As much as I dig the old bosses, I really like seeing new designs Retro thinks up on their own. New bosses mean no pre-conceived notions of how they should act and react. You can make the boss fit the gameplay much better that way rather than trying to shoehorn the gameplay in around an old boss.
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Death_Born
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ShockingAlberto said:
Ridley is like a Cylon. No matter how many times you kill them, their consciousness gets transferred into a new body.
Visualante
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There's enoughSCReuter said:
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ghostlyjoe
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GrayFoxPL said:
I think this is pretty much a no-brainer. Style and immersiveness are Metroid's strengths. It's designs (environment, characters, pretty much everything) are far more distinct and interesting than Halo's. Of course, Halo is great for different reasons (just try to throw a Metroid LAN party!). This comparison keeps being made, but it's not particularly astute. They about as disparate as first-person games can be.
the androgyne
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dark10x said:
I disagree, one of the best looking areas in MP2 was a skybox IMO, just after you
knock dark samus off the roof of the top area of Dark Sanctuary Fortress
I guess it's kinda like pre-rendered backgrounds in RE in that it's not 'true' in some techincal sense, but the scale and the great colours really worked in that area.
Compared to that, this MP3 screenshot is very drab in my eyes; the only good thing about it is the suit design. I don't need HD, but i sure as hell don't want to see those aliased skinny grapple track things in the distance either!
TheKingsCrown
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MPW said:
..pakbeka..
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I wonder if we'll see the Adam Samus mentioned in fusion in MP3, she said he was her CO while she was following the federation's orders, which seems to be what's happening in MP3
Shaheed79 said:
same lead artist for the whole prime series...
http://www.samus.co.uk/credits/metroid_prime.shtml
http://www.samus.co.uk/credits/mprime2.shtml
evilromero
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Yeah, the first introduction to Metroid Prime was a cocktease. I thought it was Mother Brain hanging there in the middle of the room. It looked just like it!koam said:
DeathbyVolcano
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I'd just really like to see Retro try and truly tie it in with the main seriesthe main villains are first and foremost and have ALWAYS been the Space Pirates. Mother Brain needs to be in this game, I need another incredible battle with it. I would really like if the final planet would be Zebes, where you explore Crateria and perhaps even Kraid's area.
Visualante
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I know it's an old game.. but please use tags for major spoilers on Super Metroid like that.
I got into the series with Prime, waiting for the VC version to become available. I think others might appreciate it, or maybe I'm the only one and should get out.
I got into the series with Prime, waiting for the VC version to become available. I think others might appreciate it, or maybe I'm the only one and should get out.
Link wears a green hat
MPW said:
Yeah, way to contribute to the thread in a meaningful fashion there, junior.
This will likely be the game that pushes me into buying a Wii. I'm a little concerned about how the WaggleWand is going to be implemented, just because I always love the way the controls were implemented in the 'cube titles, but it's Retro, so I'm sure they'll find a way to make it work spectacularly. As for the graphics, they may not be as technically as impressive as stuff we're seeing on the other consoles, but from a design perspective, the Prime titles have always been amazing and this only looks to improve upon it. I'll take great design over some extra polys any day.
Talladega Knight
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MP2 is one game where I dont get the hate.
- looks and sounds better than MP1
- better morph ball puzzles
- better bosses
- Sanctuary Fortress.
I dont even mind the dark/light world thing, I think it (dark world) added a sense of urgency and fear everytime you were in there which worked very well imo. I still prefer MP1 because the game blew the shit out of me the first time I played it but imo MP2 is by no means the horrible game some people make it out to be.
- looks and sounds better than MP1
- better morph ball puzzles
- better bosses
- Sanctuary Fortress.
I dont even mind the dark/light world thing, I think it (dark world) added a sense of urgency and fear everytime you were in there which worked very well imo. I still prefer MP1 because the game blew the shit out of me the first time I played it but imo MP2 is by no means the horrible game some people make it out to be.
you didnt have to, almost every safe zone has contents around it with health (among ammo) and once you get 2 energy expansions+dark suit you dont really have to worry about your health in the dark world.
the only shitty part about MP2 is the stupid key hunt quest at the end, totally unnecessary imo.
the only shitty part about MP2 is the stupid key hunt quest at the end, totally unnecessary imo.
Great Rumbler
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Error said:
That was the only aspect of MP2 that I actively disliked. Everything else was at least okay, and most of the rest of game [not counting the dark world] was great.
AdmiralViscen
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Error said:
Boring environments, annoying world switching, HUNTING FOR KEYS
Tchu-Espresso
likes mayo on everthing and can't dance
Yeah, there's no point in having that degree of control in a game promoting "keyboard and mouse controls" and the capability of wii controls in general.Branduil said:
Hydro_Alexis
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looks a little bit more shiny than metroid prime and its sequel.
