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Geemer posted:Good job, Tea! Super Metroid only teaches you Wall Jump and Shinespark, Pseudo-Screw is easy to find, but you're given no guidance on Crystal Flash, and barely any on Charge-Combos or Bomb Spread
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Cloudmonkey98 posted:Super Metroid only teaches you Wall Jump and Shinespark, Pseudo-Screw is easy to find, but you're given no guidance on Crystal Flash, and barely any on Charge-Combos or Bomb Spread You're thinking while playing the game itself. In the attract mode, it shows at least Pseudo-screw, crystal flash, and a charge combo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftfsh57LTp4&t=40s
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Unreal_One posted:You're thinking while playing the game itself. In the attract mode, it shows at least Pseudo-screw, crystal flash, and a charge combo. Huh, that video is missing the demo that shows off the bomb spread.
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Oct 17, 2020 10:17
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So the game gives you more reasons to fear the SA-X, not only have the X hijacked full power Samus, theyve taken her metroid killing tactics too. Note how the SA-X freezes then super missiles you. Also re: the galfed not being in the up and up, early in the game theres something that implies that.
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just casually keeping some metroid bits around in case they come in handy, as one does
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In Tea's defense, he just said to go after it, he didn't lie and say there were any incentives in actually picking a fight with the thing. When everything in the game says to avoid fighting it at all costs and these two have a tongue in cheek thing going on, I think there can be some forgiveness afforded there.
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Oct 18, 2020 01:50
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One detail I like about Fusion is the missile sprite and how it changes as it upgrades. It subtly shows you just how weak you still are with your super missile using the same sprite as your regular missiles from SM
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Oct 19, 2020 23:00
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Oops, I forgot about the Emergency in Sector 3 part for a second, good thing you got through it on first try though.
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Oct 19, 2020 23:39
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You cleared that a lot faster than I expected  .
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Oct 20, 2020 00:57
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So hey, one trend I like a lot in post-Super Metroid games is the diverging of the Ice effect onto its own function, which avoids the pitfalls you sometimes ran into with the Ice Beam slowing your kills down in Super. This game has it on Missiles, Samus Returns has the Ice Beam as its own toggle, and I think it helps the flow a lot to keep it as its own thing. Zero Mission did have the fused Ice Beam run well enough for its needs too, granted, so it's not a huge deal.
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Putting it on missiles here slows things down similarly since they're a very nifty weapon and now everything will take one more shot than it used to, though I agree with the general sentiment.
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Oct 20, 2020 03:44
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One of the things I like about this game and haven't mentioned yet is that your beam attack become hilariously large by the end of the game, and the Wide Beam is obviously to thank for that. You probably noticed it if you actually managed to record the rest of the game this past weekend!
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Oct 20, 2020 03:44
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Yeah, having ice on missiles is nice in that it's no longer on your beam, but on the other hand, it makes your super missiles a little less super (and it's a common complaint that you barely have any time to use or enjoy the super missiles before they get replaced). IIRC the ice missiles still do super missile damage, but you lose the satisfying feel of the big explosion and they can no longer kill in one hit (because you always get the freeze instead). A missile type selector in this game (like Super Metroid or Zero Mission) would have been a nice feature. I guess they didn't want you having too many ammo types? And, of course, there's no actual need to revert, because the game is designed around you having only one type of missile at a time. Still, it's enough to make one miss the ability to turn off powerups like in Super Metroid.
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Explopyro posted:Yeah, having ice on missiles is nice in that it's no longer on your beam, but on the other hand, it makes your super missiles a little less super (and it's a common complaint that you barely have any time to use or enjoy the super missiles before they get replaced). IIRC the ice missiles still do super missile damage, but you lose the satisfying feel of the big explosion and they can no longer kill in one hit (because you always get the freeze instead). The lack of buttons on the GBA was likely a factor here, using the default Select button in Super Metroid sucked.
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"Of course there's a self-destruct sequence" - Everyone playing their second Metroid game I'm starting to think a self-destruct mechanism is mandated by space-OSHA.
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i think fusion actually has 3 self-destruct sequences. okay, two and a half.
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Omobono posted:I'm starting to think a self-destruct mechanism is mandated by space-OSHA. If youre a horrible biological (space) horror containment facility then yes, it is. We are glad to say that Umbrella corp is fully OSHA compliant.
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5 minutes in did you say "peak" is slang for bad because it's short for "peak time" and that's when you have lots of bears? I either didn't hear that right or England is a weird place where you can set your watch by the wildlife migration.
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Bruceski posted:5 minutes in did you say "peak" is slang for bad because it's short for "peak time" and that's when you have lots of bears? I either didn't hear that right or England is a weird place where you can set your watch by the wildlife migration. And that's when you have high fares (on the trains and buses etc.)
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Natural 20 posted:And that's when you have high fares (on the trains and buses etc.) That makes a lot more sense. One of those moments when you know you've parsed something wrong but can't figure out how to get to the right words.
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Oct 21, 2020 23:24
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If the SA-X has Samus' memories, maybe it just reflexively set everything to blow up and then raced a countdown to get to a ship and escape, because that's what she always does. It was probably very disappointed when the countdown stopped right before its last second escape.
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I'm pretty sure that Energy Tank you struggled with in PYR has one of those pillars in the floor that you have to bomb to make appear, and that you were a tile or two from unintentionally bombing it. I was screaming at my computer that whole time.
