Best metroid game

[yuri]

Does everyone really think it's that weird that I like Metroid Prime: Hunters as my favorite?

[Xero]

Yes.  *Baps you*

You are to like either Metroid or Super Metroid!

Personally I love the Prime games but saying that would ensure Rez's wrath upon my person.

[KPL]

Super wierd. Have you played any NES or SNES Metroid?

[Mikero]

Fusion wasn't too bad. Didn't finish it though.

Prime sucks. I managed to get halfway into Prime 2, but I don't know how. It must have been in the summer and I must have finished all the games I wanted to play. It wouldn't even be as bad if they didn't try to make it a Metroid game.

[yuri]

Once when I was like six so I don't remember.

[Kamon]

Super Metroid, beyond a doubt. Fusion and Zero Mission were good too, so were Metroid and Metroid II.

[Abominator]

Super's good, but I stink at all Metroid games so I can't fully appreciate them.

[Mikero]

Fusion was the only one I could get anywhere in... I should finish it, I really liked it.

[TheRedPriest]

Super Metroid

/thread

Super Metroid is the penicle of the series.  Zero Mission is a close second and excelent remake of the first Metroid with my ONLY grip in it being the fact they STILL (like they did in Fusion) show you where to go.  That has no place in the game.  Fusion wasn't awful, but it was far too mission based and you were told exactly where to go 95% of the time.  Not very Metroidy in method if not gameplay.  I can't play the NES Metroid.  I tried but it's missing too many basic features that Super introduced.  Metroid 2 is pretty sweet, but suffers from many of same things NES Metroid does.  Metroid Prime is a shooter skinned with Metroid themed things.  It had no place in any serious discussion about Metroid apart from how it's all but killed any chance of the series getting a new game that's not a FPS.

[Mikero]

Maybe I should try Super Metroid, as NES Metroid turned me off.

[preventerWIND]

Fusion was easy compared to Super, one or two exceptions, like when running into the SA-X.. freakin' creepy.

[Mikero]

SA-X is purposefully near unbeatable, but I know what you mean.

[preventerWIND]

It's beatable alright, or are you talking about when you have to sneak by it or engage it? 'Cause you'd always end up dead.

[Mikero]

I said near unbeatable. Near.

Either way I'm talking about early stages of the game, where you're best to avoid it completely.

[yuri]

Super Metroid

/thread

Super Metroid is the penicle of the series.  Zero Mission is a close second and excelent remake of the first Metroid with my ONLY grip in it being the fact they STILL (like they did in Fusion) show you where to go.  That has no place in the game.  Fusion wasn't awful, but it was far too mission based and you were told exactly where to go 95% of the time.  Not very Metroidy in method if not gameplay.  I can't play the NES Metroid.  I tried but it's missing too many basic features that Super introduced.  Metroid 2 is pretty sweet, but suffers from many of same things NES Metroid does.  Metroid Prime is a shooter skinned with Metroid themed things.  It had no place in any serious discussion about Metroid apart from how it's all but killed any chance of the series getting a new game that's not a FPS.

I loved all the prime games.

[TheRedPriest]

My condolences.

[yuri]

What does that mean?

[TheRedPriest]

...

:: shakes head sadly ::

Oh my.

[yuri]

What I'm only 14.

[Slugkid]

Condolece has nothing to do with condom.
Geez.

[preventerWIND]

What I'm only 14.

That's no excuse to not know #####.

[Slugkid]

llololololololol i b 12 i has spnis fir lan spansh i kno lololololol i no da wor!!1

[preventerWIND]

See? Even the Spanish Slug knows.


Heh. Spanish Slug.

[Johncarllos]

Super's good, but I stink at all Metroid games so I can't fully appreciate them.

I know exactly how Abe feels.

[Mikero]

Heh. Spanish Slug.

When Slugkid becomes a Slugman he should change his name to that. It's better.

[ChaosVortex]

Super Metroid

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This man speaks the truth. Any other Metroid game that comes into 2nd place would have to be a 2D platformer. Everything Prime is terrible.

Court is adjourned.

[Mikero]

You're the lawyer not the judge! (But it is adjourned, yes.)

[ChaosVortex]

That didn't stop von Karma.

[Mikero]

You're not a von Karma. Your hair is so not the right colour.

[ChaosVortex]

Objection overruled.

[Mikero]

Uh euh... HOLD IT!

You're face is a toilet, and I can prove it!

[ChaosVortex]

Enough! This has no baring on the case. Be quiet or you will be held in contempt of court.

[Mikero]

::gyuuuuuuush::

(life/case/whatever bar going down)

[preventerWIND]

Uh euh... HOLD IT!

You're face is a toilet, and I can prove it!

Sorry Mikey, but your evidence collapses with this evidence product.

[Mikero]

You're too late to play, preventerWIND!

