Tips 'n' Stuff

2004-07-18 07:11:25 pm

Hey! I've only really just got this account and i wondered if anyone could give me any tips as to what metroid is actually about. That sounds stupid I no coz i bet your all thinking, why is she on here if she doesn't have a clue? Well i can answer that. I'm on here to LEARN. If anyone has a problem with that then pm me.
Thank you.
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Smops

2004-07-18 07:50:26 pm

Well, please be more specific. Play the games if you really want to know, you'll find out. I suggest playing Fusion first, since everything gets explained and such. All the other games are fairly non-linear.

sdwoodchuck

2004-07-18 08:20:30 pm

Personally, I'd recommend starting with Zero Mission. It's a great way to introduce someone to the series, especially if they're not quite up to the difficulty of the first Metroid. It's nonlinear, but it has guidelines on where to go next, and it is a remake of Metroid 1. It's like starting from the beginning, with current gameplay techniques.

Eruditious

2004-07-18 08:45:25 pm

I agree with SDWC... Zero Mission is what I started my friend on first... now he's hooked. For a story line you should read the NP comic *goes looking for link*
http://npc.captainn.net/sm.html
There ya go... there are some spoilers to the story... obviously.

Smops

2004-07-19 07:29:57 am

I started with Super, but found it too hard and quit after meeting Kraid.

Then I got Fusion, and I loved it, and it brought me to finish all other metroids, except II.

nate

2004-07-19 08:09:35 am

super harder than fusion??

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okay. to each his own, i suppose. i personally found fusion one of the most difficult titles in the series.

Phoenix

2004-07-19 08:15:58 am

Fusion was the first I ever actually finished, although I'd played plenty of Super Metroid before, but I was never really a huge fan. Finishing Fusion made me one. Then I finished Zero Mission and now I'm playing Prime. I'll most likely finish Super Metroid after that. Not sure which I would classify as the hardest, though. Maybe Prime?

Smops

2004-07-19 08:40:58 am

Quote from njahnke:

super harder than fusion??

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okay. to each his own, i suppose. i personally found fusion one of the most difficult titles in the series.

I got lost and stuff. I suck at finding my way trough, and fusion was pretty much straight-forward. The enemies and stuff were harder, but that didn't really bother me. All metroid games are pretty easy, once you know where to go. With the exception of Metroid I. :P

Quote from Phoenix:

Fusion was the first I ever actually finished, although I'd played plenty of Super Metroid before, but I was never really a huge fan. Finishing Fusion made me one. Then I finished Zero Mission and now I'm playing Prime. I'll most likely finish Super Metroid after that. Not sure which I would classify as the hardest, though. Maybe Prime?

Prime is easy. Maybe hard to master, but certainly easy to finish. After getting used to the controls, I only died once the whole game. And it's the only metroid I ever played on a real platform, and not on an emu using save states :P

[quote="njahnke"]super harder than fusion??

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okay. to each his own, i suppose. i personally found fusion one of the most difficult titles in the series.[/quote]

I got lost and stuff. I suck at finding my way trough, and fusion was pretty much straight-forward. The enemies and stuff were harder, but that didn't really bother me. All metroid games are pretty easy, once you know where to go. With the exception of Metroid I. :P

[quote="Phoenix"]Fusion was the first I ever actually finished, although I'd played plenty of Super Metroid before, but I was never really a huge fan. Finishing Fusion made me one. Then I finished Zero Mission and now I'm playing Prime. I'll most likely finish Super Metroid after that. Not sure which I would classify as the hardest, though. Maybe Prime?[/quote]

Prime is easy. Maybe hard to master, but certainly easy to finish. After getting used to the controls, I only died once the whole game. And it's the only metroid I ever played on a real platform, and not on an emu using save states :P

Phoenix

2004-07-19 12:10:20 pm

Yeah, I guess it's a matter of getting used to the controls. I've just recently got the Wave Beam, so I'm not all that far. I just remember being incredibly frustrated with the Incinerator Drone boss fight.

nate

2004-07-19 12:30:05 pm

Quote from Phoenix:

I just remember being incredibly frustrated with the Incinerator Drone boss fight.

and not with flaahgra?

Smops

2004-07-19 12:32:37 pm

I didn't have any trouble with flaahgra too, and I absolutly dispised the incenerator drone fight :P I also hate chozo ghosts without X-ray. -_-

Phoenix

2004-07-19 03:55:15 pm

Actually, Flaaghra was not that hard, really. I watched a friend of mine getting really angry at the game, dying once or twice against him before I played myself. I didn't have any problems taking him/her/it down.

Dark_T_Zeratul

2004-07-25 01:54:00 am

Quote from njahnke:

super harder than fusion??

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okay. to each his own, i suppose. i personally found fusion one of the most difficult titles in the series.

I thought Fusion was pretty easy, actually. It was made MUCH easier by the fact that the game holds your hand the ENTIRE way and tells you EXACTLY where to go throughout the entire course of the game. Super Metroid just says, "OK, go search through a huge maze of tunnels to kill Mother Brain. What? You want some help? Screw that, you're on your own." There were also far more instances in Super of the path you need to take being hidden behind a destructable block that looks EXACTLY like the rest of the wall.

Yoshi348

2004-07-25 02:02:01 am

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Ready and willing.

Fusion has the hardest combat of the series; I think most people would agree. (Metroid 1 would be the only one that could take it in a fight; but without giant bosses it doesn't feel as crushing. :P) I thought Fusion was harder overall, myself, maybe because I've played so many video games that I KNOW where programmers like to hide breakables. With the in-game map and my fairly good sense of direction, I never really got lost. I only got stuck in two places:

1) the gigantic speed ramp jump thingy (sort of a oh, duh moment when nate and the crew told me)

2) Leaving after Ridely (I didn't think that there were passages the X-Ray couldn't find... so after a short while of fruitless searching, I decided to be all SB style and run back through the massive acid room. Actually really easy, too; I screwed up like 3 times and still made it with energy to spare. I went through with about a row and a half, IIRC.)

Red Scarlet

2004-07-25 04:53:26 am

I('d) like to watch (some MP3 runs)

Kraid on a 2 item game in Metroid 1 takes the cake for me over any Fusion badguy.

ShadowJedi

2004-07-25 09:30:47 am

Quote from Yoshi348:

Fusion has the hardest combat of the series; I think most people would agree. (Metroid 1 would be the only one that could take it in a fight; but without giant bosses it doesn't feel as crushing. :P) I thought Fusion was harder overall, myself, maybe because I've played so many video games that I KNOW where programmers like to hide breakables.

You might not really count this, but trying to fight Ridley in SM without wave/ice/plasma/spazer/supers and only having 10 missiles is a lot harder, imo, than any low% boss in Fusion. Might just be me, though, but I think a couple of hundreds of shots to beat a boss is a bit much. I got tired of that run, and threw it in the virtual trashcan.

Phoenix

2004-07-25 12:37:22 pm

Should we perhaps compromise then, and say that the other games (non-Fusion) are easier than Fusion with "normal" amount of items, but harder than Fusion with "low" amount of items?