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LODGE NORTH posted:I have somehow decided that despite having all of the original consoles paired with flashcarts and a MiSTer FPGA and who knows how many emulation handhelds, that the best way to play through the series before Dread drops is on a Switch. Great plan! I actually just ran all 4 in a row the other day (AM2R instead of 2 or SR as well) and it was a blast. AM2R gave me some trouble, died a couple times a ways from a save point and I got lost in the gravity suit area. And as much as I've played Super, I managed to get horribly lost in pre-grapple Norfair, Lower Norfair, and Ridley Escape. Weirdly I blew through Maridia, where I always get lost. Speaking of blowing through, Fusion was super quick, despite me being half asleep (started it on hour 10.5 of streaming or something) and randomly typing in chat about Dread with a couple followers. Hell, the last half hour was done after taking my sleeping pill. Very fun experience and put me in the right mood for Dread and today's trailer just made that hype skyrocket
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:The gently caress? Super Metroid controls the nicest of the entire series. The physics are a little bit floaty so that it's more forgiving to do all the advanced moves, and using the shoulder buttons to go into somersaults is extremely fluid. Plus you have superior air control pre-space-jump. The next best was Zero Mission, and it felt almost exactly like Super Metroid at the end when you finally unlocked all of your suit capabilities. I figured they meant the literal default controls. X to shoot and A to jump is a travesty imo. Two decades now the first thing I change is shoot on Y and jump on B
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UZR IS BULLSHIT posted:Without spoiling too much: In Super Metroid, which boss is meant to be done first, Maridia or Norfair? You have gravity suit, right? If so, Maridia. Vague directional hint: You're looking for a room up top (I think) you can grapple across. That should put you in rooms with Mocktroids, enemies that sorta look like Metroids. If you see them you're going in the right direction
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Sep 11, 2021 02:02
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Improbable Lobster posted:Samus can now change genders by hanging out in a coffin mandatory lesbian posted:The genders are woman, bird, and metroid Gonna need this romhack
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Oct 2, 2021 23:59
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Procrastine posted:In Zero Mission, you can grab any Super Missile tank and unlock Supers (the same applies to Missiles and Power Bombs but you'd need serious glitches to reach one other than the intended "first" tanks) I think they meant the three unknown items Edit: Didn't one of the Dread Reports specifically reassure sequence breaking was in?
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Oct 5, 2021 16:19
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Missles in Metroid are weirdly the one thing I don't hoard in video games. I'm awful in RPGs because I refuse to buy anything lest I find it free somewhere. Yet here I spam missiles all the time
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Oct 5, 2021 23:55
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Crazy Joe Wilson posted:Honest question time, I've been playing a lot of Fusion and Zero Mission lately (Don't have a switch for Dread, but got a used DS recently, and those are 2 of the 4 games I have for it), and does anyone feel like some of the puzzles for items in those games were... too hard? Maybe I'm too much of an old man, but some of them require a lot of shinesparking and perfect reflexes and... I don't have that. Tween Endy here had trouble with them too, don't worry. But I made up for it with patience. And being on a road trip helped. I tried the Chozodia shinespark one a few weeks ago when I streamed all the 2D games and after messing it up like twice I said screw it
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Oct 6, 2021 01:53
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Orange Crush Rush posted:I'm not saying that, I'm saying that calling poo poo like hard bosses and tricky environmental puzzles to solve design flaws in a Metroid game seems a bit off the mark. That Washington Post review saying a big negative is the fact that you can't progress until you figure out what to do or beat an enemy and giving it a 7/10 is just  Like... I don't care about review scores but that's just dumb.
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Oct 6, 2021 15:52
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How about, and I just thought of this, it's totally original... you search for items and there's lots of action, so it's like Search-Action
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Oct 6, 2021 16:11
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ZeeBoi posted:Ah, that new Metroid feeling. Can’t wait to play more in the next few days! The last time I had that feeling it was 2010 and it sucked
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Oct 8, 2021 05:57
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I screenshotted that exact line too. gently caress you Adam
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Oct 9, 2021 02:59
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A thing that irrationally annoys me: I habitually shoot the door in save rooms right as I save. In this game, they shut again when saving is complete 
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Oct 9, 2021 04:09
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I'm like barely ever melee-ing. I picked up all these missiles, I'm gonna use them. Speaking of, this is the first Metroid where I'm using missiles to expose block types. Feels weird.
