Metroid Dread is exceptional. I’m really glad Ben and Brad managed to articulate the incredible balance between having you feel completely lost and guiding you where to go ever so gently. That balance is so finely tuned, it’s perfect
Talking about a master class in game design, can we talk about the first encounter 8n the opening cutscene? Slighr spoilers for the most obvious boss in the history of obvious bosses, but that's your warning: Samus's first encounter with Raven Beak shows you how to fight his first form. She ducks his screen filling g attack, parties his grab, and gets caught by the charge you can't parry. That is awesome.
I finished Dread yesterday and had a blast, I'm not the fastest Metroid player, in fact I'm pretty slow, but the all killer no filler essence of Dread really shines no matter how long you take to finish it, there's no bad area in the map, no bad boss fight, no anoying sequence, it's such a dense and exciting experience! Several of my favourite boss fight in the series in this one.
Hard agree. Some people have complained about the length but I don’t think they understand that it’s 7-9 hours of 99% raw gameplay with great replay value.
holy shit im so happy, metroid dread is goty. must be an incredible feeling for mercurysteam to get praise like this for a metroid game. let's keep those sales going so we can get metroid 6 now.
It's funny for me when I hear Huber say that he's saving for an OLED TV and that his 4 year old TV is an oldie and I look at my 32 inch LCD TV from 2012 and I say to myself, it's fine, it still works.
Ha ha, yeah, I'm on a 23 inch monitor that I bought because I needed something slim to take on the road and review Gran Turismo 5 over Thanksgiving. While I'll certainly want to upgrade to 4K when I can afford to, I'm still happy with what I've got. -Bloodworth
Between Metroid Dread, F.I.S.T. and Axiom Verge 2, and even the rereleases in the Castlevania Advance Collection, it's been a really nice few months to be a Metroidvania fan.
When it feels like the genre is firing on all cylinders, Metroid fucking Dread makes a comeback and Castlevania is STILL dead in the water. Oh, Konami.
@@brendantoungate8287 They should license it out to Epic Games and have them make a live service co-op survival battle royale football game. With all of the great original Fortnite characters, that were invented by Ninja like Danos, Wohn Jick, and Warvey Heinstein. That would truly be an EPIC GAME BRUH LETS GO FAM LOWKEY HOMIE YEET ON ME
Metroid Dread is my Favorite 2d Metroid by far now. I absolutely LOVE it. And it hurts saying that because Super Metroid has been my favorite for decades. Still, EVERYONE that owns a Switch should play this game. They won't but they should.
Damn you guys nailed my feelings on Dread exactly. Even down to how the EMMI rooms become more like puzzles themselves where you even have to figure out how to take them out. Before this came out and everyone thought it was a Super Metroid, the conversation was “Do we need a Super Metroid remake?”. Now I’m ready for that to come out next year at the latest! I’m fully sold on Mercury Steam handling 2D Metroid games going forward. Personal GOTY for sure.
Exactly how I'm feeling. Especially as a metroid fan and one who never thought Dread would be realized, this one's been particularly tough to fully process.
Metroid is my goty so far and I don't see anything coming that I expect to change that. I went into it tempering my expectations worried that they lost focus during development and the game wouldn't flow. I was wrong. I can't imagine how to make a better 2D Metroid game than what they did with Dread.
For me how good the DualSense has been is due to the ergonomics and the grip on it. I have a lot of pain problems with my hands with nerve damage and arthritis and the DualSense is easily the most comfortable and least fatiguing controller of all the ones I have. The Haptics are cool, but mostly just cool. The physical comfort of and ease of use is always the most important part of a controller for me. I also just got a Switch OLED with Dread, my first Switch, and I've been rather surprised at how comfortable the Switch itself has been in handheld mode. I didn't expect it to feel as good and be as easy for me to use as it is. I'm less sold on the Switch Pro Controller tho.
The haptics and triggers are cool on the Dualsense but ergonomically the Xbox Series controller is the most comfortable controller I've ever used in my 25 years of gaming. The part where the black and white parts meet on the Dualsense handles sticks out instead of being flush and its kinda annoying.
Duelsense is pretty cool but only times it really felt different was with Astro Bot. I personally think it is a huge improvement for Sony controllers but the Switch Pro and Xbox controllers are just as good if not better in certain areas. The D-pad on the Pro is pretty awful though.
I think the xbox series x is the most comfy controller, followed by Switch pro....but man, I don't know what had you have, but I was on pain due to how bad the ergonomics of the Switch controllers on handheld mode were. Uncomfortable, plus Mercury's decision of not allowing for button remapping, and not using D-pad, made getting those tough shine spark items even more mechanically harder.
Metroid Dread is my first Metroid game, and my God I am having a blast. Definitely recommend it for anyone who is a fan of gaming. So glad I jumped on the Metroid train even if it's this late.
Glad to welcome you brother! I jumped in relatively late as well (played Prime Trilogy for the first time in 2014) and it's niw one of my favorite franchises.
Have you been a fan of the metroidvania genre like Ori, Guacamelee or Hollow knight before Dread? Or is this your first with that type of game in addition to it being your first Metroid. If so check out others in the genre too there's some gems! Dread is freaking amazing though
@@nolanlehman6392 the only other game I played before this was castlevania back in the day. I am planning on starting hollow knight next week for sure.
This game just leaves me with more and more craving for a full fledged, 3D explorable Metroid. Metroid Prime 4 needs to come out soon! I love this game (not yet clocked it but really enjoying it), it just makes me want more fleshed out, detailed world.
Metroid Dread blew my expectations out of the water. I was really hoping that we'd see Metroid Prime 4, so I was a initially bummed that Dread would be a side scroller. Never in my life have I been so happy to feel like a complete idiot. Perspective aside, Dread is everything I want out of a Metroid game. It's atmospheric, immersive, gorgeous, challenging, and GLORIOUS. It doesn't unseat Prime as my favorite in the series, but it probably edges out Super Metroid as my second favorite, and it's hands down my game of the year so far.
I absolutely love the game but for me there is still room for improvement for the ambiance ans music. By no means I'm saying was bad, it was great, just very clearly improvable from my perspective :)
One of the great eps. This is the perfect example of why i love EZA... A strong discussion with a differences of opinions, yet always with a positive angle on the industry. Nice work boys
Ben is me, I am Ben. Seriously, aside from thinking it looked amazing from the get-go (as opposed to Ben), it's exactly how I felt. I stopped multiple times to just take in the fact that the game actually exists and is as incredible as it is. I'm 100% it right now, then I plan on replaying it to get a faster finish time! GOTY for me without question. Edit: Also, sick Behemoth shirt Ben! Always appreciate some metal representation!
