Metroid Prime 3 - Do Mother Brains' Have PMS? - 9.5 From IGN!

I've got this game paid for. I'm getting it regardless. It's going to be awesome. It's likely to be the best in the series. I am just curious on how it will stack up to Bioshock.
 
2 completely diff games, by 2 completely different companies, i say its gonna rock the Wii just like how bioshock is rocking the 360
 
[quote name='Zen Davis']So you just don't like the hard part of hardcore caming?[/QUOTE]

I don't like any part of hardcore gaming. Very casual gamer. Don't like hard games, online gaming, multiplayer gaming in general etc.

Just like to waste a little time here or there on a game.

I used to be much more into games, but not nearly as much now due both to losing interest a bit and to having a lot less free time now that I'm pushing 30.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']I don't like any part of hardcore gaming. Very casual gamer. Don't like hard games, online gaming, multiplayer gaming in general etc.

Just like to waste a little time here or there on a game.

I used to be much more into games, but not nearly as much now due both to losing interest a bit and to having a lot less free time now that I'm pushing 30.[/quote]

So get Wii Fit and STFU. ;)
 
Same here a little. Im not to into online games because once you become the best it's very boring. I've played Elder Scrols 2 daggerfall. Counterstrike, Star Siege Tribes, Team Fortress, and Battlefield 1942. And I'm done with online shooters and certain other games unless it does something really new that's not just better graphics.

Part of the reason i'm very meh with huge parts of 360 and PS3's lineup. I'm more interested in Battalion Wars 2 for example because it will have a cool story of betrayal, murder, etc... like the first game in addition to online, unlike Warhawk.
 
[quote name='Tybee']So get Wii Fit and STFU. ;)[/QUOTE]

I hate those type of games too. :D

I pretty much only like platformers, the ocassional JRPG, the occasional FPS, and Zelda style games. Oh and Guitar Hero. :D

I more or less like the same types of games I always have, just don't have the same level of interest or free time as I did when I was younger.
 
Reading 1up's impressions and IGNs I am really thinking this game will be great. Here is my fave quote from IGN.
Right off the bat, you're going to notice several major differences between Metroid Prime 3: Corruption and its predecessors. The most immediately obvious are the graphical enhancements. Not only does Corruption run in both 480p and 16:9 widescreen (another first for the series), but it dishes out larger, more detailed environments, crisper textures, dramatically improved particle effects, depth of field blur, screen shakes, and what is easily the best utilization of bloom lighting in any Wii game to date. It may seem like a trivial inclusion to some -- games like Ico, for example, have developed visual styles that revolve around bloom lighting -- but developer Retro Studios has taken it to the next level. Environments, objects and particle effects alike are illuminated with a neon-like hue that fits exceptionally well within the game's science-fiction setting. Other visual additions are more pronounced. When bringing up Aran's scan-visor (activated by pressing the minus button on the Wii remote), you will now see the bounty hunter's face clearly reflected -- not just for a split second, as in previous titles, but permanently. That face may even show signs of change as you advance through the game.
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http://wii.ign.com/articles/814/814436p1.html
http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3162168
 
That graphical praise does sound promising! Though 1up was a bit less enthusiastic--though it was by Shane Bettenhausen.

Similarly, it's tough to stack Corruption's graphics against what you'll see in first-person games on other consoles. As expected, the same sublime artistry and cohesive aesthetic sensibility from the previous Prime titles return here, but at the same time, this looks awfully close to its GameCube forerunners. A few new blur effects and a rock-solid frame rate give it a negligible "next gen" sheen and crispness, but one look at the hyperdetailed, evocative visuals in BioShock will make the most ardent Wii-faithful envious. So, given the hardware's innate graphical limitations, Corruption generally makes the best of it and stays the course, delivering an eye-pleasing, imaginative quest through wild alien worlds. Likewise, the appropriately otherworldly soundtrack carries on the same moody Prime vibe we've all come to love, remixing classic themes and layering on the foreboding choruses.
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I wonder if Gamestop will get it Monday or Tuesday. I want to play now. I'll probably stop by Monday to see if they have my pre order.
 
I dunno, I think the visuals look fucking sweet. Maybe its a little jaggier but big effin' deal. You can't knock a game that is forced to have less graphical power because it's on the less powerful console.

I'd rather see stellar artistic design than stellar horsepower. Bioshock just happens to have both through the roof.
 
Shane plays up the sony fanboy thing for the show I think.

Remember he did play Twilight Princess and the Wii for like a month before even opening his PS3 once.

