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bees x1000 posted:it'd be cool if Dread has the good parts of Fusion without the bad (railroading, time wasting exposition robot). that's basically what they've indicated they're going for - they keep emphasising super metroid-esque level of exploration and potential for sequence breaking, and unintrusive cutscenes/story elements i am very optimistic for this game, everything they've shown off & said looks exactly what i'd want. samus returns was just ok but it looks like they've figured out what makes the series great this time, hopefully it delivers.
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Shiroc posted:I have never been able to get into the original Metroid or Super Metroid. I didn't have a NES or SNES as a kid and the more archaic design philosophies drag on me without having any nostalgia. what's archaic about super metroid. it controls clunky & the default control scheme is awkward but i don't think it's aged that badly. metroid 1 on the other hand obviously has not aged well at all i'm very much looking forward to dread because it looks like it controls very smoothly for the first time ever in a 2D metroid.
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bladeworksmaster posted:So it might just be me, but I do think that Mark is a little too enamored with the idea of Metroid 1's design with regards to modern game development, and is way too scathing with Zero Mission's guidance system which is actually one I like for being near entirely optional when you know what you're doing and more of a suggestion. I also don't hate guidance in of itself when the game merely tells you "Here's where you need to go, good luck." and not give you anything beyond that, so I've never been down with bashing Fusion, ZM and even Prime for how they've done it previously. in the Prime games that guidance is unfortunately especially necessary at times because sometimes the way to progress is to backtrack to some completely unrelated previous area you probably wouldn't have thought to check, especially with the lack of fast-travel. it'd be nice if the design was improved a little bit so that say, Prime 1 doesn't kinda encourage you to go into the abandoned ship (because it's right there after getting the Ice Beam & newly explorable) before getting the Gravity Suit which is actually on the other side of the map. there are certainly good things about the non-linear approach of Metroid 1 that it'd be nice to see other games build upon but it has way too many flaws on its own to be worth playing these days. Hollow Knight & La-Mulana are examples of Metroidvanias that really do effectively provide that sort of non-linearity, without the same flaws as Metroid 1.
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:Huge spoiler incoming: [spoiler]You fight motherbrain and ridley, and also acquire items that make you more powerful.[/spioler] they've already shown off a fight against one of the 'central units' which is basically just mother brain
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all the previews have said 'the melee counter kinda sucked in samus returns but it's good here'
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axiom verge 2 is very good & in some ways much better than the first, it's a much more distinct thing than just the metroid-aping original bloodstained is pretty mediocre - combat feels bad, progression is extremely linear without much real exploration, ugly graphical style
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there have been a bunch of difficult developer-intended sequence breaks discovered already, it's definitely not fusion.
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you can only get bombs & a 3rd energy tank at that point if you do a somewhat difficult sequence break involving damage boosting across some gaps
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Oct 9, 2021 07:39
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Toebone posted:Can I get a hint on where to go next? Pretty early on - shoot the wall to the left of the elevator at the start of Cataris
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Oct 9, 2021 12:55
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like everything else in the game, the ending is clearly explained by some sort of special DNA (just something to do with it they didn't explain in game)
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they also reduced the default difficulty of prime 2 on wii and made the original difficulty 'veteran mode'. some of the hardest bosses in the original were nerfed even on veteran mode too. i only ever played the wii version so i never experienced just how bullshit the original boost guardian apparently was. prime 2 is pretty good but you could tell development was a little rushed - the two worlds concept was a bit half-baked in execution, the ammo stuff was pointless, some of the backtracking you have to do is particularly out of the way and breaks up the flow when each area is mostly self-contained otherwise prime 3 really doesn't have that much going for it compared to the others, it streamlined things too much. it makes an attempt at having more of a plot but it's not very compelling (though at least it wasn't other m). it's still decent, just lacking as a metroid.
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DeafNote posted:Boost Guardian was so hard at first even the devs couldnt beat it consistently tho.
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fusion's bosses are harder and far more annoying than dread's
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