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Ha, got the "unknown item found". Look, not my fault it was in a ridiculously easy spot in Artaria Edit: And another one right after it after riding an elevator. If the only thing blocking me was a grapple missile block, I'm gonna pick it up Endymion FRS MK1 fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Oct 9, 2021 |
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Game is amazing and well worth the wait. Just got the item that opens green bubble shields and had to go to work. Longest 8 hours ever. Also, gently caress FedEx. I ordered the Walmart coffee mug edition a few weeks ago. Ships the day before stops in a city less than an hour away from me. Yesterday it departs, I'm thinking cool, I'll probably be able to go home on my lunch break and open it and at least get the intro out of the way. Nope. So I buy from Target instead. Left work a couple hours early and grabbed it. At 8pm my FedEx status updates to "delayed till the 9th", and it's sitting in a city 30 minutes away. I'm returning it tomorrow and keeping my Target copy. For anyone from the Ohio area, it left Grove City at 7am yesterday, and ended up in Columbus at 8pm. Just continuing my streak of literally nothing from FedEx arriving on time, ever. Sorry for the rant!
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Oct 9, 2021 19:43
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I got this tank, but I still don't know the exact mechanics of going boosted ball -> charging a spark I did it but I'm not sure how
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Oct 11, 2021 15:52
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Maybe it's because I was on a pro controller, but I never found the controls an issue. Aside from occasionally firing a middle instead of grappling, at least. And re: Shinespark puzzles, it felt no more egregious than Fusion or ZM. In none of these three games is the Shinespark required or explained fully. I remember in the GBA games needing a guide for a couple of the puzzles in each game. Granted, I was a preteen/teenager when they came out but still
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Oct 13, 2021 04:17
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JBP posted:Was the reveal that the bird monster is your dad some kind of story built up over time? It made me laugh. To add what others said, I think Raven Beak wanted it to be an epic reveal but the devs and by extension Samus knew it was laughable. Note how Samus kinda blows it off and just starts blasting
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Oct 15, 2021 04:53
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uPen posted:Where else do those buttons show up? I haven't 100% the game but that arena was the only place I remember encountering red buttons that you shoot to turn them green. I just started a hard mode run and there's definitely like at least two once you get spider grip. Don't even have morph yet to give an indication of how early I am
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Oct 15, 2021 20:20
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RBA Starblade posted:I tried to get the shinespark kill on the Experiment in Cataris but the first time I got it, it didn't register I hit him, and the second time it didn't register AND I took damage from a swipe. The third time it wouldn't stop screw attacking so I gave up and just shot it to death. gently caress you too I guess. I'm doing a hard mode run and I thought "hey I'll try the Shinespark quick kill" and failed miserably at it twice. Did it the normal way spamming storm missiles and ripped through the fight That being said shinesparking Escue was glorious
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Oct 17, 2021 06:35
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Mr. Nice! posted:What does it do? I don’t have the game handy. Instant morph
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Oct 18, 2021 03:36
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 Alright, guess it's time to go for sub 4s
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Oct 18, 2021 18:37
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Kin posted:So, any pointers for the final boss? It seemed like whenever I didn't get hit and beam spammed while invulnerable he opened up more often. Anecdotal though
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Oct 18, 2021 23:31
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XavierGenisi posted:Top 3 for me are honestly like, It's been... gently caress it's been literally a decade since I last played it, but I really liked the Phantoon postgame moment. Both in concept and the fight
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Oct 29, 2021 00:20
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I found it pretty funny when I read the (Experiment fight spoilers I guess?) healed itself with the tentacles. I instinctively immediately locked onto all of them and killed them because I assumed it was gonna be some crazy attack
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Oct 30, 2021 04:55
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Now this is dread
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Oct 30, 2021 15:52
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I Am Just a Box posted:The game does tell you that an EMMI in chase mode will not be fooled by the Phantom Cloak. It doesn't think you're not there anymore just because you turned invisible. Phantom Cloak is useful for preventing the chase from starting (it's actually really effective in Ferenia's EMMI zone) but once a chase starts you're supposed to run, not hide. Or in stealth game terms, it's like a cardboard box. Great when in normal mode, useless on alert or evasion
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No Dignity posted:Thread please advise - if I started a playthrough of Metroid Prime 2 how likely am I to get brutally owned when Nintendo announce a remaster of it in like six months time and I've already have my fill of the game? (Exactly what happened to me with Prime 1) Hurry up and start it so we can get a Prime 2 Remaster before Christmas
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ImpAtom posted:I would love to see a modern remake of Fusion that amped up the SAX a bit instead of it being only in 1-2 predefined segments. Though I guess to some degree that is just the robots from Dread except not necessarily insta-kill. Resident Evil 2 but with Ms. X instead of Mr. X
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