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Re: Nintendo Suggests Metroid Prime 4's Tortured Development Meant It Was "Divorced From The Changing Of Times"

GoldenSunRM

@Yoshi3 thank you
So many people clearly misunderstanding on purpose, because they don't want to actually deal with a conversation of how bad the design of the locations is.

The problem is not the linearity by itself.
Most places are just corridors connecting square/circular rooms. Just finished replaying Prime 1 and it's so boring the rooms design in Prime 4. Most of the time you're going straight one way without looking back (or you go straight to the end and then get back, like Ice Area).

The Mines being the most egregious example of it.

Re: Nintendo Suggests Metroid Prime 4's Tortured Development Meant It Was "Divorced From The Changing Of Times"

GoldenSunRM

I said it before in another news. The only reason why I accept this mess is because it was clearly a troubled project that tried to merge the original Metroid Prime 4 and the vision Retro had for the game, it's a mix of half baked ideas and they tried to glue them togheter and create something.
It's still an enjoyable game at the end of the day, but please let's not accept this as a baseline of what a good Metroid game is.

Btw I have no idea why some people are saying that with time people will like this game more, if anything, after the "being the new thing" passed, more and more people are going to see the mediocrity of it

Re: Fans Uncover Unused Dialogue From Metroid Prime 4

GoldenSunRM

@the_beaver i'm not even talking about the quality, if you're having fun with it I'm genuinely happy for you.
It's just that the entire game feels like random ideas put togheter without much cohesion.

Every location is self contained.

The desert feels like it was put with glue to connect everything, the bike barely has any unique and interesting use and feels like an afterthought and the story, without spoiling too much since you have not finished it from what I understand, feels like 2 different stories from 2 different games that were fused togheter, both of them barely touched (I could go into more depth but don't want to spoil anything to you).

The entire base camp felt the same to me. From the way it present itself it felt like something that would have had more importance to the overall game, but you need to go there just for the Cannon Upgrade.

Probably the original Prime 4 was a completely different game and when Retro came in, they tried to stick togheter the game they wanted to make and the material the previous studio made.

Of course this is 100% speculation of my part, but I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case.

Re: Best Metroid Games Of All Time

GoldenSunRM

@SillyG yeah Prime Hunters was an exellent game for what it wanted to be.

The Main Story was a quick and fun ride, and the multiplayer was absolutely glorious.

I'm still hoping for a Remaster of the multiplayer portion of the game with online, I would waste my life away om something like that.

Re: Best Metroid Games Of All Time

GoldenSunRM

Genuinely glad Prime 4 is so low on the list, and for once the hype of being the new title didn't automaticaly made it go top 5.

It's not a bad game by any means, but oh my god I have really nothing particularly good to say about the Level Design of this game.
Everything about it it's the definition of "Eh I guess it's fine".

Metroid Dread was such an awesome game, and it was so disappointed to see Prime 4 be so underwhelming.

Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Metroid Prime 4: Beyond?

GoldenSunRM

Honestly it definitely feels like a good game that could be much more. In a world where exists Silksong, Baldur's Gate, Expedition 33 and Elden Ring and many others, I think Metroid Prime could be so much more.

Prime 4 it's a solid good enough game, that doesn't tarnish the name of the franchise by any means, but it's does nothing more than that for what I've played.
Hope it becomes better.

Re: Best Kirby Games Of All Time

GoldenSunRM

I played all the mainline Kirby games (except the one with Kirby being a ball where you have to draw the platforms, but I don't know if it's Main game), and to me Planet Robobot absolutely destroys any other Kirby and it's not even a competition, I'm talking about utter annihilation.

It's soo good by any metric while the rest of the series goes from mediocre to simply "Good", in my humble opinion.

Re: Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds New Free Characters Update, Coming Soon

GoldenSunRM

Wait, all these characters are free? Or only some of them? Because if that the case I could change my mind once it becomes cheaper.
Buying this if they announce a lot of cool niche Sonic characters (and they're not DLC but free).
And Tikal.

Could't care less about any other Sega series or special guests from random cartoons.

Re: Poll: So, Will You Be Getting Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Imprisonment?

GoldenSunRM

Genuinely thinks people sleeps too much on this games.

Hyrule Warriors got more than 300hours out of me, and Age of Calamity had a fantastic Battle system that made it really fun and the soundtrack was one of the best I've ever heard. Honestly both BotW and TotK could have learned a lot from that game for the Battles and the music.

I can't wait for this one. Hoping that this time they won't screw the story.

Re: Fire Emblem Shadows Gets A Free Update Adding New Story, Map And More

GoldenSunRM

@Munchlax Fire Emblem 1 on the NES literally had a 1000+ years old loli dragon/Human.

This series as been anime cringe since day one.

Anyway IMHO 3Houses had a bit too much focus on the whole "School" system and definitely waste too much time with trivial stuff like the random Maps with bad level design and with useless Quests; Engage cut a lot of that useless frills and the gameplay is probably the more complex in the series.