Hard agree! It's incredible and as good past Metroids. Literally in the same ballpark as Super, Fusion, Zero Mission, Prime etc. and I still can't believe it's real lol. I would say we don't deserve this, but nah screw that, we Metroid fans 100% deserve this. We've waited for so long!
I wound’t say 10. I think it leaves me with wanting more, and it is fantastic but they definitely could have done more with the environments both in detail/diversity and story telling. Samus moves and controls incredibly imo. I think they tweaked her to perfection. But, I kind of want more depth/length from the game. It is a solid 8.5 for me though.
I think there'd be an argument for it being a 10 if all the Emmis werent taken down in the exact same way, given their importance feel it's actually a pretty big flaw
@@sanguinepenguin9576 I see your point, and more variety with them would have been nice, but they are not all taken out the same way, really. Sure it's all with the omega stream/canon, but the environment you do it in changes drastically as you go on, becoming progressively harder. The shooting is the same, yes, but lining it up becomes gradually more difficult, in larger e.m.m.i zones, with smaller spaces to work.
I love how dread gives you missiles from the start and some of the upgrades from previous games have been merged into one or refined to make them more enjoyable 👍
Loved the convo on Farcry 6 and I agree alot with Ben, especially about the representation angle. It is of course familiar but has lots of stuff worth talking about. However, I'd disagree with Huber abit (from the HOTTAKE part) about the scale of Ubisoft games because I feel like it may come from the bubble of games journalists. Because for better or worst most people aren't sick of Ubisoft open world games based on nearly every new entry being the record selling game for that franchise. While AC Valhalla might feel like a step too far for game reviewers who have to rush through every single release - including massive open world games - your average consumer is both not going to rush through it nor would they have paid most of the other ubisoft releases. I have alot of more casual gamer friends who play FarCry and Assassins Creed and I never hear complaints about the 'Ubisoft open world fatigue' because these guys play the same game for months and they don't even realise the same Company publishes both games. Its also about old fashioned perception of value. To many people Valhalla being £45 for about 80 hours content is a great deal. Not to mention in the UK and Ireland this game has been used for advertising for tourism and museums. So I don't feel your average consumer links Valhalla to FarCry and gets tired of them. I think this extends outside of game journalist bubbles to hardcore gamer bubbles. About 5 of my more casual gamer friends also played Last of Us Part II, loved it, and were completely unaware of both spoilers and any controversy. Could be a UK thing where the online culture war doesn't crossover into Mainstream media as much as the US. This isn't to say anything Huber critcised was wrong, or Ben and Brad, because it isn't. But I feel when you are in the games industry and gaming communities (like me and yourselves) your perception can become abit warped. Like most people I know just play FIFA and Call of Duty - and may get a few big releases a year like AC, FarCry or the Sony exclusive. Their awareness of the games industry and dynamics of companies is very slim. Sorry for the long comment - side note I loved hearing you guys talk about music you hated, got an actually LOL out of me which is rare.
I've been playing and loving Metroid since the original on NES. I haven't finished Dread yet, but I'm on the same trajectory: it might just be better than Super.
@@sanguinepenguin9576 I think it controls better, but the map and level design lags behind Super for me. I think it has some of the finest in the history of the medium so I don't judge Dread harshly on that account.
@@chaosmos24 for me personally, metroid dread felt like it guides me along w out telling me exactly what to do, there's a logical flow to the map. There was one point after acquiring an upgrade that I got lost, but like said in the Frame Trap if I just realized how intentionally it guides you along w out holding your hand my brain wouldnt have jumped to going over to every single place that my upgrade applies to. Super metroid I played first time recently and not only because of the map but in general it is like how the fuck could I have possibly known that, most infamous example being the glass tube. Infamous for a reason. Not saying you're wrong just explainin why I say that
I'm completely obsessed with Dread at the moment, haven't been this absorbed with a game in a while! PS: BEHEMOTH BEN! Got The Satanist on vinyl...rocks your socks off
Yeah MMO's will never be the same again. I remember playing Runescape back in the day in the 2000s and to get items you either had to craft them or literally find a player in the world thats willing to trade for it. There would be specific worlds and areas just for trading and thered be hundreds of people advertising what they were selling. It was a magical time. The internet was early into its lifespan so metas didn't really exist or they would take ages for someone to put a guide out. Nowadays metas set in within days. Simpler and much more fun times back then.
"I can't believe this is the same company that made Samus Returns and Lord of Shadows!" Seriously this is so true, as a series veteran and a super Metroid fanatic this game actually surpasses it in every way. ❤️
Just FYI FIST came out a month before Metroid Dread, its not because of Metroid Dread that FIST didnt have buzz its cause it had 0 marketing at launch (also was exclusive to ps5)
@@lonewolf3314 this is bullshit. Eastward was the most marketed and likely best selling indie of September despite it being an absurdly overwhelming month for indies, also Chinese. Both FIST, eastward, and about 20 other indies between august and september have a metacritic over 80, so none stood out and dominated their month like most big break out indies do. Stop making up stupid shit to feed into hate narratives, those are problems, it wasnt for F.I.S.T or Eastward. Genshin Impact is Chinese and was a massive success here so kindly just stop
1:22:30 Correction(?): The song Huber hates is actually not "Brand New". It is simply an inferior cover of the original "Beggin" by The Four Seasons from 1967. The current circulating version is by an Italian band Maneskin, but the song was also prominent a dozen years ago with a Madcon cover (with hip-hop infusions) and was used by many dancers, B-boys, etc. And the music video even featured Halo 3. Give the original (or Madcon) version a try and see if you prefer it to this current cover.
I envy myself from 3 days ago when I first started playing this game. I will not be so completely blown away by any game for a very very long time to come.
It's so amazing to scroll through all the comments here and see all the love and adulation for metroid dread. It's so refreshing to not have to read alot of childish fanboy hate about the new shiny thing for once. I'll be a first time switch buyer at xmas and gunna get the oled version so dread will be on my radar
i love all off the metroids but this stands on another lvl with its gameplay and boss fights that dont hold back!! still playing it and taking my time!
You start out completely overwhelmed in Metroid Dread. You play like a complete amateur. After a few hours, you perform things much more smoothly, with room for improvement. By the 3rd playthrough, where you're completing the game in 4 hours as opposed to your initial 10, you FEEL like Samus. You are *fully* in tune with the player character with how fast you execute EVERYTHING. You BECOME the badass bounty hunter. This is where Dread excels; you're immersed in the game because you manage to play as skilled as Samus actually *is* in universe. Side Note: Burenia is fucking AMAZING. It's like being able to explore Kamino, and underneath this giant research station in the middle of the ocean is this giant network of coral caves as water trickles through the half broken facility. It's everything I loved about Wrecked Frigate Orpheon, but without being completely totally submerged the entire time. It legitimately feels like a place that has been worn down by the ever present force of the sea.
