Just sticking my neck out to get chopped off, but hasn't the cube been dead in the water just about as long as the original X Box? I'm sure there are titles being published on it still but I thought Twilight Princess was the last donor for the Cube.SimplyEd said:
uzzle ratio is well-balanced, and similar to Myst, the atmosphere draws you in from the start. I could go on...
After Super Metroid, not to say I didn't enjoy fusion or zero mission, "Metroidvania" became my quintessential replacement for Metroid and not Prime, though as I said in all fairness I did not ever own a Cube nor did I play more than 30 min. of Prime/2 hours of Prime 2 (mehaps why I was further distanced from it as you noted). I did get my Wii 2 days ago out of sure luck, working at my place and all we got 3 in. I had to have mine left at the counter in a shopping bag with my name on it (car was being worked on, had no place to put it while on the clock). Was hilarious how many people came up in -20- minutes looking for a Wii, not to mention being in a rural area. Oddly enough the only game I had money for after the fact was RE4 Wii. Anyways...Walter said:Seriously, the GameCube was dead even when I bought it, 2 years ago. The console only had about 5 titles worth owning, in my opinion... (Metroid Prime, Ikaruga, Pikmin, Windwaker and RE4).
Anyway, Prime is definitely worth a shot. It's a great follow-up for anyone who liked Super Metroid. I was certainly skeptical when it first came out too, since Metroid is the quintessential 2d platformer, but Retro really nailed the crossover to FPS. It honestly does play like less of an FPS and more of a sci-fi exploration game. Maybe calling it "Myst with action" is going overboard, but the action
I'm hoping the reviews aren't lying about Prime 3, since they praised Prime 2 similarly, which blew chunks. I'll be picking 3 up along with my Wii, which I should be getting in November for my birthday
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I'll grant you Aria of Sorrow and SotN are indisputable classics, but honestly, I'm not a fan of the rest of the series. The latter games really stray from the formula that made those two titles so successful — non-linearity. It's also this reason that Metroid: Fusion was a pile of shit. Too far from the original formula. Oh yeah, and Samus and ADAM in Fusion won't shut the fuck up. Throughout the whole game, it's like Metroid: Livejournal.Where I live, they've already reached market saturation, and are stocked in virtually every store that carries them, including Wal-Mart. Too bad I have to wait for my birthday...
Hehe, hell yeah man! I don't know, I enjoyed Metroid Fusion almost as much as Zero Mission. Those are to this day two of my favorite games for the GBA. Embarrassingly enough I only got about a few hours or so into Metroid Prime and didn't even play Metroid Prime 2 at all. The jump from 2d to 3d was really hard for me, I was still playing the GBA games and didn't have any interest in a 3d Metroid. I'm just now starting to come to my senses.Manji said:
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The gameplay itself was fine. However, the mission structure and plot were simply embarassing, and a slap in the face of what I'd come to expect from a Metroid game. The environment was poorly designed and generic (TO GET TO LEVEL 3 UNLOCK THE DOOR IN LEVEL 2). I was utterly infuriated when I was ordered by ADAM to fix the fucking Air Conditioning unit in a level (not exaggerating here). It's that kind of bossing around and mundane mission objectives (objectives?! in a Metroid game?! INCONCIEVABLE!) that made me hate the game. Even Zero Mission's "guiding lights" on the map are a little too much information for me. I guess I'm just a puristhandsome rakshas said:
Rumors persist of Metroid: DREAD, a sequel to Fusion on the DS.
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Walter said:PS: Handsome, when I saw you replying to the thread, I could have sworn you'd tell me off for talking down about Castlevania somewhat
I thought Harmony was alright in past tense, not great but I think even that deserves mentioning. PoR was a decent time killer and like its pred. DoS...wow, now that I think about it, Dawn had the worst Castlevania story. They seriously sat there and said well, we made 1999...We won't bother to flesh it out because we know we won't make the "Final Battle With Dracula" as good as it should be...lets milk Dawn and go back to Rondo crap anime style to milk kids again!...Walter said:Ahahaha, Aaz'll love that qualification
Like Walt Whitman, the current mood was always set to apathetic. Fusion I liked for all of two minutes, but I did like Zero Mission a hell of a lot more as you mentioned. As for the Wii, you're lucky to be in an area of over saturation, I happened to live in a place that still has a hard time getting one. Truth be told, I'm not exactly over thrilled with having one in the sense of "worth the wait", but its still nice to have one.Walter said:
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Aazealh said:Well, I don't know for other people but it certainly is what made me buy a Wii in the first place. There were also ads for it a while ago, I don't know how it is in the US right now but I'm not too worried overall. Internet opinions rarely reflect sales. And it's kind of funny that you're saying the game should be viewed as a system seller, then proceed to say you won't buy the system for it.
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I Would agree that Harmony is one of my least favorite Castelvanias, and that it was over pretty quickly. I don't think the DS CVs have had in the sense "lol well its sure under-developed compared to Belmonts vs Dracula round 4!", its just in all honesty compared to that as you said, I found them very weak stories that hindered too much of trying to think "Outside the Belmonts" and in the end to do such with so little development hinders the story automatically, no matter how decent of an attempt to deviate. I did like Aria's, but in general having some..you know, good art, makes all the difference in how a story is perceived. I'm hoping at best this is just IGA in a desperate attempt to enlarge the Japanese fanbase and maybe stays with the DS titles. But given I personally don't see a big next-gen Castlevania (maybe on the Wii?) I don't know if I can stomach the rest of the series following the same lack luster art.Aazealh said:
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Aazealh said:Hahaha, well that only happens to me when I scratch my head or something similar. I've learned to pause the game or use the morph ball before doing that.
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brinco said:Still doesn't beast Super Metroid though.......
