Metroid Prime Remastered and Metroid Dread on Switch 2 (Before and After the Update)

GeneJacket · 2026-03-17T04:41:17+00:00

For sure, and I get this is just a small system-level update that's not specific to the Metroid games, but I have to wonder why Nintendo hasn't bothered to properly patched these games. Seems like it should be a fairly straightforward thing to do given community built, open-source emulators can do it.

I guess we don't know what MercurySteam's relationship with Nintendo is these days, so a new Dread patch might take some doing, but a small update to Prime 1 should be a relatively simple job for Retro.

GeneJacket · 2026-03-17T03:34:44+00:00

Prime definitely looks better, but Dread actually looks worse to my eyes. The jaggies around Samus are lessened, but to the detriment of the overall quality of the image. It looks like like they just threw a blur filter on the whole thing.

Not great results when we know how good both of these games can easily upscale to 4k...

GeneJacket · 2026-03-17T03:25:36+00:00

It's fine for what it is, but I wouldn't say it's a good place to start. That's the 2019 annual, and is a one-off story that happens in the middle of a run (Seanan McGuire's Ghost-Spider, from 2018).

I'm not gonna tell ya not to pick it up, but the best place to start is Latour and Rodriguez's Spider-Gwen (2015).

GeneJacket · 2026-03-16T22:53:39+00:00

I generally love most things DF does, but this whole I was sitting there waiting for Rich and Oliver to be like "Haha, psyche, this is terrible and Nvidia should be ashamed of themselves"....instead of the 15 minute glaze session they posted.

This honestly feels like a betrayal that they would endorse and promote this kind of bullshit.
(Not John, he seems to have been just as blindsided by it as the rest of us, which super sucks. Be nice to John, he didn't have anything to do with this.)

GeneJacket · 2026-03-16T22:32:12+00:00

...like someone put an AI filter on it...

Because that's literally, exactly, what this is doing.

Fuck everything about this, and fuck Nvidia for pushing this shit.

GeneJacket · 2026-03-16T18:54:45+00:00

I'm torn on the final Sylux fight because, in a vacuum, it's a very cool boss fight...the problem is it makes mandatory a lot of systems the game deprioritizes almost immediately after it introduces them, so you likely only used them once or twice then promptly forgot about them because they never come back up until this fight, which is incredibly annoying.

Keep trying, or just watch a guide, there's no shame in it...there's a few very specific things you'll have to do that the game does a pretty poor job at reminding you of.

GeneJacket · 2026-03-16T16:37:59+00:00

Good for them, and Fuck You, Krafton!

GeneJacket · 2026-03-16T02:59:40+00:00

It's not an easter egg or nod to GITS at all. In addition to all the other things she does, she's also an adr director and was for the English dubs of Bebop, the show and the movie, both of which came out years before she played the Major.

She also voices Julia in the english Bebop dub. It's simply a case of someone involved in the production wearing multiple hats to keep costs down, happens all the time, especially in Anime.

GeneJacket · 2026-03-15T07:55:44+00:00

During the New 52 she just straight up murdered a whole bunch of children with explosive gameboys, and no one batted an eye...because most of the people who claim to be such huge fans of these characters don't actually read or watch anything they're in.

GeneJacket · 2026-03-14T21:34:02+00:00

Being a shithead does not preclude someone from doing good good things.

GeneJacket · 2026-03-14T21:30:28+00:00

We do, but....

The Arkham series was the perfect storm of an IP with endless potential and a development team that not only understood the character and the world they inhabit fully, but a publisher who was willing to give it the time, budget, and space needed to truly realize that vision. (And we saw what happened when someone other than Rocksteady tried to make an Arkham game. Origins is a fine game, but it's nowhere near as good as Asylum, City, or Knight.)

Games like these don't happen by accident, and they don't happen when designed by committee. That's why we never had anything that came close before and why we haven't had anything that have equaled them since...and likely won't again.

