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Behold the worlds longest speed run

One of the best things about gaming these days, in my opinion as an older gamer, is revisiting games from years back and getting past those moments that held us up for so long. It's like unlocking lightning in a bottle.

I bought the game 10 years ago with an almost completed play through and finished it. Was a great experience.

That is awesome!!!!

haha that made me actually laugh out loud!

It’s not a rewarding trip. Metroid is a game that is meant to be vague and have a very light story. But there are certain types of gamers who cannot handle lack of detail. So they obsess and make things up and read into things.

because super metroid still has the best overall structure in any metroid games including prime.

@Mr. NoName yeah true. Metroid prime series is one of the best thing happened in gaming industry. And this point of view of mine is bias in many sanse. But i want to give reason behind my words. The reason why i called super Metroid better is in its overall structure. If you know about problems of prime series. You would know about that one of the biggest problem of prime series is its boring backtracking where it force you to backtrack in this big labyrinthine world. Super Metroid also had big world but it first teaches you how to find secrets in the world by cutting your path. Then after you get every item in 'tutorial' section. It completely removes it's restrictions and let you find your path of way forward with your own pace and abilities. Backtracking is not boring because you are not travelling same room just for one upgrade but you actually don't know your objectives and try to progress in game along with finding many secrets in previous area's dead ends. It doesn't have teleport and it doesn't need teleport because it's backtracking is so natural and fluid. It also give you tools. So you don't have to follow same path in your second playthrough by breaking games in new ways. It doesn't mean prime series has bad world design. The thing is i find backtracking in first prime game. Many people don't find it boring. Prime also try to address this challenge by introducing different part of separated world in prime 2. That's why prime 2 is even better game than prime 1 in my opinion.

I think Metroid Prime 1 is fantastic, but let's be real, the series started to get really old by the time Metroid Prime 3 came out, didn't it? So trying something new is ABSOLUTELY perfect for where we are at right now.

Strong agree, that's why indie games are so good.

@Mr. NoName yeah backtracking is not bad thing. instead it force you to truly understand the world and explore every nook and cranny of world to find secrets and upgrades but it should be rewarding and genuine like super metroid. You didn't has to go same room again and again for one thing but you always get rewarded for backtracking with entire new rooms and puzzles in every room where you backtrack to progress further. It doesn't mean super metroid didn't have boring bits of backtracking. it does have this boring bit of backtracking especially the path to reach norfair. Their is only one path to reach norfair. That's force you backtrack same room again and again. You also had to cross same norfair again to reach deeper parts of lower norfair which actually not bad backtracking because it has many shortcuts for us to reach it but still entering norfair is always tedious. Travelling norfair is pretty fun when you had many upgrades but entering is not. It should also has shortcuts for entrance or even different entrance for norfair from different places other than only red soil brinstar like crateria or maridia.

It's a very good game and very relevant given that this is the sequel

For me, I wish more people talked about Zero Mission.

It's possible that John didn't play it? They tend to talk about the games they connected with the most, obviously. Personally, I didn't play it much either, sadly.

I was a little frustrated the first time I played it when I figured out that they "nerfed" bomb jumping :\ But then I accepted that it wasn't "that type" of Metroid game and enjoyed the ride! I do appreciate how they tackled the horror aspect in Fusion and hope they keep that train rolling in Dread :o

Dread has been in planning for almost as long as Fusion was released. Seeing it revived, it definitely is the sequel we have been waiting for 20 years later. It looks incredible, every trailer shows off its energy, vibe, and focus of exploration, atmosphere, visuals and music. Will be worth the wait

@b p no. Just because a game doesn’t come out for decades doesn’t mean they have been working on it for decades. It probably had 24 months of development like anything else.

You're missing out. Metroid Prime 1 was a 9.5/ 10 game a must play. the gba games also are amazing, the older ones are hard to get into but, I was from that era.

@@JazGalaxy Maybe he meant the core concept has been developed back then and hasn't been much changed since then. Cause I didn't know that, and even I can tell just by watching the trailers that it has some Gamecube-vibes. Not sure if I understood the comment correctly, though.

@@oasisbeyond Since I still have a Wii, I'll try to find Prime somewhere. Thank you. Maybe I'm very biased, but imo the best games are from the late 90s and early 2000s. So I am not surprised you're rating Prime that high. Most of my favourite games are from that era, too. However, I also think that since ~2016, the quality of games has drastically improved again! (it used to be a bit low for a decade or so) I was especially surprised by some singleplayer games on the PS4 as well as the Switch.

You need to!

If u have a wii u I recommend u play Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion and Zero mission!

I hope you like the games!

Why do grown adults watch a talking puppet & formulate their opinions based on their thoughts. Do your own research and play the old games and see for yourself if thats something you’d be into. Don’t waste $60 on a game because theres “hype” behind it. Be a free thinker.

@@maciller8461 Maybe he doesn't have the consoles? Why are you so upset, but buying the old games (and maybe consoles) is a risk as it is quite expensive (for me at least) and I'd rather go the safe route and watch someone introduce me to the series before I decide if I potentially like it or not. It does not mean OP is 100% influenced by Arlo's opinion. It was just a video containing info about how much content there is for Metroid and what to better consume first. The heck?

Go play super metroid you pleb. Its the best snes game. ... play some metroid fusion it'll take you maybe 8 hours to finish... This game series invented a genre still going strong today. It absolutely holds up. Even the nes game holds up to a degree. And you call yourself a gamer? Lol

The manga deserves more love

I felt those feels

What a great friend Rob is too... I know many people that don't love their friends' art that much and they regard it mostly lukewarm.

Got 1 & 2 for Gamecube, but it'd be great if damn Nintendo would just put the trilogy on Switch dammit

@@karnagefails333 yeah i have it on wii which i play with my wii u. Still haven’t gotten around to getting a switch. Was actually waiting for metroid prime 4 or botw 2. Whichever comes first lol

That's a great idea! Johnny, you should totally do that. It's prob be meaningful for people who enjoy your channel to have art from you, a kinda cool idea and a good way to pivot into making a living as an artist, as you wanted to originally (if I'm not mistaken).

They butchered samus returns

@@novustalks7525 If Nintendo repeats it will be for something

@@novustalks7525 Honest question; what do you think they could have done better?

@@IndohNintendo everything. The music, level design, art style, enemy variety, the pacing

I was a bit mixed on Lords of Shadow 2; the first game was incredible when I played it in 2010 and the ending got me excited for the sequel, but when I finally got my hands on it, the game felt like something completely different. Was hoping Lords of Shadow 3 was going to happen to maybe fix some of the errors of the sequel and end it on a high note, but, sadly, that never happened.

There’s a lot of excellent Metroidvanias. Ori comes to mind. But nothing, and I mean ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, comes close to Metroid itself. Not even Castlevania can touch Metroid. It’s like Momster Hunter. No matter how many clones release, they just don’t scratch that same itch.

I agree, Metroid Prime feels like 3-D Zelda on space and I don't like it.

As you should!

It's a bad sign. They made samus returns which was terrible

@@novustalks7525 couldn't tell you I haven't played it yet.

Samus returns was a good game for me, so i'm excited for dread :)