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Many of you may have clicked on this topic with shock (if you know me). Personally, my favorite game of all time has been Secret of Mana on the Super Nintendo. This game I played with my brother and sister till we completed it was just something in its own right. Three players all on one screen in a beautiful RPG... anyways, enough on that game... something has taken the number one spot for my favorite game of all time.
Remember when you played SNES games in 2D, the sidescrollers as it were and you just thought... it will be incredible when they create 3D... Now, many a gamer is crying like a big overgrown bottled baby (bit too far their Joby) to get the system reversed in such a way that 2D gaming elements are used to make the modern games.
With all these beautiful looking 3D games. People have forgotten what gaming is about.
*takes a big breath*
Metroid Prime is the best game ever.
That's my opinion and now I want you to hear me out.
If anyone ever tells you its the best First Person Shooter ever I want you to correct them. Metroid Prime is not an FPS as like Halo was. Metroid Prime is a First Person Adventure. Prime has captures everything that made the SNES games so damn bloody good into a 3D game. Its created its own hybrid genre. Its the next generation of console games. Forget Zelda and the 40/40. Prime is where the future of gaming is and you should get your monkey loving finger onto the games details and preorder one from SR now.
It seems to me the game has managed to go beyond what Halo set as a standard for a visual where you enter the visor and look around. No doubt, Halo was a fantastic game. Superb in its own right. Yet Metroid seems to sit on Master Chiefs face and place Samus as the King and to be correct Queen of all games. I ran around Halo thinking, this just looks superb, even the repetitive grass patches were forgiven. Nintendo, no sorry, Retro have taken a huge lit cigar and burnt it through the mold set by Bungie. Nothing is repeated. Everything is unique.
Worst control set up ever?
Many of you will get this game. If you don't I feel tempted to smash ur fac wit stik. When you get the game. I expect to hear a huge amount of shouts about how stupid the control set up is, you cannot run and freely look around at the same time. Well, if you think about it. You are in a huge armoured suit, when you spend a few hours in the game. It feels natural. You adapt to this strange and original set up and you WILL agree that it was meant this way. Come to think of it, surely if this is what would happen in such a suit. Bungie made a big mistake in terms of realism.
The atmosphere created sends realday time into a spin. You become emerged, just like a good book and when you place the control down you scratch your eyes at why five hours has gone past.
This game is beyond everything I expected. At one point it was just a game that looked good. I never expected it to be a game that made me remember what gaming is about.
Metroid has restored my faith in gaming. This style better continue. Its a game you never want to end. You don't feel rushed to complete it and you definetely will find yourself completing it more than once. Me? I am on my first time around. I just stand their watching the shadows and changing my visor.
I just stand there.
This is 'the game'. It deserves its own machine.
Remember when you played SNES games in 2D, the sidescrollers as it were and you just thought... it will be incredible when they create 3D... Now, many a gamer is crying like a big overgrown bottled baby (bit too far their Joby) to get the system reversed in such a way that 2D gaming elements are used to make the modern games.
With all these beautiful looking 3D games. People have forgotten what gaming is about.
*takes a big breath*
Metroid Prime is the best game ever.
That's my opinion and now I want you to hear me out.
If anyone ever tells you its the best First Person Shooter ever I want you to correct them. Metroid Prime is not an FPS as like Halo was. Metroid Prime is a First Person Adventure. Prime has captures everything that made the SNES games so damn bloody good into a 3D game. Its created its own hybrid genre. Its the next generation of console games. Forget Zelda and the 40/40. Prime is where the future of gaming is and you should get your monkey loving finger onto the games details and preorder one from SR now.
It seems to me the game has managed to go beyond what Halo set as a standard for a visual where you enter the visor and look around. No doubt, Halo was a fantastic game. Superb in its own right. Yet Metroid seems to sit on Master Chiefs face and place Samus as the King and to be correct Queen of all games. I ran around Halo thinking, this just looks superb, even the repetitive grass patches were forgiven. Nintendo, no sorry, Retro have taken a huge lit cigar and burnt it through the mold set by Bungie. Nothing is repeated. Everything is unique.
Worst control set up ever?
Many of you will get this game. If you don't I feel tempted to smash ur fac wit stik. When you get the game. I expect to hear a huge amount of shouts about how stupid the control set up is, you cannot run and freely look around at the same time. Well, if you think about it. You are in a huge armoured suit, when you spend a few hours in the game. It feels natural. You adapt to this strange and original set up and you WILL agree that it was meant this way. Come to think of it, surely if this is what would happen in such a suit. Bungie made a big mistake in terms of realism.
The atmosphere created sends realday time into a spin. You become emerged, just like a good book and when you place the control down you scratch your eyes at why five hours has gone past.
