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Xenomrph posted:I have the Prime Trilogy on the Wii, should I play Prime 2 and 3 next or hold out for a remaster? Xenomrph posted:If I should play them, how easy is it to get a handle on the Wii controls? It's better though on PrimeHack which gives you both dual-stick and keyboard+mouse controls.
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Prime 2 gets points for being the one time I can think of where Samus is on a planet for an extended period of time and actually saves its inhabitants. How many other Metroid games end with a local population cheering her on as a hero, rather than just piles of dead alien monsters or a cloud of debris in space like Alderaan?
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Mar 13, 2023 16:19
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Asterite34 posted:Prime 2 gets points for being the one time I can think of where Samus is on a planet for an extended period of time and actually saves its inhabitants.
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Mar 13, 2023 16:21
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ExcessBLarg! posted:
Nope, I got the steelbook trilogy collection for cheap back in the day with the knowledge that I should play them someday, and then never got around to it until now.
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Mar 13, 2023 16:21
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Prime 2 is also great for enabling this gif 
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Mar 13, 2023 16:35
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He says, posting a png E: lol fixed
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Xenomrph posted:Nope, I got the steelbook trilogy collection for cheap back in the day with the knowledge that I should play them someday, and then never got around to it until now. I get where you're coming from though. I own a handful of Wii games that I either bounced off of or never got into due to motion controls or just simply that the Wii wasn't great anymore after I upgraded from a 13" CRT to an actual HDTV. I ripped them all years ago though so now I'm getting back into them through emulation.
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Mar 13, 2023 16:38
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ExcessBLarg! posted:She does leave it ripe for both the Federation and Space Pirates to swoop in and take all the remaining phazon. I'm sure they'll be fine. who do you think built the sci-fi fortress filled with killer robots? the moth people will gently caress up anyone who tries to mess with them. also there’s a lore entry in Prime 3 that says they’re doing pretty well for themselves
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Mar 13, 2023 16:39
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prime 2 committed the unforgivable sin of having bottomless pits in a metroid game….imo the two initial standouts of the metroid series as a contrast with other platformers of the time are 1) you have to go to the right AND to the left, and 2) you also have to go up and down so if you fall down a hole then you are at the bottom of the hole now and have to get back up. so when prime 2 came out i was real mad that there were bottomless pits everywhere.
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Mar 13, 2023 16:42
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ExcessBLarg! posted:Was it when Best Buy clearanced them for $20? That's how I got mine. Possibly? I can’t quite remember, it’s been a long time since I bought it. Doesn’t it fetch a hefty price on the secondary market now?
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Mar 13, 2023 16:58
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Xenomrph posted:I have the Prime Trilogy on the Wii, should I play Prime 2 and 3 next or hold out for a remaster? We have no idea when or even if there will be remasters of Primes 2 & 3, so there's no point waiting. Apparently Retro made the remaster of Prime 1 ages ago and Nintendo has been sitting on it this whole time, but took over development of Prime 4 from the dev that was handling it before, so they haven't done any work on Prime 2 & 3, as far as we know. If there's going to be a remaster of the next two, it'll probably be another studio and who knows if it'll have new assets up to the quality of the Prime 1 remaster, or even if it'll just be the games upscaled or something.
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Mar 13, 2023 17:15
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scary ghost dog posted:prime 2 committed the unforgivable sin of having bottomless pits in a metroid game….imo the two initial standouts of the metroid series as a contrast with other platformers of the time are 1) you have to go to the right AND to the left, and 2) you also have to go up and down so if you fall down a hole then you are at the bottom of the hole now and have to get back up. so when prime 2 came out i was real mad that there were bottomless pits everywhere. Metroid 1 had pits that were impossible to get out of if you fell into them, those might as well be bottomless pits
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Mar 13, 2023 18:25
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Augus posted:Metroid 1 had pits that were impossible to get out of if you fell into them, those might as well be bottomless pits thats literally the opposite of a bottomless pit that warps you back to where you fell in.
