SyphonBlue

There are UMD fans?

Narbacular Drop was a DigiPen student-made game, and the precursor to Portal. The students who made ND were hired by Valve for their technology, but Portal is 100% Valve property, and not in any way an indie game.

Anyone saying they are pissed off about this does not deserve to have a Wii. Give yours to someone who is not a complete idiot.

What do you people think about Bioshock? Are you boycotting Microsoft because that game doesn't have multiplayer? Or Final Fantasy? Or Metal Gear Solid?

Metroid is a single-player game through and through. It is not an FPS with mindless action. THIS DOES NOT HAVE ANY RAMIFICATIONS FOR ANOTHER OTHER NINTENDO GAMES. METROID IS A FUCKING SINGLE-PLAYER GAME. IT DOES NOT NEED ANY BLOODY MULTIPLAYER. GET OVER YOURSELVES.

"After an engine is built, it would take literally a week to add these modes of play."

This is so stupid, I don't even know how to respond to this.

@ 48:

You are so absolutely correct. Nintendo clearly is not getting behind online gaming in any way shape or form.

Except for all those DS games that are online.

And the Wii games that coming down the pipeline that are online (Strikers, Battalion Wars, Madden, probbaly SSBB though no confirmation).

Oh, and the Virtual Console.

Oh, and the just recently announced Wii-Ware channel.

But you are absolutely correct in your take that Nintendo has no interest in online whatsoever.

METROID DOES NOT NEED MULTIPLAYER. JUST BECAUSE IT IS IN FIRST PERSON DOES NOT MEAN IT HAS TO HAVE MULTIPLAYER. JESUS CHRIST PEOPLE SHUT THE HELL UP. CHRIST.

A) You are correct in stating that metroids don't evolve into Metroid Prime, but an Omega Metroid. However, this is a NATURAL evolution. The phazon that was pumped into Metroid Prime caused it to UNNATURALLY evolve into Metroid Prime. That's all there is to it; Metroid Prime is a metroid. There were no X parasites on Tallon IV. None. Zero. Zip. Nada. Nothing. I really don't know where you are getting this idea that an X parasite appeared from the phazon ooze that was Metroid Prime's defeated body. All you see rise from the ashes was a hand. Where are you getting this from?

B) You're also right about the Galactic Federation discovering SR-388 before the Space Pirates, you got me there. HOWEVER, Space Pirates did not raid any frigate and steal the metroid from the first game. The Space Pirates got all their metroids directly from SR-388. The only metroid they ever stole was the baby metroid from Metroid 2.

Also, the X parasites were not intelligent. The only intelligent X parasites were the SA-X. All the other X parasites were dumb, mindless parasites just looking for a host.

@ 37:

Because Metroid Prime was just that: A Metroid. It was severely pummeled with phazon, but it was just a metroid. The Space Pirate logs cite this fact repeatedly. As far as Metroid continuity goes, there are no known organisms such as the X yet. Where on Tallon IV did you see an X parasite?

Also, the X were only so plentiful on SR-388 because Samus destroyed all Metroids in Metroid 2. Before the end of Metroid 2, there were virtually no X parasites on SR-388, which also explains why there weren't any there during Metroid 2, also. So, no, it is not possible that an X parasite snuck onto a Space Pirate cruiser and traveled to Tallon IV, nor is it possible it snuck onto a Space Federation frigate, since at that point, SR-388 hadn't even been discovered by anyone other than the Space Pirates yet.

Now, you MIGHT be able to make the argument that there was some travel between Tallon IV and SR-388 by the Chozo, and MAYBE an X parasite came to Tallon IV that way, but that's a pretty big stretch since it seemed that the Chozo on Tallon IV were fairly cut off from the rest of the universe.

@ 35:

What? Metroid Fusion takes place WAY after the events of Metroid Prime. The official Metroid timeline goes as such:

Metroid/Zero Mission -> Metroid Prime 1/2/3 -> Metroid 2 -> Super Metroid -> Metroid Fusion

The SA-X is born when Samus gets taken over by the X Parasite while on "clean-up duty" on SR-388 after Super Metroid. The X only lives on SR-388, so there is no possible way for Dark Samus to be the SA-X. I don't know where you heard this "discussion", but whoever said it needs to be severely beaten.

Yes, cause no game console has ever had a game with bad controls. This has nothing to do with Wii innovation, or waggle controls. It's simply a bad game with bad controls. It happens on every console. Always has, always will.