Thread 11933175

Anything I should know before starting this?

I beat Zero Mission and Fusion and found them both pretty mediocre as action games and wasn't a fan of shooting and bombing every surface to proceed

>>11933175 (OP)
Your mom and I are getting a divorce

>>11933175 (OP)
>I beat Zero Mission and Fusion and found them both pretty mediocre as action games
I think you should go play Mega Man X instead then

>>11933175 (OP)
Zero Mission and Fusion are much more linear and thus easier. You may enjoy Super Metroid more.

>wasn't a fan of shooting and bombing every surface to proceed
About 2/3 of the way through the game you get a hidden X-Ray Scope item that quickly lets you scan around and see if surfaces are bombable or if there's hidden passages.

>>11933175 (OP)

if you have no taste for any visual narrative with the gameplay, you're going to basically see alot of the same.

man, i'd hate to be as reductionist as this...

>>11933175 (OP)
what mental defect causes zoomers to NEED to consult the internet before doing ANYTHING

old metroid in general are not focused on action, if you like exploration i think it's pretty good and it's a game you can beat in a few hours

>>11933175 (OP)
Metroid is NOT an action game. The fun is in collecting and exploring. It's basically side scroller Zelda in space.
Either you appreciate that, or should just give up and go play some run n gun

>>11933175 (OP)
>Anything I should know before starting this?
It's shit.

>>11933351
>>11933220
>>11933348
>it's an adventure game!
>it's about exploration!
It's just a series of samey generic rooms with colored blocks. There is nothing to explore or uncover aside from just another generic copypasted missile capacity upgrade.

>>11933409
Why do people always have to do this obnoxious contrarian low effort shitposting? Go back to /v/.

>>11933175 (OP)
One of the GOATs of vidya. It's been too long since I played this gem.

The game has a good difficulty curve but its not an unforgiving nigger of a game that doesn't give you save points.

>>11933175 (OP)
>Anything I should know before starting this?
It's garbage, don't waste your time.

>>11933342
It's over half of their peer bonding experience, with all of the bullying and groupthink that implies

>>11933424
He's right though. It's cool to optimize your route and sequence break but there is no sense of wonder, discovery, or exploration. You pretty much know what's going to be around every corner

>>11933175 (OP)
the game doesnt hold your hand in terms of exploration especially compared to fusion and zero mission.

>>11933450
This is completely subjective. When I played the game in the 90s I had a ton of fun with the exploration and discovery. Maybe you're just jaded.

>>11933342

actual boomers above 55 mostly still operate without the internet. people above 30 are the last ones to know the world without the internet.

Everyone else has no frame of reference that it was ever any other way. so basically, >11933434 is right

>>11933175 (OP)
Oh, look. It's the weekly Super Sloptroid thread.

>I beat this Metroid
>Then I beat this Metroid
>Now I'm gonna play this Metroid
>Btw they're all shit btw
The bait has been planted. Now we wait

>>11933175 (OP)
What >>11933220 said, just play Mega Man instead. Clearly Metroid is not for you outside of maybe Metroid Dread (not retro) which actually leans into the action and railroads the player.

Super Metroid will not change your mind, it's even less action oriented and progression is even more cryptic and you still bomb/power bomb everything. There is at least the X-Ray scope to minimize this but there's no guarantee you will even find it since it's an optional power up that is completely missable if you don't explore.

>>11933581
Never really got the appeal of Mega Man X. It definitely feels polished and inoffensive, but the level and boss design is just kinda bland and forgettable. The game is also just way too easy with no replay value.

>>11933575
Super Metroid was never really a heavy hitter like Link to the Past was though

the post super games don't put much emphasis on action, a lot of it's too easy/trivial, but I struggle to think of any game out there that really replicates what it offers. sidescroller with 8 way shooting that occasionally emphasizes timing instead of just contra firehose spam. I wish that game did exist, super metroid but actually a really tight action game, but I don't think it does.

>>11933739
Cave Story

>>11933283
>Zero Mission and Fusion are much more linear
Fusion, yes, but the former? Discounting abusing obviously unintended exploits, they're each about as flexible. ZM is just a very short game with a dense playable area

>>11933342
>>11933434
>>11933546
>le zoomieeeeessss!!!
What causes aging, balding millenials to be like this? Oh wait I think I answered my own question lol

>>11933791
>its millennials who never played snes games and are confused by 16 bit era game mechanics
yeah no, you blithering retard, we grew up with these games

>>11933853
Zoomers don't realize how common sense works. If you were born after the 90s or too late in the 90s for SNES/Genesis, you're Gen Z, period. They seem to think it can be anything else because they're too high on prescription pills to think like an actual intelligent creature.

>>11933869
I've seen somewhere in the ballpark of two orders of magnitude more people complaining about zoomers than identifiable zoomers on this board. I only see one side trying to start flame wars, and it's not the zoomer boogeyman. I also suspect you're one of the people who ebin ween new on-topic threads with some approximation of "who the fuck cares, why did you post this" first posts way faster than is normal for this board. Do you sit around all day refreshing the catalog? Because that's the impression I'm getting

>>11933897
You're new, sorry. Those of us here for the entire time notice how the board went to shit immediately when 6th gen was allowed, bringing in zoomers, and tons of retarded threads like this asking how to play games WE have already played a million times since we were six

Retards

Personally I can't wait for 7th gen to be considered retro in a few years
t. 38yo boomer

>>11933626
whose mans is this

>>11933897
you're completely right, and they'll never, ever admit they're the ones shitting up this board because what was all the whining for then

>>11933409
>>11933616
Fuck off and go play some turn-based garbage then, jeez.Or a VN, I don't know what else to tell you

>>11933175 (OP)
Watch the auto demos. It's quite important.

>>11934191
>ACKSHULLY MILLENNIALS DIDN'T PLAY SNES ZOOMERS DID
Fuck off back to/v/

>>11933551
Get your fucking Samus Slop here.

>>11933626
That's cool, ALttP still worse than any other 2D Zeldas out there.

>>11935758
Naw, that's just contrarianism

>>11933175 (OP)
>Anything I should know before starting this?

1. power bomb the tube to enter maridia
2. look up a video on how to wall jump because the in game tutorial is useless. you can't wall jump until the "wall cling" sprite appears

>>11933175 (OP)
>Anything I should know before starting this?

OP, could you report back? Were you just pretending to be a retard in order to troll or are you genuinely asking that retarded question? Please tell us. That will be more interesting than the billionth popular-game-is-bad thread.

>>11936436
I started it tonight... mid so far, just like the other two Metroids. All the Metroid games have a unique sense of exploration/progression and a steady drip feed of upgrades, but that's really about it... combat is just a pointless afterthought, jumping is super floaty (you have to hold jump for like two seconds to make higher jumps), and really only exists to traverse through the map rather than offer any fun or challenging platforming, movement feels jerky with very sudden starts/stops, environments are just a bunch of colored blocks, and I've never been a fan of pixel hunting for destructible tiles, especially when certain tiles are just arbitrarily chosen as destructible with no rhyme or reason.

>>11936539
None of those games is "mid" because that's not a word in the language that I speak and that you semi-competently pretend to speak. Instead of farting out more generic complaints, answer the question you were asked.

>>11936728
>answer the questions you were asked
use some context clues, smoothbrain imbecile. I don't need to lay it out for you.