[catastrophe]

what do you guys think of the metroid games. a lot of them have came up in the past few years and with the upcoming metroidprime 2 i'm stoked. nintendo really seems to put alot of effort in them. if you haven't played any metroid games you should try the games.

[Issac_Zero2]

I played all of them except the first one...The only ones that are good are Metroid Prime and Metroid Fusion...
Super Metroid was bad and the GB one was horrible...
Zero Mission was too easy and Prime 2 makes me drool...
Just look at the trailers...pure awsome

[Sol.Warrior]

I have Metroid Prime, completed. And Metroid Prime 2: Echoes looks amazing but the name is too long lol

[Nick Presta]

With the exception of Metroid: Fusion, all Metroid games were and still are good. I can't wait for MP2 either.

[NuMou Sniper]

I have Metroid Prime and it is really hard but an awesome game! I cant wait until Echoes comes out mainly because of the mutiplayer!

[Enoch]

Multiplayer Metroid games will be sweet. I wonder if there will be a lot of samuses running around trying to kill each other or are they all fleet commanders?

[Nick Presta]

I think it's 4 different coloured Samus'.

It would be cool if someone could be an Elite Pirate/Omega Metroid/Etc.

[catastrophe]

from what i heard, it will be different colored samuses, and it will be death match type. i still wondering how they are going to do this with easy lock on system from the first game.

[TheOnlyJaz]

Also, you can upload viruses into other players, and certain players have certain upgrades so you have to adapt to what you've got.

[Nick Presta]

I assume you will still have the a lock on button but it will only be semi-auto.

Like nice dash jumping/space jumping will "unlock" you from a person.

[Nick Presta]

Fusion would be shorter than ZM had it not been linear.

ZM is very short though.

[catastrophe]

zm was very short, i finished it in 1 hour 17 min.

[Nick Presta]

I finshed ZM in 0:36:xx, but I still think Fusion would be shorter had you been able to just run around and grab the items like in ZM.

[Alex]

Ah, yes. The awesomely awsome of all awesomeness Metroid games. I like Metroid Fusion, Prime, and Zero Mission.

[Enoch]

Fusion is probobly my favorite one. I think that the suites are cooler, and the game is more chalenging then others.

[Issac_Zero2]

Fusion is very hard and has alot of secrets, that's why I like it better than Zero Mission...Zero Mission should've been released before Fusion.
I still haven't beaten Fusion yet...up to the end...
While in Zero Mission I nearly completed it in 3 days.

[GameGuy123]

My favorites are Prime and Fusion because the auctully have a good storyline. Metriod Zero Mission is a sad remake of the first Metriod and is WAY to short.

The only thing that sorta gets on my nerves about all the Metriod games is that you really only run, shot, get; run, shot, get. Is it me or has anyone else noticed this?

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[catastrophe]

yes that is common amongst metroid games, but what about tons of other games out there? alot of games are repeative, but metroid has an advantage, you don't notice it becuase you are having so much fun. i beat metroidprime, mf,zm over and over because they are fun. the only metroid game i really didn't like was the 8 bit original nes metroid ,not the remake of it the old one. that game is really hard and you into a near endless room every room, and only start with 30 health every time you play.

[Nick Presta]

I have played every Metroid game (With the exception of MP) at least 20 times or more. Limits you can set on yourself make the game fun.

[Dullahan]

Prime was amazing and one of my favourite games.
Fusion is just too hard!
Haven't played any others, although i'm looking foward to Zero Mission.
Prime 2 looks amazing but i doubt the name will stay as you killed the Metroid Prime and at the end of Prime

[Nick Presta]

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Prime 2 looks amazing but i doubt the name will stay as you killed the Metroid Prime and at the end of Prime

Bah! In every Metroid game, the "Last Boss" always ends up coming back for a sequel.

[Iloverpgs]

Well I just beat Zero Mission thinking about playing the one for Snes.....

[catastrophe]

i have yet to play super metroid and that is about the only one i haven't played. i want to, i heard many great things about it, but i can't get my hands on a copy.

