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4957452 No.4957452 [Reply] [Original]

Metroid is really just a glorified ZX Spectrum game

>> No.4957461

And Spectrum games are just unglorified Metroids.

>> No.4957495

The ZX Spectrum was really just a Zelda clone when you think about it.

>> No.4957502

>>4957461
#rekt

>> No.4957507

Weak bait

>> No.4957518
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>>4957452
>Jet Set Willy release date: 1984
>Metroid release date: 1986

This genre should be called Willyvania. I like how it was stolen from us.

>> No.4957530

>inb4 meme hate against the speccy which also extends to all speccy games
>inb4 weeaboos sperging out against home computers
>inb4 groundless undirected geographical namecalling, i.e. amerifats, europoors, etc.
we're in for an EPIC thread

>> No.4957550

It can't be, it has too much content, the difficulty's too reasonable and the enemies are placed with care and not just randomly respawned.

>> No.4957602

>>4957550
Better controls as well.

>> No.4957607
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>>4957530
>inb4 weeaboos sperging out against home computers
Says who?

>> No.4957610

>>4957550
>and the enemies are placed with care and not just randomly respawned
All the same, NES games very often do have issues with bullshit enemy spawns due to memory limitations (only 2k of work RAM).

>> No.4957614

Metroid is also 128k in size. Most Spectrum games were only single load and fit entirely within the computer's 48k of memory because multiload cassette games were more headache than most people wanted to deal with.

>> No.4957658

I guess in theory a Metroid port on the Spectrum would be possible, although a Spectrum 128 would make the job a lot easier.

>> No.4957674

>>4957452
>look at me, I'm being an idiot!

>>4957518
The five of you must be so pissed.

>> No.4957726

>>4957452
I like your attitude.

>>4957518
It's time to reclaim real name and make everyone use Willyvania.

>> No.4957825

>>4957452
A game needs to be utter dogshit to earn to proud the name of ZX Spectrum game

>> No.4958009

>>4957518
Oh man, is that what VVVVVV was based on?

>> No.4958046

>>4957658
Mighty Final fight has a recent homebrew port that is very accurate

>> No.4958109

Well Metroid sure didn't really invent anything and I reee too when retards pretend that there wasn't anything like it before but I would rather play Metroid than most home computer videoadventures.

>> No.4958173
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>>4957614

>> No.4958178

>>4958009
VVVVVV is more like a C64 game, because it has good music. There's at least one C64 demake of it.

>> No.4958202

>>4957518
And roguelikes should be called beneath-apple-manorlikes.

>> No.4958212

>>4958109
Being the first is great and all but Nintendo’s specialty is generally doing things better.

>> No.4958249

>>4958173
This screams out to me "shitty Euro-trash design." Like an apotheosis of ugliness and pointless maze filler.

It's like it's made to appeal to a grand total of 38 British 9-year-olds who have no better games to play on their holiday.

>> No.4958508

>>4958249
Doesn't look much different from Dragon Slayer IV desu. That kind of design was also a thing in Japanese computer games.

>> No.4958529

>>4958173
>Original price £8.95

>> No.4958591

When you stop and think about it, Zelda is just a ripoff of The Tower of Druaga

>> No.4959350

All videogames are increasingly sophisticated pong-clones.

>> No.4959718

>>4957518
Jet Set Willy doesn't unlock new areas as you progress though, all is open from the start, kinda like modern open-world sandboxes.
If anything, Xanadu, Montezuma's Revenge and Brain Breaker are closer to the genre we now conceptualize as 'metroidvania', because you gradually access new areas as you progress.

>> No.4959754

>>4957452
I've been looking for an hypothetical "zoomed-out" game like this for a long time, and by that I mean one where you can see beyond the room you're in, the only example I know of being Castlevania: Harmony of Despair. By the nature of this concept, I would imagine they would look retro but be modern because of the resolution required.

Anyone know games like this?

>> No.4959806

>>4959754
Are you me? I don't know of any such game, but I would absolutely LOVE a game like that. If noone makes it, then I will, I have some interest in gamedev.

>> No.4959856

>>4959806
>I have some interest in gamedev.
Wow, same here!
Maybe we should join forces and make our own game

>> No.4959858

>>4959754
There was some browser-based game like that which you played in the background of the website you were reading. Can't remember the name though.

>> No.4960206

>>4959858
Thanks, I guess, but I don't even know how to look this up...

>> No.4960220

>>4957825
>commodore elitists

>> No.4960832

>>4958173
That game probably has 1/10th the content Metroid does.

>> No.4960983

>>4958173
This game looks awful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBMC16hHQyw

>> No.4961268

>>4960983
You're kidding me if you think this thing is anywhere within a thousand miles of Metroid.

>> No.4961316

>>4957518
Damn, that game looks fucking cool as hell.

>> No.4961321

>>4960983
There's not even any enemies.

>> No.4961323

>>4957518
This makes my Willy want to jet set

>> No.4961339

>>4957530
I don't even distinguish between different factions of haters now, all haters are just haters and all are subhuman

>> No.4961720

>>4957452
Exile should've been on the specy.