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Nintendo Direct Speculation |OT7| March Madness
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Thanks. Figured I'd come check on things.
That's exactly what i mean. An interestingly bad 2020 so far, but if all goes well next week, Nintendo should bring some much needed hype and positivity back into here. Hopefully should get people off each other's backs around here, too.
Somebody post The Hangover gif
That's a pretty solid list of pros and cons, and in large part I agree. However your list of good areas is very lacking in Phendrana Drifts, which is still my favorite zone in the entire series.
Phendrana Drifts + Chozo Ruins make Prime 1 the best for me. Then probably Prime 2 with Sanctuary Fortress and (somewhat) Torvus. Then Prime 3 with Elysia, which is my second favorite area in the trilogy but isn't enough to carry the whole game and make up for having too much exposition, NPCs, and wannabe-Halo parts.
Tom Nook has the direct footage cause Nintendo fail to make a payment on time.
source: Isabelle.
source: Isabelle.
I was reading some threads on ERA, and this one managed to be the most level-headed and reasonable in the entire first page.
The world is really ending.
The world is really ending.
I think we're just much more conditioned to deal with insanity and uncertainty than the rest of ERA.
We're veterans of madness, we can stay calm in the face of it.
Both next gen consoles have revealed their specs and one of them has some numbers slightly lower while also touting a feature.
Craziness ensued.
Is the one with lower numbers much weaker? Is the difference imperceptible? Is it actually more capable due to the feature?
These questions have heated up the oven!
Veterans of Madness isn't a bad future OT title.
Or band name.
Ooohhh yeah. I could care less about specs, I just want to see some games so I've had no interest in even looking at those threads, probably should've known considering how many posts those threads have lol
If there's no direct announcement Next week. We'll how conditioned we are.
I realised a few things recently among my scouring of the Metroid series
- It's frustrating how wildly inconsistent power bombs are: they're sometimes treated like thermonuclear warheads, and yet other times are completely useless against general enemies or bosses
- Prime 2 was great because it took a break from Ridley and the gang, as well as a lot of series traditions
- It'd be nice to have less puzzle-oriented bosses. Metroid Prime 3 and Super Metroid focused on heavyweight fights between two powerhouses, Prime's bosses were good but too often made your weaponry feel a bit useless.
- I kinda feel that Dark Samus was an unfortunate choice of a trilogy main boss given we already had the SA-X, just some kind of dark being would have been better.
- Other M could have been sensational if not for the botched characterisation of Samus
- Prime 3 is underrated, but definitely could have tied in Mother Brain for a more story-driven ending (or just a better ending in general).
- The design of the Ing is fucking incredible.
Alright chase beck I'm putting in my formal request that once March ends you consider changing the thread title to what has been discussed above. Thank you for your consideration.
Indeed they are! Man it feels so good getting drowned in handheld FPS games after being denied for almost 10 years. More please!
One problem I have with Metroid Prime 2 is that although it tries to introduce new lore, the Luminoth are just discount Chozo. At no time do they become interesting. All Metroid Prime 2 is the plot equivalent of an anime filler. It's like "Oh, ruins of another incredibly advanced race, how original."
No one knows for certain right now. I'd say you won't be able to, though.
As far as Metroid Prime goes, I think I'd have to rank them MP1 > MP3 > MP2
1 was just phenomenal in pretty much all aspects. 3 got me to rethink my hatred of motion controls. There's just something incredibly satisfying about ripping Space Pirate shields away from them with your grapple beam. Plus it was kinda neat to have a couple other characters around besides Samus and Ridley, even if they do all end up dying at your hands.
2, I really could never get past the bullshitty mandatory damage zones throughout a significant chunk of the game. Any time you are in the dark world, you have to be in a bubble, or you take damage. I know this is mitigated later on with the Dark and Light Suits, but mandatory damage zones, especially in excess, really kill my motivation to play a game. Same reason I rate Borderlands Presequel as the worst in the series.
