About to boot this up for the first time (original, not remake)

What am I in for? I've only played Super Metroid as a child and loved it.

>>11825035 (OP)
Horrible gunplay and generic environments, skip right to echoes.

Metroid Prime is less Metroid and more 3D Zelda in first person

>>11825035 (OP)
a 10/10 experience that is a perfect translation of super metroid into 3d

Am I the only one who finds these "I'm going to play game, what to expect?" threads extremely idiotic? Just play it dumbfuck, stop siphoning our attention.

>>11825056
>saar please understand saar

>>11825035 (OP)
>About to boot this up for the first time (original, not remake)
On Gamecube or Wii?

Imagine Super Metroid in first person, built on the foundation of 3D Zelda games, but with a bad and terrible gun... sigh... "blast" gameplay. Somehow, tendies get obnoxious with the terms "shoot" or "gun," because, according to them, this is a "First Person Action" game.

As an FPS, it's trash, but as a Metroid game, it's great.

PS: Its controller is kind of retarded. Even though you have a second analog stick, you play this game as if it was designed for a single analog controller like the N64. You'll understand as soon as you play it.

>>11825060
Gamecube

>>11825056
Nope you are not the only one, it's a weird attention seek as surely most people think the op is a fucking moron sheep who can't think for themselves for asking the question

>>11825063
If you're under 15 years old, you're in for an amazing game.

I'd rather play Halo:CE

>>11825063
an extreme level of cuckoldry when Dolphin exists and has mods.

>>11825137
A better game for sure, but Metroid is not an FPS. Also any of the 2D Metroids are better. If you wanna play a game that's actually prime, play AM2R.

>>11825035 (OP)
just play the game you dumb faggot

>>11825035 (OP)
It's a post-SNES Nintendo exclusive so this board will automatically tell you it's shit

>>11825035 (OP)
>What am I in for? I've only played Super Metroid as a child and loved it.

Disappointment

>>11825035 (OP)
Halo by Turok/Half-Life hacks

>>11825152
Unless it's Super Farty-ho 64.

>>11825182
>Peach out of nowhere.

>>11825035 (OP)
shit controls, just play the remaster or primehack or wii version

>>11825056
>>11825064
I think its just a way for people to start a conversation about a game but dont know how
That being said, play it first then come here to talk about it

>>11825150
>Metroid is not an FPS
Is in First Person? Yes
You shot things? Yes
Why is not a FPS? I don't get it.

>>11825035 (OP)
I replayed it on Wii not too long ago. Wiimote controls felt awesome, it was fun to experience the game with more control and mobility. Graphics still look great on a CRT. Music is good, but turning it down will get you immersed with ambient sounds.

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes is even better.

>>11825307
Because it's a terrible FPS and does nothing well in the genre so it can't be called that even though it is.

>>11825035 (OP)
A game that's far better than it has any right to be, but that was made primarily by Americans (and it shows).

>>11825257
That's fair, but surely it would make more sense to ask something like "I'm thinking of playing this, what did you guys think of it?" rather than sounding like a spastic loser parrot trying to fit in?

>>11825035 (OP)
play it and find out

it's very ascetic in terms of action, not terrible or jank but dry. you really need to enjoy it as an adventure game.

I'm a retro FPS lover and I love Metroid Prime, but I gotta admit that I could only finish the game when I used the Prime Hack mod that gives you keyboard and mouse controls.

>>11825035 (OP)
If you like Turok and Super Metroid and Zelda OoT it mixes all of those together very, very well.

>>11825035 (OP)
Stiff boring crap

>>11825035 (OP)
the best in the prime series. pure kino.
echoes is bloated and crappy.
corruption is fine.

>>11825035 (OP)
Enjoy it because it’s all downhill from here.

