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29:00 Another game in third person that has the sort of acrobatics that Samus can do? That's real easy: Warframe. It has a full blown parkour system that every frame has access to, and you can jump across/up and cling to walls. Some of the frames even have mobility abilities from other games. Gauss and Grendel can boost and spindash like sonic, respectively.
It's crazy how soon this came out after the Dead Space remake too, which is now the gold standard for what remakes should be after the RE2 remake (not forgetting the Spongebob, Destroy All Humans and Mafia remakes either), classic revival fans are eating pretty damn good
Chat posting the Samus T-Pose emote when Samus T-Poses in game during the Varia Suit cutscene was one of the most sublime moments of chat singular hivemind in a very long time.
Vinny's description of being a memorization machine, relying on innate intelligence, slowly falling behind, not giving a shit and then turning it around in college is eerily similar to my life experience.
Not to play internet doctor (as Vinny said), but that is a pretty common cycle for people who are neurodivergent, typically with adhd or autism People with those disorders tend to get through grade school fairly easily because their intuition and memory help them pick up on new information quickly. By the time high school or college roll around though, suddenly they start to fall really far behind because their lack of concrete studying methods makes it way harder to keep up with the exponential increase of information that needs to be learned at those levels (especially when it means sitting down and reading for hours and hours at a time, repeatedly). It tends to result in a sort of "crash and burn" period where the person really struggles to perform at the level they expect of themselves and they end up being very hard on themselves both for not living up to that standard and for not knowing _why_ they can't live up to it or even just focus on their work. This is usually then amplified by parents, teachers, or even friends who double down on being very strict and criticizing the person for not living up to past expectations while not offering any real guidance or reassurance to help the person get back on track How much that relates to you or Vin, I obviously can't say, but I was shocked at how much it lined up with my own life experience when I first heard about it (from a video called "why gifted kids are actually special needs"). Those disorders are present in some other family members of mine, but their behaviors were so much more extreme that I honestly never even considered that I could've been dealing with them too. For a long time I just thought I was the "normal" one and that my struggles were simply due to some unknown failing on my part, turns out I just got a bad dice roll with brain chemicals during a time when nobody knew jack about mental disorders (even now they still struggle with recognizing them, especially in adults)
@@Loop_Kat big heckn mood for real, all this said is for video games parallel to general life- in my experience as an artist and dealing with strict upbringing and forced ideology of "if you dont succeed in your 20s you are a failure", NO ONE would allow topics of mental health in art settings. Understanding ones own struggles when no one will give you the time of day, it's so hard to understand why you're "failing" when it seems everyone else is having fun. A major "dont think about it too much" behavior was pushed even in creating and learning art, so many people would seemingly use that as a way to push others around and if you questioned why they would treat you so badly they'd just back it up with "it's how it is, you're the problem, don't like it leave" When what you're questioning was full on abuse, you just want to be treated as a person.😔
I really enjoyed the whole biography we got out of Vinny, just because someone said something akin to a "get good". That got real. This game really is special huh?
Man... The Drifts are just incredible in this version. I don't know if I'll get over how it was just "hey here's this game out now." with something as one million present awesome as this.
There are bits of the story throughout the entire game, get all the chozo logs and pirate data, and read it all in one sitting, even if you read it before. How it links up is insane.
Yeah, it's cool how even the orange scan logs (the ones that don't unlock in your logbook) contain bits of information that round out the story, It makes the world feel alive.
My personal conspiracy theory is that Vinny created a time machine to travel to the past to begin the production of the Prime Remaster, just so it would release at the time he would "start" Pizza Tower so he would have an excuse to not play it once again
My addition to that theory is that his future self is preventing him from playing it because when he originally played it he admitted to be down bad for noisette, which chat never ever forgot
@Hans C wtf is a noisette? I looked it up expecting to see some degenerate fanart of some waifu with big robertsons but all I got were images of a confectionery treat.
There's something comforting about the phrase "Here I am, the glorious mess you perceive." I'm not quite sure how to explain it. but it doesn't feel as self-depreciating as it should sound, and even feels a bit optimistic at the same time.
Was a bit of a downer hearing about his life under those circumstances. The Catholic school teachers I grew up with were some of the hardest working and most caring people I've met. Later at public college is when some instructors seemed to really not give a damn about their students lol.
What *really* sells it for me is that Prime Remaster looks EXACTLY like how I remember Prime looking in my nostalgia-addled brain. This isn't just one of the best Remasters Nintendo has ever made. This is one of the best Remasters ever made, PERIOD. AND THEY FUCKING SHADOW DROPPED IT UNCERIMONIOUSLY FOR $40?!
Vinny’s thing about how videogames severely fucked his performance in school is incredibly relatable. My first console was a PS1 and I immediately got addicted to games like Spyro and Star Wars Jedi Power Battles. I would wake up and play in the morning before school, leave the console on, and come home and play some more. And all I could think about in school was the games, about what I was gonna do when I unpaused the game, what new strategies I could figure out, etc. I got diagnosed with ADHD and had pills and all that, but either way my attention span in class would last for about 5 minutes before my mind started drifting back to games. And when I got home it was right back to it. Homework? Studying? Why the hell would I want to do any of that when I could explore these fantastic worlds? I only really discovered how enjoyable learning could be once I entered college after getting out of the Marines. I have no idea how things could have been different for me if games didn’t exist, and how much of it all was my fault.
God, Vinny just talking about his life near the end hits hard. Kind of goes to show how some things are universal across countries and generations, no matter how much changes. It simultaneously makes me hopeful for my own future, and even more afraid of it. Haven't gotten like that since, what, Echoes of the Eye? Lil' Gator Game had moments of this philosophical side of Vin, but not to this degree. Love it, honestly. Kind of tonal whiplash, but it's oddly comforting to click on a video to absentmindedly having it in the background and then ponder your own life choices after an hour and a half, hour and forty or so.
