It's my second favorite series. My favorite is Corruption and my least fav is Hunters.

I never fell in love with the Metroid franchise.  It's probably because the Prime Series was way too frightening for me.  I can never get use to first-person shooters because I always need to know what's behind me.  So, mix in a first-person view with dark areas and freaky noises, and I can barely last ten minutes without soiling my pants.  The other 2D games in the franchise were okay, but they weren't anything to shout about...

I must admit, though, Corruption looks amazing.  However, I don't think I could handle it

For some reason that's why I love Prime. Normally I would wet my pants.

Metroid is a great series and one of my favorites.

My personal favorite one is Super Metroid followed by Metroid Prime. If I was to pick a least favorite it would be Metroid Prime Hunters.

Metroid is my 'Zelda'.  Where everyone is always waiting for the new Zelda, I'm always wanting a new Metroid....preferrably of the classic/SNES-style type, like Prime 1 had tried to be(and Fusion and Zero Mission to some degree).

The side stuff, I'm not into so much, and it bothers me that the first-person perspective has kind of tipped people's idea of what Metroid is into more of the FPS-only region.  *shrug*

But even though I like it 'so much', I can't stand to play it too often just because I tend to take the same route, or things end up going the same way, and I wear it out too much.

I would say I became a Metroid fan a while after Metroid Prime was released. During this time, I really didn't know what to think of the series. The only exposure I had with the Metroid prior to Prime was with what the Super Smash Bros. games provided. Even when I played MP for the first time, it took me a while to just get used to the series' pacing and style. I'm just not a huge sci-fi fan of any kind, to be honest, and shooters aren't exactly my favorite gaming genre. After a while, I began to appreciate the strengths of the series. I'm not going to say that Metroid is my favorite gaming series. In fact, I don't think it's close to the top of my list. That being said, I own four games in the series now (five, if you count the unlockable Metroid game on Prime), and I've become fond of Samus' adventures.

I dunno how you guys could like that game. I dunno what is, the fact I could never beat the one for the snes as a kid, or the fact that I don't like fps's all too much on console, I dunno...but, I can't seem to like the Metroid series.

I've tried to like it too, I even bought Prime, gave the echoes demo a try, and even bough hunters...after that I decided I'm never going to like it so there's no point in trying. What I think I don't like is first, the whole "scanning" thing, it's annoying. Then there are those times when you don't know where the hell to go. You're just stranded in some odd place in the map and it's liek...wuddufu?

Eh, I really don't know what it is, I just don't like the game too much. To tell the truth, I didn't even like TP that much either, dunno...lots of nintendo games these days are rather...meh.

I really like not knowing where to go.  In fact, it kills me that all recent Metroid games practically tell you outright EXACTLY where to go.  Fusion saved itself by having a few areas where the area you were supposed to go to was blocked off, and you somewhat have to use your own instincts to find an alternate route.  Even the original Metroid remake, "Metroid Zero Mission" on GBA....it not only brought in a map system(which was good), they added stupid statues that told you EXACTLY where to go, which killed any real sense of exploration, cornering it into the idea of finding the different missile/ammunition/health additions, instead of making it a challenge to know where you were and what to do.

I think that's why the first three games will always be some of my favorites.  Prime 1 and 3 are up there, sure, but I just love the fact that in the originals, you were plopped down on the planet with ONE mission, which ended up branching into several smaller, previously 'unknown' missions that you had to complete in order to bring you closer to that original mission.  I just really like that: "This is your mission; get down there, get it done, then get out", but in the process you end up doing so many different things, and without words, you even get a sense of a story attached to the environments and things(well, except for the original, which sometimes was a confusing mess of similar rooms, but it helped adding to the sense of getting lost).

I also liked the 'claustrophobic' sense that only Metroid II seems to deliver.  There was no map, and there was just always this sense of going DEEPER into an area you knew nothing about.  And once you finished that area, the acid/lava would sink, and you'd have to descend even further, feeling more and more away from home.  It was dark, it was confusing, and it would just JUMP a mutated Metroid at you out of nowhere, sometimes when you were low on health or missiles, and you'd just have to struggle to survive.  Personally, I think the Metroid series, particularly Super Metroid, almost kind of lent itself to creating the survival horror in a small way.