Topic: Metroid Discussion Thread

[ViperAcidZX]

He's not the only pirate here. :J

[Bueno Excelente]

Everyone's a pirate. I'm just the one who admits it. =P

Aaaaand I'm gonna have to wait until tonight to get the only laptop in the house with a working DVD-R drive for me to burn that thing...

[ViperAcidZX]

I'm a pirate too, with all these Touhou game and whatnot that I have in my brother's computer. :b

[Bueno Excelente]

I once pirated one of those games.

But I couldn't find any toes or hoes.

I must've been doing something wrong.

[ViperAcidZX]

There's hoes in these games, you just gotta look hard enough.

[Protoman Blues]

Kotaku's review of Other M

[Rayl]

Everyone's a pirate. I'm just the one who admits it. =P

Aaaaand I'm gonna have to wait until tonight to get the only laptop in the house with a working DVD-R drive for me to burn that thing...

There's a nasty little bit of AP on the game that causes the controls to lock out and for Samus to die at a certain point. Or so i've heard while waiting for a scrubbed USB compatible version anyway  

[Bueno Excelente]

Most reviews seem to be good so far, but dismissive of Samus' new personality and past.

Although the art design seems to be total simplistic crap after years of Retro Studios beauty.

There's a nasty little bit of AP on the game that causes the controls to lock out and for Samus to die at a certain point. Or so i've heard while waiting for a scrubbed USB compatible version anyway 

I've heard. It's still the PAL version, so I'll just keep on playing in the regular retail copy. I just want to try out the game, anyway.

[Rayl]

Yeah fair do's. I'd do the same if i had a decent connection speed  But for now i'll wait for some delicious fix.

Well either way let us know how it goes.

[Bueno Excelente]

I couldn't find any friggin' dual layer DVD-Rs, so I had to get a DVD+R. This is gonna screw with the recording, I know. it.

[Flame]

Kotaku's review of Other M

That opening cinematic was pure awesome.

[Jericho]

Most reviews seem to be good so far, but dismissive of Samus' new personality and past.

Although the art design seems to be total simplistic crap after years of Retro Studios beauty.

As much as I don't want to take a [parasitic bomb] on what SPD1 & Team Ninja have done here, especially without having played it myself, I thought the same thing for a looooooong time. If Retro had provided art while Team Ninja & Sakamoto did mechanics & level design, I would have exploded from the awesome.

[CephiYumi]

Whats wrong with simplistic?

[Jericho]

Whats wrong with simplistic?

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind it much, but I'm seriously in love with what Retro did with Metroid's art and in my mind they set the bar incredibly high for any and all future installments in the series (barring any delicious 2D sprite based Metroids that may or may not happen in the future).

[Bueno Excelente]

Whats wrong with simplistic?

Imagine you've had a beautiful tree by your bed for the last five years.

...now suddenly the tree is replaced with a green sphere on a brown straight vertical stick.

Sure, it might be a bit of a hyperbolic example, but everyone notices the sudden lack of amazing detail in things that Retro used to have, suddenly replaced by minimalistic sleek iPod designs where everything is single-color walls and simple-designed things.

[Align]

Kinda disappointed.

There's barely any exploration, it's just do this and do that. All the suit upgrades are "authorized" for you at the right time, so there's no "how the [tornado fang] do I beat this boss maybe it has a weakness to ___ I should explore more" but instead "hey this boss is weak against ___ here's your gun go kill it". The third to first person controls are awkward; you have to point the wiimote at the screen which is bungling and I've been getting times where it just enters fps when I didn't even point the controller. It's pretty easy, auto-targeting the enemies can [acid burst] you off because you can't chose your own targets. Also [tornado fang]ing [tornado fang] I hate the little pixel hunting you do when you're stuck in first person view and have to put your cursor over something to find it, jesus christ [parasitic bomb]'s annoying.

So yeah, it's a mediocre game and nothing true to Metroid roots. It's basically another game with Metroid slapped onto it. [tornado fang]ing Team Ninja, man. Thank god I didn't preorder this game, my friend still has his preorder and I can't talk him out of it and he'll surely hate the game as he's a diehard metroid guy with all those secret worlds and [parasitic bomb].

Is that correct?

[Solar]

Well, what I've seen pretty much tells me that your enjoyment of this game is directly proportional to how much you enjoyed/hated Fusion.

Also, over half of the reviews I've seen are 75+ so personally I'm not worried.

[Acid]

Well I loved Fusion.

So it seems that I will have fun.

[The Drunken Dishwasher]

I saw some of the early livestream.  I know i'm gonna enjoy it.

Besides, reviews are also opinions.

[Bueno Excelente]

Looks like the damn DVD+R DL didn't work on the burning. I'm gonna have to get an 8 gig flash drive or something.

[VixyNyan]

Um, did you try "Layer Break: 2084960"? o.o

[Phi]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElCOio3DZP4[/youtube]

[Flame]

Wuz dat sum Ridley I herd thar?

Awesome trailer as usual. Makes me want this game more.

[Bueno Excelente]

Um, did you try "Layer Break: 2084960"? o.o

How do I do that?

I had an error right when it was finishing the burn. It tried 3 times, then didn't work. I just popped out the disc, tried it on the Wii, got an error.

[VixyNyan]

How do I do that?

The numbers are inside the ISO (or file that's attached to it), and a burning program uses that info to decide where to burn the second layer.
If you have a burning program like say ImgBurn, you can set it manually to '2084960'.
'Tools' menu -> 'Settings' option -> 'Write' tab -> 'Layer Break (For DL Media)'.