Here I am working my butt off dealing with all these muthapluckin' Psy-bots in this muthapluckin' control room and there's Sgt Duke staring at the console with his finger up his nose, not helping. 😡😡
After reading several comments in this subreddit about the different ways to defeat Kraid in Dread, I wanted to see if I could pull off that flash shift attack.
I first discovered that Samus was a girl about 20 years ago after beating Prime 1, and with all the overly sexualized zero suit memes, I now can't unsee the total "female" in every game I play now. I made this short compilation where she walks with a clear female swish in her hips.
After 44 attempts(!!), I was able to pull off this pseudo diffusion shot in Dread (at the entrance to Ferenia (from Ghavoran)) which allowed me to get the Space Jump early. It didn't really mean much with respect to completing the game, it was just the satisfaction of being able to do it.
At the start of the game (Dread), can this organic wall be exploded from this position without the difussion beam?
At this point in the game, there's no benefit to blasting it early because after navigating a bit more, you'll be on even ground with it and can break it naturally (with your default arm cannon). But it's so fat here and just screams for a psuedo difussion (charged shot/jump combo) from this position.
I couldn't pull it off and I'm just wondering if it can be done.
We may be young
And not full grown
But we have got problems of our own
Kids are people, too!
*(Whack-a doo, Whack-a doo, Whack-a Doo!)*
And though we're small
We do our best
To do our thing just like the rest
Kids are people, too!
*(Yes they are!)*
It isn't easy
Going all day
Winning and losing
In the games that we play
Doing our homework
Learning in school
And trying to live by the Golden Rule
And so we hope
You'll understand
And try to lend a helping hand
Kids are people...
Kids are people...
Kids are people, too!
*(They're really, really people, too!)*
*YEAH!*
A question just occurred to me: Why is Marsellus Wallace getting coffee when he's hit by Butch Coolidge? He's got a box of doughnuts and two coffees, presumably for himself and Vincent Vega as they're (both) staking out Butch's apartment.
But what I don't understand is why is the rich (millionaire), influential, crime lord Marsellus Wallace *walking* to get breakfast? Why isn't one of his "hard, pipe-hittin' n--rs" out fetching the food? In fact, why isn't it Vincent getting the coffee and doughnuts?
I always thought it was pure coincidence that Butch and Marsellus ran into each other (pun intended), but it clearly wasn't. It seems Marsellus was totally and completely invested in getting revenge (and his money back), but to take on the task so personally that he puts himself at risk by walking a few blocks (in public) for coffee and doughnuts...it just doesn't fit the TV mob boss motif.
These are the 70s television "cop/detective" shows I can remember watching as a kid, I know there's more. The (*) are my favs. My brother's name is "Stefon," my mother told me she named him after a villian character ("Stephon Jovanović") on "Mission: Impossible!"
- Adam-12 *
- Banacek
- Baretta *
- Barnaby Jones
- Barney Miller *
- Bronk
- Charlie's Angels
- CHiPs *
- Columbo *
- Dan August
- Delvecchio *
- Dragnet *
- Eishied *
- Ellery Queen
- Get Christie Love *
- Get Smart *
- Harry-O
- Hawaii Five-O *
- Heart to Heart
- Hunter *
- Ironside *
- It Takes a Thief *
- Kodiak
- Kojak *
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker *
- Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp *
- Mannix *
- Matt Helm
- McCloud *
- McMillan and Wife
- Mission: Impossible *
- O'Hara: U.S. Treasury
- Petrocelli
- Police Squad *
- Police Story
- Police Woman
- Quincy *
- Scooby Doo, Where Are You? *
- Serpico *
- Shaft *
- Starsky & Hutch
- S.W.A.T *
- The Blue Knight
- The Bold Ones
- The Edge of Night *
- The FBI *
- The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries
- The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
- The Mod Squad *
- The Name of the Game
- The New Avengers
- The Rockford Files
- The Rookies *
- The Saint *
- The Six Million Dollar Man
- The Streets of San Francisco
- Toma *
- Vega$
QUESTION: At the end of the game, what was the fate of Duke, Tokabi, MacKenzie, Armstrong, and VUE? The story makes me assume MacKenzie dies, while the rest are marooned on Gilligan's Viewros. Assuming we don't get an MP5 "Beyond" sequel, do we conclude they die there? Do they kill Sylux while Samus escapes?