It’s incredible how many new people I see/hear are getting wrecked and loving it. It may be challenging to a new player but it’s never cheap or punishing. You die to an EMMI or boss and you start right back outside the door to try again immediately. As the load screen says … no boss attack is unavoidable and learning is part of the fun. I see tweets from excited people saying they beat their first ever metroid boss and it’s amazing.
I listened to Ben's rant on social media especially Twitter pollution around the release of a game in the Hottake and I wake up and see this trending on Twitter "Nintendo's $60" concerning Metroid Dread price for how long the game is. I chuckled , because Ben was right.
I'm glad Brad was there to support Ben's points on Dread. When Ben gushes for a game, it's easy to feel like he's just overselling everything. I've definitely seen him defend some pretty mediocre games in the past.
Metroid Dread makes you understand how ridiculously powerful Samus is. It almost feels like DooM Guy being evolved into “The Slayer” lol. I’d love to play a remastered Metroid Prime, but Dread is now absolutely at least one of my top 2 Metroid games of all time.
Sucks hearing that Back 4 Blood is really made for 4 players and it’s harder to do solo or with bot companions. I understand it’s a co-op game first but most of my friends don’t play games and I played Left 4 Dead solo or with 2 players all the time as a lad and rarely had issues.
I wonder considering Dread was rebooted multiple times in the past 15 years if the reason why MercurySteam made such a starking jump from Samus Returns to Dread is the fact Sakamoto/Nintendo recorded all the mistakes/good ideas of the previous iterations of the game, thus creating some kind of rulebook to not messing up the game. Also budget has to be a big factor, most Nintendo games from 2016 and 2017 on 3DS and Wii U were made on pennies due to the flop of the latter system. When Dread started being developed probably sometime in late 2017 (Samus Returns was out in September) the Switch was already considered a very successful platform.
It's very common in any kind of production to do post mortems on what worked and what didn't. It's hard for me to believe a specific list of things were sent to MercurySteam who had proven themselves already on Returns, but there's no doubt there were back and forths between them and Nintendo and both studios' past experiences shaped this title throughout its production.
I'll take all kinds of coffee from plain black to Nitro Cold Brew to PSLs (for sweet tooth), but I NEED to have it either hot or cold. Once a hot coffee goes lukewarm I often must commit the sin of microwaving it in order to finish without wasting. An iced coffee that's gone room-temp is also pretty meh, but at least it's more fixable with ice or fridge
The only thing I can understand any complaint for Metroid Dread is there is no icon filter for the map. Even with the custom markers it’s very cluttered. Other than that it’s the perfect Metroid Game.
Old podcast, but binging some Frame Trap and wanted to comment. I love how Metroid Dread turned out. It's so good. It was my system seller, bought a Switch to play Dread and have 0 regrets. Voted for it in the Game Awards, favourite 2D Metroid game and looking forward to the future of Metroid with how well it's doing. On the topic of 2:11:30 though....... Mini rant ahead: That kinda hurts. I used to genuinely love Star Wars, looking forward to the new releases. Now though, anything new on The Clone Wars still excites me. Still play SWTOR as I love that continuity way more (despite the EU's many flaws) than whatever Disney has made with its continuity. New Star Wars games I enjoy it in a bubble, but hold no excitement over what it holds for the larger world, as it feels so disconnected from the larger story (Fallen Order was fun, but there's no mystery or intrigue that I feel when I play the Jedi Knight games and how those stories got me invested in the EU). Looking forward to SWTOR's new expansion coming. Won't be playing it day-1, or for a while, because I'll be playing Endwalker. But definitely looking to eventually coming back to SWTOR. It has ties to KOTOR2, my favourite Star Wars story ever, so it already has me sold.
3:15 Coffee: you can 'f**k up a basic cup of coffee' by simply using bad ingredients or cooking them wrong, just like with everything else. Their are 100's of different coffee bean varieties from across many countries and continents, their are 10's of different processing techniques (washed, pulped, natural etc), there are 1000's of coffee roasters, there are 100's of different pieces of equipment that can be used to roast the coffee, grind the coffee, heat the water, brew the coffee etc etc etc... not to mention there are endless recipes and doses... basically, unless care is put in at every stage you will get a bad coffee. I'd say a good 70-80% of the coffee that people drink is 'bad' coffee (to my taste). When people who've been drinking instant coffee their whole life taste a well cared for and well made cup of coffee for the first time it blows their minds! Coffee can taste of peach, blackcurrent, cotton candy, cinnamon, treacle, blackberry, strawberry, pistachio, almond etc etc etc, without adding anything to the coffee beans apart from water... pretty incredible...
Quick Resume is amazing in combination with gamepass. I got a 3 year old kid and not that much time to play videogames anymore. I got Returnal for the PS5 but everytime i want to play it i look at the clock and i'm like "what if the run lasts longer than 1 hour?" making me play other games instead of Returnal. Backing Hubers point, yes the load times are crazy fast now but being able to switch within seconds is awesome, especially for rogue like games
He didn't take into account the incredibly long logo sequences each game has when booting it up. Quick resume brings you back right into the game most of the time. Ironically Ghost of Tsushima's loading into the map is extremely fast, but if it updated, you have to wait for all the logos for what feels like over a minute.
Listen, Ben, ***you don't even understand*** . This game has so many intentional, sanctioned sequence breaks that it's insane. The path that starts you on the first break is a little obscure so just look it up if you don't want to search for it, but trust me - do it. So much of the game is re-contextualized to support these breaks it will blow your mind. Something that seems like an innocuous superfluous addition when you're following the main path will completely enable this alternate way of playing the game. So much so that it genuinely feels like you're playing a remix of the game. And these breaks enable boss quick-kills to reward you. It's sick. DO IT AAAAAH
Without mentioning whether the hyped features are underused or overhyped, the dualsense is easily the best controller playstation has ever made, the dualshock 4 feels like a happy meal toy by comparison. Reminds me a lot of the 360 controller which for me was the GOAT until the dualsense.
Metroid Dread - 8hrs?! well if your a star player may be ;). I've spent way longer on it already, been searching out all the tanks and missiles etc. Loving every minute of it. It's a great great game. I have got quite a ways in I feel, but man it still feels like I got a ways to go.
@@marianocastro7599 im sure the devs would love if the game could be played at 4k with a more consistent fps the switch is just to weak if you have a switch and payed for a copy of dread i dont see a problem with emulating also when huber brings up creators intent he usually talks about game difficulty so i dont see why hes an hypocrite.
