The **SPOILER** topic. (enter at yer own risk)

GreenMamba

2004-11-19 02:56:46 pm

What luck, there's french fry stuck in my beard.

Beam Combo

The Annihilator Combo (Sonic Boom) is cooler. 8)

Pekod

2004-11-19 03:17:05 pm

not wasting missles

You can fire the seeker missles without wasting a missle by switching your main beam right before you start charging the missle button.

arkarian

2004-11-19 10:43:04 pm

red chamber dream

I like that trick, Pekod.

Although one missile isn't really much of a loss anyway.

Kridly

2004-11-20 09:05:04 am

Whoa! Big Spoilers!^^^^ Exclamation

arkarian

2004-11-20 01:35:05 pm

red chamber dream

Yeah, well I'm putting basically everything about the game in tags just to be sure I don't get yelled at. Because even little things like that some people don't want to know.

Ekarderif

2004-11-20 03:30:05 pm

Missiles are hardly desired any more. Beam ammo is far more effective useful most of the time.

GreenMamba

2004-11-20 03:50:26 pm

What luck, there's french fry stuck in my beard.

The Missile trick would be useful for low percent runs, since then you would have enough missiles to take out a Purple Seeker Door.

And why are we using the Spoiler tags, anyways? This topic's called the Spoiler topic. Isn't that enough Spoiler tag?

Ekarderif

2004-11-20 03:54:18 pm

To annoy whoever actually wanders in here.

Pekod

2004-11-20 05:53:42 pm

In my opinion, the only things that really deserve a spoiler tag are things related to the plot. Explaining what something is before you tag it is just a courtesy.

I only get to play about an hour a day, so I'm just now killing the alpha blogg. This is another bad design element. Once you scan the final thing that lets you get to this boss and his item, its no longer possible to reach a save station, so you have to know what you're doing and save as late as possible before that 3rd scan.

If that weren't bad enough, this boss will sometimes just not get hit, no matter how you time your attack. On the second attempt, I got him down to nothing with a few dark burst shots, and then it took me about 15 more super missles to hit him one last time.

Edit: I'm just now noticing on the regular bloggs, they only open their mouth all the way at the last second.

Pekod

2004-11-21 10:58:16 am

Third section of the game

Sanctuary fortress has restored my faith. I was starting to wonder if all hyperadvanced starfaring civilizations were dirt eaters.

The enemies that force you to reboot your armor, that is such a cool idea, and the way it's rendered in-game is also extremely nice.

I'm hoping that if there is another prime game, that the third civilization will be corrupted by itself, and not some unknown enemy or their own boredom with tangibility. Maybe the 3rd civilization is the Pirates themselves, whose reckless genetic engineering has caused everyone, even themselves, to forget who they are?

The fourth civilization, of course, would be the most mysterious of all, timid mammalian creatures with even shorter memories, whose only saving grace seems to be a diabolical inventiveness...Where did Mother Brain come from anyway, and how did the Pirates ever develop such an overwrought lust for biological power? The Chozo believe they created the Metroids, what about Prime herself, seemingly immortal, clearly an abomination outside their imaginations, much less their engineering capacity? The answer seems to lie within the Phazon...

I'd love to write a big story, but it would just be a fantasy. :|

Third section of the game

[spoiler]Sanctuary fortress has restored my faith.  I was starting to wonder if all hyperadvanced starfaring civilizations were dirt eaters.

The enemies that force you to reboot your armor, that is such a cool idea, and the way it's rendered in-game is also extremely nice.

I'm hoping that if there is another prime game, that the third civilization will be corrupted by itself, and not some unknown enemy or their own boredom with tangibility.  Maybe the 3rd civilization is the Pirates themselves, whose reckless genetic engineering has caused everyone, even themselves, to forget who they are?

The fourth civilization, of course, would be the most mysterious of all, timid mammalian creatures with even shorter memories, whose only saving grace seems to be a diabolical inventiveness...Where did Mother Brain come from anyway, and how did the Pirates ever develop such an overwrought lust for biological power?  The Chozo believe they created the Metroids, what about Prime herself, seemingly immortal, clearly an abomination outside their imaginations, much less their engineering capacity?  The answer seems to lie within the Phazon...

