Almost had a nerdgasm *added pictars*

[Fivelives]

The entire Prime trilogy was loaded with wiigimmicks, like the grapple beam, particle beam, any of the "Hey, here's this lever. Push it" sequences, etc. Considering it's been an IP of Nintendo since the 80s, I'm not sure it can be called "wiigimmick" anymore. Now, if the Metroid games were ports from the Xbox or Playstation, I could see it maybe being called a wiigimmick.

Like the Resident Evil port that got turned into a rail shooter. THAT was a gimmick. Metroid? Not so much.

[Dorvan]

I'm not sure you caught the intent of Invis' post, which was bemoaning adding motion control elements simply for the purpose of reminding you that you're using a motion control device, rather than because it makes any sort of gameplay sense.

[Fivelives]

From the default controls:

A button: shoot
B button: jump
C button: morph ball
Z button: scan/pretty much everything else
1 button: map (combined map/menu for prime 1&2)
2 button: menu (hint in prime 3)
down directional pad: missiles
- button: select visor
+ button: hypermode (prime 3)

That doesn't leave much else other than a motion control to toggle 1st/3rd person, unless they ditch hypermode, which I think they will as it doesn't fit the idea of a prequel game. Using the D-pad with the controller in the default "glorified laser pointer" position is pretty tough - at least for me, anyway.

Also, I don't think any Wii exclusive can really be penalized for motion controls. A Wii port of a multi-platform game, though? Sure, mock it to your heart's content for the gimmicky control scheme.

[Lightbeard]

I'd hit it.

Still True

[Invisusira]

I'm not sure you caught the intent of Invis' post, which was bemoaning adding motion control elements simply for the purpose of reminding you that you're using a motion control device, rather than because it makes any sort of gameplay sense.

^^

Motion controls simply drag you out of the game you're playing. I don't see how making games less immersive is a good thing.

[Vanifae]

True story, I have not played a Metroid game in probably ten years maybe more.

[Fivelives]

I'm picking it up tonight, I'll let you know if it's really all that immersion-destroying.

[Snake-Aes]

<never played anything from the Metroid franchise>

[Melathys]

At the very least, download a SNES emulator and play super metroid. quite simply one of the greatest games ever made. Just thinking about it, I want to play it again.

The metroid prime series. fun, but the 1st person doesn't really feel great for metroid, imo. I played and completed the first one, bought the second, but only played for an hour before I moved on to something else.

[Candiru]

Definitely, Super Metroid is awesomesauce.

I quite liked the GameBoy advance Metroid Fusion, its very similar to Super Metroid, but its somehow too polished to be quite as good as the origional. There is a map with objectives and a plot, rather than a map you are free to explore.

[Chicken]

Definitely, Super Metroid is awesomesauce.

I quite liked the GameBoy advance Metroid Fusion, its very similar to Super Metroid, but its somehow too polished to be quite as good as the origional. There is a map with objectives and a plot, rather than a map you are free to explore.

Metroid Zero Mission is also very good. It's got the best of both worlds, while it does have a system in place to tell you where to go, unlike Metroid Fusion it doesn't force you to go there through locked doors and such, you're free to explore wherever you want. I'd say it's the perfect Metroid for someone new to the series due to that.

Super Metroid still has it beat for crazy tricks you can pull to get items before you're supposed to get them though.

[Fivelives]

Old school 8 bit metroid. Talk about crazy tricks? I remember bomb-jumping up a shaft the equivalent of 4 screens to grab some stuff in that game. You kids these days with your wall jumping and super-speed, sheesh!

[Lightbeard]

Definitely, Super Metroid is awesomesauce.

I quite liked the GameBoy advance Metroid Fusion, its very similar to Super Metroid, but its somehow too polished to be quite as good as the origional. There is a map with objectives and a plot, rather than a map you are free to explore.

Metroid Zero Mission is also very good. It's got the best of both worlds, while it does have a system in place to tell you where to go, unlike Metroid Fusion it doesn't force you to go there through locked doors and such, you're free to explore wherever you want. I'd say it's the perfect Metroid for someone new to the series due to that.

Super Metroid still has it beat for crazy tricks you can pull to get items before you're supposed to get them though.

Zero Mission was great. Sadly i lost the game and couldn't finish it.

[Arnock]

Zero Mission was great. Sadly i lost the game and couldn't finish it.

Curse you!

[Aubade]

Zero Mission was great. Sadly i lost the game and couldn't finish it.

Curse you!

How could he? =[