> I got to a certain point in Metroid Prime, I'd say I'm probably over 70% through
> the game and I've stopped playing it. I'm at a boss that I think is in the
> Phazon Mines and I've just had it with the controls. I can't fucking maneuver
> appropriately with a god damned gamepad. Fucking cock sucking shit assed whore.

I thought this was one game that I couldn't play with anything else. I tried with a PS2 controller and it didn't feel as natural, I don't really think a mouse/keyboard would help especially with all the morph ball maneuvering you have to do. I thought it was pretty well geared to the controller, maybe one of the things people don't automatically catch onto though is that you can get free look by holding down the R button halfway, and you can toggle between that and strafe to do complex maneuvers and get more accurate shots.

I know the boss you're talking about though and it's a little annoying. You have to shoot off all his shields with super rockets, you have to do a lot of running away in ball form, and when you've got that down you have to charge the plasma beam and use x-ray vision to locate the boss and blast him, then do it all over again. It's a shitty boss, but imho it's the only poorly executed boss in the game. The other ones are so cool, and you're going to miss seeing Ridley... That's too bad.

I played the game through 6 times already, once on normal, then again to get 100%, then on hard, then 3 other times on normal just for the hell of it. I dunno if the sequel will be as good though, supposedly it has nothing to do with metroids at all. Multiplayer sounds worthless as well.

At least it's nowhere near as frustrating as F-Zero GX..