Metroid Prime

Kevok

This is out on Friday no? I haven't preordered it yet, where is everyone getting it from?

Mr E

Probably Smyths. With the Loyalty card, it will be about €54 (assuming the game is €60). Works out about the same on play.com (but I get to play it on Saturday)

- Dave.

Swifty

Yeah my birthday is comin' up so I should be able to whore someone into getting it for me. Lookin' forward to it it looks classy. Em.. I'm probably getting it at some kind of games store :)As long as they dont lash a lame 70 euro price tag on it, Gamesworld have a habit of doing that to popular games for the first few weeks its released.

theciscokid

tempted as a gamer would be, i gotta hang on for zelda instead

Asuka

You call yourself a gamer and yet youre not getting both?

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Tusky

Originally posted by theciscokid
tempted as a gamer would be, i gotta hang on for zelda instead

zelda aint out for another 2 months mon !

For this, Resident Evil 0, and Zelda, I wonder whether I should get a gamecube or not...

DiscoStu

Originally posted by Jabba
For this, Resident Evil 0, and Zelda, I wonder whether I should get a gamecube or not...

im getting one abeit just to play metroid, zelda and that animal crossing that everyone is going on about, and possibly mario sunshine and waverace.

Giblet

The game looks class alright, definatly buying it.
Gamecube games don't really need to be preordered.

Kevok

Thats what people said when OOT came.

God, that was such a horrible thing, we drove around EVERYWHERE trying to get a copy (although we eventually did, preordering would have saved some stress).

Retr0gamer

It will definitely be ordered out in all the big shops. I'd preorder now to save the stress of looking for a small shop that has it.

Giblet

Wonder can you do speed runs ala Super Metroid
1:20 with 100% woop

I heard it doesn't time you in the new one and/or it's too long to speed run!

Tusky

Originally posted by Jabba
For this, Resident Evil 0, and Zelda, I wonder whether I should get a gamecube or not...

i recently got my Cube for ezelda,metroid,eternal darkness,mario and maybe the rez evil games !

StarScream

virgin on henry street usually only charge 60 euro for a game on release date. i always get mine in there. added to the student discount.............

Scottish

If you are ordering on the net, I don't think it gets much cheaper than this - and they do pre-orders as well - http://www1.cdwow.ie/gamecube_cat.php

Mr. Fancypants

Nice price alright.....but, they wont be dispatching till the 7th of April. Could you really wait that long to save €5?

podgeen

I ordered animal crossing and zelda from importmadness.co.uk yesterday and that freeloader disk from play.com. They are shipping zelda on the 27th.

Got my cube for 100e in second hand section of game in limerick. got eternal darkness and super smash brothers also. (new)

theciscokid

Originally posted by Tusky
zelda aint out for another 2 months mon !

hey im a poor student,

booked zelda today actually, €1.99 deposit in game on dawson street and my bonus disc is secure

p.s.

droool.. zelda

Jim

i had a choice of buyin res evil 0 on monday, or waiting a week for metroid.....

i got res....

[id do zelda up the ass.......oh yes...........]

Mr E

Got Metroid Prime this morning in Smyths. €54 with a loyalty card.

- Dave.

theciscokid

Originally posted by TmB
Got Metroid Prime this morning in Smyths. €54 with a loyalty card.

- Dave.

would you be willing to share your thoughts with us? :cool:

Mr E

I'd love to, but its still in the boot of my car !!!

Won't get a chance to play it tonight (damn social life!), but I'll post some thoughts tomorrow.

- Dave.

Swifty

Went into town after school with a wad of birthday money but it was sold out everywhere :mad:

Won't be getting it 'till monday so.

theciscokid

you should have posted here the minute you had this problem,,

theres a few places that might have it ,

on middle abbey street above chapters there is another gamesworld hidden away up there..

also that small games shop on talbot street down the end near the busaras

Unknown

When I went into town myself, there seemed to be loads of copies onsale in GAME...
They are also selling a "Metroid Gamecube pack", which includes a Gamecube and controller, Metroid Prime, plus an exclusive Metroid plate (for the top of your Gamecube) for only €200 (has gotton my attention.)

TinCool

Right, I got paid today and have loads of cash. Gonna go up to the Square (Shkware) this afternoon and get myself a copy of this and Project IGI 2. If no Metroid Prime I'll get Super Monkey Ball 2 instead. It's all good.

Mr E

Okelydokely... just played through the first level, and I can sum the game up with 3 words.

Wow. Wow. Wow.

