superpickleman
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It appears that a sizable number of younger gamers can't solve problems without being explicitly told what to do.
Dern kids.
Dern kids.
You mean like all those people trapped right after that bomb tunnel? Well, they are trapped, if you assume those pits kill you like in other 2D games. But you and I already know Metroid has no instant death pits.Again, this isn't just about asking for help because Super Metroid has somewhat unintuitive parts, but rather what the people in the OP are asking about.
My biggest problem in the original metroid was the freeze beam and doing those fucking jumping bits. D: That was the one memory that still haunts me till today.
Kinda like the last level in double dragon with "attempting" to jump from one vanishing block to the next.
Pauly strikes again
HAHAHAHAHHAThat $0.30 real broke ya, my nigga? The struggle is real, ya'll
I think it's not just kids. People have changed, mainly because of internet. In the past you would try to figure things out yourself. Or look it up in a book if you really couldn't solve it yourself.
Now your brain is trained to ask Google or people online seconds after you have a problem.
I forget what part those people are stuck on, but yeah, I don't think it was a hard part of the game, sure.
However, Super Metroid is a quite difficult game full of extremely obtuse "puzzles", some of which basically just require you to randomly attack the walls and stuff until you find what you need... yeah, I would not have ever finished it without a walkthrough. Way too much randomly hidden stuff you need to find, and the map isn't helpful for that stuff most of the time. I mean, it's great that it HAS a map, and it makes the game playable... but still, there's a lot of stuff in that game that there aren't really clues for. It definitely inherited quite a bit of Metroid 1 level design, and that's not something I like.
Sure, modern games are too linear, but the ideal is somewhere in between "just randomly look around until you maybe find it" and "the game holds your hand the whole way through". Super Metroid has some parts which are way too close to the former of those styles for me to have beaten it without guides.
I think it's not just kids. People have changed, mainly because of internet. In the past you would try to figure things out yourself. Or look it up in a book if you really couldn't solve it yourself.
Now your brain is trained to ask Google or people online seconds after you have a problem.
Am I crazy or isn't that the Chozo statue you actually do have to fight?,,How do I beat this guy'' is king.
But seriously, this just shows how much this awful generation has damaged gaming. I'm glad at least something like Dark Souls has gotten somewhat of a mainstream success, among all this dumbed down shit for ,,hardcore gamers'' (aka 15 year old dudebros that praise all the words of the Dorito Pope)
Someone totally new to Metroid might not know that a Morph Ball is a powerup that allows Samus to roll into a ball. And since they probably don't know the game came with a virtual manual I don't blame them for being confused.Wow not sure if trolling or they are really stuck, I don't blame them Super Metroid its not an easy game, but really? if you tried to crawl I'm sure you pressed down a lot of times and that would have activated the morphball or that's what at least I would have tried
Am I crazy or isn't that the Chozo statue you actually do have to fight?
Am I crazy or isn't that the Chozo statue you actually do have to fight?
You mean like all those people trapped right after that bomb tunnel? Well, they are trapped, if you assume those pits kill you like in other 2D games. But you and I already know Metroid has no instant death pits.
Someone totally new to Metroid might not know that a Morph Ball is a powerup that allows Samus to roll into a ball. And since they probably don't know the game came with a virtual manual I don't blame them for being confused.
Yup, that's Miiverse alright.
'lol this game is hard lol'.
Someone totally new to Metroid might not know that a Morph Ball is a powerup that allows Samus to roll into a ball. And since they probably don't know the game came with a virtual manual I don't blame them for being confused.
Someone totally new to Metroid might not know that a Morph Ball is a powerup that allows Samus to roll into a ball. And since they probably don't know the game came with a virtual manual I don't blame them for being confused.
Honestly, this stuff is during the phase of the game where you're still grasping its logic. By the time they go into Brinstar proper they'll be bombing every suspicious surface they see.Again, this isn't just about asking for help because Super Metroid has somewhat unintuitive parts, but rather what the people in the OP are asking about.
Is it REALLY that bad though? They're sticking with the game, and it gets the community active and working together, if something like this seriously works without a bunch of condescending comments it could be the kind of thing to allow more hardcore, tricky games to catch on again.It's not strange to get stuck in Super Metroid, of course no one will know exactly what to do the first time, but it's weird to post images screaming for help like a five year old instead of trying to use your problem solving abilities. Figuring out what to do is half the joy.
Heh, a guy.We got Pauly to respond!!!
We got Pauly to respond!!!
Or the first time he dies.(shhhh, the ending is going to blow his mind)
"Pffft.
I am perfectly willing to bet that if Miiverse or equivalent has been invented during the times of SNES, a lot of you would be acting the same way too out of frustration
This happens like 3 other times throughout the video, I swear he's doing it just for the views, I hope he's not that stupid. The End fight is completely ridiculous, he bitches because he can't take out his shotty in a sniper battle then has no idea how to zoom the sniper even though it blatantly says it.
Pffft.
I am perfectly willing to bet that if Miiverse or equivalent has been invented during the times of SNES, a lot of you would be acting the same way too out of frustration
Oh man I can't wait until they put Ninja Gaiden up.From what I understand of GAF NES Miiverse would be 95% pictures of a bird flying at a ninja with the caption "I can't pass bird hlp."
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I once called Nintendo hotline to ask how to beat the last boss of The Immortal. The guy knew right away too.
I don't want to mock people who are having trouble at this game, but the prospect of people not realising Samus is a girl, and not called Metroid, twenty odd years after the fact is hilarious.
Holy shit.Not Super Metroid but...
The fuck?
What's with all the grumpy 80 year olds in this thread yelling at clouds and making fun of inexperienced players...
You guys are pathetic.
When I was a kid I couldn't speak or understand English, so I got stuck in Ocarina of Time for months.
You guys probably also got stuck in stupid places when you were kids. Don't blame this generation just because people now can publicly say that they are stuck.
If the internet existed back then I am pretty sure we would have seen a similar situation.