Metroid

[General Mostly Electrified Steel]

Metroid has done something very strange.

It has a clearly defined beginning, and a clearly defined end.

What's going to happen? More side stories? Will the dream die?

 

[Tanthalos]

Everything that has a beginning has to have an end.
The dream will die but Metroid will go on.
I am assuming the dream is to have good, playable Metroid games that don't destroy the back story the other games have created? That dream is pretty close to dead already, if they let it lie mayhaps the game's spirit could find peace.

Alas seeing as Nintendo will always ensure there is a new Metroid mainly cause anytime something comes out with Samus Aran on the cover fanboys will buy it. The dream dies though the line continues.
Nothing personal against you guys I am the same way with Link myself.

 

[NotPigeon]

Everything that has a beginning has to have an end.
I am assuming the dream is to have good, playable Metroid games that don't destroy the back story the other games have created? That dream is pretty close to dead already, if they let it lie mayhaps the game's spirit could find peace.

...Really?
Last time I checked, the recent Metroid games were pretty well-received, even Hunters (well, not well-received per se, but still) which doesn't share many similarities with the classic Metroid formula.

 

[000Ronald]

When did it end, exactly? Meteroid prime 3 wasn't the end of the Meteroid story (the entire Meteroid Prime series takes place between the first Meteroid and the second). They can still make it go on. I think...

Although, admittedly, I don't think they can top the original Meteroid Prime. Loved that game, epic scale and all...

I apologize for any erronious statements in this comment.

 

[General Mostly Electrified Steel]

Msr Logician, Metroid: Fusion was the official chronological "end" of the series.

The Prime trilogy is what weeaboos would call a "gaiden", or side story spin-off-thingy.

And, I believe Zero was the "beginning" of the series, pretty much. And, if I've got ym facts straight, the eManga is canon, too.

So there you have it: a beginning, and an end.

 

[Tanthalos]

...Really?
Last time I checked, the recent Metroid games were pretty well-received, even Hunters (well, not well-received per se, but still) which doesn't share many similarities with the classic Metroid formula.

I honestly believe that the reason Metroid Prime 2, 3 and Hunters sold so well was due to the other half of my original comment.
If it says Metroid on it and is new it will sell no matter how good, bad or repetitive it is.
(The biggest problems with Prime 2 and 3 in my opinion, having played and owning all 3 and Hunters is that it is more of the same. Prime 1 was new which was good in gameplay and because it was on new tecnology. 3 is not new even using the Wii-mote cause it is the same game as Prime 1 with new faces and irritating to get use to controls.)

 

[irrelevantnugget]

...Really?
Last time I checked, the recent Metroid games were pretty well-received, even Hunters (well, not well-received per se, but still) which doesn't share many similarities with the classic Metroid formula.

I honestly believe that the reason Metroid Prime 2, 3 and Hunters sold so well was due to the other half of my original comment.
If it says Metroid on it and is new it will sell no matter how good, bad or repetitive it is.
(The biggest problems with Prime 2 and 3 in my opinion, having played and owning all 3 and Hunters is that it is more of the same. Prime 1 was new which was good in gameplay and because it was on new tecnology. 3 is not new even using the Wii-mote cause it is the same game as Prime 1 with new faces and irritating to get use to controls.)

More of the same. That is what a sequel is, mostly with a few mistakes taken out and a few extra gameplay elements. You expected Metroid Prime 2 to be a racing or strategy game or something?

 

[Another]

Metroid has this Chronology:
Original/Zero Mission
The Metriod Prime sub-series(y'know 1,2,3 and hunters)
Metriod 2: Return of Samus
Super Metriod
Metriod Fusion

Nintendo has been working on and off on a game called Metroid: Dread. In this Samus is now an outlaw for destroying the X parasites without orders to do so. Hunters was accually created in part to give Samus outher outlaws to team up with when the development gets underway.

So unless she dies, don't ever excpect the end of this series.

 

[L.B. Jeffries]

How is Fusion the end of the series? Samus is still alive. Outside of entering the forbidden "OMFG WHERE BE DA FAN SERVICE" realm where Nintendo will actually have to invent new content, the series could enter new & creative areas.

Wait...yeah, it's over.