>>11825307
is Final Fight a fighting game? you fight people in it

>>11825356
>asking for other anons opinions
>sounding like a spastic loser parrot trying to fit in
one and the same

>>11825040
This except don't skip to echoes, play MP1, because echoes is literally a copy paste hack of MP1 with changed skins phoned in with wait mechanics and doesn't really add much.
None of the MP series are good, they're shit metroids as well. But if you're gonna play them... play the Trilogy with Wii for the IR aiming and shit, and use external drive because it's slow as dirt loading otherwise. If you're emulating you probably won't have an issue.
Enjoy scanning crap and the most generic techno music of werdubdub erdubdub over and over again with some piano as nerds jerked off over this because it was amazing for them to hear any electronic music for the first time especially with piano despite Robert Miles - Children existing since 1995. Like... it's fucking bad... like really bad. People love this shit and it's silly. Like for fuck sake - it even hard cuts it's shit in the middle of it with no fall off either in the weirdest way - they seriously must have hired some college bro friend of theirs playing with FLStudio for first time for six months to fill in for Kenji Yamamoto because he was waiting for another Elite Frontier to rip off - which at least yeah he did well ripping that off for SNES.

It's basically Metroid being Halo... which still makes it better than Halo, because Halo being Halo is fucking garbage.

>>11825332
>it's a terrible FPS
Buddy...

Great game, bro. Talk about atmosphere. I hope you have a big ass CRT and a killer sound system. There are parts of this game that freak me out. Do yourself a favor and don't use a guide and don't use the in-game hint system. The hint system will randomly pop up and kill your immersion. Plus, it's unnecessary. Just explore and keep a mental note of the areas you need a "certain" thing in order to progress through. So each time you get a new technology it's time to explore and re-explore. If you're stuck it's because you probably need to go back to a previously explored area. Learn to use the map and it'll easily help you narrow it down. The game is way more fun if you don't know what's coming. There are segments that will push you hard and using a guide will totally ruin it. Get used to using the shoulder buttons to move through the corridors. With R you set your direction so you can strafe around corners and bends with L.

>>11828354
>The hint system will randomly pop up and kill your immersion.
Also if you follow it too closely you'll ping pog yourself across the map over and over like a retard and it will kill any enjoyment out of the game since you will just try to go to the objective (which is always on the other end of the map). You're supposed to wander a bit.

>>11826383
Beat 'em up is a fighting genre. Try again.

>>11827063
Doesn't he know? Metroid fans are gonna be upset over this.

>>11827059
>Prime 3 Corruption is le better than Halo
This post is pure frustration from a kid who grew up poor as hell with nothing but a Wii or was so damn retarded to choose a Wii over an Xbox 360, while his friends (or acquaintances) were having a blast playing Halo 3 or Reach.

>>11831971
Is Final Fight a fighting game? Yes or no. All other answers are conceding.

>>11831994
It's a belt scroller

>>11825035 (OP)
>What am I in for?
back and forth down the same hallway many many times

>>11831997
but you fight in it. Are you saying that fighting things isn't enough to make it a fighting game?

>>11832013
Of course, it's stupid to suggest otherwise as fight is an abstract term and not a definitive one. If you want to have a serious discussion about game genres you first need to understand the definitive titles of the genre, else you're just a time wasting troll. Are you a time wasting troll?

>>11825056
>>11825257
I agree. It would be different if they had played it and wanted to discuss it, or were even at least considering playing it and had a specific question before they do (like "X game has been re-released 12 times, which version should I play?"), otherwise it just stinks of attention whoring.

>>11832121
but the fact that Metroid Prime contains shooting is enough to make it a First Person Shooter?

>>11832386

If you ain't into getting fucked in the ass but you love fucking pussy... that means you straight, right?! You dumb as hell, my nigga, or what's good? Beat 'em up is a fighting genre, and Metroid Prime is an FPS that gets mogged hard by Halo.

>>11832386
Is Powerslave not a first person shooter because it has exploration and platforming in it?

>>11832508
is powerslave's main focus the shooting? or is it the exploration and platforming?

>>11832521
Much like Metroid Prime it has shooting and platforming and exploration, all equal parts of. It even has more movement tech than Metroid Prime. Much like Metroid Prime it has a variety of enemies to shoot, and selection of shot choices to make. There are even bosses, like Metroid Prime, which you kill by shooting.

