Just imagine being a space pirate in this situation. You've been on Tallon IV for quite some time now as a planetary climate analyst, and in the middle of your work Samus just blasts into the room, kills your friend, gets an energy tank and missile expansion, and sidestep-boosts out the other door. All in under half a second. You're just like "W... wa... wait... wha... uh... just... w... what? What? How?".
For real though... they send out a distress signal to call for help and what do they get? an even greater threat to their species - Samus Aran. #neverlucky
Damn... I've tried to do that so many times, and always die. I didn't even think it was possible. How did you get the speed at which your energy drains to slow down?
I used to think the same way, that speed runners are dumb and that they use exploits to beat their scores. However after watching a few I realized that to do such precision and skill means they must memorize almost *everything* about the game. Every little hit box, a pixel higher of platform or invisible barriers to utilize all to shave off some precious time. I could never do it, I enjoy taking my time with games. But I have played Metroid Prime a couple dozen times, I have genuinely memorized every item location and enemy description at this point and yet this guy PUT ME TO SHAME hahaha. Props to him and speed runners alike, they deserve credit for putting in so much work!
Achilles Phillips i dont care how hard this game was But i fucking wish they didnt add bugs in this game Like seriously fuck off and my boyfriend make fun of me when i rage quit Now im overreacting telling him to sleep in the couch tonight So now hes getting no ass tonight lmaoo
Aristides Junior He didn't hit their aggro trigger, for some enemies you need to hit a trigger at a certain area for their a.i to start working, he used a Ghetto jump and ended up avoiding that area.
Those of the federation: "I think Samus drank too much beer and now she's drunk ...." Samus speedruner: "if I was drunk, could I do this? XDXD" *(and he leaves and in 1 hour he returns)*
I remember as a kid I was like 12 when I finally got to Omega Pirate boss and died some 30 different times., shit really fucking pissed me off hahaha. I eventually got him with a friends help, no guide luckily enough, but back then that was like a Dark Souls boss to my ignorant kid self!
The thing that kept killing me more than the Omega Pirate was Thardus. Geez that sentient mutated humanoid rock creature scared the crap out of me at first and then it became a lot more annoying when he would go rolling into me, causing me to die over 50 times since I never knew how to properly use the boost ball at the time and switching from one visor to another made me a bit panicky.
Oh my God when I first saw Thardus I was so mesmerized by him! Like I thought he was the coolest thing ever, easily my favorite enemy in the game until I fought against Meta Ridely, cause like come on the dude was a freaking metal dragon no way any other boss could compare hahaha. I absolutely loved fighting him, very difficult but fun at the same time, then he ran me over. Never flipped my opinion of an enemy so fast before! XD
+ShawnumanGaming fucking going back through that space pirate base in phendrana in the dark the entire way, and checking each room to see of it was dark; rough day in my childhood
in the phazon mines Spacepirate: hello samus, ok bye samus. Command: Did you get the hunters head yet? Spacepirate: uuuuhhhhh no Command: What!!!? Spacepirate: i thought you guys said ignore samus Command: -palmface- We said to Kill samus on sight Spacepirate: ooohhhh ok. we will Do that when we see her again Command: Too late she is already at the crater. Annnd just killed ridley.. Spacepirate oh Sh---- Command: You all are dead meat.
Speed-runs I feel are a great in-game example of how amazingly skilled and powerful Samus is compared to her representation in the lore. She annihilates world conquering organisms by herself. Blowing through this place insanely fast, crushing bosses by looking at them, and destroying everything in her path? Yep, that's Samus Aran everyone. She's really that good.
My mind is blown... I've 100% this game a long long time ago. I used to know the location of every single drop and powerup. Even knew a few tricks like the one to get space jump boots at the start. But this... holy hell I never knew there were so many glitches and tricks... or where to use them... Jumping on the elite pirate to the balcony above... genius. Cheesing omega pirate with a powerbomb... then 3 supers and pop... Fantastic. I learned so much that i never thought i COULD learn about a game i've already played to death.
Beautiful, I Enjoyed Every Minute of this Masterpiece back in the day. When the masses chose Halo I was Fully Immersed into Metroid Prime. This is how you design a Video Game.
+marioman657 True that. The glitches are still part are the game. What technically counts as a glitch isn't a black and white issue. In a "glitchless run", for all anyone knows there may have been a single line of code that misexecuted or wasn't formatted with the most efficiency, and we wouldn't have noticed it at all. It all depends on where you draw the line on something being a glitch or not. And even still, it's a part of the game, intended by the creators or not. Not taking advantage of it would be foolish. Sorry for the rant, I just wanted to put that out there.
Watching these speed runs for metroid prime is just so good. The amount of skill and precision you need to pull this off is just daunting. Truly a masterpiece.