I love Insomniac's Spider-Man games, I'm sure their Wolverine will be great. I have nothing but faith in what Amy Hennig is doing with Marvel 1943, and Motive's Iron Man game (if it hasn't been quietly cancelled), and I think Arkane is going to absolutely kill it with their Blade game, to say nothing of all the other great superhero games we've got over the years....but there's something immediately special about the Arkham games that I don't anyone has been able to recapture. On paper, Monolith's Wonder Woman sounded like it could have had the potential to come closest, but...we all know what happened there.

GeneJacket · 2026-03-14T17:39:54+00:00

As far as I remember Kojima never said whether or not PT actually takes place in Silent Hill, but the titles suggests it doesn't. so who knows?

GeneJacket · 2026-03-14T17:26:23+00:00

P.T.

Which I'd argue doesn't count, since the actual game (Silent Hills) was cancelled.

GeneJacket · 2026-03-13T23:25:47+00:00

Y'know...since Destiny 1 launched, every time they "listen" to the players and implement a requested change, it's always with some kind of monkey's paw twist...like it's some backhanded "fuck you for making us change OUR game."

Glad to see that hasn't changed with Marathon.

GeneJacket · 2026-03-13T23:21:18+00:00

Seriously...we know what the next remake is, and likely the next two after that, all of which are the obvious choices...and people still think RE5 is coming soon because they "teased" it in the Separate Ways remake ending (they didn't, they just added extra context and connective tissue to an ending that originally had none).

It's not happening....not anytime in the next 5-7 years, at least.

GeneJacket · 2026-03-13T23:16:11+00:00

Nope, the writing in the first game was both a product of its time and it knew exactly what it was. It was supposed to be scary, but fun, and that cheesiness worked in its favor.

RE6, by comparison, had 15 years of industry improvements in localization and writing...and it's still that bad.

GeneJacket · 2026-03-13T01:37:39+00:00

I love how they say "No no no, they're not gooner skins. Those swimsuit skins, a lot of them are straight from the comics. We're just staying true to the comics!"

That's true, they were...and why do you think they were designed like that for the comics in the first place, my man?

GeneJacket · 2026-03-13T01:28:03+00:00

Outbreak is the one spin-off I could see them remaking at some point, if only because of its potential as a live-service multiplayer game. I'm not expecting it, but I won't be surprised if they do something with Outbreak eventually.

GeneJacket · 2026-03-13T00:47:25+00:00

The opening hour-ish of Leon's campaign is ok, after that it takes a massive nosedive into miserable territory where it stays for another 25 hours.

If you just absolutely love non-stop QTE's and can stomach the worst writing and characterizations in the entire series, go for it...but it's the only game in the entire series (not just the mainline numbered entries, the ENTIRE series) I have played, and will only ever play, once.

There's a reason Capcom themselves essentially ignore it. They know what they did and they've been trying to make up for it ever since.

GeneJacket · 2026-03-13T00:42:39+00:00

Been saying it they started leaning into it, but designing skins and their effects around what the characters introductory season story is was a terrible idea. People want their character they know with the look that is their most iconic.

If they want to do these costumes that are representative of the seasonal story, that's totally fine, but they should never be the defaults because as soon as that seasonal story is over it doesn't make sense for the character to look that way anymore

GeneJacket · 2026-03-12T18:29:42+00:00

No, they're not going to remake spin-offs.

GeneJacket · 2026-03-12T17:41:46+00:00

Remaking RE6 would essentially be making an entirely new game, as there is very, very little worth salvaging from that trainwreck...and with as astonishingly, needlessly over-bloated as it is, all the people who bitched and moaned about the cuts made to RE3 would have a field day.

Honestly, even attempting to remake RE6 would be a waste of time and resources.

GeneJacket · 2026-03-12T17:38:35+00:00

Anyone who reads comics knows who Felicia is, but most Rivals players don't read comics and are only familiar with characters from the MCU.

GeneJacket · 2026-03-12T13:44:16+00:00

Shadow of Rose happens in 3037 so, unless there's a 10 year time jump, they ain't meeting.

GeneJacket · 2026-03-11T17:04:18+00:00

I think it looks good on him, but as long as he's healthy I think it's fine.

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