Yeah, they stayed so perfectly true to the art style of the original game that sometimes it feels like there's no difference when there in fact is a massive difference. It's just that it looks like how you thought the original looked.
@@rr53213rr you could say the same for undertale depending on who you ask but dear god if he somehow got talked out of pizza tower is the day I cry myself to bed 😅.
I think the problem about the doors is that they use the Space pirate design, the same used in Aether on Prime 2 and on the Space Pirate Homeworld of Prime 3, while the doors in the original used the Chozo design, which was used again in the chozo cloud planet of Metroid Prime 3.
No the doors on aether and the space pirate homeworld look different. I think what happened was they made the doors more blue so that they are easier to see.
@@robertwyatt3912 This is my thought as well. Even beyond the glow it's they actively are textured different, not just having more glow. I think it is a deliberate choice.
Going to have to agree, this is a stellar remaster. It pretty much fixes every graphical issue I had with the first one like flat textures, lack of dynamic lighting and overall detail.
Vinny’s talk about wanting to do standup at around the 20-minute mark reminds me of him trying to act out a hypothetical routine of it during the Wario Land 4 pinball level. For some reason I remember SNL, something to do with Speen, and a gorilla. Maybe it was a dream he had? No clue.
Samus being a "bounty hunter" is technically a mistranslation. Nintendo thought that word was closer to and "adventurer". Hence why she practically never does any bounty hunter-y type things.
I always felt like mercenary was more appropiate, soldier on hire maybe, Nintendo just went with bounty hunter in the lore but all games barely depict her to be anything other than a selfless hero.
I thought they went with "bounty hunter" cause it sounded cool and was related to cool space dudes like Han Solo. I vaguely remember hearing a story that someone asked how much did Samus get from bounty hunting and the team was flabbergasted and said Samus wouldn't do such things. So like a cultural/language barrier lol.
They literally thought "bounty" as in "good fortune", as in the word "bountiful", they thought bounty hunter meant someone who sought out goodness and light.
In the mangas she gets some bounty like stuff, she even wants to get payed for saving chairman Keaton from a pirate terrorist attack. But that's when she was young, confident and just left the federation military forces. Bounty hunter in the universe is played off as just a generic name given to anyone who fights and completes dangerous missions on hire, i think even if you stick with the federation army alone. Bounty hunters in the metroid universe are pretty much anywhere, but this doesn't mean she is like those big ego idiots who wander the planets looking for a fight just for money. She became one just because she didn't want to be a puppet of the federation army and be required to follow orders directly, but she still fights for peace every time. I'm sure she even donates her bounty money to whoever needs it. I think she had to register in the bounty hunting offices just so she can legally carry weapons of mass destruction in public spaces
Chat aski Vinny a question. Vinny: "My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM, and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone."
Having watched Vinny's stuff for nearly a decade, him getting into his upbringing a bit at the end was thoughtful. He specifically said he doesn't like people analyzing him; so I'll just say, I'm sure the outlook he shares on life is very much appreciated by many.
Vinny DESPISES pizza tower. It's his LEAST favorite game ever made. He was shaking, shivering, wiggling, wobbling, quaking, QUIVERING in his seat trying his absolute best to think up a plan. But then the direct came. Vinny watched but then there was a trailer for Metroid prime remastered and it released that day. He was so happy, not because of Metroid. It's because so he can avoid pizza tower longer and that he has something to play that isn't pizza tower. He's not gonna actually play it next week either. He's just saying that. Infact He'll probably play wario land 3 on the game boy library on NSO that just came out on the same direct as Metroid prime remastered and say it was a HUGE coincidence.
Gotta say first hand, I came from a Lutheran background grade school and had loving and supporting teachers who were the best influences in my life. It was when I went to a public setting in High School where the teachers seemed to really not give a shit.
Honestly, it was super validating. I’ve always enjoyed listening to Vinny ramble, but he almost never talks about himself like that. Absolute gem of a stream, maybe one of Vinny’s best. Ever.
The worst part about it is that he was supposed to stay in Phendrana and explore with the new adquired wabe beam, instead he ranted so hard he mindlessly wandered around magmoor, back to tallon and then back to the chozo ruins again, he's got quite the backtracking to do in his next session
That comment about her hand was something I was always fascinated about. I used to think she had an arm canon was because her arm was severed in battle or something so it was replaced with that. But Prime threw in that with the x-ray and it made me think was the arm canon like a way to channel her powers kind of like X-men's cyclops in how he needs certain equipment to keep his powers in check. Like if Samus made those hand gestures out of her suit would the power be so great it would blow her arm off or something.
Reminds me of the “Awkward Zombie” comic where Star Fox goes over to the couch where Samus is doing like maintenance on her armor, and so her arm cannon is next to her on the couch, and Fox picks it up, saying he’s always wanted to know how it works. He then sees that it is hollow, and expresses confusion, and then asks “where are the guns?”, and as an answer, Samus flexes to show off the muscle of that arm. Like, suggesting that the guns of the arm cannon is just her guns(strong arms).
Really surprised to hear that Vinny hates Pizza Tower. Shocking reveal. Almost as shocking as that time he turned out to be a pterodactyl and a tugboat.
Ahh yes I remember the Half Pipes and Samus Aran’s Pro Skater all too well, oh yeah let’s not forget, a Metroid game has Momentum Physics with the Boost Ball and those Half Pipes, something Sonic himself has struggling with.
