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So many games run into the problem where they stop the game and show you what happens next. It's like you're playing a game and then things switch to a movie for a bit and then back to a game. That would never fly in any other form of storytelling. If your movie stopped at points and just printed a wall of text on the screen it would be a mess. Movies have to remain as movies the whole time. They can't turn into a book at certain intervals. But that's kind of what videogames sometimes do especially titles like Metal Gear Solid 4. They stop at points and turn into something else as if this is the only way to tell a story.Uh, the scans stopped you from playing the game and revealed plot through text. So, instead of watching a cutscene, players looked at words. Sorry, dude, that's the same thing except I'd rather be watching a cutscene. If I wanted to read, I'd pick up a novel and I do... WHEN I FEEL LIKE READING.
The unique feature of videogames is that you the audience is controlling the action. You directly experience what is going on. Cutscene heavy games look at this more of a limitation. They can't decide what they want to express if you're driving the car so they take over. Metroid Prime embraces the direct experience of a videogame and uses it to its advantage. You can view the scans or not as only some are mandatory. You can scan them your first time in an area or later, during a fire fight or after you've cleared the enemies out. It's like how it real life if you were discovering something written on a wall. You really read it, the reaction is your reaction and you choose whether to read it or not. Metroid Prime remains a game for almost its entirety. It's not some wannabe movie.But a wannabe novel instead? Part of what you're describing is QTE and QTE is f*cking terrible. I'd rather just have a shorter cutscene than have to deal with that bullsh*t. Part of the problem is that there's no real way to make exposition engaging. They don't even do that in movies. So, how do you make that interactive? 20-25 years ago games skipped exposition almost entirely. You beat a boss in a desert and suddenly you're in a grassy plain or in the sky or on a mountain. How did you even get there and why were you there? Why are ninjas attacking now instead of robots or street thugs? No one questioned it. If we cared about plot back then as much as we do today, the proper response to that would be "What is this? I don't even....."
As for Zelda, it does have a strict continuity.Because Nintendo said it has a strict continuity? Ehh...
BTW, Kraid also made a cameo in Super Smash Bros Melee. And as for what Kraid would have looked like as done by Rare if they hadn`t had time constraints...Banned.
Huh, Kraid was supposed to be in Prime. I'm kinda surprised that they didn't just add him in during the Trilogy work. That would have been neat.George Lucas Presents Metroid Prime Trilogy. Dude, sometimes you just have to let it go. Metroid Prime was a near perfect game. Just adding Kraid for sh*ts and giggles would seriously mess up the game's pacing... maybe more than that stupid fetch quest at the end. And what if it sucked? The Saturn version of Symphony of the Night added 2 new areas and a new boss. They didn't add anything to the game and the new boss, The Skeleton King, was lame. The only reason anyone even cared was because Konami remixed Vampire Killer and Bloody Tears. I don't really think that's worth messing with a classic.
And yet the rest of the internet does nothing but b!tch about Brawl being too different from Melee. Hell Smash Boards, the largest Smash Bros message board on the internet has been hacking the game for the last 2 years in order to make it play exactly like Melee. If Nintendo were to listen to what most of the haters had to say, then the next Smash Bros would be even more similar to Melee then Brawl is.Yeah, I heard about that. I don't get it though. If you want a game that plays like Melee.... play Melee. In any case, I'm not sure a Smash Bros. game would work on a handheld, especially when the camera pans out. I guess you could just have smaller stages, but that's not really in the spirit of the series (it's limiting).
Yeah, they are a perfect videogame team. But with NBA Jam you can only play as two guys at once so you won't be able to play as all three of them. So in theory any team with two stars should be able to compete with them.Isn't there at least 1 sub? Let's say Chris Bosh is the "worst" of the 3, that's still Chris Bosh as your substitution. No team in the NBA has a 3rd option that good.
But unlike Sony's controller, the SNES pad had a distinct "feel" to its buttons -- the convex/concave shape of them. And that made it super easy to feel your way around the controller so that you, as a gamer, always knew what button to push for whichever action.Kudos. I have been saying this for years. I think for most non-gamers/casual gamers, they're rarely ever going to need to press a button other than Start/+ or a trigger. Swinging the remote will always be the main method of command input for them. The convex/concave buttons were highly under-appreciated.
I have to wonder what kind of impact such a game as the Last Story will have on RPGs for the wii.None. At best, we get a solid RPG. That suits me just fine. I expect nothing more. If you think it will make a difference and suddenly bring about some renaissance for RPGs on the Wii, you probably also believe that putting your baby teeth under your pillow will yield rewards from a magical fairy the following morning. Nintendo's next console is probably coming next year. I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo told Square Enix this and asked them to move development of Dragon Quest X to the successor of the Wii. It'd make a nice launch game. Unlikely, but a girl can dream.....
I'm pretty sure they would only have to re-license the players that have retired. All other players (unless they opted out by having their own personal contracts) are part of the NBA Players Licensing.The original NBA Jam came out in like 1993. Shaq might be the only active player from any version of the original.
