Metroid Prime Impressions

[Living-In-Clip]

/me maintains that this game is an abmoniation to the series.

Just curious...how far are you, LIC?

[Living-In-Clip]

NOt very far - which is why I\'m trying to give it another go as I type this.
I\'m sorry, its just if I have my choice on this or any other Metriod game, espically Fusion - which kicks ass, I\'ll take fusion.
Like I said, I\'m in the process of giving it another go right now, just in case you\'re right Ginko.

I\'m right...and so is everyone else.

When you start having to use your morph ball just as much as walking, switching between the visors and different arm cannons on the fly and try to stay alive.  Space Jump, morph ball boost, spider ball...I could go on and on:)

If anything, the boss fights will bring back that old Metroid feeling.

Clip, when I started playing Prime, I felt the same as you did.  Actually, I was quite tired of the game after half an hour.  Sure, I watched the station explode in rather mediocre fashion far surpassed by Super Metroid, and land on the planet and proceed to pick up a few of the items I had originally, but once that manditory crap fell off the radar, I was hooked.  The first hour to two hours of the game is an absolute bore, but once you pass that portion up, the game sails smoothly and really falls into its own.  Just give it a chance and if after the first boss you still abore it, then by all means fling it into the trash.  I honestly had no love for the game until just after the first boss and the game just clicks with me naturally now.  It\'s just a matter of time and the same people calling it "just another fps" are those who could never get past that first two hours sadly.

The boss fights give me more of a Zelda:TOOT feeling than a Metroid feeling..

This game is like Super Metroid meets Zelda:TOOT meets GoldenEye. It\'s got a lot of Nintendo influence.

Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
/me maintains that this game is an abmoniation to the series.

Wanna send your copy to me? I want this game SO BAD, but it wont come in for a while because of shipping delays.

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Welp, I\'ve put in around 25 hours of game-time.. beaten the game.. gathered 94% of the dozens of elusive power-ups/log information.. and all I have to say is this: Good job Nintendo.. good job Retro. Oh, and thank you Jesus. This is easily the best game on GameCube. Better than my previous picks, among them Pikmin and SMS.

Why? Well, for one thing.. it\'s arguably the most polished game I\'ve ever played. That deserves something, doesn\'t it? Heck, as far as 3D games go.. I might as well call it the most polished game I\'ve played. So detailed, both in the environment and in the amount of story and more prominently information gathered by the Scan visor. The music, a mix of new tunes and well-done remixes of songs from Metroid and Super Metroid.. it fits so well. The controls, a gripe for many.. are spot-on IMO.

This game is what you get when you mix the stellar gameplay of Metroid with the luscious graphics and atmosphere of a good id Software game, then combine it with the genius of Shigeru Miyamoto and Nintendo\'s EAD department. No expense was spared here.. everything feels right. This is Zelda 64 meets Super Metroid, as far as production values go.

How somebody could flat-out disregard this game as LiC has is.. well.. I just don\'t believe it.

Not liking Mario Sunshine I can understand, but MP did so many things right. Graphics, gameplay, atmosphere, sound/music, level design, relatively adult themes, replay value, and most importantly the presentation that SMS lacked! There are no embarrassing cut-scenes here folks! No occasional bugs, no occasional camera issues.. no difficult platforming stages!

There is nothing to complain about!

IMO, anybody that has a GCN should own this game.

It just clicked with me. The critics are right. Be warned, though.. once you get about 10 hours in and realize that the game is going to end, you\'re going to be disappointed! Much like SMS, I wish that MP never ended.

At least it takes forever to end. This is definitely the longest Metroid quest ever.. and the richest.

[Living-In-Clip]

Disregard? I didn\'t disregard. I gave it a chance and decided it was complete crap. I support blowing up Retro studio\'s at this point and plan on trading my copy of Prime off, A.S.AP.

As for your comment on "no annoying bugs", I have to wonder if you are playing the same game as the rest of Prime owners. There is a couple spots where the game seems to randomly freeze. I thought I was the only one with the problem, but after searching on GameFaq\'s.com Prime social board, there was a bunch of people with the same problem in the same spot, but no one could figure out what circumstance was causing it.


Dissapointment of the year - well, it would be if I was actually expecting something from it.

Okay, that post was obviously made in jest because if this game is an utter trash-can disappointment, you must have a hard time stomaching 99% of other video games .. anyways..

Yes, there is a potential for freezing.. but guess what? I have 98% of this game completed.. 27 hours.. log book over 90% complete.. and I\'ve been everywhere. How many times did it freeze? Twice, both in the 8-9 hour completion range. Where/why did it freeze? One time going down an elevator, the other time in a transitional tunnel. (going from big room to big room) I assume that the nearly complete lack of loading times is caused by constant streaming; if the streaming gets a major hiccup, you might see a freeze. This is probably a problem more with the system, less with the game.

That said, I\'ve been up and down the same elevators/tunnels that the freezes occurred in at least 5 times apiece by now.. and nothing\'s happened. LiC.. did you burn your copy of Super Metroid the second you started playing it or something? I\'d have to say that only a hardcore Metroid hater could speak of MP like you do.

This game is really really good, IMO.. perhaps one of the best ever.. and I\'ve played a lot of games. Oh, and I was never hardcore into Metroid before either. As a child I owned and played Metroid and Super Metroid but not until this year did I beat either. (in anticipation of MP, no less) I can\'t believe that I missed out on this stuff! Hehe, it sounds like I\'m worshipping Metroid here. Kinda sad really, but I\'m something of an old-school and fairly hardcore gamer.. and when a game comes along that\'s this good.. I just feel compelled to express my thoughts about it.

[Living-In-Clip]

Actually I do have a problem standing 99% of the trash companies put out and try to pass off as "quality games".

Hardcore Metriod hater? Hardly. I\'ve loved every Metriod game, \'cept for Prime. I love Fusion and all the Metriod\'s before it. Every Metriod before this has passed my expectations. Infact, Super Metriod is my all time favorite game.

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. These new critically acclaimed games just don\'t seem to offer anything, in my opinion.

However not to say it needs more polish because the game is polished...very polished maybe too polished. Where its almost not as fun as it should be. Sterile is more like it.

Its like a super-model, great looks but no heart. Just another new next gen game. This incarnation has nothing to do with its previous namesakes. Only in name and concept and barely that.

Dont get me wrong I like the game but expected more feeling. The game feels cold.
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Fair enough. At least you explained your disgust this time. I guess that\'s just your tastes, LiC. I\'m just totally "down" with this game, though.. as is nearly everybody else that I know who owns the game.

Honestly, I\'d urge you to give it another chance, but you probably already have.. so.. nevermind.

May I ask, though.. did you also consider Zelda:OOT complete trash?

Jiggs: It didn\'t seem to have any less feeling than Zelda 64, SMS, or any of Nintendo\'s recent AAA games. To me, MP is a different side to Nintendo.. but at times all too reminiscent of Super Metroid. This game is extremely fun to me.. albeit in a different way than most games. It\'s fun in the way that Metroid games are fun.

Really, I\'m still shocked that LiC thinks that MP = complete trash. This game is f\'ing amazing, IMO.. worthy of the 98% reviews on Game Rankings. Worthy of the Metroid name, definitely. Cold? Maybe a little, but other Metroid games were no "warmer". Cold and desolate is the way that Metroid has felt all along. This isn\'t Pokemon.

I\'m not sure LIC likes any game that\'s not 2-D,arcady,and doesn\'t feature fireballs.

[Bobs_Hardware]

I don\'t think there are any non-2D non-arcade games that feature fire-balls :eek:

Well, maybe a few Capcom games