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

[quote name='CouRageouS']Anyone else have their RE4 instincts kick in? When a pirate is jumping at me, I have the urge to swing the control to knife them. Samus needs a knife.[/quote]

Samus is too badass for a knife, she should just have a melee punch to the face that's a one-hit kill. Maybe like a Phazon-punch or something. Walk up to a pirate and crack em in the jaw and they fly across the room dead. Nobody fucks with Samus.
 
[quote name='SpazX']Samus is too badass for a knife, she should just have a melee punch to the face that's a one-hit kill. Maybe like a Phazon-punch or something. Walk up to a pirate and crack em in the jaw and they fly across the room dead. Nobody fucks with Samus.[/QUOTE]
I dunno, it would be sweet motion control action to grapple lasso an enemy towards you with the left then swing with the right and slice'em with one of these ;)
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[quote name='CouRageouS']I dunno, it would be sweet motion control action to grapple lasso an enemy towards you with the left then swing with the right and slice'em with one of these ;)
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When one entire arm is essentially a giant canon, trying to hold a melee weapon isn't exactly practical. ;)

Speaking of which: If Mega Man and Samus had a kid, would he have two canons for arms?
 
[quote name='CouRageouS']The arm transforms! It could turn into something sharp! Maybe she can stab them with a missle tip![/quote]

Now let's stop and think for a second why that might be a bad idea. :whistle2:k
 
[quote name='CouRageouS']If life has taught me anything, its all good if its just the tip. :joystick:[/quote]

Yeah, and life has taught ME that, in both cases, that missile's live, son.
 
Help. Skytown.

Okay. I just found out about the spaceship. Went and explored it and found that I needed more energy cells. Went back to Skytown and the AU tells me to get three pieces to make a bomb. What do I do?
 
[quote name='whoknows']Anyone beat it yet?

What happens at the end? :p[/quote]

Samus has been under the control of the control of Dark Samus the entire time. All Samus can manage to do is destroy the physical shell of Dark Samus and so the spirit of the Dark Samus inhibits the AU unit and becomes Mother Brain. Samus then dies and is reincarnated as a baby.
 
[quote name='Zen Davis']Help. Skytown.

Okay. I just found out about the spaceship. Went and explored it and found that I needed more energy cells. Went back to Skytown and the AU tells me to get three pieces to make a bomb. What do I do?
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The Valhalla is either an endgame or an optional area; I'm not far enough to know exactly what it's used for, but I know you unlock more areas using the energy cells you get occasionally from the planets. You also get some more missle/energy tank pickups as you go.

Don't worry about the Valhalla for now. Just focus on getting the 3 pieces in Skytown. Then go fuck up the Leviathan seed. :)
 
[quote name='Zen Davis']
Samus has been under the control of the control of Dark Samus the entire time. All Samus can manage to do is destroy the physical shell of Dark Samus and so the spirit of the Dark Samus inhibits the AU unit and becomes Mother Brain. Samus then dies and is reincarnated as a baby.
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Now that's awesome.
 
[quote name='Callandor']
The Valhalla is either an endgame or an optional area; I'm not far enough to know exactly what it's used for, but I know you unlock more areas using the energy cells you get occasionally from the planets. You also get some more missle/energy tank pickups as you go.

Don't worry about the Valhalla for now. Just focus on getting the 3 pieces in Skytown. Then go fuck up the Leviathan seed. :)
[/quote]
Which of the three piece do I go to first?
 
Alright, I've added Courageous, Rodimus Donut, apossum, SpazX, Chacrana, and Tybee. Remember if you have me on your list, delete me and readd me as I have a new system as of the end of May.
 
Attention people adding me:

I haven't had a chance to play it yet. On top of that, I will not be near online tonight. Tomorrow I will be adding people in the afternoon. If you have added me, just drop me a PM. Courageous is the only one I know of atm.

Thank you and happy hunting.
 
Any one want to trade friend vouchers. I have around ten I think. Just add me as a friend and pm me and I will send some your way. Of course I expect the same in return. ;)

Wii Code:

8866 4536 2621 1857
 
[quote name='Chacrana']Soo... how do you add friends and stuff? Do I actually need the game in order to do that?[/quote]I tjust uses the system code for the Wii and that Friend List.
 
