Poll of the Day > I think I might like Metroid Fusion more than Zero Mission. *spoilers*

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People always rag on Fusion for being too linear but Zero Mission is pretty damn linear as well.
Also, the thing I really hate about Zero Mission is how you're locked out of being able to get so many upgrades until the very end of the game. You get power bombs like 2 rooms away from the final boss. So yay, you can spend another hour or two backtracking to get all the items, but why bother? The final boss is right there, and he's piss easy too.

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They're both really good but I always felt that Fusion was much more cinematic

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Part of it could be that it's a remake, and that it takes place on Zebes, so it feels too similar to Super.

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Both are awesome games.

they're both good

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And I think you might have gone crazy.

MZM is the better game. And while you can try to argue that both are linear, that's not as much the case with MZM -- and, since it doesn't have all of those silo'd zones, it doesn't feel as linear.

I've beat Fusion twice, which is more than enough for me. MZM I've beat maybe 15 times so far?

Metalsonic66 posted...

They're both really good but I always felt that Fusion was much more cinematic

Well, it's kinda heavier with the story elements and cutscenes. I guess that must also be a reason why it feels a bit more linear.

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Zeus posted...

Well, it's kinda heavier with the story elements and cutscenes

That and the general atmosphere, and the boss fights.

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I like Zero Mission way more, but I agree that the added part 2 kind of sucks. Half of it you are way too underpowered and the other half you are way too overpowered. Not to mention, did the gravity suit really need an origin story? Is it too much to say that Samus just missed it on her first run through Zebes?

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I like both a lot I really couldn't say which one I like more unless I replayed both of them.

But I still have to play Super and AMR2

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People who hate on Fusion are morons tbh

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I really need to download AM2R

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Metalsonic66 posted...

I really need to download AM2R

Yes you do. It's better than both of them.

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My friend said that the 3DS remake was good but I wasn't quite as interested in that one's 2.5D graphics.

Maybe I should play both and compare, since we probably will never get another proper 2D Metroid

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MZM is better to me. I like fusion too though. The chase sequences gave me so much anxiety. It was great.

Zareth posted...

Yes you do. It's better than both of them.

Metroid Other M is better than some game a neckbeard who lives in his mom's basement made.

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Sonicplys posted...

Metroid Other M is better than some game a neckbeard who lives in his mom's basement made.

Tagging you as "opinions so bad they should never be taken seriously"

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Sonicplys posted...

Metroid Other M is better than

Anything after this phrase is blatantly false

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Metroid Other M is truly the worst name of all time

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I tend to lean towards Fusion also. Zero Mission is great, but, I really don't like the end where you're suddenly in a stealth game avoiding the pirates in the Zero Suit. I really hated that trope from that specific era of gaming where they would crowbar a stealth segment into a game that wasn't really suited for it.

Blightzkrieg posted...

Metroid Other M is truly the worst name of all time

At least it doesn't have a literal Nazi reference in it, which is the hallmark of worst names ever.

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Zeus posted...

At least it doesn't have a literal Nazi reference in it, which is the hallmark of worst names ever.

I think it's a bit disingenuous to call "blitzkrieg" a Nazi reference. While it's popularly associated with Nazi battle strategy at the beginning of World War II, that is not its origin nor its first use in either German or English, nor is it the word's only applicable use. In fact, Hitler disavowed the term and called it "silly".

Sonicplys posted...

Metroid Other M is better than some game a neckbeard who lives in his mom's basement made.

What did AM2R ever do to you?

DeathMagnetic80 posted...

What did AM2R ever do to you?

He must be on the Other M development team.

JigsawTDC posted...

I think it's a bit disingenuous to call "blitzkrieg" a Nazi reference. While it's popularly associated with Nazi battle strategy at the beginning of World War II, that is not its origin nor its first use in either German or English, nor is it the word's only applicable use. In fact, Hitler disavowed the term and called it "silly".

You copy/pasting somebody else or are do you also post under another name? Because that looks like the word-for-word defense used by somebody else a few months ago.

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Maybe cause it's fucking obvious

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Zeus posted...

You copy/pasting somebody else or are do you also post under another name? Because that looks like the word-for-word defense used by somebody else a few months ago.

Neither? All this information is easily accessible. I guess it's easier to resort to ad hominem instead of addressing the substance of a post though. Have at it, Zeusy-poo!

GunslingerGunsl posted...

He must be on the Other M development team.

Nah, he was probably on the Samus Returns dev team, and is salty that "some neckbeard in his mom's basement" made a better Metroid game than they did.

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Zareth posted...

Nah, he was probably on the Samus Returns dev team, and is salty that "some neckbeard in his mom's basement" made a better Metroid game than they did.

To be fair, Samus Returns is also a blast.

JigsawTDC posted...

Neither? All this information is easily accessible. I guess it's easier to resort to ad hominem instead of addressing the substance of a post though. Have at it, Zeusy-poo!

What substance? And, for that matter, what ad hominem?

Your "Oh, well technically!" is weak as fuck when the term was originated as a reference to a Nazi war tactic. The claim "Well, you know, Hitler didn't create it. And supposedly he didn't even like it!" is undercut by the fact that it was, again, created and used to refer to a Nazi war tactic. But hey, after this maybe you can pull a "Well, acktually!" to explain why you feel minstrel shows weren't actually racist because some of some weird semantic technicality that exists in your mind that rest of society doesn't acknowledge. Meanwhile for the rest of us -- including the person who used it -- the term is tied at the hip with EXACTLY what you associate the term with when it's mentioned. And that term is very deliberately used for that association.

And whether you copied somebody else's argument word-for-word or originally posted it under another name, it's still a terrible argument that's no better than the first time it was claimed.

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Fusion was a great game. Probably my favorite in the series.

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Zeus posted...

What substance? And, for that matter, what ad hominem?

Your "Oh, well technically!" is weak as fuck when the term was originated as a reference to a Nazi war tactic. The claim "Well, you know, Hitler didn't create it. And supposedly he didn't even like it!" is undercut by the fact that it was, again, created and used to refer to a Nazi war tactic. But hey, after this maybe you can pull a "Well, acktually!" to explain why you feel minstrel shows weren't actually racist because some of some weird semantic technicality that exists in your mind that rest of society doesn't acknowledge. Meanwhile for the rest of us -- including the person who used it -- the term is tied at the hip with EXACTLY what you associate the term with when it's mentioned. And that term is very deliberately used for that association.

And whether you copied somebody else's argument word-for-word or originally posted it under another name, it's still a terrible argument that's no better than the first time it was claimed.

"But here's why it's wrong to call the proud boys nazis"

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