12-12-2012, 05:32 PM
Honestly, 2d Metroid is king. I just think people beleive somethings can never take proper jumps into 3D but there are lots of games that when done right make the jump correctly.
I DO agree the Prime series are well done games it will never be the true 3D imagining, I KNOW/KNEW Samus is a woman, I am a male, just because I'm experiencing one of her missions in first person doesn't mean I can relate or empathize with her more. In fact you can't emphasize with any fictional character ever or even pretend to BE them. You experience things they experience first hand but you don't know what they are actually thinking and feeling at any/every given moment. It's impossible. i.e: Master Chief, Gordon Freeman, Protagonist from Bio Shock.
Metroid Prime games could have been new IP's entirely and they'd might not have made as big a splash as they did because of that. Everyone has their own take, in my mind you set me down in a isolated place no one tells me where to go or what to do at any point, you give me 3rd person perspective so that I am constantly reminded I am just playing an interactive peice of media and then I control said character to go hurt/hunt/save whomsoever, add secrets and different pathways to reach different places with a speed run mechanic in tow and you have Super Metroid 3D Roll Credits.
I DO agree the Prime series are well done games it will never be the true 3D imagining, I KNOW/KNEW Samus is a woman, I am a male, just because I'm experiencing one of her missions in first person doesn't mean I can relate or empathize with her more. In fact you can't emphasize with any fictional character ever or even pretend to BE them. You experience things they experience first hand but you don't know what they are actually thinking and feeling at any/every given moment. It's impossible. i.e: Master Chief, Gordon Freeman, Protagonist from Bio Shock.
Metroid Prime games could have been new IP's entirely and they'd might not have made as big a splash as they did because of that. Everyone has their own take, in my mind you set me down in a isolated place no one tells me where to go or what to do at any point, you give me 3rd person perspective so that I am constantly reminded I am just playing an interactive peice of media and then I control said character to go hurt/hunt/save whomsoever, add secrets and different pathways to reach different places with a speed run mechanic in tow and you have Super Metroid 3D Roll Credits.