@@NM-sb9co well what dev wouldn't want their game to run or look the best it can, it almost sounds like people want it to run on a more powerful system. But it's not. It's on switch. Cause it's a Nintendo property. My problem with the emulating is because of what kotaku have been pushing: to pirate the game completely. Huber wouldn't do it ( I think I'm not sure ) but he holds some responsibility when he say " there has to be a way to play it out of the switch". Let's be honest NOT every one who emulates OWNS the game. You SHOULD OWN IT. I'm pretty sure ha has said that about playing games and not just difficulty. Which video is it? I wouldn't be able to remember. There so many and I don't have the time. When I find it agian I'll let u know.
Hopefully as more games from PlayStation Studios are released and developers become more familiar with the Dualsense, there will be more games that can better utilize its capabilities.
Great conversations! I feel like Huber feel more confident to express his opinions more lately, I'm all for it! Something I however disagree with is that the industry are too harsh on games, I feel the opposite. When it comes to at least the AAA industry, games are just repeating themselves with refinements to story, voice acting and tech. While game mechanics and gameplay is lagging behind. Sure there are some exceptions, but for the most part we play the same things over and over for decades. And that should be a valid criticism to games, a UBI title for an example shouldn't get a higher score than a 6 unless they're doing something that feels a bit more fresh. Because they have repeated their formula over multiple franchises since Far Cry 3. How can that be acceptable? I get the warm blanket conversation, but only for something that doesn't happen too often and something is making a tribute to that game, like tormented souls does for RE Remake. But making a franchise where even they have a structure with their villains in the far cry series, then it's just straight out lazy and poor. Vaas described it well in far cry 3 with, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."
I just want to remind my fellow players that Metroid Dread isn't a "MetroidVania" game. It's just a Metroid game. It isn't copying the genre. It started it.
I recently went back to play The Evil Within.... after an hour I had to shut it off. I loved the game when it came out, but it doesn't hold up in 2021. It saddens me.
Metroid Dread is just amazing,. So tight. I want Prime 4 and basically every other Metroid on my Switch now. Preferably not on a ridiculous online service. We'll see I guess. If Dread does well maybe Nintendo will re-release the earlier games...
On the topic of the Begging begging song Huber was talking about it is Beggin' by Maneskin. They are an Italian Rock Group who recently won Eurovision with their original song Zitto E Buoni th-cam.com/video/QN1odfjtMoo/w-d-xo.html Beggin is actually a cover of A Four Seasons song from the 60's which may explain its play on a classic rock station slightly. th-cam.com/video/lJyWoD38E_s/w-d-xo.html I cant fault Huber, while I actually do like Maneskin and the cover it is being extremely overplayed and that kills a lot of songs real early. Props to Frankie Valli and the Boys though they are likely seeing some nice royalties of that cover I'm sure. Love and Respect.
Ben and Huber are really taking too much stock into all the gaming "hate" and stuff on social media like in Huber's example comparing Halo Infinite to CS 1.6, and saying the gaming industry is toxic. 99% of that stuff is just trolling and memes lol, they need to have Brad's attitude on things like that. During that whole conversion where Huber and Ben were getting really passionate and excited, Brad said like 2 sentences, which basically means he doesnt give a shit about that kind of stuff, which is the correct attitude to have. Just chill out, ignore the stuff you dont want to see, and enjoy what you want to enjoy, simple as that.
It's also pretty clear that if you look around, any kind of popular thing can be toxic. It's not like gaming is the exception and everywhere else is sunshine and rainbows. Twitter's algorithm just rewards hot takes and often times negativity. It can easily make something look way worse than it actually is.
Metroid Dread is exceptional. I’m really glad Ben and Brad managed to articulate the incredible balance between having you feel completely lost and guiding you where to go ever so gently. That balance is so finely tuned, it’s perfect
once I realized I could trust the game to not completely waste my time it became a lot easier but still felt explorative
Talking about a master class in game design, can we talk about the first encounter 8n the opening cutscene?
Slighr spoilers for the most obvious boss in the history of obvious bosses, but that's your warning:
Samus's first encounter with Raven Beak shows you how to fight his first form. She ducks his screen filling g attack, parties his grab, and gets caught by the charge you can't parry. That is awesome.
Wow I never even noticed that. Crazy
This kind of foreshadowing is very cool, but it's not "game design" per se. It's more like good direction.
@@Ayoul good point. It's basically having a full understanding of the direction / story in combination with actual gameplay
She also triggers his screen-filling wave by shooting his shield to overload it.
I finished Dread yesterday and had a blast, I'm not the fastest Metroid player, in fact I'm pretty slow, but the all killer no filler essence of Dread really shines no matter how long you take to finish it, there's no bad area in the map, no bad boss fight, no anoying sequence, it's such a dense and exciting experience! Several of my favourite boss fight in the series in this one.
Hard agree. Some people have complained about the length but I don’t think they understand that it’s 7-9 hours of 99% raw gameplay with great replay value.
I think this was one of the best Frame Traps in awhile. So many great games to talk about, plus THE BOYS.
holy shit im so happy, metroid dread is goty. must be an incredible feeling for mercurysteam to get praise like this for a metroid game. let's keep those sales going so we can get metroid 6 now.
It's funny for me when I hear Huber say that he's saving for an OLED TV and that his 4 year old TV is an oldie and I look at my 32 inch LCD TV from 2012 and I say to myself, it's fine, it still works.
Ha ha, yeah, I'm on a 23 inch monitor that I bought because I needed something slim to take on the road and review Gran Turismo 5 over Thanksgiving. While I'll certainly want to upgrade to 4K when I can afford to, I'm still happy with what I've got. -Bloodworth
Between Metroid Dread, F.I.S.T. and Axiom Verge 2, and even the rereleases in the Castlevania Advance Collection, it's been a really nice few months to be a Metroidvania fan.
Ender Lilies and Grime as well! It’s been a good year.
When it feels like the genre is firing on all cylinders, Metroid fucking Dread makes a comeback and Castlevania is STILL dead in the water.
Oh, Konami.
@@twincherries6698 At this point, I just want them to license it out to someone; I don't trust Konami to make anything.
@@brendantoungate8287 They should license it out to Epic Games and have them make a live service co-op survival battle royale football game. With all of the great original Fortnite characters, that were invented by Ninja like Danos, Wohn Jick, and Warvey Heinstein. That would truly be an EPIC GAME BRUH LETS GO FAM LOWKEY HOMIE YEET ON ME
Metroid Dread is my Favorite 2d Metroid by far now. I absolutely LOVE it. And it hurts saying that because Super Metroid has been my favorite for decades. Still, EVERYONE that owns a Switch should play this game. They won't but they should.
My partner is playing Metroid Dread, her first ever Metroid game. She gets lost, she gets her ass kicked.... and she absolutely loves it.