However, PowerSlave fans are not confused about its genre.

>>11832542
Metroid Prime is far more about exploration, though. you can literally just not shoot things in 90% of rooms.

>>11825035 (OP)
>Open thread
>Expect MP dicksucking
>Find the opposite
I'm pleasantly surprised, thank you for the validation /vr, fuck the prime series.

>>11832558
this is a contrarian board so if people are shitting on it that means its actually good

>>11832546
No there's more secrets to unlock in PowerSlave with pure platforming too. Just no confusion or pretense about which genres it covers.

its an amazing experience. no its not super challenging but i dont think it needs to be. its primarily an atmospheric adventure. i actually love the gamecube controller for this despite not really liking it for much else otherwise. never played it any other way and dont want to

>>11832578
no, you misunderstand
I was saying MP is more about exploration than shooting, not comparing it to power slave

>>11825035 (OP)
>What am I in for?
Scanning.

>>11832590
I see where you are coming from but I disagree. The games have a very similar amount of combat, although Prime has more bosses. It is a first person shooter, even if it has unusual controls and moments of the game about puzzle solving and platforming.

>>11832601
but you're wrong. shooting isn't even actually necessary in the vast majority of rooms in MP, you can just run straight past enemies without a care. exploration on the other hand is the entire point of the game.

>>11832614
>you can just run straight past enemies without a care
Correct for PowerSlave as well, it is what makes returning to previous levels still enjoyable. You can simply pass by obstacles you used to have with your new powers.

>>11825035 (OP)
This is so fuckin boring. Nintendo trying to do something in the FPS space. So cringe and cope.

>>11832686
ESL

>>11825056
Its just done as a way to get engagement in a thread. The problem is most anons don't simply want to discuss a game because that isn't funny enough for their miserable lives. They need dopamine hits and this usually means cringe worthy thread topics or pics to bait which then will reel people in for some actual discussion to eventually take place.

Its likely OP has already played the game numerous times and just wants to talk about the game. Wording the thread the way OP did from what I seen works a lot to actually get people to not ignore your thread.

>>11831994
>answer my question in a way that means i win, if you don't then i also win

>>11831994
>Is Final Fight a fighting game?
A beat 'em up game is a subgenre of the fighting game category.
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Metroid Prime is an FPS with shitty gunplay. If Metroid Prime isn't an FPS but that retardation called "FPA" (First-Person Adventure), what other games qualify as "FPA" besides the Metroid Prime Trilogy?

Tendies cope so hard with the fact that Metroid Prime’s gunplay is shitty (lock-on, no dual analog layout [you can’t even aim with the C-stick] and a control scheme as awkward as playing Quake 3 with a Dreamcast controller or Rainbow Six with an N64 controller) that they invented a whole "genre" just to avoid any comparison with Halo and how Halo mogged it so hard.

Tendies are so retarded that they can't use corners for cover so RetroStudio came up with this stupid nonsense where you lock-on an enemy with L instead of aiming and do a silly lateral jump to dodge any hit. Metroid Prime is a horrible FPS and I'm glad an Anon bring up PowerSlave to the discussion.

I'm not a hater, but you can see the sales decline from Metroid Prime to Echoes to Corruption. Retro Studios was forced to re-release them as the Prime Trilogy, and it flopped so hard that Nintendo slaved Retro Studios to DK's mines for nearly 19 years.

>b-but it's an FPA and comparing it to G-Gaylo is dumb!!
Retro Studio added MP to Echoes as a sad cope and Corruption is trying so fucking hard to be 'Halo at home'.

PS: I grew up playing Super Metroid and Quake II.

>>11833271
>words
Is Final Fight a fighting game? YES OR NO?

>>11833197
It's literally just a yes or no question, anon

>>11825307
>Also every multiplayer game is a moba btw

>>11833271
It's clearly more zelda than halo in terms of level design and combat. Genres aren't all defined by singular mechanics.
If you wanna be an autist and be technically correct in your little sphere go ahead, but trying to project that sphere onto everybody else in discussion just makes you look like a smooth brain.