[Nick Presta]

I've just done SM speed run and got around 1:24. It's not great, but it's my first for SM.

Hopefully I can do better.

[o0Yo FLipsideR JQ0o]

In zero mission, zero "lil bro" beat it in about 2 hours >_>. Crazy. he's liek wayy younger than me and yet he's better than me B). I'm in mother brain with time of 3:3X.

[Nick Presta]

I beat it in 00:36:13.

It's not too hard to break 1 hour.

[Neon]

Metroid Fusion isn't very hard, it's very linear, and if you're just playing for the fun of it, you typically have more than enough missiles and energy to destroy anything. Playing for a 1% run is hard though, i'm up to the spider boss (I forget it's name), but it's impossible with only 99 health. If ever I beat it, i have to beat the nightmare too, which will be even harder. I can beat the SA-X without taking any damage, so that's ok. Ridley may take a while...
The 1% is from a missile expansion in the heat area (sector 4?). You can't miss it because it's right in your way in some morph ball passage ;).

Metroid prime is excellent. Very fun game to play :). The beam weaknesses toward the end are annoying, i hated most of the Phazon mines because of those metroids and beam pirates <_<. The second form of the last boss is so boring and it takes so long, especially in hard mode where you need to hit it about twice as many times :wacko:.

Super metroid is the best metroid game though. The items and bosses and everything in this game are great. Ridley was probably the highlight :D.

I havn't played Zero Mission unfortunately. It's meant to be kinda bad, so i figured it would be best to skip it. Metroid Prime 2 is looking pretty bad too :wacko:.

[Nick Presta]

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Playing for a 1% run is hard though, i'm up to the spider boss (I forget it's name), but it's impossible with only 99 health. If ever I beat it, i have to beat the nightmare too, which will be even harder.

It's Yakuza IIRC. And he Is hard. He's harder than Nightmare. You at least have a chance with Nightmare.

[Tekno]

I want Metriod Prime 2 ;_;

Metriod Prime was just brilliant and so cool. I have high exceptations for MP2 ;_; hope they can live to it, but it's nintendo afterall ^.^

[Nick Presta]

I got back to playing Metroid: Zero Mission and I completed a 10% Hard run Single-Segment (No Saving) a couple days ago. My final time was around 1:01:xx,

Not too great for me, but 10% Hard Run (4 Missiles, nothing else) is quite a challenge so I'm glad I did it.

[Kaj]

I've only played Metroid Prime, nad that game ROCKED. It's the bestgame I've ever played on gamecube. Tony Hawk's underground gets lose, but metroid is still better.

[Golden Legacy]

Ahh, I've only played two Metroid games... Metroid Zero Mission for the GBA and Metroid Prime (AWESOME!) for GC- I also have Metroid Fusion, but I have yet to play it (but my brother plays it all the time).

[Dullahan]

Prime was AMAZING! Fusion was ANNOYING! Prime 2 also looks AMAZING!!

[ForteGX]

I still have yet to collect all the scans in Prime. But I'm lookin' forward to Prime 2: Echoes.

[Nick Presta]

I am thinking of doing a 9% hard Crateria run.

That means you only collect 1 missile tank (2 missiles) while on the planet and you get to grab another missile tank in Chozodia.

That would give you back to 10%, but a 9% hard Crateria run and 10% Chozodia run.

If you think it sounds hard now? I am going to do it single segment.

[Golden Legacy]

Here is some data about Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, a higly anticipated title. I will update with more later (I am doing this off the top of my head), so sorry if I leave out anything now...

err, also, I don't know how to make a list, so I'll have to do so manually...sorry...:

- A well-known fact is that it will feature Multiplayer mode, which Retro Studios expects to function at a smooth 60 frames per second

- This journey will take place on a planet called Aether, which is near Tallon IV

- For those of you who have played A Link to the Past, you'll feel right at home- Aether, essentially, has been "split" into two worlds, one dark and one light!

