Visualante
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impressed.
genuinely
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New Metroid Prime Corruption screens (retro am gods)
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_Alkaline_
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jjasper said:
Really? Argh so i've been wrong all this time.
_Alkaline_
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jjasper said:
Oh I'm an idiot. Plus i just realised that there's heaps of Metroids in Prime, and if it took place after 2 then there should only be 1 Metroid (the hatchling). Bah.
MaddenNFL64
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Elite Beat Pirates.
_Alkaline_
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MaddenNFL64 said:
Elite Beat Pirates.
haha nice :lol
_Alkaline_
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Gattsu25 said:
The mech on the right is a hunter who is beating up the enemy on the left At least that's what I can see.
Magicpaint
Member
I'm not too hot on the screens, strangely... I'm just tired of seeing the same environments with every new batch of shots. I'm worried about this game's overall art direction and atmosphere.
MaddenNFL64
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Gattsu25 said:
Yeah, seems like a mech beating down some Alien Scum
norinrad21
Banned
I got it on pre-order. I can't f**king wait
_Alkaline_
Member
Magicpaint said:I'm not too hot on the screens, strangely... I'm just tired of seeing the same environments with every new batch of shots. I'm worried about this game's overall art direction and atmosphere.
That alone is signiicant - a desolate, orginal environment. Great stuff.
90% of these shots come from the first areas of the game. We've already seen a snowy ruins world, as well as a desert/lava world that looks very original. Nothing to worry about.
I like that shot, but I'm hoping the background looks better in motion. Prime 2 used a lot of low resolution, flat bitmapped skyboxes in similar open areas and it looked terrible. Prime 1 was completely land locked so you never really had the chance to look out over the skybox.Alkaliine said:
That alone is signiicant - a desolate, orginal environment. Great stuff.
90% of these shots come from the first areas of the game. We've already seen a snowy ruins world, as well as a desert/lava world that looks very original. Nothing to worry about.
It doesn't look too bad in that shot, but we'll see how it feels while playing.
_Alkaline_
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dark10x said:
That's one thing that should be improved by the Wii's extra power. Whereas Echoes had painiting like backgrounds that didn't look so hot, with Wii they should be actual backgrounds and as a result much more appealing.
In that shot, at least, they are clearly using a flat, textured skybox (just like Prime 2). A "painting", if you will.Alkaliine said:
It's not really a question of power, however. It's about design. A great example of how to handle such things can be found in Halo (1 and 2). Remember that incredible vista when you first land on Halo in the original game? They used very simplistic background models to great effect. The result really improved the sense of scale and made it seem as if you truly were standing atop a large cliffside. I'm sure Retro could have done the same with Prime 2 and they should do so with Prime 3.
_Alkaline_
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herod said:
Yeah it is but it's still good.
And I agree Dark, that's probably the best part of the interview.
Death_Born
Banned
MaddenNFL64 said:
MaddenNFL64
Member
Here's a quote from Play's interview (found in this thread).
Play: Is there anything you were unable to execute on the GameCube in Prime 1 and 2 that has now become possible?
MP: Something on the design side that was important to us was being able to make larger environments that have more things going on. We try to tell the story through the way the player travels through the game, and having these larger environments where the player can see farther and see things interacting with each other is something we couldnt have done on GameCube. Metroid Prime is a traversal sort of game, so the environments have to be very interesting and very different to keep the players interested in walking around. So now were able to make these huge, expansive environments and have more things going on on-screen at the same time.
Play: Is there anything you were unable to execute on the GameCube in Prime 1 and 2 that has now become possible?
MP: Something on the design side that was important to us was being able to make larger environments that have more things going on. We try to tell the story through the way the player travels through the game, and having these larger environments where the player can see farther and see things interacting with each other is something we couldnt have done on GameCube. Metroid Prime is a traversal sort of game, so the environments have to be very interesting and very different to keep the players interested in walking around. So now were able to make these huge, expansive environments and have more things going on on-screen at the same time.
Death_Born
Banned
MaddenNFL64 said:
I'm hoping for some Federation vs. Space Pirate battles.
MasterMFauli
Banned
jjasper said:
Fixed.
Go play old Metroid-games if you dont like such awsome events.
Hopefully not.Death_Born said:
Seriously, my primary concern with the game itself is the inclusion of too much stuff. That opening level seemed to have more in common with Halo than Metroid. I would like to see dialog and character interaction kept to an absolute minimum.
I mean, Metroid was always about exploring isolated planets by oneself and getting lost in the atmosphere.
How exactly do replaying older games make up for lack of a new one?
If you want those events, stick to Halo.
MasterMFauli
Banned
dark10x said:
I want more insight into the universe of Metroid. Federal Space Troopers vs. Space Pirates would be a natural fit, as they ARE enemies. And it´s ridiculous to argue against 1 or 2 short scenes, where you´re inmidst of 2 groups fighting each other. That´s what you call variety.
And im sure MP3 will have enough of these "alone"-scenes, you know.
Death_Born
Banned
You could have a point. After all, the troopers' technology is garbage compared to Samus's suit. They wouldn't even stand a chance against the Pirates.
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
MasterMFauli said:
Yea, I 2nd this notion.
This isn't even the first time this conversation has happend, either
Visualante
Member
Those cable trains are a nod to the Myst series I think. In terms of art direction I think the Retro art team must have been influenced by the way Cyan work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LJXz9TM4hc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LJXz9TM4hc
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
i like mecha-ridley and everything, but i kind of miss organic ridley
beelzebozo said:i like mecha-ridley and everything, but i kind of miss organic ridley
I do too. It would be neat if they could connect the original series with the prime one by including the original baddies like Kraid, non-mecha Ridley, and Mother Brain. Possibly show the pirates using the phazon to revive them in order to explain how they were back from the dead in Super.
DemDereNads
Member
Nice, finally something on Wii that doesn't look last gen.
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
jjasper said:
it'd be totally rad to fight kraid and mother brain again. i will say, though, they've done a good job in the past two games of creating some really memorable boss designs. i wouldn't say that it would make sense for more environmentally-connected bosses like flaahgra or thardus to return in future games, but the omega pirate would make total sense. history has shown that any boss notorious for being a pain in the ass usually doesn't just get left on the table in future iterations of the series--see bald bull from punch out, ridley from the original metroid, et al.
i do think they've mishandled the dark samus just a bit. it's a shame, because i think the way it's handled in metroid fusion is much better:
spending most of the game running from sa-x really makes it seem almost like nemesis from resident evil 3. it's intimidating. dark samus in prime 2, while having some cool moves, always seemed grossly underpowered to make that last confrontation really interesting.
ShockingAlberto
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I think ZM showed that they built skeletons for Ridley in case he died.jjasper said:
Probably, by the time SM rolled around, they found a way to bring him back in the flesh.
I will agree that a lot of the bosses from the prime series have been awesome
If they somehow managed to included the revived Ridley and Kraid (through those skeletons) if at the end you are attacked by both at once that my friend would be the most awesome boss fight off all time. Also by doing that could lead up to 2 by showing Samus escaping and heading to SR388 to get there before the Pirates do.
If they somehow managed to included the revived Ridley and Kraid (through those skeletons) if at the end you are attacked by both at once that my friend would be the most awesome boss fight off all time. Also by doing that could lead up to 2 by showing Samus escaping and heading to SR388 to get there before the Pirates do.
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