Was it really that bad?

Was it really that bad?

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Besides the Wii controls and questionable characters nope, Metroidfags are just austistic as hell.

>Why is Samus talking?
>Muh silent protag
>Muh isolation

Nope. I actually really like Other M.

I liked it when I first played it when it came out.

then all the hate happened so I played it again years later and I still liked it.

Yes.

Yes it was. Samus Returns has made me retroactively HATE this dumpster fire even more.

Does the Pope shit in the woods?

samus already "talked" in fusion, nobody cared about her having a speaking role
they cared about her character being a whiny baby and having an actual PTSD breakdown at seeing Ridley who she had already murdered at least once or twice at that point in time in wherever Other M placed itself in the timeline

yep, it's got bad controls, awful level design, uninspired visuals/music, and an absolute clusterfuck of a story. if it didn't have the metroid name attached nobody would like it, but people have to be contrarian.

>ridley isn't scary as hell

>point the wiimote at the screen to use missiles in first person while not being able to move
>over the shoulder slow walking "plot" segments
>pixel hunts
>doors lock behind you for the majority of the game
Yes.

>that font
yes, i'm still mad

>she had already murdered at least once or twice at that point in time in wherever Other M placed itself in the timeline
Six times.

It's honestly worse than what Sup Forums says it is, because there are a lot of contrarians who say shit like "it isn't bad, metroidfags are just whiny" and so on

He shouldn't be if you're Samus.

gameplay wise not really
story wise yeah, so its understandable why people hate it for that alone, they had a big thing they could of done and they did it poorly

>mercury steam made a better metroid game than team ninja
top fucking kek

was it 6 times? jesus christ

mercury steam made a better metroid game than retro

other m wasn't that bad. It was fun.

>slow mo dodge move to trivialize the game
>awful story

Yes

>Zero Mission
>Prime
>TWICE in Corruption
>Samus Returns added another
>Super

delet this

No, it was a good game, but as a Metroid game didn't deliver enough exploration, isolation and atmosphere, not to mention the story kinda sucks.
It's not the story itself rather than the script. Those internal monologues were cringy as fuck and the crybaby moment was atrocious. At least is more or less respectful with the canon, I was surprised how they kept Ridley for his posterior appearence at Metroid Fusion.

Other than that, the graphics were really good for a wii game, it's a shame the artistic design and the OST were utterly mediocre.

To be honest controls aren't that bad. It has simplistic controls and they work fine. It's only annnoying when moving through 3rd and 1st person, but eh... Samus moves fine and everything is responsive enough.

who the fuck was the deleter

>I like pixel hunts
>I like navigating 3d environments and shooting things with a shitty d-pad
>I like constantly switching from first to third person and changing how I'm holding the wii remote every time I want to shoot a fucking missile
yes it was that bad, fuck you

>first hour of the game is tutorial/cutscenes/hand-holding
I just wanted to explore like every other fucking Metroid game.

yeah I just didn't remember where other m put itself in the metroid timeline.
also, the director of other m doesn't consider the prime games canon to his game

It a shame the game is such a piece of shit, the combination of 2D and 3D was exactly what I want in a Metroid game, fuck prime and his shitty fps bullshit

the 2d didn't bother me and the missiles didn't either.

You're just a bitch

it was the only game i returned for a refund

it was awful, truly the worst.

And you're either a tasteless moron or a drooling fanboy. I bet that if you were presented with a literal box of shit that was packaged as "Metroid: Ather F" you'd love it too

I could use another 2.5D Metroid, but give me fucking analog control if you are and a better aiming system at enemies not on the same depth as you.

>shitty pixel hunting sections
>slow over-the-shoulder sections just for "dramatic effect"
>shitty shoehorned first person missiles because "Hey! Remember Prime? that you can't even move in
>gameplay is massively dumbed down because you're moving in 3D space with a d-pad and can't aim at all

That said, the game looks very nice for a Wii game, and the transition from cutscenes to gameplay is almost seamless on the Wii. I also enjoyed how acrobatic Samus felt. I would love another attempt at a 3D "traditional" Metroid, but I don't think that's something they'd do after Other M. Not for a while.

Part of me wants to play it some day just for the sake of completion in playing every single Metroid game, but fuck, I don't know if I can do it

Ridley only gets killed in Super Metroid.

It really was amazing how much of a miss this game was. Boring and unengaging gameplay, shitty soundtrack, long unskippable cutscenes with the most monotone voice acting, uninspired areas that are not interesting to explore or even look at.
Not to mention the plot is basically a shitty copy of fusion

nah, I'm just not a bitch like you.

I saw him explode in Metroid. He died there too.

Dont put your headcanon into this dumbass. She killed him in Metroid. She killed him in Super.

>ptsd breakdown
>literally slo-motion scene that take's 3 seconds in reality
>you're fighting Ridley at full force right after

Other M is a good game. Metroidfags are the real problem.

Thanks Dobson

>unskippable cutscenes
this is why I can never understand people who say you should ignore the story. you literally can't, not even on repeat playthroughs. the story was the reason the game was even made.