Damn you guys nailed my feelings on Dread exactly. Even down to how the EMMI rooms become more like puzzles themselves where you even have to figure out how to take them out. Before this came out and everyone thought it was a Super Metroid, the conversation was “Do we need a Super Metroid remake?”. Now I’m ready for that to come out next year at the latest! I’m fully sold on Mercury Steam handling 2D Metroid games going forward. Personal GOTY for sure.
The boss designs in Samus Returns were such a cool surprise. Very happy to report that Dread keeps that quality high.
Being like 8hrs into Dread this is the perfect podcast to listen to during a Metroid break
Perfect timing! Just finished Dread and it's hard to focus on anything else right now while I'm trying to digest what I just played.
Exactly how I'm feeling. Especially as a metroid fan and one who never thought Dread would be realized, this one's been particularly tough to fully process.
Metroid is my goty so far and I don't see anything coming that I expect to change that. I went into it tempering my expectations worried that they lost focus during development and the game wouldn't flow.
I was wrong. I can't imagine how to make a better 2D Metroid game than what they did with Dread.
For me how good the DualSense has been is due to the ergonomics and the grip on it. I have a lot of pain problems with my hands with nerve damage and arthritis and the DualSense is easily the most comfortable and least fatiguing controller of all the ones I have. The Haptics are cool, but mostly just cool. The physical comfort of and ease of use is always the most important part of a controller for me. I also just got a Switch OLED with Dread, my first Switch, and I've been rather surprised at how comfortable the Switch itself has been in handheld mode. I didn't expect it to feel as good and be as easy for me to use as it is. I'm less sold on the Switch Pro Controller tho.
The haptics and triggers are cool on the Dualsense but ergonomically the Xbox Series controller is the most comfortable controller I've ever used in my 25 years of gaming. The part where the black and white parts meet on the Dualsense handles sticks out instead of being flush and its kinda annoying.
Duelsense is pretty cool but only times it really felt different was with Astro Bot. I personally think it is a huge improvement for Sony controllers but the Switch Pro and Xbox controllers are just as good if not better in certain areas. The D-pad on the Pro is pretty awful though.
Really… I find the switch pro controller the most comfortable. I use it for all my PC gaming too. The worst is the joycons followed by the ps4 for me.
Hey amigo there are bridge converters you can use to make the Switch recognize your DS stay safe and have a great day
I think the xbox series x is the most comfy controller, followed by Switch pro....but man, I don't know what had you have, but I was on pain due to how bad the ergonomics of the Switch controllers on handheld mode were. Uncomfortable, plus Mercury's decision of not allowing for button remapping, and not using D-pad, made getting those tough shine spark items even more mechanically harder.
Anyone who is anyone NEEDS to play this game. Absolute GOTY.
Which game? They talked about a few.
Metroid Dread is my first Metroid game, and my God I am having a blast. Definitely recommend it for anyone who is a fan of gaming. So glad I jumped on the Metroid train even if it's this late.
Glad to welcome you brother! I jumped in relatively late as well (played Prime Trilogy for the first time in 2014) and it's niw one of my favorite franchises.
@@juliansalazar7097 where can I find them other than buying a GBA? Wish nintendo has them in the shop.
Have you been a fan of the metroidvania genre like Ori, Guacamelee or Hollow knight before Dread? Or is this your first with that type of game in addition to it being your first Metroid. If so check out others in the genre too there's some gems! Dread is freaking amazing though
Don’t listen to these people, if you go back to old Metroid games you will be underwhelmed. Play hollow Knight instead
@@nolanlehman6392 the only other game I played before this was castlevania back in the day. I am planning on starting hollow knight next week for sure.
This game just leaves me with more and more craving for a full fledged, 3D explorable Metroid. Metroid Prime 4 needs to come out soon! I love this game (not yet clocked it but really enjoying it), it just makes me want more fleshed out, detailed world.
I think this and a prime 4 (and hopefully a trilogy release at some point) will compliment each other *very* well.
Metroid Dread blew my expectations out of the water. I was really hoping that we'd see Metroid Prime 4, so I was a initially bummed that Dread would be a side scroller. Never in my life have I been so happy to feel like a complete idiot. Perspective aside, Dread is everything I want out of a Metroid game. It's atmospheric, immersive, gorgeous, challenging, and GLORIOUS. It doesn't unseat Prime as my favorite in the series, but it probably edges out Super Metroid as my second favorite, and it's hands down my game of the year so far.
I absolutely love the game but for me there is still room for improvement for the ambiance ans music. By no means I'm saying was bad, it was great, just very clearly improvable from my perspective :)
I love it when the boys get together for a Frame Trap. Ben, Brad, and Huber together is a special kind of energy.
The hottest of all combinations
@@spencerasay5395 The Gundam Boys are the best trio
@@r.f.switch5847 haha true, kyle is an X factor
@@spencerasay5395 ....Who?
One of the great eps. This is the perfect example of why i love EZA... A strong discussion with a differences of opinions, yet always with a positive angle on the industry. Nice work boys
F.I.S.T deserves so much more coverage. I played it right after Dread and it still felt amazing. Glad Huber keeps hyping it up
Ben is me, I am Ben. Seriously, aside from thinking it looked amazing from the get-go (as opposed to Ben), it's exactly how I felt. I stopped multiple times to just take in the fact that the game actually exists and is as incredible as it is. I'm 100% it right now, then I plan on replaying it to get a faster finish time! GOTY for me without question.
Edit: Also, sick Behemoth shirt Ben! Always appreciate some metal representation!
Brad Ellis knows what he's talking about. That Nitro cold brew from Starbucks will wake you right tf up.
Brad Ellis wields a green lightsaber.
That stuff is lethal lol. Can barely drink half of one.
God damn, I'm all about this Metroid renaissance. It's a bonafide 10. It just is.
The couple nitpicks I have aren’t strong enough for me to say it’s anything less than a 10.
Hard agree! It's incredible and as good past Metroids. Literally in the same ballpark as Super, Fusion, Zero Mission, Prime etc. and I still can't believe it's real lol. I would say we don't deserve this, but nah screw that, we Metroid fans 100% deserve this. We've waited for so long!
I wound’t say 10. I think it leaves me with wanting more, and it is fantastic but they definitely could have done more with the environments both in detail/diversity and story telling. Samus moves and controls incredibly imo. I think they tweaked her to perfection. But, I kind of want more depth/length from the game. It is a solid 8.5 for me though.
I think there'd be an argument for it being a 10 if all the Emmis werent taken down in the exact same way, given their importance feel it's actually a pretty big flaw
@@sanguinepenguin9576 I see your point, and more variety with them would have been nice, but they are not all taken out the same way, really. Sure it's all with the omega stream/canon, but the environment you do it in changes drastically as you go on, becoming progressively harder. The shooting is the same, yes, but lining it up becomes gradually more difficult, in larger e.m.m.i zones, with smaller spaces to work.
