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red chamber dream
right, i play 99% of games exactly once. that's true of echoes too
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i started another playthrough a few years back but got to torvus and just couldn't go on

man what a fucking slog that game is
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watching speed runs is fun at least!
Although in fairness Ingsmasher is based on Elite Pirate - they're called ElitePirate internally, lol
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lol why am i not surprised

fucking retro man
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arkarian: 2015-06-25 09:38:23 pm
red chamber dream
i do respect that they tried to do something different with corruption - i don't hate that game, it's just not metroid
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i definitely had fun with it
Corruption fell short in a lot of ways (aside from the controls). I really hate Hypermode :/
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i don't like the concept, but when playing it was nice because it made all the dumb parts easy :D
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i have way more of a problem with the fact that retro tried to make it a first person shooter and failed extremely hard
At least they didn't make Federation Force.
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true, but they made echoze !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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moar like ec doze mirite
You probably wouldn't be surprised to hear that supposedly 70% of Echoes was done in like three months either
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i would be surprised if that weren't the case haha

that game was very clearly rushed, and obviously mostly recycled
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i can understand someone liking it more than prime if it's the first prime game they played i guess
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first impressions are huge for sure
Funny thing is everything I've read about it seems to indicate that MP1's development was hell, yet the final game doesn't seem to be reflective of that at all.
One shall stand, one shall ball.
Quote from arkarian:
first impressions are huge for sure

Yeah but the first thing you see in Echoes is Boring Bland Zone the Graybrown!
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it's the biggest mystery to me

retro is clearly not a very good studio, at least not during the prime 1-3 days
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but somehow they just got lucky ... as if god said let there be prime and there was
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and it was good.
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i'm willing to accept it as a happy accident because it means i don't have to have any expectations for future games

really think metroid is done being a good series, and has been for years
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since about 2004 in fact
Not impossible
just highly unlikely
I firmly believe Prime 1 was what it was because of Shiguru Miyamoto.

You'll notice he had far less involvement in Echoes and Corruption.