That time everyone bullied Nintendo over a Metroid game 

Doesn't help that it looks like butt in the trailers. Somehow it looks so much worse in its reveal trailer than in the gameplay footage.

​@@wombatpandaa9774cause it's in 3D on a 2d video screen. That was always the problem selling 3DS and Wii U games. How do you show graphics to people if they are distorted cause of limited video distribution?

​@@Dzztztthe WiiU had a lot of potential, but damn, the marketing around it 💔 but as the main comment, "the night is darkest...", and now we got the Switch, both portable and home console and with some of the best WiiU games ported and amazing exclusives. A beautiful catalog, indeed.

My feelings as well. Or announce Samus Returns first and then announce Federation Force right after so this way Metroid fans could go "well hey at least we know a proper 2D game is coming next year, maybe this multiplayer spinoff can be a decent time waster while we wait" (kinda like how Hunters on the DS was a little something that held fans over in the wait between Prime 2 and 3).

No

It’s like when the rights are about to expire and they need to make a new game just to retain them but they don’t want to put any effort into it.

@@Ckoz2829 in this case they just didn’t want to reveal what they were working on because it would’ve taken a while to come out

@@kruegerpoolthe13th Right. But it definitely would have been better if they waited for Samus Returns. We already went 5 years without a Metroid game, what would another 2 have done to us?

@@Ckoz2829 good point but go figure Nintendo make the weirdest decisions about these things

Yup! I'd hav eprobably enjoyed it more if it weren't a shooter on a system utterly unsuited for one

Well, literally yes Gamefreak are rolling in Gold? !

Nintendo has said that they typically watch a console for 2 years before deciding to start development on the next one. I think the timeline matches pretty well for them to have ditched Wii U by 2015 and shift development to Switch. Even a great game released in 2015 couldn’t have made money on a system with only 10 million users.

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You should play Metroid Prime

That game was amazing I played it when I first got my PC, I still like Nintendo's remake of Metroid 2(Samus Returns) more but that was almost as good. I also recommend you play Metroid Prime if you havn't, that remaster they did for Switch is well done.

@@insomosisytmusicandsports4393 ​ Ikr? Those other games are _nothing_ next to Prime (aside from Dread's only good bits of course - those amazing 3D cutscenes when it looks like We're getting some juicy Metroid greatness - but then goes back to flat side-scrolling boredom!)

@@netweed09 Dread was definetly awesome. Along with the other 2d games, the samus Returns remake, Super Metroid... etc. but the 3 Prime games designed the world we now think of as Metroid in 3D. they managed to pull off a 2d franchise and transition the atmosphere of metroid in 3D. Quite difficult for a game to successfully make that transition

After seeing Federation Force, and knowing that Nintendo never accepted the criticisms of Other M, that probably wouldn't have saved the game either, as there would have been too many questions about the future of the series. They'd have to delay the game til Samus Returns was ready, and even then, who is going to buy that game over SR?

They did allude that Prime 4 was in development in 2015 and even specifically say that Federation Force was made to be a prelude to the next Metroid game. There was literally an entire interview about it that was covered across multiple websites.

@@eiriseven I think Nintendo wanted to create a follow up to Metroid Prime Hunters???

@@JacobNintendoNerd99 News flash, dude, 99.99% of Nintendo players don't go that deep into the woods to find those kinds of interviews, and even then you'd have to exercise some major brainpower to realize they were talking about Prime 4.

who did they wipe out the space pirates??

@@mobius1504 the metroids, they were disliked but its still genocide

@@fernie5686 Federation Force felt like a Metroid appetizer. Meaning because Metroid games sell ok, it takes while for Nintendo to make a good one. The other reason is that Yoshio Sakamoto needed the help of a third party to make it, and he found one with MercurySteam.

@@mobius1504 Yes. The intro text of Federation Force literally says the Federation plans to completely eradicate the Space Pirates. Imagine if George W. Bush had said after 9/11 the U.S. military would completely eradicate all Arabs... holy shit.

Samus did that. Federation hired her because yes but she refused to kill the last metroid. Why do I bother explaining Metroid to kids.

Federation Force felt like a Metroid appetizer. Meaning because Metroid games sell ok, it takes while for Nintendo to make a good one. The other reason is that Yoshio Sakamoto needed the help of a third party to make it, and he found one with MercurySteam.

Other M is a highly underrated and misunderstood game. The entire point was that all of a sudden you weren't an intergalactic super-powered bouty hunter. You were at the mercy of the environment instead of controlling it. The Metroid atmosphere was there in spades. Was it the best Metrois game ever? No, of course not. But it wasn't the worst either. Could Other M have been better? Yes, but that question can be asked and answered the same for even the pinnacle of gaming. At the end of the day, Other M felt like a Metroid game in some ways, regardless of what any individual thought of it.

Fusion was the game that made the federation evil.

@@Xoulrath_ Dude, what? ''Being at the mercy of the environment'' is something that applies to literally every other Metroid game. In each one, Samus is weak and underpowered when the game starts, and slowly grows more powerful as you go on until enemies that once presented a scary threat can be beaten with ease.

@@legrandliseurtri7495 dude, what? Did you play the game? Because I did. The awkward control scheme and angles of Other M took away most of Samus usual powers to navigate the environment. Or did you never hear of things like sequence breaking? Yeah, Samus was NEVER at the mercy of the environment, dude.

