What Are You Currently Playing? 5.05: You Are (Not) A Gamer

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Whoa, looks like Capcom is branching out.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/214610

Is this a visual novel, a point and click, or what? Might as well try the demo later.

[gunswordfist]

Just beat Doom a few minutes ago. The last stage was not that hard. Well, I quick saved right before the last area and reloaded once after dying once but I had to make the only exception of to my no quick saving rule in Doom. Yeah, that part wasn't that hard either. I killed the Spiderbrain before I took out the right side of demons. I'm on the screen with Daisy's head after turning off my 360 googling about the text about it and then seeing that I skipped that part. Heh. Definitely want to get Doom 2. I'm planning on buying Perfect Dark (800 points), Gunstar Heroes (400 MS points) and Doom 2 (400). That seems like the best way to use a 1600 point card.

Oh and I can't imagine trying this game on any higher difficulties. I can see myself getting easily mutilated on any other the unfair flicking light levels and the ridiculous first two levels of Episode 2. Fuck that.

[No-Personality]

Super Mario Kart.

I won. ...with Game Genie.     

[Kiddington]

Majora's Mask is in the books. Everything is complete; all masks, all Pieces of Heart, Bombers Notebook... everything.

NOW WHAT DO I DO

[Nel_Annette]

I threw all my plans to the wayside and instead of an RPG, I've started Red Dead Redemption. Never played it before!

[gunswordfist]

Just beat Doom a few minutes ago. The last stage was not that hard. Well, I quick saved right before the last area and reloaded once after dying once but I had to make the only exception of to my no quick saving rule in Doom. Yeah, that part wasn't that hard either. I killed the Spiderbrain before I took out the right side of demons. I'm on the screen with Daisy's head after turning off my 360 googling about the text about it and then seeing that I skipped that part. Heh. Definitely want to get Doom 2. I'm planning on buying Perfect Dark (800 points), Gunstar Heroes (400 MS points) and Doom 2 (400). That seems like the best way to use a 1600 point card.

Oh and I can't imagine trying this game on any higher difficulties. I can see myself getting easily mutilated on any other the unfair flicking light levels and the ridiculous first two levels of Episode 2. Fuck that.

......so yesterday I started Ultra-Violence on Doom and beat two levels. Not as bad I thought. I died maybe once and the first flickering light level wasn't the nightmare I thought it would be. The shotgun never lets me down.

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Just beat Metroid: Zero Mission for the first time ever. Dunno why it took me so long, since I've probably played the first 2 hours at least 10 times by now, but yeah. I guess I always just got distracted by other things halfway through.

Anyway, excellent game. Not as great as Super Metroid or the Prime trilogy, but still damn good. I actually really liked the Chozodia stuff - chases were seriously intense. Quite refreshing after that piece of shit Other M.

[Spark Of Spirit]

Zero Mission is awesome. WAY better than the original. It's less linear than Fusion, but not quite as meaty as Super Metroid, but it's definitely in the upper crust of Metroid games. I'm glad you enjoyed it. 

Now if only they could get working on a Metroid 2 remake.

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Well, this guy is doing a fantastic-looking freeware remake of Metroid 2 for PC: http://metroid2remake.blogspot.com/

Problem is, it's made with Game Maker, and my computer simply refuses to run any and all Game Maker games for some unexplainable reason. Which is odd, because I was able to run them just a few months ago. Regardless, there's a demo out, so you should (see if you can) give it a go!

The original Metroid hasn't really aged that well IMO. I've tried to play it, but it's just so goddamn frustrating to me. Return Of Samus is still good, but it's not a masterpiece like Super, Prime 1-3, Zero Mission, or Fusion.

That Mother Brain fight is fucking awful, though.

[Spark Of Spirit]

I'm still hope for a 3DS 2D Metroid. That we didn't get one on the DS was baffling considering how easy of a fit it would have been. After Other M's reaction, I'm hoping Sakamoto sticks to the sidescrollers.

That Mother Brain fight is fucking awful, though.

I'm certain they only left that in for nostalgic sake, but yes it's incredibly cheap compared to every other boss.

[Rynnec]

The gameplay in Other M was fine. They just need to keep Sakamoto far away from the story.

[Spark Of Spirit]

Which is weird since the story in Fusion was fine. Maybe he should keep it simple next time.

I dunno what he was thinking with that game, but at least Team Ninja tried their best. They sure tried harder than they did with Ninja Gaiden 3, anyway.

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I'm still hope for a 3DS 2D Metroid. That we didn't get one on the DS was baffling considering how easy of a fit it would have been. After Other M's reaction, I'm hoping Sakamoto sticks to the sidescrollers.

Well, Other M is a sidescroller. Kinda. I was very disappointed by everything in that game aside from the combat and graphics. The opening levels showed promise, but the gameplay never really got any deeper from there, and the unskippable cutscenes were downright heinous.

So Sakamoto should just stick to 2D gameplay development (provided he actually understands why people like Super, Zero Mission, and Fusion), and maybe leave the storytelling (if there must be any... because seriously, Metroid doesn't need much plot) to Retro's writers.

But yes, I would love to see a new classic-style Metroid for the 3DS or Wii U, as we are long overdue for a new one (what happened to Dread!?). Maybe Prime 4 eventually, but not until Retro is allowed to make some other, completely different games first. I would also love to see a third-person installment eventually - I think that could work really well if the control scheme was similar to R&C.

I'm certain they only left that in for nostalgic sake, but yes it's incredibly cheap compared to every other boss.

It's like... suddenly Metroid is a bullet hell game with a player sprite that's way too large and no room whatsoever to maneuver. Had they just changed the boss fight to be more about skill and less about not losing your composure after the indestructible gun turrets knock you into the lava for the 20th time, it would have been fine.

The gameplay in Other M was fine. They just need to keep Sakamoto far away from the story.

The core combat was awesome, but it desperately needed more exploration, as it was far too linear. Also, the first-person shit was atrocious.

[Spark Of Spirit]

Nobody has any idea what happened with Metroid Dread, it was teased in Prime because, IIRC, Sakamoto asked for it to be there so clearly it was meant to be the Fusion follow-up that we're still waiting for.

Retro's game was going to be at E3 until Nintendo changed plans at the last minute to focus on launch window games, so I'm pretty sure we'll see it soon enough. But I doubt it's Metroid (and severely doubt it's Zelda) so hopefully somebody there is working on a 2D Metroid with Sakamoto directing... or maybe Yasuhara directing with NST?

Yasuhara better be either helping Nintendo with figuring out a Sonic/Mario game or making a 2D platformer. Nintendo better use him instead of wasting his talent like Namco did!

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So I was suddenly able to get that Metroid 2 remake demo working... wow! It's honestly Nintendo quality. Fantastic stuff, way better than the original version already.

Retro's game was going to be at E3 until Nintendo changed plans at the last minute to focus on launch window games, so I'm pretty sure we'll see it soon enough. But I doubt it's Metroid (and severely doubt it's Zelda)

From what I've read, it seems like Miyamoto has already confirmed that Retro is not making a Zelda game, and probably never will.

We definitely need another official, non-remake Metroid soon, though. Gotta' wash out the bad taste of Other M. Sakamoto needs to swallow his pride and renege on his decision to make Prime non-canon in favor of that shitfest.