I think I'm really going to enjoy this. Actually, I KNOW I'm really going to enjoy this.

Thought it was weird that you started the game with alot of the powerups that you have to earn in other metroid games, but that is soon set right by the end of L1!

Graphics - Gorgeous. Fluid, fast, no clipping.

Sound - has the kind of music that is synonymous with Metroid games - strange, but absolutely suitable.

Atmosphere - dripping.

Difficulty - level 1 took 2 goes to complete. And I know its going to get alot harder (but in an enjoyable, challenging way). Controls take a bit of getting used to (especially changing visors and using the 'freelook'). It'll be second nature after an hours play.

Fan-bloody-tastic. The Cube's first "killer app".

- Dave.

Praetorian

On their first go Nintendo make the best FPS ever...better than all the PC's FPS's - Retrogamer

I'll have to wait and see...hurry up and finish it Retro..i want to borrow that Cube thingy

TinCool

Got Metroid Prime today and yes have to say its pretty god damn good. Once you get used to the controls it should be a very engrossing game. Although, I also got IGI 2 and god damn I love this game, been playing it all evening so far. A bit of Metroid tomorrow may be.

Tusky

more feedback on metroid !

Kevok

I got it this morning, love it to bits.

From the very first music of the 'press start' screen, you know it's metroid (Super Metroid fan)

As TmB said the atmosphere is absolutely engrossing.

It's quite a bit in before you see your first enemy, and in the room theres this massive corpse (i think its a parasite queen). Very unnerving)

The controls are..... weird at first, Halo has gotten me used to the forward, backward, strafe of the the main Analogue stick so it's hard to get used to the goldeneyesque controls in metroid.

I can imagine some people being put off by the excessive scanning but i find that it just adds to the effect of drawing you in.

Oh and guess what? No loadtimes... EVER! :eek: All the loading is done in small cutscenes on elevators so you are never ever taken out of the world. Halo pissed me off in that regard, and that had a particularly bad loading screen.

As an aside, why do developers keep insisting that we be told that its loading. Surely they can come up with something better.

Kevok

Oh btw, if you're worried about the length of the game.

According to the game timer, i've been playing for.. 1 hour 22 minutes, and only got 4% completion.

Tusky

ill have to get it tommorow so, is there much variation in the lvls ?

more feedback..more i say !

CodeMonkey

If you don't own a GameCube then do yourself a favour and buy a Metroid Prime pack and see how games should be made. It's worth the price of a GameCube just to play this and then there's also Zelda in about 2 months. GameCube owners have no excuse for not getting this.

CodeMonkey

Originally posted by Tusky
ill have to get it tommorow so, is there much variation in the lvls ?

more feedback..more i say !

There's no real levels. The game takes place on an alien planet with lots of different types of terrain, all connected by tunnels and elevators. You will almost always have to back-track to areas you've been in before to explore areas that was previously inaccessible either because you don't have the right beam weapon to open a door or you don't yet possess the ability to reach the entrance (you'll know what I mean when you get to play it). Needless to say, the level design is amazing and really give a sense of a massive world instead of just "levels".

People who are worried about getting lost in the game don't even have to worry. If you wander for too long, events will happen to let you know something is interest is happening somewhere and that's usually where you need to be.

The controls are great. Yes, no auto strafing takes a little while to get use to but you can strafe by holding down the "L" or target button and moving left or right.

ps: I love the little touches and effects on the visor due to different environmental conditions like emerging from water or walking into a steam vent

Tusky

went allll the way into the shop to get it and the shop dont bloody open untill 12.... !!!! 40 more mins !!

Sloth

Got it on Friday and I'm still motoring through. I love every bloody aspect of it. The combat is uses a similar system to Goldeneye (ie holding down the R button to manually aim) but also introduces the lock on system of Zelda. The bosses have been brilliant so far, each better than the last. Graphics, well oh boy oh boy does this outclass anything else I've played. One of the great things too is just how much it retains from Super Metroid (which I played through again a while back in preparation), everything from the abilities to the music when you start from your last save point.
I'm not sure how you do that grey spoiler thing but I'll just say to anyone whos played it, remember that bit with the you-know-who flying over the you-know-what snowy mountain as a you-know-what teaser for whats to come. Magic.

Having played through Metroid 2 and Super Metroid now I want to get my hands on Metroid Fusion so I can link up and play the original Metroid as well as the new GBA adventure. As soon as the GBA SP is in stock I'm picking it up along with MF.

Tusky

omfg !??!?! went up shop open...sold outa metroid :(:( /cry


btw sloth [.spoiler]

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Sloth

Ah right. Well here goes nothing then.