Maybe someone should make a seperate thread for friend vouchers? Any discussion of playing the game is getting drowned out by all the voucher posts.
 
[quote name='Zen Davis']
Which of the three piece do I go to first?
[/QUOTE]
The piece that was closest to you is the first one you'll go after. However, you have to search around for a bit for the right passageway; you'll pass "under" the object a few times and eventually you'll get to the top part of that room. There will be a Berserker Lord fight in that room; you can get the first piece after that.

Then it all starts to fall together. You have to get the pieces in order. You'll pick up the seeker missiles before all this, if I remember correctly.
 
Man, I have no idea how to add Wii friends or how to check to see if somebody has sent a friends request. Now, I'm not stupid. Or even close (well, usually.) But this confuses the shit outta me.
 
Oh man, that battle with
Mother
Brain was amazing.

No, I'm kidding, but seriously,
Does anyone else think the hunt for energy cells was a pointless addition to the game?
 
[quote name='Chacrana']Man, I have no idea how to add Wii friends or how to check to see if somebody has sent a friends request. Now, I'm not stupid. Or even close (well, usually.) But this confuses the shit outta me.[/QUOTE]
No, the address book is a bit more difficult than (I think) it should be.

From the Wii Code Thread: http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=115788
Finding Your Wii Code
Quote:
It's a bit hidden. Go to your Mail (lower right envelope icon from Wii Menu), from there select the Letter/Memo icon in the lower left corner. You should have 3 options now, one of which is the Address Book...
Click to expand...

Once you add people (and they add you) and if you keep WiiConnect24 on, your address book will update sometime while the machine is off. MP3 uses all the friends you have added and if any of them have MP3 save data, they'll show up under the Extras menu from the main page of the game...
 
[quote name='FallMoon']Oh man, that battle with
Mother
Brain was amazing.

No, I'm kidding, but seriously,
Does anyone else think the hunt for energy cells was a pointless addition to the game?
[/QUOTE]
Actually, I'm almost done with that as it is, and I only have to hunt for two of the 9. 6 I came across during my normal play, and 1 is right outside the front door of the Valhalla. And considering one of my favorite things to do in a Metroid game is hunt down every upgrade, the energy cell hunt just gets added on to my expansions hunt.

But, fuck, that one on Bryyo where you had to get the statues head, then put it on the statues and have it smash open the debris, then open the secret passage from one side, then fly over to a different section, then go pick up the giant Federation battery, then open up and go through the OTHER side of the passage, then go drop the battery on a device, then finally get the energy cell? That sucked. I have never been that confused on how to approach a puzzle in a Prime game before.

Now, off to get the "storage" cell in Skytown and a few more powerups, then it's off to the end of the game!
 
[quote name='Callandor']
Actually, I'm almost done with that as it is, and I only have to hunt for two of the 9. 6 I came across during my normal play, and 1 is right outside the front door of the Valhalla. And considering one of my favorite things to do in a Metroid game is hunt down every upgrade, the energy cell hunt just gets added on to my expansions hunt.

But, fuck, that one on Bryyo where you had to get the statues head, then put it on the statues and have it smash open the debris, then open the secret passage from one side, then fly over to a different section, then go pick up the giant Federation battery, then open up and go through the OTHER side of the passage, then go drop the battery on a device, then finally get the energy cell? That sucked. I have never been that confused on how to approach a puzzle in a Prime game before.

Now, off to get the "storage" cell in Skytown and a few more powerups, then it's off to the end of the game!
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Thanks a lot! That's the one I've been having trouble with. Where are the
statue's head and giant federation battery
?
 
[quote name='FallMoon']Thanks a lot! That's the one I've been having trouble with. Where are the
statue's head and giant federation battery
?[/QUOTE]

Ah, hell, here's the whole process for you. But I want a fucking friend voucher for this. ;)

There is a room past the place where you got the missiles for the ship, behind that orange door, where there are three statues, each activated differently. Activate the one up top (the ice missile one) to freeze the gel waterfall. Go up past the waterfall, and go through the morph ball areas. You'll end up back in the "hidden" room where you will shoot open a new platform that lets you reach the orange-door on the top. That will lead to the statue's head. Have the ship pick it up.