At least thats what they said on the show.
 
[quote name='spiwak']
I'd rather see stellar artistic design than stellar horsepower. Bioshock just happens to have both through the roof.[/QUOTE]

Your latter statement is why I always hate the former statement. Good art design and good technical graphics aren't mutually exclusive by nature.

We should all want the best of both worlds.

But I do agree that there's not much point in dwelling on it, as the Wii just doesn't have the horsepower. But it's hard not to think "damn I wish the Wii could make Metroid look as good as bioshock or Zelda as good as Oblivion etc."

But in the end of the day, the games are fun and that's most important. Just wish we could have had our cake and ate it too.
 
Im a PC gamer and have had those sentiments for years. And with PC games a lot of them look great but have almost no art direction of any real merit. Same has been true so far with 99% of 360 and PS3 games.

So usually it is mutually exclusive. A certain developer usually is a source of good art direction. Dennis Dyack from System Shock and now Bio Shock is one that has a history of it. Valve and of course Retro is another that is known for it. Zelda is also known for it of course.

Good graphics usually come from companies like Epic and ID and there games are usually just very pretty with almost no varying level designs and cool artistic designs. Crytek gives me hopes though with Crysis as I thought Far Cry on PC was an amazing looking game if way to centered around tropical islands. Crysis has been hinted at having levels that havent been shown yet that look really different from what has been shown so far so I have hopes another developer will be added to the list.
 
I have played for about a little over 3 hours now. Playing on Veteran at 16% complete. So far I have picked up these weapon's/upgrades

First one is the grapple shot. To use it you lock onto your target which will be glowing yellow then flick the nunchuck forward, when it latches onto something you yank the nunchuck back. It came be used to take off shields from enemies and also works into puzzles.

Second one was the Ice missiles. They replace the regular missile by default. They pretty much work like they would, shot and it freezes.

Third being one upgrade for the hook which is the grappling which like the ice missiles works they way you would think.

The last one I got was an missile for the ship. You change the HUD and then point to where you would like the ship to shoot, the area you shoot is predetermined, or it was for the first time I used it.

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The hyper mode is pretty bitchin'. You hold down the + to activate it. When you do the whole HUD turns blue and white, while in hyper mode you deal out massive damage but the down side is that when you use hyper mode it takes away energy from your life. Charging the shot lets you do a beam shot that reminds me of the wave beam from MP 1 although it comes out of your arm like a flame thrower.

The levels aren't tried together like in MP 1, you must travel to different parts of the planet using Samus ship. It kinda sucks but who knows it could be cool I guess.

So far I'd say it's going to be worth the purchase to anyone who liked MP. The controls take time but after awhile it's like butter.

I'll be posting more as I get farther.
 
Further explanation of MP3's "achievement" system from IGN:

Metroid Prime 3 features a very welcomed rewards system that some have compared to achievements on Xbox Live. As you progress through the game, you earn Samus medals for accomplishing various goals, from 500 kills to beating certain enemies and scanning items. There are differently colored medals for your various successes, and you can use combos of these achievements to buy special unlockable extras -- concept art, music, storyboards, stickers and bobbleheads, and even a screenshot tool that enables you to (by pressing up on the D-Pad) snap in-game photos and send them to friends over WiiConnect24. The game also uses WiiConnect24 to let you trade friend vouchers with players you've already added to your Wii system address book. Friend vouchers can be converted into friend credits, which are also utilized -- in combination with the other medals -- to unlock the extras. Indeed, the best extras can only be purchased if you trade friend vouchers with your buddies. For the purposes of our hands-on update (and eventually our review), we traded vouchers with our friends at GameSpy, and then we converted those vouchers into friend credits to buy, for example, the screenshot tool.
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Sounds cool indeed.

But bobbleheads? WTF?
 
See, here's the problem.

... it's tough to stack Corruption's graphics against what you'll see in first-person games on other consoles.
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No shit, Sherlock ... er ... Shane. That this still comes up tells me how little some in the "mainstream gaming press" get it. Christ, it's like hanging out with those people who feel obliged to tell you wrestling is fake. Really? Thanks for the newsflash, Einstein. That's not the point. Why isn't every handheld game review littered with the same kind of comment? "Gee, Untold Legends on the PSP doesn't really look so hot compared to Untold Legends on the PS3."
 
I actually kinda liked Shane's 1up preview, not because he's a good writer (which he isn't especially), but because he had the same misgivings as I from the first hour and he claims that it gets a lot better.

