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Super Metroid |OT| Prequel to Other M
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RumblingRosco
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Enter The 36 Chambers
Member
FINALLY!!!
After nearly 20 years Ive beaten this game %100.
Easily the greatest game ever.
Really wish I could forget everything I know and play this again with fresh eyes
After nearly 20 years Ive beaten this game %100.
Easily the greatest game ever.
Really wish I could forget everything I know and play this again with fresh eyes
Jawmuncher
Member
Finally got the speed boost.
Had to take a break after that though, have been playing longer than I thought.
Had to use save state a few times, but screw it not like the game becomes less enjoyae without it.
Had to take a break after that though, have been playing longer than I thought.
Had to use save state a few times, but screw it not like the game becomes less enjoyae without it.
Enter The 36 Chambers
Member
Save states are for the weak.
Baller. PhD
Banned
Played this for 10 minutes, died after not being able to outrun the ship blowing up, quit.
Would have been mind-blowing in 1994 though.
Would have been mind-blowing in 1994 though.
SOTN 4 LYFE
nkarafo
Member
Wow, i never heard of someone dying there except those who do it on purpose. And quitting after that? Well, its your loss.
SOTN exists because of Super Metroid.
Lol. That's like dying in a tutorial.
nkarafo
Member
Yeah, even the "y metroid can't crawl" guy passed that
GiantEnemyGoomba
Member
I think my BS detector is malfunctioning...
You may not see or hear it, but I'm pointing at "you" and laughing.
Get the fuck outta here kid
spyhunterzero
Member
As much as I liked to get 100% legit, I just couldn't help but do the Space Time Beam to reset every thing and start with almost all items. Good to see it still works
I don't understand how this is possible. They give you tons of time to get out.
I'm mindfucked.
As much as I liked to get 100% legit, I just couldn't help but do the Space Time Beam to reset every thing and start with almost all items. Good to see it still works
Love that glitch.
greycolumbus
The success of others absolutely infuriates me.
Recently finished this. Now I got the itch. I'm tempted to tackle a 100 percent run, but I think the simplest thing to do would be to get some more Metroid games.
but it becomes a hell of a lot less tense.
RumblingRosco
Member
As much as I liked to get 100% legit, I just couldn't help but do the Space Time Beam to reset every thing and start with almost all items. Good to see it still works
What is this? Wouldn't mind playing through again using some glitches and such for fun.
I really enjoyed the boss fights, they have just about the perfect difficulty level for me. Plus the end of the Crocomire fight is just so awesome. One of my gaming pet peeves is these endless boss fights where the boss looks like he's done but he just changes form and you have to beat him again. So that Crocomire fake out ended up being one of my favorite parts of the game.
Jawmuncher
Member
Might be true but being my first go at it fully and down in the lava platforming section with 20 health and nothing to farm and ignorantly not having saved it for awhile I had to do it.
I still use actually save chambers and the like but in situations like that i'll be doing it the first time through.
peanutbutterlatte
Member
Woo, I actually beat this without savestates back on the OG Wii. Feel special now. I'll definitely be using them when I play Metroid 1/Zelda 1 though, fuck that noise.
i mean if you are enjoying it more by using it, then go right ahead.
just don't rely on it too much
olimpia84
Member
If you buy it through the Wii U virtual console, yes.
Baller. PhD
Banned
Every time I'd try and jump the ship would move and I'd fall back down the tube. Jumping mechanics are wonky as fuck in this game.
Who cares, console games exist because of arcade games too. Doesn't mean arcade games are inherently better.
Chris M. Ferguson
Neo Member
In the next Metroid, I want this song while I'm scanning and just exploring: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=5G6FX1zKNFw#t=9s
So everyone who just finished SM, name three things you'd like to see in a new Metroid. I really want a bigger world, I love the level design in SM and would love to see that blown up. We have the new Tomb Raider and Arkham Asylum take from Metroid and put it on an island, now I want Metroid on a larger world with roaming non-violent wildlife and weather changes.
So everyone who just finished SM, name three things you'd like to see in a new Metroid. I really want a bigger world, I love the level design in SM and would love to see that blown up. We have the new Tomb Raider and Arkham Asylum take from Metroid and put it on an island, now I want Metroid on a larger world with roaming non-violent wildlife and weather changes.
Ridley.
Ridley.
And oh yes Ridley.
I think my wish will be granted, is that bastard immortal? I know he's like Samus Aran's eternal enemy.
Chris M. Ferguson
Neo Member
What if you go back to basics, a developer is handed a smaller budget to create three to five hours of gameplay ($10-15 dollar game) and is like the first Alien movie, the main inspiration for Metroid, where it's all about Samus and Ridley. Kinda like Amnesia, this terrifying dance between a woman and monster. Ridley possibly boards the ship with pirates, eating human flesh.
nkarafo
Member
No they are not. And really, jumping on the platforms as the ship moves is extremely easy and requires no "advanced skills". Its a basic platformer thing. It seems you are the only person stuck there. Maybe something is wrong with your controller? Or you haven't seen moving platforms in a game before?
Not the same analogy. SOTN shares the exact same design as Super Metroid. SOTN is like Super Metroid with RPG elements (hence the "Metroidvania" term). But apparently you don't know that because you haven't played Super Metroid beyond its intro/tutorial. Too bad because you would find a game just as good, if not better than SOTN which you seem to love so much.
but they are
He's right, though. Super Metroid isn't better because it's the reason why SoTN exists.
Super Metroid is better because it's actually better.
They each have their separate strengths, though, and are really very different. SOTN puts its creativity into the combat whereas Metroid is all about exploration.
Super Metroid is better because it's actually better.
They each have their separate strengths, though, and are really very different. SOTN puts its creativity into the combat whereas Metroid is all about exploration.
Frankly I love the floaty jumping in Super Metroid. Yeah sure the special weapon select is not the best, but it's not that bad. Everything else about the controls is pretty great I think.
Zero mission did build on the shinespark and make it even cooler, but its still so awesome in Super Metroid.
It's most sakamoto's fault than TN
I watched a lets play on YouTube and had mixed feelings about it. Way too much dialogue with some military people. I thought samus came across as a whimp. She's a bounty hunter not some drippy emotional mess. She should have been tougher even if she had all that stuff happen to her.
Plus authorizing bomb and missle use seemed dumb. She's a bounty hunter, since when does she follow the rules.
I did like the move away from first person perspective. I can never play the prime series because of that.
Motion sickness?
The bad thing is, you're still running around in a 3D world, which makes the controls very awkward.
LiveFromKyoto
Member
I can't believe how good this game still is. I sat down to play it and 3 hours flew by like it was nothing.
Maybe its motion sickness, I just never feel right playing in that perspective. Was so disappointed when the camera zoomed into samus HUD after the opening FMV.
I didn't actually play other m so it sucks if the controls are awkward.
LiveFromKyoto
Member
The first Prime game was known to cause motion sickness in certain individuals, myself included. They fixed it after that though. Corruption is like silk.
BolognaSoup
Member
That is hilarious.
I know! It still feels completely modern. It has not aged at all.
IOW, we like "hard" games?
nkarafo
Member
I don't get it. Both games have similar engines, similar controls and similar movement. Also, both games are silky smooth 60fps. How come one cause motion sickness and the other don't?
The only difference i can think of is the aspect ratio (Wii games are more recent so chances are you played Corruption on a widescreen TV) but doesn't Prime 1 also support widescreen as well?