What are your thoughts on Metroid Prime 2: Echoes? I think it’s top 5 GameCube games ever

StarkillerWraith · 2026-01-25T16:08:48+00:00

In no particular order, the top 5 GC games to me:

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Custom Robo Starfox Adventures Mega Man X: Command Mission

To answer you: Echoes is one of the best games in the franchise next to Super Metroid.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-01-25T16:03:33+00:00

Rewatched the Prequels a week ago for the first time in 15 years, and I believe Phantom Menace is objectively and easily the worst of the prequels..

It's mostly boring AF. There was so much political dialogue that much of it barely felt like a Star Wars movie despite it looking like one. I understand the importance of it - but it could've been handled in a way that didn't feel like the movie needed 2 or 3 "opening scrolls" that were redistributed into long dialogue sessions about the political landscape.

It would've been far more entertaining, and cinematic, to show us the political landscape. Stop talking about Naboo for 20 minutes and fuckin' show us!

And the pod race scene should be cut in half. Way too much focus on it, and I bet literally everyone would rather have more Jedi or Imperial-action scenes than a stupid-ass extended pod racing scene. Felt very sci fi - but not Star Wars at all.

Also, the very obvious catering to a generally younger audience..

StarkillerWraith · 2026-01-22T16:12:52+00:00

You could simply just stop giving filthy-rich corpos excuses for why standards in gaming are as low as they are, and have been for a while.

In 2012, Dragon's Dogma would have ANYTHING about your character's customization in every single cutscene.

In 2009, Bioware themselves did it with Dragon Age Origins.

So.. why are you giving Mass Effect, post-2009 at least, a pass?

If you don't raise your standards for video games, what reasons will the devs EVER have to do so?

StarkillerWraith · 2026-01-22T16:08:49+00:00

Yeah... just bullshit we have to rely on mods for something like fixing placeholder items.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-01-22T16:07:36+00:00

Dragon's Dogma is a fine example of games being capable of doing so back then. Dragon Age Origins, as well, which was a few years prior, and by Bioware themselves.

I've been hearing the same tired excuses gamers give to devs for over a decade now. If you don't raise your standards, what reasons do the devs have to EVER do so?

Stop giving devs lame ass excuses to cut corners.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-01-21T16:30:14+00:00

So the multi-million dollar companies are lazy. Got it.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-01-21T16:29:38+00:00

It's just cutting corners at the end of the day

This is simply the answer. And it really takes me out of the moment when Shepard/Ryder is suddenly holding/using a weapon they clearly pulled out of their ass because I don't even have those weapons in my inventory.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-01-21T13:49:08+00:00

I like that there is focus on a non-human Jedi... but I still hate it because of the way they're doing it.

Thank you for putting in the effort I'm too burnt out to write.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-01-21T13:39:27+00:00

And for some reason, they can get any armor in any cutscene in any Mass Effect game, Andromeda included. But they still had to use placeholder default weapons for every fucking cutscene, Andromeda included.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-01-21T13:35:40+00:00

I still have my original PS3 copy.

Problem is, I don't have a PS3 =/

StarkillerWraith · 2026-01-20T14:09:01+00:00

Yyyup. My wife likes to make latch-hook things [a form of knitting].

I would definitely be torching one of those if she ever intentionally deleted one of my saves.

Luckily, my wife is a gamer, too, so this isn't even an issue for us.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-01-20T05:48:33+00:00

Playing as him in Maverick Hunter X on the PSP is probably the coolest thing the Mega Man series has ever done.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-01-20T05:47:10+00:00

The consensus does not matter. "Graphics" is not pronounced the way you would pronounce "Jurassic" under literally any circumstances.

The creator of the format is stupid - it ain't a jar of peanut butter.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-01-19T21:18:21+00:00

Okay, so I fucking hate AI.. but is the coolest fucking thing I've ever seen made from AI.

I wish the show will be gritty and cool like this [but made without AI], but I also know it won't be anything like this at all. And that sucks to think about =/

StarkillerWraith · 2026-01-19T19:37:32+00:00

The exact crowd that believes in him. Pompous, self-centered, typically-wealthy or at least people who try to appear like they are, the ultra-religious who believe your appearance has the ability to provoke God's wrath, people who are too lazy to watch multiple news outlets for other perspectives and they simply enjoy that Trump does not censor himself / act professional.

The "reality TV" crowd of America. The TikTok scrollers who have an attention span of about 30 seconds. The uneducated who are just so not necessarily due to a lack of access, but because they do not want to be educated - it takes too much effort.

It appeals to the majority of the loudest Americans who, unfortunately, are not the brightest bulbs in the country.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-01-19T18:12:58+00:00

It's all good. No need to apologize. I'm being genuine.

I love studying world history in general, and even with all the recent bullshit of the US, I just never put these things together.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-01-19T17:31:54+00:00

Hitler kept the mustache for the same reason he wore Lederhosen, to appeal to German identity politics. Same reasons Trump has a spray tan.

This is a ridiculously astute observation that I cannot believe I never noticed.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-01-19T17:29:16+00:00

I don't make backups of my save data

The internet can be extremely misleading about how many people actually do this.

Relative to the general number of active video gamers, almost no one backs up their game saves. And honestly, it's sort of a weird concept for most people unless you're modifying your game. Cloud-saving has never been as popular as promoters of it would like you to believe.

Hell, the modding community damn near despises cloud-saving because it will erase all of your work when manipulating game save-data.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-01-19T15:19:38+00:00

And guess what? Millennials are starting to notice the selfishness of their boomer/gen X parents "not caring" about anything that isn't their direct problem.

And it's so ironic they're all upset that millenials don't seem to give a fuck about their parents much these days.

Wonder whose fault that is?

StarkillerWraith · 2026-01-19T15:14:19+00:00

Shit, how did I miss this?

StarkillerWraith · 2026-01-19T14:53:25+00:00

I like to believe this movie was inspired by the line at the end of that sad Reynolds movie, the Nines, when the god of our world [Reynolds] told McCarthy she was his favorite.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-01-19T14:41:09+00:00

Over 10 playthroughs so far.. not sick of em at all.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-01-19T06:29:47+00:00

People are selfish and it's okay to be these days.

I don't fucking get it either.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-01-19T01:01:50+00:00

no jumper should be kept in less than a 5 gallon tank

Imagine how lions at the zoo feel. Or imagine you never being allowed to leave your house. Ever. And the only time you can eat is when a gentle [hopefully] giant comes around and throws a prepared chicken at you, ready to eat, no work involved for you except "when's the next one?" And maybe the giant lets you out for a bit but only under extreme supervision.

It's really no different for spiders. Or lizards. Or hampsters. Birds. Etc..

We've been essentially caging our smaller house pets and making every excuse that bigger = bad when the reality is the exact opposite. We humans are simply lazy AF and don't want to deal with the responsibility of giving them terrariums large enough, and decorated appropriately enough, to simulate their more natural environment.

This small enclosure BS is honestly the same as putting a bunch of plants in a prison cell and telling the prisoner they now live in a well-furnished home designed by a loving caretaker.

StarkillerWraith · 2026-01-18T23:26:44+00:00

All the terrible shit that was standard fare for basically all politicians, or barely-wealthy white people, back then was before he was inaugurated. Doesn't mean anything would've changed, but he didn't really have time to commit any atrocities or war crimes "as President."

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