Metroid: Other M

It's been a while since I have seen a game that people are at once so anticipating yet very wary of.

Originally posted by Ushgarak
It's been a while since I have seen a game that people are at once so anticipating yet very wary of.

This is gonna be good! Now if only I had a Wii...

The Wii's slowly starting to develop the best exclusive library out of all the current gen platforms. Super Paper Mario, Super Mario Galaxy, Xenoblade, Arc Rise Phantasia, The Last Story, Super Mario Galaxy 2, the next major console Zelda game, this etc..

Really hyped about this, should put the Metroid franchise back on the right tracks after the catastrophic failure that is the Metroid Prime series.

Originally posted by Unassuming Hero
the catastrophic failure that is the Metroid Prime series.

I dont know what planet you came from.. but on earth, they dont make a catastrophic failure 3 times.. and then on top of that re-release them in a trilogy box set (and in wii-ware form, if I'm not mistaken)

retro studio's artwork was amazing, and their take on the metroid lore was alot deeper than nintendo was willing to go

now with Team Ninja, we're stuck looking at what looks to be some kind of emo final fantasy-esque story telling

"oh my god.. who am I.. am I me.. or am I a clone of me *stands there looking pretty and depressed*"

I'm all for samus having some melee in this newest outing, but I hope it doesnt come at the cost of the lore or the characters

Originally posted by Unassuming Hero

Really hyped about this, should put the Metroid franchise back on the right tracks after the catastrophic failure that is the Metroid Prime series.

Metroid was dead before the Metroid Prime series. Seeing how highly praised the first game was (IGN compared it to Citizen Kane and EGM gave it 4 10s), you must be one of the few who thought the trilogy as a failure.

Originally posted by Darth Jello
Since Wind Waker or Phantom Hour Glass?

Not really like them, no. It is all about the change of developer.

With Wind Waker, some people were just put off as soon as they saw it. THis is different- nobody is actually SURE... they are just worried. They want it but... they dread it, not because of something they know they won't like, but because of the unknown.

Originally posted by No End N Site
This is gonna be good! Now if only I had a Wii...

Also at first I was wtfsurprised at the team up, but since I knew Team N before worked on a wii game (Ninja Turtles), I'm not as surprised as I took that into consideration. This game's impressive CGI quality is also not surprising considering Team Ninja helped make it. Not to say Nintendo can't make good CGI, by the way.

LOL @ Xtreme Volleyball 3 with Samus in it. 😛 Put Peach in too.

I want to play this badly.

Originally posted by Ushgarak
Not really like them, no. It is all about the change of developer.

With Wind Waker, some people were just put off as soon as they saw it. THis is different- nobody is actually SURE... they are just worried. They want it but... they dread it, not because of something they know they won't like, but because of the unknown.

No, it's not like that either, because that was a sideline and not the main series continuation.

Actiually if anything, it's more like when Retro first took over and made it first person, whoch obviously gives more faitrh. But there's no point pretending people are not worried,. They simply are.

Capcom took over the series' traditional 2d gameplay style while Nintendo focused on the 3D stuff (and after playing the last 2 handhelds, I really miss capcom) so to me the comparison is valid.
I understand the worries because I've talked to people that hated the first two primes in their original versions (especially echoes) but enjoyed Prime Trilogy. Part of that is that echoes had unconventional gameplay and increased difficulty (kinda like Majora's Mask to Ocarina in that aspect) and because the initial releases of both Prime and Echoes had some frustrating glitches that got fixed in later pressings and on the wii. Other M seems like a return to more familiar territory so people are gonna be initially skeptical that it's not FPS and doesn't involve phazon.

It's honestly not valid. The landmark Zelda games were all done in-house by Nintendo. A handful of handheld spn-offs is not the same thing at all.

If Capcom had done Ocarina of Time, Wnd Waker or Twilight Princess, you would be right. As it is, the situation is different. Nintendo have never handed the mainline Zelda franchise away, in a way they very muich HAVE done so with Metroid.

They also did it with Starfox to the point where they considered it a bit of a disaster.

I don't think Nintendo did hand the franchise to Team Ninja. The way I understood it was that Nintendo R&D has almost no experience in 3-D, so Team Ninja will handle that while R&D does the story and gameplay.

Plus, there's that "Project M," all the devolopers working together, that they keep talking about.

Originally posted by Unassuming Hero
Really hyped about this, should put the Metroid franchise back on the right tracks after the catastrophic failure that is the Metroid Prime series.

Catastrophic Failure? Metroid Prime is one of the best metroid games (My personal favorite) Echos, while not as good as Metroid Prime was still a great game and Corruption, once again nowhere near as good as prime was also an excellent game. Infact the only game with the Metroid Prime title that wasn't that great was Hunters, and it still wasn't a half bad game once you get used to the mildly irritating control scheme.

The Prime series added a depth to the Metroid series that had never before been seen, Prime 1 painting a beautiful picture of the destruction of the Chozo who lived on Tallon IV, Prime 2 showing the Valor of the Luminoth who fought against the Ing, even when defeat was innevitable, and Prime 3 wrapping it all up nicely (leaving a couple of unanswered questions, but what series doesn't) in a final effort to halt the destruction caused by Phaaze.

Originally posted by Ushgarak
It's honestly not valid. The landmark Zelda games were all done in-house by Nintendo. A handful of handheld spn-offs is not the same thing at all.

The Capcom Zelda games are NOT, I repeat NOT spin-offs. They are as much a part of the overall series as Ocarina of Time or Wind Waker. The only games that can be considered a spin-off of the Zelda series are games like Freshly Picked: Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland.

Originally posted by Mandrag Ganon

The Capcom Zelda games are NOT, I repeat [B]NOT spin-offs. They are as much a part of the overall series as Ocarina of Time or Wind Waker. The only games that can be considered a spin-off of the Zelda series are games like Freshly Picked: Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland. [/B]

Crossbow Training is canon?

Yup, they're all main series games. Together, the oracles games are pretty much the single largest Zelda experience ever btw.

Back to Metroid, another concern I have is a return to the speed run shit from the earlier 2D games which I honestly hated because it forced you to run through like a turd and do everything absolutely perfect to get a good ending instead of taking your time and enjoying the game.

Oh, and when are we gonna get a sequel to Hunters and a proper remake of Return of Samus?

Ah, I guess sadly, the irrational bashing towards the Prime series will never end.

Originally posted by Ridley_Prime
Ah, I guess sadly, the irrational bashing towards the Prime series will never end.

Originally posted by Darth Jello
Well, I suppose it is another X-Files-ish alien contagion plot cliche...