to the part about SR having received “mixed reception”. I know of the drama concerning AM2R, though if I remember correctly, it was at its worst when the only upcoming Metroid title was Federation Forces. It died down considerably when it turned out Nintendo was working on their own remake of Metroid 2.

@Sparx  
I’m still pissed.

@shinigamiPeter  
At the time when Samus Returns was being released, Nintendo C&D’d a fanmade remake of Metroid II.
 
People were pissed.

@Beau Skunky
 
@Beau Skunky  

 
 
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I’m hyped for “Dread.”  
I was worried the mixed reception (and drama, but let’s not get into that) of “Samus Returns” was going to result in the demise of the Metroid sidescrolling series.
 
One thing I’m surprised I see nobody discussing is how the series supervisor stated that “Dread” is going to be the final chapter of the “Metroid story arc.”  
Before you all get worried, note he said “end of the story arc,” not “end of the series.”
 
Meaning if/when the series continues, a new story arc featuring Samus could start, but without the Metroid.

@O. Hancock  
Oh hey, I forgot this thread existed.  
DREAD HYPE

@Mikey  
Same

 

I hope Nintendo does something for the 35th anniversary.