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| HeinousActsZX #786691 7 months ago |
It's times like this that I wish I hadn't sold my Wii.
I wanna see how bad this game really is. |
| Takanuva #786692 7 months ago |
M:OM was a joke compared to the other Metroid games. I mean, I still enjoyed it, but seriously... |
| Anonymous #786696 7 months ago |
That game sucked donkey balls. Kill it with fire! |
| NightJack #786701 7 months ago |
I played a little at a friends, sure it can give you bad headaches but I don't think it will make your eyes hurt. |
| Anonymous #786704 7 months ago |
I don't buy this reaction where's the person cutting out their eyes for the horrendous atrocity to gaming? |
| AppleDash #786723 7 months ago |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDS_eNNPilQ |
| Watermelonpoop #786733 7 months ago |
Was it really THAT BAD or are you guys just over-reacting? And if it really was that atrocious would you care to elaborate? I haven't played the game soya. |
| NebillTheTerrified #786737 7 months ago |
It looks like Twilight wants her turn at that spiked board first, and Pinkie was just planning on using Rarity as a weapon against this terrible game, Fluttershy just now walked in to the room, so she doesn't know whats going on yet. Rainbow is just thinking "Seriously Nintendo? This is a joke, right?" that's why shes giggling. |
| Analise #786744 7 months ago |
... I played it... you got missiles by standing still and wanting them... it was freaking stupid... you couldn't even move to fire them so you got ganked by bosses all the time unless you timed it just right... it's the first game I've died more than 5 times on... on easy mode... on a single boss |
| Lunadash #786746 7 months ago |
other M was not that bad thay just try to change the idea of Metroid by giveing it more of a story line then any other M.e.t.r.o.i..d (the fire part then you give me the powerup WTF) |
| Anonymous #786754 7 months ago |
Gameplay = God-tier.
Story... Yes, I felt exactly like Rarity. |
| Analise #786770 7 months ago |
I didn't mention this before though... you have all your power ups from the start... but you have to have permission to use them from Adam... making Samus the strongest female character in Nintendo's line up go against everything she's stood for and sexualizing her... a close up of her ass in... god I don't even remember I try to block memories of that game out |
| Anonymous #786775 7 months ago |
For a game that was supposedly about Samus' past, she sure did spend a lot of time jacking off to Adam. And wow, I sure did learn a lot about my favorite VG heroine from a $10,000 dollar ten-minute scene explaining why she gave the thumbs-down during mission briefings! This game is proof that an otherwise spot-on experience can be utterly ruined by a terrible story. And you're not even allowed to skip cutscenes the first playthrough. Yoshio Sakamoto -tragically, the co-creator of Metroid- clearly WANTED us to appreciate his attempt at both writing AND directing (not even joking) but his attempt at a "space opera" effectively made a joke out of a long-standing legendary series.
It made me cry a little. Nintendo only keeps making games if they sell. Yoshio Sakamoto killed Metroid. He killed his own child. |
| Anonymous #786783 7 months ago |
Really, the only good parts of this game were the boss battles, and even then they were sullied by the terrible story. The awesome volcano boss is fought at the end of the forced "hell run", because Samus is portrayed as too much of a bitch to go against Adam's orders and turn on her damn suit, and Ridley -bless him for at least being awesome- is fought at the end of a cutscene that pretty much single-handedly destroys Samus' reputation permanently.
Just... Yeah. I felt like Rarity. |
| NightJack #786794 7 months ago |
Yep, Rarity is resounding the same way I did, but like I said not something to make your eyes hurt, so the AJ response is over doing it. |
| TooOldForThisShow #786803 7 months ago |
Here's a taste of the bullshit that is this game.
Technically two tastes, but whatever. |
| Anonymous #786804 7 months ago |
To put this disaster into perspective...
Imagine a really bad fanfiction written by a 13-yr-old. It's horrifyingly, embarrassingly terrible, with a convoluted plothole-ridden story and ridiculously OC characters. Now, imagine this young writer has the funds and means to turn this eye-fucking fanfic into a movie, or a game. And finally, imagine that young writer is also the co-creator of the source material. And that's Other M. |
| NightJack #786819 7 months ago |
I just hope that Sakamoto will get his head back on straight for the next Metroid game. |
| Anonymous #786833 7 months ago |
Samus before Other M: Space Conan the Barbarian with tits and plasma cannons and a morph ball that spends her time exterminating dangerous species and destroying unsavory planets.
