Metroid: Other M

Technology and Gaming
#1

So our old ecosystem-obliterating friend Samus has an all new adventure on the Wii, the lovechild between Nintendo and Team Ninja. Basically, it’s a window to Samus’ past and I guess bridges the silly gap between Super Metroid and Metroid Fusion, so it’s basically Metroid 3.5.

So what distinguishes Other M from its predecessors?
-3rd person 3D mix between isometric and sidescrolling movement
-Fast switching to first-person view
-Fast-paced movement and combat and takedown moves
-Laughable scripts in cinematic sequences
-Rechargeable health and missiles
-Lack of exploration until the very end
-OTHER STUFF

For the most part, it’s a Metroid-themed average brawler, but it’s still a lot of fun if you don’t go in expecting to be the next Metroissiah.

I know most of you dopes are strictly PC gamers, or only have big macho-man consoles like Exboxes and Peyess threes, but I’m sure one of you has a Wii and probably played this game.

Thoughts. Discuss. OR SUFFER.

#2

this game looks really disapointing tbh. really wish they wou.d jsut make a explory game like super metroid/ zero mission again. idont like the prime games either tho so whatever

#3

Sorry to disappoint you, but… It’s an Wii…

#4

W is not a vowel! You are making me very, very angry! I am shaking my fist to express my frustration!

The YOB is strong with this one…

#5

Can you tell me if the FPS handling is any better than The Conduit’s?

#6

I’m getting this for tomorrow, I hope it’ll be better than I expect it to be, since day one I was unsure of how this gameplay would work in the Metroid Universe. if it would be good or bad…
Maybe I’m too used to the Prime series…

EDIT: Watched some gameplay on Youtube, it looks okey. I know the game will explain the backstory of Samus, but the little voiceacting they had in Metroid Prime 3 was better than the voiceacting in Other M. And there weren’t a lot of voiceacting in Prime 3

#7

It has the worst dialogue and voice acting I have ever seen in a game. Literally. House of the dead’s was at least short.

#8

Ding ding ding!! Don’t play this with others around or you’ll feel humiliated. That’s how bad the dialogue and writing is.

Fun, though. Controls are good once you get used to them. BUT DON’T EXPECT IT TO BE LIKE OTHER METROID TITLES. Just play it and enjoy it for what it is, because it really does take a lot of unwelcome and unexpected departures from the standard formula.

#9

I thought the dialog was pretty good, at least Samus’s narrations.

#10

Clearly you have not played Custom Robo.

#11

I’ve got the Prime Trilogy on Wii, loved the first one, second, not so much and third only played for a few minutes. It sounds like Other M isn’t as polished as the last three, think I’ll let my Samus adventure end at Corruption, unless another first person version comes out later on, by Retro Studios, unlikely.

#12

Every time I find myself enjoying it, it decides to suck again. Prime 3 wasn’t as good as 2, 2 wasn’t as good as 1. While I didn’t care for #3, this one flat-out pisses me off.

#13

Perhaps. Depends how long it is.

#14

Metaphorically speaking, in terms of character development it looks like they spent more time on giving Samus breast implants than actually explaining how she got them.

And I haven’t even played the game.

#15

I don’t understand what’s so terrible about the dialog. As I said I was very impressed with Samus’s narrations and it reminded me of Aquaria.

#16

Yup, your opinions are invalid. How can you possibly enjoy something that terrible. Honestly, its like English Majors wrote it.

Or Japs, who did write it. They really can’t make a good narrative to save their lives.

#17

They sell body parts for sex dolls in the vending machines over there.

#18

She spends 90% of her time bitching/swooning about Adam. She even disabled all of her power-ups to avoid ticking him off.

When they explained that you shouldn’t use power-bombs because of structural integrity blah blah blah, it seemed reasonable for her to not use them.

WHEN SHE DISABLES THE VARIA ARMOR (which stops her from slowly burning to death) AND ADAM SAYS “you should probably turn your varia armor function on” IT JUST MAKES HER LOOK LIKE A SPINELESS RETARD.

#19

I either hate you or don’t hate you whatever makes you change the number to 792 or 794, just sayin.

#20

This pretty much sums up my opinion of the Metroid games.

I haven’t actually gotten around to Playing Other M, been a bit busy and have a few things on the computer to play while brother plays Other M, but from what I’ve seen it appears like it won’t be as well done as previous titles. I’m sure most of the gameplay will be solid and fun, but decent atmosphere, environment, and story have been butchered… Basically it’s everything I thought they ruined in Corruption multiplied.

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