1:19:20 By the way, I know Chat and Vinny kinda seem to know this fact but even then bounties would not make sense in Metroid because the studio for the longest time just didn't know what the term "bounty hunter" meant and just thought it sounded cool, but in fact claimed she is an adventurer more like Han solo and not like Boba Fett. They just had the wrong idea of what that meant over in Japan and would never even use that aspect as she is, in fact, not really a bounty hunter,
I'm stunned we somehow got a high-quality, well-made remaster for $40 and it's a Nintendo game of all things. So happy it's not just a lazy port of Trilogy for $60 for a limited time.
29:30 - Third-person 3D action-exploration game with an acrobatic character and projectile combat? ReCore. Made by Armature, which was founded by some top guys at Retro after they left. It felt like a cross between Metroid Prime and Mega Man X, at least in terms of the core gameplay. Combat used a version of Prime's lock-on and beam swapping, but your character was far more mobile so the game could throw a lot more at you, sometimes approaching shmup levels of projectiles to dodge. And movement felt extremely tight and responsive with a sick Mega Man X air dash, which made for some surprisingly demanding platforming segments. It even has some light metroidvania in there, with little robo companions that join you and give you new abilities to access new areas. Not a great game overall though, really bogged down by unnecessary adherence to the popular conventions (open world, loot, crafting, leveling up), obvious budget issues (enemy and environment variety isn't great, it's really lacking in terms of polish, and frankly wasn't even properly finished until the Definitive Edition update a year later), and some questionable design decisions. But in terms of the core gameplay, I think it makes a great case for how a third-person Metroid could work.
57:59 Thinking about the artifact fetch quest, it's kinda a part of what Metroid is. Just about every game in the series has this point of no return where you have to collect these certain macguffins or kill these specific enemies to unlock a door that leads you to the end of the game. Sort of like a last chance to get all the collectibles you want before crossing the finish line. It's something I've never really thought of until I played this again. I can definitely see how it (as well as the keys from Prime 2) can be a detractor for some people.
It was the game's true goal: Metroid Prime wasn't designed to be beaten fast, or wasn't centered on combat. The goal of the game and the biggest skill cap is about finding your way around the world and explore it to its fullest in the most efficient way, it's about knowing where to go and how to get there by memorizing the map, the shortcuts and using new abilities as a tool for traversing and acquiring previously unobtainable items. Many people are way too casual about this game and even think that backtracking is annoying, when backtracking is imo the best thing of this game. If you are skilled you always know that there is things to do and it's far from just going from point A to point B. You feel statisfaction by planning your route to get to the objective in a smart way so you unlock new things and still be fast. The artifact hunt is there to reward skill and intuition for players that are able to grab most of them before they reach the late game. The player who isn't paying attention when exploring is instead punished and is then required to go around the map again, so they can learn the map and play the game better the next playthrough. Some people are so oblivious to this that they call it a mandatory fetch quest when in fact you can get these artifacts while playing the game normally trying to grab 100% items or close.
A Metroid game like no man sky, maybe not that "expansive", only one solar system but with entire planets, with large on foot "dungeons" interconnected to reach other from other planets (for the backtracking), space stations, radiant bounties, of course with her space ship Samus deserves a game where she can kick ass, make it M rated. Have her kill Ridley with her bare hands.
30:30 Unrelated, but what's with Vinny and his aversion to Tomb Raider? I've noticed it during the Classic Game Commercials streams, but this moment just compounds it for me. I get that it's not everyone's cup of tea, but I don't think the series is deserving of an audible _"Eugh"_ like that.
20:00 I do not know if you would be a good stand-up comedian, but what I do know is that you're naturally very funny. And edgy. You're edgy and funny without being toxic and that's amazing.
"What other game franchise compares to Metroid and has nailed a sci-fi 3d action exploration game where the protagonist has crazy acrobatics just like Samus?" That's a somewhat easy answer = Returnal.
I disagree wholeheartedly that Breath of the Wild doesn't feel like a Zelda game. It is closer if spirit to the very first game, but it doesn't follow the format of the 3D games which is what people expected. It tried something new with only 4 major dungeons and the shrines, and no themed dungeons, but the first game didn't really have "themed" dungeons either.
27:30 - The problem with Other M was not in the gameplay. It was in the fact that they butchered Samus' so badly in that game that it felt more like you were playing as an escaped mental patient that somehow managed to steal her suit and is just running around in that game pretending to be her. We'll call this character Nutty Nancy. I'm not even going to dignify Other M's protagonist with the name, 'Samus'. The fandom needs to have more self-respect than that.
Vinny: getting lost repeatedly in one of his top games ever and constantly having to look at the map or the chat to progress also Vinny: yeah why not make it a gigantic open world tho
My 2 cents for his monologue around 1:25:00 or so: I grew up on the original Metroid trilogy, and open-world games that carry that label tend to lose me because their worlds are usually spread too thin with repetitive, uninteresting world maps that make me feel like I'm wasting time when I could be playing something with more of the focus we usually get in a proper "Metroidvania," They could always do something to get it right. After all, I was one of the fans who was skeptical they could ever make a 1st person game, but I wouldn't know what a good Open World(tm) Metroid game would look like it until I saw it in front of me
This shows what a proper remake should be like. This is kinda on par with the Zelda remakes they were remade from the ground up but closely to the original.
I'm only a casual metroid fan, iv'e played a few games but never finished any as of yet, but I will gladly watch this entire play through because of how happy this franchise makes Vinny
Can someone please tell Vinny that Myamoto said something like what if Samus had bug eyes to the dev team and they went "what" and then invented the scan visor
Genuinely caught off guard at the end with how kuch Vinny talked about his personal school experiences. I relate so heavily to everything he said and from my own time in college took it all so personally. I love these streams and I'm glad there are people out there who validate how much harder it is sometimes to think about our own personal issues with what's happening in our lives
1:45:30 I’m not here for the games. I’m here for his perspective. Hearing is mental progress throughout his journey of life. Overcoming stress and depression. Love this guy.
