/v/ - Video Games

For me: yesterday, I completed an any% run, having 71% items with an ingame time of 2:24. Today I am gonna 100% the file like I nearly always do. I am hoping to get 100% sub 3:00 sometimes, and my ultimate goals would be reverse boss order. That route is so cool but so fucking difficult, it really draws my interest. I play on a super comfy PVM setup, PAL however. Probably going to mod my SNES to add a toggle switch to play at 60 Hz.

Played Return of Samus last week and I am starting to love that game as well. Barebones as fuck, and really limited by the Gameboy, but has a great atmosphere. Great stuff. Still need to play P3 (and OM to be honest), but played the rest. Could rank them sometimes soon.

Honestly, I have no idea what to expect from Prime 4. I don't have a Switch yet, but I might start considering it if homebrew and CFW takes off. The thing seems like an amazing emulation station, since it will probably run nearly everything I play anyways. I hope Retro realizes that the formula P1&P2 set were very good, and very little has to change from that formula. I just hope they take note from SM/ZM in the open-endedness, so more ways to play and replay the game would be amazing.

Super Metroid is my favorite game, period. I love the atmosphere and gameplay, the music, the movement and the story. I have two shirts from the series, one with Samus' her helmet, and another one where she is posing without her helmet with her gunship in the background. Otherwise; I play piano and can currently play the Item Fanfare, Lower Norfair/Magmoor Caverns, Kraid's lair and SR-388 from AM2R. I have some other songs I could learn, but I have other sheets I am learning right now.

AM2R is probably my second favorite game after SM; shows how much fans cared for the series. Had some contact with one of the composers about the piano piece I was playing, nice dude. The reason I talk about Paper Metroid, is because I have had the idea for quite a while now. I can into code pretty well, not into drawing however. Paper Metroid would probably one of the best fangames ever. Plenty of possibilities too, like a Ridley that evolves to Mega-Ridley, Super-Mega-Ridley, Super-Mega-Meta-Ridley etc. etc., and the space pirates acting like in the comics, being obsessed with tubes and having to move from places in the tube factory. Having companions would be super cool too, like the baby, Adam or a Federation Trooper.

>>16262664

Wait what the fuck happened to my formatting

>>16262728

>master chief

She's pretty hot too tbh

>>16262798

>1st pic

Is that one of those 24 hour T-shirts?

>>16262951

That 3rd webm is fucking hot, who's the artist?

>>16263047

>hot

that's a funny way of saying autisitc

Metroid is shit and is built on the foundations of disguising a linear game in dead ends and padding out the game with backtracking. Nothing can fix this. It's rotten at the core.

>inb4 muh atmosphere

>inb4 but muh dik

Both would be better in a good game.

>>16263172

I wish I could lay my head on her pillowy butt and sleep for days.

>>16262735

That's Nicole, you wingnut.

>>16262951

>Fourth and fifth pics

I need to read that.

>>16263275

Super Zero Mission and Hyper Metroid are pretty good

>>16262655

Haven't played this game in a while. Maybe it's time to give it another play through.　誕生日におめでとうございます！

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>>16263251

who makes these

I own a purple dragon dildo which I have named Ridley.

>>16263307

me

>>16262666

Satan fucked with it, obviously.

>>16263418

Oh hey, I made that image. The file inside has the same timestamp as the one I made a few years ago and still have saved.

>>16263423

No problem dude, enjoy!

>>16263277

https://www.metroid-database.com/old_site/manga/?vid=6&cid=29

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>>16263461

>Hey Kevin, wanna come with me and go on sick apace adventures? I'm only a 6'1 Blonde amazon.

>lamo no way fag

>>16263461

wow captain n is a retard

>>16262655

Super Metroid did not sell better in the West. That's a flat out lie.

.71 million sold in Japan

.57 million sold in US

.12 million sold in EU

http://www.vgchartz.com/game/4442/super-metroid/?region=All

Keep in mind Japan had 1/3 the population of US, and EU is even more densely populated.