Has anyone ever seen the Scout Bot act this way? During the run through in Ice Belt to collect items, I shot it with electricity to wake it up and after it flew up in the air, I inadvertently hit a button, or a combo of buttons, and instead of crumpling to the ground and dying, like normal, it remained upright and active, as if it was on a mission. I stood there watching to see what it was going to do (it did nothing), but as long as I stayed in the area, it just stood there, looking (scouting) around. Once i entered the facility, it died.
I tried to do it to other Scouts but couldn't.
Has anyone ever seen this behavior?
QUESTION:
When Samus is riding the Vi-O-La, her body can take damage and she can be killed. But since it appears the bike is incorporated into her suit (like the morphball), when she's hit while riding, or when she crashes into a walk or a rock, does the Vi-O-La take damage?
I'm not sure if the Vi-O-La is *like* the morphball, because when she "dismounts" the bike isn't left behind standing with a kickstand, it disappears and I assume it's incorporated into Samus' body like the morphball.
When Samus is in morphball and it gets hit, is it also taking damage? And if the Vi-O-La "bike" is a completely independent thing compared to the Vi-O-La "suit," then what of the physical bike when she's on foot? And is the bike invulnerable to damage?
I've been reading a lot of posts asking if we could change "one thing..." with the presumption that that one thing would make the game better. I enjoy the game the way it is. No, it's not perfect, but then none of the games in the series are perfect, and all of them could be improved.
MP4 could absolutely do for some tweaking and polishing, and just one change wouldn't be enough. Here is my list of tweaks that I would suggest to improve the game play:
- Allow sequence breaking.
- In Sol Valley, reduce the frequency of the attacks by the "MAGs" (the Maurauders, Areonauts, and Gullbats); they're annoying and pointless.
- Instead of gaining the ammo expansions and energy tanks in the Shrines and from Tokabi, you would earn them by defeating attacks by the MAGs: (1) Mauraders = missile expansions; (2) Gullbats = shot expansions; (3) defeat one Aeronaut = 1 energy tank--similar to the Swim Catcher chase in Flare Pool.
- In the Shrines, make it more of a challenge to earn the arm cannon upgrades by implementing a tougher, 2-3 pronged puzzle.
- Make the Fire, Ice, and Thunder chips immediately functional the moment they're found--no need to return to base camp to activate them.
- Implement the use of the Vi-O-La (1) in Fury Green--something like a BMX run; and (2) allow Samus to ride the Vi-O-La in the Snow Wolf battle in Ice Belt.
- Turn off MacKenzie--period. Put him in Ice Belt with Tokabi, but have him accompany Samus, similar to how Duke and Armstrong accompany her in Flare Pool. Samus meets both MacKenzie and a leg-wounded Tokabi right after the Snow Wolf fight, but Mac accompanies Samus while Tokabi hangs back like he currently does.
- Allow Samus to drive one of the trucks in Ice Belt in a "Ice Road Truckers" like sequence in the mountains to gain the energy tank and the Psychic Spider Ball upgrade.
- With sequence breaking, "if" you defeat the Omega Griever early and get the Power Bomb, you can use it early to break the boulders in the green crystal search and get the Legacy Suit early.
- I would change nothing about the green crystal search except to make some crystals discoverable in Ice Belt, Flare Pool, and The Mines (particularly) for the "100%" goal.
- I would change nothing with VUE-995.
I was perusing the images in the post-game gallery and came across this image set. Does anyone know where this location is in Viewros? Is this pre-destruction Volt Forge?