It's about what I was expecting, but in saying that, I was still seriously impressed. I was a huge advocate of the Gamecube's power as a console for pushing 3-D visuals but it all got lost in the war of words between the PS2 and Xbox. As seeing as the Wii is based off that hardware, it should come as no surprise that the power is there.
Though I tried, I just couldn't get into Metroid Prime at all. But in saying that I can cetainly appreciate it as a franchise and certainly what Retro did with it.
This is going to beone fo those rare FPS games (alongside Bioshock IMHO) where the total lack of online multiplayer won't effect the game's sales with it's audience. This is the sort of game that the Wii has been crying out for, I suspect that come the end of the year, this game will be second only to SSB in terms of importance.
Though I tried, I just couldn't get into Metroid Prime at all. But in saying that I can cetainly appreciate it as a franchise and certainly what Retro did with it.
This is going to beone fo those rare FPS games (alongside Bioshock IMHO) where the total lack of online multiplayer won't effect the game's sales with it's audience. This is the sort of game that the Wii has been crying out for, I suspect that come the end of the year, this game will be second only to SSB in terms of importance.
SantaC
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gotta love the reader comments from this site :lol
http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16308
what a bunch of whiners. Typical PC gamers who think everything revolves around online deathmatch.
http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16308
what a bunch of whiners. Typical PC gamers who think everything revolves around online deathmatch.
Death_Born
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The only acceptable Metroid multiplayer would be:
One side Federation Troopers
One side Space Pirates
And have different gametypes like CTF, King of the Hill....
Oh wait, that's Halo.
Metroid is not a multiplayer game, don't try to make it one. Singleplayer all the way.
One side Federation Troopers
One side Space Pirates
And have different gametypes like CTF, King of the Hill....
Oh wait, that's Halo.
Metroid is not a multiplayer game, don't try to make it one. Singleplayer all the way.
ShockingAlberto
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Did Bioshock get this much bitching?
SantaC said:
i dont really think it would be pc gamers, pc gamers tend to be older and have played or heard of metroid before prime. I wouldnt be surprised that most of the people that are whining about mp are the people that the prime games were their first metroid experience.
I've never liked that theory, since Super Metroid says verbally that there wasn't any dead time between 1&2 either (or at least nothing involving any Metroids), and the only reason people don't like the idea of time between 2&3 is that they don't like the idea of Samus spending any time taking care of the Hatchling as a pet before handing it over for research, and I'm one of the people who likes that idea (every magical girl needs a cute, unique, super-powered pet).jjasper said:
That's assuming that the extermination on SR388 was absolute, and that the Space Pirates didn't make off with one somewhere (since you only need to expose a Metroid to beta radiation to have it multiply into an army of them). And every time Retro or whoever makes that happen before Metroid 2, it makes that sort of thing seem more likely, and makes Metroid 2's extermination make less sense.Alkaliine said:
Mithos Yggdrasill
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...and nothing has changed. *Disappontment*.
radioheadrule83
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Death_Born said:
That's the kind of thing I'd like to see in a spin off game or something. It'd be awesome to see Samus in action from a Federation trooper's point of view, and flesh out the elements of the Universe we never see. Where are the human characters based, what do they do, are they under threat etc?
I imagine a lot of cool vehicle possibilities as well, metroids and pirates as enemies, metroids as weapons, nice locations... I mean, it's a good universe really. I see why people want to enjoy it in other ways, ie multiplayer.
I think it's just better if Retro concentrates on what they do best... creating immersive adventure content like the Prime series.
MaddenNFL64
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NST can get on a Federation Trooper spin-off. Maybe just carbon copy Lucas Arts Republic Commando game?
MasterMFauli
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Death_Born said:
Dont copy me, that´s what i wrote topics and topics ago
And yeah, make it a whole spin-off, meaning that there´s also a singleplayer-campaign.
After all, Halo is what Metroid years ago had in its story. Halo just made it into a game before ^^
All the haters seem to not to be able to imagine the awsomeness of a game Federal Space Troopers vs. Space Pirates.
I´d love to play as a Space Pirate with JetPak, flying through the air and shooting missiles from above. Or climbing vertical walls with my claws.
ACtually, it´d be a lot like Alien vs. Predator, only that the humans would be humans, and Space Pirates would be aliens and predators combined....XD
I will probably get Prime, and I may get Corruption depending on reviews. I don't intend to get Echoes because I don't really like the idea of deliberately subjecting myself to bad games. The problem with getting Prime these days is that I probably couldn't get an older sequence-breakable version, and Metroid games' sequence breaks are by far the best thing to ever happen to gaming ever.Tristam said:
Stormbringer
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Sharp said:
What exactly makes you think that Echoes is actually a bad game ?
The fact that very, very few people on GAF seem to have actually liked Echoes, and pretty much everyone was disappointed in it? The GAF collective is often wrong and rarely unanimous, but I don't have unlimited funds and if I'm going to get a Gamecube game at this point it better have damn near universal praise.Stormbringer said:
Littleberu
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Sharp said:
What? Why wouldn't you get a cheap GC game?
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