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Should RedInker buy Metroid Other M?

Yep! 79 72.48%
 
Nah 27 24.77%
 
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darkknightkryta on 06 September 2012
KungKras said:
darkknightkryta said:
 

Other M's gameplay is top notch.  They implemented an actual combat system.  It's quick and responsive.  As far as gameplay goes, it's probably the best "2D" Metroid made.  So in that respect the only "wrong" that Team Ninja did was make a fantastic game. 

I disagree Metroid is the best 2D Metroid to me.

What I mean is that Team Ninja probably did the best they could under the insane direction of Sakamoto.

Fair enough, but Team Ninja really revamped the core gameplay.  Only being lost and going around in circles was taken out of the game.  But was essentially agreeing with you, gameplay is great, not Team Ninja's fault Sakomoto doesn't know how to write.



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curl-6 on 06 September 2012
KungKras said:
curl-6 said:
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RolStoppable said:
curl-6 said:

Adventures was 99% on foot. It's still part of the series. And all the flashy graphics in the world can't cover up a fundamentally flawed concept and bland Zelda-lite gameplay.

You don't seem to understand the difference between a mainline game and a spinoff. Even if SFA was the worst game in the world, it would not have killed Star Fox, because people would have said that it was never a proper Star Fox game to begin with and the quality of the series would be judged on the next mainline entry. Which was the mediocre Assault, followed by the mediocre Command. These are also unsurprisingly the games with the worst sales in the series.

Spin-offs are still part of a series and contribute to its quality. The franchise went from good to crap with Adventures, hence that's the one that killed it. It even introduced the on-foot stuff that dragged down Assault.

 

And I too hope that Nintendo realise their mistake with Other M; they probably will given its sales, but they might just take those to mean "fans don't want new things" instead of "fans don't want new things that ruin the entire franchise."

I guess Mario & Sonic at the olympics series is killing the Mario franchise then. Worst platform game ever....

Luckily for Mario he has many other great games to outweigh is bad ones, and the Olympics series hasn't made all the ones since crap.

You're just not getting it.

There is a sharp difference between spinoff and mainline franchise. If Mario Kart started sucking, it would not kill the main platformer franchise. If Starfox Assault was good, Starfox adventures would have had no impact on the franchise.

Except that Adventures isn't a spinoff to the degree that those games are. It's storyline links in directly with the other games, it's treated as a sequel in every way but the style of gameplay, which is something that has changed within a series before. It doesn't have the"this doesn't count" vibe. And Assault's shortcomings, namly the on foot stuff, can be traced directly to Adventures. Assault sucked because of Adventures.

You're saying that as if gameplay isn't close to everything in a game. So what if the story ties in with the other games?

Also, there is nothing similar about the gameplay of Adventures and the on-foot missions in Assault. You could play on foot in Lylatwars as well.

There's one very important similarity; they both suck. In Lylat Wars the on foot stuff was thankfully kept as a minor, optional aside, more an easter egg than anything else.
If not for the on-foot stuff in Adventures I doubt they would have put it in Assault.

Adventures was the first Starfox game to suck, not Assault. Assault was even a better game than Adventures, even if it was bad compared to the SNES/N64 games.



KungKras on 06 September 2012
curl-6 said:
KungKras said:

You're saying that as if gameplay isn't close to everything in a game. So what if the story ties in with the other games?

Also, there is nothing similar about the gameplay of Adventures and the on-foot missions in Assault. You could play on foot in Lylatwars as well.

There's one very important similarity; they both suck. In Lylat Wars the on foot stuff was thankfully kept as a minor, optional aside, more an easter egg than anything else.
If not for the on-foot stuff in Adventures I doubt they would have put it in Assault.

Adventures was the first Starfox game to suck, not Assault. Assault was even a better game than Adventures, even if it was bad compared to the SNES/N64 games.

I actually liked adventures when it was new. Graphics were incredible, and there was nothing wrong with the Zelda-style gameplay. Now when I'm older, I can't play it due to how awkward the mish-mash of universes is, but if they just made the same game without fox, it would have been an incredible game.



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curl-6 on 06 September 2012
KungKras said:
curl-6 said:
KungKras said:
 

You're saying that as if gameplay isn't close to everything in a game. So what if the story ties in with the other games?

Also, there is nothing similar about the gameplay of Adventures and the on-foot missions in Assault. You could play on foot in Lylatwars as well.

There's one very important similarity; they both suck. In Lylat Wars the on foot stuff was thankfully kept as a minor, optional aside, more an easter egg than anything else.
If not for the on-foot stuff in Adventures I doubt they would have put it in Assault.

Adventures was the first Starfox game to suck, not Assault. Assault was even a better game than Adventures, even if it was bad compared to the SNES/N64 games.

I actually liked adventures when it was new. Graphics were incredible, and there was nothing wrong with the Zelda-style gameplay. Now when I'm older, I can't play it due to how awkward the mish-mash of universes is, but if they just made the same game without fox, it would have been an incredible game.

Fair enough, to each their own. I do agree that the graphics were incredible. Most Wii games don't look as good 4-10 years later on a stronger system.



Metrium on 07 September 2012

I liked Star Fox Adventure...



 

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DieAppleDie on 07 September 2012

I liked Adventures as well, dont get where all the hate comes from...the gameplay was more varied than Zeldas (NOT BETTER BY ANY MEANS), and the grafix more advanced than even SS or TP



haxxiy on 07 September 2012

If you can afford to throw a little bit of money away, then yeah, go for it. You'll laugh a lot with how stupid the story is. Seriously.



 

 

 

 

 

DieAppleDie on 07 September 2012

the gameplay is good, the grafix are really good, the story ......well
buy Metroid prime 3, or trilogy (if you find it)
if not buy this, not a bad game by any means, just not on par with previous iterations



snyps on 07 September 2012

Yeah its phenomenal. There just isnt anything like it. Its got flaws: boring cut scenes, annoying weapon unlocking, and less open-world. Its got real shininess too. I liked it better than the wii zeldas imo



curl-6 on 08 September 2012
DieAppleDie said:
I liked Adventures as well, dont get where all the hate comes from...the gameplay was more varied than Zeldas (NOT BETTER BY ANY MEANS), and the grafix more advanced than even SS or TP


My main problems:

- The combat was really bad; not only was it a "spam one button" to win affair, but enemies only attacked one at a time like in bad action movies.

- The puzzles just weren't cleverly designed enough to be satisfying.

- The spaceship sections were too short and painfully rudimentary.

- Tricky. Micromanaging him was a pain, and his voice made me want to stab a screwdriver through my eardrum.

- In fact, voice acting as a whole was very annoying.