No water effects in Metroid Prime 1 and no arm cannon animation like electrical sparks (wave beam) and the freezing of the arm (ice beam).

Are you serious? I heard they upgraded the graphics but this sounds like they downgraded it significantly... May be a dealbreaker for me.

It was discussed earlier. Smeags (think it was him) thinks that it's because the arm can freely move now, so they couldn't bring across those same effects.

I don't know what he meant about water effects. I thought the water looked better.

Shoot in the water and it will move, walking on water too, in Metroid Prime 1 the water moves, in Trilogy there's no motion effects.

well thats sucks about the water and arm animations, but I have the gamecube versions if I ever wanna go back and look at ice on a persons arm, this one is for the motion controls :D

also another difference I dont think anyone has mentioned is new widescreen modes :P

2p multi isnt in widescreen :(

In Echoes, the Dark Beam has the same effects as in the GC version. The dark ooze sort of wraps around the arm canon. They must have removed the effects in Prime 1 for some other reason.

Now i'm at that nail-bitingly horrible part where i'm poring over all the lists to figure out the missile expansions i missed (i have 220, and only definitively know of two more, leaving four unaccounted for). I've also isolated the one Pirate Data (it's in Elite Control down in the mines) and one enemy i've glossed over (forgot to scan Power Trooper for some reason) to this point.

I did really notice the difference in lore, finally, when i compared it against my launch guide and came up with distinct problems, so i had to look up a PAL guide on GameFaqs.

i am, im no noob.