>>16263287

Is Project Base worth bothering with?

>>16263588

>I thought it was the Prime series what really didn't sold in Japan.

Fixed

>>16263588

That's right. But somehow nips buy COD…

>Following mediocre sales in Japan, the game was a big hit in over in the west.

The game sold more in Japan than North America idiot. The big thing that hurt it is that it was released at the same time as Donkey Kong Country in North America. Learn your shit if you're gonna make a tribute thread.

>>16263287

They really aren't. The best ROMhacks by far are Super Metroid Legacy and the original Redesign. Limit is good too. I was impressed by Z-Factor when I last played it but I never managed to finish it, so I don't know if it goes full retard in design near the end.

>>16263830

>The initial sales in Japan were bad

Prove it.

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>>16263685

I can only find two sources, but sales numbers are hard to find. Here and there I can only find some people who claimed the Japan sales only later overtook the West sales, but so far I have only found accumulative numbers.

>>16264745

Meh, only one Japanese source about sale figures.

http://i.imgur.com/5ClHZMv.jpg

Alright, I am not sure what I conclusion I can draw from this. The initial "Bad sales J, good sales W" I can trace back to wikipedia, that cited this source:

https://www.gamesradar.com/the-history-of-metroid/4/

That article cites both these sources:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080303134320/http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=173735

https://web.archive.org/web/20080224174515/http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=174048&site=cvg

In the latter the discrepancy is described, but has no sources to back it up. I am more inclined to trust older sources, but 2007 is just borderline of where I draw the line. All in all: not quite sure.

>>16263495

Fuck you now I want to draw that.

>>16264919

>I am more inclined to trust older sources

lol, why? The video games "journalism" scene has always been a gossipy rumor mill. I think 2007 is right around when Dan Hsu came around about publications getting good reviews for early access.

>>16265027

Why is her eye made of skin

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>>16264745

That doesn't prove sales were bad. Still better than the West, even better than America, especially considering how much smaller the Japanese market is. A greater percentage of the Japanese market bought the game. OP is pure kikery.

>>16265035

2d

>>16264959

Do it and I'll repost it forever everywhere.

>>16264959

That'd be amazing.

>>16264966

2007, the year vidya went to shit. I am more inclined to trust from about before 2005-ish, since I think people were more reliable then. Nothing factual really.

>>16265027

Dope! Saved.

>>16265042

I know, I was just trying to back up my claims. Still not sure, my sources indeed prove nothing either.

>>16265071

I heard the original gameover animation showed naked Sammy but I don't believe it survived beyond some conceptual art.

>>16262951

Damn shame he never finished that animation.

>>16265164

Yeah. The urban legend was that the Japanese copies had it, but that was a lie. It's unclear whether they ever did more than talk about it. Though in the vanilla animation before it goes completely white you can see her clothes are starting to disintegrate in the last frames. Also, apparently, one of the girls on the sound team originally did Samus' death cry, but they took it out because it sounded "too sexual."

at least theyre not deleting the metroid thread, jeeze.

>>16265980

wasnt the green hair just a product of the gravity suit? still i agree it was/is a good look for her

>>16266178

Samus starts with brown/red hair. Activating missiles switches it to blonde, and getting the Varia Suit turns her hair green.

>>16266056

>Virgin

>struggles with expressing emotion

>power armor

Samus is basically a female Space Marine.

>>16263525

And yet they have time to retweet shit from their Twatter account. Time well spent.

>>16265184

Congrats, anon! I don't recognize that abbreviation though. What's RBO?

>>16267000

>Samus is married to Adam, and Samus has a miscarriage in the opening text crawl

That right there is enough.

>>16267030

It's fucking stupid, but it's just the opening text. The actual world and area design is pretty decent so far.