Samus after Other M: "OH NO IT'S RIDLEY!" *stops what she's doing and starts sobbing in a heap on the ground until some guy finally crackles over the radio telling her she's authorized to shoot at it* |
| Anonymous #786834 7 months ago |
I'd rather Sakamoto never be allowed to write the plot again. He's a swell director, but goddamn he can't write for his life. I mean, the guy brought us Super Metroid, arguably the greatest game of its time. He also brought us Other M, so have at you. |
| ZePassionateOne #786842 7 months ago |
My 2 cents; the gameplay was good, story sucked, god never give Samus a voice again. And this is what happens when 3 companies were working for the same game. |
| Takanuva #786843 7 months ago |
Yeah, M:OM was a joke because of it's story. Gameplay was awesome, but the story had me sometimes going, "What the fuck is this?" |
| Anonymous #786855 7 months ago |
Imagine a game about an otherwise strong woman who is estranged from her only living father figure and her attempts to repair their relationship in a stressful and unusual situation. And then throw in that she VERY CLEARLY has post traumatic stress disorder relating to the murder of her birth parents and everyone else she knew early in life. And then have her see old friends and allies slowly mowed down by unseen forces.
If you add in bad voice acting and very good gameplay, you have Metroid: Other M. Take a group of people with no knowledge of how to cope with actual real life emotional problems (a real life soldier and a psychologist practically swore her reaction to Ridley showing up after having chronologically been blown up along with a planet as being a perfect reproduction of PTSD) and can only see "she's not exactly what I wanted her to be based on practically no character development in previous games!" and you get most of the people who reacted negatively to the game. |
| Anonymous #786871 7 months ago |
You people still haven't took the Game Overthinker's advice about Other M? |
| Anonymous #786873 7 months ago |
#55, you're right on all counts but that doesn't excuse the fact that the game is absolutely horribly written.
And she's killed Ridley almost ten times, she's watched the fucker get vaporized before her very eyes. Really, she should have come to terms with the fact that her childhood demon can't die by now. But lo and behold, she fucking pisses herself. But at the very least, Ridley was amazing. Let it never be said again that he's just an animal: There was obvious contempt and BLISS in his face when he practically raped Samus. But that scene is still bullshit, and it is impossible to argue in its favor. |
| NightJack #786877 7 months ago |
@Anon855
For me it was he why they did that, the way the flashbacks where handled, and how Samus(or one of the others) should have seen the need for some of the weapons sooner then when it's clear you need them sooner then Adam let her would of made some problems not happen. |
| CaptainChomp #786878 7 months ago |
I'm not opposed to experiments with games, but Metroid: Other M made some really amateurish mistakes with such a high profile* series. Really, the cutscenes are just B-grade stuff you'd expect from a PS1 game or a bad sci-fi anime, but much of the stuff M:OM does would've worked better in a game taking place before Samus saved the galaxy six or seven times...Well except for the cloning thing, but screw that! It led to the stupidest, douchebaggiest sacrifice ever. =/
Gameplay-wise, it's passable but could stand some more polish and a more open world. I wouldn't mind seeing Team Ninja take a shot at another Metroid, as long as there's no first-person "find the thing to continue the scene" moments and way way way way way way way way less emphasis on (unskippable) Cutscene Bullshititis and redundant Robo-Samus narration. * Well okay, it's only high profile outside of Japan. Actually, the cutscenes reek of trying to bring in more of the Japanese audience, with Samus following Adam's orders much like Japanese workers do and all. The whole Ridley breakdown (as inappropriately placed as it is after he's been killed 50 billion times) is also a (crappy) reference to Samus's fear of him for killing her parents in a Japanese Zero Mission** manga tie-in. **Speaking of, Sakamoto totally could've made Samus a wimpering puss in Metroid's remake or manga if he wanted to, but didn't. You fail retconning forever. |
| Anonymous #786891 7 months ago |
@Chomp
That scene, as much as I hated it, could have been instantly salvaged if they had just written in a fucking K2-L flashback. It's the missing piece, because then most gamers would automatically thing "Woah, he's the one who orphaned her? No wonder she's scared of him!" Add in her black friend being incinerated at the beginning of the encounter and yeah, a PTSD breakdown would have been perfectly justified. As it is, the only evidence of Ridley and Samus' history is an obscure little manga that no one has read. As such, most gamers see a well-established infallible wall of a character completely lose her composure in front of the most familiar enemy in a 25-year series. |
| Anonymous #786902 7 months ago |
The overall concept of the story was promising, but Sakamoto can't write for shit. It's never a good idea to hide 80% of the story in the last fifteen minutes of the game. Learn to pace you fuck. |
| NightJack #786904 7 months ago |
Ya that too Chomp, maybe if this was in the timeline before Prime(second in chronological order) I could understand the shock of seeing Ridley would make sense to me. |
| Anonymous #786905 7 months ago |
#873 Check the chronology. Last time she saw him, he was murdered and his body was presumeably lost in an explosion that took out a planet. That was THE most final death he had. And then he comes back. If you want realism, look here. In real life, if the person/thing you most hate and fear suddenly and unexpectedly appears before you after something like that, none the worse for wear, you don't say "let's do this" unless you are seriously mentally unstable. You are going to react badly, like freaking out or shutting down. It's not as easy to come to terms with things as you seem to think. Having to deal with something emotionally exhausting like that is draining. You can get worn down more easily than built up. That she overcomes it at all so many times to me says more about Samus being strong than just immediately shooting Ridley every single time. The latter shows an inhuman numbness. The former shows character growth and strength.
