Metroid Prime Impressions

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That is not true. I have enjoyed quite a few non-2D games. Mark of Kri? Loved it. Sky Gunner? Adored it. The list goes on and on. There is plenty of non-2D "arcady" games that don\'t feature fireballs that I do indeed love.

Jigg\'s nailed this one though. The game lacks a soul. I never once felt sucked into it or cared what was goin\' on. It felt over-produced.

PS. Zelda:OoT was great as was Super Mario 64. Super Mario Sunshine, well, that was trash..

Just wondering how far people are into this game. I need 1 suit than Im done with all the primary Items. Right now the boss Im up to is the Omega Pirate. Hes sorta hard. Killed me twice although the second time I came very close. Ive gotten 3 or 4 Artifacts and im about 50% done with the game and about 10 hours into it.

27:30, 100% completion on Normal mode, Galleries 1 and 4 unlocked. I stand by my acclaim of MP.

Someday soon I\'m planning to go back and beat it on Hard Mode and scan everything. If you miss scanning any log-book entries and they get destroyed or unreachable (like the space station boss) that\'s it.

You get Gallery 2 for beating Hard Mode and Gallery 3 for 100% log-book. Or vice-versa.. I dunno.

Now that Ive stayed up playing all night I got all 12 artifacts, fought and beat that meta ridley and have entered the crash site. Im about 13 hours into it and 57% complete.

Originally posted by Living-In-Clip

I\'m glad you enjoyed Prime - but Prime for me was complete trash. It wasn\'t so much the FPS view (tho\' it did suck) but the whole game didn\'t click for me. The same as I thought Halo was one of the worst games last year, GTA3 and the list goes on.

I\'m not saying your wrong but for you to say Halo was one of the worst games of last year.  You might not of liked it but seriously, same applies for Prime and GTA3.

Just a question, Im fighting Prime right now and I really need to know which on of my beams is the phazon fused one cause I dont seem to be hurting him with any attack so far.

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Gimmie a break, Halo was so very over-rated. Run. Jump. Shoot. Run. Jump. Shoot. Hey, look, it\'s the same level I was in twice before! I\'ll be damned, that\'s just amazing! Ohh, there\'s a beach! I\'m walkin\' in it, but there is no water ripples..The list goes on of the dissapointments that Halo containted...and don\'t even get me started on GTA3 or Prime.....

I\'ve had this game for over a week, and I can honestly say myself it alone is worth buying a gamecube.  

If anyone is thinking about buying Steel Battallion, this will cost you roughly the same and give you more bang for your buck.

My comment stands.  Just cause you don\'t like it doesn\'t mean it\'s one of the worst games of the year.

Most overrated game of the year isn\'t untrue though... I agree with most everything LIC said about Halo, Prime, etc.... I liked GTA3 though...

LiC: We already discussed this, but I\'ll say it again: you have a problem with Halo. Okay, I understand.

It sounds like you\'re just hating Metroid Prime for the sake of it, though.

Honestly, I still find it hard to believe that anybody who adored both Super Metroid and OoT could flat-out hate this game considering how polished the gameplay and graphics are. For the first time in a while, Nintendo gets almost every aspect of a game perfect.. and you can\'t stop bad-mouthing it! What games do you like?

It seems like you\'re a little picky.

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I expect more from my games than you do, obviously.

I adored both SM and OoT - but this game doesn\'t do it for me. And no, I don\'t hate it "for the sake of it" - hell I paid for the damn game. I gave it a chance and the whole time I felt this anger swelling up. I didn\'t see how they did anything right, \'cept the transformation to the morph ball.

I watched Capcom play MP (I traded him it for Tekken 4 - another shit game) . He was getting into it, enjoying it. Morph balling, double jumping and goin\' on about how it was actually pretty good and ya\' know what? It still looked like a boring FPS with a few Metriod elements.

Yes, I\'m picky. If I pay $50 dollars for a game I expect the game to wow me in some fashion or another .  MP didn\'t do it for me at all. In my humble opinion, the game will go down as the Metriod game to ruin a great series - well not ruin it, just kill it.

As for Retro , I still think they should be taken out and flogged until they either pass out or die. It is (in my opinion) an abnomination to the series.  And for Miyamoto and his cracked idea on making Metriod a FPS and , well, I\'d say shoot him, but I still want my Pikimin 2!



/me goes back to playing Metriod Fusion a true Metriod game...

Haha,

I\'m sorry, buddy.. I think that you have a right to think that. It\'s just so ironic how some folks can be..

Everybody\'s different, I guess. There\'s no two ways about it!

BTW, I have fairly high standards for my games. Just because you mysteriously hate games that are widely regarded as great (SMS, MP) doesn\'t mean that it\'s really crazy to love them like I do.

I\'d like to add that Pikmin is among my favorite GCN games. I hope a sequel comes out, fast! Oh, and Metroid Fusion is kickass.. isn\'t it? Short and linear, but this is Metroid.. not sucking up ghosts with a vacuum!

I still think that MP is better, though. Fusion is barely an evolution of Super Metroid.. they just went and perfected the controls.. added nice cut-scenes.. and created a new quest. It\'s a must-have GBA cart, but MP is so rich with detail and the gameplay is just plain addictive. Nevermind that it\'s around 5 times as long as MF.

My ranking for Metroid games:

1/2. Metroid Prime and Super Metroid. They flip-flop.
3. Metroid Fusion
4. Metroid
5. Metroid II: Return of Samus

The first two weren\'t bad games by any means, I just think that R&D1 improved on the formula so much (with such similar gameplay) that they\'re made obsolete by newer 2D Metroid titles.

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I agree with ya\' Blade. Not everyone has to like the same game.

No offense towards you in any of my posts, Buddy. Just thought I\'d clear that up.