Metroid series discussion

@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  
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  
Yeah alright fair enough.

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
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.

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

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.

@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.

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