Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Beta Unused Content & History | Metroid Cut Content

With the coming of the Wii, Retro Studios returned to complete the Metroid Prime trilogy. However they faced many challenges with its development along with a lot cut ideas. Today on Cut Content we explore the History and Beta Unused Content of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
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Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction to Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Beta Unused Content & History
1:12 - Origin of Metroid Prime 3
2:58 - Cut Open World Concept of Metroid Prime 3
3:54 - Beta Dark Samus Forms from Metroid Prime 3
5:03 - Samus's Cut Form from Metroid Prime 3
7:11 - Cut Galactic Federation Concepts from Metroid Prime 3
8:16 - Cut Enemies of Metroid Prime 3
10:24 - Cut Bosses of Metroid Prime 3
13:06 - Beta Opening of Metroid Prime 3
13:29 - Cut Abilities from Metroid Prime 3
14:35 - Cut Environments of Metroid Prime 3
16:31 - Continued Development of Metroid Prime 3
18:58 - Marketing of Metroid Prime 3
20:40 - The Future of the Metroid Prime series
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[@TheObsessiveGamer]

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[@Tazerboy_10]

😀👍️

[@novustalks7525]

It's pronounced phase not "faz aye"

[@realsalu634]

It would be funny that the only reason why the "Skin Textures" were scrapped was because they were too grotesque, with Ocarina of Time having an whole dungeon with it

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

With Zelda, it was still blocky and cartoony textures so not too gross. Here, these were kinda realistic lol

[@nillynush4899]

Retro's supreme concept art could inspire dozens of Metroid games. The Chozo concepts are very creative and detailed.

[@PrimeStarStudios]

I wish we would played the bounty missions in Metroid Prime 3. It would have added more variety and worldbuilding into the mix. :)

[@Xanegoh]

We can hope that 4 will do this.

[@UndertakerU2ber]

1:29 Here’s an example of Iwata’s foresight as a leader. As much as people want to criticize some of the decisions he made as an executive, he did show that he had a very good understanding of the business of game development and that he was able to take his experience as a game programmer and merge it with his business decisions. Why did he tell them to make Metroid Prime 3 over making a Donkey Kong reboot? It’s because when people drop work on a series to pickup something knew, it’s a lot harder to pick it back up again especially if it has been years since working on it. If Retro Studios made the Donkey Kong reboot after Metroid Prime 2, you’d probably see many of the former devs that had a hand in making the Prime series depart from the company as the studio makes Donkey Kong reboot games. And then what happens if the people that departed were your lead writers, directors, artists, etc? Tbh, you could probably replace a programmer unless your team relied on coding wizardry (not sure how sophisticated Metroid Prime’s code was), but losing a writer or a director is like losing the heart and soul of the series. There’s no guarantee a new guy stepping in would be able to authentically make a Metroid Prime 3 that feels like a genuine continuation after 2, and you could have some hack Call of Duty writer step in and write Metroid Prime 3 as if it were a clone of Halo 3. Also, the Wii needed system sellers and hardcore titles to tell consumers “Hey! Our system isn’t just for party games! Look at Metroid Prime 3 with its guns and stuff!”, so that’s probably another consideration that Iwata had in mind.

[@movieman29k]

I really hope, that one of the reasons nintendo scrapped Prine 4, was not only due to retro's past success, but also because some one had kept all of retro's past scrapped content safe on a shelf, and when Nintendo asked retro to take over they were approved to use a lot of old ideas that never saw the light of day during the trilogy.

[@Mr.Foxhat]

I genuinely believe Nintendo wanted Metroid Prime to be their answer to Halo, even if they played nothing alike.

[@novustalks7525]

It's so cool that they reused the mech idea in federation force. Wonder if they'll appear again in prime 4

[@17Haru17]

This BTS content is cool, but it's clear the best ideas made it into the resulting game. I don't feel that I lost out on anything playing a 3D metroidvania with a somber space opera story.

[@NickVS]

those dark samus desighn varients are dope, hope they'll use somthing like that in the future, I like my metroid to with a good dolop of horror.

[@ShadowEl]

Thank you for saying "Japanese Nintendo studios" and "Nintendo EAD" instead of the factually inaccurate "Nintendo of Japan" I hear so often on KZbin.

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Haha yeah. There is no NoJ afterall only Nintendo Co. Ltd

[@SuperTrainStationH]

Oddly enough NCL does describe themselves as "Nintendo of Japan" in copyright takedown notices on KZbin, which I actually found so odd that I thought it was proof that the takedown was a hoax submitted by an imposter pretending to be Nintendo.

[@ZeldaMaster285]

There's so many things that nintendo should have let Retro do. I would have loved the side quests where we picked up bounties.