>>11833413
>It's clearly more zelda than halo in terms of level design and combat.
Tendie copium

>>11825035 (OP)
OP any thoughts on the game?

>>11833302
>>11833382
I mean, Final Fight is a fighting game (beat 'em up is a sub-genre) I don't understand this non sense about if Metroid Prime is a FPS. I mean, it is, you shoot things in first person. I don't understand this Nintendr0n autism.
>>11833408
>moba
That's a sub-genre, retard.
>>11833413
>It's clearly more zelda than halo in terms of level design and combat
Lock-on makes Prime a 'Zelda-like'?
>Genres aren't all defined by singular mechanics
Metroid Prime is in first person and you shoot. The genre is called 'First Person Shooter'. How can you be this dense?
>If you wanna be an autist and be technically correct in your little sphere go ahead
Stop projecting.
>you look like a smooth brain
What? but you can't even comprehend that a game in first person where you mainly shoot... is a first person shooter.

Nintendr0ns: why is so hard for all of you to accept that Metroid Prime is a FPS with dogshit gunplay?

>>11833520
>Paragraphs of absolutism wank
Ok autist

>>11833520
To summarize tendie's mindset:
GCN's Metroid Prime is NOT an FPS ('cause it sucks as an FPS), but Switch's Metroid Prime Remastered is one of the BEST FPS (because you can aim with the right analog).

>>11825064
Yup

>>11827059
Impressive, none of your post was correct in any capacity. By the way, MP1 was entirely scored by two Japanese people, you racist twerp.

>>11825041
Metroid was always just Zelda as a side scroller so that makes sense.

>>11833691
I thought our lord and savior Tommy talerico did some of it.

>>11825035 (OP)
>I've only played Super Metroid as a child and loved it.
Then you'll love this game too, but be aware it plays more like a Zelda game in a lot of ways.

>>11825056
It's small talk anon, it's just asking "what did you think of Metroid Prime?".

>>11833520
>this pic
oh this pole shitposter is here. I smelled the essence of /v/tardism in here in the last few days and I was right. Of course the board quality has cratered lately.

>>11825035 (OP)
Really helps if you are an early 2000s amerifat game journalist that is deeply excited white people are making a first party Nintendo franchise game

>>11825035 (OP)
It's not what I first expected, compared to SM but worth playing.

>>11833520
I find this argument about genre fascinating. Superficially this post seems on track. That is:
>Metroid Prime is in first person and you shoot
Except that shooting seems a lot smaller a task than the adventuring. It is not an insignificant element though. I don't think this should be ignored either.

Perhaps there's other FP games that happen to involve shooting that are comparable here? (that definitive game other anon was on about) . Anyway, as much as the FPA term kinda disgusts me, these are Metroid's roots but it does cover those bases, don't you think?

Playing SM for the first time, the enemy locking system really stood out. That did take a big part (aiming) from the FPS genre out of the game. Yeah this is probably Nintendo babbifying the gameplay of an FPS to some degree. Possibly limiting movement to disguise frame rate issues too. But it also is obviously their stand on what kind of game they are making here. Whatever it ended up being.

>>11833520
In 3D Zelda games, when you use the slingshot or the bow, you aim and shoot in first person. Is OoT an FPS, in part?

>>11825035 (OP)
It’s one of the greatest games ever made. Honesty it should’ve had about 6 sequels by now but Nintendo hates money. We should all become major stack holders in the company and start dictating their decisions. They milk Mario and Zelda too much!

>>11834645
The fact that it's been 16 years since [not retro] Corruption is sad. I'm still waiting on Echoes Remastered

>>11834648
>it's been 16 years since
18*

>>11834639
>In 3D Zelda games, when you use the slingshot or the bow, you aim and shoot in first person. Is OoT an FPS, in part?
Ofc no fucking idiot, why are you so damn stupid? Metroid Prime is mostly in first person (except when you ballin'),
This gotta be the most braindead nintendr0n take ever. Seriously, you should kill yourself right now.