Go back to the room with the three statues, activate the "heat" statue. That leads to a room with two objects that can be destroyed by a "heavy impact". Look for the statue behind the ship missile expansion, drop the head on it, and it will break both objects open. Go through the passage, and you'll see that underground connection pathway I was talking about. Open it on that end (and grab the energy tank between the wall jump area) and notice that you can't yet reach the other side. Go back to your ship, and fly to the area in the lower left (not the main or fuel gel area, the other one).

Go back to the second pirate turret you destroyed earlier (the one through the "left door", if you will). The federation battery is there. Have the ship pick it up. There is a passage right under that battery. It leads to the other side of the underground pathway. Open that end, and go though the now fully-open path, back to the area where you finished the statue. Head back to the "hidden" place, drop the battery next to the gigantic federation mining tower, and you'll see how to FINALLY get the energy cell.

There you go. For anyone else reading this, if you want to save yourself a ton of frustration at the scavenger hunt near the end of the game, see the above spoiler. :) This one alone is nearly worse than the fucking sky temple keys from Echoes! The others have been easy so far, but this...
 
I picked this up on Wednesday night and had to take a break from it last night, but I had a vacation day today, playing most of the afternoon and now I'm trying to wrap up Bryyo (I think I'm almost done).

So far an awesome game! I was wondering how they'd pull of the controls and I picked up on advanced almost immediately with no issues (I think CoD3 for the Wii helped me with that). I thought I'd hate other people in the game (Metroid's been about isolation on alien planets for the last 20 years, after all), but the voice acting and the little bit of the story make it work really well.

I'm down to trade vouchers (PM'd a few people already), so if you'd like to trade with me, just PM me and I'll add you and trade you back.

Thanks!
 
Although I am liking the game, I'm a little pissed that, despite turning off hints, the game still kinda holds your hand about where you need to go next. I enjoyed walking around like a buffoon in the first two games.

That's probably my biggest gripe so far, with the other being the missile upgrades and health upgrades seem to be in way too obvious places. I remember having to scour the terrain for them in the previous games, not come across them naturally through the course of play.

Also, for those wanting to be a snobby purist about some of the changes, you can turn off the "achievement" notifications in the options menu.

So, my setup is advanced control scheme, veteran mode, hints off, achievement notification off. I'm a jerk.

All snootiness aside, I'm really liking the game. The graphics blow away any Wii game out there. Just got the
plasma beam
. Ready to tear it up some more!
 
[quote name='Scorch']I rented it.[/quote]
me too... i'm glad i did too. if i would have bought the game, it would have been a waste of 50 bucks... or so it seems thus far.

I played an hour of Metroid and had to stop playing because I felt dizzy and like I had to throw up for some reason. i went on the computer afterwards, and what do you know, after 5 minutes i felt fine.

I decided to get off the computer after 30 min to go shoot some hoops for an hour. Feeling like a million bucks, I decided to give Metroid another try, and yet again I felt sick after about like 10 minutes in this time. I closed my eyes for about a few minutes and switched to Mario Strikers Charged and played for over an hour and felt fine.

I'm not sure what it is about Metroid that's making me sick, but I'll give it one last try again tommorow evening. If i feel sick again I have to label this game worse than WiiPlay or Pokemon Battle Revolution.
 
You get motion sickness from a game, so you instantly decide it's terrible?

That is some horrid logic.

Shit. I shouldn't do you the favor of calling whatever it is you use to think logic.
 
[quote name='WiiGame']me too... i'm glad i did too. if i would have bought the game, it would have been a waste of 50 bucks... or so it seems thus far.

I played an hour of Metroid and had to stop playing because I felt dizzy and like I had to throw up for some reason. i went on the computer afterwards, and what do you know, after 5 minutes i felt fine.

I decided to get off the computer after 30 min to go shoot some hoops for an hour. Feeling like a million bucks, I decided to give Metroid another try, and yet again I felt sick after about like 10 minutes in this time. I closed my eyes for about a few minutes and switched to Mario Strikers Charged and played for over an hour and felt fine.

I'm not sure what it is about Metroid that's making me sick, but I'll give it one last try again tommorow evening. If i feel sick again I have to label this game worse than WiiPlay or Pokemon Battle Revolution.[/QUOTE]

That's strange. Wonder what would cause that, especially if other fast paced games don't cause problems. Do you have any type of phobia that the game is triggering? Just an off the wall idea. If it continues then I would return it or trade it in quick while it still has value.
 