This game is beyond everything I expected. At one point it was just a game that looked good. I never expected it to be a game that made me remember what gaming is about.
Metroid has restored my faith in gaming. This style better continue. Its a game you never want to end. You don't feel rushed to complete it and you definetely will find yourself completing it more than once. Me? I am on my first time around. I just stand their watching the shadows and changing my visor.
I just stand there.
This is 'the game'. It deserves its own machine.
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I agree! With three players, it not only took the hallowed "Best RPG" title but it also exceeded expectations in every way! When i first read a preview for SoM, there was a claim that the developers were going to try and have it so that the individual payers can go off on their own and the screen would split into three! However, hardware or time restrictions meant this feature didn't appear in the final version, which, with the benefit of hindsight, might not have suited the game.
Miserableman wrote:
> Secret of Mana was not better than Zelda III, although it was probably
> the best thing Square ever did.
Secret of Mana was better than any other RPG ever.
If you had the multitap, if you had the two other mates. You had the best gaming time of your life. Not saying Zelda III wasn't good. However Secret of Mana completed the whole style of gaming for me. It was just beautiful, purely.
> Secret of Mana was not better than Zelda III, although it was probably
> the best thing Square ever did.
Secret of Mana was better than any other RPG ever.
If you had the multitap, if you had the two other mates. You had the best gaming time of your life. Not saying Zelda III wasn't good. However Secret of Mana completed the whole style of gaming for me. It was just beautiful, purely.
Cyclone wrote:
> My brothers birthdayis the 30th.
>
> *Gets pins ready for persuasion*
>
> Heheh!
RAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
You cannot handle the pins you foo'
You need adequate punishment, let me think
*pins*
*pins*
*PINS*
> My brothers birthdayis the 30th.
>
> *Gets pins ready for persuasion*
>
> Heheh!
RAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
You cannot handle the pins you foo'
You need adequate punishment, let me think
*pins*
*pins*
*PINS*
Controversial but I disagree - the 3 player element made it even more fun and it was a sprawling quest. Okay there weren't so many "side-quests" to do but it was an amazing game. I was replaying Zelda 3 the other day and was suprsed at how far I'd got in one sitting...
Secret of Mana was not better than Zelda III, although it was probably the best thing Square ever did.
Judah Ben-Hur wrote:
> gamezfreak wrote:
> *Salivates*
>
> God that game sounds (and looks, thanks to NOM dvd) excellent!
>
> When is it expected in the UK? Otherwise i'm importing it. What
> about
> the "ball" thing where you turn Samus into a ball?
>
> Are the graphics good?
>
> Halo is my most favourite game of all time, Excellent FPS in my
> opinion. If this game can beat that i'd eat some pins.
>
>
> Stop with the plugging of a crap magazine.
> Greystation poo.
it's not crap.
> gamezfreak wrote:
> *Salivates*
>
> God that game sounds (and looks, thanks to NOM dvd) excellent!
>
> When is it expected in the UK? Otherwise i'm importing it. What
> about
> the "ball" thing where you turn Samus into a ball?
>
> Are the graphics good?
>
> Halo is my most favourite game of all time, Excellent FPS in my
> opinion. If this game can beat that i'd eat some pins.
>
>
> Stop with the plugging of a crap magazine.
> Greystation poo.
it's not crap.
Why are you all so ready to heap praise on Halo. How many of you hae played it. I can't stand it. It's so boring. And aliens. Shooting aliens with lasers. Oh dear. Metroid better be something special to overcome that obstacle.
gamezfreak wrote:
> *Salivates*
>
> God that game sounds (and looks, thanks to NOM dvd) excellent!
>
> When is it expected in the UK? Otherwise i'm importing it. What about
> the "ball" thing where you turn Samus into a ball?
>
> Are the graphics good?
>
> Halo is my most favourite game of all time, Excellent FPS in my
> opinion. If this game can beat that i'd eat some pins.
Stop with the plugging of a crap magazine.
Greystation poo.
> *Salivates*
>
> God that game sounds (and looks, thanks to NOM dvd) excellent!
>
> When is it expected in the UK? Otherwise i'm importing it. What about
> the "ball" thing where you turn Samus into a ball?
>
> Are the graphics good?
>
> Halo is my most favourite game of all time, Excellent FPS in my
> opinion. If this game can beat that i'd eat some pins.
Stop with the plugging of a crap magazine.
Greystation poo.
Tiltawhirl wrote:
> LOL you really don't like Resi do you?
Abslolute pancakes.
Tosh
Drivel
Crud
Bateness
> LOL you really don't like Resi do you?
Abslolute pancakes.
Tosh
Drivel
Crud
Bateness
My brothers birthdayis the 30th.
*Gets pins ready for persuasion*
Heheh!
*Gets pins ready for persuasion*
Heheh!
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