/vr/ - Retro Games

NEVER PLAYED IT GET MAD

I disagree.
It's easily the worst of the original trilogy, but still a damned good game.

>>1711305
I wouldn't call it the best, but it's definitely very underappreciated.

But that's not Prime 2

>>1711329
Yokoi would be rolling in his grave.
Had he a side to roll over onto/from.

>>1711305
Oh man I had that poster.

Metroid 2 was one of my all time favorite games. I admit that at least Super Metroid was better but this one is my favorite.

I also played through it the first time without getting the high jump boots or the wave beam, and when I got the map like in the pic it blew my mind that they were in the game.

>>1711365
Forgot my pic.

Wasn't some guy making a version of this that used super metroid graphics?

>>1711305
It has more of an Alien and spelunking feel to it than all other Metroid games because of of the cavernous environments with few high-tech areas.

The newer Metroid games are just Halo clones with no subtlety and atmosphere.

>>1711380
Other M is nothing like Halo.
Halo is actually good. Well, the first one is.

Post your face when the number of metroids to kill went up

>>1711380
>The newer Metroid games are just Halo clones with no subtlety and atmosphere.
OK, so I know we're supposed to hate the new games, but come on.

When I get stoned in halo I mindlessly shoot aliums.
When I get stoned in MP I mindlessly scan everything just like i did with xray

>>1711380
They had plenty of atmosphere. And what exactly do you mean by "sublety"?

>>1711403
>playing video games while on drugs
Though I suppose you'd have to be almost unconscious to sit through Other M.

>>1711365
> I admit that at least Super Metroid was better but this one is my favorite.
That's fine. The OP is a retard for suggesting it's better, it's not. But if you like it more, that's at least correct. There might be argument for whether that's fine or appropriate but that doesn't change the fact that you like it more than a better game. SM is a better game is a fact and that you like Metroid 2 more is a fact.

>>1711423
>not playing video games while on drugs

>>1711380
You're gay. Metroid Prime is the best Metroid game of all time. Even Time Magazine cited it as the Citizen Kane of video-games.

>>1711490
>Even Time Magazine cited it as the Citizen Kane of video-games.
There's a couple things about this that are interesting.
One Time is irrelevant. Two Citizen Kane is a fucking terrible movie. So, yeah it is the Citizen Kane of video games, overrated shit with fucking horrible pacing and terrible writing with third rate direction.

>>1711495
>Two Citizen Kane is a fucking terrible movie

Desperately needs a remake.

It's a good game, but could really benefit from some decent sound and a screen with a resolution that's better than a graphing calculator.

>>1711501
>wanting them to ruin Metroid II
They already raped Metroid, isn't that enough?

>>1711497
>defending movie he's never seen.
Seriously go watch it. I get that you're mentally handicapped because you like Prime. But I think even CK is too stupid for even someone as disabled as yourself. You can find it floating around online. Go watch it right now.

>>1711520
You really don't understand what made Citizen Kane so influential, do you?

>>1711527
If I take a steaming pile of shit in the middle a crowded room, that steaming pile of shit is influential. Tell me it's good. Go ahead, tell me.

>>1711541
You're just embarrassing yourself now.

>>1711541
It would influence me to label you as insane.

>>1711543
Says the guy defending a movie that gets lauded because of terrible plot device and zooming on crystal balls for 'effect' at the cost of decent direction. You can keep your spicy angles and your weakly delivered and poorly written dialogue you two bit hipster fuck.

>>1711545
Since I'm so influential I must also be as >>1711527
implied, great.

Well this thread shat itself pretty quickly.

>>1711398

>>1711398

>>1711423
>not playing the entirety of Other M whilst half-alive

>>1711513
im posting non-retro by saying this, but i think metroid prime hunters should belong next to other m. it was technologically amazing for ds but i hated it so much

>>1711513
wow, i actually agree with a Tier list.

good job!

best metroid?

no.

but, i would argue that it had the best atmosphere of the /vr/ games in its series.

the creepy beeps and fizzes that were unique to each area really helped me to feel isolated and on an alien world.

>>1711551
Not that guy but you are starting so sound /tv-ish, which most outside of /tv would consider embarrassing.

one time i was playing super smash brothers and i pronounced "samus" like "camus" with an s at the beginning, and this guy i was playing with got SO MAD

that's my metroid story, thanks

>>1711783
>complain that most people would be embarrased to be correct
Their loss.

>>1711305
No, but it's pretty good.

>>1711305
You know, I feel like people who malign Fusion's linearity forgot this game exists.I understand why people don't like II or Fusion, but her's the thing; II establishes a linear formula game in the series. So when Fusion came out, people were expecting something to follow in the steps of Metroid and Super Metroid, but what we got was similar to II.

Of course, there's more problems to fusion than just the linearity.

>>1711305
But Prime isn't retro yet.

>>1711513
this is correct.

>>1711513
Pretty much except Hunters was definitely not okay.

>>1711490
who gives a fuck about time magazine? time? really, TIME. this is a toll, right?

prime does not TOUCH sm. and for the record, it doesnt even touch the original.

prime has spiralled the series into what it is today. if i see another first person shooter metroid game ever again, itll be too soon.

>>1711956
>II establishes a linear formula game in the series
Except it's not. It's just a failure as a metroid game and this is a travesty that there're a lot of people like OP or >>1711513 (who rate 2nd higher than original)
who probably can't even comprehend why this series different from Megaman and how it's supposed to be played.

>>1711956
>2
>Follow in the steps of super metroid
lol wut

>>1711956
II wasn't exactly linear. You can skip areas if you have enough energy tanks to survive the journey through the lava-filled areas.

