New Gameplay Footage (July 13th)

2010-07-24 12:14:52 am

Quote from tomatobob:

Quote from Melancholy Spork:

Oh god, the PED was the most retarded looking suit ever.

Fusion Varia.

Can't argue with that.

Personally, I thought all of MP2's suits were sweet. I actually think that game had the best art direction of all three Primes... well, besides the bland areas.

Chozoid

2010-07-24 12:48:57 am

I agree.

For example, let's say you get ambushed by a bunch of Space Pirates in a room. The obvious thing to do would be to escape. However, if you clear out all the enemies, then a path would be revealed that leads to the Ice Beam. If you chose to escape, once you revisited the room the path would be blocked off by some rocks, which could only be destroyed with bombs (which you usually wouldn't have yet).

Later, there would be a room with an ice beam door, or a morph ball tunnel that required you to go through some complicated maze. If you had the ice beam, you could just skip the maze.

Poision Envy

2010-07-24 12:54:57 am

Club 27 Goals

sounds good on paper, but it would suck to be a newb player and see the pirates and be like "oh noez, run away since I don't have much health" then when they come back they're screwed to get the better weapon, and are forced to go through even more loops.

Chozoid

2010-07-24 01:21:02 am

yeah but of course you could heal in between and of course you could still go back for it once you have the bombs.

I'm not saying it has to be that way, that's just kinda the way I think it should be with SBing.

Of course MOM won't be that way; with the weapon authorization it's obvious there will be almost no SBing, at least with weapons. I'm guessing it's going to be like "OK, you killed this boss, now you have proven yourself to be worthy to use missiles" rather that finding the weapon itself.

But I'm hoping you'll be able to use weapons besides the ones Samus already carries.

ajbolt89

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ajbolt89: 2010-07-24 01:17:13 pm

2010-07-24 01:16:30 pm

lol no way

Phrasing it like you did in those quotes gave me a "Duh" moment, as far as how much like Fusion I ought to expect from it. It might work out differently though, maybe you have to learn something and input it right or solve a puzzle with a button at the end you know? But uh. Probably in the end though MOM will have some sort of following and will reinvigorate the community as a new games usually does.
I wonder if Nintendo knows how metroid fans shorten the game names (RoS/M2, SM, MZM MP1 Echoz etc) and intentially made it MOM so we'd never be far from a thought of our mothers. Kind of sweet of them to do that, in its own way.

Chozoid

2010-07-28 10:36:17 pm

I think SM, MP and MP2 were the only games that had optional items (outside of SBing). I hope they include more in future games.

Its obviously going to be Fusion/Corruption times 10, but as long as it's fun to play, has a good story and epic feel as well as a badass final boss fight, then that's alright by me.