11th May 2006, 3:21 PM
yeah! i'm hoping for new uses too, the whole 'beam that can shoot through wallls' sounds very... VERY familiar to me :D *COUGHFARSIGHTCOUGH* and used in conjunction with the x-ray visor should allow for crazy gameplay, hopefully it's in the multiplayer too..... hopefully it HAS multiplayer :D
I'd like to see enemies that are invincible and you have to use the x-ray visor to lock on to their vital organs and what not (sorta like the fuckers in RE4), a toned down version of OP basically. i'm willing to bet that this time around, the x-ray visor will show you alot more things, like skeletons of enemies (instead of just Aran's hands :D) and the insides of electronics.
The demo didnt get in to beam switching at all, but i hope it's more than just the d-pad to switch beams. in fact, looking at the screen, it doesnt look like you switch weapons. It may be the Super Metroid style of actually upgrading one beam to uberdome. I hope that's the case.
My theory right now for corruption's main plot is that Prime has become particles, practically invisible and no longer a single entity. It's traveling as phazon and infecting creatures in a very simmilar way to how the X infected things. Instead of needing to mutate a creature over time, Prime can instantly corrupt a creature in to what it needs. i think that's what the weird pirate was in the demo, but time will tell. In the meantime, because of what happened on Aether, the pirates believe that Samus is the one who stole phazon and completely destroyed their base of operation on two planets, which is half true :D The pirates have declared war on the federation and samus aran, this 'multi-world war' means a few things:
1.) We may travel to Zebes, SR388, Aether and Tallon 4 again (Aether being the last location of prime, tallon being its birth place and home to the meteor that started the flow of orange phazon and created prime)
2.) this is the final battle with Prime and the destructon of all phazon (has to be, which means a return to tallon and aether)
3.) This will be the lead in to Metroid 2: Return of Samus which is either going to be released with zero mission style graphics or handled as the 4th Metroid Prime game (Metroid Dread?)
We know that the time line between Metroid 2 and Metroid 3 is fairly quick, so i donnt expect to see another trilogy between those timelines. But between Metroid 3 and 4 (fusion) is probably where the next trilogy for the Prime series will take place.
It could very well be that Prime 3 will contain Metroid 2, in other words the last area of the game is SR388 and the mature metroids are actually explained as phazon mutations. But I doubt this.
Lastly, if you remember, in metroid 3 the pirates were gearing up for another war, or perhaps the war was still in progress. They had created a new super computer to calculate their plans and run the functions of the military bases called the mother brain which showed promise on zebes before it was destroyed by samus (zero mission). now, if memory serves me right, there is a scan log in Prime one or two that says that there are multiple mother computers in the larger pirate bases strewn about the planets. It could be that Corruption will see the return of Mother Brain and even multiple Mother Brain's as you secure and protect each planet from pirate infestation and phazon corruption (see how I did that?). if you're putting the cards together like i am you're probably imagining a final Mother computer that is corrupted by prime, flashbacks of super metroid anyone? :D
Now to complain.
Give us a real screw attack and space jump. Fuck double jumping, the space jump is an infinite jumping ability, the screw attack transfers energy through gyros as you sommersault through the air to make your whole suit a weapon. In prime 3, when i acquire the screw attack, just make it so that when i jump while running, i perform a screw attack automatically. Then later, when i get the space jump boots, i can cross large gaps, reach high places, and sommersault infinitely. i like double jumping actually, just dont call it the space jump! also, for god's sake, walljumping should be available at all times, she doesn't need a powerup for that, nor a special wall type (well, flat :D) and we should have complete control while grappling to the point of being able to spin in circles if the room allows it, and actually let us SWING, no auto swinging!
Now speed boosting and shinesparking are staples of metroid. they are officially in every game except return of samus and the prime series. With these large expansive areas i suspect speedboosting will return, along with speedjumping and hopefully, shinesparking. with the wiimote and attachment, there will be no issue to ccontrolling difficult timing manuevers that shinesparking requires, so please include it. just because samus cant duck in the prime series doesnt mean you have to exclude an entire dynamic of gameplay mechanics.
