I would rather have multiple novels worth of text than have to listen to a soyboy retard self-insert yapping away with sperg shit like 'Hey that looks like a missile, you should use that to shoot the missile door thats right there with the glowy missile symbol on it. Just don't shoot me! Aren't I quirky and interesting?' all the time and I can't immediately shove them into a woodchipper because they are 'essential' to the garbage reddit-tier story.
Have you ever played "Metroid: Other M"? If you haven't, then I strongly recommend you never do. I tried twice to finish it, years apart. Couldn't stand to keep playing it from how frustrated I would become from all the cutscenes retconning and contradicting established lore, turning Samus who was canonically raised by Chozo into a bratty, rebellious teen receiving inferior human military training with other rank-and-file, and from all the fucking cringy monologues. Waiting years to replay it did not change my impression of the game in any way whatsoever. Avoid it if you want to keep a better impression of the Metroid series.
"Other M" was different-enough of a name that people could freely choose to believe it wasn't canon. It wasn't even made by the same company as the previous entries. Metroid Prime 4 is a different matter entirely. If it sucks, it will severely hurt the brand.
Metroid Prime had a lot of text. It was entirely from scanning things and enemies to fill out your codex, so it had no voice acting, but it had plenty of text.
I think there was a tiny bit of talking from something in 2, and I don't think I ever actually played 3, so maybe they added more talking bits there, but I have a hard time imagining they got rid of the scanning into your codex loop.
Prime 2 had the Luminoth guy who "talked" a bit but there were like 3 or 4 scenes with him the entire game.
Prime 3, on the other hand, had a ton of talky-talky and cut scenes with generals, bounty hunters, and aurora units. It was mostly not a game-ruining experience but was still annoying.
Luckily Metroid has never had much text.
I would rather have multiple novels worth of text than have to listen to a soyboy retard self-insert yapping away with sperg shit like 'Hey that looks like a missile, you should use that to shoot the missile door thats right there with the glowy missile symbol on it. Just don't shoot me! Aren't I quirky and interesting?' all the time and I can't immediately shove them into a woodchipper because they are 'essential' to the garbage reddit-tier story.
Have you ever played "Metroid: Other M"? If you haven't, then I strongly recommend you never do. I tried twice to finish it, years apart. Couldn't stand to keep playing it from how frustrated I would become from all the cutscenes retconning and contradicting established lore, turning Samus who was canonically raised by Chozo into a bratty, rebellious teen receiving inferior human military training with other rank-and-file, and from all the fucking cringy monologues. Waiting years to replay it did not change my impression of the game in any way whatsoever. Avoid it if you want to keep a better impression of the Metroid series.
Yeah I was about to say that if Metroid survived Other M, it can survive a soylennial entry.
"Other M" was different-enough of a name that people could freely choose to believe it wasn't canon. It wasn't even made by the same company as the previous entries. Metroid Prime 4 is a different matter entirely. If it sucks, it will severely hurt the brand.
Metroid Prime had a lot of text. It was entirely from scanning things and enemies to fill out your codex, so it had no voice acting, but it had plenty of text.
I think there was a tiny bit of talking from something in 2, and I don't think I ever actually played 3, so maybe they added more talking bits there, but I have a hard time imagining they got rid of the scanning into your codex loop.
Prime 2 had the Luminoth guy who "talked" a bit but there were like 3 or 4 scenes with him the entire game.
Prime 3, on the other hand, had a ton of talky-talky and cut scenes with generals, bounty hunters, and aurora units. It was mostly not a game-ruining experience but was still annoying.
Can’t wait for the scan of Ridley to say, “Ugh, this guy again, am I right?” as though Samus wrote it.
It does now.