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[Metroid] The series so dead they resurrected it twice!
Fawst
The road to awe.Registered User regular
The road to awe.Registered User regular
METROID
Not an actual Metroid
Samus is awesome. Metroid is awesome. This OP is not.
This is the place to discuss how awesome Metroid is. While there isn't any news about a new game in the series, Nintendo has finally made the "well, DUH" move to allow Metroid Prime Trilogy to be purchased as a downloadable title from the Nintendo eShop. It's currently on sale for $9.99 through 2/5 at 8:59 a.m. PT. Go save about $40 and pick it up.
The series turns 30 next year. If Nintendo has nothing up their sleeve for that anniversary, well ... we can all talk about how stupid that is right here.
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Try not to fuck it up.
The first Prime was the first, for lack of a better term, FPS I'd played in years, so... I wasn't much good at it at the time.
It's a bad game, and I think we've thoroughly wrung every bit of discussion out of it.
It is messing with the difficulty somewhat. Things that were easy to lock on & shoot now take a bit more co-ordination. It took me forever to get through that first wasp boss.
However, nailing precise shots from a distance is now possible. The mirrors on the plant boss can be hit from outside lock-on range, for instance.
This is tricky for me since I am not overly familliar with Metroid games. Are we referring to the one with the talking in it? I always thought it was well recieved but as I said, not overly familiar.
Anywya snapped up the trilogy and cannot wait to play it!
Someone @Gaf suggested turning off Free Aim for MP1 & 2 and I'd agree. The last bosses certainly were a bit more rough without Auto Lock On. It's doable tho!
I'll see how I go. As I said, free aim makes the exploration that much more immersive; looking around, etc. I've finished the game previously so I don't know if I need to beat Ridley and Metroid Prime again. I mainly wan to revisit all the areas.
Probably sit here and cry
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They toned 2's difficulty down for the trilogy release.
It's just that basic thing of certain enemies could be beaten by lock -> shoot and it was guaranteed hits. For those enemies in MPT, the player needs to get used to centring the pointer after the lock.
I like the new version more because ultimately it's more control. The lock helps, but on occasion there is a need to shoot slightly off centre. It shows the strength of the original design that a different control is still well supported.
I assume turning off Free Aim means you need to hold a button or something to allow aiming? That might be better for movement...
Mostly because the armor reminds me of Iron Man's Mark 42 armor.
you should always be playing super metroid
Her whole body fits in a soccer ball, seems like it would be trivial to stuff some hair in a helmet.
She's very flexible. But that doesn't keep hair out of your eyes.
The elevators in Prime 1 for example barely have time to animate before loading is done.
Got Prime3 for Christmas, and just bought the trilogy because why would you not for $10.
Currently replaying Prime2 on my girlfriend's GCN. [about to get the powerbombs]
Also replaying Fusion on Wii U and on GBA to unlock the Fusion bonuses for Prime, which we just finished on girlfriend's cube. Likely cashing in Club Nintendo funbucks for Super Metroid shortly.
I have my Samus amiibo and I am waiting, Nintendo. Do not fail me.
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Chozo-powered Blonde moments destroy planets.
That should really be in the title or the OP then!
I need to play Metroid Prime again once in a while too.
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Hey, wait a minute.
Metroid isn't a bounty hunter.
I think he'll figure that out shortly.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2009/08/29/a-space-bounty-hunter-in-texas?page=8
Reading some of that article, Nintendo's "idea" of what Samus actually does is so confusingly bizarre that I'm surprised the developer was actually able to get anywhere. I guess that explains why outside of maybe the game manual, the first Prime game ended up so relatively stripped of actual back story. (following previous Metroid veins of "oh Samus is here because there's a thing, and it's a bad thing, so she wants to go beat up the thing... yeah okay press start and go nuts.")
I think it may have been a kind of a pointer to Nintendo's beginning to shifting to a somewhat nonoffensive family-oriented company with their properties, the idea that one of their first-party characters basically being Boba Femme was somewhat apalling to them and they wanted her more portrayed as some kind of space paladin.
But those are also direct creations of Shigeru, so...
Edit: Well, they're more mercenaries. Hired to fight wars. Bounty hunter kind of implies killing individuals.
Edit edit: Anyway, the whole reason I came to this thread was to complain that the title screen and menu music is gone from Prime 1 because of the new title screen and menus.