Believe it or not, everything fits if you actually think. |
| Anonymous #786929 7 months ago |
But it's absolutely horrible writing. So whether or not it's justified makes not a lick of difference, the story is terrible and the game, as a result, is terrible.
And by the way, the scene isn't justified. In-game canon, the circumstances of Samus' trauma at K2-L are never elaborated upon. It just as easily could have been a random Space Pirate that killed her family. She might not have even seen it, she might have just woken up the next morning to find everything razed to the ground. the only proof of her past is a shitty manga written like ten years ago that maybe a hundred people have read. Plotholes plotholes everywhere. |
| Anonymous #786949 7 months ago |
To anyone who still thinks Samus didn't have any characterization before Other M, they're wrong. In all of the Prime games, Samus simply oozed body language.
Actually, Ima stop right there. My two cents are like a fucking thousand paragraphs going over every circumstance prior to Other M where Samus showed her personality through her actions and body language (for example, she was clearly distressed over the deaths of her comrades in Corruption). Long story short, most people's interpretations of Samus were correct: She was strong and with an unbreakable will, but she was also compassionate and brilliant. She kept elaborate logbooks seemingly just for fun, and she went out of her way to help those in need. She easily could have just let her ship repair itself in Echoes so she could leave the planet, since she failed her original mission, but nope. She helps an alien stranger turn the tide in a long-lost war in order to save her people. And in Return of Samus, Samus spares the last Metroid because killing it would make her no better than Ridley. She already had a well-established character, damn it. People have a right to hate the way she was portrayed in Other M. |
| Anonymous #786952 7 months ago |
*His people
Goddamnit |
| AkatsukiKaizoku #786970 7 months ago |
It wasn't a bad game... It just had a horrible script if anything, then again, like Ze said, 3 developers in different ways, and one happens to be Team Ninja, well known for how conflictive they're are |
| MagicMarker #786983 7 months ago |
I'm going to bring up something another reviewer once noticed: That 'thing' that you're all calling Ridley? It's not Ridley. It's just the same SPECIES as Ridley. The only reason people called it Ridley is because it looked like him and the creators wanted to give fanboys a handjob with old enemy designs (C'mon, you all know it's true :3). And before anyone goes OH BUT HE MADE EVERYTHING GO BERSERK HE IS AN EVIL MASTERMIND DURR HURR that was M.B. who made the monsters go crazy, not the creature.
It's honestly the only Metroid game I've bought (Besides Hunters) that I don't really regret getting rid of. It's boring, predictable, and instead of making Samus awesome like the other games it makes her whiney and emo for the sake of making her 'deep'. TL;DR Game was 'alright' but people defending it (Including MovieBob, who's already had other people call him out on his BS) and trying to make it look like the next coming of Jesus need to stop fooling themselves. :3c |
| Anonymous #786999 7 months ago |
God damn it MagicMarker, the clone theory is the laziest fan theory that exists. And it WAS Ridley who made all of the creatures go berserk, his larval form is clearly shown after each major encounter with feral animals (His scream is heard before you fight the first chameleons, and he is heard again before the fight with the insect nest, after which he even appears). And That Douchebag Guy later explains that Ridley's presence (he even calls the fucker Ridley) alone is making the animals go insane, and his dominance is serving as a rallying point for the cloned Pirates. So no, you're absolutely one-hundred-the-fuck-percent wrong.
But everything else you said is spot-the-fuck on. Game was awful. So even if you're right, it hardly matters. Let's all forget this shit even existed. |
| primedawg9170 #787324 7 months ago |
So in TLDR: Gameplay is good, Story wise is bad, Ridley scene is controversial, and metroids that you can't freeze as bio weapons is the most stupidest idea ever. |
| HeroInferno #787411 7 months ago |
I think the reason this game is disliked was because gamers managed to create an idea of what Samus' personality was like from other games in the franchise, and this game showed her personality to be something very far from what we imagined. |
| Anonymous #787986 7 months ago |
I didn't know Rarity was such a Metroid fan. I guess she admires Samus as an independent woman and all that and hates Other M for going against that, sorta. |
| PonyRIG #787998 7 months ago |
i can summary all the hate against this game in one setence!
"Samus talks" that is all |
| Fefnir #788101 7 months ago |
Other M was a good game IMO. The story was bad, but I never count the story. The voice acting was bad, which should count as good because you can laugh at it. The music was great. The gameplay was fun. The graphics were pretty, even though I also don't count graphics towards how good a game is.
In fact, Other M is my favorite "classic" Metroid game. Favorite overall being Prime. |
| zammullins #1345955 2 months ago |
Okay, now this is just stretching it. |