Metroid Dread Has Had a 16-Year-Long, Rumor-Heavy Development

Metroid Dread has a long development cycle as rumors have been swirling about it since 2005. They popped up somewhat consistently until the game's full reveal in 2021.

[masterfox]

https://i.gifer.com/1dj7.gi...

[Dabigsiebowski]

I won't Judge until Dread is out.

[no_more_heroes]

What you did there...I see it 👀

[TheOpenWorlder]

Would have been better had you said

I won't Judge Dread until it's out.

[_LarZen_]

Only Nintendo can get away with selling what looks like a mobile game for $60…

[LG_Fox_Brazil]

I have never played a mobile game as good as Super Metroid, let alone one that looks as good as Dread

[porkChop]

What mobile games do you play that look like that?

[badz149]

this is already the year 2021 and can you please come back to reality where there are so many side scrollers for mobile with great graphics and style out there. here are some of the examples of those:

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

and do you just conveniently ignore games like Fortnite, CoD Warzone, Genshin Impact etc. which all have great graphics on Android and iOS just so you can praise your almighty lord Nintendo??

YES I said it, Metroid Dread looks like something that can easily be done on mobile and I have proof. deal with it!

[porkChop]

1) Who said I was talking about graphics? What about fluidity of movement and combat? Overall polish and production values? Etc?

2) You've listed AAA console/PC games that were ported down to PC. They had the benefit of AAA budgets and dev studios. They're really not mobile games.

[badz149]

So...what? Are you saying Nintendo doesn't have big budget and is not AAA studio and publisher? Is that it?

Or do you see now how Nintendo makes low budget games and is selling them at premium just because they can and their fans are so easily satisfied will low effort? I will show this again:

https://ibb.co/PTHNKzB

See how they are about to release a Mario Golf that looks worse than a competing golf game released on the PS3 14 years ago. See if you dare calling me wrong about this. Nintendo is treating their fans like sheep with constant feeding of Mario and they are too gullible (too dumb maybe?) to ask or push Nintendo to do better. Just willingly throwing money at this scumbag of a company

[septemberindecember]

@badz

I honestly don't see how you could think that Mario Golf: Superstar looks worse than Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds. Maybe it's the style of the character that is throwing you off. I included a character that more displays an artistic design more similar to Mario to help with this comparison.

https://imgur.com/gallery/4...

The foliage has more density, grass is actually modeled, the resolution is significantly higher, models have higher polygons. I think you personally just have a bias against Nintendo. When you call the people that enjoy their games "too dumb" to know better, well we both know you aren't being objective at that point in time at all.

[badz149]

@September

so...you tried your hardest to find the worst modeled character for Hotshot Golf from 14 years ago just so you can show Mario Golf is somewhat better? just go watch the videos of that game on YT and see how the game looks actually and see that I'm right!

but noticed that you tried hard to over some comparison with a game released 14 years ago on the PS3? HotShot Golf 6 (World Invitational), a Vita port was released on the PS3 too. I didn't use that for comparison just to make a point but that HS6 on PS3 already looks way better than Mario Golf 2021. sorry but that's just the truth.

[septemberindecember]

@badz

I didn't try to do anything but give you a good comparison. I provided you with a character with similar composition to Mario so you weren't distracted by the difference in art style, because it seems like that's what you're distracted about.

Everybody's Golf 6 also doesn't look as good as Mario Golf: Superstar, so I'm not sure what you are talking about. The resolution, polygonal models, foliage, textures...I mean half of the things that are physically rendered on Mario Golf: Superstar are simple billboard textures on Everybody's Golf. It simply isn't true. Now, maybe you prefer that art style, but it doesn't look as good on a technical level, no.

[Knushwood Butt]

But 16 years in development justifies full price.

[badz149]

and for games ported from Wii U, it's totally justified to sell them at $60 too which is $10 more expensive than their Wii U releases. just Nintendo logic for the sheep!

[TheEnigma313]

The game looks good. I’m looking forward to it.

[Destiny1080]

the backgrounds did look a bit samey and underwhelming, but maybe that's with keeping with the franchise

[CosmicTurtle]

I thought they felt graphically bland too, a big aspect of Metroid is the sense of place, like the rainswept planet you arrive in on super Metroid. It’s a shame as the mechanics of the game are really appealing..Something about 2.5d often looks and feels a little off for me, Nintendo have usually managed it better than most like crafted world.

[FlavorLav01]

How did it take 16yrs to decide on and develop a side scroller with Nintendo’s resources and industry expertise? Pretty crazy stuff

[MRHARDON]

They wanted it to have semi good graphics which none of their hardware supports, kinda the switch does

[FlavorLav01]

I hear ya, but If so I’d have to say mission still not accomplished. It looks no better than other modern side scrollers in my opinion. Cuphead, Ori, and Hollow Knight look much sharper than Dread and those games didn’t take 16 yrs to develop

[Rebel_Scum]

They probably dropped it in pre-production all those years ago.

It's got the melee mechanic from the Metroid 2 remake and probably judging by the success of that remake they likely went back to the design docs for Dread and built it from the ground up, I'm not sure if its the same engine but borrowed code for the melee mechanic at least.

[Sniperwithacause]

It's a AA game at best, IMO.

[badz149]

mobile level