Metroid Series Catch-All

Samus Returns!

What a day

That you Metroid for making my 3DS relevant (to me) again.

Love that lil' guy. Or girl. I never checked.

-CW

Nintendo just lit a fire cracker under those of us, or maybe just me, who need to chalk Prime 2 and/or 3 off the pile.

There's no timeframe as of yet, so we may actually have ample time. Either way, I'll be making a start on Echoes tonight.

Since this is a SERIES-ALL, what is the last Metroid game that you last finished?

Fusion or Prime

Does AM2R count?

jrralls wrote:

Since this is a SERIES-ALL, what is the last Metroid game that you last finished?

Beat Super on my 3ds a few months ago

jrralls wrote:

Since this is a SERIES-ALL, what is the last Metroid game that you last finished?

Super Metroid. It was my 2016 GOTY.

I had a scattered order from Metroid 2: Return of Samus, to Metroid Prime, to Metroid, to Super Metroid. This is talking start to finish.

I had played Metroid, Metroid Prime, and Hunters, in years gone by. I never completed them, though. Hunters suffered from my handheld related ADD. I was too young to get good at Metroid way back when. I stalled on Prime with the GameCube release upon getting lost on what to do, or where to go.

Returning to the series years later has been a real highlight.

I made a mask of Stele's face and wore it while I played Other M and exclaimed repeatedly over how wonderful it was.

Depends on how you count it. Most recent? AM2R. If that doesn't count, Federation Force. And if that doesn't count, Other M.

I've played through all of them but the first, though.

jrralls wrote:

Since this is a SERIES-ALL, what is the last Metroid game that you last finished?

Metroid Prime on the Gamecube, which was one of my favorite Metroid games (only second behind Super Metroid) and one of my favorite FPS/FPA games of all time.

ccesarano wrote:

Depends on how you count it. Most recent? AM2R. If that doesn't count, Federation Force. And if that doesn't count, Other M.

I've played through all of them but the first, though.

I thought Other M was the one that REALLY didn't count?

But combat gameplay mechanics-wise it delivers the best Samus as the top bounty hunter gameplay, IMO. Samus actually has a good dodge ability.

Other M has the best gameplay? I can overlook a weak story for this.

RnRClown wrote:

Other M has the best gameplay? I can overlook a weak story for this.

LIES!

It has pixel hunter mobile puzzle game sh*t gameplay that breaks up mediocre platforming and godawful story and cutscenes.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

I made a mask of Stele's face and wore it while I played Other M and exclaimed repeatedly over how wonderful it was.

jrralls wrote:

Since this is a SERIES-ALL, what is the last Metroid game that you last finished?

Original Metroid in 2012.
Only took me 25 years.

I loved the GBA 2D offerings as well as Super Metroid. I'm not entirely convinced about the new 3DS 2D offering (it even looks like it has quick time events?), but just the idea of a new 2D adventure has my ears perked.

Jeez the graphics on Samus Returns are terrible. From what I can hear, the music is spot on though.
Melee smack is cool. Close-up enemies have forever been the bane of Samus, or at least the players.

I wonder what it will be priced. I've finished Metroid II in an afternoon, maybe two, and now the 3DS let's you see the map as you play. I actually drew maps of SR-388 in my notebook.

My last Metroid was also Metroid: Zero Mission. I still haven't gotten around to finishing Fusion. It's still in my GBA though.

Stele wrote:
RnRClown wrote:

Other M has the best gameplay? I can overlook a weak story for this.

LIES!

It has pixel hunter mobile puzzle game sh*t gameplay that breaks up mediocre platforming and godawful story and cutscenes.

Gratuitous, shameless, but relevant self-promotion.

Because anything I could say is just already said in that video so why not.

Yeah, what cces said,

ramblepak64 video wrote:

she feels less like a hulking space marine and more like a space ninja.

Which is always what I thought was wrong with Samus and mostly why I enjoyed Other M.

When has Samus felt like a hulking space marine? She feels pretty darn athletic in the Prime series, at least the way I play.

Samus has moved elegantly and lethally in Return of Samus, Super Metroid, and Prime. Only the original had me feeling restricted.

Comparing the movements of Samus in Prime to the movements in Other M, Fusion or Zero Mission, her armor feels heavier, she feels slower, and the most agile she gets is the ability to do a side-dash.

These are not issues with Prime but more a reality of the difference in perspectives. There's no way you could do the swift acrobatics of the other games in the first-person. Sure, in cut-scenes she's more agile, but just think about how it feels to sink into the depths of the water and land with a heavy metallic thud in the original Prime. In Other M, Samus feels lightweight. In Prime, she feels like that armor can't do sh*t without the booster rockets on the back.

I'm also not saying she feels like a 40K space marine. But if we're comparing the different games, there is a very noticeable difference in terms of agility and the feel of weight.

Other M actually has the slowest speed boost activation.

So she's technically faster in Zero Mission, Super, and Fusion.

ccesarano wrote:

Comparing the movements of Samus in Prime to the movements in Other M, Fusion or Zero Mission, her armor feels heavier, she feels slower, and the most agile she gets is the ability to do a side-dash.

These are not issues with Prime but more a reality of the difference in perspectives. There's no way you could do the swift acrobatics of the other games in the first-person. Sure, in cut-scenes she's more agile, but just think about how it feels to sink into the depths of the water and land with a heavy metallic thud in the original Prime. In Other M, Samus feels lightweight. In Prime, she feels like that armor can't do sh*t without the booster rockets on the back.

I'm also not saying she feels like a 40K space marine. But if we're comparing the different games, there is a very noticeable difference in terms of agility and the feel of weight.

This, but I feel a bit stronger. The combat in Prime is much much slower, and in all older Metriods (less so), feels slow for what I would expect of the best bounty hunter in the galaxy with a one of a kind power suit with a host of mobility assists. I just think to some other games and how agile the character are, and wonder why this best of the best character only gets a tiny side dodge to deal with incoming threats in Prime.

It was only a tiny niggle in the back of my head until I played Other M and then I was just like, why hasn't it been this way before!?

EDIT: Stele - not arguing exploration - just combat agility / mobility.

Stele wrote:

Other M actually has the slowest speed boost activation.

So she's technically faster in Zero Mission, Super, and Fusion.

Well sure, but the Prime games are still slower in every respect.

I think what Stele was trying to say is, "So technically, Other M is still a seven-mouthed abomination of horrors that shall be purged from the world with steel and fire".

She really gets me.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

I think what Stele was trying to say is, "So technically, Other M is still a seven-mouthed abomination of horrors that shall be purged from the world with steel and fire".

Well sure, up until the point that Adam tells Other M she can put on the Varia suit.

ccesarano wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:

I think what Stele was trying to say is, "So technically, Other M is still a seven-mouthed abomination of horrors that shall be purged from the world with steel and fire".

Well sure, up until the point that Adam tells Other M she can put on the Varia suit.

It's important that she get permission first. Silly girl can't think for herself.