Metroid general

What's your opinion on Dread so far?

  • It's good

    Votes: 157 49.7%

  • It's bad

    Votes: 17 5.4%

  • It's too linear, I don't like fusion and I don't like this

    Votes: 17 5.4%

  • It's not as linear as I thought it would be

    Votes: 14 4.4%

  • I haven't played it lol

    Votes: 56 17.7%

  • Where's Super Metroid 2?

    Votes: 33 10.4%

  • I don't care, where the fuck is Prime 4?

    Votes: 25 7.9%

  • Why can't Metroid crawl?

    Votes: 84 26.6%
  • Total voters
    316
Bit of a swerve, but I do think that the fanbase tends to overlook how at its core, the series does have influences from works beyond just the Alien series, such as the anime and manga Space Adventure Cobra. Heck, they seem to not want any anime influence in the series.

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And of course, having samus be some sort of juggernaut Doom Slayer-esque girlboss, ignoring the deliberate contrast between her armored and unarmored self.
 
Dammit Mandrake! said:
Could not agree more. I was very disappointed with it. Trilogy with Wii Motion Plus is the best form.
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They should port that over to Switch 2 via NSO after they milk the fan base with remasters. I haven't played the Prime remaster yet, it looks serviceable but definitely missing lots of little things that add up from what I can tell.

LightDragonman1 said:
Bit of a swerve, but I do think that the fanbase tends to overlook how at its core, the series does have influences from works beyond just the Alien series, such as the anime and manga Space Adventure Cobra. Heck, they seem to not want any anime influence in the series.

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And of course, having samus be some sort of juggernaut Doom Slayer-esque girlboss, ignoring the deliberate contrast between her armored and unarmored self.
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It's ironic how Samus' gender was a secret and made out to be a big deal, yet feminists just want her to be a man and complain whenever she's not not a silent killing machine in armor and actually seems like a woman for a moment.

And Metroid is very anime by nature, always has been, I mean it's made by Japs. I'm pretty sure there was an old 80's manga companion release for the game in Japan. These western libtard fags can fuck off.
 
Any new Prime 4 news? He says doubting and growing evermore cautious. Still no announcements about Prime 2 or 3 rereleases, or a remix of Hunters (or even FedForce, which has story details leading directly into 4)... meaning the majority of the Prime games are unplayable for modern audiences too lazy to emulate. This being before the 4th game in a Tetralogy comes out. The majority of new players getting into Prime 4 will be lacking context for 80% of the series. Good job goytendo, and I bet they're going to be charging 70-80 dollars for it even on Switch 1... Over 8 years of waiting since the initial teaser, and 18 years since Prime 3. Babies have been born and grown to adulthood in the span people have waited, and Nintendo is still playing chicken with the game's release. Just baffling.
 
I wanted to post the actual trailer but I can't find it anywhere but anyway. Metaquarious released a new trailer for X-Fusion. Sorry for the reaction video but this is the only one I could find.

Apparently it's going to be released this summer. I've been waiting for this for like 10 years now. I'm honestly surprised he didn't drop the project. He seems like a bit of a sperg. I remember one point on the metroid construction forums where he went a bit nuts about people saying his artwork looked too anime and fucked up his thread on the hack. Either way, this looks cool as fuck and hopefully he actually releases it.

Also, for anyone that doesn't know what this is, it's a remake of Metroid Fusion using the Super Metroid engine.
 
Grub said:
I wanted to post the actual trailer but I can't find it anywhere but anyway. Metaquarious released a new trailer for X-Fusion. Sorry for the reaction video but this is the only one I could find.

Apparently it's going to be released this summer. I've been waiting for this for like 10 years now. I'm honestly surprised he didn't drop the project. He seems like a bit of a sperg. I remember one point on the metroid construction forums where he went a bit nuts about people saying his artwork looked too anime and fucked up his thread on the hack. Either way, this looks cool as fuck and hopefully he actually releases it.

Also, for anyone that doesn't know what this is, it's a remake of Metroid Fusion using the Super Metroid engine.
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Wouldn't it make more sense to make Super Metroid in Fusion's engine? Whatever. Nintendo lawyers eyeing it like a murderous animal, AM2R still fresh in the minds of all who played it.
 
Lone MacReady II said:
Wouldn't it make more sense to make Super Metroid in Fusion's engine?
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I prefer Super Metroid's engine personally but i believe from what I understand about Fusion the event system is pretty fundamental to the game and there's not really any way to work around it. I'm not sure if it would be possible to make a good remake of Super Metroid in Fusion. There's a couple of Zero Mission hacks attempting to do it but they kind of suck.
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Whatever. Nintendo lawyers eyeing it like a murderous animal, AM2R still fresh in the minds of all who played it.
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Can they actually go after romhacks? Most romhacks are distributed as patches that only contain the changes to the code and not the actual game itself. I always thought that's why romhacks by and large have been left alone.
 
