Big Boss... Complete on Extreme, no kills, no deaths, no alerts, no health packs. In under 5 hours.

Thats a challenge, one I personally gave up on.

Before anyone gets their panties up in a bunch, this is an arcade game, not retail.

I doubt most gamers spend money to see how fast they can burn through a game, skipping everything...

@1.3- yeah seems impossible but i knew exactly what to do after playing the game so many times. The bit that was the most tedious was the key cards bit towards the end. Easily my favourite PS1 game

It was on topic and completely inflammatory, are the mods just targeting user names now?

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Why is it that
That this game is more constantly compared to the snes metroid? It has similarities but has even more similarities to Castlevania: SOTN. Maybe cause you shoot?

It supposedly has the hidden treasure rooms, the map display of where you've been, the 2D platformish nature (though this has 3D aspects, i don't know about the music as it's isn't mentioned or used as a selling point.

It was a really clever idea to make it similar to two legendary games, you know it'll be good.

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"sequence-breaks" were completely prevented in C:SotN unless you had beaten the game already or put in a cheat code. The one that let you play as Ricter belmont, for example, gave you his ability to kick straight up several feet, basically you could fly, so you could go straight to the boss skipping EVERYTHING and beat the game in minutes, not sure about the reverse castle though.

This isn't being made by EPIC. They bought the dev, Chair Entertainment, who had already made 'Undertow', using UE3. EPIC is just funding and, of course backing with extra staff to help them further exploit UE3....but EPIC is NOT the dev. MS is publishing.

@1.10 - Oh OK alright. I just expected something more when Cliff Blezinski came out at E3. Still hopefully this is good.

Yeah, it'll be like Super Metroid in that if you know the ins and outs and every thing exactly as it needs to be, you can beat it in a couple of hours, but certainly not on your first play through, only after total memorization of the game and with a lot of skill.

I have high hopes for this game. I really dislike the art style, but I think the gameplay looks fun and the concept is top notch, grade A awesome. I like Card's writing as well.

The last teaming up of Chair with Card was Advent Rising, which was pretty good, if a bit less impress than it was hyped up to be. I couldn't get into Undertow, though. Didn't like anything about it. But I think they can get back to glory with this new game.

...looks absolutely phenomenal. An arcade game looking that good and playing that long? Day 1.

"only after total memorization of the game and with a lot of skill"

Exactly.

The world record for Super Mario Bros. is 05:08.

Does anyone say "SMB is beatable in under 6 mintues"?

No. The game is being designed to be *explored* and *discovered*, something lacking in modern adventure/platform games. I think this is a terrific idea; it adds re-playability -- if you get good, and want to "show" or "play more" at a certain point, you can "speed run" to that point... Serves the same purpose as SMB warp-zones... sort of "skip ahead".

I finished MGS4 in 2:34:02 along with the BIG BOSS EMBLEM