1 was just phenomenal in pretty much all aspects. 3 got me to rethink my hatred of motion controls. There's just something incredibly satisfying about ripping Space Pirate shields away from them with your grapple beam. Plus it was kinda neat to have a couple other characters around besides Samus and Ridley, even if they do all end up dying at your hands.
2, I really could never get past the bullshitty mandatory damage zones throughout a significant chunk of the game. Any time you are in the dark world, you have to be in a bubble, or you take damage. I know this is mitigated later on with the Dark and Light Suits, but mandatory damage zones, especially in excess, really kill my motivation to play a game. Same reason I rate Borderlands Presequel as the worst in the series.
I really, really hate damage zones/safe bubbles also. Makes it stressful just to walk around, which is like the opposite of one of the things I enjoyed most about Prime 1. Just strolling around and taking it all in.
I'm not a very fan of metroidvanias, but even I understand that part of the appeal of the games is to explore and go around the areas, getting lost
And Metroid Prime 2 makes it a pain.
What would your reaction be if Capcom were to announce a RE3 Cloud version on Switch, much like RE7 before, in next week's direct?
Normally I'd think this, too, but Prime 2 was really really effective at making its Dark World just an uglier, claustrophobic version of the Light World that doesn't really invite the desire to look around and take it all in. The real beauty is in the Light World locales.
So this didn't bother me in this case.
I think Prime 3 is generally regarded as "good but a big step back from the first two" and that is very wrong. Prime 3 is just as incredible as the other games.
Youre not wrong and the intentional contrast does serve a purpose, but it's a little hard to call making your environment so boring and ugly that nobody cares to look...a win
"Ugly" doesn't mean "boring" or even poor art design in this case, heh. Just ugly.
Well whenever Metroid Prime Trilogy HD comes out I will be giving it a second look and a second chance to convince me on those specific sections.
So, when I'm 104 years old.
So I just randomly started humming the Tallon Overword theme (#2) this morning. That's gotta be a sign. The universe saw fit to enter my mind and leak the Direct surprise. 🙏
I'd be kind of annoyed that they still aren't trying to bring over the RE Engine but I'd be willing to give it a try if it happens outside of Japan.
In the new remade Trilogy and it's version of MP2, Ing will be voiced in the dark world sections and they will taunt the player with lines like:
"Oh look at this snowflake, looking for safe spaces? TRIGGERED!"
"Oh look at this snowflake, looking for safe spaces? TRIGGERED!"
Imagine the sound Sideshow Bob made when he stepped on the rakes and that's what I'm doing right now
Welcome back, Zippo! Interesting, indeed...
So, are you ready for the Nintendo Direct of next week?
Prime 2>1>3 imo. Some quick thoughts:
Prime 3 was great but I felt the bosses were on the whole weaker than the others. Ridley was great but nothing else felt memorable (well the first Berskerker Lord was cool). Love the controls though (I confess to only owning Trilogy version).
Prime was very great but the world felt pretty generic compared to other games, although the areas still felt distinct.
Prime 2 is very polarizing but I love the concept of a dark world and how different it was. I think it's a matter of fundamental tastes though, Fusion being another example of such.
Prime 3 was great but I felt the bosses were on the whole weaker than the others. Ridley was great but nothing else felt memorable (well the first Berskerker Lord was cool). Love the controls though (I confess to only owning Trilogy version).
Prime was very great but the world felt pretty generic compared to other games, although the areas still felt distinct.
Prime 2 is very polarizing but I love the concept of a dark world and how different it was. I think it's a matter of fundamental tastes though, Fusion being another example of such.
At this point, buying an actual Wii would be the only way to play MP Trilogy in the short term. I was so hyped when I heard about the MPT coming to Switch (love Metroid, but never had a Game Cube or Wii), now it just... don´t know what to think about when would eventually come out.
Dark Samus is Metroid Prime after consuming the Phazon Suit in Prime 1. It makes a lot of sense for her to be the one you fight throughout the series. Also Quadraxis is the best boss in the series, and happens to be a puzzle boss.
Eh, but the planet is way more cohesive in 2. It actually feels like an alien planet with alien races living on it, rather than "remember this from super?"- the game.
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