New 2D Metroid for DS

[Clash!]

How can you guys tell the difference? Fusion sucked but Super was the best game ever? How can this be? They're like the same goddamned game! Same deal with the 2D Catleoids. HoD sucked (I always hear) but SOTN is the best game of all time? W. T. F. They're all so similar it's like one giant game or one long string of remakes.

Then again I never got the fanatical love for either of these series. And yet I continue to buy and play them all.

Fusion did'nt suck, but its not nearly as good as the others. Mainly because its easier than snot, and you don't really get the sense of exploration since they tell you that you are locked in a area and you can't leave until you complete something. You never really have to say to yourself "Where do I go now, ill just have to explore" in Fusion it tells you where to go, and you have no reason to explore.

[sethsez]

How can you guys tell the difference? Fusion sucked but Super was the best game ever? How can this be? They're like the same goddamned game!

No they're not. They have the same gameplay mechanics but completely different pacing, level design and progression styles.

Super was mostly plot-free and heavily focused on wide-open exploration. Fusion had relatively routine plot-dumps and you were almost always locked into one small section of the map. The end result of this is that Super had a much, much stronger focus on exploration, to the point where some people have completed it without even knowing the "correct" way through due to sequence breaking, and an expansive world. Meanwhile, the exploration in Fusion was neutered, sometimes lacking anything to explore at all beyond where to bomb in a single room to get to the goal marked on your map. Same controls, totally different experiences.

[Mzo]

How can you guys tell the difference? Fusion sucked but Super was the best game ever? How can this be? They're like the same goddamned game!

Lol what? Are you serious?

[Kev]

Metroid 4 was very linear, but I loved it all the same. I liked the more Story-driven moments. Granted, I think Mertoid 3's simpler, cut-scene-less story was very well done, but I greatly enjoyed getting in Samus' psyche.

It seems that everyone loves lynching Metroid 2. No, it's not "open", yes it's "linear". But it also is still a great deal of fun to play, and in my eyes is one of the very few original Game Boy games that are still worth the plastic they're incased in today. I'll also say it right here and now in front of everybody, Metroid 2 for the Game Boy, today, is a better game than Metroid is.

Both these games, while linear, have atmosphere and suspense that is unrivaled.

I was in second grade when I got Metroid 2, and that was the first game that truly scared me. Running down the corridor of some structure made by a civilization long since departed, low on health, the only sound you hear being the footsteps of your Power Suit, and it's droning alarm alerting you that your health is at absolute minimum.

That's when the Zeta Metroid lunges at you, depleting your last remaining bit of energy, and the last sound you hear is the disolving of your corpse.

Metroid 2... Damn, I need an SP. I miss that fucking game, man...

EDIT: Having said all of this, Metroid 3 is my favorite game in the world, and has been since 1994. I have yet to play a game I think and feel is more complete and more well-crafted.

[Finch]

Whoa. So i wasn't the only one. Metroid 2 was scary. Those things looked huge on that little screen.

[1CCOSA]

Second grade? I played that game to death when I was in the seventh grade, now I feel old. Also, I just realized it was the first Metroid I ever played and i loved it, like you said it had amazing atmosphere, probably the most moody/creepy GB game I'd ever played up to that point. Me and some friends took turns sharing a save file during phy ed class and study halls. Then the next game in the series I played (of course) was Super Metroid, best game ever and atmosphere X 10.

Also, one factor that upped Fusion's points with me majorly was the final Zeta Metroid boss. Fighting that thing gave me a rush of Metroid II nostalgia.

[marwan]

a 2D DS Metroid metroid is seriously making me wet. i hope it's not a remake though.

[sethsez]

Read the last post on the first page.

[kedawa]

I thought Super Metroid was pretty easy, except for Ridley.
I hated Fusion, mostly because of the linearity and stupid plot, but also due to that cheapass Nightmare boss that could magically pass through barriers and ram you to death.
I haven't finished the original yet, but I liked Zero Mission quite a bit.
I've never even seen Metroid II, but as soon as I get an SD card reader, that game and a GB emu are going on my cell phone.

[marwan]

I thought Super Metroid was pretty easy, except for Ridley.
I hated Fusion, mostly because of the linearity and stupid plot, but also due to that cheapass Nightmare boss that could magically pass through barriers and ram you to death.
I haven't finished the original yet, but I liked Zero Mission quite a bit.
I've never even seen Metroid II, but as soon as I get an SD card reader, that game and a GB emu are going on my cell phone.

which phone do you have? you could already do that with Symbian phones. I have a Nokia 6630 and 6680 and i'm running a perfect NES 8bit emulator.