Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

It appears as reported on CVG that Metroid prime 3 will be offline only, the developers decided to focus all their resources on the single play game only. Thoughts...........

Mine are what a screwjob, typical N not and other developers not pushing the System even if it is still the first year.

I think it's better this way. It may have been better with some kind of online score board, but Metroid multiplayer sucks. Metroid isn't meant to be multiplayer. The Metroid 2 multiplayer mode had such a wannabe feel to it. It felt so unbelievably fake.

I'm glad they've focused on the single player. MP Hunters was a multiplayer focused game and the single player mode suffered because of that.

Umm... Metroid Prime is a single player game. I hope this pays off.

If it's true so do I. [LS]

Well, if they could somehow find a happy medium, in that the multiplayer of hunters was preserved, while keeping the singleplayer just as great as its predecessors.

But, as seems to be the way with Metroid, one would dominate the game more than the other. In Hunters the online ruined the single player. In Echoes, while not online, the multiplayer really did feel like a last minute rush job, and was rightly criticized by reviewers.

However, having no online in Corruption does not necessarily mean no multiplayer at all, surely? With a bit more time, offline multiplayer could turn out good fun.

I am waiting for official confirmation of this. [LS]

If there is no multiplayer, it will be good news. If you disagree, you are a bellend.

Metroid is all about the single player, exception of Hunters of course. Wouldn't mind if it didn't have multilayer(online) to be honest.

Grumbler said:
If there is no multiplayer, it will be good news. If you disagree, you are a bellend.

Grumbler said:
If there is no multiplayer, it will be good news. If you disagree, you are a bellend.

But what, as I pointed out in my previous post, the multiplayer was just as good as the highly acclaimed multiplayer in Hunters, while keeping the single every bit as good as Prime/Echoes?

I'm not disagreeing with you, because I personally do not want online multiplayer for the simple reason I never really got into Hunters; just want your thoughts on the matter.

But surely, in the end it just gives the game more playability?

( Edited on 03.07.2007 13:47 by Monkeyman )

But we all know we will only get one good single player or one good multiplayer experience.

Hunters existing at all is a travesty. If they want a multiplayer FPS, make a new game that actually suits it. Don't rape Metroid.

This is the only forum I've ever been on that considers Hunters not complete shit.

( Edited on 03.07.2007 13:48 by Grumbler )

Z said:
But we all know we will only get one good single player or one good multiplayer experience.

In the end yes; but if the medium could be found I for one would take it.

Grumbler said:
Hunters existing at all is a travesty. If they want a multiplayer FPS, make a new game that actually suits it. Dont rape Metroid.This is the only forum Ive ever been on that considers Hunters not complete shit.

It is a horrible game. I suppose peoples greatest fear is Corruption follows the same path.

You can rely on Retro though; Hunters only turned out crap because NST developed it.

A little off topic, but does anyone know why Retro didn't develop Hunters in the first place?

( Edited on 03.07.2007 13:53 by Monkeyman )

Hunters existing at all is a travesty. If they want a multiplayer FPS, make a new game that actually suits it. Don't rape Metroid.

This is the only forum I've ever been on that considers Hunters not complete shit.

I didn't like it too much...

I hated Hunters. Biggest offence to the Metroid name ever. I don't even know why the title has the word "Metroid" in it, it doesn't make sense. Nintendo should have made a new IP for it, or at least called it "Samus & Friends fight in Space" rather than the misleading title it has.

Retro didn't make Hunters because they could tell it'd be crap from the moment they heard the ideas for it... Or something.

Well, I didn't like MP2:E or Hunters, which is why I'm so worried about this. I'm doubting this will change my mind on the direction Metroid series has taken.

SuperLink said:
I hated Hunters. Biggest offence to the Metroid name ever. I dont even know why the title has the word Metroid in it, it doesnt make sense. Nintendo should have made a new IP for it, or at least called it Samus & Friends fight in Space rather than the misleading title it has.

Because if it didnt have the name METROID plastered on the front cover nobody would of bought the game...

& if it had been a new IP then the Metroid series could go on without huge scars.

SuperLink said:
& if it had been a new IP then the Metroid series could go on without huge scars.

but DS wouldnt of have sold as much as it did if it didnt have this game!

Metroid Prime Hunters didn't even make it into the top 5 if I remember correctly. (Did it?) & I don't think it did so well in Japan either...

& look at Animal Crossing & Brain Training. About a year on & they still sell well, Metroid Prime Hunters on the other hand left the charts long long ago.

Hmmm well i wouldn't compare Brain Training and Animal crossing with it seeing as there non gamer garbage that sells well anyway.

( Edited on 03.07.2007 14:33 by Blade2t3 )

New Super Mario Bros then

Thats more like it

SuperLink said:
New Super Mario Bros then

Lightmare Speaking:

NSMB was an aberration to the Mario name if I'm being honest. It was horrendously easy, the saving of lives ended up with both Sprite and myself having scores of extra lives, and never mind the Mega mushroom. All in all it had a lot of the thoughtlessness which categorizes the later Nintendo games.

All in all though, it was a fun game, & this is about sales, not how good the game is.

NSMB pwnd Metroid Prime Hunters in terms of playability anyway. Even storyline. NSMB had a storyline so classic it felt sort of nostalgic. MPH's story was just generic & boring.

But yeah, as I said, this is about sales. MPH didn't sell the DS. Games like Animal Crossing, Mario Bros, & Brain Training did, even if a lot of them are non-games.