>>11834813
So it being mostly (but not entirely) in first person makes it an fps? What if a game is 50/50 in first person?

>>11825056
I feel it to a degree but /vr/ is so slow nowadays I don't mind.

>>11825040
>replaying 2 for the first time in years
>get to Torvus Bog
>grenchlers with their bullshit electric attack inhabit half the rooms after X point, even the first room, making you fight them underwater before getting gravity boost
>dark commandos before you get the dark visor; teleport all over the fucking place, invisible and sometimes intangible even when you can see them, tank multiple super missiles, lock all doors to the room until they fuck off after like 5 full minutes, resort to literally just sitting in a cubby hole corner and then doing something else irl until they leave
>complete the underwater temple all in one go, open up the pit leading to boss
>don't have gravity boost so can't climb back out to get to save room, nothing to do but fight Alpha Blogg, make it out with only two tanks left
>hunter ing barely have any tell for when they're vulnerable, just phase through shots whenever they feel like it, easier to just shoot crystal with light beam and literally sit there doing nothing while waiting for them to suicide
>having to repeat that one stretch of Sanctuary because there's no save room before the spider ball guardian
2 is good overall, but it's not better than Prime 1.

>>11825035 (OP)
It's pretty good, really athmospheric, not that long. The tank controls are very weird and the combat is designeed around it.

>>11834986
>So it being mostly (but not entirely) in first person makes it an fps? What if a game is 50/50 in first person?
According to this faggots https://gamerant.com/best-first-person-adventure-games/ Red Dead Redemption 2 (no retro) is the best First Person Action Adventure game, even thought it is... a 3rd person game. I mean, it is optional to play in 1st person but, yeah.

That made up FPAA Metroid Prime's. To be fair, to me, this is retardation but it seems that everybody; most of you and even pleb sites like GameRant or Reddit states the same nonsense bullshit. So yeah, Ocarina of Time is a FPS and Banjo Tooie too, Halo is a 3rd Person Shooter (Warthog, Banshee, Scorpion, Ghost), Mario 3 is a beat 'em up and it seems Quake III Arena is a MOBA too, I mean... if RDR2 is the best 'FPAA'...

>>11835116
I do apologize for how shit my writing is: I'm drunk asf.

>>11825035 (OP)
Remake?

>>11834805
Damn, you're right, 16 years since other mother. Time flies

>>11835042
>making you fight them
I skip encounters. I think most can be skipped. There's no way I'm repeating those chozo ghost fights in Prime 1

dumb halolike

>>11834639
>*holds up plucked chicken* behold, a man
Calm down diogenes

>>11825056
that's the new generation, they need attention and validation about their activities, it's ok once you accept that

>>11835318
I don't get why everyone hates the Chozo Ghosts so damn much. Considering that everyone says it sucks as a shooter you'd think that people would be hungry for some gun play. Honestly the only enemies in the game that really matter (other than bosses of course) are the Chozo Ghosts, the Space Pirates, and the Metroids.

>>11837935
I don't play it for the action, and the theme convinced me to turn the music off lol. The game has great sound design btw.

>>11825056
its pretty gay they've always bothered me even way back on GameFAQs when these threads were made when Metroid Prime was new.

I've always viewed it as people who are so uncomfortable formulating their own thoughts on an experience they need to hear others before they go into it, they're never good threads because the OP can't add anything to the discussion since they haven't even played the game.

>>11833271
The real problem here is gaijin.

Please consult the chart.

>>11838427
Scanning is a perfect feature for the series. Never cared about 100%ing the game, but I like those lore entries.

>>11825056
we're their surrogate friends, and they're lonely, and want validation before they embark on another lonely journey of playing a retro vidya. the scariest thing a zoomer can do is form their own opinion, not to mention their constant inner battle against the crippling force of adhd.

>>11838427

Be prepared for KiNo

Prime 2 is fucking lame and tedious compared to Prime and I'm tired of pretending otherwise

>>11838471
kek

>>11840614
For me, I pick Echoes (Wii)

>>11840614
schmootz moment