Metroid Prime on PC
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Yoss_and_the_Pilfered_Peaches — 9 years ago(October 04, 2016 01:54 AM)
You're the one that brought the animosity. I just answered your question. If I'd known this asinine line of replies is what I would've gotten from you, I wouldn't have bothered.
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Jaguar-Wong-is-Dead — 9 years ago(October 04, 2016 05:42 AM)
Calling the perhaps the best known Metroidvania of all time anything other than a Metroidvania is something that's done to illicit a response - so well done him and shame on us, I guess.
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!!!deleted!!! (24186271) — 9 years ago(October 04, 2016 12:07 AM)
The only time I tried using mouse and keyboard with an emulated console game was Goldeneye 64. Worked ok. But it changes the gameplay, difficulty, general feeling etc so much that it's not really like playing the same game.
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Yoss_and_the_Pilfered_Peaches — 9 years ago(October 04, 2016 02:04 AM)
I'd comment on the Nintendo 64's general control scheme for shootI mean adventure games, but it seems to set people off, soooooo beep it.
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ScottMerica — 9 years ago(October 04, 2016 04:54 AM)
It's not a shooter; yes there's shooting in it but it's primarily an adventure/metroidvania game. It's the same as Portal in that the shooting is only a means to experience the true point of the game rather than being
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Jeorj Euler — 9 years ago(October 04, 2016 05:40 AM)
Not important.
(I've been looking around on Wikipedia.) If you think about it, though, standard "shooter" games provide an array of projectile weapons that can be picked up and set down or swapped out for other projectile weapons, if not all accumulated, and the types of projectile weapons may have distinct advantages and disadvantages, like how the usefulness of a "sawed-off shotgun" is distinct from the usefulness of "sniper rifle".
Metroid Prime
doesn't provide this functionality. Samus Aran just has the arm cannon with a few different firing modes, and there's no telescopic sight targeting mode. -
Yoss_and_the_Pilfered_Peaches — 9 years ago(October 04, 2016 06:40 AM)
standard "shooter" games provide an array of projectile weapons that can be picked up
Sure, but you also pick up an array of different weapons in Metroid Prime in the form of extensions of Samus' arm cannon.
the types of projectile weapons may have distinct advantages and disadvantages
Which fits with the various extensions or weapon-types that Samus use.
Ultimately, though, I don't really care. You can call it a unicorn for all I care. I called it a shooter because it plays like a shooter. A game can fit more than one genre anyway, so not exactly sure why people are making a fuss about it in the first place.
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Jeorj Euler — 9 years ago(October 04, 2016 05:22 AM)
It's not a shooter; yes there's shooting in it but it's primarily an adventure/metroidvania game. It's the same as Portal in that the shooting is only a means to experience the true point of the game rather than being
the
point like COD or Halo.
Who the hell came up with this philosophy? IGN or something? You're the second replier to bring this up. -
Jeorj Euler — 9 years ago(October 04, 2016 03:07 PM)
Nintendo. They frequently noted that Metroid Prime wasn't a shooter when they were marketing its release.
That's awkward seeing as how the gameplay is significantly different from the 64-and-onward
Mario
,
Donkey Kong
and
Legend of Zelda
just by virtue of being so shooter-like with the protagonist waling around with her weapon basically always being pointed forward and having to use it in order to complete every objective. Honestly, it feels like it has more in common with shooter games than it does with the other Nintendo games I've mentioned. The main thing that sticks out as non-shooter-like is how Samus Aran only has one projectile weapon albeit with more than one firing mode. -
Shpongoloid_The_Astral_Gnome — 9 years ago(October 04, 2016 09:48 AM)
Decided to restart Metroid Prime on PC using a Wii emulator
No way! I loaded Metroid Prime on Dolphin like a month ago. Couldn't get decent controls either. Seriously, what are the odds?My favorite films:
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Yoss_and_the_Pilfered_Peaches — 9 years ago(October 04, 2016 09:53 AM)
To be fair, though, I think getting decent controls out of this game would require modifying the actual game code because of how Nintendo it for both the Gamecube and the Wii. This is as good as it gets, unfortunately.
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