Thread 717925473

You make one wrong turn or miss one tiny pixel and have to backtrack for ages, made worse by the absolutely worthless map that doesn't mark even the most basic of details.

Does anyone actually enjoy backtracking through the area they literally just fully fucking explored?

The main issue is the combat and platforming are both terrible, provide zero challenge or stakes whatsoever, and require absolutely zero thought or strategy.

So what you have is a game where you just endlessly roam and backtrack through long series of generic, samey rooms that all just blend together in your mind as one jumbled, forgettable mess, with enemies and platforming that is just a minor inconvenience rather than actually engaging or challenging in the slightest.

When you're exploring a new area it's like a 6/10
But when you're backtracking or hunting the one tiny destructible tile needed to progress it's like a 1.5/10

X-Fusion thread?

>>717925473 (OP)
Lawl why dont u walk outside instead of playing a walking sim

>the absolutely worthless map that doesn't mark even the most basic of details
It marks elevators, recharge rooms, and even tells you when there’s a hidden item in the room, what more do you need?

>>717925638
It doesn't even show you doors or gates you've seen and doesn't even remove blips after you find the item in that square.

>>717925774
>and doesn't even remove blips after you find the item in that square.
It literally does though?

>>717925473 (OP)
lmao filtered

>>717925546
You won't leave this thread alive, freak.

>>717925774
>doors or gates you've seen
Why would it need to? If you can’t open a door/gate, that passageway abruptly ends. If you see an unfinished passage, that’s where the door or gate is. Pretty simple stuff, anon

>>717925826
No it doesn't dumbfuck, you must have used some QoL romhack you zoomer shitstain

>>717926183
Except ends of pathways don't always (or even usually) have locked doors, and doors aren't always (or even usually) at the end of linear pathways.

The amount of cognitive dissonance for you to type this bullshit is staggering.

>>717925546
I need to do my Omega run at some point but I'm still mad at DMX sector.

>people arguing map shit
If it wasn't lacking, then the most popular romhacks for the game, including the randomizer, wouldn't all have improved it to show gates type.

>>717927306
Why? That was fun.

I just can't get over how the game gives you up to 14 energy tanks, 4 supply tanks 2 suits that both double your HP, has energy refills in every zone, every other room has those little geysers that infinitely spawn weak trashmobs to top off your health and ammo quickly, and every single enemy in the game drops a huge amount of health and resources.

It's actually almost impossible to die outside of bossfights unless you really try and just sit there and facetank enemies for minutes on end without shooting.

Not even one single (non-boss) enemy or hazard in the game poses any threat whatsoever to the point that they exist solely as an extremely minor inconvenience, like a harmless gnat just buzzing around you.

It just kills the entire game. What's the fucking point? It's like you're playing with invincibility cheat on at all times.

It's not even an exaggeration to say that around 98% of this game is just a walking sim, a glorified cutscene, where there is zero challenge and zero stakes, and it requires zero thought, skill, strategy, or focus from the player. You just wander around scanning every tile of every room, and all the enemies, hazards, and most of the bosses might as well not even be there because they add nothing except the slightest bit of inconvenience.

now you know why i call them metroid-LAMEias

>>0717927606
(You)

>>717925473 (OP)
Agreed. Zero mission and dread are the only good 2d troids.

>>717927394
You my friend, are in the minority on that thought lol. Wish I played it when 1.2 landed, which at least added more checkpoints for that segment, given we can't save there at all.

>>717928195
The only bad part of it, I think, is that you often don't have time to think before a Metroid or SA-X comes charging through the door behind you. I get that it's supposed to be a fast paced run for your fucking life sequence but even a couple extra seconds would've gone miles.
But I still thought it was really fun overall.

>>717928181
You mean Fusion? Zero Mission has all those same complaints.

>the hidden wall that you can't see even with the X-ray
Is there even a clue that tells you it's there?

>>717928446
You basically have no reaction time for that whole sequence. It's a blind trial & error run you can't possibly ever do the first try with how quickly the SA-X are on your ass and how fast the Metroid's thaw

>>717928867
It's been 20 years but I don't remember getting lost at all in zero mission.

>>717928917
You've been well trained at that point in the game to bomb any wall that has a ledge before it. Hell, it's one of the earliest things you do to proceed. Just this time you'll end up running through it rather than expecting to bomb it.

>>717929182
Not getting lost, backtracking. Also the enemies in Zero Mission are a harmless pushover.

RARGH

>>717928917
Does it matter? It's pointless optional bullshit

>>717928917
There is, but it's extremely subtle, and that image ocbsures it.
This is a lighted room, with Firefleas that when killed make the room darker and darker until it's pitch black. Lighted rooms glow. The secret passage is actually illuminated by this glowing effect, but only very briefly on the brightest frames. If you kill even one of firefleas, the room becomes too dark to see the passage. Luckily the firefleas aren't in your path to the top of the room.
Pic related. You can see the passage.

