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The spiderball sections towards the Prime endgame are so good. The morph ball mechanics and physics in general are good enough for their own dedicated game.
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Completed 100% item & scan run this weekend. It's wild how well this game holds up after 20 years, it feels so modern even today. The only thing that hasn't quite aged well is the lack of fast travel. Hope 2 & 3 get the same treatment, especially 2. Feel like people would appreciate what 2 was going for much more today compared to 2004. Back in the day I barely used the Light & Dark beams because I didn't want to waste ammo.
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Mar 6, 2023 17:38
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Palmtree Panic posted:Feel like people would appreciate what 2 was going for much more today compared to 2004. Palmtree Panic posted:Back in the day I barely used the Light & Dark beams because I didn't want to waste ammo. MP3 is probably the one that would most benefit from a remake just to dump the motion controls, since those are passé now. Or just play PrimeHack.
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Mar 6, 2023 18:00
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3's motion controls never really bothered me, but the giant slogs through the sky station world which should be fun, and is, once, did. Also the awful, AWFUL first big boss. I absolutely think MP3 has enough flaws to solidly put it in the bottom. In fact, I like 2 so much that I squarely put it at the top! Higher highs and lower lows. Like with Dark Souls 2 
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Mar 6, 2023 18:10
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Honestly I think Prime 2 is the strongest of the series. I still like Prime 1 more, mostly due to the music and atmosphere, but Prime 2 improved on it in most ways imo.
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Mar 6, 2023 18:13
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I used the Light and Dark beams whenever I wanted, because I knew the game gives you ammo pickups so that you can keep using them.
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Mar 6, 2023 18:14
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Simply Simon posted:I absolutely think MP3 has enough flaws to solidly put it in the bottom.
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Bleck posted:I used the Light and Dark beams whenever I wanted, because I knew the game gives you ammo pickups so that you can keep using them. I didn't use them much in my first playthrough - I really feel in love with the Super Missile there - but once I realized that you'll get plenty of ammo with the box-destroying technique, the game just got even better! Hell, I've started using Annihilator and turns out it's actually much better than I gave it credit for. On my first playthrough, I was very disappointed however that it simply is not nearly as good of a moment as getting the Plasma Beam is.
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Mar 6, 2023 18:19
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Simply Simon posted:Hell, I've started using Annihilator and turns out it's actually much better than I gave it credit for. On my first playthrough, I was very disappointed however that it simply is not nearly as good of a moment as getting the Plasma Beam is.
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Mar 6, 2023 18:32
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Simply Simon posted:https://twitter.com/SimonSimplex/status/1632490048326369280?t=arBWmCA_iEBmgkg5IJQ0yA&s=19 I beat Prime on GameCube, and not once do I remember using the flame thrower. I thought they just added in a new weapon or something...
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Mar 6, 2023 19:34
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Waffle! posted:I beat Prime on GameCube, and not once do I remember using the flame thrower. I thought they just added in a new weapon or something... Compare it also to the Wavebuster which is p good at killing Wave Beam pirates, which often come in pairs, locking one down as you dodge the other, then jumping to the second immediately; Flamethrower doesn't lock down poo poo when facing Plasma Beam pirates, and they take markedly longer to die using it than if you just fired three charged shots.
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Mar 6, 2023 19:41
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Big Bizness posted:The spiderball sections towards the Prime endgame are so good. The morph ball mechanics and physics in general are good enough for their own dedicated game. Lucky you, they made one.
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Mar 6, 2023 20:01
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Welp I got the thermal vision, fought my way to the top of the room, went through the door and the two sentry drones promptly kicked my rear end. Now I get to fight my way though half of the complex all over again, get the thermal vision again, and try not to die. Any tips for dealing with those sentry drones? I could barely see poo poo because they kept scrambling my vision.
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Mar 7, 2023 05:08
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Xenomrph posted:Welp I got the thermal vision, fought my way to the top of the room, went through the door and the two sentry drones promptly kicked my rear end. You can super missile one from outside the room, then prepare a second one for the other while you walk into the room.
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Mar 7, 2023 05:16
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Xenomrph posted:Welp I got the thermal vision, fought my way to the top of the room, went through the door and the two sentry drones promptly kicked my rear end. Wave beam can stun them right back. I think 2 charged shots kills one? Also, don’t stop dodging against those drat things. Lock on, hop around as best you can in that narrow room*, and give them a shock. Doesn’t matter how much they miss you by, as long as they actually miss. *these are the ones in the narrow room near the top of the visor room, right? I remember being pissed at some drones in that general area.
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Icon Of Sin posted:Wave beam can stun them right back. I think 2 charged shots kills one? Also, don’t stop dodging against those drat things. Lock on, hop around as best you can in that narrow room*, and give them a shock. I was spamming the wave beam like crazy and I thought I was doing charged shots but maybe I was missing, I’ll try and hit them with some super missiles. It felt silly to fight a few big scary Metroids and clown them with super missiles, only to get dunked on in the very next room by a pair of sentry bots.
