Metroid Prime 4:Beyond

Utnayan

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I watched a stream. you guys are lucky I'm not actually playing it, cause I think I would be losing my mind, and spamming this thread even more if I was. only watching a stream, and reviews puts up a wall, so Im not as invested.
chrono tower spoilers
cutscene, into cutscene. walk 5ft,cutscene. walk 10ft, cutscene, into cutscene. boss fight, cutscene, into cutscene. boss fight, cutscene, into cutscene, into cutscene. press A to finish the game. or game over if you don't, and redo boss fight. Game over. to be continued.

end boss has our friends tag along, and you have to stop every 5seconds to use your physic healing to pick them off the ground as they get downed constantly. game over if they die. Baby sitting these clowns during the end boss. what a great design choice. then, they "sacrifice" themselves so samus can teleport away. game over. story is not actually over. also, as noted, by Skillup. its a game over if you don't press A to teleport.
streamer I watched, had seen skillups "farm green energy crystals" complaint, and thought he was ok. nope. he still had to farm green energy crystals before the tower too.




endymointv mentioning how its 343 devs hired at Rare, and how Samus is just masterchief in this. lol.


Watched that whole thing - with an open world like that on the Bike put the fire tool inside the exploration of the open part and DEFINITELY more POI's then green shit all over you have to run over. I mean holy shit. Basic game design 101 and whoever was behind this was absolutely fucking clueless - which doesn't shock me.
 
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Runnen

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Watched that whole thing - with an open world like that on the Bike put the fire tool inside the exploration of the open part and DEFINITELY more POI's then green shit all over you have to run over. I mean holy shit. Basic game design 101 and whoever was behind this was absolutely fucking clueless - which doesn't shock me.

The central desert area has a bunch of points of interest other than the green crystals though. There's at least 3 underground "shrines" to boost your elemental beams, at least 2 other places to boost your bike's boosts, several buildings that you need various abilities to explore to find missile / shot upgrades or pieces of the big mech, there's a hidden save station (or at least I didn't find it until way later haha).

It's obviously a big stretch of an area specifically for the bike gimmick, and you're entitled to your opinion about the bike or whether it was necessary as an accessory for Samus (I personally like the bike), but saying it contains nothing but green crystals isn't really true. However, I do wish you could target the crystals so that you could destroy them without having to accurately run over every little bit of crystal, because I regularly have to turn around and grab that little piece I didn't run over.
 

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I watched a stream. you guys are lucky I'm not actually playing it, cause I think I would be losing my mind, and spamming this thread even more if I was. only watching a stream, and reviews puts up a wall, so Im not as invested.
chrono tower spoilers
cutscene, into cutscene. walk 5ft,cutscene. walk 10ft, cutscene, into cutscene. boss fight, cutscene, into cutscene. boss fight, cutscene, into cutscene, into cutscene. press A to finish the game. or game over if you don't, and redo boss fight. Game over. to be continued.

end boss has our friends tag along, and you have to stop every 5seconds to use your physic healing to pick them off the ground as they get downed constantly. game over if they die. Baby sitting these clowns during the end boss. what a great design choice. then, they "sacrifice" themselves so samus can teleport away. game over. story is not actually over. also, as noted, by Skillup. its a game over if you don't press A to teleport.
streamer I watched, had seen skillups "farm green energy crystals" complaint, and thought he was ok. nope. he still had to farm green energy crystals before the tower too.




endymointv mentioning how its 343 devs hired at Rare, and how Samus is just masterchief in this. lol.


Damn, that sounds horrible. At least we're getting a Prime 5? Use the engine from this and fix everything people hated and maybe we'll get the game this should have been by 2027 or 2028. Remaster the other Primes first plox.

You need about a bajillion Green Crystals to beat the game. Even if you think you're overfarming out the wazoo, you're probably only like 25% of the way there. It sucks.

Even with my propensity for speeding through games, this is taking me days and days because I can't get motivated to play for more than a few minutes at a time. Super Metroid and Metroid 2 were my favorite and second favorite games as a kid. Oof.