Grub said:
I wanted to post the actual trailer but I can't find it anywhere but anyway. Metaquarious released a new trailer for X-Fusion. Sorry for the reaction video but this is the only one I could find.

Apparently it's going to be released this summer. I've been waiting for this for like 10 years now. I'm honestly surprised he didn't drop the project. He seems like a bit of a sperg. I remember one point on the metroid construction forums where he went a bit nuts about people saying his artwork looked too anime and fucked up his thread on the hack. Either way, this looks cool as fuck and hopefully he actually releases it.

Also, for anyone that doesn't know what this is, it's a remake of Metroid Fusion using the Super Metroid engine.
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Damn i figured this was abandoned, glad to see its not dead.
 
Grub said:
Can they actually go after romhacks? Most romhacks are distributed as patches that only contain the changes to the code and not the actual game itself. I always thought that's why romhacks by and large have been left alone.
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Yes. I remember some pokemon hacks being taken down after Nintendo's AI/s got wind of one.
 
Newcomer 42 said:
Yes. I remember some pokemon hacks being taken down after Nintendo's AI/s got wind of one.
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Were they being distributed as patches or as patched roms? Or did they have a website with a bunch of Nintendo logos and stuff?
 
Checked a gameplay video. Avoid it unless you're into extreme masochism (no idea if that's the standard for Metroid ROMs): There are some changes to the original, which fine, but the difficulty is all over the place, with some spikes here and there... And then, in the endgame, the spikes jump out of the monitor and stab your skull.
Imagine running through pixel-perfect, timed platforming sections with enemies that can one-shot you strategically placed everywhere, for like 10 screens. Remember that idea about SA-X having multiple copies? Now imagine all of them having an insta-kill ice beam, unlike the original, and them having perfect reflexes and accuracy.
 
Newcomer 42 said:
Checked a gameplay video. Avoid it unless you're into extreme masochism (no idea if that's the standard for Metroid ROMs): There are some changes to the original, which fine, but the difficulty is all over the place, with some spikes here and there... And then, in the endgame, the spikes jump out of the monitor and stab your skull.
Imagine running through pixel-perfect, timed platforming sections with enemies that can one-shot you strategically placed everywhere, for like 10 screens. Remember that idea about SA-X having multiple copies? Now imagine all of them having an insta-kill ice beam, unlike the original, and them having perfect reflexes and accuracy.
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It sucks when programming spergs do that. It reminds me of a Castlevania fan game where the guy somehow got the voice actor for Alucard from Symphony to do the opening and a few other lines. Then you start platforming and it's masochist hard, pixel-perfect instant death platforming. The kind where you die once and you do it all over again and there's no savestates to save you. I was so disappointed in it that I even emailed the guy with my criticisms and essentially said that the vast majority of people will not play this past the first 5 screens. The guy must have gotten an avalanche of feedback like that and removed his game. What a waste of getting that voice actor.

I'll still give this romhack a shot because I never played a masochist hard Metroid plus you can at least savestate.
 
Was that CV fangame Lecarde Chronicles?

It's still around, but was DMCA'd. Lecarde Chronicles 2 and the recent Chronicles of the Wolf are Metroidvanias now though. Pretty okay.
 
BrunoMattei said:
I tried that rom on a GBA emulator and it didn't work. Do you have to use a specific emulator?
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It's a snes rom. It's a hack of Super Metroid.
Newcomer 42 said:
Checked a gameplay video. Avoid it unless you're into extreme masochism (no idea if that's the standard for Metroid ROMs): There are some changes to the original, which fine, but the difficulty is all over the place, with some spikes here and there... And then, in the endgame, the spikes jump out of the monitor and stab your skull.
Imagine running through pixel-perfect, timed platforming sections with enemies that can one-shot you strategically placed everywhere, for like 10 screens. Remember that idea about SA-X having multiple copies? Now imagine all of them having an insta-kill ice beam, unlike the original, and them having perfect reflexes and accuracy.
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I actually haven't played it yet. I've been too busy with work and doing some vehicle work. Some of the reviews looked pretty bad though. The v 1.1 patch is a little easier I think. At least the changelog looks like he made some things easier. I also noticed there's two versions of the patch. One has GBA on it I'm not sure what the difference is between the two.
 
Tate McRae said:
I've been playing Zero Mission and Fusion again and I forgot how good the GBA to DS pipeline/transition was. Those were probably some of Nintendo's best gaming years.
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Even on a desktop monitor, the GBA games are so pleasing to look at. A large part thanks to the dark GBA screen necessitating bright colors. The GBA was one of the last consoles, maybe even the last, where hardware limitations guided art direction.

Either way, the two games' big bold colors do it a lot of favors IMO.
 
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