[@suroguner]

so while Niontendo understood bounty hunter differently, I guess you could say Samus' motivations are different from that of the typical bounter hunter.

[@DropkickNation]

Yay. I have been looking forward to this for a very long time.

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Glad to finally deliver it at that! Hope you enjoy it!

[@BradyThorley]

Now we know the information on Metroid Prime 3’s cut content and that. All we need to do is now is wait for Metroid Prime 4 to come out and find out what took so long to make the game, and what made it restart the development of the game.

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

That's where the real question lies. Hope the truth comes out on that lol all we got are rumours for now

[@BlueAmpharos]

18:25 I can't believe you didn't mention how the space pirates designs look similar to the Sangheili, or the Covenant Elites in Halo, with the mandible-like lower jaw segments.

[@linktotq7431]

The gun on the mech suit is the same as syluxs arm cannon.

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

You know that actually makes sense considering Sylux history with the Galactic Federation

[@nevercanyoucant]

I love that galactic federation clunker that tries to copy Samus' suit... that would make for a more interesting enemy or antagonism to Samus imho...

[@NickVS]

I mean isn't that what the fed troopers where in federation force, they just made it in chibi style and less awsome?Man the thing that suck is a 4 player metroid like game would be awsome, It could work like dark souls and elden ring, I reject that samus always need to be alone.

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Yeah imagine fighting these suits that can replicate much if Samus' abilities. I guess it be like Hunters, but even closer

[@NickVS]

They should bring back that metroid tactics game

[@Xgp_15A2]

Its a good thing they did not keep the cinematic with kraid without a boss fight because it would have made alot of people mad lol

[@NickVS]

seems like that had all these amazing consepts then they therw theme out to be safe, I want them to take a risk with prime 4 and make somthing that can bring the series closer to the level of zeld, Metroid can be so much more,.

[@Tazerboy_10]

Nicely done!

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Thanks!

[@rubemartur8239]

4:48 i would love to see, if the plot somehow left DS alive to metroid prime 4

[@TheChazzyC]

This game needs the massive remaster treatment more than anything. I can’t revisit this game because the textures and art direction is so muddy. Alot of the environments suffer because of the Wii’s hardware. If they updated this as much as they did Prime 1, it would be insane. Straight up a different experience entirely

[@17Haru17]

It is the best-looking of the Prime trilogy though. Emulation at a higher resolution would probably help to clearly display the great environmental art and geometry they created.

[@eltipobigotudo2162]

This is AWESOME. I knew almost none of this!

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@firestarex3544]

3:40 How does Samus pay the *bills* then Nintendo? 6:50 PS: You can still see this fourth phase of corruption in the corrupted game-over before it switches to Dark Samus. I always assumed the switch to Dark Samus was to show that she was in control, rather than Samus becoming a clone of her. 12:55 PPS: Based on the models of Meta Ridley and Omega Ridley, it's possible they were swapped for each other at some point in development, as Meta Ridley's blueish armor fits more with Phazon corruption than the more silver-armored Omega Ridley.

[@oscarvaldes5621]

Been waiting for this awesome vid love the Metroid content

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Glad you enjoyed it! I got another Metroid video planned soon, so stay tuned!

[@DarkBlade6690]

Love these videos man ya done got you a new subscriber 😎

[@awakenedcrowl]

Remember me to watch this video when MP3 Remastered came out and I can watch it without being spoiled

[@novustalks7525]

They're not remastering 2 and 3

[@awakenedcrowl]

@@novustalks7525 how do u know?

[@novustalks7525]

@@awakenedcrowl because that's what the initial rumours said. It's just 1 because prime 1 was used as a reference for the new devs at retro to understand how metroid gameplay works

[@awakenedcrowl]

@@novustalks7525 I see. Doesn't necessarily deconfirm a Remaster for 2 and 3 for me, even if the rumors are actually precisely correct (cuz, u know, if Nintendo smells money they COULD always reconsider) but thanks for explaining.

[@NickVS]

Phaaze? I pronounced it Faze

[@infinityzer054]

Strange that she would become dark samus despite not being part metroid yet

[@NickVS]

Corruption is the only game that really used the motrion controlls for the better, I mean it really was the first VR game just on flat screen, I wonder when nintendo will give VR a try again.

[@novustalks7525]

It's not VR tho

[@darklordyianni4463]

Awesome content as always.

[@LegoSonic-p2f]

"The game has too many functions for the amount of buttons". Sooooo, does that mean that they scrapped the ability to swap beams?

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Yeah seems to be the case since beams stack in this game

[@Vandelorian]

"Open World games are too much for the Wii" Xenoblade Chronicles: "Am I a joke to you?" (I know its a semi-open world, just making fun)

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

to be fair, Xenoblade was also a game that came out quite late in the Wii's lifecycle when devs better understood the hardware by then too.

