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The Metroid Prime debate

What the community thinks of Metroid Prime, ordered by reader support. Agreeing, translating and reporting a message need no account.

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  1. Eloisa_40

    It's 96th. Ninety-sixth. This game reinvented an entire genre and people rank it below stuff that copied its homework.

    TurboBard

    ah la comparaison avec ori ca me parle pas trop, le rythme est totalement different, on compare pas un marathon et un sprint

    SaveByte40

    Same fight every duel cycle, same complaints, same defenders, and honestly I still show up and vote for it every single time anyway.

  2. Katelyn_1985

    The scan visor turning exploration into actual information gathering still holds up, way more than most modern lore-dump systems.

  3. NovaWolf1994

    I remember getting the scan visor and just standing there scanning everything in the room, probably wasted an hour on my first playthrough alone. I think that pace is what stuck with me the most, more than the boss fights honestly.

  4. CoopKnight4

    Rented it on a whim one weekend and ended up buying my own copy within the month.

    NeonRider

    Cada dos meses aparece alguien diciendo lo mismo sobre el visor de escaneo y honestamente ya ni me sorprende, sigue siendo de lo mejor que tiene el genero.

  5. ratke_candido

    I played this right after finishing Super Metroid on a rental, back to back over a weekend, and going from 2D to fully walking around Tallon IV in first person felt like stepping into a different medium entirely, my brother just watched most of the second day.

    TrudiePhoenix

    I loved Tallon IV too honestly, spent way too long just scanning random pirate logs, but the pacing dips hard once you're deep into backtracking for the last few items.

    Bayer15

    Weekend rental here too, never finished it though.

    Cortez_1998

    Playing it right after Super Metroid must have made the movement shift stand out even more than for me.

  6. GhostKnight

    Anyone else remember the first time the visor fogged up near lava? Small thing but it stuck with me.

    yleannon

    Reinvented for its time sure, but genre reinvention doesn't automatically earn a spot this high two decades later.

    Arnaude_40

    Moi c'est le brouillard sur la visière qui m'a marqué, encore aujourd'hui...

  7. VinylMaster

    Ori and the Blind Forest has more heart in ten minutes than this has in the whole trip through Tallon IV.

    Geraldine_2001

    I loved that atmosphere too, but ranking is ranking, and the fact it keeps losing duels to Ori says something about how the vote crowd skews, atmosphere or not.

    CritRunner70

    Ah sí, claro, el problema es que lo votan mal, no que el juego este sobrevalorado en el puesto que tiene, muy convincente.

  8. FrameRex2

    Nuance time: the atmosphere and scanning loop are basically perfect, or close enough to it that I won't argue, but the actual combat encounters get repetitive by the midgame and nobody wants to admit it.

    thompson_raleigh

    my kid got frustrated with the backtracking way before any atmosphere sank in, so I'm curious how many people defending the pacing actually played it fresh without nostalgia backing them up

  9. VinylPhoenix

    Bref, entre ce jeu et Hollow Knight je vois pas comment on peut dire que l'un a mal vieilli et pas l'autre, les deux tiennent debout aujourd'hui pour des raisons complètement différentes.

  10. SilviaAce

    Todavia recuerdo lo perdida que me senti al principio, en el buen sentido, como si el juego confiara en que ibas a encontrar el camino solo.

  11. GhostByte2

    L'ambiance est incroyable, l'isolement fonctionne à merveille. Après pour le rythme des combats j'ai des réserves, c'est plus discutable.

    Gamboa25

    Los combates a mi tambien me costaron, pero el ambiente lo compensa todo, no? Que opinan los demas?