A Beta Fu7ure wrote:
That isn't really what I was suggesting. The timeless quality of WW's graphical stlyle was merely another benefit that upset serious gamers failed to appreciate at the time it was previewed. It does seem, though that the Chibi style graphics seem to be making a lot of youtuber's cry because it reminds them that their games aren't the big boy pursuits they like to pretend they are. Very similar to to fan reaction over Wind Waker's unveiling and all the "bla, bla, Link should be dark and an adult and there should be blood everywhere" that ultimately forced Nintendo to pump out the boring Twilight Princess as a response.
I think that's deflecting why people are annoyed about this game. People can't say something looks terrible if it changes the art style? And you think everybody who is bashing this game are sitting back thinking "Well, at least I have Call of Dudebro 12"? Plenty of cutesy Nintendo games still sell with this demographic. Nobody was asking why Mario didn't look like a grizzled space marine in Mario Galaxy. You can do stylizing and have people still like it. You can even do cartoony stylizing and have people still like it. What proportion of internet complainers are mad about how Zelda Wii U is looking? Very few because that game looks great. This game looks bad. It looks bad graphically and stylistically. If this was an iPhone game that literally used all the same assets except for the game name it would still look bad. The fact that we're 8 years on from a Prime title just amplifies the obvious disappointment. There's nothing wrong with watching a trailer and thinking the game looks bad. Mind you this game is also somehow from the people that brought us the beautiful Punch-Out Wii. That's more or less irrelevant, but it stings, man.
A Beta Fu7ure wrote:
Maybe we'll get a swearing Samus in lingerie severing the heads of Space Pirates in the next "proper" Metroid game as an overcompensating response. (Justin Bailey has a lot to answer for) or people could actually give this game a chance and accept that like the numerous Mario spin-offs that have been released over the year, there is actually a chance that it might be decent (How many people honestly thought Super Mario Kart was going to be anything but a cynical cash-in when they first heard about it?).
And this is when your argument just starts to sound angry. People don't want extremes in either direction. The closest the series got to this vision was Other M which sexified Samus even more and had her doing take downs on monsters (in between weird character exposition). Even Metroid fans practically pretend this doesn't exist. There is a chance this game might be decent, sure. But why not ask what the chance is that the game will be great? Just look at the footage Nintendo has currently shown us to base our opinions on and say it looks great without using the words "It might be". Nobody wants to wait 8 years for a decent game. Now, Metroid fans have historically not known what they want. After all people freaked out when Prime turned out to be an FPS, but at least it looked like a good game throwing away the sanctity of the franchise.
I guess in short... what I'm trying to say is... It doesn't look like a good game! Metroid or otherwise! The developers have libraries worth of criticism over the small bit they've shown, so we'll see what they do in the future unless P.V.A.R.F.F raids their offices. But what we have now quite frankly looks sucky. That's roughly where the argument begins and ends.
Edit: And there is a Nintendo made team based shooter which stars big headed kids with big adorable eyes that is so laughably non-violent that everybody uses glorified paintball guns and it's doing very well. I wonder what the difference between it and Federation Force is?