>>717925774
you are meant to... remember things... stupid fucking animal...

>>717930181
You wouldn't have been able to make out that difference on a CRT.

>>717927386
and one of the most popular mod for ds is easy mode difficulty, goymers are peak retarded and instead of admitting this they'd rather blame the game

>>717930480
Depends on how high your brightness and contrast are set, I guess.

>>717930438
>just remember every single locked door and its location out of the hundreds of generic, samey rooms you have entered
Lmao fuck off and kill yourself golem

>>717929712
Yes

>>717927606

Non-boss enemies should NOT be a threat in a good game. Non-boss enemies are there for you to kill. The boss is there to kill you.

>>717925473 (OP)
Nigga I cleared this game without any issues when I was 10 backtracking was never an issue why the fuck your 40 yo ass is having a melty over this?

>>717932352
>99% of the game should be a glorified walking sim with zero challenge and requiring zero skill, attention, effort, or strategy
Retarded zoomermutt take.

>>717932571
>state the game has objective issue that only serves to waste your time
>LE GIT GUD!! SKILL ISSUE!! WORKS ON MY MACHINE!!
Holy fuck you are retarded. It's literally one of the most easy and casual games in existence, I've said that multiple times in this thread.

>>717932679
You should try out the recently released hack X-Fusion. It sounds like it'd be right up your alley.

>>717929423
I feel like the backtracking in zero mission was also pretty minimal. Also none of these games are hard, there isn't a difficult boss or enemy in the entire series. We're talking about nintendo games here.

>>717925473 (OP)
Enough with the fucking SM threads you retarded faggot

>>717932960
No, they're not hard, outside of a couple bosses, they are literally some of the easiest games in existence, where it's basically impossible to die unless you specifically sit there and facetank enemies without shooting for minutes straight on end.

Mother Brain in Zero Mission was like 50x harder than anything else in the game but was only notable for its difficulty compared to how absolutely braindead and mindless everything else was.

>>717930571
That isn't going to fix the composite output blurring all of it into a mush due to crappy luminence channel.

>>717925473 (OP)
this game was made for real people, people who pay attention, take notes, use the brain and not for tik tokers who live their turbo life and have 0 attention span

>>717927606
I think the devs just underestimated how much of the collectables people will actively seek out on their first playthrough. Then again, Super Metroid took two and a half years to be made, so I figure they'd have playtested it thoroughly inhouse.

>>717933187
Blurring a solid wall isn't going to make it invisible

>>717933354
It's the complete opposite. It's one of the most braindead, easy, casualized games in not just the SNES library, but all of gaming (outside of like two bossfights).

I just can't get over how the game gives you up to 14 energy tanks, 4 supply tanks 2 suits that both double your HP, has energy refills in every zone, every other room has those little geysers that infinitely spawn weak trashmobs to top off your health and ammo quickly, and every single enemy in the game drops a huge amount of health and resources.

It's actually almost impossible to die outside of bossfights unless you really try and just sit there and facetank enemies for minutes on end without shooting.

Not even one single (non-boss) enemy or hazard in the game poses any threat whatsoever to the point that they exist solely as an extremely minor inconvenience, like a harmless gnat just buzzing around you.

It just kills the entire game. What's the fucking point? It's like you're playing with invincibility cheat on at all times.

It's not even an exaggeration to say that around 98% of this game is just a walking sim, a glorified cutscene, where there is zero challenge and zero stakes, and it requires zero thought, skill, strategy, or focus from the player. You just wander around scanning every tile of every room, and all the enemies, hazards, and most of the bosses might as well not even be there because they add nothing except the slightest bit of inconvenience.

>>717933397
I assume he was talking about the 'black' tiles left of the wall being a faint grey rather than pure black like the rest of the tiles in the background.

>>717933379
Even in a low percent run, traversing stages offers zero challenge or danger whatsoever.

The bosses are the only aspect that can actually be challenging by limiting your resources, but even then, they are pushover when you actually know the strategy, even with minimal resources.

I can't emphasize enough just how easy this game is outside of a few bossfights. Like literally probably the easiest retro action game I can think of.

>>717933581
Yeah. And they'll stay that off-color.

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>>717933354
The game is not even designed for note-taking as it has no coordinates for any of the maps.

Thre game ultimately comes down to either memorizing dozens of different lock types and their exact locations out of hundreds of samey, generic rooms, or just wandering around until you stumble on them again.

The combat, platforming, hazard avoidance are completely braindead and provide zero challenge whatsoever, so I guess we just cope by acting like slowly and methodically checking every single tile of every single room is somehow fun or engaging?