Yeah, he skipped everything possible. Hell, he even used certain tricks in the game to get the Plasma Beam super early. It was awesome. Oops, can't get over that wall! Well, he'd just do the 3-morph ball bomb trick in perfect order to get over it. If he didn't want to fight enemies, he'd literally walk on the walls to go past them. It was freakin crazy. It took more like 3 hours, but the game doesn't count a lot of the sequences in the game as actual gameplay time. The final timer did say 1 hour and 30 some minutes. This guy had to have played each part over and over after the save points to get them absolutely perfect. It doesn't change the fact that he knew the game inside and out and was one damn good player. I felt nauseous after watching it because he went so fast. :)

-Lasereth

METROID PRIME LOOKS FUCKING AWESOME!!! I need to buy a GameCube and get used to FPS on a controller now, does MP have 3rd Person View?

wheres the vid for thps? or vids in general

quite possibly the greatest thing ever.

First off, Metroid Prime isn't a first-person shooter, so the controls are WAY different. Most FPS on consoles use two analog sticks to move, strafe, look around, etc. Metroid Prime uses ONE analog stick to move and look around. You press and hold a shoulder button in order to target and strafe.

It sounds confusing, but once you play a while, it's second nature. The combat isn't as smooth as with a FPS, but everything else is simply better. Most people put down the controller after a few minutes because they can't get used to the controls. Trust me, it gets better, and when you finally get the hang of strafe-targeting, you feel like a complete badass. Metroid Prime has the PERFECT controls for a first-person adventure game, not a FPS. Like Shigeru Miyamoto said: Prime isn't a first--person shooter. If it was, they'd leave the jumping out of it. :)

And yes, this game is worth buying a Gamecube for. It's better than you can ever imagine. I'd pay $300 for a GC if it meant being able to play this game. I can't believe it's on sale for $20 at some places now...it's like seeing Halo or Vice City on sale for $20. You want to shake the retailer and say, "Dammit, this game should be $50 forever! It's worth it!"

Metroid Prime does have a third-person mode, but it's only in the Morph Ball mode, which is used for some combat but mostly puzzles.

Do yourself a favor and buy this game and a Gamecube right now And pick up Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem while you're at it. :)

-Lasereth

I couldn't find them either. :(

-Lasereth

YOOOHOO!!

dunno if this is posted yet but the mario video is a fake..
not exactly a fake....the guy used an emulator to finish the game which he could save/load whenever he wanted

so basically he saved/loaded about 15,000 times...he played the game at 1/30 speed and recorded it framewise

but theres no cheating like...invulnerability/cheats etc etc

theres a ddiscussion of this at www.ign.com forums

Dude, read this thread, dozens of people have said what you've just said :)

not that cool on an emulator but still...

Yeah i figured it was too good to be true, but part of me wanted it to be real :( If anyone has that Metroid Prime vid, post the link. I still cant find it.

http://planetquake.com/sda/mp/

It's in sections and is one hell of a download. Better get started! :)

-Lasereth

You rock. Thanks a bunch.. downloading now.

All these replays are awesome!
Independently of how they were created, they still bring back some great memories.
Thanks for posting!

I've seen this before..we discussed that it was done using an emu and not a actualy console. And he had over 99 lives

that video is fucking sickening. I've played through metroid prime, and that guy is just fuckin sick. Everything that he does is just wrong somehow.

ive seen the clip before, that is just nuts. A life wasted on mario bros 3. . .

That Super Mario Brothers 3 was much different then what I remember during the last levels. Not that I remember much.

that metroid prime video is indeed sickening.

wait, are you saying it's sickening from the standpoint of "god why is he doing everything backwards and HOW THE FUCK DID HE BEAT THAT BOSS SO FAST and wtf man, it took me a full 30 minutes to beat that puzzle, he just skipped it" or is it sickening from the standpoint of "blecht that's a lot of motion?"