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all I know is that when she takes the suit off in Prime 2 and Prime 3 anime Samus is jarring as gently caress compare to the art style of the whole rest of the game
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i'm a feminist *jams metroid cart into chinese pawn shop famicom clone*
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Jul 23, 2014 01:12
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The Sharmat posted:all I know is that when she takes the suit off in Prime 2 and Prime 3 anime Samus is jarring as gently caress compare to the art style of the whole rest of the game How is it jarring when people praise Nintendo for always including brightly colored cartoon characters?
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The Taint Reaper posted:Seriously compare Mario and Luigi to all the bearded/moustache anime guys, they fit right in. And it becomes especially evident when you see "Super Mario Bros.: Peach-Hime Kyushutsu Dai Sakusen". i really wish mario had evolved more like armstrong from full metal alchemist than the way he did 
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Jul 23, 2014 01:13
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samus shouldn't have a personality ("strong, silent type" is good enough) and metroid games shouldn't have stories. no NPCs either, there should be a prime objective and that's it, the rest is just lonely exploration
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Jul 23, 2014 01:14
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Prime's logs are the perfect point between NPC interaction and loneliness Samus all readin' blogs off pirate computers and going "Heh, that science team." and going back to exploring
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Jul 23, 2014 01:15
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The Taint Reaper posted:How is it jarring when people praise Nintendo for always including brightly colored cartoon characters? read the second half of their post
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JethroMcB posted:samus shouldn't have a personality ("strong, silent type" is good enough) and metroid games shouldn't have stories. no NPCs either, there should be a prime objective and that's it, the rest is just lonely exploration But Metroid has never conveyed loneliness because you're always surrounded by room fulls of enemies. Dark Souls did a better job at conveying loneliness, bar has been raised. Dark Souls even has people who you meet and tell you to go away or be overly caustic to you further enforcing the loneliness.
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Jul 23, 2014 01:16
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Hog Butcher posted:Prime's logs are the perfect point between NPC interaction and loneliness
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Jul 23, 2014 01:18
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when does Science Team get its own game?
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Hog Butcher posted:Prime's logs are the perfect point between NPC interaction and loneliness Yeah Prime was the platonic ideal of how I would want story in a Metroid game. On the fringes, there if I want to explore it. The Taint Reaper posted:But Metroid has never conveyed loneliness because you're always surrounded by room fulls of enemies. But the enemies are just part of the atmosphere; alien obstacles that are faceless, voiceless. They exist only to kill or be killed, the only meaningful interaction you can have with them is through the barrel of your gun.
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The Sharmat posted:when does Science Team get its own game? Science Team needs no game, Science Team is a state of mind. JethroMcB posted:
Which is pretty much every single player shooting game ever. Do people feel the same way about Doom? No they don't. That was just stuff the fans built up to try and raise Metroid up and above what was physically there. The Taint Reaper fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Jul 23, 2014 |
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Jul 23, 2014 01:20
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The Taint Reaper posted:Science Team needs no game, Science Team is a state of mind. I want to play the poo poo out of that state of mind then
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Jul 23, 2014 01:21
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Dark Souls is pretty good game if you care about atmosphere as well as Riven and Myst. You have time to actually take it in since it's a very slow and methodical game. If a game is non-stop action you tend to miss the actual atmosphere.
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The whole "Metroid is so lonely" thing is mostly nerds projecting being lonely themselves because they only bought cool singleplayer games. If you were at all disempowered or there were signs of decay or abandonment in any Metroid environments other than like the wrecked ship then it might have an argument but yeah no. The whole "faceless enemies" thing is also kind of bunk because of the entire concept of Prime scan logs. The Space Pirates have a legitimate hierarchy and community and you're exploring their stuff, often with them still in it, and all the creatures aren't far off in terms of detail and trying to seem like an ecology. Basically, I'd probably give a kidney for another Metroid at this point, but The Taint Reaper posted:That was just stuff the fans built up to try and raise Metroid up and above what was physically there. e: I'll start rolling my eyes at people bringing up Dark Souls comparisons as soon as games start doing things that Dark Souls does as well as it does.
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Jul 23, 2014 02:04
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I will never buy a dark souls because the fans are worse than juggalos
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Jul 23, 2014 03:51
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I played it for like ten minutes once and yeah it's hard as hell because the controls are loving retarded I'd say it's on par with superman 64
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Jul 23, 2014 03:55
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Flynn Taggart posted:I will never buy a dark souls because the fans are worse than juggalos dark souls fans are pretty loving awful but i think they're cool games once you get around the learning curve really overrated games, sure, but pretty cool the series peaked with dark souls anyway 
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Jul 23, 2014 04:09
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If I knew Dark Souls was so triggering I would have said Shadow of Colossus, Gone Home or Stanley parable. The point still remains that the crushing loneliness for 8-16bit games is mostly projection
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Jul 23, 2014 04:19
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I'm gonna project my foot up your rear end
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Jul 23, 2014 04:20
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Flynn Taggart posted:I'm gonna project my foot up your rear end Fine I'll say Journey and Flower, gawd.
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yeah, a game where you always have some dork by your side does a great job projecting a feeling of loneliness. super metroid has a better atmosphere than dark "oops we forgot to write the story, item descriptions are enough right???" souls
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Silver Striker posted:yeah, a game where you always have some dork by your side does a great job projecting a feeling of loneliness. I played it in offline mode. Nobody can bother you.
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Jul 23, 2014 04:25
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ladyboy pancake posted:Why the hell would you play Journey offline Because maybe I don't want to feel rushed when looking for that magic flower?
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Flynn Taggart posted:I played it for like ten minutes once and yeah it's hard as hell because the controls are loving retarded you're not even trying
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Silver Striker posted:yeah, a game where you always have some dork by your side does a great job projecting a feeling of loneliness. are you being serious here
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Jul 23, 2014 07:00
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The Taint Reaper posted:Samus wears no socks, I wonder how bad her foot fungus gets from being in the suit the entire time. 
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quakster posted:some people lead exciting lives Samus leads an exciting life
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The Taint Reaper posted:If I knew Dark Souls was so triggering I would have said Shadow of Colossus, Gone Home or Stanley parable. It's very intentional and effective in Super Metroid though. Having mindless aliens and space pirates around doesn't make it lively.
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when people talk about metroid being 'empty' and 'lonely' i assume they're talking about metroid 2 which was really empty and had you crawling along the walls of big caverns with little reason or direction
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But Rocks Hurt Head posted:when people talk about metroid being 'empty' and 'lonely' i assume they're talking about metroid 2 which was really empty and had you crawling along the walls of big caverns with little reason or direction metroid 2 was my first metroid and it was pretty atmospheric for a game boy game when i was a kid. i really didn't like having to go further and further into the bowels of the horrible planet alone
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