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Just finished my first playthrough of Prime and dang was it good!! even though I love the Metroid series the game never really clicked with me back when I first played it on the GC/Wii so I'm super happy I decided to give it another go. Reading through the last few pages seems like I got the 'Prime' experience: - fell to the bottom of the crashed ship without the gravity suit - attempted to go through the back door in the mines only to run into the locked security gate with the energy tank behind it - died in the mines 'gauntlet' at least once cause I didn't take the pirates seriously enough, also had the "where's the save point" shakes after the invisible drone - had missed 8/12 artifacts by the end of the game, though it luckily didn't take that long to find them - somehow missed scanning the ice shriek bats even though I had obsessively scanned every single thing up to that point and a friend had explicitly told me about them - missed scanning Ridley cause I was too amped about clowning on him like I do in every Metroid Will definitely grab any re-release/remaster of Prime 2 and 3. Whenever 4 comes out, that's a day one purchase for sure.
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Feb 18, 2023 19:44
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It really is great that there hasn't been a bad Metroid game.
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Feb 18, 2023 19:58
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ikanreed posted:It really is great that there hasn't been a bad Metroid game. There is but luckily it’s a side series game now
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Feb 18, 2023 19:59
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what about federation force
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Feb 18, 2023 19:59
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BoosterDuck posted:what about federation force Let's just call Donkey Kong Country a Mario game. You don't even play as Metroid in federation force. Nintendo land for the Wii U is a Metroid game though.
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Feb 18, 2023 20:06
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isn't federation force completely fine??? what's wrong with it
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Feb 18, 2023 20:10
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Getting towards the end now and one of my critiques is they don't really come up with anything interesting for the X-Ray Visor except "sometimes there are invisible platforms for no reason"
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Feb 18, 2023 20:27
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To be fair I think that applies to the thermal visor as well.
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Feb 18, 2023 20:46
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Amppelix posted:isn't federation force completely fine??? what's wrong with it It came during a long Metroid drought, and if I remember right Nintendo hyped it up as a new Metroid game. People weren't exactly thrilled.
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Feb 18, 2023 20:53
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Tender Bender posted:Getting towards the end now and one of my critiques is they don't really come up with anything interesting for the X-Ray Visor except "sometimes there are invisible platforms for no reason" "Because it looks cool" is good enough for me. Seeing how activating each beam uses different hand configurations inside the gun was cool as hell the first time I noticed it. Small details are awesome.
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Feb 18, 2023 21:33
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Ape Has Killed Ape posted:It came during a long Metroid drought, and if I remember right Nintendo hyped it up as a new Metroid game. People weren't exactly thrilled.
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Feb 18, 2023 21:49
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It'd be neat if the xray visto served similar to mp3, in letting you kill enemies faster if you made sure to make use of it to make traversing easier by that point in the game.
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Feb 18, 2023 21:58
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Tender Bender posted:Getting towards the end now and one of my critiques is they don't really come up with anything interesting for the X-Ray Visor except "sometimes there are invisible platforms for no reason" Chozo Ghosts Those invisible birbs
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Feb 18, 2023 22:08
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Amppelix posted:yes, i know this, but that doesn't mean you have to lump it into the "bad metroid games that never happened" pile with other M, especially since it seems like nobody has actually played it to find out. i sure haven't! It's a fun game, especially with a buddy or two. Just set expectations accordingly, you're a space marine guy in a mech. Controls like Samus in Prime: kinda clunky and slow, but it's fine. You have a (very) limited degree of customization in your loadout. Play it with a circle pad pro if possible.
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Feb 18, 2023 22:17
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Does anyone else think it's funny how "bad Metroid games" only apply to Other M and Fed Force, like everyone forgets Metroid Prime Pinball happened
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Feb 19, 2023 00:54
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It's a spin-off that's why. I don't judge Fed Force for that same reason.
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Feb 19, 2023 00:55
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Orange Crush Rush posted:Does anyone else think it's funny how "bad Metroid games" only apply to Other M and Fed Force, like everyone forgets Metroid Prime Pinball happened That's because Metroid Prime Pinball was great
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Feb 19, 2023 00:57
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From what I’ve seen people seem to really like pinball
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Orange Crush Rush posted:Does anyone else think it's funny how "bad Metroid games" only apply to Other M and Fed Force, like everyone forgets Metroid Prime Pinball happened Prime Pinball got a pass cause it was a spin-off that happened while we were still getting plenty of good Metroid games. Other M was the game that put the franchise into its second dark age, and Fed Force was a slap in the face for Metroid fans who thought Nintendo was just taking the piss with Metroid for its 30th anniversary, especially after AM2R got C&D'd.
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Feb 19, 2023 01:02
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Orange Crush Rush posted:Does anyone else think it's funny how "bad Metroid games" only apply to Other M and Fed Force, like everyone forgets Metroid Prime Pinball happened Metroid Prime Pinball was a solid video pinball game. I'd take it over the campaign in Hunters these days.