Other M rocks!

DELETE

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Outside of the Ridley Theme and a couple of other things, the absolute #1 best thing to come out of Other M is Anthony
So sad that he's in that game, he's so good

Anthony was the best part of Other M only because he was the least offensive part of the game.
Wouldnt mind seeing him again tho

>Tomb Raider 2K13 attempts to give a famous vidya heroine more character depth.
>Nobody complains.
>OM attempts to give a famous vidya heroine more character depth.
>Everyone complains.

It's not like Samus would know that. She always fights to kill, but Ridley is a hardened motherfucker. There's no reason she should be surprised at him returning again.

Yes, it's the worst. I wish it didn't exist.

These. This game had the worst use of the Wii remote ever. Between using a d-pad to control a 3D action game, having to constantly change hand positions because you had to point it at the screen or point it up to restore missiles and health, and the severe lack of buttons, it is the most ill-conceived and obnixious control scheme on the console.

It's worse than waggle to roll in DKCR.

>samus is the most boring and incompetent character in Other M
Reminder that she didnt kill ridley or mother brain or the metroids, other people had to do it for her

It's almost like one of those games did it well and one of those games did it poorly. What a concept!

And most of the time 2K13 Laura gets all sad and emotional and I think at one time she's almost raped.

>nuLara
>good

I guess you're right. But space pirates remodeled his ass turning him into Meta Ridley.

Nah, his friendship with Samus is a clear case of "Show, don't tell" - his Princess nickname sounds like a legit nickname, whereas Adam's "Lady" sounds 0% dignified like Fusion made it out to be and instead sounds INCREDIBLY mocking.
REMEMBER ME?

I reconsidered for a second and realized I have no idea if nuLara is even good or not. I haven't played TR'13 and just assumed if people didn't complain that much it can't be that bad.

Despite my retarded post, Other M Samus is still shit.

>Entire game revolves around her waiting for her old CO to tell her she is allowed to use various weapons instead of unlocking them/finding them yourself
>Last boss expects the player to realise you have to use a power bomb despite being told she is not allowed to use those on the station ever

>2+ hours of unskippable cutscenes

RIGHT INTO THE GARBAGE

Voice acting was terrible and we all knew Samus was emotionally fucked up Metroid fans studied the lore and did not need to see it.
She always had PTSD with her seeing Ridley eat her parents when she was a kid but how this game handled it was fucking awful.

This game is aids.

Wasn't the original Lara's personality basically "I'm a sassy and tuff girl. Don't hit on me silly boys".

It was bad, but it could been salvaged if not for the MYRIAD of bad choices like the controls, the best show of that is Metroid Fusion since it was basically Other M done "right" sharing many of the same narrative ideas and also having fairly limited backtracking and sequence breaking.

The fact that Other M came AFTER Fusion and thusly lacks any excuse is what slams the hammer on the final nail for its coffin of YES, YES IT WAS.

IT GOT FUCKING BARGAIN BINNED IN LIKE A MONTH DESPITE THE NORMAL "NINTENDO" PRICE STAYING POWER FOR FUCKS SAKE.

>Turn Tomb Raider into Uncharted
>This was just fine
lolno

>post was about character depth
>let's talk about gameplay like that was the subject
lol

>One is a reboot
>The other is another story in the established canon
>also one is done better than the other

Yeah man, not sure why everyone complains.

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>everyone saying its good
no

fuck you, this is terrible.

how in the fuck can you defend this garbage?

>Why is Samus talking?

Way to miss the point. Other M turns Samus into a passive, ineffectual little girl who has no agency. This is wholly inconsistent with Samus' character in literally every other game.

>there are people that defend Tomb Raider

No sir, I don't like it. Story in video games is a giant tumor that should best be left cut out.

>the part where you need to look at the GREEN BLOOD in the GREEN GRASS
And also fuck the whole missile shit. Seriously, why do they make you aim like that? It's objectively bad design.

Rest of the game was just "bad for Metroid". The plot was retarded, the characters were forgettable, the level design was boring and linear, the pacing was all over the place, dodging was OP, recharging health/missles trivialized health and missles upgrades, the was power bombs are secretly activated was dumb, the whole "activating" powerups thing was dumb, Samus' characterization betrayed anywhere from 3 to 6 games depending on if you count Prime, the enemy design was garish (especially the colors), secrets were way too obvious, etc.

>once or twice
No less than five times. Six if you count SR.

Remember when Samus held open Ridley's mouth with her free hand and foot and fired right down his fucking throat as they were falling down a shaft on Norion?

A new good Metroid game is out and all is well with the world let the hell spawn that was Another M forever be banished from the journals of human history.

Samus has taken down metroids in Tourian twice by now, she's the most suited to the job but Adam tells her its too dangerous based on a conjecture that the game even shows might not be true.
I really dont understand what they were thinking

What depth? She's female Nathan Drake. It's an action movie disguised as a video game.

>Caring about character depth
>When the gameplay renders the game shit in the first place
Transformers has great CGI, doesn't mean the stuff that actually matters is any good.

