Man, i feel antsy watching this...like i just want to grab the controller from him.
I refuse to believe hes that bad. Its got to be an act.
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"y cant metroid crawl?" first time (Miiverse) players cry for help in Super Metroid
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I refuse to believe hes that bad. Its got to be an act.
Maybe Konami should start exercising their YouTube monetization rights... but just on this guy.
Dion Blaster
Member
I think most of us find it charming, that makes it funnier to me. More of an innocent humor as opposed to snarky humor. Of course some of them are legitimately hilarious, not figuring out what to do immediately after the game explains the morph ball.
Beetleking11
Banned
This is too early to get a stuck.. If someone cannot use morph ball this early with instructions. .. they are dumb!!
If teenagers in 2013 can't do what 8 year olds in 1993 could do, then evolution obviously isn't doing it's job.
or they are playing different games, than the ones those kids played?
...it should start with the smugly self-superior asshats in this thread?
FlashbladeGAF
Member
Hes playing MGS HD collection...
So obviously hes played MGS4 at some point right?....
....yet it took him several hours to realize how to use rations...
If he was a casual uploader I could believe it was his schtick...
But because he does this FOR A LIVING and must play ALOT of games, I cant imagine anyone purposefully wasting time dying and getting lost in the DUMBEST places to get lost (a hallway)just to have a couple more hit/views
Hes that friend that said the game was broken because you beat him.
It wasnt your skill that beat him, and it wasnt his lack of skill that caused him to lose...
...it was the game that was broken
smh
EDIT: I want to give him props for finishing the games he starts, but hes bad at EVERY GAME, so the result would be the same whther he finishes it or not and I think he realizes that.
MrCunningham
Member
I honestly am not in much surprise, really.
This is incredible!
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of teenagers in 1993 went "this game is dumb", put it down, then watched TV instead or something. Meanwhile we may well have a bunch of kids getting into this without too much of a problem.
Nothing's wrong with being superior.
Wasn´t there a study that we are slowly "de-evolutionizing"?
EmCeeGramr
Member
I still remember Jeff Gerstmann's anecdote about buying Super Metroid on release, rushing through the whole thing in two or three hours, and returning it while thinking it was mediocre and a disappointing followup to the first game.
That's Jeff Gerstmann and his tastes are notoriously bonkers, but it is what it is.
Akibastman
Member
Why does so many people find it sad ? Super Metroid is an awesome game and it can be a bit hard if you never played another Metroid.
These pics, as funny as they are, show that the game still attract new gamers to the franchise. It's a great thing IMO.
These pics, as funny as they are, show that the game still attract new gamers to the franchise. It's a great thing IMO.
But seriously these people should learn to play a game by themselves. Miiverse is the new Nintendo hotline.
SpoonyBard
Banned
After playing Super Ghouls'n Ghosts for a couple of minutes (very stupid impulse purchase from my part) I did have and urge to make a "Why doesn't my health regenerate? Halp!" post in Miiverse...
megarockexe
Member
I sympathize with their troubles. I faced some of the same problems when I first played the game back in about 2003, only there was no Internet to cry to then. But I also used state saves and barely remember any of it, so I might be right back with them.
EmCeeGramr
Member
No I'm pretty sure that there were nobody said that our species is "de-evolutionizing" since that doesn't make sense on multiple fundamental levels.
OpinionatedCyborg
Member
Not Super Metroid but...
shut the fuck up, andrew. just shut the fuck up.
That's probably a strong indication to me that I should probably take a good chunk of what he says with a grain of salt.
And perhaps an indicator of how these things can go in cycles, I'm sure some people felt similarly about Metroid Prime and Super Metroid, and a variation of it with Metroid: Other M where EVERYONE felt that way about it and Metroid Prime/Super Metroid/Probably Metroid 1.
Someone said earlier here that the Maridia glass tube was bullshit... I never used a guide to break the glass in Maridia tube. Does that make me a genius?
I mean, can't players really try to figure things for themselves? If it was something like La Mulana, which has really hard puzzles, I would understand.
Miiverse is really handy for players like that. I could see something like that working with games like Castlevania: Simon's Quest, which had some really shitty puzzles and bullshit.
I mean, can't players really try to figure things for themselves? If it was something like La Mulana, which has really hard puzzles, I would understand.
Miiverse is really handy for players like that. I could see something like that working with games like Castlevania: Simon's Quest, which had some really shitty puzzles and bullshit.
The Xtortionist
Member
I like the way the game deals with the tube. First, you don't need to break it to access Maridia. You can enter from the right of the Wrecked Ship. Second, the game gives you a clue. A few rooms to the right of the intact tube, there's a clearly broken tube. It's the only broken tube in the game. This gives a clue that maybe the intact tube can be broken.
I didn't play Super Metroid for a while because a friend told me it wasn't very good when he saw me looking at the box at a Blockbuster.
The same friend also excitedly invited me over to play Superman 64 and Castlevania 64 with him.