- New beam weapons include, correspondingly, a Light Beam and a Dark Beam- as you might expect, Retro has stated that creatures in the Dark world are suseptible to light, and vice-versa

- Two interesting new visors include an "Echo Visor" (which "sees" sound, though it is still being worked on visually) and the "Dark Visor"

- The Space Pirates, though featured in many screenshots, play a smaller role in this adventure

- Travel between both worlds will cause damage to Samus, and you will have to utilize "safe zones" that allow her to not take damage (although there will be a suit that eventually ends the damage)

- Ahh, both the Light and Dark weapons Require AMMO! An interesting new twist, indeed :D

and some more to come :D

[Issac_Zero2]

Thanks GL but uh...I'm sure most of us have already read that somewhere :mellow: ...
Thanks GL for posting this anyways...Very helpful...and convient

[NuMou Sniper]

I for one would like to thank him very much for the info because i havent read it anywhere and it is very interesting.

[Mysterious Adept]

I've played Metriod Prime, and liked it,I'm really looking forward to getting Metriod Prime 2 Echos,So thanks

[Valistrix]

I just bought this and found it was a remake of the first but it's really good and has anyone else got it???

[Nick Presta]

I had a topic on this a while about, but it got purged.

Anyways, I have owned M:ZM since it's release and I've been playing it ever since.

I hold a few spectacular runs under my belt:

Any %: 00:34:12
100%: 1:03

Plus the 9%, 10%, 15%, 10% hard runs too.

I am also doing a 10% run with the Screw Attack and one Missile tank.

No one else has done it yet.

Overall, I love it.

[Valistrix]

I love it two but i'm stuck on the level where you get to Kraid. Can anyone help me with how to get to him

[Nick Presta]

Take the first door on the right in Kraid (Missile Door). Follow that through, activate the zip lines (You should come to a shaft with one blue block on the side. Bomb it and roll through. Complete.)

Then return to main Kraid. Go down one door level and enter the door on the left. Follow that through. When you get to a room with a lava below and a floor under it, bomb the floor and fall through (Fake lava). Follow that through and reach Kraid.

[Valistrix]

Thanks a bunch nick that really helped me out

EDIT: bit then theres this part where thers a green passage i go down on the left the is a save point and on the right there is a door. i go through there is an upgrade. but a block a funny looking block in the way. ive tried shooting it and bombing it but it wont work so howd you get past that?

[Nick Presta]

That is the Unknown Item # 1.

To get past it, you should find the ChozoStatue with that upgrade. You can't use it yet (Plasma Beam) but it will allow you to destroy those starnge blocks. The Statue is here:

http://db.gamefaqs.com/portable/gbadvance/...ero_mission.gif


Look in Kraid. It is U.I.

[Meglo]

My brother got the game, and I played it for awhile until I got stuck...then never picked it up again. It was pretty fun...and MUCH less confusing than Metroid 1 was.

[Nick Presta]

Well, Metroid 1 didn't have a map, no diagonal shooting, no item description or status screen. It was harder.

As were all games for NES.

[Meglo]

nick1presta, on Sep 12 2004, 06:07 PM, said:

Well, Metroid 1 didn't have a map, no diagonal shooting, no item description or status screen. It was harder.

As were all games for NES.

Harder isn't necessarily more fun, though. Bogging down a game with too much difficulty can be frustrating, especially if the difficulty is based on random, less important tasks, instead of significant things like boss battles. The original Metroid was a fair game in my opinion, but it was ruined in part by me having to go through half the game reading a print out from an online walkthrough, mainly to get through the mazes. Zero Mission was better in that aspect. I prefer the way you get to important segments of dungeons/storyline to be reasonably challenging, but generally straightforward, and then the actual obstacle/boss to be the main challenge. Not the opposite.