IGN said the same thing, where at first all the editors but one liked the old-school automated lock-on, but after giving it more time, everyone decided the new control scheme was better. It just takes some getting used to. That's basically how I felt where I didn't care for the new controls at first, but I have to say that I got more and more used to them with every minute I played, and the fact that others have had the same problems initially as I means that I'll most likely adapt and learn to love the new controls too.

Both critics also mentioned that the game has a ton of puzzles and amazing new environments, and that the game doesn't really start proper until you reach the first planet. So while I was rather disappointed by my hour playthrough, I am now superhyped all over again as it sounds like the full game just keeps on getting better and better.
 
You should really use your descriptions of where things are in the topic title as post numbers, not pages. Some people have different posts per page.
 
So does anyone know if this game will be available for pickup at Gamestop on Tuesday, or is that just the shipping date?
 
[quote name='ihadFG']So does anyone know if this game will be available for pickup at Gamestop on Tuesday, or is that just the shipping date?[/quote]available for pickup
 
Guess I'll go the "buy at Circuit City, return liongames copy to circuit city" route like I did with Bioshock. :)

omfg:
--MP3
--Puzzle Fighter (360)
--Tekken online
--Warhawk

It's a good week to own all 3 systems! though I'll probably hold off on Warhawk.
 
[quote name='ihadFG']So does anyone know if this game will be available for pickup at Gamestop on Tuesday, or is that just the shipping date?[/QUOTE]

The shipping date is Monday, so they should have it by Tuesday.
 
[quote name='Apossum']Guess I'll go the "buy at Circuit City, return liongames copy to circuit city" route like I did with Bioshock. :)

omfg:
--MP3
--Puzzle Fighter (360)
--Tekken online
--Warhawk

It's a good week to own all 3 systems! though I'll probably hold off on Warhawk.[/quote]

Throw in Blue Dragon and possibly one or two more games and you have my week next week. I hope I can finish Bioshock tomorrow before I get all those games.
 
[quote name='Scrubking']



I'm going to wait for a lot of reviews on this one. They haven't done a good job translating Metroid into 3D (maybe it can't be).[/QUOTE]
You must be a total retard or something. How can you say that they didn't do a good job with translating the game to 3-D? What planet are you playing this on? Metroid Prime and Echoes were excellent translations.
 
[quote name='ricoraney']You must be a total retard or something. How can you say that they didn't do a good job with translating the game to 3-D? What planet are you playing this on? Metroid Prime and Echoes were excellent translations.[/quote]

Don't insult people. Not cool.
 
IGN gives it a 9.5. I don't always agree with Matt C, but his reasons why it's the best Prime (and Wii) game to date seem valid. Being able to warp between most save points via your ship sounds like a masterstroke, so the fact that it's the same length as the other Primes means that it's actually a bigger game, but better paced. Despite my disappointing first impression, I really can't wait for this game. Tues can't come soon enough.
 
Running a 95 average at Metacritic with just 4 reviews in. Hopefully it won't change much from there as more reviews come in.

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/wii/metroidprime3corruption

Lowest is a 90, balanced out by the 100 from Nintendo Power ;). If this keeps up MP3 may challenge Bioshock (which pulled a 97 average over a whopping 42 reviews) for the best reviewed game of the year.

In any case, it looks like any lingering doubts should be dispelled (I didn't have any after reading the more recent previews but I know others did). I can't wait till Tuesday.
 
Wow, 9.5 from IGN, 9.0 from 1UP. And this game's not in HD, right??? ;)

I'm downloading IGN's and GT's video reviews right now. Gonna watch those and then play some Bioshock and forget that school starts tomorrow ;)
 
Is there a decent video or text compilation of "Our story thus far" for the Prime games? I've never played them and wouldn't mind a mild bringing-up-to speed before playing Prime 3. The retrospective did a good job, just wondering if there was something else. Or if Samus = Phazon is about all you need.
 
[quote name='daroga']Is there a decent video or text compilation of "Our story thus far" for the Prime games? I've never played them and wouldn't mind a mild bringing-up-to speed before playing Prime 3. The retrospective did a good job, just wondering if there was something else. Or if Samus = Phazon is about all you need.[/QUOTE]

Just you play that there game, son. Make no fuss!
 
