Aeropause Forums Tag: metroid

Aeropause Forums Tag: metroid http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ Aeropause is an exploration in gaming culture, trends, technologies and innovations. en Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:56:30 +0000 Stephen on "Corruption site, now with 100% more actual information" http://www.aeropause.com/forums/topic/22#post-26 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:16:53 +0000 Stephen 26@http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ <img class="alignleft" style="float: left;" src="http://www.aeropause.com/archives/images/metroid-banner-corr.png" alt="" />As pretty as the still image was that passed for a Metroid Prime 3: Corruption website, it was no substitute for the real thing, which is there right now. While the new site has little more than a tight navigation system and a little information about Samus Aran (wow, knew nothing about that person) and a range of data about the control scheme, it's still a nice leap forward, and about time considering I'll probably be playing the game tomorrow, if my local game shop cashier meant what she told me when I pre-paid for the game. Funny aside here: I have the Metroid franchise website bookmarked and look at it at least once a day for updates, but since the official site was nested one level down, I didn't notice it had launched. Thankfully, <a href="http://gonintendo.com/?p=23716">GoNintendo had my back</a>. <a href="http://wii.nintendo.com/site/metroidprime3/index.jsp">The Official Metroid Prime 3: Corruption website</a>. Stephen on "HAWT First4Figures Metroid Prime 2 Gunship is 250 bucks" http://www.aeropause.com/forums/topic/21#post-25 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:15:36 +0000 Stephen 25@http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ <a href="http://www.aeropause.com/pa.120923.4.jpg"><img class="mt-image-none" src="http://www.aeropause.com/pa.120923.4-thumb-410x410.jpg" alt="echoes-gunship.jpg" width="410" height="410" /></a> I love Metroid, and it's no overstatement for me to say that this is possibly the coolest toy I've ever seen: a model of Samus Aran's gunship from Metroid Prime 2. The windshield and engines light up, too. How much for this sexy piece of Metroid kit? Why, only $250. Kudos to First4Figures on an awesome design, but unless the thing flies on its own, that (already discounted) price seems a little steep. Source: <a href="http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-8x-49-en-70-2laz.html">Play-Asia</a>. Stephen on "Of PED Suits and Sacrifice: how a cursed belt changes the equation" http://www.aeropause.com/forums/topic/19#post-23 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:11:49 +0000 Stephen 23@http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ <img class="alignleft" style="float: left;" src="http://www.aeropause.com/archives/skull-belt.png" alt="" width="400" height="100" />I'm not sure where it started exactly, but at some point, a video game was made with an item or ability that had some kind of drawback to its use. My earliest memorable encounter with such a thing was with the cursed belt, an item in the first Dragon Warrior game on the NES. Here was an item with no redeeming qualities, and it was even called cursed belt, as if you couldn't tell there was something amiss with it. You pulled it out of a treasure chest, put it on, and it wouldn't come off until you had it professionally removed. Before I go any further... minor spoiler warning for Metroid Prime 3. While RPGs are obviously the best place for such a concept, there are other instances that have also worked well. While playing Metroid Prime 3, it occurred to me that the PED suit, which is a suit that allows you to channel phazon through your suit and weaponry to enter "hyper mode" and do a phenomenal amount of damage to your enemies for a short period of time while consuming your life energy, is the modern analog of this. More specifically, it's like the Sacrifice spell from Dragon Warrior III, which kills the caster and all members of the enemy's party. I mentioned this during last night's podcast as well, and pointed out that it's one of those things that really can change how you play a game. It turns out that like me, when Paul has a limited resource to fuel something, such as arrows for a bow or bullets for a gun, he will use that thing less, or not at all. I never used the Sacrifice spell either, because the loss of the one character felt too steep a price to pay, even if everyone in my party would be killed the old fashioned way in that battle. Part of that hesitation has to do with the fact that most RPGs don't give you any experience points at the end of a battle unless you're still standing. The same goes for magic in general in the Final Fantasy games. I've had to reteach myself how to play these games while playing Final Fantasy III. I would enter a battle in the game and refuse to use magic on the enemy, figuring that rather than wasting what precious little MP you're given in the game, I would keep fighting to level up my physical strength, using brute force to fight my battles. Unfortunately, the game's difficulty level is too high for you to do that, meaning you either use magic in most battles just to eliminate the enemies quickly, or they kill you all in a few rounds. This forces you to manage your magic very carefully, and always allow enough MP to escape the dungeon and flee for the nearest town when you find the battles have depleted your resources. I found myself toe-to-toe with a serious enemy in Metroid Prime 3, and wasn't coming close to winning the battle until I started pumping energy tanks into my PED suit. Interestingly, I only had enough life to do this twice during the battle, and when I finally took the enemy down, I only had one point of life left, and the battle hadn't even taken a minute. If this is the kind of intensity I can expect in all the battles in this game, I'm concerned that I may end up having to rely on the life-eating PED abilities far too heavily. How long before I have to use the PED suit just to make it to the bosses? Shane on "New: Metroid Prime Phazon Suit" http://www.aeropause.com/forums/topic/18#post-22 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:09:12 +0000 Shane 22@http://www.aeropause.com/forums/ [gallery] Available in the first quarter of 2009 from First 4 Figures, the new limited edition (1500 only) Metroid Prime Phazon Suit will retail for $224.99 and span 11 inches across base. First 4 Figures used the official game files in order to create an extremely accurate recreation of the Phazon suit with pose inspiration taken from official Metroid artwork. First 4 Figures on the new Metroid Prime: <blockquote>With the unique color scheme of black helmet and red visor, the Phazon Suit is awarded after defeating the Omega Pirate. Both Samus’ suit and gun are infected with pure Phazon. This gives the Phazon Suit an ability to protect Samus from the deadly effects of the deadly blue substance and shoot the Phazon Beam when standing in pools of Phazon. Just when Metroid Prime is defeated, the Phazon Suit is stolen and used to create one of Samus’ greatest enemies, Dark Samus!</blockquote> <blockquote>We completely reengineered the original Varia suit model to make the Phazon suit by casting it entirely in transparent resin, adding over 25 LED lights through the suit and finished it off by adding a mirror base which really shows off the lights. When the lights are turned off, an internal IC chip allows for the lights to fade out slowly. The statue is hand finished and hand painted with metallic paints to give an authentic representation of the suits. Comes packed in a foam interior full colored box with a card of authenticity.</blockquote> <a href="https://www.first4figures.com/component/option,com_myphp/Itemid,3/product,67/ ">More</a>