Halo or Metroid?

This, and just about every other post in this topic makes me sick to my stomach to read. Perhaps it is because I am surrounded by people that were infants when the -real- Metroid games were coming out, but whether you're talking about sales numbers or simple origins, Metroid has and always will be a 2D game. The 3D er... "iterations" that Retro Studios has crapped onto our faces, are not even close to being Metroid games; they're obscenely easy, only difficult in parts where trying to platform in a game in which you CANNOT SEE YOUR OWN FEET would become difficult.

If you want to compare Metroid PRIME to Halo; I suggest you re-examine the argument.

Here is a mediocre First-Person Adventure, with a big time franchise name stamped on it; against the premier Xbox IP, which despite the hype it gets, is ultimately just one more FPS in that big throw away pile of names that beg for your attention by being monosyllabic or at least one compound word. Somewhere between Half-Life, Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein, Call of Duty, Fear, Brothers in Arms, Battlefield, Halo, Duke, Sam, Blood, Heretic, Hexen, I mean... holy crap. CONGRATULATIONS. You own an FPS for a console; HALO, is certainly not 'combat evolved' or even mutated in the slightest. It is -fun-, and honestly I think it's more fun than Metroid Prime, but I'll be damned if I will ever understand why a person would try and compare it to Metroid (THE REAL METROID), outside of the stupid-ass reason that the hero and heroine of each game are armor clad, visor wearing people that yes... LIKE TO SHOOT GUNS IN AN ACTION GAME.

Samus is nothing like Master Chief; and Metroid is nothing like Halo. Go back a few years, buy an SNES, or just wait a few and get Super Metroid on Revolution. Because until you have at least played three different 2D Metroid games, I am convinced your image of the game will always be from the first person, which is blatantly wrong.

I didn't do any ripping on Metroid. I am a metroid Fan. Last night infact I spent over 4 hours spriting the head of a Queen Metroid.

You are right about the cutscenes differing a lot. Because, in my opinion, they are worse looking. The real-time rendering used in Halo 2 causes defects in the cutscenes, the bump maps are loaded slow and often make the scenes appear choppy. This is not observed while playing, because things are loaded before they come into view. In cutscenes, the camera angle shifts dramatically, and causes this error.

As for your dig about me, what was it, oh yes... "sneak[ing] your way into the pants of Metroid Fan Mission's administration." I can only say that you are grossly misinformed. I actually created the layout and all code for the Metroid: Fan Mission website. http://metroidr.brpxqzme.net/ I also spent hours upon hours replicating that layout for use in the forums.

This post has been edited by Xander on Mar 24 2006, 01:26 AM

What? That makes no sense, unless you're agreeing with me that the ppp discussion wasn't trivial. :x

Nono, I'm implying that you got almost as worked up as I did the previous topic about the Tales series.

I won't argue with you there, I get plenty worked up over discussions here. But if the ToS discussion was trivial, I think this one is just as if not more trivial (remember who said the two games can't even be compared making this topic pointless*). :P

*which I agree with

This post has been edited by FanGuy on Mar 24 2006, 01:31 AM

I feel that this whole thing has gone out of hand. Kaepora, stop arguing over meaningless things and get back to the point of this topic which is to discuss which game you prefer and why, but if you do this, don't do what you did to Xander which is to just attack the person and ignore the whole post they had made because of one sentence in it you didn't like.

This went from Metroid and Halo to "halo grafix suk i could make them in 1 day". Kaepora, you are also getting worked up about most of the posts in this topic, and you shouldn't beat on others for it if you're doing the same thing. That's an expression called "the pot calling the kettle black".

This seems more like PPP material after the recent pages, and I say we get this topic back on track already and end the pointless arguments.

This post has been edited by Admiral Delmore on Mar 24 2006, 01:50 AM

...alright.

Halo has shooting in visor helmets, and Half Life 2 has head suckers, but Metroid has both.

I'm gonna have to say once again Nightfire wins.

Too bad Metroid and Metroid Prime are nothing alike, or your post would really benefit us poor confused argumentative fools

Alright, I'm here to get it back on track.

Let's have a look at Halo vs. Metroid Prime (I assume Prime is what everyone is talking about). On one hand we have Halo, of which I cannot make proper judgment with my limited play time. On the other hand we have Metroid, of which the exact same applies.

So which one do I prefer? So far, I've enjoyed Halo more, for a very simple reason. I've played Metroid Prime longer.

hahahahaha

Okay, it wasn't half-assed. Poor choice of words on my part. But it's still cliché--multiple times over. To be succinct:

Halo in a nutshell: DHURFLURBUR ALIENZ BE ATTACKIN', THA GUB'MENT WE WURK 4 WANTS 2 DESTROY US, O****ZOMBIES !!!!11

Halo 2 in a nutshell: DHURFLURBUR HYOOMUNZ BE ATTACKIN', THA GUB'MENT WE WURK 4 WANTS 2 DESTROY US, O****ZOMBIES !!!!11 NOWWETEAMUP!!!111oneone.

Oh Ell Oh Ell Zee, people.

You can summarize any plot like that.

Oh God, you know something's gone wrong when people are starting to defend an FPS for its storyline

Alright, summarize "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" and report back here.

I still think this topic needs a Virtual Boy option.

They're so alike it's crazy to say they're not. They're both platformers where you explore, find a power-up, think about where such a powerup would've benefitted you earlier, and then moving on until you get the next power-up.
I mean.. there are a lot of ways you can say they're not alike.. but .. >=[.

Maybe if you were comparing Metroid to Ice-Hockey.. but I'm sure there are probably some similarities there too >_>.

Nightwing, you're argument just seems to keep spewing out "It's not PURE Metroid, Prime is a TAINTED perversion of the Metroid series." They're so close to the same game that it's amazing to me that they pulled it off while still making the game fun.


I think the Halo to Metroid Prime argument is definately getting out thurr though >_>.
Yall are getting mad at the games for having a plot involving aliens or having the heros wear visors... Seriously >_>...

I've played and am still playing both games a lot, enjoy them both throughly, but honestly the main thing they have in common is the perspective XD.
Super Metroid to Contra ppl =P?

I'll ask this again.

Why are we comparing the two?

I don't know, because you can definately like both of them a lot, like I do.. as entirely separate game experiences.

You know what? This topic just needs to be locked right now. It's already going downhill, because not many MFGGers can civilly handle a debate about games, let alone make a debate that makes sense.