>>16267000

Everything is recolored for no reason, areas are large and full of filler, and felt very linear like you're supposed to go down a passage until you hit the end, explore a bit, find the secret, and then continue on. It's very formulaic

>>16266807

Reverse boss order

>>16267059

> Everything is recolored for no reason

Yeah, I was wondering what the point of that was. I assumed you'd get different suits because the initial one is a different color, but it looks like it's probably just Varia again.

> areas are large and full of filler

To some degree. I appreciated that on Crateria with the big open empty areas and sandstorms. Gave an actually decent impression of the surface of a crater-covered body in space. I haven't gotten far yet, though, so I can't comment much on the other areas. I only just got to Brinstar.

> felt very linear like you're supposed to go down a passage until you hit the end, explore a bit, find the secret, and then continue on. It's very formulaic

That's disappointing if true. There has been a decent amount of back and forth at the beginning, but the original also started out like that before opening up. If this one is really just "run down this corridor until you can't anymore, then go back where you came from, and repeat until game is done", I probably won't finish it.

>>16267086

Agreed. The Prime suits still looked great, though.

>>16267086

I kind of like the Prime 1 model as its realistic depiction complemented the grim tone of the initial prime series. Prime 2 Samus is just an ugly plasticy hybrid of the of 1 & 3. While I'd prefer the realism of 1 the aesthetics of the later entries are more pleasing to look at.

>There will never be a post Metroid Fusion game where Samus's Metroid gene mutates her into a sexy half-Metroid humanoid.

>You will never have a Metroid game based on sucking life energy from your enemies and using that energy for powers.

>>16267886

DO YOU LIKE

MY TUUBES?

>>16262661

Before Metroid Zero introduced the zero suit concept, I don't think she was considered very sexual. Sure there was some material based around her death animation in Super Metroid, but zero suit really pushed the fap bait material to 11.

>>16267956

It's actually amazing how little porn there was of Samus until they trashed her reputation with Fusion and Zero Mission.

>>16267919

RUN! RUN! RUN!

I'm gonna run 'til I flash!

Tonight! I'll fight!

And be your hero!

YEAH! YEAH! YEAH!

I'm gonna speedboost!

And you'll see the shinespark!

>>16267060

Ah, right. I guess I've seen speedruns of SM RBO, then – it looks difficult. Best of luck to you.

>>16267863

>I liked the different color scheme. Refreshing.

Most of the colors are fine. Samus being blue and yellow is a little distracting, given that her colorschemes are usually a little more unified. I'm still waiting to hit Varia suit.

> Yeah, but there were plenty of rooms to explore.

I'm happy enough with the "large and filler" as long as it doesn't get repetitive or over-the-top. The game is about exploring underground caves on a desolate planet, and I want that desolate feeling.

The movement tech is actually used to an interesting degree in this game. Moving through Brinstar and Crateria, there is a number of locations that let you put in some effort to bypass a longer route.

So far, I'm happy with Hyper Metroid. I'll probably play this one through and then finally go back and finish Rogue Dawn, because I never played that one out.

magical pop'n

>>16268238

I know, I just love the game. Don't think badly of me.

>>16268149

Thanks!

>>16268568

Would definitely recommend.

>>16267863

The idea is more for playing a different playstyle as Samus's mutant loli clone who uses her own power suit. The "Syphon Suit" uses the same technology as the Fusion Suit except it's engineered to harness Metroid bioenergy. On one hand the armor is lighter and weaker than the Power Suit. It sacrifices armor for agility and more advanced acrobatics. On the other hand the Syphon Suit uses a Nanocell Energy Syphon (NES) system which can harness bioenergy extracted from enemies or yourself.