>>1711513
How is Zero Mission not God tier? Replace Super (overrated) with it, you nostalgia faggot.

>>1712040
>Super Metroid
>overrated
>not better than Zero Mission
Wow this edge is unreal

>>1711956
Metroid II's acid draining sucked but the difference between it and Fusion's overbearing computer is night and day. Don't pretend Fusion's objective system was a logical progression because it wasn't.

>>1712040
Zero Mission was even worse than Fusion.

II's great but I thought I was becoming insane when my hand-drawn maps aligned over themselves.

Never played the other games in the series, but when I played it I had some good times, specially with some catchy musics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U86uWiIMmug

It isn't. Still a good game. I remember borrowing a copy years ago and playing through it completely blind. To this day I can't believe I finished it.

>>1711513

oh, did i accidentally go on /v/?

Metroid 1 and 2 sucked. The series only started to get good with Super.

>>1712047
> Metroid II's acid draining sucked but the difference between it and Fusion's overbearing computer is night and day. Don't pretend Fusion's objective system was a logical progression because it wasn't.

Did the computer broke you illusion of freedom? Metroid games are semi-linear. You only have one to way to pass from level X to Y.

And everything in Metroid 2 was bad, no exception.

> Zero Mission was even worse than Fusion.
Zero Mission is the perfect 2D Metroid.

> b-but muh old games

Enjoy no map, a labyrinth made of same-looking rooms and clunky controls.

>>1712596
>>1712047
>>1712040
>>1711513
>>1711956
>>>/v/

>>1712596
>Enjoy the old games

I did. You should too.

>b-but muh hand holding

>>1711513
>more than 1 game in "god" tier
>Echoes on same tier as Prime and Super
ya blew it

II is very under-appreciated, I'll give you that. It solidified a lot of the visuals for the game to the aesthetic we know and love now.

I think what I really liked about this game was the mystique around the Metroid's evolved forms. I actually played without knowing about how they acted beforehand. Zetas in particular scared the shit out of me, those fuckers are fast.

The environment was very fun too, I didn't mind that the game was linear. Linear isn't necessarily a bad thing. We still got our secrets and powerups. The farther I went down, the farther I felt shit was getting real. And the music fit the atmosphere pretty well. It was certainly a different direction for Metroid, but I'm happy with what we got.

>>1712596
>Zero Mission
Negatron son.
Zero Mission's little tacked on after story was literally fucking terrible and a waste of time.

>>1711305
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBR7c-uYVhg
Don't know about the best Metroid, but this is the best Metroid theme for sure.

>>1711305
No, it isn't. It's a good game, but you'd be stupid to call it the best.

You don't even give a reason. 0/10 shit thread.

>>1711501
AM2R

>>1711502
>Zero Mission
>Bad
come on now it was ok, a decent game worth playing at the very least.

>>1712868
Good to know it wasn't figuratively terrible.

>>1712596
>Metroid 1 and 2 sucked
why are you here?

>>1718014
>dislikes some retro games
>hates all retro games
Maybe he's here for the fucking retro games.

Metroid 2 was fairly bad and 1 has it's failings that I can see other people not liking. I get nostalgia over Metroid 1 but I still recognize it's flaws for what the game is.

Personally I'm not thrilled with the Megaman series, that doesn't mean that I hate all retro games.

i played through metroid 2 for the first time a few months ago.
ending up liking it a lot more than metroid 1, because too much of metroid 1 was basically this image:

That's not the original Metroid, OP.

>>1712596
>Zero Mission is the perfect 2D Metroid.

No.

>>1719893
>because too much of metroid 1 was basically this image:

So about 5 minutes is too long?

>>1719913
Your brain probably blocked it out

>>1719893
You don't really spend that much time in those shafts compared to other areas.

>>1712596
>Did the computer broke you illusion of freedom? Metroid games are semi-linear. You only have one to way to pass from level X to Y.
>And everything in Metroid 2 was bad, no exception.
>Zero Mission is the perfect 2D Metroid.
This is pretty good bait. It's too ignorant to be believable, but still.

>>1719920
Not really, no. What I'm looking at there is about a 5-10 minute trip through Tourian. If 5-10 minutes of seeing Metroids was too much for you, maybe you shouldn't be playing a game called Metroid.

>>1711305
I could not finish II. I just found it boring. And I like Super. But after playing Zero Mission and Fusion the game just feels clunky to me now and it takes me a while to get used to again.

>>1711305
it's important to the series but it makes me go insane from nothing really happening the whole game

>>1719920
>Mother brain almost is over the spawn point.

Huh, no shit.

Acid diving to sequence break was pretty fun.

>>1719826
>Personally I'm not thrilled with the Megaman series
why are you here?

just kidding.

but seriously though, what the fuck?

>>1719920
>four relatively small rooms.
>too much.

also, i love that area.

>>1720725
I didn't say it was bad. It just doesn't do anything for me. The game always felt clunky to me, the limited directional shooting, the crap music except for the rare title screen music generally.

The series just never did much for me.
The limited shooting tends to bother me more because of the limited movement really. Little Samson for example I like a lot more, even though it's pretty much the same in that regard. The controls feel more responsive and speed is usually faster.

Never was hardcore speedfreak enough to try sequence breaking on the Metroid games, but for those who were:

1) When you dove through the acid to later areas in M2, I'm guessing the actual 'zones' didn't have acid in them, yes?
2) Also in M2, when you beat those Metroids and came out of the 'zone', was the acid lower, or did you have to deal with it again on your way to the next zone?

>>1711367
Yeah I believe it's called "Another Metroid 2 remake". I think it uses Zero Mission's engine though.