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MetroidJunkie
2006-12-15 06:00:14 am
Where are the Metroids? This is the only game of the entire series I know of that lacks the Metroids. Those dog-like creatures that leech your health just aren't Metroids.
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Mr. Aran
2006-12-15 07:57:56 am
everybody knows it's true
Unneccesary to the story?
nate
2006-12-15 12:56:40 pm
hey, at least it ain't a pinball game.

oh wait.
Yoshi348
2006-12-15 01:49:39 pm
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Ready and willing.
But there WERE Metroids in the pinball game.

Obviously we see two different axes of non-Metroidiness here. Although the OP didn't really state exactly how much this affected his opinion of the game... from what was posted it could just be a minor annoyance.
cheeks
2006-12-15 02:15:08 pm
The single player sucks anyway. It would be pretty cool if you played multiplayer and there were metroids floating about.
MetroidJunkie
2006-12-15 02:29:48 pm
This was one thing. I'm really disappointed how Nintendo sucked up all the space using cheap videos. If they'd used ingame graphics, they could've fit alot more in. Some suits, some visors, variety in bosses, they could've made it alot better if they didn't use those crappy videos.  :x I guess I should accept that, since online Multiplayer is so fresh, the story mode is just tacked on. Metroid Prime 3 better have a good strong story mode.
Yoshi348
2006-12-15 03:22:15 pm
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Ready and willing.
Neither "Retrostudies" nor Retro Studios made this game. It was from the Nintendo Software Technology Corporation or something like that, which IIRC is Nintendo of America's actual game making division.
MetroidJunkie
2006-12-15 03:27:53 pm
Edited. In that case, I wish Retro Studios had handled the single player. With all those flashy videos gone, it would have had enough space to make an epic single player without sacraficing the Online multiplayer.
Azor
2006-12-15 05:22:02 pm
Phazon level: 83%
something is being forgotten here

this game unlike the other prime ones is a FPS, not FPA

therefore its more based on killied rather than on exploring
arkarian
2006-12-15 06:45:49 pm
red chamber dream
I think people wanted it to be an FPA, though (me included), which is the problem.
13M13
2006-12-15 09:20:25 pm
l'appel du vide
Quote from cheeks:
The entire game sucks anyway.

I completely agree.
cheeks
2006-12-15 09:38:06 pm
The fact that it's a FPS is why the multiplayer is good, I still have the occasional times where the person I'm against isn't too cheap, so we have a good match.
arkarian
2006-12-15 10:42:34 pm
red chamber dream
Quote from cheeks:
The entire game sucks anyway.

;(

I actually just picked up the game again (to try and get the wifi to work) and played the single-player a bit. I forgot how much I liked the controls; they alone justify the purchase of the game.
Yoshi348
2006-12-15 11:05:19 pm
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Ready and willing.
BTW Ark, that was actually 13M13 editing cheeks' quote; cheeks only said the single player sucks.
13M13
2006-12-15 11:25:05 pm
l'appel du vide
Quote from Arkarian:
Quote from cheeks:
The entire game sucks anyway.

:)

I actually just picked up the game again (to try and get the wifi to work) and played the single-player a bit. I forgot how much I hated it. Hunters, meet boot.

I completely agree.
Yoshi348
2006-12-15 11:28:53 pm
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Ready and willing.
Okay, you already saw the problems with these fake quotes before. Stop it. Bad 13M13! No cookie!
arkarian
2006-12-15 11:32:19 pm
red chamber dream
Quote from Yoshi348:
BTW Ark, that was actually 13M13 editing cheeks' quote; cheeks only said the single player sucks.

Meh, whatever, my point can stand alone anyway.
rekameohs
2006-12-16 12:01:19 am
Anywhere, everywhere
Hunters did have amazing controls, although they could be killer on your wrists after a while. The story did seem rather bland though an the hunter battles sucked after the first one.

On topic, the fact that there weren't any metroids or space pirates was a little disappointing (and no, Weavel doesn't count. He isn't Space Pirate-ey at all. And that pirate in the intro doesn't either. But it is a good game, especially for a handheld.

Quote from nate:
hey, at least it ain't a pinball game.


;(

I liked Pinball...
Tahngarthor
2006-12-16 03:54:10 am
Bangaa Bishop
I enjoyed all aspects of the game. Though there are quite a few things I would have personally tweaked myself (like better uses for the morph ball bombs and boost... There is like one destructible peice of environment in the whole game (a stalagmite in arcterra), outside of that you only need to bomb a few doors and not any hidden passages or anything), the game was focused more on the combat and less on the adventuring which has its pros and cons. It could have been a better game than it was, but I thought it was fun, and unique.
cheeks
2006-12-16 01:29:19 pm
No Metroids, no Space Pirates, no Ridley, is this even a Metroid game?
I agree that the controls are good apart from when It lags as I double tap the imp and I press it again then it zooms in and out... sometimes it can be a little laggy during online play. As I said before I like the multiplayer and that's what makes this a good game. Now I'd like to play Metroid Pinball and see what that's like.
LDreamNinja
2006-12-17 02:09:25 am
Gunstar Super Heroes had nothing to do with planet Gunstar

The Dragonlord died in the very first Dragon Quest, along with his pet dragon.

Two of the three GBA Castlevania games were outside castlevania, and the castle was destroyed a year before the most recent game chronologically.

Squareenix will not cease to exist after any given Final Fantasy

Neither Marathon 2 or Marathon Infinity take place on the Marathon

House of the Dead 2 was in a city, not one house.

In the Mega Man X games it is implied that Mega Man is no longer present.

So I can understand why why a Metroid game with no metroids is unthinkable.

On a side note, Ridely was absent from Metroid 2 as well, and if you claim that too is not be a Metroid game, I am afraid I will have to hurt you. Im not sure, but Nida might help.
primetime
2006-12-17 02:40:13 am
I think this game was more just an experiment to see what exactly the DS's online capabilities were, and also (but not as much) to see how well a FPS could work on the DS, and not nessecarily intended to to add another game to the series. The hundreds of glitches in the game kinda explain it as being an experiment. But, being Nintendo, they decided to impliment (sp?) Metroid into it, because it made perfect sense to use Metroid as the theme for a FPS on the DS. As a result of them working more on the multiplayer than on the story mode (I'm guessing they did, because that was kinda the experiment), the story line and story mode ended up being not that great, while the multiplayer was what made the entire game. IMO, the online itself made it one of the best DS games out there.

But this is all just my take on the purpose of the game, and it could easily be wrong.
13M13
2006-12-17 04:10:07 am
l'appel du vide
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But this is all just my take on the purpose of the game, and it could easily be wrong.

Of course it is.  Hunters is, online and off, an abortion.
Derek
2006-12-17 09:20:20 am
The multiplayer was definately the best part, but it very unfortunately degraded into a lot of lame tactics and glitch abuse. A sequel, or ever a (*gasp*) patch with tweaked multiplayer (less health packs, slower, less powerful alt forms, maybe even drain health while in alt mode to prevent it from being overused), and less glitches would be great. Or just Unreal Tournament DS, that would work for me too.



So...whos ready for Metroid Dread?
rekameohs
2006-12-17 11:41:02 am
Anywhere, everywhere
Quote from LDreamNinja:
On a side note, Ridely was absent from Metroid 2 as well, and if you claim that too is not be a Metroid game, I am afraid I will have to hurt you. Im not sure, but Nida might help.
But it had the most amount of metroids in any metroid game and introduced the amazing transformation. It didn't hae any pirates, but that was before the first pirates were seen so.... It definitely is a true metroid game and is one of my favorites.

And Echoes had very few metroids and no ridley as well.