[@Chainsawjoe]

that jungle planet looks like the one in 4

[@Metroid24abd]

Where is prime remastered ? Good video as Always

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Well Prime Remastered was announced after I had already recorded this video lol I do plan to do a sort of compilation video of the whole series eventually, so I might add in Prime Remastered to that as well.

[@UnTalCoto]

Damm why did KZbin did not notified me

[@CharlesFerraro]

Open world and bounty hunting is E X A C T L Y where I want this franchise to go.

[@NickVS]

Prime should go full on Rated M it just fits the series so much better.

[@adambrumovsky3982]

Agree

[@Chainsawjoe]

since they saved Bayonetta they are clearly regretting their "family Friendly" image, Metroid is definatly the go too for an M game

[@enriquepinero707]

I know a feature I could do without and that's NSO as it stands. I mean if Nintendo makes backwards compatibility a standard moving forward; why would anyone subscribe ? Even without the option to buy and own rhe games as it is; it still hard to convince me of its worth, unless they add current games to try; in the same way as other subscriptions, and offer discounts on the games in the monthly rotation of games.

[@theshadowdirector]

My understanding is that in Japan, bounty Hunter is more akin to a mercenary.

[@macuser7048]

Damn the Wii

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Still, it was one of the few games that made good use of the motion controls

[@17Haru17]

Damn, the Wii had so many good games.

[@eltipobigotudo2162]

Wtf is 19:17 hahaha

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Marketing campaign for MP2 :P I cover it in my Metroid Prime 2 video

[@napoleonfeanor]

Still no news on 4.

[@sodaft1]

"However" count: 9 (?)

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

However, this count may be underestimating that number :P

[@sodaft1]

@@TheObsessiveGamer probably xD I was at work, idk if I missed one, great video dude, keep it up

[@Rith9789]

The Wii held this game back.

[@SuperGo4]

Yoo, it finaly released

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Hope you enjoyed it! :D

[@jerrybot7321]

Meta Ridley Scott Mecha Ridley

[@BeeWaifu]

Did you really just call 'Phaaze' 'Fazey'?

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

yes. It's been since 2010 I last touched the game :P

[@kidkruschev]

Convinced you didn’t play Prime 3 because of the way you’re pronouncing “Phaaze” when it’s said in game multiple times Gandrayda is also pronounced wrong in your video. The “ay” in her name needs to be pronounced like the normal pronunciation of the letter “a”. Her name is also said multiple times throughout the game.

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

I literally played it in 2007. I can't remember how they pronounced it after all these years lol

[@andyq524]

I disagree that it didn't have a bad game. I freaking hated 2. 🤣🤣🤣

[@markd.s.8625]

you're talking a bit out of your aris to be truthful a couple of concept arts youre pulling theough are just that, concepts which artists work on trying to work out what the team wants things to look like

[@seanscudder5428]

i hope they use this unsed stuff for metroid prime 4 and have it take place after dread

[@mathewhaight]

I love your videos but your pronunciations have been off since at least the first Metroid video. Most of them are pretty minor, but the repetition in this one is starting to get to me. Right now the one that keeps bothering me in this video is your pronunciation of Phaaze. Despite its spelling, you would pronounce it the same as if it only had one "a".

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

Okay but how do you then pronounce Phaaze? Assumed the two a's meant to hold the A for longer? But I agree one my Metroid Prime 1 mispronounciation

[@Samevi]

@@TheObsessiveGamer It's just pronounced like "Phase," but with emphasis on the "eh" sound and Z instead of S.

[@NickVS]

@@TheObsessiveGamer It would just be a streched vowl like in japenese フア--ぜ

[@kidkruschev]

@@TheObsessiveGamer they say the name “Phaaze” several times in Prime 3 through dialogue. It’s pronounced just like “Phazon” without the “on”

[@Ridley1911]

Open world garbage in metroid? im so glad it didn't make it to the final game. Even so, prime 3 is the weakest game in the trilogy by a landslide, no isolation, subpar bosses, forgettable soundtrack save for a few tracks, etc... I was disappointed.

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

>Ridley comments >Ridley dislikes Prime 3 most >Prime 3 being the only one in the trilogy that had Ridley beaten up twice I see.... I kid I kid lol fair opinion and I do feel some of your sentiments. I go back and forth between which I like better between Prime 2 an 3. I like all 3 very solidly regardless

[@Ridley1911]

Unfunny Roleplayer joke huh. I dislike prime 3 because it deviated far too much from the metroid formula and tried to be halo/cod at points.@@TheObsessiveGamer

[@TheObsessiveGamer]

@@Ridley1911 it was a joke lol Anyways that's all fair points