I love how dread gives you missiles from the start and some of the upgrades from previous games have been merged into one or refined to make them more enjoyable 👍
Loved the convo on Farcry 6 and I agree alot with Ben, especially about the representation angle. It is of course familiar but has lots of stuff worth talking about. However, I'd disagree with Huber abit (from the HOTTAKE part) about the scale of Ubisoft games because I feel like it may come from the bubble of games journalists. Because for better or worst most people aren't sick of Ubisoft open world games based on nearly every new entry being the record selling game for that franchise.
While AC Valhalla might feel like a step too far for game reviewers who have to rush through every single release - including massive open world games - your average consumer is both not going to rush through it nor would they have paid most of the other ubisoft releases. I have alot of more casual gamer friends who play FarCry and Assassins Creed and I never hear complaints about the 'Ubisoft open world fatigue' because these guys play the same game for months and they don't even realise the same Company publishes both games. Its also about old fashioned perception of value. To many people Valhalla being £45 for about 80 hours content is a great deal. Not to mention in the UK and Ireland this game has been used for advertising for tourism and museums.
So I don't feel your average consumer links Valhalla to FarCry and gets tired of them. I think this extends outside of game journalist bubbles to hardcore gamer bubbles. About 5 of my more casual gamer friends also played Last of Us Part II, loved it, and were completely unaware of both spoilers and any controversy. Could be a UK thing where the online culture war doesn't crossover into Mainstream media as much as the US.
This isn't to say anything Huber critcised was wrong, or Ben and Brad, because it isn't. But I feel when you are in the games industry and gaming communities (like me and yourselves) your perception can become abit warped. Like most people I know just play FIFA and Call of Duty - and may get a few big releases a year like AC, FarCry or the Sony exclusive. Their awareness of the games industry and dynamics of companies is very slim.
Sorry for the long comment - side note I loved hearing you guys talk about music you hated, got an actually LOL out of me which is rare.
Still over the moon about how great Dread turned out. its ridiculously good.
Great work on the Dread review, Ben!
I've been playing and loving Metroid since the original on NES. I haven't finished Dread yet, but I'm on the same trajectory: it might just be better than Super.
imo it definitely is w out the rose tint. Only flaw it has for me was the similarity in taking out emmis
@@sanguinepenguin9576 I think it controls better, but the map and level design lags behind Super for me. I think it has some of the finest in the history of the medium so I don't judge Dread harshly on that account.
@@chaosmos24 for me personally, metroid dread felt like it guides me along w out telling me exactly what to do, there's a logical flow to the map. There was one point after acquiring an upgrade that I got lost, but like said in the Frame Trap if I just realized how intentionally it guides you along w out holding your hand my brain wouldnt have jumped to going over to every single place that my upgrade applies to. Super metroid I played first time recently and not only because of the map but in general it is like how the fuck could I have possibly known that, most infamous example being the glass tube. Infamous for a reason. Not saying you're wrong just explainin why I say that
People definitely need to check out F.I.S.T. and Tails of Iron
I'm completely obsessed with Dread at the moment, haven't been this absorbed with a game in a while!
PS: BEHEMOTH BEN! Got The Satanist on vinyl...rocks your socks off
Yeah MMO's will never be the same again. I remember playing Runescape back in the day in the 2000s and to get items you either had to craft them or literally find a player in the world thats willing to trade for it. There would be specific worlds and areas just for trading and thered be hundreds of people advertising what they were selling.
It was a magical time. The internet was early into its lifespan so metas didn't really exist or they would take ages for someone to put a guide out. Nowadays metas set in within days. Simpler and much more fun times back then.
Man Metroid Dread is so good :D great timing for this episode!
We need a Grunbomb guest appearance on Frame Trap or Mysterious Monsters ASAP
"I can't believe this is the same company that made Samus Returns and Lord of Shadows!" Seriously this is so true, as a series veteran and a super Metroid fanatic this game actually surpasses it in every way. ❤️
Just FYI FIST came out a month before Metroid Dread, its not because of Metroid Dread that FIST didnt have buzz its cause it had 0 marketing at launch (also was exclusive to ps5)
Plus F.I.S.T. is a Chinese made game, and lots of western gamers do not like anything that does with China.
@@lonewolf3314 this is bullshit. Eastward was the most marketed and likely best selling indie of September despite it being an absurdly overwhelming month for indies, also Chinese. Both FIST, eastward, and about 20 other indies between august and september have a metacritic over 80, so none stood out and dominated their month like most big break out indies do. Stop making up stupid shit to feed into hate narratives, those are problems, it wasnt for F.I.S.T or Eastward. Genshin Impact is Chinese and was a massive success here so kindly just stop
1:22:30 Correction(?): The song Huber hates is actually not "Brand New". It is simply an inferior cover of the original "Beggin" by The Four Seasons from 1967. The current circulating version is by an Italian band Maneskin, but the song was also prominent a dozen years ago with a Madcon cover (with hip-hop infusions) and was used by many dancers, B-boys, etc. And the music video even featured Halo 3.
Give the original (or Madcon) version a try and see if you prefer it to this current cover.
I envy myself from 3 days ago when I first started playing this game. I will not be so completely blown away by any game for a very very long time to come.
It's so amazing to scroll through all the comments here and see all the love and adulation for metroid dread. It's so refreshing to not have to read alot of childish fanboy hate about the new shiny thing for once. I'll be a first time switch buyer at xmas and gunna get the oled version so dread will be on my radar
i love all off the metroids but this stands on another lvl with its gameplay and boss fights that dont hold back!! still playing it and taking my time!
Gotta love when you want 0 sugar but accidentally ingest 46 fucking grams of it 😂
Regarding the quick resume Huber, you could do all those things before you play haha
You start out completely overwhelmed in Metroid Dread. You play like a complete amateur. After a few hours, you perform things much more smoothly, with room for improvement.
By the 3rd playthrough, where you're completing the game in 4 hours as opposed to your initial 10, you FEEL like Samus. You are *fully* in tune with the player character with how fast you execute EVERYTHING. You BECOME the badass bounty hunter. This is where Dread excels; you're immersed in the game because you manage to play as skilled as Samus actually *is* in universe.
Side Note: Burenia is fucking AMAZING. It's like being able to explore Kamino, and underneath this giant research station in the middle of the ocean is this giant network of coral caves as water trickles through the half broken facility. It's everything I loved about Wrecked Frigate Orpheon, but without being completely totally submerged the entire time. It legitimately feels like a place that has been worn down by the ever present force of the sea.
