Metroid Prime 3 Corruption

CiDeRmAn

Playing this at the mo, Wow!
Only problem is i'm going to have to put it on ice until I get Bioshock finished and then try and complete MP3 before the launch of Halo3!

I tell you, there has never been a better time to be a gamer!

knuth

Do you have the dual channel problem? ;#

Star Lord

Ciderman you backsturd No fair rubbing it in that you've got it already way ahead of the rest of us, then saying youre actually NOT going to be playing it just yet!!!

rainbow kirby

*jealous*

GhostInTheRuins

I'll be playing this in about 2 hours, can't wait!

tman

Warezing bastards:mad:

*looks into getting his Wii chipped*

Star Lord

tman wrote:

Warezing bastards:mad:

*looks into getting his Wii chipped*

Ciderman is in the US so far as I remember... ?

WellyJ

Played the first couple of hours last night,

Truly amazing,

Now i dont know what to finish first.

This or Bioshock

But It's a good dilemma to have i guess :p

tman

DamoElDiablo wrote:

Ciderman is in the US so far as I remember... ?

That's weird... could've sworn he was from Dublin...
It was directed more at D.T. Jesus' blatent reply though, unless his "cousin" was arriving from the states with it at 11 at night:p

Mr E

Variety just reviewed Metroid Prime 3.... Linky
There were some positives (mainly around controls), but it was mainly negative.

Let the LOLs and flaming commence.....

Some choice quotes from Variety's Metroid Prime 3 review:

... it will hardly draw the hardcore away from Sony and Microsoft. Ultimately, gamers looking for a well paced, thrill-a-minute shooter with a compelling narrative are going to be disappointed. "Halo" this ain't....

.... It's not a very coherent game, particularly to anyone who didn't closely study the last two. In pop culture parlance, "Metroid Prime" 1 and 2 were origin stories about the villain Dark Samus.

Now "Corruption" presents the pay-off confrontation between "good" Samus and her dark counterpart. The villainess flits about, without introduction, messing up stuff. Giant disembodied brains offer instructions and terse hints. There's much ado about shield generators and phazon and chozos.

In addition to being borderline nonsensical, "Metroid Prime 3" is also difficult. It has the audacity to say, "Welcome to this strange place. Now go figure it out." Much of the game consists of groping around strange places, puzzling out devices, and traveling back and forth to find new powers, which serve also as "keys" to get to previously unreachable areas.

The locations fold in on themselves in ridiculous unlikely ways, like an alien funhouse, honeycombed with secret doors and shortcuts. It's two parts frustration and one part immensely satisfying "A-ha!" moments, having more in common with the "Myst" games than shooters like "Halo.".....

... Too much of the time, though, "Metroid Prime 3" is more tedious than epic. This is particularly true of the boss battles, which are exhaustive affairs requiring dedication, patience, and most importantly, a familiarity with the vocabulary of videogames: double jumping, circle strafing, shooting weak points for massive damage, etc. Those who previously used the Wii only for party games will need a 13 year-old boy to explain it all.

WellyJ

TmB wrote:

Variety just reviewed Metroid Prime 3.... Linky
There were some positives (mainly around controls), but it was mainly negative.

Let the LOLs and flaming commence.....

Some choice quotes from Variety's Metroid Prime 3 review:

Haha, what a ridiculous view to have.

I LOL'd

tman

Hehe, nice review
The first comment sums it up nicely:p

I think the reviewer is a little confused. The Prime series isn't meant to be an answer to Halo. Metroid is a series of adventure games, not shooters; Nintendo has always made a point of calling it an FPA, not an FPS. You lament that the focus is on exploring convoluted unknown areas full of puzzles and hidden doors, but that's exactly the point of the game and the reason most of us play it. If your main problem with Prime 3 is that it's not Halo, I'd say Retro has more than succeeded.

GhostInTheRuins

I played the first few hours of this and can honestly say it's great, controls are perfect, graphics are good and it plays really smoothly. At first I thought it was going to be too action orientated but I was wrong, plenty of exploring to be done.

CiDeRmAn

Well, its been said, Metroid Prime was always a 3D representation of the 2D perfection embodied in Super Metroid.
Never an FPS, but a SciFi action adventure, none of your mere run and gun, finding the right colour key dynamic of the FPS, enshrined from Doom to the present day, rather a better path.
Castlevania perhaps should learn important lessons from Prime, as the series did from SuperMetroid before.
Prime 3 is an amazing game, gamers weened on an unbalanced diet of Doom3, Halflife2 and Unreal Tourney will find this particular gaming meal a tad too rich, we should pity them, perhaps light a candle next time you pass a church that they might see the light, and buy the whole series from Metroid Prime to the current edition.

I should say, as gaming experiences go, nothing has come close to the opener of Metroid Prime, on board the Space station, as the gravity comes back on and you get to play with all your weapons, wonderful!

Retr0gamer

I'm currently in Boston and the fact that I can buy this game but not play it is maddening especially after playing a small section in one of the game stores and being really impressed.

Star Lord

Buy yourself a NTSC Wii AND MP3!!!

Retr0gamer

DamoElDiablo wrote:

Buy yourself a NTSC Wii AND MP3!!!

I should have. The PS3 is the same weight as 2 elephants.