You have a sub-tank that pools energy from enemies you stab via Talon Fang, a spear on your gun arm. Your sub-tank is similar to Aeon, but not useless. You can extract energy from stunned enemies or you can sacrifice energy to overload them which can sometimes create walking bombs or fuel machines. You can also overcharge your beam to make a Hyper Beam and other weapons. At the same time your energy can be used to enhance mobility systems. You can do a mini Shinespark by pressing zR during a space jump or dash to instantly change monentum in any direction you want. It's also useful for split second dodging or closing in with melee. You can extract your own energy tank one at a time to reload a sub-tank. You can also draw power from the sub-tank to recover your main energy supply and even replenish ammo with the right upgrade. Debating if this suit is going to have a Morph Ball mode or not. Morph Ball mode can create an energy cocoon via sub-tank to tank almost anything at the expense of not being able to move. This will lead to some pinball moments for sure.. You can also release the cocoon just when you take the hit to retaliate via energy burst that nukes a quarter of the screen. Also 2D Spider Ball is back.

The suit will have a Varia form, Gravity Boost, and Hazard Shield.

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>>16265163

I'm away from my drawing setup because I'm on vacation. But keep an eye on the draw threads for the next month

>>16274704

It's not that underwater sections are bad, it's the fact that developers think the only way to do them is to fuck with your movement.

>>16274704

I find Maridia comfy between Wrecked Ship and Lower Norfair

>>16274726

i just saw it as another spooky aspect of the game, it was cool being able to "defeat" it too

>>16274726

I think as long as you eventually get equipment to breeze through the water it's fine for the water to limit you temporarily.

Samus is 25 years old?

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>>16274486

Quick translation from a non-native German speaker:

> Sector 1: Crateria

> Info data 001: Crateria lays under a constant rain of corrosive acid. Only with the use of her biomechanical protective suit can the fighter Samus Aran leave her spaceship and begin her mission… End of data (for some reason this part is in English)

> Brinstar: The jungle maze commands a thick and distinctive vegetation that many creatures have evolved in and adapted to for hundreds of years.

> Norfair: Deep under the surface of Zebes is the difficult-to-find Norfair. Glowing masses of stone and lava seas makes in impossible to intrude in many of the zones by the unprotected.

> Wrecked ship: Wrecked ship, the stranded spaceship of a very old lost civilization, serves as a hideout for the aliens of Mother Brain. The entangled paths are perfect for building pitfalls and ambushes.

> Maridia: Maridia is the water sector of Zebes. The land creatures of the planet have adapted over the years to the changed conditions in this place. Some of the creatures shoot out poisonous secretions…

Part 6 is missing

> Secret paths: The following pages show the mazes of all sectors with secret paths, objects, and passages. Even so, you should only look for a short time at the maps in an emergency.

metroid is so fucking overrated, can't you niggers shut up about it for even a single day?

>>16284296

If it bothers you, no.

I still got AM2R installed, might go through that again. Great game, glad it made it out into the wild before Nintendo got their hands on it. That said, I also need to finish the official remake of 2.

>>16284338

>Doujinshi is official

Are you retarded?

Could you please stop posting this unfunny forced Prime meme in a Super Metroid thread?

>>16284989

Space pirates are awesome, plus, they are not all Prime related. Prime spawned them.

>>16267086

1st one reminds me of Kim Basinger.

>>16274704

I actually liked Maridia. The music was nice too.

>>16285094

The only thing I dislike about Maridia is the quicksand, it can sometimes be tricky to deal with.

this thread is embarrassing to look through

>>16291291

ZOOMER ZOOM ZOOM HOW DOES METROID CRAWL

>>16291327

Have you tried giving it phazon? It actually works.

>>16291291

>There's finally a good thread in /v/

>"lol this is embarassing to look through"

Fuck you, this used to be the good quality of threads we used to have regular. Go back to 4um, faggot

is there any phazon-filling tentacle porn with phazon cum ?

>>16291390

>metroid thread 6,000,000

>good

>>16291807

>muh six gorrilion

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>>16284338

It's not official, it's a high-quality fan comic. Weavel is a Space Pirate who Samus maimed on Zebes, he doesn't have legs and can detach his torso from his robotic ones.