Metroid is a first person shooter, it's a first party game
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Should Nintendo make its own first-person shooter for the Wii U?
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Already been discussed more than once. Metroid controls like a first person shooter but shares little else in common with the genre. It's an action/adventure game first, a platforming game second, arguably a puzzle game third, and a shooter fourth. If the game was exactly the same as it is now but third person nobody would've called it a TPS, they'd call it an action adventure. Just like if it were first person with melee controls... little else about how you play the game and how you experience it would be different. It's like saying Mega Man is a third person shooter or Fallout 3 is a first person shooter.[QUOTE="famicommander"][QUOTE="Jaysonguy"]
Metroid is a first person shooter, it's a first party game
They answered you many years ago, you just found out now
Jaysonguy
Mega Man is (depending what game you're playing) a 2D action adventure or a 3D action adventure, Fallout 3 is a FPS RPG
The idea that Metroid isn't a FPS is wrong, you're in a FPS and you do things that all other FPS games make you do.
If the game was in third person it would be a third person action adventure since that's the genre of games like that, FPS is what we call games like the last 3 (not that awful side scrolling one) Metroid games.
Your reply is completely inconsistent. The perspective does not determine the genre. If a game goes from third person/action adventure to first person then it is obviously a first person action/adventure game. Now, let's take a game like Halo. I think we'd all agree that it's a first person shooter. If you changed the perspective to third person, shooting would still be the core mechanic. The genre hasn't changed, just the perspective, so it's a third person shooter. Saying Metroid Prime is a first person shooter because you're in first person and you shoot things is absolutely no different than saying Metroid Fusion is a third person shooter because it's a third person perspective and you shoot things. Fusion is still obviously an action/adventure game, as perspective doesn't determine genre. Gunstar Heroes is a game which shares the same perspective as Metroid Fusion (2D, third person, sidescrolling) but it obviously isn't the same type of game. Here's shot of God of War. It's a 3D game, and I see some platforms:
3D+platforms=3D platformer, right? So God of War is the same genre as Mario Galaxy? See how that mentality doesn't work? When you are categorizing a game by genre the first step is to identify the core mechanic of the game. The one aspect of the game that sets it apart from other games. In Metroid, it's definitely the exploration. I don't think that's arguable whether you're talking Metroid Fusion, Metroid Prime, or Super Metroid. Exploration is a core mechanic of the action/adventure genre. Games like Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, and Deus Ex are clearly more similar to games like Fable, Elder Scrolls, and Witcher than they are games like Duke Nukem, Halo, or Call of Duty. And Metroid Prime shares more in common with games like Castlevania than Killzone. 
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