First video of Metroid Prime remake

[Kim]

Maybe just tap Z to cycle through them?

[Professor Smarmiarty]

I LOVED the MP3 controls and I never played the original so I'll be on this.
I never had a problem with visor switching, I found it very fast and intuitive and much better than visor cycling like in say AvP2

[Moogle0119]

Originally Posted by Regulus Tera

Do you mean Ridley and the Omega Pirate?

Actually I think the big blue enemy is the Omega Pirate, I forgot about that guy. The other one though is in the video directly after Ridley near the end from 1:44 to 1:46. Unless it's another boss I've forgotten.

[Mirai Gen]

Problem is MP3 relied on stacking weapons similar to Super Metroid, whereas in Metroid Prime the different equipped weapons is a huge part of the game.

[The Wizard Who Did It]

Originally Posted by Mirai Gen

Problem is MP3 relied on stacking weapons similar to Super Metroid, whereas in Metroid Prime the different equipped weapons is a huge part of the game.

Not really... beyond a few flavor things*, the weapons pretty much go in a natural progression of power (Energy -> Wave -> Plasma, with Freeze having it's own thing). It essentially worked as a progressive thing.

*Random enemies being immune to random things (the ghosts and those motherfucking pirates, although being freeze weak is hilarious conceptually) and the doors. Also occasional super missile spots.

[phil_]

Originally Posted by Mirai Gen

I hope there's no hold-1-And-Wave-In-Direction for visor switching now...that would be a bit of a pain.

1 was map screen, visors were - button. No helping the waving, though personally I see it as less of a problem and more of an improvement, in that there was nothing bad about it and I have no idea why you think it was a problem, unless you were pressing the map button to change visors, in which case you'd have a problem.

I guessed the + button for weapon switching because it was hypermode in 3, so it's free in the other games, and it was pretty clearly show that there's "wave your pointer here to switch guns" controls on the trailer. So I'm doubting beam stacking will be added.

[Magus]

Is there any reason to remake these other than to implement motion controls? You can even play the things right on the Wii itself.

Not interested. The original is more than adequate (one of the best games ever made). I don't need (undoubtedly poor) motion-controlled FPS controls tacked on.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Originally Posted by Magus

I don't need (undoubtedly poor) motion-controlled FPS controls tacked on.

Have you played MP3?
It has the best control of any console FPS I've ever played and I even consider it better than a mouse/keyboard set up/

[Kim]

Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

Have you played MP3?
It has the best control of any console FPS I've ever played and I even consider it better than a mouse/keyboard set up/

Why should he? It's new, therefore it must suck.

[Loyal]

I wonder if it'll still be possible to get the Space Jump as soon as you step foot on Tallon IV.

I doubt they'll allow it, but maybe they'll keep it in for fun. Metroid lacks... something without sequence breaking.