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Mar 13, 2023 18:45
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A pit that works you back to where you started is not one that I would call a bottomless pit. Usually that's things like the pits in Mario imo
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Mar 13, 2023 18:48
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CainFortea posted:A pit that works you back to where you started is not one that I would call a bottomless pit. Usually that's things like the pits in Mario imo youre splitting hairs. i think ive made my point
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Mar 13, 2023 18:52
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scary ghost dog posted:thats literally the opposite of a bottomless pit that warps you back to where you fell in. yeah because the pits in Metroid 1 suck rear end while the ones in Prime 2 are fine
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Mar 13, 2023 19:04
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Bottomless pits are a similar principle to lava pools except you don't have to wade through hot sauce to ascend a stairwell of shame after screwing up a Grapple, so the pits win in my books
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Mar 13, 2023 19:12
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torvus bog > phendrana drifts come at me prime 1 sheeple
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Mar 13, 2023 19:40
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The deep pits you fall into in the original metroid might as well be bottomless. Your only hope is to bomb jump out of them (a cruel joke)
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Mar 13, 2023 19:43
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Asterite34 posted:Prime 2 gets points for being the one time I can think of where Samus is on a planet for an extended period of time and actually saves its inhabitants. Is the joke that it's the only game set on a planet with a (still living) local population when Samus gets there?
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Mar 13, 2023 19:49
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Kassad posted:Is the joke that it's the only game set on a planet with a (still living) local population when Samus gets there? That, and also just that she has sort of a Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds thing going on with her life
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Mar 13, 2023 20:07
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scary ghost dog posted:youre splitting hairs. i think ive made my point Not really. One kills you one doesn't.
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Mar 13, 2023 20:44
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I played Zero Mission yesterday all the way up to Ridley. It's a killer game, I love pretty much everything about it! The atmosphere is a perfect blend of the original Metroid and Super, the controls are really tight and the gameplay pacing is perfect so far.
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Mar 13, 2023 21:23
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Kassad posted:Is the joke that it's the only game set on a planet with a (still living) local population when Samus gets there? It isn't. Dread and Prime 3 both have living local populations. (It doesn't go well for them.)
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Mar 13, 2023 22:23
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Samus saves the animals in Super Metroid 
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And Fusion!
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ExcessBLarg! posted:I think with the EJRTQ Colorization it's pretty darn good. (If not, I prefer the GBP palette/screen to the partial-colorization of the GBC.) Going back to this, let’s say I have a modded 3DS with mGBA installed, can I play this? If so, how would I do it? Just… load the ROM? Or are there extra steps? I was planning to skip Metroid 2 in lieu of playing Samus Returns but the more I read and watch about it the more convinced I am that I should play both Metroid 2 and Samus Returns.
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Mar 14, 2023 01:33
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I honestly think it looks fine in the original black and white and that that contributes to the foreboding atmosphere but I also might be a fanatic lol
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Like, I mean, I totally could play it in black and white (on original hardware if I wanted to go ultra authentic, I have an OG grey brick Game Boy and a Metroid 2 cart from when I was a kid) but I also have NSO so I could play it in color on my Switch too, and that romhack looks appealing on top of that.
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Xenomrph posted:Going back to this, let’s say I have a modded 3DS with mGBA installed, can I play this? If so, how would I do it? Just… load the ROM? Or are there extra steps?
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Xenomrph posted:Like, I mean, I totally could play it in black and white (on original hardware if I wanted to go ultra authentic, I have an OG grey brick Game Boy and a Metroid 2 cart from when I was a kid)
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Mar 14, 2023 01:55
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The ghosting is an integral part of the experience.
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Augus posted:I will never forgive samus returns
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Mar 14, 2023 02:56
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i have not played other m but even so i think i like it better than samus returns
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Nikumatic posted:i have not played other m but even so i think i like it better than samus returns Haha, no. I understand why you might think so but you're going to just have to trust me on this one.
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Mar 14, 2023 03:34
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Nikumatic posted:i have not played other m but even so i think i like it better than samus returns Oh you sweet innocent Summer child...
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Nikumatic posted:i have not played other m but even so i think i like it better than samus returns 
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Nikumatic posted:i have not played other m but even so i think i like it better than samus returns you may change this opinion the first time you fire a missile.
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Nikumatic posted:i have not played other m but even so i think i like it better than samus returns Samus Returns has problems but like, Other M is REALLY bad.
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