At 14:46, this is the worst Power Suit upgrade to get. I ended up dunking Samus in the magma numerous times. I didn't have the "Spring Ball" when I played on GameCube.
"this might be one of the best remasters nintendo has ever done" The competition is paying full price for a port with a shitty lighting engine slapped onto it and some added bloom
Okay please tell me I'm not the only person who looks at the map sometimes in this game and sometimes perceives it as "upside down" like an optical illusion?
Yes indeed! When I first played it, especially, I was like, "How did the map get flipped?" and that same "feeling" kept happening. I wonder if it still would if I played this version myself.
Unfortunately for Metroid fans, this is not a good selling series. They don't care much about it except milking the idiots that like it with middle of the road rereleases
I like the idea of when Samus is traveling between planets and solar systems and what not she just spends her time on Wikipedia reading about some bugs she found.
Ok chat, which Chorizo do you think is hotter? Raven Beak or Rito innkeeper birb lady that snuggles with you if you choose the "feather down bed" option when staying the night.
Raven Beak, no question. Have you seen his abs? Not to mention the way he dominated an entire planet and totally overpowered Samus. And don't even get me started on his beautiful eyes. God, what a chad. t. Adam
Do you mean to be like, only asking bisexual people or something? Like, most people are heterosexual, so, like, if they had to pick one, they, or, at least I, would pick the one of the opposite sex? Like, sure, you could ask a heterosexual male which of two males he thinks is “hotter”, and he might have an answer (though this might be more like, “which would being-more-like make me more attractive”?), but if you ask him (me) to say whether a particular woman or a particular man is more attractive, assuming that they are both non-repulsive, he’s going to pick the woman?
27:55 - The word 'fine' to me is extremely suspect if there isn't anything else material added to it. Usually the more accurate way to interpret the word is 'fine, but...'.
What if you decentralized open world, had like different planets or stations connected in like a constellation to visit & each opens up further as you gain upgrades? And the ship mechanic could be more fleshed out?
About the only thing that i found infuriating if at all is that the arm cannon's flashing effect (light going back and forth) is too bright to the point that it becomes distracting. I also think that the chargebeam looks a little off. Other then that they did fantastic jobb with this remaster.
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29:00 Another game in third person that has the sort of acrobatics that Samus can do?
That's real easy: Warframe.
It has a full blown parkour system that every frame has access to, and you can jump across/up and cling to walls.
Some of the frames even have mobility abilities from other games. Gauss and Grendel can boost and spindash like sonic, respectively.
This is the gold standard for what a remaster needs to be.
It's crazy how soon this came out after the Dead Space remake too, which is now the gold standard for what remakes should be after the RE2 remake (not forgetting the Spongebob, Destroy All Humans and Mafia remakes either), classic revival fans are eating pretty damn good
Well, between this, Samus Returns, and Zero Mission Metroid has never had a bad remake
@@Tycholarfero you mean they are giving good food to publishers that are doing half the work and getting all the profit lol
Gold standard for underpowerd hardware maybe...
@@xentrix89 how underpowered the switch is is irrelevant. It’s still a good remaster
In this episode of Metroid, John Samus explores vinny's upbringing in order to understand his learning style.
Chat posting the Samus T-Pose emote when Samus T-Poses in game during the Varia Suit cutscene was one of the most sublime moments of chat singular hivemind in a very long time.
Vinny's description of being a memorization machine, relying on innate intelligence, slowly falling behind, not giving a shit and then turning it around in college is eerily similar to my life experience.
Not to play internet doctor (as Vinny said), but that is a pretty common cycle for people who are neurodivergent, typically with adhd or autism
People with those disorders tend to get through grade school fairly easily because their intuition and memory help them pick up on new information quickly. By the time high school or college roll around though, suddenly they start to fall really far behind because their lack of concrete studying methods makes it way harder to keep up with the exponential increase of information that needs to be learned at those levels (especially when it means sitting down and reading for hours and hours at a time, repeatedly). It tends to result in a sort of "crash and burn" period where the person really struggles to perform at the level they expect of themselves and they end up being very hard on themselves both for not living up to that standard and for not knowing _why_ they can't live up to it or even just focus on their work. This is usually then amplified by parents, teachers, or even friends who double down on being very strict and criticizing the person for not living up to past expectations while not offering any real guidance or reassurance to help the person get back on track
How much that relates to you or Vin, I obviously can't say, but I was shocked at how much it lined up with my own life experience when I first heard about it (from a video called "why gifted kids are actually special needs"). Those disorders are present in some other family members of mine, but their behaviors were so much more extreme that I honestly never even considered that I could've been dealing with them too. For a long time I just thought I was the "normal" one and that my struggles were simply due to some unknown failing on my part, turns out I just got a bad dice roll with brain chemicals during a time when nobody knew jack about mental disorders (even now they still struggle with recognizing them, especially in adults)
@@Loop_Kat big heckn mood for real, all this said is for video games parallel to general life- in my experience as an artist and dealing with strict upbringing and forced ideology of "if you dont succeed in your 20s you are a failure", NO ONE would allow topics of mental health in art settings.
Understanding ones own struggles when no one will give you the time of day, it's so hard to understand why you're "failing" when it seems everyone else is having fun.
A major "dont think about it too much" behavior was pushed even in creating and learning art, so many people would seemingly use that as a way to push others around and if you questioned why they would treat you so badly they'd just back it up with "it's how it is, you're the problem, don't like it leave"
When what you're questioning was full on abuse, you just want to be treated as a person.😔
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I really enjoyed the whole biography we got out of Vinny, just because someone said something akin to a "get good". That got real.
This game really is special huh?