In the snowy wastelands just before you go to the alien artifact site you get to see Ridley fly over head. The way it happens is brilliant and the slow cinematic effect of it gently gliding over head is wonderful.

Ok now that thats out of the way we can go back to badmouthing all those people who haven't got metroid prime yet. Let me be the first to do so right now: Hahahahaha, look at them, they haven't got a copy of metroid prime yet. Hehehehe. lets reconvene laughing at them some more later on after I get something to eat.

Mark

Its just absolutely incredible, buy it or face having your knees nibbled to death.

Loading times as Kevok said take place only in elevators and whatnot and are so pretty you wont really care

The graphics and sound are excellent also, controls take a bit of getting used to but I found them second nature by level 2.

The exploration aspect of it really draws you in, feels like a living breathing world (fairplay to Retro) and the enemies are as youd expect,ie TEH S3X!1!

Buy it

Sloth

One thing I kinda don't like (not that I truely hate it or anything) is the amount of times your taken out of the suit into a third person perspective. I see no reason why most of the cutscenes couldn't just happen while your still in your suit ala Half- Life or why you can't stay in your suit during the loading times. It's acceptable in the ball sections as otherwise they'd be impossible to control but it keeps it more fluid the less you break out from the suit.

Mr E

Doesn't bother me at all. The 3rd Person cutscenes are cinematic (particularly when you see a boss for the first time - it gives you a good look at it, and shows possible weak spots).

I'm up at the boss in the Sun Room in Chozo Ruins. What a bloody fantastic game. Some other cool things about it -- exploring off the beaten track will nearly always reward you. If you don't get something out of it, you'll spot something that you'll need a powerup to get to later on. The other thing I love are the auto hints. If you wander around aimlessly, you'll get a map based hint as to where you're supposed to go (and the map is EXTREMELY useful and very well done). One final cool thing is the scanning system. I got to a room with alot of water in it. Wandered about underwater for ages trying to get across, but couldn't. So I got back out, scanned the area and spotted something which gave me the hint:

"This looks like a good use for the grappling device"

. So I knew that I didn't have to do that room just yet. I also spotted a powerup in a different room, which, when I scanned it, I was told that it wasn't accessible from this room. The tips are useful, and don't give too much away.

Fantastic game. Can't fault it yet.

- Dave.

Tusky

i want i want but its sold out most places :mad:

tman

Originally posted by Sloth

In the snowy wastelands just before you go to the alien artifact site you get to see Ridley fly over head.

thought i'd seen the last of that bastard in metroid fusion

i want this game so bad it's starting to hurt:(

Sloth

Hey tman your not meant to read the spoilers unless you actually own the game!
Here's the latest update on my progress (don't go reading this tman until you get the game or else you will suffer my plasma beam induced wrath):

I just got to the research facility in the snowy wastelands and fought my first fully functional space pirate. What a great experience that was, I'd say it's well up there with meeting the soldiers for the first time in Half-Life.

Giblet

Yeah tis a cool game. Playing it about 5 hours now, have 40% items 52% scan.
So i'm pretty far, so don't read the spoilers until you get the ice beam.

There is so much to do in this game, areas open up so much when you get different items.

The place where you get the ice beam is MASSIVE and you will have to back there and try out all your different guns on the doors later, and the ghost Chizos are cool.

I'd say they did the best job possible and it's very true to the original, they even kept the Norfair music for Magmoor!

And after completing the reseach facility after getting the heat vision, space pirates turn up everywhere, and the baby sheegoths ain't babys no more!

Don't worry about the game ending soon, i'm about half way, but i'm progressing pretty quickly. Some of the old tricks will help you to progress through, but i'd say the average player will be playing for 20 hours.

anthonymcg

Can't wait for this. Am gonna order it through CDWow cos I don't have any of those loyalty card dealies. Although saying that, I probably won't get to play it till the middle of may. "Final year" and "big ass project" are apparently "more important" than playing games. Pffft.

Sloth

Don't worry, once you stick that dinky little disk into your cube all other concerns thankfully become meaningless.

Swifty

Sold out AGAIN today getting more in on Friday apparently. I think I'll throw a deposit on it tomorrow to be guaranteed my copy.

Sloth

Friday evening. Walked into Game Blanch. Picked up one Metroid Prime case among many. Paid for it. Walked out.

Swifty

Well I live in Waterford which, unfortunately, is a ****hole!

They probably get around 5 copies in each time and theyre probably all pre-booked.