@ Platypus : That doesn't change the fact that Team Ninja wasn't to really blame for Other M being bad. They made an okay game. It was Yoshio Sakamoto himself who turned it into a shitshow.

@KabutoYuushaZX: If it garners enough negative publicity, maybe it is good, or maybe it's just better to focus on the more successful properties.

@???: Retro is a sub of Nintendo. Team Ninja and Next Level Games are the two externals. Other M and Federation Force being the strike outs.

Mario kart always disappointed me. incredibly basic and just mario characters.
Sega went and made an awesomely fun game that included a wide variety of sega characters not just sonic characters. I didnt play the first one much but the sequel all stars transformed is awesomely fun AND on steam!

So you would rather the Metroid series stay dead? Well it's a good thing you're not in charge of Nintendo because that's freakin stupid!

I wish Retro would just pick up Samus again. Nintendo clearly doesn't want to make Metroid games.

@ Platypus : 2/2? Bah. For one, Retro did a wonderful job with the Prime series. For another, Team Ninja's not to blame for Other M. That's all Sakamoto...which is sad, considering he made Super Metroid and Metroid Fusion.

Well they shouldn't have 3rd partied Metroid Other M to Team Ninja, the people who make boob-physics-fighting-game. So far they 2/2 for external devs screwing up Metroid.

I think people looking at this all wrong. Everyone wants a new Metroid game, but it's also good to end a series before it becomes a zombie (like Pokemon or Zelda). Would you rather have a short, good/decent series, or cranked-out sequels? And before someone mentions it, I do like Pokemon and Zelda.

Lets be honest, Metroid began to suck when the focus switched from Samus being a Badass Bounty Hunter to Samus being a Woman
It was never needed in any other game, Samus is a Badass Bounty Hunter who happens to be female, thats how it should be

I've been waiting for a new Metroid game for years. I even dreamt about remakes of the old 2D games in Metroid Prime style.
They missed out on the anniversary too... The only shimmer of hope is that Retro studios was hiring last December. No leak what game it was for though. We can dream, right?

without side games they just don't got that much places to go with the main storyline (at least, how they're probably justifying it). Metroid needs some new blood or characters to keep going, but consider the backlash the silly little sidegame got and, well...

The thing that gets me about Federation Force the most is because it DIDN'T have Samus, it seemed to get the most hate beyond Other M... And it was before it was even released to stand on itself. That's kinda the problem with Metroid now - Nintendo's more or less finished the 'main' story, and ->

@Shareazu: Japanese Company on anything that includes a woman? It's not hard to connect those dots.

Hey, you can complain about literally anything. The real question is the value of the complaint and that's a person to person thing to decide. For instance That zelda open world game has a hilariously bad weapon durability system
Never played the game just read a review lets do this.

a metroid themed track with samus as a playable would've been cool in my opinion

Fuck Nintendo. Fuck it to hell.

@NekoiNemo The Prime trilogy was the high point in Metroid's popularity, and many enjoyed them more than the 2D releases. They just need to stick to the traditional "find the path" style, avoid Other M's hand-holding.

Every other game, other than Other M and Federation Force, has been to critical acclaim. I don't think that they're afraid of criticism towards the new game, but poor sales. Metroid has a history of selling poorly in Japanese markets.

It's not hard at all to release a Metroid game nowadays. If you were a part of the Metroid community, you'd know that. People hated Other M because it destroyed Samus's established character, and Federation Force pissed people off because it was your bog standard ShmUp with Metroid slapped on it.

After of the AM2R whole thing, i don´t think so. They piss the people to no end with that.

The only hard thing about it is declaring Other M noncanon.

Then they only need to make a decent platformer with areas unlocked by upgrades, not the hardest genre. She doesn't need to talk, but it's fine if she does, and stoic is EZ mode writing.

And it needs to be about Samus, duh. Jeez.

Man, Samus is such a nice character in concept... makes you wonder how the hell the collective of the creative minds on Nintendo can't seem to be able to create something as epic as the series deserves.

But yeah, it's been way too long since a decent Metroid game.

Hell, at this point, I'd take another Other M.
At least that had Samus in it.

Inkling Girl is still better than Baby Rosalina (hell, any of the babies) or goddamn Pink Gold Peach.
I mean, why?! Who the hell wanted an even pinker, metallic version of Princess Toadstool.

@ForgetabbleNPC how about metroid hatchling?

Give Samus a sidekick.
Everyone has a sidekick.
Mario has Luigi, Sonic has Tails, Link has...a lot, depending on the game.

@Jarno Westhof: Umm, hello? Link is slaughtering hundreds of sentient alive creatures in every Zelda game.

The release of AM2R clearly shown that there are no risks in releasing a good Metroid game today (by "good" i obviously mean good metroidvania-style Metroid, not that sluggish 3D FPS nonsense). But alas, Nintendo is doing the Nintendo thing...

And Xenoblade isn't violent too?

Would love more metroid tho, but its no violent for nintendo's family fun policy so they let it bleed dead