@@Xoulrath_ Being unable to shoot more than five centimeter in front of you is being in control of the environment? Having to run from one protective bubble to another because of the toxic atmosphere in a twisted dimension that you don't know anything about is being in control of the environment? Trying to deal with a parasite that constantly sabotages the space ship you're on is being in control of the environment? Those are three examples from three games not named Other M. Metroid games were always about making the player feel vulnerable and outmatched. Also, sequence breaking, that thing that you couldn't do in Fusion or any of the prime games without using completely unintended glitches, is really an argument you want to use for this?

Don’t forget about Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival, a game made specifically to sell Amiibo and one that nobody asked for and Mario Tennis Ultra Smash, a completely phoned in, by the numbers Tennis game made up almost entirely of reused assets, an over reliance on a bog standard gimmick, and about as much soul as an EA game. 2015 was a baaaaaad time to be a Nintendo fan. I have no idea what was going on over there, but in hindsight it just felt like they were biding their time until the Switch was ready.

@@Ckoz2829 Lol yeah even more garbage! They were deep into making Breath of the Wild at that point and according to wikipedia had been working on Mario Odyssey for 2 years. I'm sure at that point they knew that that would be a switch exclusive. They really had to have been biding their time for the Switch like you said.

@@Ckoz2829 "I have no idea what was going on over there" Satoru Iwata died in 2015, the Wii U was an unquestionable gigantic failure, and the company was falling apart at the seams trying to keep things together. That's what happened.

Binding Blade and Engage are arguably more divisive than Fates and I seen Conquest frequently praised so calling it the low point of the series when stuff like og Mystery of the Emblem exist(I'm doing a marathon of FE where I play every game starting Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light to Engage, at Blazing Sword currently) is some bullshit lmao.

Paper jam was one of the best mario and luigi games

hey pikmin, mario vs donkey kong, donkey kong country tropical freeze(switch), fzero99

@@DecidiousGreensLuckily i never was into those anyway 😂

The drought had nothing to do with other m. It was all because of the wii u failure

@@novustalks7525 It had nothing to do with a game that sold badly by Metroid standards, got bad reviews everywhere and countless rant videos? Uh...

@@legrandliseurtri7495 no it doesn't. Even Nintendo said as much. Almost all the games have sold badly

@@novustalks7525 ''badly by Metroid standards''

@@legrandliseurtri7495 badly full stop

Which game again?

​@@netweed09I forgot

@@RawrX32009 😕😁

It was a great game

​@novustalks7525 Wrong.

@@robertkenny1201 No

Idk how well known the series was before Xenoblade came along, but Xenoblade has connections to Xenogears and Xenosaga

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Federation Force felt like a Metroid appetizer. Meaning because Metroid games sell ok, it takes while for Nintendo to make a good one. The other reason is that Yoshio Sakamoto needed the help of a third party to make it, and he found one with MercurySteam.

My guess is that it is a reference to how the game is a spiritual successful to Xenogears and the Xenosaga Trilogy, but idk. The game shown in the clip is actually the first one in the series, so it could also be an error and it was intended to be Xenoblade X instead, which yes, was pretty different to the game before it. Though I personally think being on the Wii U killed it more than having a different setting and gameplay style, but idk that's just me.

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Why!? your say the 3ds and wii u had nothing but BAD games?!

@@edwardsaldana2534 Not all of them were terrible at least, Also don't worry I still play on my 3DS and my Wii U still to this day along with my switch. It really bothers me that some people pretend everything was beautiful and pretty during that era. However, not just that era but you can say the exact same thing for the OG wii, GameCube era and the previous eras too. Not every era is beautiful and pretty, But we still enjoy them regardless of their flaws.

I’d do a mission. I was there on launch day too. As the video points out, it’s a tough game to play alone. There was just too much bad blood around it for people to give it a chance.

I've tried to play it. The game was atrociously bad, honestly. The movement speed alone is probably the worst in FPS history... and it's in a game with time limitations, lmao.

Now that we got the benefit of hindsight, Other M wasn’t as bad as people were claiming it to be. It still wasn’t that great either. As a Metroid game, is was pretty depressing. But basing it on it’s own merits as an action game, it felt no better than your run of the mill PS2 action platformer. It was definitely not something I would expect from Nintendo, especially at the time they were kicking ass with the Wii.

And that's why I had more fun with TMS than with Persona 5 for example. I wish they would revisit this game again, but that probably won't be happening. I'm surprised that they even ported it to the Switch.

No, Other M is a terrible game and a disgrace to the franchise and Nintendo. Federation Force was salt on a 5-year open wound.

Other M has THAT Ridley scene. A blatant character assassination of Samus Aran. The fact that Metroid Dread confirms it's makes me hate Other M more than I already did.

​@@KBrolyrelax it was mediocre

this franchise is older tha you think.......

@@charboy8563 xenosaga and xenogears are not part of the xenoblade “franchise”. xenoblade is big and is it's own thing,xenogears and xenosaga weren't even made by monolith and just because some dev at square soft are now at monolith doesn't mean you can just group the games together, xenogears used to be a playstation exclusive too. the only thing they have in common is the xeno part

​@@darky1677 Why do those games even share the "xeno" thing anyways?

@@darky1677 But Xenosaga and Xenogears are also not part of the same series and are not even owned by the same company, Xenogears wasn't technically made by Monolith either, but by like their predecessor

@@oscarzxn4067 yea i know,but some supposed smart guy said i didn't know that the “franchise” is older than i thought when all these games have in common is the xeno in the name. they're all completely different games

I dislike Xenoblade X.

@@orangeslash1667 Nice bait lmfao

@@MikoMango23 I'm I the only one that thinks the game uncanny character designs 😑😑?? Xenoblade 2 is a massive improvement simply because the characters actually have expression and emotion.