Metroid Prime Trilogy Being Updated For the Wii, Due In August 50
On Friday, Nintendo revealed that the three Metroid Prime games will be re-released on a single disc this August for the Wii. The first two, originally developed for the Gamecube, will be updated so players can "use their Wii Remote to aim with precision." 1Up had this to say of their hands-on preview: "... The heads-up display and on-screen interface elements have been completely overhauled to work more effectively with the standard Wii control setup of remote and nunchuck; swapping visors is a quick point-and-click command, and toggling weapons is similarly easy. Although the control interface isn't perfect — pressing down on the D-pad to fire missiles still grates — it makes the GameCube titles feel much faster and more fluid overall."
Nintendo has perfected the art... (Score:5, Funny)
... of making me buy the same shit over and over again. How do they do it? Damn you, Nintendo!
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Unlike the RIAA and MPAA, they actually update the products when they do it.
3. Profit
It's not that bad. (Score:2, Insightful)
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Then release two versions of each title, a red and blue version. The red version has half of the enemies, and the blue one has the rest.
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The worst bit of it, is they make me think I ENJOY buying the same games over and over! How many times have I bought Super Mario Bros? NES, SNES, GBC, GBA, Wii (actually, twice on the Wii, since I have two).
I'm still not sure how they've managed to get me to buy the same game around five times, and enjoy it and look forward to more (SMB DS!). This feels like an abusive relationship. :(
Wii Hardware (Score:5, Interesting)
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Just switch to ogg, I've found its playback to be much much smoother.
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Just switch to ogg, I've found its playback to be much much smoother.
Informative? Can we say "WOOOSH!" to a moderator?
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Re:Wii Hardware (Score:4, Informative)
True (I think), however, it wouldn't even matter for MP, because the Motion Plus is an augmentation to the accelerometer, and MP really only makes use of the light gun. Motion plus will be great for finally getting that light saber duel game (if it were to ever happen), but it won't have any effect on things like Metroid Prime.
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In my opinion, the Wii remote loses only to the mouse and keyboard in FPS games. However, I agree that it's sluggish. For example, I started having problems towards the end of Mario Galaxy, because I had until then almost completely avoided using the spin attack due to timing issues. I really didn't know how to use it well by the time I needed it, like in the Luigi platform level.
The remote needs more buttons, really badly. The motion controls should NEVER be used when a button could do the same job.
The
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Really? I never had any problems what so ever. What kind if timing issues were you having?
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I kept running into enemies because the spin would either activate too early or too late. Mario games usually have such tight controls that I went into situations where timing was too critical for shaking the remote.
I admit that it's probably 50% my fault for not having a consistent shake that would trigger the effect the same moment every time. However, I also don't think that any such lag is acceptable, and would rather press a button.
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Maybe lag isn't the correct word. More like I had trouble timing the shake of my hand correctly vs. timing the press of a button. Even if it's my own fault, I still think a button would be better :)
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The game also has a high sensitivity mode, which according to general consensus in gaming forums, that beats the crap out of joystick controls in terms of response.
Have you tried the advanced control settings?
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that beats the crap out of joystick controls in terms of response.
Not really. Have you ever tried to hit anything on that setting without lock-on? Its near impossible because you constantly oversteer. Its not a problem for MP3 since you lock on all the time, but as a general FPS mechanics it doesn't really work. There is also the problem that you will get into a crazy spin each and every time you have a dialog with an NPC, as pointing to the center of the screen is not easy when you don't have any feedback from the interface.
So as a general dual-analogstick replacement I
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Me, having played PC FPS I find the Wii remote easier to use and master than dual analogs. I find that dual analogs suffer of understeering, 180 turns are pain to do. But I don't hate dual analogs, they have some great things like higher precision, which is r
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It's METROID. Why would you even WANT to play that online? The only Metroid with online play was Hunters and AFAIK everybody hates that. Yeah, MP2 has multiplayer but it's pretty much a joke or a demonstration that people should stop whining about the lack of multiplayer in Metroid. If you need online play go grab Onslaught or something.
Before people start yelling "make new shit"... (Score:4, Interesting)
There are two different companies involved here: Nintendo and Retro Studios. I've only heard mention of Nintendo, so it doesn't sound like Retro is involved in any part of this. From what I've heard, Retro will likely be unveiling their own large title at E3, possibly a new Metroid (come on Metroid 5). They've been saying that they were going to do this, now, for about a year, and its already been released in Japan (which is weird since Metroid is their one big franchise that's more popular in the states), so it's not like they're taking precious development time away from other things.
Honestly, Metroid Prime 1 is one of my very favorite games, and it will be wonderful to see it in 16:9 with bloom lighting.
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Metroid Prime on the Gamecube already supported progressive scan if you have the component cables (either for the GCN or Wii). Simply wonderful. I hope they improve the graphics just incrementally on what was one of the best looking games of the generation, too. Too bad hardly anyone ever used the graphics processor to its full potential.
Of course, the fact it is one of the best adventures of all time helps.
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They've been saying that they were going to do this, now, for about a year, and its already been released in Japan
I'm not seeing any Metroid game [wikipedia.org] that's been released in Japan but not North America.
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Poor Retro Studios. Making the same game over and over. They got MP1 right, but the mistake was to bring little new to the table. Further, If Nintendo had marketed MP1 right, I'm pretty certain it would have actually sold (more than the abysmal 200,000 units).
"Bugs" fixed (Score:3, Insightful)
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The games will most probably have all of the great tricks fixed that made Prime such an amazing game. Dash jumping, triple bomb jump, rapid fire missiles, and so on. It was great to take the game engine to its limits without technically cheating. Not only that, Prime1/2 had an amazing control scheme, 3 just used the wii remote as a gimmick IMO. For info check. http://www.metroid2002.com/home.php [metroid2002.com]
Assuming that the US release of the "New Play Control" Metroid Prime is going to be mostly the same as the Japanese release that has been out for a while (and is easily playable in English by people with homebrew enabled Wii's [thepiratebay.org]) all of those things are still there.
I agree that the controls on the GC versions of Metroid were great, but they were the only first person perspective games on a console I could stand to play, and that was probably only *because* they were Metroid games.
The infrared aiming done
arg why cant square enix do this?! (Score:1)
nintendo keeps doing this and makes a profit. squareenix doesn't. I don't like the bs excuse that they wouldn't like making money over a successful game twice whether.
It pisses me off, its also why im not getting a ps3
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Yeah, because they aren't currently working through their NES/SNES catalog with the DS remakes, right? FF7 will be remade within a few years, I bet. And then remade again in a few years after that.
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The difference is that Metroid Prime only needs some small changes to the input code for this update, FF7 would need a redo from the ground up to be presentable on the PS3. They're already running way over budget on FF13 and I don't think a complete FF7 remake would be any cheaper to do.
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"...still grates." What does this mean? (Score:1)
Would I be breaking the law....? (Score:1)
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But maybe he could 'aim' into the camera. (I think he was trying to reply to http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/22/1714245 [slashdot.org])