Metroid Prime on PC
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Yoss_and_the_Pilfered_Peaches — 9 years ago(October 03, 2016 10:58 PM)
Decided to restart Metroid Prime on PC using a Wii emulator, despite my Gamecube save being close to the end. The controller controls for that game just isn't terribly good.
The Wii version using a mouse already seems a lot more comfortable. Still not great, especially in comparison with, you know, proper mouse and keyboard controls, but it feels better than the original controls. Feels weird having a mouse cursor zipping around the screen by moving the cursor to the edge of the screen. Like a botched marriage of proper shooter controls and light-gun controls. I don't know, it's weird. Wish there was a fan patch to fix the controls, but, hey, at least bettermore accurate, more responsivethan the alternative.
Shame a series of shooters like this is exclusive to consoles. Despite the Metroid series not only being a household name, but also the progenitor of an entire genre, the series isn't exactly a major unit-shifter. According to various sources, the entire series has sold less units combined than Call of Duty: Ghosts. And people wonder why Nintendo aren't farting out a new one each year?
Anyway, great game. Emulators are fantastic. Wish they'd release the Prime series on PC. I assume it'd be met with open arms and a lot of money transfers.
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Jaguar-Wong-is-Dead — 9 years ago(October 03, 2016 11:02 PM)
Are you playing with a Wii controller while sat at a computer table?
Oh, and it's not a shooter.
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Yoss_and_the_Pilfered_Peaches — 9 years ago(October 03, 2016 11:15 PM)
No, that'd be crazy. Using a mouse and keyboard.
Oh, and it's not a shooter.
huh? Metroid PRIME, the first person shooter, isn't a shooter? What? I don't follow.
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Jaguar-Wong-is-Dead — 9 years ago(October 03, 2016 11:24 PM)
Oh Christ, you're in that "everything must be spelt out but you'll deliberately misunderstand" mood okay everybody gets one
When you tried to play with the Wii remote were you at a computer desk?
It's no more a first person shooter than Portal.
Just because it's in that POV and has some shooting doesn't make it an FPS.
It's pretty obviously a Metroidvania, more broadly an adventure game. A first person one.
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Yoss_and_the_Pilfered_Peaches — 9 years ago(October 03, 2016 11:45 PM)
I didn't misunderstand anything you wrote, dude, so don't get pissy at me. I only played the Wii version on the Wii for about five minutes some four years ago, and that was on the couch.
Sure, Metroid shooter then.
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Jaguar-Wong-is-Dead — 9 years ago(October 04, 2016 12:03 AM)
No pissyness, just an observation.
And obviously you're welcome to call the game what you like, but you seem to be trying to make PC FPS controls work in a game that's neither designed for those controls or designed as a shooter - that just seems a little masochistic.
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Yoss_and_the_Pilfered_Peaches — 9 years ago(October 04, 2016 12:27 AM)
I just answered the question you asked. No maliciousness or whatnot to "deliberately misunderstand" by answering it the way it was asked.
It's not me calling it anything than what it is. I'm honestly surprised anyone would think this is even up to debate. Even doors are opened by shooting them. It's what you spend most of time doing in that game. It's a shooter. End of that discussion.
The controls work better this way because it's a first person shooter.
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Jaguar-Wong-is-Dead — 9 years ago(October 04, 2016 12:34 AM)
Is there somewhere else you actually talk about games? All you seem to want to do here is play a character in the hope of provoking a reaction (even projecting a reaction where there is none).
I mean, if you're a person who actually enjoys talking with like-minded people about games then this approach is, literally, your loss.
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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
the
point like COD or Halo.