Best Metroid Poll

The last Metroid is in captivity. The galaxy is at peace.

OG metroid

Voted for the only one I've finished. Only started two others though.

I've not played enough of these but I voted anyway.

ooh

i can't decide between fusion and zero mission, both of which i loved. never actually played super metroid, and metroid prime was alright and all but i got stuck on some boss and never got very far.

Play Super Metroid now.

Not voting since I never played Super Metroid either, which seems to be acknowledged as the best (though is this due to nostalgia, or that long drought between it and Metroid Prime?).

fusion is the only only one i've beaten. so fusion.

obv 1st one is best ever

I've played all but the GameBoy ones, and as awesome as the Prime series is, nothing beats Super Metroid. And it's not just nostalgia, as I had barely ever played it until it was on the VC.

i wish super metroid was cheaper on ebay.

how much is it? i should ebay my snes stuff

super metroid is on the Wii VC for what, $8?

$20 cheapest

i knew tom was just going to tell me to get a wii!

yep, eight bucks on the VC, and you don't have to find a save coffin thing to save your progress.

I'm hoping they add Game Boy to the VC so I can finally play those Metroid games eventually.

Weren't they talking about gameboy downloads that you could play on your ds, or something like that?

This, I guess?
http://www.dsfanboy.com/2007/10/24/rumor-official-flash-cards-for-downloading-game-boy-games/

Many are called, but Super Metroid is chosen.

i am tempted to vote for metroid because it is perfect and i have spent years obsessing over everything about it, the pristine soundtrack and sound design, the graphics, the passwords, the secret room hunts, the succinct poetry of the start screen - it's just fucking PERFECT. but if i'm honest, the game i had most fun playing from that list is metroid prime.

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super

Needs a no Metroid is good option. Even thought the wii one is probably good.

OG Metroid is one of the greatest games ever made.

oh man ban captainlorax

ILG's own Hongro taking shape right before our eyes

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OLD SCHOOL RULES

cool. i'm glad other people voted for the DS ones, though.

btw i'm going to start playing super metroid next week. :>

I started Super Metroid last night and it's amazing, although after looking up some stuff online it looks like I managed to get pretty far while missing half the gun upgrades and stuff.

is there super metroid for GBA?

No, but Metroid Fusion and Zero Mission are exactly the same gameplay as SM, just different games. Some of my favorites ever A+++.

ah ok i voted for fusion! <3<3<3

Har, I'm the one who voted for prime hunters. Although actually, if I could've, I'd have voted for metroid prime pinball, cos that's my real favourite.

I spent most of yesterday beating Super Metroid (after having to start over a few days before because my game got erased somehow, just like old times!) and it was everything I hoped it could be. What a great fucking game.

Btw, my cat generally ignores the tv but was obsessed with Super Metroid. All getting in the way and trying to chase morph-ball Samus around.

I'm playing through Super Metroid right now. I played it when it came out but I had rented it and gotten stuck, and it's no fun getting stuck in these games. Now that I can look up the answer online, getting stuck for hours on end is avoidable. I actually prefer the linear-style Castlevania stuff over Metroidvania for that reason, though the unlockable open-world aspects are really cool and a great part of what makes it fun. That part where the green animals wall jump and you realize you could have wall jumped the entire time is awesome! (Tho in reality you couldn't wall jump in many places because the walls need to be pretty close together).

You can't top the minimalist title theme from the first NES game, though.

i'd never thought about how epistemologically interesting the wall jumping was before

God I used to love Super Metroid. It really was a world of its own.

super then prime then O.G.

My favourite of the Prime series was Metroid Prime Pinball

The controls in Super Metroid are absolutely perfect, fine-tuned like a master mechanic fine-tuned a hot-rod. Wall jumping is difficult but not impossible, and when you pull one off, you feel like a million bucks. You really feel like you jumped up that long vertical tunnel because you DID, and it was a tricky little feat of acrobatic button inputs. If Star Wars is Space Opera then Super Metroid is Space Ballet.

Super Metroid + Space Ritual is the ideal way to change things up

It is way better than Dark Side of the Oz, too.

I love the fire area graphics the most, it's basically built out of NES Metroid tiles but w the SNES they can do color palette shifting, so it has a nice glowing effect that makes it look like everything is carved from burning coals.

There's like a whole aesthetic that could be wrought from the start of Super Metroid when Samus lands on Zebes and it's all bleak and foggy and ominous. I'd love to start a thread about music/films/art that inadvertently allude to this but I'm worried it might be a little too esoteric.

Just started playing Super Metroid on a SNES emulator and I'm having a blast. The atmosphere alone is GOAT.

Gonna take adam's advice on SM + Hawkwind. Also weed.

Which emulator?
I've only played the OG one

Super Metroid is amazing.

Can anyone recommend a snes emulator for mac? Or are they generally better on pc?

I'm using snes9x for Win10, looks great with scanlines + bilinear filtering turned on. Can't help for mac, sorry

OpenEmu looks promising, will try that one

i can vouch for openemu on mac

super metroid is the best

the 3 great metroid games imo are super metroid, zero mission, and the first metroid prime

first metroid prime is sublime

i loved the first NES Metroid so much as a kid. can't beat that atmosphere. Metroid Prime i always avoided until last year cos 3D but it turned out to be surprisingly really good and faithful to the series. haven't played Zero or the other GBA games.

definitely check out Another Metroid 2 Remake (AM2R). it is a fan game but it is the best fangame i have ever played. it is a remake of the Gameboy Metroid 2 (which always suffered from the tiny screen) but with Super Metroid graphics/gameplay.