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Remaster owned but it made me want something a bit more dynamic so now I'm downloading Dread. Haven't played a 2D metroid since Fusion.
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Dread difficulty is a slog. The homing missile boss kicked my poo poo in for two days. It's also really hard to see the smaller enemies in handheld mode so sometimes Im dying for seemingly no reason and have to do a huge platforming section multiple times. I don't think I'm going to bother going for 100 percent, getting around the environment is more difficult than the boss fights sometimes.
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Mar 8, 2023 01:48
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Great Beer posted:The homing missile boss kicked my poo poo in for two days. you can halve its health if you run into the boss room with speedbooster and shinespark into it.
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Mar 8, 2023 01:53
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TaurusOxford posted:you can halve its health if you run into the boss room with speedbooster and shinespark into it. You can do this same trick for crossbomb boss, too!
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Mar 8, 2023 01:59
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Fuuuuck that would have helped a lot.
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Mar 8, 2023 01:59
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Great Beer posted:Fuuuuck that would have helped a lot. Not only that, but if you learn how to sequence break and get Screw Attack early it turns the fight into a complete joke
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Mar 8, 2023 02:06
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Will that still work on Dread difficulty? I thought you still took damage if you didn't kill what you hit.
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Great Beer posted:Will that still work on Dread difficulty? I thought you still took damage if you didn't kill what you hit. Nah, that's mostly with just the Chozo Robos. Escue was intentionally designed to eat poo poo from the Screw Attack.
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TaurusOxford posted:Nah, that's mostly with just the Chozo Robos. Escue was intentionally designed to eat poo poo from the Screw Attack. Escue even has unique animations for getting hit by the Screw Attack to really drive this home.
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Mar 8, 2023 02:32
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Hmm is there a list of "obvious" (clearly intended) Dread sequence breaks?
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Psycho Landlord posted:Remaster owned but it made me want something a bit more dynamic so now I'm downloading Dread. Haven't played a 2D metroid since Fusion. trip report: holy poo poo the controls in this game are tight
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ExcessBLarg! posted:Hmm is there a list of "obvious" (clearly intended) Dread sequence breaks? Yeah you should Google it because it's a fun way to play. Escue is my least favorite boss so the sequence break is very welcome.
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Metroid Prime travel update Just got the spider ball after killing the rock monster, got the ice beam, on my way back to Phendrana to investigate a gravity anomaly. I also grabbed a Chozo artifact in the husk of the tendril plant boss I fought earlier in the Sun chamber. I know where three other Chozo artifacts are but haven’t worked out how to get them yet, I must not have the tools yet.
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I now have all the artifacts, all the power bomb expansions, all the energy tanks… and 245/250 missiles. 
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Metroid Prime Update: Got covid and couldn't play for like 2 weeks and now can't remember what the gently caress I was doing or where i'm going or what my last upgrade was.
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CainFortea posted:Metroid Prime Update: Got covid and couldn't play for like 2 weeks and now can't remember what the gently caress I was doing or where i'm going or what my last upgrade was. If the game senses you’ve been spinning your wheels for a while, it will give you a hint on where to go next.
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Water levels suck. Ice levels suck. But Metroid Prime 1 followed the lead of Secret of Mana's Ice Country and Mario 64's Jolly Roger Bay and gave them two of the best loving tracks in gaming history and now those areas are what I look forward to most on replays. I'm really excited to play the remake this fall.
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LividLiquid posted:I'm really excited to play the remake this fall. Is that when your pre-order is finally scheduled to deliver?
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Trip report: went through the sunken reactor, found the elevator to the phazon mines, fought my way to ore processing while getting my rear end kicked by those specialist wave and pulse troopers, got killed. Now I get to go through the mines all over again. Any hot tips for how to deal with these assholes?
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Xenomrph posted:Trip report: went through the sunken reactor, found the elevator to the phazon mines, fought my way to ore processing while getting my rear end kicked by those specialist wave and pulse troopers, got killed. Now I get to go through the mines all over again. Wave Troopers can be easily stun-locked with charged wave beam, and Power Troopers die to one Super Missile.
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TaurusOxford posted:Wave Troopers can be easily stun-locked with charged wave beam, and Power Troopers die to one Super Missile. You also don't need to fully charge the wave beam to stunlock the Wave Troopers, as soon as you hear the noise of it starting to charge you can fire and get them in a stun state.
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Dieting Hippo posted:You also don't need to fully charge the wave beam to stunlock the Wave Troopers, as soon as you hear the noise of it starting to charge you can fire and get them in a stun state. theres no damage difference between a partially charged beam and a fully charged one in any case
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Viper915 posted:Is that when your pre-order is finally scheduled to deliver?
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Fusion is out on the NSO emulator. Samus being super bulky is going to take some getting used to. Also lol at the intro being like "The X parasite required surgery to remove, drastically altering my appearance!" But then she's still just regular supermodel Samus.
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