{"id":9143,"date":"2023-03-01T12:37:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T11:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/01\/metroid-prime-was-astonishingly-ahead-of-its-time-i-cant-put-it-down\/"},"modified":"2023-03-01T12:37:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T11:37:25","slug":"metroid-prime-was-astonishingly-ahead-of-its-time-i-cant-put-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/01\/metroid-prime-was-astonishingly-ahead-of-its-time-i-cant-put-it-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Metroid Prime was astonishingly ahead of its time. I can\u2019t put it down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike a lot of throwbacks, a new remastered version of the 3D space adventure plays even better than it did two decades ago. Plus, your gaming questions answered<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/ng-interactive\/2021\/nov\/24\/sign-up-for-pushing-buttons-keza-macdonalds-weekly-look-at-the-world-of-gaming\">Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Welcome back to Pushing Buttons! First up \u2013 last week\u2019s newsletter had a few errors in it. Most obviously, I referred to the Meta Quest 2 headset as the now-discontinued Oculus Go (even though I\u2019d just been playing with<em> <\/em>the Quest 2, to compare it with PSVR2 \u2013 nice job, brain). I also gave some incorrect pricing info. A corrected version is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2023\/feb\/22\/pushing-buttons-virtual-reality-vr-gaming-playstation-vr-headset\">Guardian site<\/a>. Apologies for the mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote a few weeks ago about how bringing games back from the 1990s can be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2023\/feb\/01\/from-goldeneye-007-to-dead-space-why-rereleases-are-risky-business\">difficult exercise<\/a>, given how technologically hamstrung developers were in the early 3D era. Replaying games from that period today requires a kind eye and a willingness to accept compromising quirks. But sometimes, you play a game from a decades ago and think, this might actually hit <em>better <\/em>now. Metroid Prime Remastered is one of those games. I\u2019ve been unable to play anything else for weeks, since I downloaded it on a whim after February\u2019s Nintendo Direct. This game was astonishingly ahead of its time. In fact, I didn\u2019t appreciate it in 2003, when I was a teenager, as much as I do now.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2023\/mar\/01\/pushing-buttons-retro-games-that-get-better-with-age-metroid-prime-remastered\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a6452c0c6af3d67b9a14f7d3250e4892d40b6325\/6_0_1800_1080\/master\/1800.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=876ec930bee7e3c463d4628d09a2595d\" title=\"Metroid Prime was astonishingly ahead of its time. I can\u2019t put it down\" \/>Unlike a lot of throwbacks, a new remastered version of the 3D space adventure plays even better than it did two decades ago. Plus, your gaming questions answered<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<br \/>\nWelcome back to Pushing Buttons! First up \u2013 last week\u2019s newsletter had a few errors in it. Most obviously, I referred to the Meta Quest 2 headset as the now-discontinued Oculus Go (even though I\u2019d just been playing with the Quest 2, to compare it with PSVR2 \u2013 nice job, brain). I also gave some incorrect pricing info. A corrected version is on the Guardian site. Apologies for the mistakes.<br \/>\nI wrote a few weeks ago about how bringing games back from the 1990s can be a difficult exercise, given how technologically hamstrung developers were in the early 3D era. Replaying games from that period today requires a kind eye and a willingness to accept compromising quirks. But sometimes, you play a game from a decades ago and think, this might actually hit better now. Metroid Prime Remastered is one of those games. I\u2019ve been unable to play anything else for weeks, since I downloaded it on a whim after February\u2019s Nintendo Direct. This game was astonishingly ahead of its time. In fact, I didn\u2019t appreciate it in 2003, when I was a teenager, as much as I do now. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike a lot of throwbacks, a new remastered version of the 3D space adventure plays even better than it did two decades ago. Plus, your gaming questions answered Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Welcome back to Pushing Buttons! First up \u2013 last week\u2019s newsletter had a few errors in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/01\/metroid-prime-was-astonishingly-ahead-of-its-time-i-cant-put-it-down\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Metroid Prime was astonishingly ahead of its time. I can\u2019t put it down<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}