metroid prime 3 = game for the hardcore wii'ers

[shmokes]

I'm really excited to.  I haven't played it yet, but MP3 and I share birthdays, so I have to get it.

[RTSDaddy2]

I'll second the crosshairs thing, especially with the boss on Norion, Generator C....I always lose the crosshair and miss killing that sucker by a few shots.  Nevertheless, a moot point on a damn fine game.

Going to try the advanaced thing later, as well as making trigger the fire button (using A button is beating my thumb to death).  Dawgs take on Spurrier in about 3 minutes....here's hoping we kick his team's teeth in.

[hypernova]

It just came in the mail Friday, and I managed to pop it in on Saturday.  As a casual gamer, it is a bit difficult to acclimate to, but give it time.  I'm trying to free myself of the auto-aim that you can enable that was active during other MP games.  It's hard getting used to manually aiming now, since I'm an avid fan of the first two.
It's also a bit confusing to get used to the jump button.  I'm not accustomed to using two fingers to jump and shoot.  It used to just be thumb action.

I'm on Bryyo right now.

[notaburger]

well, advanced mode seems to not be for me
i don't know if it's just because i started the game the other way, but it just moves to fast for my liking
i can definitely see why other people demand it though

no doubt, if i would have started the game in advanced mode, i would think that the other mode is too slow

as far as switching jump and shoot, i would imagine that they did it like that because you shoot a ton and jump ONLY a heck of a lot, i'd much rather hit the trigger less, shooting your gun takes precision and timing

you'll get used to it, don't worry

[hypernova]

Finished the game Monday on normal difficulty.

I almost felt kinda cheated.  The last two games' final couple of bosses felt like epic battles, even on the normal difficulty.  This one just didn't feel like that.

Another thing that kinda bothered me was previously, it seemed that the designers would hint at how to beat bosses in the scans, while this one pretty much outright told you every time what needed to be done.

I sent a friend voucher to RTS...I need friend tokens!  I have 16 left.

Time to take on hyper mode difficulty.

[ChadTower]

That's not so good to hear but your Metroid skill level must be higher than mine.  I never was able to beat the Pirate boss in Metroid Prime.

[RTSDaddy2]

Hyper:

I haven't played Prime in a few days - I'll look for the friend voucher tomorrow.  My 4 year old wanted Daddy to try and finish Link.

I will never own a gun, by the way.   My aim apparently just stinks to high heck. It took me forever to get good enough to kill the boss at the end of MP3's "Prologue," and  I'm STILL trying to hit that damn bird on TP at the right time to keep the wagon on the right path.          

[hypernova]

That's not so good to hear but your Metroid skill level must be higher than mine.  I never was able to beat the Pirate boss in Metroid Prime.

Huh...and I thought I wasn't even that great.  That pirate boss was freakin' sweet the first time.  He didn't give me as much trouble afterwards though.  SPOILER:  There's only three more bosses after that, and while they aren't quite as hard (because of the "assistance" the pirate boss gets,) they are definitely up there, and the 2nd (1st form of final) takes a LONG time.  I've never tried (nor will I ever want) to complete the game (1 or 2...or any metroid for that matter) on hard mode with minimum items.  Visit www.metroid2002.com for more details on that and all other metroid related stuff, but the short of it is NO E TANKS, 5 MISSILES, and only the things that are completely necessary to finish.  Lots of resetting.  Ugh...no thanks!  I do like some of the easier sequence breaking techniques.  (No wallcrawling though...too frustrating.  Tried it to get the Ice Beam before Flaahgra, but it's too long a journey.)

I'm STILL trying to hit that damn bird on TP at the right time to keep the wagon on the right path.

Just gotta keep on it...Main priority is to keep the fires out.  Always focus on those and the guys who can start them.  Fortunately, you don't need pinpoint accuracy for hits to register.

I can send more vouchers...so if anyone's got some to send back, let me know.

And anyone who gets to where it acid rains...don't bother testing to see how far you can get.  It's kinda like Prime 2 and the Ing Storm.  You'll last only a few seconds, and in this case, it starts slow, and the rate of decline increases exponentially.  I stepped out into it, noticed it was slow, and took my eyes off it.  Within about 8 seconds, I hear the alert that my 6 or so tanks are low, realizing I'm about dead.  It was too late.  Fortunately, it started me not from my last save (thank God!) but rather from an event that happened about 10 minutes prior.

