Poll of the Day > Metroid Prime Remaster

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Oh my God it looks so good. Can't believe I'm playing a 20 year old Gamecube game.

yeah it looks amazing

How does it feel to play? I always liked the gamecube controller, but I found the Wii Trilogy controlled nicely as well

Playing with the Gamecube control style. For the most part it feels like how I remember it but I swear they switched the ball and missile buttons. Also I can't figure out how to open the menu. Map is now the Start/Pause button instead of Z.

I want to know if the new controls are much better, the one thing that's kept me from replaying the old versions were the controls, even 10 years ago they were awful and clunky compared to any competent shooter.

heard its the best looking/performing game on the switch

Cruddy_horse posted...

I want to know if the new controls are much better, the one thing that's kept me from replaying the old versions were the controls, even 10 years ago they were awful and clunky compared to any competent shooter.

They're a substantial improvement. it's nothing amazing, it's just normal dual stick fps controls. feels like playing a console fps

I first read this as "Metroid Prime Minister".

Idk how I loved that game with the original controls. The dual stick controls on the remaster are so much better.

Cruddy_horse posted...

I want to know if the new controls are much better, the one thing that's kept me from replaying the old versions were the controls, even 10 years ago they were awful and clunky compared to any competent shooter.

Significantly better. Some parts that were more difficult for me 20 years ago were kind of easy just having good, normal controls lol I wiped the floor with the Omega Pirate without breaking much of a sweat.

There are ways to play it with keyboard and and mouse if you talking what I'm meaning about. ;)

Lobomoon posted...

There are ways to play it with keyboard and and mouse if you talking what I'm meaning about. ;)

anyone got a keyboard with motion controls?

Loving it so far. It always had gorgeous graphics and a great art direction, but just looks so good now. I like the motion controls, too.

I forgot how dumb the game gets with color coded shit near the end

Get it now, or wait for a trilogy release?

I honestly don't know if there will be a trilogy release. Could be later this year we get a shadow drop for Prime 2, then Prime 3 next year but who knows.

Might end up getting it once more sequence breaking tricks are discovered. Kinda spoiled with playing randomizers for the original releases of 1 and 2.

papercup posted...

I honestly don't know if there will be a trilogy release. Could be later this year we get a shadow drop for Prime 2, then Prime 3 next year but who knows.

Feels like they would, as a build up to Prime 4.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

as a build up to Prime 4.

I wonder if Prime 4 is turning out to be another DNF. It's now 2 other titles released while waiting for it.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

I wonder if Prime 4 is turning out to be another DNF. It's now 2 other titles released while waiting for it.

I recently played DNF... and weirdly the things that the original devs had were pretty good ideas, and the entire thing was actually BROUGHT DOWN by Gearbox touching it

ps2 graphics

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

I wonder if Prime 4 is turning out to be another DNF. It's now 2 other titles released while waiting for it.

I fully expect that Prime Remastered was a test run for whatever engine Retro has put together to use for Prime 4, both for the sake of getting some public feedback to it (which seems to have been overwhelmingly positive) and to get something out the door while they put 4 together. Recently, Nintendo's generally tended toward not announcing games until relatively close to their release dates (such as Xenoblade 3 being announced last February for a September release, which later got moved up to the end of July), so I could believe that they're just holding off on announcing 4 until it's mostly ready.

Wish they would remaster Prime 2 I liked that one way more than the original.

aHappySacka posted...

Wish they would remaster Prime 2 I liked that one way more than the original.

i'm sure they will... and Prime 2 has really grown on me as well

Game of the year so far.

Until May.....

Lokarin posted...

has really grown on me as well

I see what you did there.

Lobomoon posted...

I see what you did there.

I didn't :B

Explain my accidental clever

Lokarin posted...

I didn't :B

Explain my accidental clever

https://metroid.fandom.com/wiki/Metroid_Prime_(creature)

BigOlePappy posted...

I first read this as "Metroid Prime Minister".

lord palmerston

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

I wonder if Prime 4 is turning out to be another DNF. It's now 2 other titles released while waiting for it.

