I hope so - I do love Metroid something fierce.

I reckon Prime 4 might actually be Third Person. I don't say it with any degree of certainty, but I was thinking about how Splatoon utilises both its firing and traversal mechanics as things that feed back into each other in a constant loop, fire to lay ink, jump in ink to move quicker and reload, and repeat.

I can see the charge beam drawing on a power gauge that recharges when you morph ball, and the morph ball being a Platinum style dodge. That's how i'd do it anyway. I think it will need to rethink itself in first person if it does go that way though, scanning was fun but will need to be quicker now, and there definitely can't be any of those "you have to scan it before blowing it up" because that's against Nintendo's current "any approach works" style.

Metroid as an open world could work.
Think arkham city/DS1 but bigger in scope.
And with a living breathing ecosystem.

They should take Zelda's botw concept and run with it.

Just make it like Arkham Asylum. Apparently that's good enough.

mistercrayon wrote:

How is a go anywhere you please In an open environment anything relevant to a metroid game?

Like what do you want from a metroid game? Just a sci fi skin?! Is that what people have been grasping for?

Open world can add a lot to the immersion and coherence of a world. For all intents and purposes, the open world design of Batman Arkham City and the Witcher3 were amazing. Same could be said for Switch Zelda.

mistercrayon wrote:

Why not just ask for open world sci fi then?

What does "metroid" add to the party?

Be careful what you ask for.
Not impossible but very easy to fuck up.

RamSteelwood wrote:

How is a go anywhere you please In an open environment anything relevant to a metroid game?

Indeed. Metroid is about being restricted on where you can go because of your abilities, then finding new ones to get to places you couldn't before.

Could say that about Zelda until recently.

Not that I'm advocating for an open world. I'd rather it was more like a 3D Super Metroid type thing.

Zelda 1 and 2 had the foundation of a go anywhere you please.

When people were complaining about the modern zelda formula they often cited the mystery adventure feel of zelda 1

Open world like BotW but with lots of gated off areas until you get the required gear could work really well I reckon.

No open world please I get the concept but I'm bored shitless by them.

But they'd absolutely need to cloak their item-based lock-n-key fuckery more convincingly, and move well past contextless powerups in just-so cavities and shit.

I'd actually thought that best way to deal with yet another re-upgrade your suit structure would be to embrace sequence breaking and turn it into, y'know, the whole shebang.

Suit gets damaged and then rather than getting a specific upgrade, allow the player to select which function to restore - double / spider jump (depending on whether it is 1st or 3rd person), charge shot, morph ball etc.

Have your central hub and have a dense and interlinked map, and allow players to pick the tools at their disposal. Direction and play style would be dictated as a result.

Would have to be designed to within an inch of its life, though.

Maybe that's why it's taken 7 years and counting.

Agree with cinty, incremental suit sttyle upgrading at workbenches is the way forward.
As for world design, I prefer open world. A Dark Souls level layout would work well too. They should design the enemies (flora/fauna) to be part of an overarching but logical ecosystem..
They could make a hacking minigame of the door unlock sequences. Makes a bit more sense than shooting special weapon to open door.

Tempy wrote:

If they make it open world I am blaming you idiots.

My man.