For example, Star Fox Adventures; it is a pretty good game, if a little slow at points. However, my cousin had a problem with the game...about mid-way through, you briefly have to go through two trials in a swamp area to win something and advance through the storyline. The first task is your typical "go find several different things out in area before the timer runs out" type of thing that is a decent challenge, and entertaining. Then you have to have a strength test, which consists of pressing the "A" button repeatedly, to push your enemy into a pit. Otherwise, you get pushed into the pit instead.

He could never beat it. A meaningless little side-quest that you have to beat to advance through the game- a task that doesn't require you to apply any abilities you have earned and practiced throughout the game, yet still keeps you from continuing, because it's just too hard. That's the type of thing that frustrates me.

But that aside, Hard does not necessarily equal quality. o_~

(note that I'm not implying in anyway you have views opposite to this, I was just commenting on a similar point to what you mentioned...)

[Nick Presta]

^ Oh, I know. I'm just saying, Metroid 1 was harder due to no maps and item explanation (Lack of items too).

Most games on the NES were difficult due to lacking key things like Metroid did.

Anyways, has anyone here completed any records?

10%, 9%, 15% Hard/Easy/Normal, Any%, 100%?

[Valistrix]

Thank you N1P for helping me I just beat the final boss metal ridley today ^_^ He's too easy

[Nick Presta]

Yeah. He is. MB is THE hardest boss by a long shot.

Or used to be. The new strat makes MB incredibly easy.

[Silo STATIC]

From here on out, anything that's official with each series is pinned untill Max can approve of that decision. I am just merely promoting the topics, but if it is connected with a certain popular series, I shall pin it up anyway. That is all.

[NuMou Sniper]

catastrophe, on Jun 11 2004, 08:15 AM, said:

from what i heard, it will be different colored samuses, and it will be death match type. i still wondering how they are going to do this with easy lock on system from the first game.

There is gonna be deathmatch and a bounty type. The Bounty mode is when you kill enemies and you pick up the money thyey drop and who ever has the most money at the end wins. Just like a real bounty hunter.

If anyone could help me in Metroid Prime for GC it would be great. I just got the ice beam and im in the reactor core and i dont know where to go next. Can someone help me with this. If your wonderin why I'm so behind (i got the game about 1 and a half years ago its cuz i kept gettin some new game and i got stuck and i was mainly stuck on GS. The reason I have started to play again is because of Metroid Prime 2:Echoes. It looks awesome and I've tried a demo version with the bonus disc. Thanx again.

[Valistrix]

On metroid zero mission MB is easy to me just jump and shoot super missiles and Prime2 is coming out way to soon now.

[The Postman]

The Reactor core is in the crashed frigate, right? The big big room?
If it is, you just have to activate all the power switches with the wave beam. You know the drill, just use the Thermal Visor.

Also, I seriously can't wait till MP2: E comes out... Especially since they reintroduced some of the old moves, the game looks freaking sweet.

[NuMou Sniper]

Thanx Postman. It helped it was hard finding the last one.

[The Postman]

Lol. I seriously hated that room, I got there without the gravity suit, unlocked the door, then found out I needed to upgrade my suit, and had to go all the way back. That seriously ticked me off. :D :mellow:

[NuMou Sniper]

I SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN THE GRAVITY SUIT????? where is it because i have no clue? dang and I thought i didnt get it till later. :D

[The Postman]

Well, you were in hte Crashed Frigate, right? Then you need it to go further. You get it in the Gravity Chamber in the Phendrana Drifts. It's somewhere past the Hunter Cave and the Pirate labs and stuff. I can't remember exactly and I lent my game ot my friend...

[Nick Presta]

You can skip the Gravity Suit if you're a pro at MP.

www.metroid2002.com

Check out the MP section, and click on "Skipping the Gravity Suit".

[The Postman]

Yes, true.
It's funny how you can skip practically anything in most Metroid games if you're a pro...

[Nick Presta]

Yeah.

Fusion - 1%
ZM - 9%/10%
SM - 14%/15%
MP - 22%/23%
Metroid - 2 items
Metroid 2 - ??? Forgot.