I'm not friends with him anymore.
"Why can't I use right stick to aim and left stick to move in Syphon Filter!?"
Actually, yeah, these games let you use analog so why the fuck not? Goldeneye predated your game you fucks.
Haha, it highlights how much of an echochamber the internet can be. And how terrifying the mainstream CAN be.
Yep, and you have the X-ray visor for that anyway.
Honestly, though, after growing up with NES games the SNES seemed way easier and friendlier in general. That just seems to compound every new generation. Trial by fire and all that.
I'm way better at games now than when I was a kid. I've gone back and beaten SO MANY NES games that seemed impossible back then.
randomhugs
Member
Still making my way through this thread so I'm not sure if it's been posted but, I thought I'd share this anyway.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080910133855AA2U785
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080910133855AA2U785
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Shit like this is the constant reminder of why I always leave one in the chamber...
Dont know if I should laugh or cry...
I honestly am not in much surprise, really.
Dont know if I should laugh or cry...
I broke the tube on a hunch, as I suspect many people did back then. The design philosophy of Super Metroid is a lost art, well, MOSTLY lost. Dark Souls, while quite different than Metroid in many ways, does practice some of that old design philosophy.
As a gamer of the moment, playing Super Metroid, I was accustomed to experimenting and trying things and following hunches. The game taught me to be that way. That's why it's a well designed game and remembered so fondly.
The fact that you CAN go the wrong way, or go one of several ways, or actually FAIL at something -- Those things make a game exciting. That's the truest form of adventure you can have in a game (IMO). And this used to be the way game design was approached in general. The mystery of the game, the lore of the game, existed outside of the fiction as well as inside of it. You don't see that much anymore.
In 2013 I still love games, and I also love modern cutting edge graphics and great art -- But I have so little patience for super hand holdy, linear, overly structured experiences and it's getting harder and harder to find new games I like. So I'm trying to make my own. We'll see how that pans out.
smh at people taking that seriously.
Back then, I didn't even think of it and just played the game. Probably because not many games did what Goldeneye was doing. Even RE4 didn't do it and didn't let me adjust it in the HD remake sadly. :/
But you know what's really weird? This:
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/10/25/behind-the-classics-syphon-filter/
dark_prinny
Banned
The collateral damage of modern videogames.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Id say more like modern society...
He must have been looking at the shooters that came the next generation and wondered why the fuck he didn't follow that example. Meanwhile From is From and makes their games play as if you had to use a PS1 digital controller, likely damning the PS2 Shadow Tower from coming here.
I need to try Syphon Filter again (got them all during a moment of free PS+), but I don't think it played as smoothly as the likes of RE4 to get away with it, but maybe I just need to give it more time.
dark_prinny
Banned
Yeah. That too.
Not Super Metroid but...
I had similar feelings when playing the 2d Super Mario games.
See, I started gaming really in the N64-PS1 era. I played a lot of Pokemon (which is not a difficult game), Tekken single player (which you can just set to easy), wrestling games (which you can just set to easy), Tony Hawk games (just turn on cheats and have fun skating around), GTA3 series, and other stuff. As a kid, it was common for me to give up playing a game on a when either because it was boring me or it had a part that was too difficult.
The thing here, is that many games N64-PS1 era forward hinged their engagement on something other than difficulty. That and they provide hard/normal/easy modes. So, in that landscape, I grew up completely avoiding difficulty and precision in games.
Playing something like the old Mario games with their "fuck you" design can be really frustrating. I'm not used to the amount of precision and thought that those games require, because that's not what the games I grew up with (necessarily) were, nor was it how I learned to play and enjoy games. It's not just about handholding, it's that game design changed.
Zombie James
Banned
This is painful to watch... but I can't stop. Complaining about no auto-aiming in first-person mode, ha.
randomhugs
Member
It's not funny if you don't take it seriously.
I meant the people who would go so far as to answer the question seriously in the Yahoo comments.
GayForMaster
Banned
HAHAHA. I DIED.
So many scrubs, holy crap!
So many scrubs, holy crap!
The Xtortionist
Member
I suppose newer players are better with execution over navigation. I think NSMB is a much more difficult game to actually play than Super Metroid, though it takes much less thought.
Fair point about RE4. It always played really well regardless of how my mind couldn't get over the sticks layout and how terrible that felt to me.
I don't think they(SF games) ever played that 'smoothly' but nostalgia does wonder to cover up how bad the games aged nowadays. On this note, it seems I forgot to download all 3, so doing that now to try them out again.
lwilliams3
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Bjoern the Smexy
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The only thing in Super Metroid I EVER got stuck was the glass tube to Maridia.
I didn't know that you had to use a Power Bomb to break the tube because it wasn't obvious to me.
Everything else though: Piece of cake.
That was back when I was 8.
I didn't know that you had to use a Power Bomb to break the tube because it wasn't obvious to me.
Everything else though: Piece of cake.
That was back when I was 8.
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