It took me forever to get good enough to kill the boss at the end of MP3's "Prologue,"

I almost died the first time due to having around 15 seconds left, as I was unsure of what I was doing.  Basically you blast his hand when it glows bright, and his mouth when it does the same.  It's fairly easy to dodge his ray blast...just steer yourself in a slow circle.

My 4 year old wanted Daddy to try and finish Link.

Finish?  You've barely begun!   I'd say you are abooooooooouuuuuuut 25% through, if that.

[Tahnok]

Is it just me, or is this game quite a bit easier than the first two? Maybe I've just gotten better, but I just got the acid rain shield and I've yet to die, or really use more than two whole energy tanks (leaving quite a few tanks for a buffer always).

Other than that, the game is fantastic. The environments alone are worth the price of admission.

[hypernova]

It is easier, so far.  I've just started hypermode difficulty, and only died once on the normal mode (as I stated, in the acid rain...stinking exponentially faster energy loss.)

I'm hoping for a bit more tougher times.  I've read DS is insanely hard in this mode, but I thought she was insanely easy on normal, so I'm not expecting much more difficulty in dispatching her.

[hypernova]

Who else has this game?  I need friend credits to unlock everything.

[AtomSmasher]

Who else has this game?  I need friend credits to unlock everything.

Me.  No ones added me since I got my Wii repaired, so I have plenty of friend credits to go around 

[hypernova]

I'll add you late tonight, after I get home from class.  (I'm guilty...I haven't updated your code!)

I'll send you what I've got in tokens.  It's around 18 or so.  Since we only need 15 for all the unlockables, I'll send you 15.  I just need 14 (got one from RTS.)  Sound good?

[AtomSmasher]

I'll add you late tonight, after I get home from class.  (I'm guilty...I haven't updated your code!)

I'll send you what I've got in tokens.  It's around 18 or so.  Since we only need 15 for all the unlockables, I'll send you 15.  I just need 14 (got one from RTS.)  Sound good?

I'll send you however many I have, I'm probably about 1/2 way through the game right now (I just got onto the missing space ship overrun with pirates), so I'm not sure how many I've gotten, but I'll keep sending them as I get them.  Since I doubt I even have 15 so far, feel free just to send me however many I send you instead of the whole 15.  I'm actually leaving tommorrow morning on vacation, so I won't be able to send them until Sun night.

[hypernova]

That's fine.  Classes have lasted up until 10 like they're supposed to all week, so I haven't felt like getting on there to do it.  I will definitely get to it this weekend, though.

[MustardTent]

I just updated my list and added you Atom.  I have Prime as well, so I can do the token thing too.

[Tahnok]

I just finished this game, so I want to unlock some of the extra features. Here's my Wii number (since I haven't posted it yet in the thread):

1816 3694 9965 2027

So far, I've added Atom, Mustard, and Hyper.

[hypernova]

I sent one to you Atom, just to make sure you're receiving them.

Will try to add you guys here soon too.

[AtomSmasher]

I sent one to you Atom, just to make sure you're receiving them.

Will try to add you guys here soon too.

Sorry, I've been extremely busy lately and forgot all about this.  I haven't received it yet, but it may take it little while to get here, so I'll let you know again tommorrow night.  I just sent you two, so let me know when you get them.  Once you do, I'll send over the rest that I have (looks like I have 11 total right now).

[hypernova]

You may need to leave the Wii on for a few minutes to allow it to connect and send data back and forth.  Maybe 30 minutes'll do it.  Unless you're crazy and leave Wii Connect on for 24 hours.  Which is pointless.   

[AtomSmasher]

You may need to leave the Wii on for a few minutes to allow it to connect and send data back and forth.  Maybe 30 minutes'll do it.  Unless you're crazy and leave Wii Connect on for 24 hours.  Which is pointless.   

I did turn on Wii connect a week or so ago, so there shouldn't be a problem there.

[hypernova]

I got them, and I sent out a few more to you, as well as a few to tahnok.

It seems to take a day or so for them to make the trip...

[AtomSmasher]

I got them, and I sent out a few more to you, as well as a few to tahnok.

It seems to take a day or so for them to make the trip...

Ya, I just got yours too and I sent you the rest of mine (11 in total).

[hypernova]

Cool...I'll check it out here soon.

