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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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cookie monster wrote:
> Perhaps i could sell bomberman?
Feeling confident are we Cookie? ;-)
> Perhaps i could sell bomberman?
Feeling confident are we Cookie? ;-)
Whitestripes wrote:
> Quite clearly you claim one and pre-order the other
The preorder would require money, which i dont have.
Perhaps i could sell bomberman?
> Quite clearly you claim one and pre-order the other
The preorder would require money, which i dont have.
Perhaps i could sell bomberman?
I'm not usually one for FPS games - doom scared the hell out of me - but every time I look at the Prime screenshots in NGC and read reviews of it, it makes me want this game even more - drawing with Zelda, only slightly behind Animal Crossing.
You don't know how much I'd pay for a christmas release date. Hopefully, Retro will be the next Rare, when they were in their heyday. Just not sold to Microsoft.
There is a lot of things I'd like to know though - how difficult is it? Super Ghouls and ghosts hard or Luigi's Mansion hard? How long have you been playing on it - I'd want at least 20 hours for a game that has this much hype. And how far through are you? If you've been plying for 10 hours and are about 15% through, I'm getting a modded cube...
You don't know how much I'd pay for a christmas release date. Hopefully, Retro will be the next Rare, when they were in their heyday. Just not sold to Microsoft.
There is a lot of things I'd like to know though - how difficult is it? Super Ghouls and ghosts hard or Luigi's Mansion hard? How long have you been playing on it - I'd want at least 20 hours for a game that has this much hype. And how far through are you? If you've been plying for 10 hours and are about 15% through, I'm getting a modded cube...
Quite clearly you claim one and pre-order the other
cookie monster wrote:
> Hmmm now im torn about what to claim for my GAD Metroid Prime or
> Zelda?
I still think Zelda no matter what the er-no says.
> Hmmm now im torn about what to claim for my GAD Metroid Prime or
> Zelda?
I still think Zelda no matter what the er-no says.
Unbeliever wrote:
> Ah yes, I even had the four player adaptor for SoM! Hmm...maybe I'm a
> Mana freak? Which is no bad thing, I guess.
I sadly lost my adaptor in one of the house clearouts in 1998, lost my little sister too, she got sold at a jumble sale. Thats not the point though, I lost my adaptor!
Moral of story - When their are big black bags around the house. Don't play hide and seek.
> Ah yes, I even had the four player adaptor for SoM! Hmm...maybe I'm a
> Mana freak? Which is no bad thing, I guess.
I sadly lost my adaptor in one of the house clearouts in 1998, lost my little sister too, she got sold at a jumble sale. Thats not the point though, I lost my adaptor!
Moral of story - When their are big black bags around the house. Don't play hide and seek.
Hmmm now im torn about what to claim for my GAD Metroid Prime or Zelda?
Microchips wrote:
>
> £100. (truthfully)
Seriously?
Bloody hell, I'm getting one.
Platinum, NTSC and PAL games for £100?
fook
Go nicely with my platinum GBA from VIP
>
> £100. (truthfully)
Seriously?
Bloody hell, I'm getting one.
Platinum, NTSC and PAL games for £100?
fook
Go nicely with my platinum GBA from VIP
Sorry, had a couple of powercuts and the dormant PC is starting up now. Be with you in two shakes of a badgers tail.
Whitestripes wrote:
> Skies of Arcadia is the best game ever.
>
> Surely it can't be that?
My brother has it for his DC. It looked impressive and I'm eagerly awaiting the GC version.
> Skies of Arcadia is the best game ever.
>
> Surely it can't be that?
My brother has it for his DC. It looked impressive and I'm eagerly awaiting the GC version.
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