It’s incredible how many new people I see/hear are getting wrecked and loving it. It may be challenging to a new player but it’s never cheap or punishing. You die to an EMMI or boss and you start right back outside the door to try again immediately.
As the load screen says … no boss attack is unavoidable and learning is part of the fun. I see tweets from excited people saying they beat their first ever metroid boss and it’s amazing.
I listened to Ben's rant on social media especially Twitter pollution around the release of a game in the Hottake and I wake up and see this trending on Twitter "Nintendo's $60" concerning Metroid Dread price for how long the game is. I chuckled , because Ben was right.
kinda pisses me off how many people are pirating this because "oh well it's short" like fuck them
@@sanguinepenguin9576 parroting you mean?
@@Ayoul no, torrenting.
Top tier frame trap this week! So many great games to talk about
I'm glad Brad was there to support Ben's points on Dread. When Ben gushes for a game, it's easy to feel like he's just overselling everything. I've definitely seen him defend some pretty mediocre games in the past.
Love frame trap. Excellent discussions by the gents
Metroid Dread makes you understand how ridiculously powerful Samus is. It almost feels like DooM Guy being evolved into “The Slayer” lol. I’d love to play a remastered Metroid Prime, but Dread is now absolutely at least one of my top 2 Metroid games of all time.
Sucks hearing that Back 4 Blood is really made for 4 players and it’s harder to do solo or with bot companions. I understand it’s a co-op game first but most of my friends don’t play games and I played Left 4 Dead solo or with 2 players all the time as a lad and rarely had issues.
I really enjoy Far Cry 6. It might become my favorite in the series. I got my eyes on Metroid Dread next.
shoutout to Huber for calling out that god awful "beggin" song that is on every radio station. my lord it is so bad
Was searching for this comment lol
Give the original version (from 1967) a try. Beggin by The Four Seasons. I vastly prefer it at least
I wonder considering Dread was rebooted multiple times in the past 15 years if the reason why MercurySteam made such a starking jump from Samus Returns to Dread is the fact Sakamoto/Nintendo recorded all the mistakes/good ideas of the previous iterations of the game, thus creating some kind of rulebook to not messing up the game. Also budget has to be a big factor, most Nintendo games from 2016 and 2017 on 3DS and Wii U were made on pennies due to the flop of the latter system. When Dread started being developed probably sometime in late 2017 (Samus Returns was out in September) the Switch was already considered a very successful platform.
It's very common in any kind of production to do post mortems on what worked and what didn't. It's hard for me to believe a specific list of things were sent to MercurySteam who had proven themselves already on Returns, but there's no doubt there were back and forths between them and Nintendo and both studios' past experiences shaped this title throughout its production.
Lords of shadow series is amazing
I only played the first one, but I thought it was pretty decent. I'd like to go back to it someday to see if I still enjoy it.
1:22:45
Haha, Huber that's actually a cover of an old 60's song. Could be why it's in the classics station.
Watching Frame trap after watching the review is like reading the manga after watching the OVA
I'll take all kinds of coffee from plain black to Nitro Cold Brew to PSLs (for sweet tooth), but I NEED to have it either hot or cold. Once a hot coffee goes lukewarm I often must commit the sin of microwaving it in order to finish without wasting. An iced coffee that's gone room-temp is also pretty meh, but at least it's more fixable with ice or fridge
The only thing I can understand any complaint for Metroid Dread is there is no icon filter for the map. Even with the custom markers it’s very cluttered. Other than that it’s the perfect Metroid Game.
You can highlight a certain aspect on the.map like a locked door and highlight all of those Doors on the map.
@@frankhemstra634 wow did not know that for my entire play through.
Nice Behemoth shirt Ben!
Old podcast, but binging some Frame Trap and wanted to comment.
I love how Metroid Dread turned out. It's so good. It was my system seller, bought a Switch to play Dread and have 0 regrets. Voted for it in the Game Awards, favourite 2D Metroid game and looking forward to the future of Metroid with how well it's doing.
On the topic of 2:11:30 though....... Mini rant ahead:
That kinda hurts. I used to genuinely love Star Wars, looking forward to the new releases. Now though, anything new on The Clone Wars still excites me. Still play SWTOR as I love that continuity way more (despite the EU's many flaws) than whatever Disney has made with its continuity.
New Star Wars games I enjoy it in a bubble, but hold no excitement over what it holds for the larger world, as it feels so disconnected from the larger story (Fallen Order was fun, but there's no mystery or intrigue that I feel when I play the Jedi Knight games and how those stories got me invested in the EU).
Looking forward to SWTOR's new expansion coming. Won't be playing it day-1, or for a while, because I'll be playing Endwalker. But definitely looking to eventually coming back to SWTOR. It has ties to KOTOR2, my favourite Star Wars story ever, so it already has me sold.
The most Ben Moore thought is the consistency of cold brew coffee
3:15 Coffee: you can 'f**k up a basic cup of coffee' by simply using bad ingredients or cooking them wrong, just like with everything else. Their are 100's of different coffee bean varieties from across many countries and continents, their are 10's of different processing techniques (washed, pulped, natural etc), there are 1000's of coffee roasters, there are 100's of different pieces of equipment that can be used to roast the coffee, grind the coffee, heat the water, brew the coffee etc etc etc... not to mention there are endless recipes and doses... basically, unless care is put in at every stage you will get a bad coffee.
I'd say a good 70-80% of the coffee that people drink is 'bad' coffee (to my taste). When people who've been drinking instant coffee their whole life taste a well cared for and well made cup of coffee for the first time it blows their minds! Coffee can taste of peach, blackcurrent, cotton candy, cinnamon, treacle, blackberry, strawberry, pistachio, almond etc etc etc, without adding anything to the coffee beans apart from water... pretty incredible...
underrated comment I feel that passion
Ben, Brad, Huber and Metroid. Lets go!
The trinity of easy allies
Finally the 144p episode.
Quick Resume is amazing in combination with gamepass. I got a 3 year old kid and not that much time to play videogames anymore. I got Returnal for the PS5 but everytime i want to play it i look at the clock and i'm like "what if the run lasts longer than 1 hour?" making me play other games instead of Returnal. Backing Hubers point, yes the load times are crazy fast now but being able to switch within seconds is awesome, especially for rogue like games
He didn't take into account the incredibly long logo sequences each game has when booting it up. Quick resume brings you back right into the game most of the time. Ironically Ghost of Tsushima's loading into the map is extremely fast, but if it updated, you have to wait for all the logos for what feels like over a minute.
WOOOOOO FRAME TRAP DAY!
