Current Events > Can we take a second to appreciate how fucking good Metroid Prime is!? >_>

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Imagine being in high school and you're like "Man! Super Metroid was cool, but there literally hasn't been a new Metroid game in 8 years!! Can't wait to finally play that new one! But maybe next week" Then as you're microwaving some Totino's Pizza Rolls, your friend calls you on the house phone and tells you to get the FUCK over to Hollywood Video and rent Metroid Prime RIGHT NOW! Cuz it's out, and literally the best game ever!

So you drop your plate on the floor and run the FUCK over to the rental store and rent that bitch. Then you pop it in and it's more glorious than you can imagine!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woSGd-8yLFs

This game has everything you could ever hope for!

The music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfdJKiRDIuQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOgY3nTqUEU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRZVPHMPYLQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXZ8ANv49CY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr9dqeoxMuk

The gameplay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ1XcuN9jFU
https://youtu.be/ku99Y3WKgpg?t=7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx0gqCllnl0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elN92_deT20

Those cool as hell visor effects:



Graphics LITERALLY can't get any better than this! We've reached the peak! Fuck trying to awkwardly lose your virginity before graduation; THIS is true nirvana!

So what was it like for you? What did you love about Metroid Prime? >_>

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You like killing robots and aliens?

I recently replayed the trilogy.

3 > 1 > 2

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10/10 game. I wish I could erase my memory of it and replay it for the first time again. I was young and used a guide for it when I first played it ._.

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I remember I was terrified of Sheegoths when I was younger.

Phenandra Drifts in general are permanently etched into the nostalgia cortex of my brain. That room where the power goes out and you have to use the X-Ray visor. That's the good stuff.

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My gamecube was bundled with this in 2004 so it was my first game on the system. The graphics and atmosphere blew me away its in my top 5 games of all time.

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I never played these games, should I?

That game's graphics blew my mind in the early 2000s. Rain on the visor be like WOOOOOAH

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The Prime games are still my all-time favorite game series.

Even though I have the Trilogy, I'm waiting to replay it for the 9th time so that if it does release on Switch, I can repurchase and play fresh on that. My hype levels for MP4 are through the roof and I haven't seen an ounce of footage yet.

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Kloe_Rinz posted...

I never played these games, should I?

Hell yeah! They still hold up really well. I personally prefer the Gamecube version, which I'm sure you can easily acquire. But it's also on the Wii U as the Trilogy version if you want to go that route.

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Kim_Seong-a posted...

I remember I was terrified of Sheegoths when I was younger.

Phenandra Drifts in general are permanently etched into the nostalgia cortex of my brain. That room where the power goes out and you have to use the X-Ray visor. That's the good stuff.

When I first played through the game, I was legit scared of the X-Ray visor power outage sequence, as well as the first few times I fought the Chozo ghosts in Tallon Overworld.

The atmosphere created during those specific sequences (specifically the music and lighting changes) really added to the tension.

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Zanzenburger posted...

The Prime games are still my all-time favorite game series.

Even though I have the Trilogy, I'm waiting to replay it for the 9th time so that if it does release on Switch, I can repurchase and play fresh on that. My hype levels for MP4 are through the roof and I haven't seen an ounce of footage yet.

I've been itching to replay Prime for half a year now, hoping that it comes out on the Switch. But I'm thinking of saying fuck it and just replay the gamecube version.

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cjs28 posted...

I've been itching to replay Prime for half a year now, hoping that it comes out on the Switch. But I'm thinking of saying f*** it and just replay the gamecube version.

I had been wanting to replay the Prime games for about 5 years, and every time I finally decided "ok, I'll stop waiting for a remake and play it" there was some new article about a rumor of a remake and I decided to hold off.
After playing Metroid Dread I finally decided to say "screw it" and started replaying Metroid Prime.

I try to play it once a year. Top 3 game for me.

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Definitely. I can't remember my exact order of playing Metroid games but I do remember wanting to get it after playing Super Metroid, and I ended up finding a copy for 5 fucking dollars. Best 5 dollars I ever spent, I would've gladly paid more.

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I bought the Trilogy on the Wii U E-store a week ago.

Probably the happiest moment I've ever had when making a purchase. :)

Don't forget that Metroid Fusion also came out the same day as Metroid Prime. Getting 2 fantastic games from the same franchise on the same day was incredibly exciting.

I've still got the pictures that they gave away for free with the game at Circuit City framed and hanging on the wall of my office:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/174746900465
https://www.metroid-database.com/old_site/m4/mfswag_cell.jpg

Metroid Prime was my first Metroid game, both it and Echoes are 10/10 masterpieces

The whole trilogy is just such an epic journey, and I cant wait to see how 4 continues things

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Never played it, and Nintendo doesn't want to port the trilogy to Switch for mysterious reasons

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Looking back it was probably my 2nd favorite GameCube game after SSB Melee.

