Thanks to @sWaMPqUeeN and @MisterPookie I started playing Stardew Valley on Thursday and somehow logged 14 hours to the game since then. Not only does time seem to fly by while playing that game, but it takes very little effort. Some games (DS3, OW) I can't play more than an hour or two at a time because I get tired, perhaps from all the adrenaline.
What games have a similar effect on you, so I know what to avoid for the sake of my productivity?
I'd invite you to a new coop game with me and Maddie on Stardew PC, but it's hard to start over and OR add a new character to a game 1.25yrs in...
LOL holy shit I'm good haha, hate to make you lose all that farm. @sWaMPqUeeN's been playing on the switch while I'm using the steam link to play it with a controller on our big TV, so we can both be on the couch together tending our own farms lol. It's awesome, just took a little bit to get the right configuration for my old ass Xbox 360 controller on my linux box.
It's a shame we can't do cross-platform coop with switch/PC otherwise we'd be all over that.
Also I mean in game years 😅 we just started playing recently! But yee, needs croas platform v badly.
I can sit down and play Super Metroid all in one sitting. At my best it only took me 1 hour 38 minutes. Now its closer to 2 hours 20 minutes. I don't try to speed run it any more. But even when I play casual, you always, ALWAYS, keep your time under 3 hours. Otherwise you dont get to see all of 10 seconds of Samus in a black bikini.
Damn! My first intro to the metroid series was Zero Mission and I feel like that spoiled me for the games older than that one. Zero Mission was just so fluid, had a ton of cool power-ups, and I studied the hell out of that game too. I wasn't born early enough to play Super Metroid as a kid and so trying to go back and play that now doesn't feel right at all.
Zero Mission and its sister game Fusion are some of the best platform shooters of the GBA era. That's like saying "I watched Citizen Kane and now I don't like movies anymore." It's not really a fair comparison to make lol
That's a fascinating comparison lol. What do you think makes them so good?
Zero Mission was a tour-de-force for the Metroid team. A reimagining of the original story no longer limited by the constraints of the hardware. All the things you liked about Zero Mission are the "final form" of the ideas expressed all those years ago.
In regards to the question "what makes a Metroid game good?" it boils down to the core tenants of games as media.
The Metroid games (outside of the obvious exceptions) are characterized by tight, responsive controls, a unique (for the time) blend of creative and combative problem solving, and a hands-off storytelling style that let you dive in and out of the narrative at your own pace.
Long story long, Zero Mission and Fusion are great specifically because they accomplish what many AAA games of today fail to do, despite their nigh-infinite budgets and two-hundred strong programming teams.
Fascinating - I didn't know that! I always find it interesting hearing people's opinions on what makes a game "good".
Super Metroid is the direct predecessor to Fusion and Zero Mission. Zero Mission being a remake of the OG Metroid with all of the things that made Super Metroid good thrown in. Fusion being the direct sequel to Super Metroid.
I recently played some Zelda BOTW and would try to climb some stupid tree to get some stupid apple and then look up and be like "Where the heck did the last 45 min go?" (I'm not very good at Zelda)
That one is next on our to-buy list for the Switch!
There is only one way to play Zelda games and it involves never using the materials given to you as they are intended.
Preach Brotha'