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RBA Starblade posted:That's because Metroid Prime Pinball was great Yeah. Creative board design, great graphics for the DS, a whole campaign to give you something to shoot for other than high scores, and good sound. It's not a main release, but it's quite good as a spin-off.
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Just finished the Prime remaster. I feel like they toned the difficulty down a touch? Ridley was a disgusting asspain way back when, but he seemed to get dunked into oblivion easier this time around. Ditto Metroid prime itself, I remember going back to get literally everything in the game on the GC version and barely scraping through the fight, but I did both rounds with Prime itself in a single go.
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Feb 19, 2023 01:40
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Metroid Prime Pinball could have used a little more work as a pinball title but it was still solid portable digital pinball for 2005. The rumble, though extraneous, was still a nice touch to give some force feedback.
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Icon Of Sin posted:Just finished the Prime remaster. I feel like they toned the difficulty down a touch? Ridley was a disgusting asspain way back when, but he seemed to get dunked into oblivion easier this time around. Ditto Metroid prime itself, I remember going back to get literally everything in the game on the GC version and barely scraping through the fight, but I did both rounds with Prime itself in a single go. Did you use the new controls? Because the game isn’t really balanced around the less clunky new stuff
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CharlestheHammer posted:Did you use the new controls? Because the game isn’t really balanced around the less clunky new stuff poo poo, you’re probably right. I did use the new ones, that might explain it. But I think Ridley’s triggers were slightly different too? I thought his ground-phase started after you’d knocked off half his life, but just now it didn’t start until he was ~2/3 dead.
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I have a sealed copy of Metroid Prime Pinball. I'd assume now is the time to sell it with the inevitable collector association with the remaster. How do I do that and not get screwed?
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Icon Of Sin posted:poo poo, you’re probably right. I did use the new ones, that might explain it. But I think Ridley’s triggers were slightly different too? I thought his ground-phase started after you’d knocked off half his life, but just now it didn’t start until he was ~2/3 dead. I was looking up version changes and they've made adjustments to both Ridley and Metroid Prime a few times since the initial release Also if you ever replayed it on Hard, you may be used to everything doing more damage and having more health
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245/250 missiles Pain.
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Do you still have to re-fight the Chozo ghosts even if you'd only just left the room and come back? Because that poo poo has been preventing what would've been yearly playthroughs for decades now.
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LividLiquid posted:Do you still have to re-fight the Chozo ghosts even if you'd only just left the room and come back? If you move two rooms away and come back things respawn.
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LividLiquid posted:Do you still have to re-fight the Chozo ghosts even if you'd only just left the room and come back? They will respawn, but other than two specific rooms where the ghosts are basically minibosses, you can just walk past them.
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Uuuuuuuuuuuuugh. All these versions later and they can't make them only respawn if you leave the whole area. Why? WHYYYYY?! I don't know if I hate the music because of the encounters, or if I hate the encounters because of the music, but after only 4 lifetime playthroughs total, I never want to fight those assholes ever again. This was true after my first playthrough. That room with the giant Chozo statue that hurls you like a bowling ball is a really cool setpiece that can get absolutely get hosed.
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Natural 20 posted:245/250 missiles I'm gonna take a wild guess and say, it's the X-Ray visor one in Triclops Pit in Magmoor.
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Fedule posted:I'm gonna take a wild guess and say, it's the X-Ray visor one in Triclops Pit in Magmoor. Nah sadly not. Got that one without the visor early.
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One of the underwater ones where you need to bomb jump to reach it?
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Natural 20 posted:Nah sadly not. Got that one without the visor early.
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hughesta posted:Watery Hall underwater section? It's this one. I'm nearly 100% sure. I can't play but I'm checking in the morning.
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Natural 20 posted:It's this one. Check main hall in Chozo Ruins, there’s a pretty random one where you super missle a tree root knot that always gets me
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LividLiquid posted:Uuuuuuuuuuuuugh. Yeah I just did that part today, it rules. Chozo Ghosts are easy on Normal, you can murder the poo poo out of them with Super Missiles. It’s just on Hard that they are fuckers. Edit: Orange Crush Rush posted:Check main hall in Chozo Ruins, there’s a pretty random one where you super missle a tree root knot that always gets me I forgot to do that one earlier, but I think it requires the grapple beam? Or else you have to make a really awkward jump. Also Prime Pinball was awesome, you got to fight Thardus as a pinball how cool is that?!
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Orange Crush Rush posted:Does anyone else think it's funny how "bad Metroid games" only apply to Other M and Fed Force, like everyone forgets Metroid Prime Pinball happened Metroid Prime Pinball loving ruled Blackbelt Bobman posted:I forgot to do that one earlier, but I think it requires the grapple beam? Or else you have to make a really awkward jump. you don’t need the grapple beam you can just drop down from the walkway above it
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