This speedrun is a good way to get a good taste of all the different environments and musical scores in a short amount of time, and it really brings me back to just how atmospherically beautiful this game was. Ironically makes me want to go back and take my time going through it to relive those old experiences. Albeit with a few of these speedrun tricks in mind for early item acquisition ;) Space jump boots right away being the main one.
Very nice run! I counted / guesstimated you might be able to shave off ~27-32 seconds due to small mistake buildups. Not sure if that can be turned into 1:12:00 from anything else ... In General: Missing some jumps, unnecessary double jump in Phendrana Drifts somewhere (Ruined Courtyard?), stun fall locked a few times, missed 1-2 beam swap for doors. Flawless Thardus Fight. Clutch HP getting to Omega Pirate after getting Artifact of Newborn.
Even though I played this game so many times doing 100% completion, it literally still takes me at least 5-8 hours finishing the whole game and that's if I'm backtracking too much or can't remember certain item locations, but watching this guy play makes me feel ashamed LOL
What a game. God it's almost perfect a technical marvel and nearly 15 years old. Proves what a powerful little machine the Gamecube was. I wouldn't class myself as someone prone to too many geeky thoughts but along with not snorting Charlie off of Brigitte Bardot's backside and not inventing something that made me a shit load of money one of my few deathbed regrets will be not completing Metroid Prime. Beat Meta Ridley but didn't beat that final boss. My memcard 59 has long gone now. Such an amazing game and such a shame I didn't respect the experience enough in not completing it. Oh well!
never too late. I'm playing the game as I write that. just had the phazon suit :) prime 4 will come out in a few years. now is the time to finish the 3 others!
I stopped the game years ago because I found chozo ghosts and thermal visor phases very stressful. I did end the game not so long ago thanks to Dolphin ;)
the one THING in this game that always made it a great game and made it fun was collecting powerups especially stuff that you couldent solve becuase u needed a powerup the beams were very fun also i love the sense of back tracking.
He's playing on NTSC 0-00, which has a different loader which is faster, but it can crash in chozo ruins when playing on gc, which is why they changed it to a slower loader in Players Choice and PAL version.
i am an old player who got metroidp rime when it first came out. and i gotta say that the wii trilogy version is best. aiming with the controller adds difficulty and fresh air to the game.
SELG88 I despise the "New Play Style" aim controls, and they took out tons sequence breaking fun, the definitive versions are the original US versions.
ZobmieRules really . Your saying that they wouldn't try to improbe the games polish and stop bugs? Do you know who your talking about? This is nintendo,the same group that made windwaker , their not sega. Also the wii controls are so much better that the gamecube controls for 2 reasons 1: The wii controlers dont break down after a month of smash cause all my gc's got the stick broken and i couldn't do the side dash and just aiming problwms made me lose to flaghara with an energy tank while wii version, no damage. 2: The wii sensor isgreat at aiming and they didn't include stupid motions just aiming.
+Alpha X-shroom You must be kidding me: I smashed my GC controller so hard I broke a wooden chair before I damaged the controller by hitting the chair. That controller still works 5 years after that incident and the wire is exposed. My wii controller stopped working out of the blue, no damage, and the pointer won't show on the screen no matter how many times you sync it.
TRR010: Makes amazing *glitched* speedrun... 95% of comments: *U CHEETED, U GIT STUF EARLY!!!!!111!1* Meanwhile... Jim: Hey Bob, I made this gravy faster by stirring it with a whisk that attaches to a motor! Isn't that cool?! Bob: *U CHEETED, U NO MAKE GRAYVEE NORRMUL WAY!!!1111!*
not glitch crazy? I'm sorry did you look away while he was running around outside the map? or all the times he stood on little nano ledges on walls to reach shit he shouldn't have been able to get til a LOT later? or are you saying there's stuff like the Ghoma's door glitch from OoT and it's not crazy glitchy cause he didn't use that/those?
Ok yeah I posted my comment before seeing that^^'. Anyways he does it for some times but still a huge part of it is done without super crazy glitches. I have seen speedruns which are much worse.
i just beat parasite queen, but didnt get to spaceship in time. playtime clocked in at 44 minutes. this dude was gettinv close to halfway point. wtf, nice run!!
Honestly thought this was an any% (starts collecting all energy tanks and missles) reads rest of title. Can't believe he did this in just over an hour.
I like how the plan for the first Elite Pirate was to get it to knock you away a bit, then bugger off and let it work its anger out on the monitors; and then the plan for the second one was to seemingly panic and beat it across the head with missiles.
Before I was into speed runs i only discovered the space Jump boots thing on accident. And I felt totally boss being 15 years old and glitching my way through a game like this. (This wasnt on my first run though).
honestly not a big fan of speed runs because the glitching out of map stuff just makes it feel like it's not even legit... but oh my goodness this was amazing to watch. So much skill and knowledge of this game, quite the great video!!!