[preventerWIND]

You're too late to play, preventerWIND!

OH SNAP!!!
I do not hear such a truth...!? : (

[Teelio]

You guys need to stop lying to yourselves.
Prime 1-3 (especially the first) were damn good games. Despite the fact that it turned the side-scrolling 2D Samus we know and love into a more round, shiny sexy piece of ass in today's games, they had pretty darn good gameplay. The storylines could have used a little revisiting (especially the intro to Corruption. Ugh... Can you say Halo 2?)

Since it's coming down to my opinion, I'd still have to say Metroid IV: Fusion was a unique game. Still had the feel of Super Metroid, but more suspenseful. I still haven't beat it 100%. Some of the items are bitches to find.

Second place comes Super Metroid.

Then Prime 1-2.

Then NES Metroid.

Then everything else.

Booyah.

[TheRedPriest]

That does it, this xmas I'm buying you some GOOD TASTE.

[Xero]

The Prime games are excellent games.  But they are not how Metroid games should be played.

[yuri]

Everyone I know hates them because they think metroid should'nt be a first person shooter. Though my brother and I love all of them.

[Teelio]

That does it, this xmas I'm buying you some GOOD TASTE.

You got three hundred and somethin' days to save up.

[Mikero]

Prime games are OK as games. I got bored of Echoes before half way through even though I played farther. That's the kind of game that feels like it needs more than 2 characters. But that's not how Metroid games go, and as Metroid games Prime fails hard.

It's like a generic 1-player FPS with a downloaded Metroid mod applied to it. It looks the part but it just isn't.

[Cherry]

Super Metroid.  I loved the level of exploration and needing to choose between getting all the items or trying to beat your fastest clear time.

And, I almost never figured out how to get into the rest of the underwater area.  Then, when I was bored one day, I just started setting bombs everywhere, and I accidentally switched to Super Bomb somehow... and you guys should know the rest.

Anyway, for some odd reason, that made me LOVE the game.  Or, made me realize I did.  Whichever one turns out to be true.

[Mikero]

I almost thought you said that made you make love to the game.

[Edgecrusher]

While I'm of the Super Metroid/Zero Mission camp, I (as always) have to stick up for the Prime series.

Everyone says that they don't play like a Metroid game, and I argue that it all depends on what you quantify as a "Metroid" game. Those out there who dislike Prime tend to put emphasis on the lack of platforming, claiming that it was the series main staple. If that's what makes a game Metroid for you, that's fair enough.

I, however, have always viewed Metroid games as being more about isolation, adventure, exploring, uncovering new parts of old areas with newly acquired power ups, and atmosphere. As far as I'm concerned, Prime has each and every one of those.

[Cherry]

HA!  I'm glad I was drinking water instead of soda.  Pretty funny misread.

EDIT: Damnit, Edge... well, guess I'll contribute a little more.

Yeah, I don't see why people hate Prime so much, just a different style of gameplay.  I don't like Prime as much as I like Super, but that's just my personal preference.  At least it's not as bad a failure to its franchise as MMZ is to Megaman.

[Mikero]

While I'm of the Super Metroid/Zero Mission camp, I (as always) have to stick up for the Prime series.

Everyone says that they don't play like a Metroid game, and I argue that it all depends on what you quantify as a "Metroid" game. Those out there who dislike Prime tend to put emphasis on the lack of platforming, claiming that it was the series main staple. If that's what makes a game Metroid for you, that's fair enough.

I, however, have always viewed Metroid games as being more about isolation, adventure, exploring, uncovering new parts of old areas with newly acquired power ups, and atmosphere. As far as I'm concerned, Prime has each and every one of those.

For me it's not necessarily the platforming or anything. I can't really explain, but it's just missing a feeling. Something's not Metroidy to me, which is why I say it feels like another game with a downloaded Metroid mod. Where Mario 64 feels like a 3D Mario game, Prime doesn't feel like a 3D Metroid game.

[ASR]

Super Metroid was a major part of my childhood, and allowed me to be the one who told everyone Samus was a girl when SSB64 came out. Most of my friends didn't know about Metroid at that time.

I also really enjoyed Zero Mission. I remember playing through Fusion but I Just don't remember it enough to treasure it.

I also loved the first Prime game, and Corruption was such an amazing Wii experience that I don't care whether or not it's a good METROID game, it's just a good game in general. Never played Echoes.

[Xzeemo]

The only Metroid games I had the privelege to play were only the ones for the GBA. I have Hunters as well, but I'm curious about the others.

[ChaosVortex]

I played the first Prime.

Beat level one.

... shortly afterwards, I put the game down. I detest Prime, so I wouldn't call it a good game even if it's popular. Hell, I'm not afraid to find a group of Halo fanboys and yell "HALO 3 SUCKS!"

... 'cause it does.