[Echo_djinn]

Ok I got a question have you ever seen Samus take off that helmet. Shes a girl right but is her hair colour is blonde right? I only played metriod fusion and at the end(depending on how welll you beat the game) she taes of on part of her suit which was the helmet and I got to see her face for the first time.

[Issac_Zero2]

Nearly all of the Metroid games have Samus' helmet taken off when you beat it at a good time...
Yea...She's a blondie...

[Echo_djinn]

Wow shes blonde and smart...theres a combination you don't see everyday(joking do not take thast comment seriously) Anyways so yeah what her realationship with that computer of hers it used to be a person right and he died and they put his mind into a computer. IS that true?

[Issac_Zero2]

Lol...I'm not sure...
I read in other forums that it could be true...

[Nick Presta]

Actually in metroid 1 and 2 she's a red head. Only recently with society's "like" towards blondes has she become one.

[The Postman]

Exactly, but in Metroid 1 her hair color changed whenever you got a new suit if you were playing without a suit.

[Nick Presta]

^ It also changed when you used missiles, but those were debug passwords. Her hair was even green at points.

[The Postman]

Lol. Those were the fun parts. So all we know is that Samus most likely dies (sp?) her hair... :wub:

[Dullahan]

i've got 97% on prime and prime 2 looks amazing, saw some footage of it yesterday

[Echo_djinn]

Wow I just saw a new metriod prime game coming out for the DS. ITs called Metriod Prime: Hunters. It also has mutiplayer action via the wireless connection DS.

[The Postman]

Sorry to say, but that's old news.
I'm just wondering if they're gonna make a single player for MP: Hunters.
A little more than a month to MP2. *screams*

[Elliott]

I have played the older metroids gor nes and snes and liked them. Super metroid was my favourite. Although I got stuck and never payed again :) , they are still classics though.

[The Postman]

Super Metroid was great. The last boss was fun! Though I always hate Tourian no matter what game it's in.

[Nick Presta]

Tourian is fun. It is the low % player's worst nightmare as ONE mistake costs you the game.

Anyways, SM was really good. I played it and my first time through I got around 7 hours.

After refining and reworking, I got my time down to 1:2x.

Not good but great for me.

[The Postman]

I just find tourian repetitive. That's all. Anyways, I only played once, and got about 7 hrs too, so...

[Sea of Time]

I've never played Super Metroid. I started with Metroid Prime. What do you guys think of Prime 2?

P.S. I am not unnecessarily bumping this topic. I read about it on the Official Games topic on the Other Games board and am replying to it because I am seriously interested in Metroid.

[Kaj]

Well mate I almost finished Metroid Prime at hard mode and it ROCKS. I'll get MP2 tomorrow (I can hardly wait).... The only weird thing is that you hava limitid ammo this time....... I wonder if it will work out alright. But the multiplayer..... WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I can't wait!!!!!!!

[Nick Presta]

I'm playing MP2 as of now and I'm 30% in, 65% scans at 4:00.

Hopefully, I'll beat 6 hours.

[Garet33]

Metroid prime 2 is awsome!!exept they could haved improve the multiplayer

[Nick Presta]

Yeah, but it's a SP game. Metroid has never had MP and probably won't again.

(MPH is different)

[Sea of Time]

The multiplayer could have been soooo much better. It's only fun with 4 people and it would be more fun with AI and more weapons. Very good game, overall, though.

[lifeform287]

Uhhhh..if they had more weapons they could have called it Halo 3....
I think the MP is fine...

Hey anyone heard about the Metroid movie? It's about Zero Mission or the first. Which ever version they do.

Hey, does anyone one else here have a HUGE/ normal grudge against Ridley?

[Sea of Time]

Yeah, I guess I just wish they would bring Halo 2 to the Gamecube. *sigh* I miss running over tiny grunts in ghosts. A tear comes to the eye when I think that no more will I be able to shoot down my friend with a scorpion tank and watch him flail for five seconds as he falls down a gorge. *tear* My friend let someone else borrow the game.