Crap, why do they all have to come out on the same friggin' day??!!

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Yeah... Nightmare was really hard the first time, but by the time you finally beat him you should be good enough to make it not that hard... well still hard, but not impossible anymore. Managable. Either you have some strange standard or you really stink at 2d games...

Ha! I'm better at 2D games than you are, bucko. I just hate cheap bosses.

Bombs break laser-shootable floors.

Then why did you claim otherwise? Oh that's right, it's because you like to pull facts out your ass, like the ones you talk about below.

There IS a reason that games added more hints... sure too much isn't good, and hiding the secret areas and powerups and stuff is fine... but the stuff you've got to find to progress, hidden as well as powerups? That just isn't nice. And if you think that Fusion never requires you to find hidden, invisible passages to continue I have to be the one to doubt that you ever played the game...

Oh now that's rich. Me, the biggest Metroid fan in the universe (probably :p ) never played Metroid Fusion. Oh brother. I've played through Fusion a few times already and you only need to find those hidden areas if you want to find extra crap! :bang:

The tiles. Like the icons with bombs on them, or pinwheels that you break wiht the spin-jump attack, or arrows you have to break while in the running mode after running straight for several screens... those blocks, revealed by bombs or megabombs. Lasers definitely do not reveal them, or make any indication that they are there, and there are often no hints in the graphics too. Oh... sometimes there are, for sure. But just as often there aren't, or they are really well hidden... shooting a wall will NOT show those icons! I have no idea what you are talking about there, but it definitely does not do that.

Missiles don't reveal them either, BTW. They, like lasers, will destroy walls that they can break (and spin-jumps), but only bombs actually show you the tiles.

Shooting will find all of the icons that are small enough to be annoying. Speed walls and screw attack blocks are very easy to find unless you're a complete dolt, so they're not a problem. Just admit it already, ABF. You just plain suck at Metroid. I have never heard anyone complain about Metroid in the way you do. Guess you simply can't handle good, tough 2D platform shooters.

I'm probably not at 15 hours yet in Prime, but I could be... haven't played it in a few weeks, so I'm not sure.

I am taking it slowly, dying a lot, getting stuck quite regularly (generallly not for a really long time, but the game's puzzles are fairly tough in places...), and scanning pretty much everything I see...

And as I said, I have all of 30 missiles. Or so... and several health tanks, not sure how many... again, haven't played in a while. I just know that last time I played I died for the second or third time trying to get back through Magmoor Caverns...

Like I said...

Oh, definitely. Figuring out the pattern and how/when to shoot is they key... it makes all the bosses possible to easy once you do that. Yes, including Nightmare...

Not including Nightmare. Just try and beat him without losing more than one health tank.