No-one complaining about that fetch-quest eh. Hmmmm.

I hated that fetch quest in the end (there you go )

Did the game run smoothly on dolphin? I played it once and it ran fine on my notebook but the sound wouldn't play properly. When I looked it up it appeared to be a common bug due to the sound processor of the Gamecube being hard to emulate or something. Did it work fine for you?

I agree that Metroid Prime has old-school sensibilities, but I love the game for it. And it's one of the best speedrunning games out there, in which players can shave hours off their times via the power of route planning. :)

Waypoints? Waypoints ruined gaming.

I hate waypoints. Your basically just staring at the map in the corner of the screen to make sure your aimed in the correct direction that the dot is pointing.

Games hold peoples hands too damn much these days. Thankfully a few games allow you to turn off waypoints.

I'm not complaining about your score. 9.5 is very great score, just not sure how someone can want waypoints. Especially a metroid game. The exploration and not knowing is the whole point of the game. If you change that you get Metroid Prime 3.

I could never try the original Prime. Does it have more exploration than Prime 3?

Metroid Prime 3 has zero exploration.

It is widely critisized by fans of the series due to that.

So if you thought Prime 3 had any exploration you woudl be in for a huge suprise.

Prime as said in OP has what some would call a lot of backtracking.  You get an upgraded weapon or feature to your suit in a dungeon and realize, "omg, I needed this to open up this one area in this other dungeon"  So you run back to there to see what in there.  There are hundreds of instances like that.  I loosely use the term dungeon, cause really it never feels like your ever in a dungeon, the whole game feels like one huge dungeon.  It's not so seperate like Zelda.  

How is the emulation of the title? I've tried running the Prime Trilogy on Dolphin but the emulation was bad. Poor framerate, the lighting was hard coded so it doesn't scale with the image. Did they fix any of it?

man I love that boss before the final form!

still one of my favorite games of all time. I think its the only game I completed 3 times

I hope they do HD ports of all three games on one disk

I disagree. Metroid Prime 3 does not have zero exploration. It's roughly about as linear as Metroid Fusion, which is still filled with plenty of powerups and hidden passages to find. In terms of the main narrative, Corruption generally runs on a "we'll tell you where you should eventually get to, but figuring out how to get there is up to you" policy, also similar to Fusion. It's certainly not Super Metroid non-linearity, but it isn't much worse than Metroid Prime, which had the same sort of hint system, albeit with your suit simply detecting things instead of an AU contacting you.

Like Fusion, the areas in Prime 3 are much more segregated...and I guess ice missiles is a similarity as well...

Corruption takes the Prime experience and essentially streamlines it, in a similar method to Fusion, sacrificing some atmosphere for a bigger stage to tell its story on and some more convenience to players. It's a great game, probably my favorite console release in 2007, and an excellent example of how well the Metroid formula can work in varying settings.

...it's also the only original game for the Wii that was actually better off for having a Wii remote, in my opinion.

You can turn the hint system off in Prime. Is it the same way in Prime 3?