Nah. It's not the same team that did Dread, and I question how much time was really lost by Retro doing MP Remastered, if they did it all. Remember, Nintendo giving Prime 4 to Retro basically caused the game to go back to Square 1 (it should have been retro all.along)

Prime 4 is going to be a Switch 2 launch title.

McSame_as_Bush posted...

Prime 4 is going to be a Switch 2 launch title.

I could totally see this actually. The Switch really is in its twilight years. It's entering its 7th year, the hardware is really starting to show its age, I can totally see a successor being officially announced this year. Now if it would launch this year or next year who knows.

papercup posted...

hardware is really starting to show its age

Switch has been showing its age since pretty much release day. Granted there are some games that look great, but it is seriously time for an upgrade. I don't even care if they delay Prime 4 again so it can be on the next Nintendo console. If Prime remastered can look this good on the Switch I want something even better for a fully fledged new entry in the Prime series.

nintendos have always been aged technology, that's their model... 'innovation with withered technology'

McSame_as_Bush posted...

Prime 4 is going to be a Switch 2 launch title.

I kind of doubt that, actually. I'm guessing Retro developed their own engine to get Remastered looking as good as it does on the Switch, and that kind of optimization work likely can't simply be copied over onto a new system. I highly doubt they'd put in such effort just for a one-off remake, so odds are they made the engine for 4 and will therefore be releasing it on the Switch.

papercup posted...

I could totally see this actually. The Switch really is in its twilight years. It's entering its 7th year, the hardware is really starting to show its age, I can totally see a successor being officially announced this year. Now if it would launch this year or next year who knows.

still current gen

papercup posted...

I could totally see this actually. The Switch really is in its twilight years. It's entering its 7th year, the hardware is really starting to show its age, I can totally see a successor being officially announced this year. Now if it would launch this year or next year who knows.

"MP Remastered looks so goegeous, but the Switch is also showing it's age." Wut?

Considering there hasn't even been news of a Switch successor in development (although given the time it takes to develop new consoles, it certainly is), I could see maybe *news* of a successor in the works, maybe even details, around E3 this year. But even that may not happen. I made a topic a couple of weeks back here about how the Switch is (now) 6 years old, which is typically the end of any console's life cycle, but a ton of stuff is being developed for it still. It's close to becoming the best selling console of all time, so Nintendo probably felt self on letting it live longer. Tears of the Kingdom coming out with no new console announcement seems to support that.

It also just hit Year 6, so it's not going into it's 7th year. It came out March 2017.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

It also just hit Year 6, so it's not going into it's 7th year. It came out March 2017.

Technically, those are the same thing. It has existed for 6 years, meaning it is now in its 7th year of existence. It's a relatively unusual way of describing something's age (at least in American culture) that's clearly meant to make it seem as old as possible, but it's not actually inaccurate.

Lokarin posted...

nintendos have always been aged technology, that's their model... 'innovation with withered technology'

The GCN was the best of it's class, or at least, was graphically on par with the Xbox. They basically got away from that ideology after the GCN.

adjl posted...

Technically, those are the same thing. It has existed for 6 years, meaning it is now in its 7th year of existence. It's a relatively unusual way of describing something's age (at least in American culture) that's clearly meant to make it seem as old as possible, but it's not actually inaccurate.

It's a bit misleading, in this case. Technically not incorrect, but it's Day 3 into what will be leading to it's 7th full year, but one wouldn't nomrally describe it that way without an inherently negative slant.

adjl posted...

I kind of doubt that, actually. I'm guessing Retro developed their own engine to get Remastered looking as good as it does on the Switch, and that kind of optimization work likely can't simply be copied over onto a new system. I highly doubt they'd put in such effort just for a one-off remake, so odds are they made the engine for 4 and will therefore be releasing it on the Switch.

Three remakes.probably

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

It's a bit misleading, in this case. Technically not incorrect, but it's Day 3 into what will be leading to it's 7th full year, but one wouldn't nomrally describe it that way without an inherently negative slant.

Indeed not.

McSame_as_Bush posted...

Three remakes.probably

Honestly, not impossible, especially where the first one has been received so well.