I think that's it. oh, KRAID, please! giant, ominous, 8 screens worth of Kraid! gaahh *drools*
I'd like to see enemies that are invincible and you have to use the x-ray visor to lock on to their vital organs and what not (sorta like the fuckers in RE4), a toned down version of OP basically. i'm willing to bet that this time around, the x-ray visor will show you alot more things, like skeletons of enemies (instead of just Aran's hands :D) and the insides of electronics.
The demo didnt get in to beam switching at all, but i hope it's more than just the d-pad to switch beams. in fact, looking at the screen, it doesnt look like you switch weapons. It may be the Super Metroid style of actually upgrading one beam to uberdome. I hope that's the case.
My theory right now for corruption's main plot is that Prime has become particles, practically invisible and no longer a single entity. It's traveling as phazon and infecting creatures in a very simmilar way to how the X infected things. Instead of needing to mutate a creature over time, Prime can instantly corrupt a creature in to what it needs. i think that's what the weird pirate was in the demo, but time will tell. In the meantime, because of what happened on Aether, the pirates believe that Samus is the one who stole phazon and completely destroyed their base of operation on two planets, which is half true :D The pirates have declared war on the federation and samus aran, this 'multi-world war' means a few things:
1.) We may travel to Zebes, SR388, Aether and Tallon 4 again (Aether being the last location of prime, tallon being its birth place and home to the meteor that started the flow of orange phazon and created prime)
2.) this is the final battle with Prime and the destructon of all phazon (has to be, which means a return to tallon and aether)
3.) This will be the lead in to Metroid 2: Return of Samus which is either going to be released with zero mission style graphics or handled as the 4th Metroid Prime game (Metroid Dread?)
We know that the time line between Metroid 2 and Metroid 3 is fairly quick, so i donnt expect to see another trilogy between those timelines. But between Metroid 3 and 4 (fusion) is probably where the next trilogy for the Prime series will take place.
It could very well be that Prime 3 will contain Metroid 2, in other words the last area of the game is SR388 and the mature metroids are actually explained as phazon mutations. But I doubt this.
Lastly, if you remember, in metroid 3 the pirates were gearing up for another war, or perhaps the war was still in progress. They had created a new super computer to calculate their plans and run the functions of the military bases called the mother brain which showed promise on zebes before it was destroyed by samus (zero mission). now, if memory serves me right, there is a scan log in Prime one or two that says that there are multiple mother computers in the larger pirate bases strewn about the planets. It could be that Corruption will see the return of Mother Brain and even multiple Mother Brain's as you secure and protect each planet from pirate infestation and phazon corruption (see how I did that?). if you're putting the cards together like i am you're probably imagining a final Mother computer that is corrupted by prime, flashbacks of super metroid anyone? :D
Now to complain.
Give us a real screw attack and space jump. Fuck double jumping, the space jump is an infinite jumping ability, the screw attack transfers energy through gyros as you sommersault through the air to make your whole suit a weapon. In prime 3, when i acquire the screw attack, just make it so that when i jump while running, i perform a screw attack automatically. Then later, when i get the space jump boots, i can cross large gaps, reach high places, and sommersault infinitely. i like double jumping actually, just dont call it the space jump! also, for god's sake, walljumping should be available at all times, she doesn't need a powerup for that, nor a special wall type (well, flat :D) and we should have complete control while grappling to the point of being able to spin in circles if the room allows it, and actually let us SWING, no auto swinging!
Now speed boosting and shinesparking are staples of metroid. they are officially in every game except return of samus and the prime series. With these large expansive areas i suspect speedboosting will return, along with speedjumping and hopefully, shinesparking. with the wiimote and attachment, there will be no issue to ccontrolling difficult timing manuevers that shinesparking requires, so please include it. just because samus cant duck in the prime series doesnt mean you have to exclude an entire dynamic of gameplay mechanics.
I think that's it. oh, KRAID, please! giant, ominous, 8 screens worth of Kraid! gaahh *drools*