I finished Hard mode previously but missed scanning the Omega Griever. My pride couldn't let that stand and I had to get 100%.
I just completed Hard level for the second time (but got the "100%" this time), and I was browsing through the end game gallery and noticed these images that give a size perspective of Samus and morphball Samus.
In "Flare Pool," in order to unlock the Turret clamps and put the cannon in maintenance mode, Samus goes into the morphball to start the turbines that decouple the clamps. It looked to me that the size (height) of the morphball was as tall as Duke and Armstrong--at least five (5) feet tall. Up to that moment, from *Prime 1 thru 3* and *Dread*, I always had the impression that the morphball was the size of a basketball...comparatively--that's what it looks like in *photo no. 2.*
In *photo 1,* the ice crawler is about the size of a large dog--it looked the size of a possum in the game.
In *photo 3,* the Mauraders are HUGE, when they looked like large hula hoops in the game.
Well, I made y'all depressed with my sad songs, so here's my list of favorite 70s funny, jokey songs. Today, no matter where I am or what I'm doing, when I hear "Happy" by Pharrell Williams, I instantly smile and literally dance like those in the video. My song list below has the same giggling effect on me whenever I hear them. I know there's a lot more, so please add yours!
- "Dead Skunk" - Loudon Wainwright (1972)
- "Junk Food Junkie" - Larry Groce (1975)
- "Motorcycle Mama" - Tailgate (1972)
- "The Lone Ranger" - Oscar Brown (1974)
- "Uneasy Rider" - Charlie Daniels (1973)
- "You Don't Mess Around With Jim" - Jim Croce (1972)
- "The Streak" - Ray Stevens (1974)
- "My Ding-A-Ling" - Chuck Berry (1972)
- "Cover of The Rolling Stone" - Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show (1973)
- "Short People" - Randy Newman (1977)
- "No No" - Ringo Starr (1974)
- "Squeeze Box" - The Who (1975)
- "Yes, Yes, Yes" - Bill Cosby (1976)
- "Warewolves of London" - Zevon (1978)
- "Dancing Fool" - Frank Zappa (1979)
- "I'm My Own Grandpa" - Ray Stevens
- "Bertha Butt Boogie" - Jimmy Castor Bunch (1974)
I'm 69 years old and the following list of my favorite, memorable "sad songs" from the 1970s instantly evoke a profound sense of melancholy in me whenever I hear them. I've included two (10,000 Maniacs and Hank Williams. Jr.) that are outside of the 70s time frame because they, too, draw out profound emotion. For at least 10 of these, I will cry, or come close to tears.
- "Seasons in the Sun" - Terry Jacks (1974)
- "Alone Again (Naturally)" - Gilbert O'Sullivan (1972)
- "Photographs and Memories" - Jim Croce (1972)
- "Operator" - Jim Croce (1972)
- "Cats in the Cradle" - Harry Chapin (1974)
- "Wildfire" - Michael Murphy (1975)
- "One Less Bell to Answer" - 5th Dimension (1970)
- "Time in a Bottle" - Jim Croce (1972)
- "Lonely People" - America (1975)
- "Come Saturday Morning" - The Sandpipers (1970)
- "Brandy" - The O'Jays (1978)
- "At Seventeen" - Janis Ian (1975)
- "All By Myself" - Eric Carmen (1975)
- "Sam Stone" - John Prine (1971)
- "All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down)" - Hank Williams, Jr. (1981)
- "Freddie's Dead" - Curtis Mayfield (1972)
- "Sideshow" - Blue Magic (1974)
- "Midnight Cowboy" - The Ray Conniff Singers (1970)
- "Angie" - Rolling Stones (1973)
- "I'm Not In Love" - 10cc (1975)
- "Eat For Two" - 10,000 Maniacs (1989)
- "Bridge Over Troubled Water" - Simon and Garfunkel (1970)
- "Love Story (Where Do I Begin?)" - Andy Williams (1970)