>Ridley only gets killed in Super Metroid.

The Space Pirates clone Ridley incessantly. Whether or not Samus is fighting clones or cybernetic Ridleys or X parasites, it's still Ridley. If Samus really had some sort of PTSD, you would think every single encounter would trigger her.

not even that

>they bred out the cold immunity
>as it sits being a frozen lump

>not knowing that every other transformation of metroid other than larva naturally looses its weakness to cold.

its glaring incompetence in a story like this that forever damns the whole writing.

you can actually use the ice beam to hurt metroids in the recent remake of 2 though

>Hey, why does everyone complain about Samus' character change when Tomb Raider 2k13 does the same thing and everyone loves it?
>Nigga it's all in the execution, one character was done better.
>But the gameplay tho
>We're not talking about gameplay, we're talking about character
>Forget that, what about gameplay tho

Fucking tearing my hair here

wat

I can't really help what the first post in the comment chain brings up. I already said the gameplay was garbage elsewhere in the thread. I probably shouldn't have replied to that user's retarded bait in the first place. Too late now I suppose.

>People hate video games so much that they want them replaced by walking simulators where crying and "feelings" are more important than gameplay

You people sicken me.

She also genocided the entire metroid populace on SR388 with the exception of THE BABY. Samus is the number 1 best option to pick if you need some Metroids to die.

>tfw I had a friend back in high school who really liked Other M for some reason
>he played through the entire game in one night over at my house
>I let him die over and over and over to the metroid queen before I said "by the way you can use power bombs now"

shooting metroids with the ice beam in samus returns does damage to them and hitting zetas with a charged shot to the belly prevents them from flying

>Sakashit wanted Other M to be a rail shooter. >Team Ninja talked him out of it

>Team Ninja wanted to use the nun chuck.
>Sakashit wouldnt let them

>Team Ninja gave Samus her purple Grav Suit
>Sakashit didnt know why she was purple.
>Said it would look stupid in "serious cutscenes"

>bad ass bounty hunter chick
>fought and defeated real Ridley multiple times at this point
>clone Ridley causes Samus to have a PTSD fit

Fuck this game. The scene after you beat Diggernaut in Samus Returns is how I imagine her.

thats stupid

Blasting Metroids in the mouth/jelly bits with the ice beam damages them.

>tfw Samus Returns's chozo memories tell a more compelling story than Other M managed to
Just what happened in 2D?

I played through the game once and never touched it again. It wasn't as bad as everyone makes it look but it is definitely not as enjoyable as every other game in the series.

Can't you do the same in fusion? What is the problem here?

Gameplay was okay but the story was utter garbage.

>things people literally never say or do ITT
Pulling shit out of your ass aside, Other M's gameplay isn't much to write home about either.

Why was Phantoon the final boss?

>you can actually use the ice beam to hurt metroids in the recent remake of 2 though

Which makes no sense, because evolved forms are supposed to lose their vulnerability to ice.

YES

nostalgia bait

It was bad. Gameplay was decent, Samus controls fine, would've preferred using an actual control stick or wii+nunchuck, I thought switching between 3rd and 1st person was not convenient in battle, I'm unfortunately a sucker for the cinematics where Samus gets up-close and does a move on the enemy. I hated the pixel-hunts, sure I knew where to look on every other playthrough, but good luck finding it without searching every inch of the area or looking at a guide. Over the shoulder sections where samus decides to walk slowly to her destination was unnecessary and boring. The story is meh, it's essentially Fusion, despite the game taking place nearly before Fusion. Adam's a dick, I assumed he could see through Samus' eyes or something? Thanks for watching me dodge zebesian attacks like a circus animal for a minute, until you realized "oh right samus needs her wave beam" and the obligatory "SAMUS ACTIVATE YOUR VARIA FEATURE" I understand Samus respects the guy, but to turn off the varia function which does nothing but protect you from heat damage is borderline retarded, as well as disabling the gravity suit. Samus has fought Ridley twice, three times counting Robo Ridley (even more if the prime games were deemed canon to Other M), I would understand this scene if Samus couldn't grasp why Ridley won't stay dead, but this wasn't the case. There's also the deleter character who is brought up later in the game, but then kinda dropped a bit later, we just barely get an idea of whom it was. TL;DR It's Fusion, Samus is an obedient idiot, nice blog faggot.

I have two theories. The Chozo Military went rogue after being subjected to constant Metroid/X battles so they murdered the creators after they sealed that shit so they would never have to deal with that shit again OR The Military Chozo were sent by the Chozo government(?)
to off those birds so they couldn't spread the method on how to create Metroids. But really we just don't know.

That was retconned out in Fusion

fusion might as well be a special case since the ice beam in that game is treated as the game's equivalent to the hyper beam
I don't have a problem with it personally, just letting that user know

>Said it would look stupid in "serious cutscenes"
She looks stupid in every cutscene with the way she was written. Good going, Suckamoto.

>Gameplay was decent
Then it was a decent game.