Time stamp? Not really going to watch that until after I finish my replay through
Starts at 1:36:10 and goes on all the way to the end, pretty much
@@awildwildwes danke!
Actually really interesting and thoughtful stuff
Man...
The Drifts are just incredible in this version.
I don't know if I'll get over how it was just "hey here's this game out now." with something as one million present awesome as this.
why is “LAVA CAVES” so damn funny to me
Because it's a man with a serious voice trying to be a cool narrator while getting both halves of the name wrong. It's great =D
lava C A K E
in Phendrana, scans in the save rooms (alluded to be Space Pirate log stations in areas with their tech) tell you little bits of story
There are bits of the story throughout the entire game, get all the chozo logs and pirate data, and read it all in one sitting, even if you read it before. How it links up is insane.
Yeah, it's cool how even the orange scan logs (the ones that don't unlock in your logbook) contain bits of information that round out the story, It makes the world feel alive.
Scan the save room, Oats.
My personal conspiracy theory is that Vinny created a time machine to travel to the past to begin the production of the Prime Remaster, just so it would release at the time he would "start" Pizza Tower so he would have an excuse to not play it once again
Godtier theory
This announcement happened while I was falling apart and out of it, depressed. This made my day so much better.
My addition to that theory is that his future self is preventing him from playing it because when he originally played it he admitted to be down bad for noisette, which chat never ever forgot
@Hans C wtf is a noisette? I looked it up expecting to see some degenerate fanart of some waifu with big robertsons but all I got were images of a confectionery treat.
@Schrunkley evil version yeah, the noise, which is a parody of the noid, and his gf is basically the same but pink and with eyelashes
There's something comforting about the phrase "Here I am, the glorious mess you perceive." I'm not quite sure how to explain it. but it doesn't feel as self-depreciating as it should sound, and even feels a bit optimistic at the same time.
han-tyumi and the murder of the universe type phrase
It sounds like a song lyric.
I think it's because he knows he's grown and still has a lot of growing, despite being in his thirties he's still a bambino
Was a bit of a downer hearing about his life under those circumstances. The Catholic school teachers I grew up with were some of the hardest working and most caring people I've met. Later at public college is when some instructors seemed to really not give a damn about their students lol.
What *really* sells it for me is that Prime Remaster looks EXACTLY like how I remember Prime looking in my nostalgia-addled brain.
This isn't just one of the best Remasters Nintendo has ever made. This is one of the best Remasters ever made, PERIOD.
AND THEY FUCKING SHADOW DROPPED IT UNCERIMONIOUSLY FOR $40?!
It's streams like this that reminds me why I have stuck around this fucking gabagool guy for as long as I have and always come back to.
Vinny’s thing about how videogames severely fucked his performance in school is incredibly relatable. My first console was a PS1 and I immediately got addicted to games like Spyro and Star Wars Jedi Power Battles. I would wake up and play in the morning before school, leave the console on, and come home and play some more. And all I could think about in school was the games, about what I was gonna do when I unpaused the game, what new strategies I could figure out, etc. I got diagnosed with ADHD and had pills and all that, but either way my attention span in class would last for about 5 minutes before my mind started drifting back to games. And when I got home it was right back to it. Homework? Studying? Why the hell would I want to do any of that when I could explore these fantastic worlds? I only really discovered how enjoyable learning could be once I entered college after getting out of the Marines. I have no idea how things could have been different for me if games didn’t exist, and how much of it all was my fault.
God, Vinny just talking about his life near the end hits hard. Kind of goes to show how some things are universal across countries and generations, no matter how much changes. It simultaneously makes me hopeful for my own future, and even more afraid of it. Haven't gotten like that since, what, Echoes of the Eye? Lil' Gator Game had moments of this philosophical side of Vin, but not to this degree. Love it, honestly. Kind of tonal whiplash, but it's oddly comforting to click on a video to absentmindedly having it in the background and then ponder your own life choices after an hour and a half, hour and forty or so.
Yeah, they stayed so perfectly true to the art style of the original game that sometimes it feels like there's no difference when there in fact is a massive difference. It's just that it looks like how you thought the original looked.
It would be hilarious if Vinny never played Pizza Tower but kept teasing for next week.
Eventually the true will be revealed. He bought the empire state and rebranded it as the Pizza Tower.
it becomes like the "Batman" review for RLM.
@@rr53213rr you could say the same for undertale depending on who you ask but dear god if he somehow got talked out of pizza tower is the day I cry myself to bed 😅.
he can't not play a game about a silly italian pizza man, it would break something in me
@@queasc0220 sadly there's a chance of both Pizza Tower and Hi-Fi Rush to get Undertale'd for him
I think the problem about the doors is that they use the Space pirate design, the same used in Aether on Prime 2 and on the Space Pirate Homeworld of Prime 3, while the doors in the original used the Chozo design, which was used again in the chozo cloud planet of Metroid Prime 3.
No the doors on aether and the space pirate homeworld look different. I think what happened was they made the doors more blue so that they are easier to see.
@@robertwyatt3912 This is my thought as well. Even beyond the glow it's they actively are textured different, not just having more glow. I think it is a deliberate choice.
I think they made the doors more luminescent and blue so they are easier to see, but that's just me.
Going to have to agree, this is a stellar remaster. It pretty much fixes every graphical issue I had with the first one like flat textures, lack of dynamic lighting and overall detail.
13:45 That fricking scream! i'm dead bro.
Vinny’s talk about wanting to do standup at around the 20-minute mark reminds me of him trying to act out a hypothetical routine of it during the Wario Land 4 pinball level.
For some reason I remember SNL, something to do with Speen, and a gorilla. Maybe it was a dream he had? No clue.
