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>but realistically the best thing I can hope for is an online multiplayer component in Metroid Prime 4, I think.

Unless memory fails me the multiplayer component in Prime 2 was pretty underwhelming. They've been teasing that Prime 4 will have something to do with Sylux, though, so there's a chance you might get your wish.

I remember enjoying Trace quite a bit but was never very good at this game, even discounting how prevalent hackers were. Maybe it was just the control scheme.

I remember the multiplayer being pretty fun despite all of the hacking. It is certainly a better arena shooter than anything we have gotten in the past few years

>>14661294

>Unless memory fails me the multiplayer component in Prime 2 was pretty underwhelming.

True, but I think that has to do with the fact that you could only play as Samus but recolored and the Prime 1/2 control scheme wasn't great

Part of the appeal of Hunters for me was playing as different bounty hunters (all of them with cool designs and alt forms) and using their different weapons.

>They've been teasing that Prime 4 will have something to do with Sylux, though

Yeah wasn't his ship at the end of Prime 3

I have no idea why they keep teasing him as being integral to Samus' past because I can't really remember him having all that much story in Hunters. (There barely was a story in Hunters)

Honestly, all I remember about the Hunters MP were the hackers everywhere

I don't understand why you'd go out of your way to cheat in a barely populated multiplayer DS game, but alright

I don't remember any hackers. Maybe I was just too naive to notice, or maybe I played before that was possible. Pretty cool that they basically ported Quake 3 to the DS though.

It was a lot of fun. The singleplayer wasn't great, but it was technically very cool. I liked the engine and the controls were really good; I just wish they did something better with the foundation. Multiplayer was really great if you managed to get 4 people together who had the game for local play. That was a blast.

>>14661336

It wasn't too bad for a month or so after the game released, but it got horrible later on. The biggest issues were the wallhacks. People would just walk into a wall and sit there shooting everybody they could see. I'm not sure how much fun you could possibly have just sitting in a wall shooting people in an online Metroid multiplayer game that nobody plays anymore because it's full of hackers (I was getting hackers in at least 75% of my games), but people still did it.

>>14661307

Sylux and Weavel were the only characters that had any relevant backstory to the series. Sylux, in particular, was heavily tied to the Federation, with implications that he/she is also tied to Samus in some way. The others just had their own, personal motivations that had nothing to do with the Metroid series, aside from expanding the setting a bit.

>>14661750

>pirate

>lusting for anything other than SCIENCE

>>14661765

>>pirate

>>lusting for anything other than SCIENCE

at least one pirate wasn't lusting for science, according to the pirate logs

>>14661765

maybe he just wants revenge sex

open world bounty hunter game where you can run around different worlds set in the metroid universe where you have to compete with other bounty hunters for your prize when?

I mean they tried open world with zelda so why not metroid right?

>>14661948

Bethesda killed Prey 2. We could have already had that.

>>14661972

>everything that was lost when human head refused to get fucked in the ass by zenimax

even today it still hurts

>>14661899

>>14661899

Does Ridley's ass count as a tube?

https://e621.net/post/show/1506691

>>14662405

Why don't they make a similar game but with a different name then?

>>14662428

I'm guessing it's because zenimax holds every asset and patent.

>>14662451

Oh and loads of contracts.

Metroid has been shit since Prime.

>>14662853

That's a different game with the same name, the complete opposite of what he said.

>back before this was released

>was in a small gaming forum that was expecting to have tournaments and team competition for this game

>forum completely fell apart after it finally came out

>game still ended up pretty fun for local multiplayer with kids my age

>using the bfg to cheese the shit out of everyone on that final map

>sniping kiddos from across the map on thay big lava arena with trace

>spamming the shit out of weevil's legs

Fun times

>>14662891

no way man see they took the 2 off

also they both have aliens it's basically the same game and in no way a souless attempt to hold onto the rights

>>14662979

Oh man, using the jump pad while firing the ultimate weapon downward was always great. You were basically guaranteed to get someone with it.

>>14662979

could it even be possible to have a romhack version of this game to connect to a working server?

>>14661294

>They've been teasing that Prime 4 will have something to do with Sylux, though

Also the special ending of Federation Force has Sylux.

>>14661784

It mentioning in backstory that the only functioning part of him was his brain and spinal cord and only survived because he's fused to an experimental SCIENCE life support suit. He ain't "reproducing" any time soon.

>>14663584

Technically rape does not require functioning reproductive organs.

We used to play this every morning before class, filled up the the local lobby and went at it. This one fuck only used Trace, and he was good with his sniper rifle, so it usually devolved into hunting him down.

>technically

It's horseshit, it belongs with Fusion and Other M.

