Well, now. Metroid isn’t getting the 9s and 10s you’d expect, since it seems all Nintendo games get super high ratings. Warranted? You be the judge.
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Sounds like Motorbike Batmobile’d the game. Though Nintendo seriously need to lay back on open world.
In hindsight, Nintendo preferred to advertise Kirby Air Riders over this one. Think about that.
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I’ve been following the discussion around this a bit. Fair play to people who genuinely like the game, good for them. I will just say this. I’ve seen what it looks like when a highly anticipated game is disappointing but people are trying to convince themselves that they like it anyway. “Critics don’t know everything, you need to experience it for yourself.” “That aspect of the game may have bothered the critics but I know it won’t bother me.” “Critics wanted this game to be something that it wasn’t trying to be.” And on and on, trying to justify why the thing you love isn’t actually disappointing. I get it, I’ve been there! It is what it is.
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I will die on this hill but, with the exception of the fauna and general scale of Xenoblade’s worlds, Nintendo’s “open worlds” have been deader than the 2,000 person town I had the misfortune of going to high school at. I would take Sony’s bland, cookie-cutter open-world environments over Nintendo’s any day, and that’s saying something seeing as I haven’t managed to actually enjoy a Sony open-world game enough to beat one; as someone who grew up during the GCN era when reviewers actually reviewed Nintendo relatively fairly it would be nice if there were some of that energy of accountability today (sure, they had a decent amount of fawning over the big three franchises, but there were a lot more 6s and 7s because Nintendo put out games worthy of that score… just as they do now and rarely get treated as such.)
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Skyrim Remake?
But I don’t remember the croc enemy.
Just downloaded and ready for release. Review warring is so out of hand it has turned into low 90s is a win and anything less is a loss. I mean what is the diff between a low 80s game vs low 90s?
XboxEra classifies an 8 as ‘great’. Hard to be disappointed in that. Although I’m biased myself. I consider the original prime trilogy taken as a whole as top 5 all time.
I’ll weigh in with my thoughts in the what you playing thread but it will take me a week or two to finish it.
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Well said!
There is one thing I read in a review that I definitely consider a big downer. Apparently it suffers from excessive handholding.
Why oh why!
Hey man I hope you like it. I’ve had a ton of fun with 7 and 8/10 games before, not like it can’t resonate with you just because of a review score. Super Metroid was one of my all time favorites back on the SNES, and Fusion was great too.
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It’s not Elder Scrolls related it seems. It was my best guess, so I’m like everyone else: confused.
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Yeah, I’m just gonna go expect something Sony and then it’ll be automatically meh to me. Since I don’t have a PS5. 
In other news, KCD has taken over my life. Yeesh , this is like RDR2 in many ways, a life simulator, but so,so, so good! It’s honestly next level in several regards.
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It didn’t really need confirmation but Schreier said the TGA thing is not TES related. And the post on PS4 Reddit about Bluepoint game was removed by the moderator.
From reddit leaks post about Eidos layoffs:
- Fable: 1. A team of over 100 people was involved in Fable from 2022 to early 2025, after which Microsoft did not renew the contract; 2. Eidos internally described Fable as a simulation ARPG; 3. The engine used for Fable is named FUEL, which is likely a variant of the ForzaTech.
I do hope when they say “simulation” they mean it.
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Big budget 3D metroidvania titles are so rare these days that I’d take a new good Metroid Prime even if (big IF here as I don’t trust the vast majority of reviewers these days) it is worse than the previous games, the negative points from most of the reviews are the weak narrative (did anyone care that much about the story in the previous games?) and the desert being “empty” which sounds very similar to the open hubs from Gears 5 which personally didn’t bother me at all. If the meat of the game is strong (atmosphere, music, art direction, level design, bosses, exploration/secrets e.t.c.) I’d be more than happy with the game even if supposedly it doesn’t nail all it’s new ideas/concepts.
Have fun with the game and definitely share your impressions in the WAYP thread! 
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Is RDR Remastered the one and only “upgrade” from 360 to Series? I can see why that is tough.
Kind of wish we were getting another Ori or something of the like but with Moon studios and their silly antics not sure Xbox would ever want to commission them for any game or project. I do think though that if the studio didn’t have all the drama, they would be a good fit for a new Banjo or even Sonic game.
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I think so, which is why they have to check everyones account to see who owns it.
There’s also people who own it on disc and needing them to have a 360 disc inside their Xbox to get a free upgrade. Which likely would require them to keep the disc to be able to play.
Right now, I believe, they’re having an issue to upgrade the game for people who have the 360 version. That’s a smarter delivery level.
What a game right, im back on it after a fairly long break, on the second half already, playing it slowly doing all the sidequests and hearing all the conversations, something i was starting to skip more and more recently in games since there’s a lot of filler, but the quality here is top tier.
Atmosphere, music, quests, reactivity, characters, writing, amount of choices… are all memorable in this game.
Think im liking this game like a 1% more than i liked Exp33, tho im also happy for the French guys winning most GOTY not gonna lie, it’s been a very long time since i got 2 games this good in a single year, 2020 was “close” but IMO Cyberpunk is a bit behind E33 and KCD2, and TLOU 2 is a a bit behind Cyberpunk.
Maybe 2017 with Divinity OS:2 and XCOM 2 War of the chosen, tho that was an expansion
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