Listen, Ben, ***you don't even understand*** . This game has so many intentional, sanctioned sequence breaks that it's insane. The path that starts you on the first break is a little obscure so just look it up if you don't want to search for it, but trust me - do it. So much of the game is re-contextualized to support these breaks it will blow your mind. Something that seems like an innocuous superfluous addition when you're following the main path will completely enable this alternate way of playing the game. So much so that it genuinely feels like you're playing a remix of the game. And these breaks enable boss quick-kills to reward you. It's sick. DO IT AAAAAH
New World is so fun!
Only Brad played Lost Judgment then?
That song that annoys Huber lately is Beggin by Maneskin
I don't have a Switch so I guess it might be time for me to finally play Super Metroid
Ben litterally put my thoughts into words when it comes to Metroid lol that game just feels so good. I don’t want it to end lol
26:50 or a feeling of ..... Dread?
Without mentioning whether the hyped features are underused or overhyped, the dualsense is easily the best controller playstation has ever made, the dualshock 4 feels like a happy meal toy by comparison. Reminds me a lot of the 360 controller which for me was the GOAT until the dualsense.
Metroid Dread - 8hrs?! well if your a star player may be ;). I've spent way longer on it already, been searching out all the tanks and missiles etc. Loving every minute of it. It's a great great game. I have got quite a ways in I feel, but man it still feels like I got a ways to go.
Ben, Huber, Brad aka The Boys (tm)
Wonder if this has swayed Huber to play dread on the switch and not emulate it
If he does well what happened to creaters intent? They intended for u to play this on the switch. I love Huber but man is kinda of a hypocrite
@@marianocastro7599 im sure the devs would love if the game could be played at 4k with a more consistent fps the switch is just to weak if you have a switch and payed for a copy of dread i dont see a problem with emulating also when huber brings up creators intent he usually talks about game difficulty so i dont see why hes an hypocrite.
@@NM-sb9co well what dev wouldn't want their game to run or look the best it can, it almost sounds like people want it to run on a more powerful system. But it's not. It's on switch. Cause it's a Nintendo property. My problem with the emulating is because of what kotaku have been pushing: to pirate the game completely. Huber wouldn't do it ( I think I'm not sure ) but he holds some responsibility when he say " there has to be a way to play it out of the switch". Let's be honest NOT every one who emulates OWNS the game. You SHOULD OWN IT. I'm pretty sure ha has said that about playing games and not just difficulty. Which video is it? I wouldn't be able to remember. There so many and I don't have the time. When I find it agian I'll let u know.
@@marianocastro7599 oh 100% i dont think you sould emulate a game if you dont own it i just dont see huber doing somthing like that.
@@NM-sb9co well yeah but not everyone is honest about it or knows that. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't. BTW thank you for the calm discussion.
New World sounds like Eve Online mixed with PlanetSide 2. Toxicity included.
Nobody see the joke on the SAME company making Metroid and Castlevania?
Mercury Steam going from making pretty average Castlevania games to making one of the best Metroid games is crazy.
Sure the timeliness and budget were much different.
The first lords of shadow wasn't half bad but they nailed this for sure
They needed that nintendo magic dust to go with the game to be so well done like it is, something konami does not have for a long time now.
Is Huber slowly turning into Punished Huber?
dread is great yes
Hopefully as more games from PlayStation Studios are released and developers become more familiar with the Dualsense, there will be more games that can better utilize its capabilities.
I think part of the changes compared to Samus Return have to do with Nintendo being more involved in this game
Where do you get that info?
@@finallyjeremy8217 The credits
@@Z50nemesis what about the credits?
@@finallyjeremy8217 The credits show more people from nintendo involved in the development
Loved the episode. More mmo talk lol.
Great conversations! I feel like Huber feel more confident to express his opinions more lately, I'm all for it!
Something I however disagree with is that the industry are too harsh on games, I feel the opposite. When it comes to at least the AAA industry, games are just repeating themselves with refinements to story, voice acting and tech. While game mechanics and gameplay is lagging behind. Sure there are some exceptions, but for the most part we play the same things over and over for decades. And that should be a valid criticism to games, a UBI title for an example shouldn't get a higher score than a 6 unless they're doing something that feels a bit more fresh. Because they have repeated their formula over multiple franchises since Far Cry 3. How can that be acceptable? I get the warm blanket conversation, but only for something that doesn't happen too often and something is making a tribute to that game, like tormented souls does for RE Remake. But making a franchise where even they have a structure with their villains in the far cry series, then it's just straight out lazy and poor. Vaas described it well in far cry 3 with, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."
I just want to remind my fellow players that Metroid Dread isn't a "MetroidVania" game. It's just a Metroid game. It isn't copying the genre. It started it.
You guys should listen to Captain Beefheart
I recently went back to play The Evil Within.... after an hour I had to shut it off. I loved the game when it came out, but it doesn't hold up in 2021.
It saddens me.
Dread = GOTY!
Metroid Dread is just amazing,. So tight. I want Prime 4 and basically every other Metroid on my Switch now. Preferably not on a ridiculous online service. We'll see I guess. If Dread does well maybe Nintendo will re-release the earlier games...
No metroid games on n64 eitherway
no shoutout to persona 5 coffee facts??
People hating on anything is so normal now X_X I almost hate social media and comments sometimes. I 100 % agree with Huber
On the topic of the Begging begging song Huber was talking about it is Beggin' by Maneskin.
They are an Italian Rock Group who recently won Eurovision with their original song Zitto E Buoni th-cam.com/video/QN1odfjtMoo/w-d-xo.html
Beggin is actually a cover of A Four Seasons song from the 60's which may explain its play on a classic rock station slightly. th-cam.com/video/lJyWoD38E_s/w-d-xo.html
I cant fault Huber, while I actually do like Maneskin and the cover it is being extremely overplayed and that kills a lot of songs real early. Props to Frankie Valli and the Boys though they are likely seeing some nice royalties of that cover I'm sure.
Love and Respect.
I loved Metroid Dread! I loved the Chozo enemies - it suddenly feels like you're dropped into a Smash Brothers match in the middle of the game??
The Boyz
coffee?
Ben and Huber are really taking too much stock into all the gaming "hate" and stuff on social media like in Huber's example comparing Halo Infinite to CS 1.6, and saying the gaming industry is toxic. 99% of that stuff is just trolling and memes lol, they need to have Brad's attitude on things like that. During that whole conversion where Huber and Ben were getting really passionate and excited, Brad said like 2 sentences, which basically means he doesnt give a shit about that kind of stuff, which is the correct attitude to have. Just chill out, ignore the stuff you dont want to see, and enjoy what you want to enjoy, simple as that.
It's also pretty clear that if you look around, any kind of popular thing can be toxic. It's not like gaming is the exception and everywhere else is sunshine and rainbows. Twitter's algorithm just rewards hot takes and often times negativity. It can easily make something look way worse than it actually is.
Mercury Steam got a lot of help from Nintendo