Metroid Prime.. Surpasses everything this gen in atmosphere!!

Everyone goes on about graphics improving atmosphere and immersion but last week i brought the MP Trilogy (£20) and have to totally disagree. No other game has that feeling of solitude and having the world upon your shouldersjust like Metroid Prime even to this date.The only other game which had amtosphere in the samemagnitude asMP would be 2 classic games of Resident Evil (GC) and Silent Hill (PSX), RE added atmosphere from doing bad camera angles which worked for me and Silent Hill just from eerieness like Radio making squeeking noises and so on. I cannot wait to play MP2: Echoes as i never got round to it and MP3 Atmosphere is more in lines of a big action lflick.

I played it in the trilogy too, and it's fun, but there's a friggen ton of backtracking, the whole game is basically back tracking. Definetly would've liked it more back when it was released but w/e

A lot of people highly dislike Echoes, but I personally thought it was a far better game than Prime (since Prime was essentially Super Metroid in 3D) because it took the Prime series in a unique direction that was more Retro than cIassic Nintendo. Corruption isn't nearly as good as Prime or Echoes, but it has a few good moments. It is almost entirely unmemorable compared to the other two as well.

I personally would put STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl on top when it comes to atmosphere. Prime and Echoes were good, but when it comes to immersion STALKER took the cake. I'd also throw Mass Effect 1 and 2 up there as well.

Never liked the series TBH

A lot of people highly dislike Echoes, but I personally thought it was a far better game than Prime (since Prime was essentially Super Metroid in 3D) because it took the Prime series in a unique direction that was more Retro than cIassic Nintendo. Corruption isn't nearly as good as Prime or Echoes, but it has a few good moments. It is almost entirely unmemorable compared to the other two as well.

I personally would put STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl on top when it comes to atmosphere. Prime and Echoes were good, but when it comes to immersion STALKER took the cake. I'd also throw Mass Effect 1 and 2 up there as well.

foxhound_fox

That would have to go to Demon's Souls.

BioShock 1 and 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum and S.T.A.L.K.E.R win the prize.

Prime was the bomb in atmosphere, but uh...

And even then I don't think it surpasses...

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Especially Assassin's Creed 2. there are parts that are simply breathtaking.IronBass

Stuff about SS2 mo0ksi

The first two Metroid Prime games blew me away, and the second is the best in my opinion. The whole Grass, Sand, Lava, Ice, Water thing in MP1 is a bit of a Nintendo cliché. The third was a massive step backwards though. It was as if they forgot what the Prime series was all about in the first place and they just tried to recreate Halo 2/3 on the Wii instead.

stalker and bioshock say otherwise.

Metroid Prime was awesome! :P I'd agree with you but to be honest it's probably the nostalgia more than anything. I think if i actually went back and played it it wouldn't quite live up to the lofty bar set by current get graphics. Ninja-Hippo

[QUOTE="mo0ksi"] Stuff about SS2 jg4xchamp

[QUOTE="Ninja-Hippo"]Metroid Prime was awesome! :P I'd agree with you but to be honest it's probably the nostalgia more than anything. I think if i actually went back and played it it wouldn't quite live up to the lofty bar set by current get graphics. jg4xchamp

That would have to go to Demon's Souls.

ChaltierX

King's Field's atmosphere is far superior to Demon's Souls.

You can't argue which atmosphere is "better". It's all personal taste. Metroid Prime, Bioshock, Dead Space, Silent Hill 1-3, Demon's Souls all have amazing atmosphere, atleast for me.

[QUOTE="jg4xchamp"][QUOTE="Ninja-Hippo"]Metroid Prime was awesome! :P I'd agree with you but to be honest it's probably the nostalgia more than anything. I think if i actually went back and played it it wouldn't quite live up to the lofty bar set by current get graphics. Ninja-Hippo

You can't argue which atmosphere is "better". It's all personal taste. Master_ShakeXXX

ofcourse you can add this entire cluttered mess of a post to my Metroid bias :P

jg4xchamp

A lot of people highly dislike Echoes, but I personally thought it was a far better game than Prime (since Prime was essentially Super Metroid in 3D) because it took the Prime series in a unique direction that was more Retro than cIassic Nintendo. Corruption isn't nearly as good as Prime or Echoes, but it has a few good moments. It is almost entirely unmemorable compared to the other two as well.

I personally would put STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl on top when it comes to atmosphere. Prime and Echoes were good, but when it comes to immersion STALKER took the cake. I'd also throw Mass Effect 1 and 2 up there as well.

foxhound_fox

Alan Wake has really great atmosphere but Metroid is close. The Feeling of isolation in Metroid is intense.

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ofcourse you can add this entire cluttered mess of a post to my Metroid bias :P

Ninja-Hippo

Agreed, the trilogy as a whole is awesome. Heck, I even liked Echoes.

Disagrees.

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ofcourse you can add this entire cluttered mess of a post to my Metroid bias :P

felipebo

Agreed, the trilogy as a whole is awesome. Heck, I even liked Echoes.