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Oct 22, 2020 02:18
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The only time I've heard peak being used as bad when it comes to slang is bigoted fucknuts insulting trans people, saying kids are becoming "peak trans," or insulting someone's mannerisms, saying they're "peak trans." And when it comes to cool music being behind the times, I once heard Pink on the oldies station from the radio. Specifically that whole, "I'm coming out, and it's time to get this party started!" Yeah, not my first choice for oldies songs. re: the difficulty, some of the upcoming bosses don't gently caress around.
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Shitenshi posted:The only time I've heard peak being used as bad when it comes to slang is bigoted fucknuts insulting trans people, saying kids are becoming "peak trans," or insulting someone's mannerisms, saying they're "peak trans." And when it comes to cool music being behind the times, I once heard Pink on the oldies station from the radio. Specifically that whole, "I'm coming out, and it's time to get this party started!" Yeah, not my first choice for oldies songs. Wait, didn't that come out in 2001? I got angry enough when REM started playing on my local one. I need to find a new station for Motown and Folk Rock and stuff like that, but these days that means internet connection and I can't be arsed to figure out how to set that up in my car and whether it's useful in the places I drive or would rack up a bunch of data charges. There's a great local station that's been going since back when that stuff was current Pop but their signal range is in the single digit of miles, drops out if a medium-sized building gets in the way, and some other broadcast station is trying to take the channel and the commercials are interspersed with "please write the FCC and tell them you actually listen to us" so who knows if they'll be able to stay. Basically I thought Oldies was a fixed genre instead of a moving one like Pop and waited too long to cultivate a collection of the genres I enjoy before it shifted.
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Bruceski posted:5 minutes in did you say "peak" is slang for bad because it's short for "peak time" and that's when you have lots of bears? I either didn't hear that right or England is a weird place where you can set your watch by the wildlife migration. In Starsector "Peak" time refers to "peak performance time" or how long the ship can be in combat before it starts losing combat readiness and getting penalties. In Eve Online, "Peak" time can refer to timezones that eve online player in that region usually come on to play, and "peak" time for corporations or alliances means what timezone they are strongest in from more of their members being online. Peak time can also refer to various other things depending on how it's used. Peak time to travel could be considered during the dead of night when the streets are empty and there's no one to crash into and no traffic. Freeway "peak" time could refer to the time freeways are packed with traffic. Peak solar time could also considered the best time of the day that solar generates the most energy. Can't think of any other uses of "peak".
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Bruceski posted:Wait, didn't that come out in 2001? I got angry enough when REM started playing on my local one. I need to find a new station for Motown and Folk Rock and stuff like that, but these days that means internet connection and I can't be arsed to figure out how to set that up in my car and whether it's useful in the places I drive or would rack up a bunch of data charges. There's a great local station that's been going since back when that stuff was current Pop but their signal range is in the single digit of miles, drops out if a medium-sized building gets in the way, and some other broadcast station is trying to take the channel and the commercials are interspersed with "please write the FCC and tell them you actually listen to us" so who knows if they'll be able to stay. It probably was just a fluke to be fair. This was a local station in the boondocks of Trump Country I was hearing it on, so all the rules of normal are firmly out the window. On the other hand, I did randomly Google "pink oldies," just now and a whole bunch of her albums are listed on oldies.com, so maybe it's not all that unusual.
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C-Euro posted:I'm pretty sure that Energy Tank you struggled with in PYR has one of those pillars in the floor that you have to bomb to make appear, and that you were a tile or two from unintentionally bombing it. I was screaming at my computer that whole time. You can keep your shinespark if you spin jump, but the timing is super tight though since it disappears pretty quick.
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Samus can hold a shinespark for half an eternity (2 to 3 seconds I think). IIRC in that room you have to store the 'spark, wall jump to the high floor and then fly upwards to the alcove with the energy tank in it.
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It was bugging me so I dug out my SP to confirm, and yeah it's a pillar (which can also be triggered by a couple of mid/late-game upgrades!). Also my SP still works guys  drat this thing is tiny though...E: when Nintendo finally shuts down the 3DS eShop I hope they put Fusion and the other Ambassador games up for sale in those final days. I know there's a 0% chance that they will but I hope it happens. C-Euro fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Oct 22, 2020 |
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C-Euro posted:It was bugging me so I dug out my SP to confirm, and yeah it's a pillar (which can also be triggered by a couple of mid/late-game upgrades!). I'm not the only one who found their old SP!! First gen with original battery. The front light on this thing is so much worse than I remember it being.
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Reminder that on the original GBA you really couldn't see poo poo in NOC. Made dodging the ice X much scarier than what Nat had to go through.
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pointlessone posted:I'm not the only one who found their old SP!! First gen with original battery. The front light on this thing is so much worse than I remember it being. I have the same model and the light does indeed look like crap lol. But I still love it, it might be my favorite console and favorite piece of gaming hardware despite its flaws.
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When it comes to playing GBA games on a system with light, always go with the DS. Even the coloration is improved.
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The SA-X encounters are so good in this game. They really show off how it must feel to be a space pirate towards the end of a game and Samus comes blasting into your base of operations.
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For the record, if you just sit and wait, without using the power bomb, the SA-X will leave. Once it's encounter theme goes away, it is safe to power bomb and leave.
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BlazeEmblem posted:For the record, if you just sit and wait, without using the power bomb, the SA-X will leave. Once it's encounter theme goes away, it is safe to power bomb and leave. ...what?
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