Samus being a "bounty hunter" is technically a mistranslation. Nintendo thought that word was closer to and "adventurer". Hence why she practically never does any bounty hunter-y type things.
I always felt like mercenary was more appropiate, soldier on hire maybe, Nintendo just went with bounty hunter in the lore but all games barely depict her to be anything other than a selfless hero.
I thought they went with "bounty hunter" cause it sounded cool and was related to cool space dudes like Han Solo. I vaguely remember hearing a story that someone asked how much did Samus get from bounty hunting and the team was flabbergasted and said Samus wouldn't do such things. So like a cultural/language barrier lol.
They literally thought "bounty" as in "good fortune", as in the word "bountiful", they thought bounty hunter meant someone who sought out goodness and light.
In the mangas she gets some bounty like stuff, she even wants to get payed for saving chairman Keaton from a pirate terrorist attack. But that's when she was young, confident and just left the federation military forces. Bounty hunter in the universe is played off as just a generic name given to anyone who fights and completes dangerous missions on hire, i think even if you stick with the federation army alone. Bounty hunters in the metroid universe are pretty much anywhere, but this doesn't mean she is like those big ego idiots who wander the planets looking for a fight just for money.
She became one just because she didn't want to be a puppet of the federation army and be required to follow orders directly, but she still fights for peace every time. I'm sure she even donates her bounty money to whoever needs it. I think she had to register in the bounty hunting offices just so she can legally carry weapons of mass destruction in public spaces
@@Cri_Jackal adorable and wholesome
25:03 The visuals and the music makes me feel at home perhaps because I'm from Finland and it's like this like for 6-8 months a year
Chat aski Vinny a question.
Vinny: "My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM, and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone."
Having watched Vinny's stuff for nearly a decade, him getting into his upbringing a bit at the end was thoughtful. He specifically said he doesn't like people analyzing him; so I'll just say, I'm sure the outlook he shares on life is very much appreciated by many.
Vinny DESPISES pizza tower. It's his LEAST favorite game ever made. He was shaking, shivering, wiggling, wobbling, quaking, QUIVERING in his seat trying his absolute best to think up a plan. But then the direct came. Vinny watched but then there was a trailer for Metroid prime remastered and it released that day. He was so happy, not because of Metroid. It's because so he can avoid pizza tower longer and that he has something to play that isn't pizza tower. He's not gonna actually play it next week either. He's just saying that. Infact He'll probably play wario land 3 on the game boy library on NSO that just came out on the same direct as Metroid prime remastered and say it was a HUGE coincidence.
This is all objectively true, yep
Funny pizza
As a Vinny and Jerma fan I am happy to notice this feels like a very Jerma comment section type of comment
I can't really imagine a human being wiggling, but i'll take your word for it
I can’t believe he caved in and played it, what terrible fans the tower has 😔
(/j, I am a tower fan lol)
Vinny talking about life really hits close to home, I've had a lot of similarities. Definitely avoided a lot of the problems he had though.
Gotta say first hand, I came from a Lutheran background grade school and had loving and supporting teachers who were the best influences in my life. It was when I went to a public setting in High School where the teachers seemed to really not give a shit.
Honestly, it was super validating. I’ve always enjoyed listening to Vinny ramble, but he almost never talks about himself like that.
Absolute gem of a stream, maybe one of Vinny’s best. Ever.
Vinny getting existential about his life, and his choices while going around Phendrana Drifts is a cosmically depressing moment.
The worst part about it is that he was supposed to stay in Phendrana and explore with the new adquired wabe beam, instead he ranted so hard he mindlessly wandered around magmoor, back to tallon and then back to the chozo ruins again, he's got quite the backtracking to do in his next session
We learned a lot about Vinny in this one,
For the cooler people who are both fans of Vinny AND Penny Parker, this episode has the Idiot who breathes so much it dies
Can’t believe no one in chat mentioned Splatoon when they were trying to think of third-person shooters with platforming
Bravo Johnny, this is an amazing thumbnail.
I came here to say the same thing and am glad someone else acknowledged this! Crazy impressive the quality and consistency here
I like how the “DETROIT” on the shirt could be misread as “METROID”
As a twelve year-old when the original Metroid Prime was released, I used to pronounce Phendrana as "fen-drain-na".
That comment about her hand was something I was always fascinated about. I used to think she had an arm canon was because her arm was severed in battle or something so it was replaced with that. But Prime threw in that with the x-ray and it made me think was the arm canon like a way to channel her powers kind of like X-men's cyclops in how he needs certain equipment to keep his powers in check. Like if Samus made those hand gestures out of her suit would the power be so great it would blow her arm off or something.
Reminds me of the “Awkward Zombie” comic where Star Fox goes over to the couch where Samus is doing like maintenance on her armor, and so her arm cannon is next to her on the couch, and Fox picks it up, saying he’s always wanted to know how it works. He then sees that it is hollow, and expresses confusion, and then asks “where are the guns?”, and as an answer, Samus flexes to show off the muscle of that arm. Like, suggesting that the guns of the arm cannon is just her guns(strong arms).
Really surprised to hear that Vinny hates Pizza Tower. Shocking reveal.
Almost as shocking as that time he turned out to be a pterodactyl and a tugboat.
The E-Tank at 15:04 can be gotten with a regular bomb jump.
Ahh yes I remember the Half Pipes and Samus Aran’s Pro Skater all too well, oh yeah let’s not forget, a Metroid game has Momentum Physics with the Boost Ball and those Half Pipes, something Sonic himself has struggling with.
1:19:20 By the way, I know Chat and Vinny kinda seem to know this fact but even then bounties would not make sense in Metroid because the studio for the longest time just didn't know what the term "bounty hunter" meant and just thought it sounded cool, but in fact claimed she is an adventurer more like Han solo and not like Boba Fett. They just had the wrong idea of what that meant over in Japan and would never even use that aspect as she is, in fact, not really a bounty hunter,
I love how sometimes you can see Samus's face when she fires the weapons.