[quote name='daroga']Is there a decent video or text compilation of "Our story thus far" for the Prime games? I've never played them and wouldn't mind a mild bringing-up-to speed before playing Prime 3. The retrospective did a good job, just wondering if there was something else. Or if Samus = Phazon is about all you need.[/quote]
Here's my simple understanding from playing the games (I'll put a spoiler for the hell of it):

First prime - Samus goes to the planet because of the space pirates going there for phazon or some shit. The space pirates of course are always doing their metroid experiments and somehow this huge metroid prime grows out of control and you fight it at the end of the game. As it dies it lands on samus and phazon pours out all over samus and she loses her phazon suit and runs off. As the game ends you see a samus clone of some sort (later becoming dark samus) emerging from the dead metroid prime/phazon pool.

Echoes - Space pirates have gone to planet Aether because of phazon (duh). Apparently a phazon meteorite hit the planet and in doing so split it into dark and light Aether and the dark creatures killed all of the luminoth. Samus goes there because of the federation, which had sent marines there who were all killed. Samus is told by the last remaining luminoth (and the holograms of dead ones) that she has to restore the energy of the planet to the light so that it becomes stable and dark Aether is sealed away. While doing this dark samus shows up and starts fucking with the space pirates, dark creatures, samus, whatever, so that she can get some phazon to stay alive. At the end you seal off dark Aether and as the game ends you see that the particles of dark samus remain in space and she isn't really dead.

I didn't read the retrospective so that could be repetition of it, and I could be wrong on some points, but that's a quick and dirty explanation by me.
 
[quote name='io']Running a 95 average at Metacritic with just 4 reviews in. Hopefully it won't change much from there as more reviews come in.

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/wii/metroidprime3corruption

Lowest is a 90, balanced out by the 100 from Nintendo Power ;). If this keeps up MP3 may challenge Bioshock (which pulled a 97 average over a whopping 42 reviews) for the best reviewed game of the year.

In any case, it looks like any lingering doubts should be dispelled (I didn't have any after reading the more recent previews but I know others did). I can't wait till Tuesday.[/quote]
It could, but I doubt it will be challenging it in any Game of the Year competitions (I mean it will be, but I feel pretty certain Bioshock will be harvesting awards this year). The fact the Wii is less powerful will always set it back.
 
Wow. IGN's review makes me want this game right now. Unfortunately, I've gotta wait till the end of the week... sigh. Well anyway, as a person who really likes good music in games, I was happy about this:

The musical score by Kenji Yamamoto fits the atmosphere very well. It's more grandiose than it's been in previous Prime titles and yet there are some throwbacks that fans will like. For instance, when Samus enters a beautiful snow-filled scene, a remix of the song that originally played at the Phendrana Drifts chimes in the background.
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Especially because Phendrana Drifts was my favorite part of the Metroid Prime serise.
 
I can't think of the last time a game released in August won GOTY. Usually, GOTY comes out in November or December.

Bioshock is overrated, mainly due to it's hype. It's not a 10, or even 9.5. In my eyes, it barely got a 9 because of some shakey controls and questionable graphical areas.

Back to Prime 3. If people say this is overrated due to its' hype, then those people are obviously deaf. Because this game has gotten no hype, and the review scores are probably a merit of that to some extent.
 
[quote name='SpazX']This game will be so awesome. I really wish school started a month or so later...[/quote]

me too...damn school!

[quote name='javeryh']Grr... I have to wait until my birthday for this one - wife's orders.[/quote]
show her that commercial with all the different types of people playing metroid 3... she'll jump into it herself
 
[quote name='KingBroly']I can't think of the last time a game released in August won GOTY. Usually, GOTY comes out in November or December.

Bioshock is overrated, mainly due to it's hype. It's not a 10, or even 9.5. In my eyes, it barely got a 9 because of some shakey controls and questionable graphical areas.

Back to Prime 3. If people say this is overrated due to its' hype, then those people are obviously deaf. Because this game has gotten no hype, and the review scores are probably a merit of that to some extent.[/QUOTE]
Wha...? Prime 3 has gottne no hype? Compared to what, Barbie's Horse Adventures? This has been THE game getting hype for the Wii since it was announced--only eclipsed by Zelda. Heck, it gets more hype than Mario Galaxy has. MP3 is hardly flying under the radar.
 
[quote name='lebowsky']Daroga, no early pick up from Wal-Mart? ;)

Can't wait to pick this up tomorrow from Best Buy.[/quote]Yeah, I've got no time to play it tonight and I'll end up buying it at Best Buy anyway ($5 coupon from the whole Rock Band incident and I've got a gift card anyway), so I'll just wait on this one for a few hours ;)

And Bioshock is overrated? Really? The game's pretty awesome in my book.
 
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