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Faust
2004-02-25 07:01:19 pm
I say colored doors should work like locks.  Once you shoot a colored door with the correct beam, you should be able to use any beam to open that door.  If I opened an ice door with the ice beam once, why do I have to prove that I have the ice beam every time I want to go through that door?  It should "unlock" to the standard blue.

Still, their system of doors works well for their weapon system.  I think they split up the beams to give the player a sense of having an arsenal as opposed to just one upgraded beam, which may or may not have been a good idea for Prime.  I mean, it's worked with every Metroid game in the past.
Radix
2004-02-25 07:29:05 pm
There's a reason that the wave/ice/plasma doors don't change to blue once you open them.  I heard it from [censored] himself.  During testing they realized that player's would use the door color as location guides, because apparently the room geometry and the map -> room names weren't good enough.  If the door changed color magically, when they returned they'd be confused.  Poor players!
Light of Day
2004-02-25 08:03:36 pm
Quote from Radix:
There's a reason that the wave/ice/plasma doors don't change to blue once you open them.  I heard it from [censored] himself.  During testing they realized that player's would use the door color as location guides, because apparently the room geometry and the map -> room names weren't good enough.  If the door changed color magically, when they returned they'd be confused.  Poor players!

That... makes an awful lot of sense, actually. I didn't realise it before, but I do use the door colours to navigate, and I think that's worth the sacrifice of hiving to switch to the ice beam whenever I open a door.
Roy
2004-02-26 04:24:56 am
just turn on the X-Ray visor,then you will always see the ghosts(Credits to GameFaqs ;) )
Toozin
2004-02-26 04:33:31 pm
Not impossible
just highly unlikely
Quote from Roy:
just turn on the X-Ray visor,then you will always see the ghosts(Credits to GameFaqs ;) )

Thanks for the tip, Professor!
nate
2004-02-26 05:26:36 pm
Quote from Toozin:
Quote from Roy:
just turn on the X-Ray visor,then you will always see the ghosts(Credits to GameFaqs ;) )

Thanks for the tip, Professor!

toozin wa tanoshikunai desu yo ;-[
Chozo-Ghost
2004-02-27 02:02:27 pm
In Prime there was no real 'beam heirachy' like in Super anymore.

Though desintegrating with plasma is indeed a wonderful thing...  Laughing


These purple doors in phendrana part 2 were extremly annoying, always this switching between plasma and wave.
skynes
2004-02-28 02:10:02 pm
I don't use the doors to navigate per se. But I do use them on the map to tell me what beam I need to use next.

I would prefer the most recent beam (aka plasma) to open all doors beneath it. The hierarchy I described.


And yeah the room naming isn't up to much. I still don't know most of the names! I use stuff like - the room you get the plasma beam in Etc. to identify rooms.
Metroid Prime
2004-02-28 02:14:33 pm
Quote from skynes:
I don't use the doors to navigate per se. But I do use them on the map to tell me what beam I need to use next.

I would prefer the most recent beam (aka plasma) to open all doors beneath it. The hierarchy I described.


You think like I do. ;)
skynes
2004-02-28 02:19:36 pm
As silly as it is I've only recently started using the radar....
Metroid Prime
2004-02-28 02:20:45 pm
Well, you should use it more often!
skynes
2004-02-28 02:31:00 pm
The only time it's useful is against jetpack pirates.
BleedingSnow
2004-02-28 02:44:37 pm
In Zero Mission once you open a red/green/yellow door it returns to blue -- yet it still shows as the original color on the overhead map/mini map in upper right.
Korff
2004-03-28 07:36:39 pm
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In Zero Mission once you open a red/green/yellow door it returns to blue -- yet it still shows as the original color on the overhead map/mini map in upper right.

That would be perfect for Prime