Prime 3 Fact Sheet

2006-06-21 01:52:06 am

Quote from Prime Hunter:

...and the fact that supposedly a lot of people thought Prime and Echoes were very difficult? And that it looks like they are going to make Corruption a little easier than those two to accomidate this fact?

Not that the Metroid series has been overly difficult before, but it's still not something I like to hear.

probably it just means they'll have difficulty settings they spent more than two minutes on.

Frozen Mr. Toastbrot

2006-06-21 07:32:26 am

That probably means we'll get normal, hard and very hard, as in, easy, normal, still not too hard.

Prime Hunter

2006-06-21 12:41:13 pm

True: There always is hard mode if the normal playthrough is somewhat easier compared to Prime and Echoes.

Yoshi348

2006-06-21 12:54:15 pm

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Ready and willing.

Heh, as far as the WiiConnect24 is concerned, everything I've heard seems like Nintendo and friends have no freaking clue what they're going to use it for yet, other than that it's gotta be worth something.

UchihaSasuke

2006-06-21 06:38:58 pm

my umbrella goes directly to Bankai

new weapons or items :O

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Hejira

2006-06-21 06:43:33 pm

Quote from Yoshi348:

Heh, as far as the WiiConnect24 is concerned, everything I've heard seems like Nintendo and friends have no freaking clue what they're going to use it for yet, other than that it's gotta be worth something.

It's a business model that's worked for them so far.

The text recognition thing in Brain Age? They developed it pretty much first thing with the DS, and were waiting around for something that could use it.

the wicked child

2006-06-22 07:59:13 am

Something that might be of interest: http://consoles.gwn.com/articles/article.php/id/719/

I haven't had a chance to watch the video myself yet, but there are links to videos of different Wii games (including MP3), but not of the game itself, but rather showing people playing the games, so you can get an idea of what it will look like when you're playing the game.

rekameohs

2006-08-14 11:23:04 pm

Anywhere, everywhere

Dun dun dunnnnn..... multiplayer

Mr. Aran

2006-08-14 11:29:08 pm

everybody knows it's true

Magazine speaking by itself, shown in the last paragraph.

Many fans of the series were disappointed that Corruption would not take advantage of the Wii's online capabilities, but now there seems to be a hint of not only obtaining new weapons or levels via WiiConnect24 but also the multiplayer mode. Who knows? Only Retro.

UchihaSasuke

2006-08-15 02:05:08 am

my umbrella goes directly to Bankai

so they want to pull a Half-Life 2 with mp3?

arkarian

2006-08-15 09:21:49 am

red chamber dream

Hopefully not. I think multiplayer Metroid on the DS is a great idea (another, better Hunters would be great), but it would be rather dumb imo to give a console Metroid an extensive multiplayer. I'm thinking this could end up like Echoes's multiplayer, which I guess would be fine. It's not Halo, and it's not an FPS, Retro.

AngerFist

2006-09-08 04:33:24 am

Reading the first page in this topic to find out if we gamers can play Corruption using the regular Wii controller was somewhat confusing for me because I have no clue whether the Wii nunchuck or the Wii nunchuck controller is the regular controller. By regular controller, I mean the one similar to the Gamecube controller. Not being entirely lazy, I googled the abovementioned controllers and obviously none of them were the regular controller. So whats the name of the regular controller and I hope we can use/buy it at launch.

Prime Hunter

2006-09-08 01:20:38 pm

If you're referring to the controller that is more like a standard console controller, I belive it's called the Classic Controller. Corruption is going to use the remote and nunchuk.

Yoshi348

2006-09-08 01:22:38 pm

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Ready and willing.

The ONLY game so far that's been revealed that's going to use that (besides the Virtual Console, of course) is SSB:B.

Well, actually they said it would use the GC controller (which is an option), but it's quite possible the Classic Controller can be used too. (Although they put the damn left stick in the damn Dualshock position...)

Kaotikeval

2006-09-27 06:22:05 pm

Quote from Yoshi348:

Well, actually they said it would use the GC controller (which is an option), but it's quite possible the Classic Controller can be used too. (Although they put the damn left stick in the damn Dualshock position...)

I like the location of the two control sticks on the PS2 controller. The offset sticks on the Xbox and Gamecube bother me. For some reason I prefer my thumbs to be level with eachother when I play FPS.

Now, as for the ability to use the grapple beam to grab items. Ok, that's cool and all, but did they implement that feature just because of the Wiimote? Or was that thought of well before they knew what kind of controller the Wii would have?

I don't like it when devs add gimmicks just to make a particular feature seem better than it is. Now I'm reserving judgment on the Wii controller until I get my hands on it, but it just seems to me that the new ability for the grapple beam was just an add-on gimmick to get more use out of the tilt function. And if so, that's lame.

[quote="Yoshi348"]Well, actually they said it would use the GC controller (which is an option), but it's quite possible the Classic Controller can be used too. (Although they put the damn left stick in the damn Dualshock position...)[/quote]

I like the location of the two control sticks on the PS2 controller.  The offset sticks on the Xbox and Gamecube bother me.  For some reason I prefer my thumbs to be level with eachother when I play FPS.

Now, as for the ability to use the grapple beam to grab items.  Ok, that's cool and all, but did they implement that feature just because of the Wiimote?  Or was that thought of well before they knew what kind of controller the Wii would have?

I don't like it when devs add gimmicks just to make a particular feature seem better than it is.  Now I'm reserving judgment on the Wii controller until I get my hands on it, but it just seems to me that the new ability for the grapple beam was just an add-on gimmick to get more use out of the tilt function.  And if so, that's lame.

ajbolt89

2006-09-27 07:06:41 pm

lol no way

I thought like... Retro was the part of nintendo that thought a new controller would be cool. Like, they thought nintendo should make a new controller.
So uh.
Not really gimmicky, is it?

Yoshi348

2006-09-27 08:57:18 pm

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Ready and willing.

I'm not sure, aj... I mean they might have agreed that it was cool, but for a single first-party company that only handled two games, both of which are only popular outside of Japan, to be the impetuous for a radical controller design?

ajbolt89

2006-09-28 06:35:36 pm

lol no way

I dunno, I thought I read an Iwata interview somewhere.

*shrugs*

UchihaSasuke

2006-09-29 12:48:24 am

my umbrella goes directly to Bankai

according to some interviews, Retro came up with the idea of the nunchuck side of the controller. the japanese dudes at Nintendo only made the basic remote at first.

sounds incredible huh? (i almost didn't believe it when i first read it)

Yoshi348

2006-09-29 01:03:27 pm

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Ready and willing.

Oh just the nunchuck I can believe.

arkarian

2006-09-29 09:33:00 pm

red chamber dream

I certainly believe it. Retro is a very innovative company with really great ideas ... they just haven't been put to good use for a while.

A Silly Goose

2006-09-30 10:53:57 am

Look, witty text!

I can believe it. I mean, Retro already did the impossible with Metroid Prime.

nate

2006-09-30 11:14:20 am

Quote from A Silly Goose:

I can believe it. I mean, Retro already did the impossible with Metroid Prime.

indeed. however, i don't think metroid prime was on purpose.

Yoshi348

2006-09-30 11:55:07 am

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Ready and willing.

That sounds so silly phrased like that. Like, oops! We accidently made a video game. I guess we should like market it and stuff now... maybe we should use contraceptives in the future.

nate

2006-09-30 02:03:11 pm

you know that when i say "metroid prime" i mean our metroid prime.