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Rainbird on 27 March 2010
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Samus Aran said:
Rainbird said:

And that's why I picked it up, but I'm honestly having a hard time seeing it.

The exploration is pretty overwhelming and confusing at times without ever being great, the shooting is nothing out of the ordinary (and I hate it when the pointer goes offscreen and you have to wait for the Wii to see it again), and the rolling is like walking, except slightly faster.

And I find the world to be pretty average and unexciting so far. It's just obvious that it's a videogame world, it's designed to be traversed by Samus and no one else, the enemies are stupid and have their basic patterns that are easy to see and they will respawn at exactly the same places if you reenter a room. That whole thing about being designed as a videogame world just ruins the immersion for me in a game like Metroid Prime, and makes the experience unexciting.

On top of all that, there is are design decisions that simply annoy me. I hate protagonists that you are supposed to immerse yourself into being (Half-Life 2, Bioshock, Metroid Prime, etc.), it doesn't work for me! That's another thing that ruins immersion for me! And who the hell designs a game without checkpoints?!

@ SSBB

I think I'll get it at some point, but regardless, I need to get my Wii online first.

And don't worry, I'm not going anywhere near The Conduit

I think prime 3 has some checkpoints at bosses, but checkpoints make a game way too easy anyway. The only time you'll be dieing is against bosses.

You do know prime 1 is 10 years old, right? Pointer never goes offscreen for me, so wouldn't know what causes that with you. Prime games are about exploration and shooting isn't really important.

But I'll check through your game collection in a moment and I'll see if I can suggest you something(I've played pretty much every wii game that is considered good. That's the next best thing besides demo's I guess lol.

Zelda and Okami seem like an obvious pick if you like single player games, but then again, you don't like to immerse yourself into the protagonist(I actually love that :P)

And I see you want your wii online. Mario kart wii is still the best online experience on the wii.

Ps: Perhaps unethical, but you could also download your games and buy them if you like them. That way you cause no harm to the industry. I suppose...

Checkpoints are great, I hate going through stuff I already completed that is completely unrelated to why I died (and I only do die at boss fights, but I don't want to redo stuff to get to that fight). And I know it's an old game, which is why I've been thinking about skipping ahead and see if there are any improvements, but I don't want to miss out on the story (although the story has to be really important to convince me not to skip the first game by now). And usually the pointer goes offscreen when I turn, but that's probably just me using too wide motions for the hardware (every FPS should support M+, it's so much smoother in RS2 when the pointer goes offscreen).

And thanks for the effort

And I just ordered Okami actually (along with MadWorld and Resident Evil 4), so that should be here tuesday. I just hope they can get RE4 though, they couldn't tell me what the situation was with it and so how long it would take :/

And the main reason I want my Wii online is so I can get on WiiWare and get some games (World of Goo! ), and for the occasional online play.

I've thought about that, but I'm still against it, even if it is just for testing purposes. If Nintendo don't want me to try out the games, then they can just wave goodbye to the sales.