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Metroid Prime Done Even Quicker

Posted by simoniker on from the zoom-zoom-zoom dept.

Thanks to the Gaming-Age forum regulars for pointing to news of a new world speed record at Metroid Prime for GameCube. The record-breaker, Radix, was originally inspired by an earlier Slashdot article about CALFoolio's non-item-based speed record, and "decided... to focus on a 100% speed run: one that gets all 100 items in the game." This run comes with a complete video record of the amazingly swift 1 hour, 37 minute play-through.

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  1. Re:Oddly enough, by mhlandrydotnet · · Score: 2, Informative
    Ehrm, scanning stuff has nothing to do with what percentage you wind up with.

    100% means he got all 15 energy tanks, all 250 missiles, all the power bombs, all the suit upgrades and all the beam upgrades. These items amount to 99%, but when you get the last upgrade, it gives you two percentage points.

    Scanning 100% of items though, will unlock an image gallery.

  2. Re:Gamecube by DrEldarion · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'd like to see you doing that with a PS game which is maybe "cool" but certainly not *FUN*.

    Man, I can't tell you how many times I played through SSX and SSX:Tricky just to shave seconds off my time or get more points. That was fun as hell. I spent even more time levelling up items alone in Disgaea. That was great fun as well.

    There ARE plenty of quality games on EACH console, it's just that the PS2 and XBox have a lot of crappy titles in addition to the good ones.