Can't thank my dad enough. I had never played a Metroid game before and one day he came home with this because he thought it'd be something I'd be in to. Turns out he bought one of my all time favorite games.

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I still get chills listening to the menu theme. It sets the tone for an amazing game.

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Amazing games. 1 > 2 > 3 for me. The first is in my top 5 along with Super, with Echoes not far behind.

It was a big surprise, because before release it seemed like a huge mistake to go down that path, but the first game certainly delivered, minus one or two issues.

The atmosphere is off the charts, thanks the graphics, music and sound effects all being on point. The power-ups have mostly been translated as well as possible (with one or two absent). The level design is great, giving us those "a-ha!" moments when we work out where to use a newly acquired power-up, plenty of interesting ways to use power-ups, and the same joy of exploration from the 2D games. Sequence breaking is surprisingly good, with plenty of ways to break the game open.

The bosses are... alright? 2 certainly improves on them.

inb4 that poster that absolutely hates the games despite having never played them, and can't be convinced to even try them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2P4p0VU76w

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Ive played many better games

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I know this will be unpopular but I think the Metroid series lost a lot of its charm when it switched to FPS

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Prime night be an 8/10 without the artifact hunt, but that knocks it sown at least a point, maybe two.

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Jabodie posted...

Never played it, and Nintendo doesn't want to port the trilogy to Switch for mysterious reasons

After the abysmal launch of the N64 lineup, I'm not confident that they wouldn't fuck up the prime trilogy somehow

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Favorite game of all time. Echoes isn't far behind it either.

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It's just too bad later revisions shit all over the neat sequence breaks.

luigi13579 posted...

inb4 that poster that absolutely hates the games despite having never played them, and can't be convinced to even try them.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that clown!

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Prime 1 and Super jump back and forth between my most favorite game of all time. Prime 1 is superb.

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Prime 2 probably has my favorite suits though. It has the best version of the Varia Suit, and the Dark and Light Suits are stellar designs

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Garioshi posted...

Prime night be an 8/10 without the artifact hunt, but that knocks it sown at least a point, maybe two.

IIRC, I think you can pick up most of them along the way if you know where they are.

But yeah, your first time through, you're not gonna know any of that and maybe get 1 or 2 before you have to go to Impact Crater

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cjs28 posted...

IIRC, I think you can pick up most of them along the way if you know where they are.

Yes, unlike Echoes where the keys don't even exist until you get to the door.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Yes, unlike Echoes where the keys don't even exist until you get to the door.

You can get like....half(?) the keys before the door. But yeah, a lot of them are straight up just locked behind getting the Light Suit upgrade and it really sucks. While Prime 1, only 1 was locked behind getting the Phazon Suit and it wasn't too far from the Omega Pirate area.

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And Prime 3, I honestly don't remember how it handles the batteries, but I know you only need like 2/3 of them to unlock Phaaze. What happens if you use all of them on that abandoned ship? I've only played 3 twice so I forget >_>

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Played Prime 2 last year and I was impressed how well the graphics aged. Not a fan of a lot of the back tracking the game had me do at the very end though >_>

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cjs28 posted...

You can get like....half(?) the keys before the door.

They don't bother to even spawn until you're told to get them.

Are you sure? I thought I remember getting a good number of them beforehand. Did you scan the Luminoth warriors next to them? Maybe scanning them is what unlocks them.

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The artifacts are amazing, actually. Theyre just there to run the map. Which is already fun. So, you might get this feeling that its gonna be a pain in the ass but Ive never actually had a bad time getting the artifacts. Sometimes its a little rocky. You miss a turn somewhere. The flying pirates suck. But thats Prime for you. 10/10 all day.

Its a better campaign than Halo

There is exactly one Sky Temple Key that exists before you get the Light Suit; the one in the Dark Aether version of the room near Spider Guardian. Always grab it during the Sanctuary temple key hunt myself.

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The first MP game is one of the finest ever made.
I never get tired of it.

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I love both Prime and Echoes, artifact hunt nonwithstanding.

Anyways, I thought it was the Dark Visor that restricted your access to keys in Echoes? EDIT: I thought a few of them could be collected before Light Suit.

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Musourenka posted...

I love both Prime and Echoes, artifact hunt nonwithstanding.

Anyways, I thought it was the Dark Visor that restricted your access to keys in Echoes?

Yeah, you gotta go to the Dark Aether area where the warriors were slain and use the Dark Visor to scan the Sky Temple Key Ing Caches.

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*My posts assume you arent using a guide after file 1

cjs28 posted...

Are you sure? I thought I remember getting a good number of them beforehand. Did you scan the Luminoth warriors next to them? Maybe scanning them is what unlocks them.

Same.

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Let's keep rubbing it to Prime

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Hold up: there is uh...theorically.... a way to play this with mouse and keyboard controls!? That sounds rad!

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