The first two Metroid Prime games blew me away, and the second is the best in my opinion. The whole Grass, Sand, Lava, Ice, Water thing in MP1 is a bit of a Nintendo cliché. The third was a massive step backwards though. It was as if they forgot what the Prime series was all about in the first place and they just tried to recreate Halo 2/3 on the Wii instead.

WasntAvailable

Ehhhh I disagree. Metroid Prime 1 and 2 were both more atmospheric than 3, especially 2, and they were lats gen so they don't count. Even so, none of the Trilogy, especially not MP3, even compares in atmosphere to Batman: Arkham Asylum or Demon's Souls. Still amazing games though.

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[QUOTE="Ninja-Hippo"] I think Metroid Prime for me at least is up there with Half Life as one of those games which i will always insist is better than anything else on the market, even ten years from now when it looks and plays like crap. :Pjg4xchamp

Agreed, the trilogy as a whole is awesome. Heck, I even liked Echoes.

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[QUOTE="Ninja-Hippo"] I think Metroid Prime for me at least is up there with Half Life as one of those games which i will always insist is better than anything else on the market, even ten years from now when it looks and plays like crap. :Pjg4xchamp

Agreed, the trilogy as a whole is awesome. Heck, I even liked Echoes.

The game looks and feels fantastic. (the trilogy version is even better) It Prime has the best atmosphere of any game I've ever played. I didn't really like 2 though and 3 was okay. The area right were you land on Talon IV is absolutly spectacular

Ehhhh I disagree. Metroid Prime 1 and 2 were both more atmospheric than 3, especially 2, and they were lats gen so they don't count. Even so, none of the Trilogy, especially not MP3, even compares in atmosphere to Batman: Arkham Asylum or Demon's Souls. Still amazing games though.

oldkingallant

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Agreed, the trilogy as a whole is awesome. Heck, I even liked Echoes.

kansasdude2009

[QUOTE="jg4xchamp"][QUOTE="felipebo"]

Agreed, the trilogy as a whole is awesome. Heck, I even liked Echoes.

oldkingallant

. No other game has that feeling of solitude and having the world upon your shoulders .

Dibdibdobdobo

i agree.

other games with good atmosphere are:

halo:CE(in most parts9

bioshock

metroid prime 2:P

metro 2033

First complaint the story

A- the voice acting sucks
B- the dialogue sucks
C- The writing is all around bad, and the plot is just rather weak.
D- They dropped the unique story telling of the Prime games for cutscenes. Who the **** approved that?

That out of the way the rest of the game just dropped off. The Boss fights were nowhere near as creative nor as challenging as the stuff in the first 2 prime games. To the point where one of the bosses might as well have a billboard on him saying "Shoot me right here". The interplanetary movement killed the whole one giant envrionment vibe the games usually aim for. It went too far into shooter territory, and less about the exploration and atmosphere.

More importantly sequence breaking. There are aspects of Prime 3 where they actually try to halt the sequence breaking. Either way I agree the game is actually good for the most part. It's nice and varied, and compared to what we got this gen the boss fights are good. Just not good by Metroid standards.

Prime 3 is to The Prime Trilogy what Godfather 3 is to the Godfather trilogy. It's good, but good just isn't good enough when the first 2 are cIassics.

jg4xchamp

Metroid Prime is good but i did'nt like the first one.
Plenty of other games that surpass Metroid Prime in terms of atmosphere.

Dead Space, Bioshock, Stalker Shawdow of Chernobyl, Silent Hill etc.

Half life 2 is the top by far.

More importantly sequence breaking. There are aspects of Prime 3 where they actually try to halt the sequence breaking.

jg4xchamp

To be fair with this point (I pretty much agree with everything else you said), the developers have done the same thing with Prime 1 and Prime 2. After Prime 1 released, and sequence breaks were found, the game went through some editting and later versions (like the Players Choice edition) had less sequence breaks and prevented them. In Prime 2, the mechanics of the game were tweaked from Prime 1 (though unnoticeable to most players) to attempt to stop sequence breaking, but that ultimately failed, and sequence breaks were possible (although many of them are incredibly hard).

Though both are still better than Prime 3 when it comes to breaking the game; Prime 3 has maybe one true item skip (sort of), and another one using secret worlds (that's incredibly slow and barely worth it).

And here I am, looking like a speed running nerd...>_>

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The first two Metroid Prime games blew me away, and the second is the best in my opinion. The whole Grass, Sand, Lava, Ice, Water thing in MP1 is a bit of a Nintendo cliché. The third was a massive step backwards though. It was as if they forgot what the Prime series was all about in the first place and they just tried to recreate Halo 2/3 on the Wii instead.

kansasdude2009

I disagree. I found the game got pretty tedious quickly. Some moments were cool, but it's atmosphere was ruined. The characters were absolutely terrible, much more so than Halo, and the environments were far too small to give any real feeling of scale or scope. The story was also terrible, and the voice acting was forced. Even though Halo 2/3 are not amazing, they still maintained more of a feeling of immersion and scale than MP3. I also found them more fun to play as well.