[quote name='Strell']You get motion sickness from a game, so you instantly decide it's terrible?

That is some horrid logic.

Shit. I shouldn't do you the favor of calling whatever it is you use to think logic.[/quote]

LoL... obviously it would be my personal opinion, not a worldwide fact.


Anyways, this is the first time I felt sick playing a game in my whole life. Metroid isn't even a fast past game so its wierd.

And I played Mario Strikers Charged afterwards and felt fine. So its odd that I only felt sick playing Metroid.
 
You know, it's weird, but this is the first game I've ever played in 20 years that makes me feel sick too. It's not like I haven't played the hell out of every major FPS back from Wolfenstein 3D, but this is the ONLY one gives me a major headache and a queasy stomach every time I play. I wonder if it's the weird slow spinning with the remote... Elebits didn't make me feel this way, so I dunno.
 
Mark me down for the crazy motion sickness as well. However, now I go everywhere in morphball mode and it's gotten better. :)
 
First person shooters + 60 fps = dizziness for some people. My ex-girlfriend was like that. She could not stand to watch me play any first person shooters.


BTW: Thanks to everyone who PMed me. I sent messages and friend vouchers in return.
 
[quote name='Callandor']So, has anyone else beaten it yet? :D[/QUOTE]
No where close...

My MP skills are rusty as I keep getting my head handed to me on Bryyo. I think I'm being too stingy about hyper mode...
 
lanzarlaluna: Oh, if you REALLY wanna know how handholding they made this Metroid, then read this:
The holographic machine in Skytown can be used to add icons for all the upgrades for the 4 planets on your map. Yup, for everything except the Valhalla, they'll tell you approx. where the pickups are on the map and in the rooms.
 
[quote name='Callandor']lanzarlaluna: Oh, if you REALLY wanna know how handholding they made this Metroid, then read this:
The holographic machine in Skytown can be used to add icons for all the upgrades for the 4 planets on your map. Yup, for everything except the Valhalla, they'll tell you approx. where the pickups are on the map and in the rooms.
[/quote]
Hell yeah, I got that shit too, man did it make running around pointlessly less necessary. I've still spent 13 and a half hours so far and I've collected everything on those 3 planets, but have 27 pickups left.

It also dled data for
Tallon IV and Aether
but I dunno wtf that added to the logbook. The whole thing isn't really necessary though after getting
x-ray visor
and since I scan like crazy, but it made it take a lot less time since I could see about where I needed to be looking.

And as for motion sickness, I have pretty weird motion sickness (I can't read or play video games while riding in a car or I'll get queasy), but I've never had a problem with any video game at home.
 
HUGE SPOILER, involves last boss!
That last boss was AMAZING. Did anyone else think its shell was going to break, or that when Dark Samus absorbed the Aurora Unit, she would transform into something else?
 
I just got home from the bar tonight and I'm totally going to play an hour or two before bed. I love coming home and my Wii light is flashing. I'll add everyone who added me and PMed for adds in a sec.

Everyone on my Friendlist should expect pictures from me, I was randomly sending out screenshots and telling people to don't have the game to buy it hahah.
 
Just read that now Metroid Prime 3 is out Retro Studios will take a break from Metroid and develop something new for the Wii.
 
I just finished Bryyo, I tend to take these games pretty slow. I am enjoying it though. I haven't felt dizzy or sick at all, though I dont play for hours on end. The max I sit and play at a time is maybe one, one and a half hours.
 
Yeah MP can make me a bit sick. I think the 60 fps and smoothness doesn't help, but it also has a narrow FoV which I think is the culprit.

I learned back in the 1st MP to look at the game like a movie and to accept that it's a bit claustrophobic instead of fighting it or picturing myself in the game if that makes any sense. And I just got used to it so it doesn't bug much now.

Oh it also doesn't help that it has all those bright explosions and lasers and bright colors.

HL2 and MoH on the pc were games that also made me a bit sick.
 
[quote name='trip1eX']HL2 and MoH on the pc were games that also made me a bit sick.[/quote]

Half-Life 2 kills me. I have headaches that last the rest of the day after an hour playing session.
 
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