>>14666190

No it doesn't. For being a DS game the damn thing looks incredible. In fact, is the reason people was so dissapointed with federation force that you did not mention when Hunters looked so good in a shitty handheld.

>>14664660

Sounds nice.

>>14661279

>Samus

No introduction needed.

>Noxus

Nigga looks like a Sanghelli from Halo. He was probably my favorite, I could only imagine how pissed-off people must have gotten out of me freezing them and getting cheap headshots with the Judicator, I hope they at-least bring him back in a multiplayer mode.

>Trace

Obligatory sniper class, I think the idea of Tracer coming from a hivemind race is kind of interesting though, I hope they bring him back.

>Weavel

Space pirate Master Chief. His altform was pretty-cool though, I'd like to see him return as a recurring boss/rival.

>Kamden

Soy-drinking bugman.

>Sylux

Cool character design, really cheap in multiplayer since the shock coil replenishes his health. Using his altform to float around lowgrav maps and get out of bounds to pick others off with the sniper was always great though.

>Spire

Cool altform and special weapon, but since he's such a bulky bastard he's an easy target for missiles, the sniper, and the shock coil.

Damn I miss me some Metroid Prime Hunters. What are the chances of a multiplayer revival like a Halo map mod or something like Goldeneye source? Probably none since Nintendo are so fucking stingy about their IP's these days.

>>14666381

Sylux was just OP in general. His weapon gets stronger the longer it's on someone, his alt-form has the fastest normal speed and is only beaten by a boosting morphball, and surrounding someone with three bombs was a stupidly deadly move. I should know, as often as I played as him.

>>14666413

He was probably my second main behind Noxus. He definitely had the best altform.

>>14666381

Remember the first time you saw this? I was so optimistic that they'd be expanding the universe in an interesting way

>>14663002

>Pete Hines claiming it didn't live up to Bethesda "quality"

>reboot is one of the most broken games ever released and can be beaten in under seven minutes

I also just found out that Bethesda forced that dev making that Shadow of the Colossus spiritual successor change it's name to Praey for the Gods.

>>14666257

I miss having a local group to play shitty DS games with. Everyone is far away now.

>>14666442

Me too. I think Metroid should stay more-atmospheric and self-contained as far as the single-player goes, but I welcomed the addition of new characters and a fleshing-out of the universe outside of simply Space Pirates and feds. I'm really hoping they finally expand on that in Metroid Prime 4 but I guess only time will tell.

>>14666451

That was a good game (save for some difficulty problems). The fact it was beaten so fast was due to glitches no real person would have taken advantage of

>>14666549

Sure, but Bethesda is essentially claiming that the quality of the reboot exceeds Prey 2 by releasing it at all if we're going by Pete Hines presumptions. It's just further evidence that he was lying through his teeth.

>>14661279

I mained Weavel. His design was pretty cool and I thought his morph form was fun. I wish you could have used his energy blade thing, but I guess that wouldn't serve much purpose anyway.

>>14661349

Most of those weren't hacks. It was pretty easy to break out of the maps most of the time. Since a lot of the maps were based on areas in the single player game, if you knew where a room was outside of the area, you could force yourself out of the map safely using missiles.

>>14667176

>I wish you could have used his energy blade thing,

you mean outside of his alt-form right?

because that energy blade was half of his alt form attack

>>14661279

>Metroid CRAPCUNTS in any form

No. I'd rather have Other M 2 than a piece of shit like that. That is a genuinely fucking awful idea.

>>14668118

>Other M

>not a piece of shit

>>14668180

CRAPCUNTS would be a fate worse than Other M.

>>14668118

>>14668209

>CRAPCUNTS

The heck's that, some sort of new acronym ala ASSFAGGOTS?

>>14668209

I have to think about that one. Gonna have to come back to you about this and may or may not call you a faggot.

>>14668221

Es este tu día primero?

>>14668221

"Cartoony Roster of Assorted Player Character-Underpinned Netplay Team Shooters. An acronym used to describe multiplayer battle arena FPS games with generic character classes and a distinctive Western artstyle. Inspired by the term ASSFAGGOTS."

>>14661765

in the second image i thought he was Armstrong or whatever his name was, that fucked-up suit of power armor you see before the Kraid boss room

>>14668529

Do the Hunters design even count as being cartoony? Unlike the super deformed style of Federation Force.

>>14668529

>"Cartoony Roster of Assorted Player Character-Underpinned Netplay Team Shooters.

Hunters is more in the vein of Gritty 90's arena shooters it's not cartoony at all

And it predates your TF2s and Overwatches and Paladins and what have you

>>14673367

>>14669890

He's not saying Hunters is a CRAPCUNT, dinguses, he's answering OP's question of

>Do you think this series could be developed into something like an Overwatch style game (but good obviously) or should it stay as a one time interesting experiment in the series?