>> ^Nebosuke:

I'm still going to play. But only after I finish the Metroid Prime Trilogy on Wii. And I'm only on Prime (the 1st one). Which is awesome, as the review says.


Exactly the same situation here.

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I'm still going to play. But only after I finish the Metroid Prime Trilogy on Wii. And I'm only on Prime (the 1st one). Which is awesome, as the review says.

Ebert's current assertion is that games cannot be considered an artform in the foreseeable future due to their interactive nature. This is good, because he used to say up until a couple of months ago that "games could never be considered art". Supposedly he's since tried his hand at Metroid Prime, and some other classics, but IIRC he even wrote himself that he felt his newbness limited his potential enjoyment of said games considerably. Regarding this though, I'm not sure if he would appreciate this game or the trailer as an exhibit for the "games as art" debate more than, say, the noire of Max Payne (first part - the second sucked much balls).

Having said that, this does look really good to me apart from character detail (obnoxious cleavage and anime-eyes on Elizabeth, anyone?), lack of much-needed tesselation and vertex shading and lack of RPG elements that I wished were implemented to a wider extent in Bioshock 1. Other than that, wreaking havoc upon the tea-partiers' paradise ought to be a lot of fun. >> ^Xax:

Perhaps the most impressive trailer I've ever seen for a game, even if it is just a render.
And who cares if Ebert refuses to acknowledge that games are art? That's his error.

It's nice to see Metroid II again... loved that game. And although I've played Super Metroid many times, I don't remember if I ever got to the end... did it really not end with Mother Brain's defeat?

P.S. Metroid: Other M... I still can't believe they chose such a stupid, stupid subtitle.

You know I have to quality this when I have a point just because of the metroid "breasts suit".

>> ^berticus:

gotta love TAS. i watched a metroid low% one the other day that blew my mind.


TASes are very very fun. love this one I watched of halflife once... I think it was on here... but if it isn't I'll find it too.

gotta love TAS. i watched a metroid low% one the other day that blew my mind.

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Um, I was hardly being 'dickish', I think you're taking that crown by calling me a jerk.

What I said was, this may be impressive and worthwhile if it were something that took weeks or months... but 6 YEARS for something so arbitrary is just bizarre. And as I said, it's alien to me. Hey, if you can see spending 6 YEARS on creating a city in Sim City... well... yeay.



And trying to say that pitching a perfect game is not real life is inane. It IS real life as it's a real person with a real baseball, really throwing it. Bat sizes/ball sizes etc. are irrelevent, it's all in REAL life with physics and physical strength/co-ordination etc. all coming into play. They're hardly playing a few coders rendition of the sport which may not take into account all manner of 'real world' effects.

And to say that I'm a jerk if I have played a computer game is trying to suggest that playing a game every now and again for fun an relaxation or a challenge is directly comparable to spending 6 YEARS on a single game building a single city.

It is most definitely not.

If you're going to take it to that extreme then you may as well say that spending your entire life playing WOW is just the same as being a casual gamer, they have as much in common.




>> ^Hawkinson:

What's with the dickish attitude? its a videogame, I don't think anyone is confused over that fact. A quake speed run or a sub 25% metroid prime completion rate is still impressive, just like a pitching a perfect game (which also isn't real life, since there are arbitrary rules like regulation bats).
Unless you've never played a (video)game before, you're just being a jerk.

What's with the dickish attitude? its a videogame, I don't think anyone is confused over that fact. A quake speed run or a sub 25% metroid prime completion rate is still impressive, just like a pitching a perfect game (which also isn't real life, since there are arbitrary rules like regulation bats).

Unless you've never played a (video)game before, you're just being a jerk.

>> ^spoco2:

He does realize that he has only found the optimum method for building IN THIS GAME doesn't he? Like... he's worked out the algorithm as built by the coders. He hasn't actually designed any optimum city design. He's built to only those factors the game designers put in.
Seems very odd to spend SO MUCH TIME on such an endeavor that is effectively just doing really well at a simplified game simulation.
Like... if one of the coders went 'oh yeah, we completely forgot to include the effects of recycling or sewage levels' or some such then his entire span of time doing that was pretty much for naught.

Now, if someone had come up with that design and implemented it in a short time, then I'd be impressed... but this? I appreciate someone using their minds like this, but to be so proud to have worked out a method of 'beating' an almost definitely flawed simulation is strange and alien to me.

Metroid at 3:50? Scary.

Yet another game in the hopefully dying "chicks that kick ass" genre. Every one since Metroid has sucked.

>> ^d3bas3r:
>> ^ponceleon:
A pity he didn't review Shadow Complex... definitely one of the best games made in a very very long time. If you own a 360, you are REQUIRED to download Shadow Complex. It is Metroid/Castlevania mixed with a bit of splintercelly tangent thrown in... HIGHLY recommended!

I second this recomendation. It is a good game.


Third. $15 very well spent. The character progression was awesome; it was empowering to go from a pistol and flashlight to being a double jumping, assault rifle wielding, bionic armored badass. I made my first playthrough over a couple days, and I'm about to go back for round 2.

>> ^ponceleon:
A pity he didn't review Shadow Complex... definitely one of the best games made in a very very long time. If you own a 360, you are REQUIRED to download Shadow Complex. It is Metroid/Castlevania mixed with a bit of splintercelly tangent thrown in... HIGHLY recommended!


I think he really doesn't review good games. I mean unless the game is SO AWESOME he feels like he has to mention it he'd rather review crap.