Metroid: Other M ruined gaming's greatest heroine ? Agree or not ?

[Mr Khan]

Khuutra said:

superchunk said:

This is the whole point. They expanded on her untold story and you simply don't like it, while I do.

Its a great game and an interesting story on Samus' past. A past you don't like because you think it makes her weak, but a past nonetheless that I think fits her solo-career perfectly fine and definitely does not make her a weak character, just human.

Your continuous ignoring of point 4 and your unwillingness to address it is going to be taken as a concession starting.... now.

"Expanding on" a story requires that there be elements in place which already suggest such a thing. There were none. This is drastic enough that it borders on a retcon - which the game might as well be anyway, since it pretends the Prime games never happened.

Your equation of femininity with weakness is still problematic.

But it neither overwrote nor contradicts the Prime games (at least not directly. There's the implication that the Space Pirates were extinct after Zebes fell, but given that their homeworld was occupied in Prime 3, it falls in line neatly). There's a difference between not incorporating any of Prime's story and pretending they never happened, which largely falls in with the question of how could the game have incorporated Prime, story-wise?

(and he certainly acknowledges them to a point. Kinetic Orb Cannon, free Morph Ball jump as a standard feature, and multi-seeker-missiles)