Sex and the Zero Suit: Why Samus was Great Only in Metroid Prime

[d21lewis]

Khuutra said:

d21lewis said:
Well I'm not a fan of the "You are the protagonist" approach to gaming. I found out that Samus was a woman back in the 80's. I like being reminded that she's a woman. If anything, I had a harder time trying to figure out how she fit into that armor without detaching her arms.

I don't want to be the protagonist. That's one of the reasons why I hate most FPS titles. Just a faceless grunt or a floating gun that does everything except differentiate himself/itself from any million of other characters that I play as.

As some other guy in this thread said, "It's just video games." I'm not looking for a character that began as an 8-Bit sprite to give me "The female experience" or anything of that nature. I just want to see Samus's story continue and since I know she's a human female, I'm perfectly fine with her not acting like a man or a robot. As long as the gameplay is good (and it has always been good), I'm happy.

The old armor was basically like a tank - Samus used to be 6'2 and weigh almost 200 pounds, if I remember, and she looked tiny in it

And lewis I respect you and I understand where you're coming from, but if Other M was nothing but running around in the Zero Suit with an RE4 camera set behind Samus centered on her ass, you would buy that game forty-five times

Sadly, this is true.