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Resident_Hazard on 18 January 2011
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RolStoppable said:
Resident_Hazard said:

If I'm reading you right, you didn't think Prime 3 was especially easy.  Now, I'm a huge, huge, huge Metroid fan, and I spent ample time loving the crap out of Primes 1 and 2.  That said, those games challenged me to love them with some of the most punishing gameplay imaginable.  I was routinely beaten to a pulp in both titles, spending hours on singular battles.  The Omega Pirate was hard enough on regular mode in Prime 1.  On hard mode, that boss might as well have been a certified rapist.  Prime 2 was even harder, and I was stuck on that one--the final sequence--for a year on regular mode.  Only coming back when I was good and brave enough (later, I discovered by accident that if I "restarted from last save" after the Emperor Ing, I actually started after that 45-minute battle and didn't have to do it again to face Dark Samus 3--a year of frustration because I thought "restart from last save" meant fighting the Emperor Ing again!!). 

Suffice to say, I spent a lot of time being killed over and over again in Primes 1 & 2.  Enemies, bosses, stages, etc.  Everything was just so immensely challenging.  Then Prime 3 rolls around, and enemies drop like flies, bosses are all push-overs, and puzzles aren't quite as challenging.  It wasn't the controls that made Prime 3 easy, it was Nintendo making Prime 3 easy that made it easy.  Fewer enemies, weaker enemies, weaker enemy attacks, simpler bosses--everything.  The game was clearly intended to be "blue ocean friendly" with it's much lighter difficulty.  I think I died maybe 3 times throughout the whole game, and I don't think I did once on any of the bosses.  Again, I think I lost at least 20 lives alone to the Omega Pirate in Prime 1 on either difficulty setting. 

The commercials indicated as much, having Metroid Prime 3 advertised as being played by regular people rather than hardcore gamers.  As if Nintendo was saying, "See?  Anyone can play!"  Which, of course, they were.

If you had that much trouble to beat Metroid Prime 1 & 2 on their default difficulty, then it's likely that you played Corruption on normal and never again. That's the only plausible explanation how you could form such an ill-informed opinion.

I rarely play a game more than once.  I only got about halfway through Prime 3 a second time before I realized I had too many other games to play.  However, whenever I play a game a second time, I up the difficulty.  But I compared Prime 3's normal difficulty with Prime 1 and Prime 2's normal difficulties.  Which isn't ill informed.  They are indeed drastically different.  Hell, the difference between Prime 2 and 3 makes it seem like the games aren't even related.  It doesn't matter if the higher difficulties added a bit more challenge, because then what you're doing is comparing Prime 2's normal difficulty with Prime 3's hardest.  I'm not ill-informed, and you're comparing apples and oranges.