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Wagram said:

You know what's funny? According to G4TV standards, 50 Cent Blood on the Sand is double the game that Metroid: Other M is.

Was it done by that same reviewer?

Only see adam sessler reviews on there, the rest are bad!



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Smeags said:
Wagram said:
darthdevidem01 said:

Didn't Meg Ryan do the review for it on G4TV?


Morgan Webb, and it was a horrible review. It was mainly just a giant ass rant.


Wait... I'm confused. Did Morgan Webb do the review on TV? I keep hearing Morgan Webb, even though Abbie wrote the review.

And yeah, Fiddy Cent takes down the terrorists and the Intergalactic Bounty Hunters!

@Tor

Yeah, didn't mean to cause confusion. Edited in that it's more of an extention of her written review and not the actual review itself.


I watched the review on G4TV. and the video was done by Morgan Webb.



http://g4tv.com/videos/48319/Metroid-Other-M-Review/

 

It's a horrible review.



Wagram said:


I watched the review on G4TV. and the video was done by Morgan Webb.


Huh... I wonder if Morgan was reviewing the game on her own merits or parroting what Abbie wrote in the review.

EDIT: Ah, thanks for the link Wagram. I'll check it out.



leatherhat said:

Even if they gave us the most female empowered representation of samus ever, people would still jack off to naked pictures of her. So its kind of a moot point. 

 

And one other thing:

Developed by team ninja

What was she expecting?

Because Team Ninja had none of the story input, really. The sexism is mostly Sakamoto and Kitaura (of D-Rockets) generated.

 

This is going to lead to some interesting things. Somebody just had their imagination of Samus trampled on, and this is the sort of reaction you get. This is what comes from defining things that were previously left to the players' imagination (though not entirely, because these elements of Samus' past have been indicated before)



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Mr Khan said:

Because Team Ninja had none of the story input, really. The sexism is mostly Sakamoto and Kitaura (of D-Rockets) generated.

This is going to lead to some interesting things. Somebody just had their imagination of Samus trampled on, and this is the sort of reaction you get. This is what comes from defining things that were previously left to the players' imagination (though not entirely, because these elements of Samus' past have been indicated before)

I was just talking to Maxwell about this exact same thing. Before Other M, Samus was part of the Nintendo School of characterization, which is, to more or less be an extention of the player. Even being a female intergalactic bounty hunter, she was still a silent one. One that the player could fill with his/her own ideas about who Samus is, and then go on from there. This was never more apparent than in the more recent Prime Series, where you're literally looking through Samus' visor.

Now with Other M, Sakamoto and Kitaura have begun to seperate Samus from the player's many perceptions by expanding on her story in the video game world (as, like you said, she does have a story, although it's never taken much of a role in previous games). She now has a voice, feelings, emotions, and (what everyone seems to be taking notice of) insecurities. G4TV is the most obvious source of backlash, there's plenty of reviews out there that are not pleased by this seemingly extreme change in Samus as a character (because, before this... her character was the player's character. And who's character is better than one's own? ).

I really have no idea what to expect from Other M, which is both refreshing in the age of hype, and yet I'm also very unsure I'm going to feel about this "new" Samus. *Looks at calendar* Only 3 days to go anyways.



Wagram said:

http://g4tv.com/videos/48319/Metroid-Other-M-Review/

 

It's a horrible review.


Wow that was somehow even worse than that 17 minute rant, love lines like "some Adam guy" you know the guy who also played a big role in Fusion and had a bit in the Metroid manga too.  That video told me hardly anything and was poorly thought out.



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that bitch should have stayed in the kitchen when she isn't ordered to suck a beamer.

how about that for sexism ?

edit : oh and that guy only agreeing with her because she sucked his cock before doing this review. as a reward.



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Oh no Fusion is sexist! Adam called her lady!  A male calling a female a lady is so sexist I could die!  



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wow, just WOW. Adam really is G4's only good reviewer at this point (and seems to be the only guy on the team who doesn't bitch at Nintendo every five minutes). And seriously, SEXISM??? WHAT. THE. HELL? I've heard of trying to find things to complain about, but that takes the cake like no other. Maybe it'd be sexist if, y'know, Samus WASN'T the most effective person in the cast and the heroine who her fellow casyt members seem to like (even if Adam is a bit tense with her). Dear god, I don't want to project but this Heppe ***** is pathetic as SO many different things/