I never really realized that this is just a game where you go around killing all the natural fauna (and flora sometimes!) of Tallon IV
To be fair a good amount of the creatures have been affected/mutated by phazon so there might be SOME excuse lol
Metroid 1 can be a template for Metroid Prime 4, as Zelda 1 was for Breath of the Wild's open world concept.
I'm stunned we somehow got a high-quality, well-made remaster for $40 and it's a Nintendo game of all things. So happy it's not just a lazy port of Trilogy for $60 for a limited time.
I hadn't realised the great SFX stepping on snow has.
he HATES pizer tower!
29:30 - Third-person 3D action-exploration game with an acrobatic character and projectile combat? ReCore.
Made by Armature, which was founded by some top guys at Retro after they left. It felt like a cross between Metroid Prime and Mega Man X, at least in terms of the core gameplay. Combat used a version of Prime's lock-on and beam swapping, but your character was far more mobile so the game could throw a lot more at you, sometimes approaching shmup levels of projectiles to dodge. And movement felt extremely tight and responsive with a sick Mega Man X air dash, which made for some surprisingly demanding platforming segments. It even has some light metroidvania in there, with little robo companions that join you and give you new abilities to access new areas.
Not a great game overall though, really bogged down by unnecessary adherence to the popular conventions (open world, loot, crafting, leveling up), obvious budget issues (enemy and environment variety isn't great, it's really lacking in terms of polish, and frankly wasn't even properly finished until the Definitive Edition update a year later), and some questionable design decisions.
But in terms of the core gameplay, I think it makes a great case for how a third-person Metroid could work.
To answer Vinny's question ~30 minutes in, where he wanted a 3rd person metroid style game. The answer is Dark Souls. Only the 1st one though.
BRUUUUUH
i would would absolutely go to a stand up routine from vinny
Damn it I CAN'T WAIT to get and play through this again!
57:59
Thinking about the artifact fetch quest, it's kinda a part of what Metroid is. Just about every game in the series has this point of no return where you have to collect these certain macguffins or kill these specific enemies to unlock a door that leads you to the end of the game. Sort of like a last chance to get all the collectibles you want before crossing the finish line. It's something I've never really thought of until I played this again. I can definitely see how it (as well as the keys from Prime 2) can be a detractor for some people.
It was the game's true goal: Metroid Prime wasn't designed to be beaten fast, or wasn't centered on combat. The goal of the game and the biggest skill cap is about finding your way around the world and explore it to its fullest in the most efficient way, it's about knowing where to go and how to get there by memorizing the map, the shortcuts and using new abilities as a tool for traversing and acquiring previously unobtainable items. Many people are way too casual about this game and even think that backtracking is annoying, when backtracking is imo the best thing of this game. If you are skilled you always know that there is things to do and it's far from just going from point A to point B. You feel statisfaction by planning your route to get to the objective in a smart way so you unlock new things and still be fast. The artifact hunt is there to reward skill and intuition for players that are able to grab most of them before they reach the late game. The player who isn't paying attention when exploring is instead punished and is then required to go around the map again, so they can learn the map and play the game better the next playthrough. Some people are so oblivious to this that they call it a mandatory fetch quest when in fact you can get these artifacts while playing the game normally trying to grab 100% items or close.
Otherwise known as "Getting weird with it + metroid gameplay in the background" lol
A Metroid game like no man sky, maybe not that "expansive", only one solar system but with entire planets, with large on foot "dungeons" interconnected to reach other from other planets (for the backtracking), space stations, radiant bounties, of course with her space ship
Samus deserves a game where she can kick ass, make it M rated. Have her kill Ridley with her bare hands.
30:30 Unrelated, but what's with Vinny and his aversion to Tomb Raider? I've noticed it during the Classic Game Commercials streams, but this moment just compounds it for me. I get that it's not everyone's cup of tea, but I don't think the series is deserving of an audible _"Eugh"_ like that.
You could always get that E tank with the bombs at that point, never needed springball.
AAA game remake by fans, amazing work!
The original Prime was made by fans too, haha
Little do you know Prime 4 is also secretly being made by fans
29:39 - Ratchet & Clank. It's pretty much Metroid with multiple planets shops.
20:00 I do not know if you would be a good stand-up comedian, but what I do know is that you're naturally very funny. And edgy. You're edgy and funny without being toxic and that's amazing.
"What other game franchise compares to Metroid and has nailed a sci-fi 3d action exploration game where the protagonist has crazy acrobatics just like Samus?"
That's a somewhat easy answer = Returnal.
dude, I live for streams where streamer talks about life
The whole Bandai Namco not knowing what metroid is, I remember being buzzed and sending them an extensive and detailed email hahahahahahaha
I disagree wholeheartedly that Breath of the Wild doesn't feel like a Zelda game. It is closer if spirit to the very first game, but it doesn't follow the format of the 3D games which is what people expected. It tried something new with only 4 major dungeons and the shrines, and no themed dungeons, but the first game didn't really have "themed" dungeons either.
27:30 - The problem with Other M was not in the gameplay. It was in the fact that they butchered Samus' so badly in that game that it felt more like you were playing as an escaped mental patient that somehow managed to steal her suit and is just running around in that game pretending to be her. We'll call this character Nutty Nancy. I'm not even going to dignify Other M's protagonist with the name, 'Samus'. The fandom needs to have more self-respect than that.
