Even for its time it was exceedingly mediocre, but I can't imagine how poorly it has aged now. Bless you.
That honestly sounds pretty dope, lmao. The other hunters were such paper-thin nobodies, I was super bummed. I thought the game would go more into their lore, treating them as actual characters, as opposed to just interchangeable invaders / multiplayer skins. Even Sylux is a nothing character! I didn't even get to Gorea, admittedly. I think I still needed one or two artifacts to open the door, and then bailed out, at that point. I'll go back and properly finish it soon enough, but I'm not exactly in a hurry to do so, per se.
Oh, I just assumed you finished it... Ah well. Honestly, just look up the cutscenes on YouTube at this point. You're not missing much.That honestly sounds pretty dope, lmao. The other hunters were such paper-thin nobodies, I was super bummed. I thought the game would go more into their lore, treating them as actual characters, as opposed to just interchangeable invaders / multiplayer skins. Even Sylux is a nothing character! I didn't even get to Gorea, admittedly. I think I still needed one or two artifacts to open the door, and then bailed out, at that point. I'll go back and properly finish it soon enough, but I'm not exactly in a hurry to do so, per se.
Hunters was really one of a couple remaining kusoge I told myself I'd suffer through, for the lore / just being a Metroid fan, if nothing else. Federation Force is the other I still need to play.
Best thing Prime 4 can do is turn Sylux into an actual character. He's more or less a blank slate they're working with, so that's good, at least! Make all these years waiting (since the tease at the end of Prime 3) worth it.Oh, I just assumed you finished it... Ah well. Honestly, just look up the cutscenes on YouTube at this point. You're not missing much.
I haven't played Federation Force either. I watched some gameplay and then was perfectly content just googling the ending in case it was important. Which, I guess if Prime 4 is about Sylux it will be, but... Big meh. That game is just goofy.
It's actually the opposite - by the time I got to Torvus Bog, backtracking even as far as the Temple Grounds for required items had simply left my mind. I was no longer expecting to have to go back at all, and the fact that you only do so twice before the key hunt (once from the Bog to the Temple for the Seeker Launcher, and once from the Fortress to the Bog for power bombs) is what did me in. I was searching all over Torvus Bog and (and then Sanctuary Fortress the second time) because I assumed the answer would be there.
Ahhhh, I see. Yeah, those two times in particular without the hint system on the map (blah blah blah disturbance detected or whatever) I don't think I would have had any clue where to go, either. And you mentioned you turn that off, right?
Correct. And to an extent, I actually don't mind and even enjoy wandering at times (which is why I turn the hint system off); it's just when it drags on too long - like when I've misjudged the scope of the area I need to double check - that it gets frustrating. Prime 1 was better about this, and even when its invisible guiding force did fail (they always inevitably will), at least it hadn't led me to believe the answer was somewhere it wasn't.
The words of an enlightened man
For me it is Prime 3 > Prime 1 >>>> Prime 2.
That's what's being said by Grubb, yeah.
I could see that happening. When Prime 4 is ready, they should focus on that instead of waiting for 2/3. 1 and 4 have certainly been in dev longer than the others.
Personally, I've been saying that they'll avoid doing the whole 'Prime 4 is going great!' song and dance again by revealing it directly before Prime Remaster. But we'll see soon enough, I suppose.
Yeah, I've always been of the belief that they'd at the very least give a title and teaser for Prime 4 at the same time as the remaster, but we'll see.
You can get that in 1 and 2!
If Nintendo decides to do more GBA remakes like Advance Wars then I'm sure Fusion will be at the top of the list. I'd love to get Zero Mission as well.
i've yet to see someone owning that darn trilogy
this thread. it's better than 2. I can attest to this. I love 3 so much.
i've yet to see someone owning a wii u either
Oh you referring to IRL? Cause I imagine the vast majority of users here owned a WiiU at some point.
I mean, it has to be IRL, I don't know anyone here to share the Trilogy with me LMAO
I would like to think so, because they already pulled the "we're still working on Prime 4" with Dread's announcement. But this is Nintendo we're talking about, so I could easily see them not talking about it because reasons.
That's a great question.
It depends on how Metroid Prime Remaster is announced. In a General Direct I say 100% as we get closer and closer. If it’s in a Mini Direct then no.
I don't think they can reveal Prime 1 without acknowledging Prime 4. That doesn't necessarily mean a tease or reveal or anything, it could just be the old "development is progressing well". But hopefully it's more than that.
I've only met one person with a physical copy. That $10 for the first week it was on the eShop was a damn steal, though it's what got me into Metroid so I guess Nintendo won long-term there lol
I think I would have enjoyed 3 much more if the internet didn't give me bad advice on how to play it. Around release everybody was pretty insistent that the harder difficulty option was the way to go, but it just seemed to increase the amount of damage enemies could take. Every mook took like three or four times as many shots to kill as it felt like it should have - it was so, so tedious. I'm guessing the idea is to get the player to make more use of Hypermode, but I never found that very interesting at all. It was just 'combat is ugly now' mode.
Own the steelbook for Wii, and the digital version for WiiU. One of my absolute favourite game series of all time.
Same! One of my prized possessions.I have the steel book version of Prime trilogy.
oh whoops lmao
Yeah, almost. First one is still better in my opinion. The amount of new it brought.
Same, first two are both top 5 games of all time, 3 probably in top 25 or 20
I do really like the implication that they were the best reverse-engineer job that the Federation could do with what they knew of Mother Brain and other Chozo supercomputers (since Dread also seems to reinforce that with the mini-versions serving as some kind of node or command and control for each EMMI)
Yeah, I loved seeing those miniature brain defense systems (Central Units) in Dread. Super cool cohesion with Mother Brain, especially with those same ring and turret attacks. Samus draining each one of its energy for the Omega Cannon is also just a really neat callback to the infant Metroid, and Super's Mother Brain fight, as a whole. As you've said, I dig the idea that the Federation ended up effectively reverse engineering MB for their own designs. Although the AUs aren't inherently malicious, narratively, they serve to underscore the Federation's desire to appropriate the function of pretty much any enemy they can, which is consistent with their characterization across the rest of the series, as well.