I'd love to write a big story, but it would just be a fantasy.  :|[/spoiler]

GreenMamba

2004-11-21 01:38:49 pm

What luck, there's french fry stuck in my beard.

Pekod made my brain hurt.

Akaihiryuu

2004-11-21 05:54:11 pm

According to the scans, metroids do have some unknown (as yet unexplained) connection to phazon. Maybe it's possible metroid prime could've been a metroid after all. I find it an amazing coincidence that two phazon meteors both hit planets where advanced but peaceful races settled. There's some kind of sentience behind this, and I hope they explain the source of phazon/metroids, though it probably won't be until the next game now. Just think...they could have Samus visit the source of phazon (and possibly metroids) in the next game, and the ending could be done in such a way that it would be deemed necessary to immediately send Samus to eradicate the metroids, thus leading into Metroid 2. Just have to see what happens I guess.

GreenMamba

2004-11-21 05:57:32 pm

What luck, there's french fry stuck in my beard.

The baby Metroids are blue and red, same color as Metroid Prime. Coincidence? Probably, but I don't think it is. If a baby Metroid absorbs phazon, it'll rapidly become a Tallon Metroid. You can watch it yourself.

Akaihiryuu

2004-11-21 06:02:25 pm

The tallon metroids were originally metroids that the pirates brought along with them from Zebes, but they changed once they were exposed to phazon. Perhaps the metroids in the impact crater did actually come from metroid prime...maybe it does have some kind of connection to metroids after all. I noticed that the metroids here are the same color as hunter metroids in Prime...perhaps they're evolving as they are exposed to phazon?

arkarian

2004-11-21 08:58:57 pm

red chamber dream

Yeah, Tallon Metroids are only called so if they have been exposed to Phazon. But I have no doubt that Prime is a Metroid. I always thought of him as being super-exposed to a high concentration of Phazon. Plus, he is called Metroid Prime for a reason.

Pekod

2004-11-22 02:31:21 am

I had a "plot thought" at work today.

Lets say a few high level humans know some of the ancient history of the various races, and even something about all these lovely bioweapons running amuck, X, metroids, ing, primes, what have you.

Now doesn't it strike you as odd, that a highly advanced xenomorphic race would be described as 'Space Pirates?' Who came up with such a silly name?

What if this little appellation were in fact part of a much larger propaganda machine? Knowing that very few sentients would come into contact with these recluses and survive, it would be easy to portray them as a loose band of avaricious 'pirates,' highlighting the profitability of their activities and neglecting the extended implications of their targets. Their true identity and plan (which could still be almost anything at this point) would remain both unknown and uninteresting to the public.

As much as I respect the effort placed into the Prime storyline, and as much as I understand the need to keep things vague so they can keep selling games, I'd like a stronger framework to build my conjectures on.

I had a "plot thought" at work today.

Lets say a few high level humans know some of the ancient history of the various races, and even something about  all these lovely bioweapons running amuck, X, metroids, ing, primes, what have you.

Now doesn't it strike you as odd, that a highly advanced xenomorphic race would be described as 'Space Pirates?'  Who came up with such a silly name?

What if this little appellation were in fact part of a much larger propaganda machine?  Knowing that very few sentients would come into contact with these recluses and survive, it would be easy to portray them as a loose band of avaricious 'pirates,' highlighting the profitability of their activities and neglecting the extended implications of their targets.  Their true identity and plan (which could still be almost anything at this point) would remain both unknown and uninteresting to the public.

As much as I respect the effort placed into the Prime storyline, and as much as I understand the need to keep things vague so they can keep selling games, I'd like a stronger framework to build my conjectures on.

GreenMamba

2004-11-22 07:41:42 am

What luck, there's french fry stuck in my beard.

They call themselves Pirates, though. That's what they are.

arkarian

2004-11-22 06:34:37 pm

red chamber dream

I always liked the name Space Pirates. It sounds cool to me.