Vinny: getting lost repeatedly in one of his top games ever and constantly having to look at the map or the chat to progress
also Vinny: yeah why not make it a gigantic open world tho
That’s part of the fun
My 2 cents for his monologue around 1:25:00 or so:
I grew up on the original Metroid trilogy, and open-world games that carry that label tend to lose me because their worlds are usually spread too thin with repetitive, uninteresting world maps that make me feel like I'm wasting time when I could be playing something with more of the focus we usually get in a proper "Metroidvania," They could always do something to get it right. After all, I was one of the fans who was skeptical they could ever make a 1st person game, but I wouldn't know what a good Open World(tm) Metroid game would look like it until I saw it in front of me
This shows what a proper remake should be like. This is kinda on par with the Zelda remakes they were remade from the ground up but closely to the original.
They really could have just done a texture pack or made surfaces a little polished, but they actually reworked every model.
Vinny has some really nice personal storytime around 1:40:00 up to the end, really inspirational
I would definitely be Stoked if Metroid prime 2 got the same remastered treatment.
28:53 - This was literally beyond the Chozo's control. This thing came from space. All they were doing was trying to confine the threat to one planet.
17:09 NEINtindo switch
I'm only a casual metroid fan, iv'e played a few games but never finished any as of yet, but I will gladly watch this entire play through because of how happy this franchise makes Vinny
Can someone please tell Vinny that Myamoto said something like what if Samus had bug eyes to the dev team and they went "what" and then invented the scan visor
Genuinely caught off guard at the end with how kuch Vinny talked about his personal school experiences. I relate so heavily to everything he said and from my own time in college took it all so personally. I love these streams and I'm glad there are people out there who validate how much harder it is sometimes to think about our own personal issues with what's happening in our lives
1:30:24 - That's the plane of existence? Are we sure it's not just a dinner plate? Maybe that Chozo was the cook. Ever think of that?
And I'm so confused about what to pizza!
I am more bothered than I should be that there is apparently no fusion suit.
1:41:46 - You know, forgiveness. Except when the kid is misbehaving. Then hit them with a ruler until they stop.
51:15 - Those water effects are great. I wonder if Nintendo got employees from Bethesda to do those.
tbh I fucking LOVED the motion control gimmicks in Metroid Prime 3, it felt so good to actuate levers for real
1:45:30 I’m not here for the games. I’m here for his perspective. Hearing is mental progress throughout his journey of life. Overcoming stress and depression. Love this guy.
At 14:46, this is the worst Power Suit upgrade to get. I ended up dunking Samus in the magma numerous times. I didn't have the "Spring Ball" when I played on GameCube.
There's something about the smoothness of the new textures that remind me of Zero Mission
Chozo: We must do everything we can to preserve what life remains on the this planet. Samus: So anyway, I started blastin.
"this might be one of the best remasters nintendo has ever done"
The competition is paying full price for a port with a shitty lighting engine slapped onto it and some added bloom
21:00 id like to see ALL of the link exercise bit for stand up just to see the faces he makes for voices
hyped for metroid spagooglio
I am now finding out that they added the spring ball to this and that I didn't have die 5 times before finally getting that E tank.
Vinny read the sheegoth description TWICE and still ignored the fact that it ABSORBS BEAMS.
"Samus has been the direct cause of several mass extinctions."
#genocide_simulator
Okay please tell me I'm not the only person who looks at the map sometimes
in this game and sometimes perceives it as "upside down" like an optical illusion?
Yes indeed! When I first played it, especially, I was like, "How did the map get flipped?" and that same "feeling" kept happening.
I wonder if it still would if I played this version myself.
idk why did they shadowdropped this, it's one of the most outstanding remasters ever
Unfortunately for Metroid fans, this is not a good selling series.
They don't care much about it except milking the idiots that like it with middle of the road rereleases
@@lasarousi Dread changed that, lol.
@@JeanKP14 hopefully.
Jedi: Fallen Order is a third person 3D Metroidvania!
I like the idea of when Samus is traveling between planets and solar systems and what not she just spends her time on Wikipedia reading about some bugs she found.
41:45 - I remember that too. People were shipping Master Chief and Samus.
Ok chat, which Chorizo do you think is hotter?
Raven Beak
or
Rito innkeeper birb lady that snuggles with you if you choose the "feather down bed" option when staying the night.
chattuh.. put your comment away chattuh
Raven Beak, no question. Have you seen his abs? Not to mention the way he dominated an entire planet and totally overpowered Samus. And don't even get me started on his beautiful eyes. God, what a chad.
t. Adam
I need a sauce for the second one... for... for comparison puroses
Do you mean to be like, only asking bisexual people or something? Like, most people are heterosexual, so, like, if they had to pick one, they, or, at least I, would pick the one of the opposite sex?
Like, sure, you could ask a heterosexual male which of two males he thinks is “hotter”, and he might have an answer (though this might be more like, “which would being-more-like make me more attractive”?), but if you ask him (me) to say whether a particular woman or a particular man is more attractive, assuming that they are both non-repulsive, he’s going to pick the woman?
@@drdca8263 This is a wild ass comment to try and read out loud
27:55 - The word 'fine' to me is extremely suspect if there isn't anything else material added to it. Usually the more accurate way to interpret the word is 'fine, but...'.
Mr pizza pasta HATES Pizza tower absolutely loathes it
What if you decentralized open world, had like different planets or stations connected in like a constellation to visit & each opens up further as you gain upgrades? And the ship mechanic could be more fleshed out?
About the only thing that i found infuriating if at all is that the arm cannon's flashing effect (light going back and forth) is too bright to the point that it becomes distracting. I also think that the chargebeam looks a little off. Other then that they did fantastic jobb with this remaster.
Surprised I haven’t seen more people mention that first point, feel exactly the same way
@@Oscargoo Yeah, its a bit annoying
Vinny when metroid: Aran
Vinny when GTA remaster: I ran