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Mogenar is a freaking beast on hypermode.  When I first fought him on normal, I thought I needed to break all the orbs before using the hyperbeam.  It took me two deaths to realize that I could do them one by one.  (He kept absorbing more balls after I'd destroy one or two, and they're too strong to destroy both before he consumes them.)  Then it just took three more tries, because trying to bomb his feet without getting too close before he charges again can be tough.  When I finally beat him, it took a good 15 minutes.  That's the epic I'm looking for.

Although Rundas before him, while I beat him without hypermode the first time on normal (which took awhile;) this time I disposed of him in hypermode.  ONE efficient hypermode.  It was rather disappointing.

[MustardTent]

After playing this on the Wii, I tried the original MP and man, without the pointer functionality of the wiimote, it's almost unplayable.  I have been totally spoiled by this game.

[ahofle]

After playing this on the Wii, I tried the original MP and man, without the pointer functionality of the wiimote, it's almost unplayable.  I have been totally spoiled by this game.

That's how most PC FPS players feel as well.  FWIW, I'm playing through the original MP right now as well.  I'm getting used to it and I'm enjoying the game, but it still sucks having to wait 5 seconds to do a damn 180. 

[ahofle]

That's not so good to hear but your Metroid skill level must be higher than mine.  I never was able to beat the Pirate boss in Metroid Prime.

Just thought I'd dredge this up because I'm 5 years behind the times and finally got to the Omega Pirate a couple days ago.  Damn that dude was hard.  I finally had to look up a way to defeat him -- ended up using this strategy:
http://www.metroid2002.com/boss_tricks_omega_pirate_plasma.php
although I wasn't able to get him in one round like the guy in the video.  I'm surprised my GC controller still works from all the times I tossed it to the ground trying to defeat that guy. 

[hypernova]

Well, you've got three more bosses total.

Just a note:  On the final boss, while in hyperbeam on normal spectrum, pay attention to your arm cannon and the stream of energy you blast out...that is, if you're not too freaked and anxious to pay attention to it.  It's pretty sweet looking.

And once you do that,

It's on to hard mode!

Also, I still need two more friend vouchers from someone.  After that, I'm good.  I still have some to spread around myself to whomever needs them.

[RTSDaddy2]

Hyper - just sent (I think) you two more this morning.  Sorry, I'm still not sure what's going on with the token thing, but that's just a "me" thing...I'll read up on it later

I guess I have lousy hand-eye coordination....I cannot make Samus swing back over the golem on the planet Bryyo after picking up the grapple swing upgrade!  I can get to the first target just fine - but how do you move back and forth between targets?  Do I need to press A (jump) then relock with Z?

[AtomSmasher]

You pretty much just need to release Z at the right time, then press it again immediately to lock onto the next one.

[hypernova]

Bingo.  After swinging forward, release at the end, then the next grapple point should highlight and enlarge, in which case you just press it again.  Rinse and repeat.

Thanks for the tokens!  That's all I need, except for one more blue and gold token that I need to get at the beginning of the game.

[hypernova]

RTS, I only received one from you.

Managed to finish hypermode difficulty today.  SPOILERS

Died on the decent through Phaaze to DS fight
Died on the first AU
Had to quit for a week
Died on DS herself
Died on second AU form (totally forgot there was another AU form!)
Finally beat it.

Overall impressions:
Wow, this difficulty was exactly what I was waiting for.  This is many times harder than the previous MPs hard settings.  On previous MPs, the hard setting just took longer to defeat the bosses.  They weren't much harder, seemingly.  Save for the Rundas fight, which was uncharacteristically easy, the rest of the boss battles in 3 were quite difficult, and I only managed to defeat one Seed without dying at least once (Helios).
What I like about the DS fight is when she splits up, if you guess correctly, and hurt the real DS, the two clones don't disappear after a certain amount of damage inflicted on the real one (like breaking her concentration.)  They stay active in the fight until you turn your attention to them and destroy them, or until DS merges again.

[javeryh]

I finally finished this over the weekend.  I ended up with 97% and 18:02 completion time - this was spread out since launch basically playing an hour here and there (no time with the kids and I can't play these types of games when they are awake).  Amazing game and probably the best I've played on Wii which says a lot since I loved Zelda and RE4.  I started Bioshock next and I'm loving it so far...