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Metroid Prime insane shit
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HomerSimpson-Man
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I have yet to actually put time in this game, it just sits there with all those my other games begging for my time. How long does it take to beat anyway?
HomerSimpson-Man
Member
14 hours? Sounds reasonable enough. I need to get a better memory card, I save like a madman and the Xbox harddrive spoils me. My memory card is practically nothing but Resident Evil 4....it's a sickness.
CajoleJuice
Member
15 hours here I think. You should definitely put it on the top of your to-do-list Homer if you enjoyed Super Metroid (especially the atmospheric part of it).
MP only takes one block of memory.
MP only takes one block of memory.
This site should do.
http://www.metroid2002.com/
It covers all the tricks and glitches you can exploit in the Metroid series.
http://www.metroid2002.com/
It covers all the tricks and glitches you can exploit in the Metroid series.
Lizard said:
Speaking of tricks,
http://speeddemosarchive.com/gamelist/FullList.html
Look at the metroid speed runs. insane.
ForzaItalia
Banned
HomerSimpson-Man said:
Ya, same here. First year it came out in November I got to the final boss and haven't touched the game since. In MP2:E, last November I got to that worm boss and haven't touched it since. The only game I've finished in recent years is RE4. It's so hard to find time.
hooded pitohui
Member
I'm so queer for completion points that I had to start over a couple times for missing a one-time scan. I've yet to actually finish it. 
marvelharvey
Member
Wow, just noticed that the Euro version had a narrator!
http://www.metroid2002.com/version_differences_area_voice.php
I actually enjoyed the silence, added to the sense of being stuck on this planet alone.
http://www.metroid2002.com/version_differences_area_voice.php
I actually enjoyed the silence, added to the sense of being stuck on this planet alone.
AgentOtaku
Member
hooded pitohui said:I'm so queer for completion points that I had to start over a couple times for missing a one-time scan. I've yet to actually finish it.
You and me are in the same boat. I've had this game for 2+ years :lol
Buggy Loop
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speedpop said:
When it comes to gameplay mechanics, boss fights, atmosphere, art, level design, echoes is superior to prime in every ways. What to some peoples, including me make the original prime more memorable is that a) its focused on metroids unlike echoes b) music c) phendrana rifts.
Otherwise, i found echoes so be really awesome. Brinstar remix ftw!
HomerSimpson-Man
Member
Ancestor said:
Me, get off GAF?! That's impossible!!! It's like some wonderful sadistic drug!!
Kuramu
Member
Dice said:
ok, toward the top, theres one really big shroom cap. You can get under it and double jump to a meduim shroom under the ledge. From there you can double-strafe jump onto another medium shroom in the corner near the entrance. From there,we can't find any way higher. The thing is,there's an orange glow up therde... it's so inviting.
HomerSimpson-Man
Member
koam said:
For a guy who has like 40 FFX saves, and 90 Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic saves, on top of the dozens of other games saves, the standard GC memory card was child's play to fill. Like I said, it's a sickness.
CajoleJuice
Member
You can't spare one block?HomerSimpson-Man said:
HomerSimpson-Man
Member
PuertoRicanJuice said:
Well the back of box says it needs 2 blocks, I'm going to have to suffle something around, but I really prefer a newer bigger card really, that and time.
I remember playing this game for the first and been blown the fuck away by it, the space frigate part is orgasmic. the atmosphere is off the roof in that part, the graphics are unbelievable and then Phendrana Drifts 
easily GOTG for me, especially when taken into account all the negative hype and doubt surrounding the title.
can't wait to see what retro does with prime 3.
easily GOTG for me, especially when taken into account all the negative hype and doubt surrounding the title.
can't wait to see what retro does with prime 3.
wait a sec, that site doesn't list(or i can't find it listed) the bomb trick where you can lay bombs in a certain pattern and propel your guy upwards to unreachable ledges early in the game in Super Metroid and I believe metroid on NES. Although when I was a kid I thought I had 'invented' it, I thought this was pretty common knowledge for anyone who's played metroid a lot.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
I got to the second part, but never got the strafe jump down (tried plenty). I eventually got bored with it and didn't want to run 50 miles to the nearest save point (biggest flaw in MP) so I just turned it off, so now I'm in the impact crater.Kuramu said:
Timen said:
Coincidence: I finished Echoes last month and I was totally, I mean TOTALLY disappointed.
Boring levels, boring boss fights (excluding that gigantic mecha-spider), ultra-stupid 3-tier last boss fight, shitty music (excluding Fortress theme), shitty main menu (while Prime's rocked), boring enemies, dark world sucking your life, fucking AMMO counters, absolutely unnecessary "Guardians" bosses, boring weapons (dark beam "freezing" enemies? what a fucking ice beam rip off) and so on, and so on.
Where was Echoes' Thardus? Or Meta Ridley? Phenandra Drifts? Magmoor?
Nowhere - Echoes is just soulless and unispired.
Echoes is the GameCube's KOTOR2.
A forgetable 7/10 game that had a brilliant predecessor.
(thank god it wasn't like DX: Invisible War)
What's utterly unbelievable is that Echoes' Multiplayer gave me a much more enjoyable time than the SP game - that's how bad it is.
Borys said:
Those are the serious problems I was talking about indeed. I guess i'll have to add that enemies are seriously overpowered in this game. I'd rather have 5 enemies that I can shoot and win than lose half my energy bar to one stupid creature that I have to strafe my way around all the time.
But I couldn't help but notice how gorgeous the game looks, the amount of detail put in the game is just insane.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
What I don't like is how the beam fires when you push the button down, not when you let go. This can be overlooked with unlimited weapons, but if you're on a limited ammo weapon and fighting enemies that need to be taken out with charged shots, all those single shots that fire every time you start to charge are only going to waste. The only way to make them useful would be to pick out one enemy to take the dinky shots and hit everyone else with the carged ones, but that's way too much work. It also slows down your killing if every time you want to charge you have to wait for your gun to fire once first.
Rocket Punch
Member
Dice said:
Start with the standard beam, switch to special beam midcharge for the win. You did know you could do that, right?
siamesedreamer
Banned
Totally agree. I had some serious problems with that dude. I could never beat the last form. Then when I found out you have to be Dark Semus after that dude WITHOUT A FUCKING SAVE I put it down and moved on to another game.
siamesedreamer said:
Holy crap I forgot about that 4th boss.
Utterly stupid dev decision - a shining example of bad game design.
And the fact that you had to
catch flying chunks of phazon with your arm to damage Dark Samus (nearly impossible without a mouse)
Naked Snake
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hooded pitohui said:I'm so queer for completion points that I had to start over a couple times for missing a one-time scan. I've yet to actually finish it.
