Against the grain: 3-rated games, bias and fanboyism should GO!

[LordTheNightKnight]

Conegamer said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

Conegamer said:

I rated it 9.4/10, and I'm not a Metroid fan.

The only people who found it a "massive dissapointment" were people who had their expectations either too high, expected it to fail from the start or expected it to be 2D. It wasn't. It was different. Not as good as the Prime series, but certainly no disappointment...

(see: Super Mario Sunshine, Twilight Princess. These are similar, and I love them all)

That's a bit of a strawman. Some people might have just thought the story was bad, because they think it's a bad story.

And before anyone goes "lots of game stories are bad", that still means those stories are bad.

Perhaps, but my point was that it was a "love it or a hate it" game, not dissimilar to the games mentioned above.

Each main Nintendo series has one, and for Metroid, it just so happened to be Other M. Doesn't mean its any better or worse in my eyes. However, it does mean that it "splits the fanbase", hence why he said he thought it was rubbish.

Everything, in the end, is an opinion

Not everything. Unless you want to argue existentialsim. But stories are not all opinion. Otherwise someone could say that it's an opinion over whether Leonard Part 6 or Casablanca is a better movie.

I'm saying that the story of this game is objectively bad. It's poorly paced, poorly structured, has dialog that is trite, uninspired, and the only exploration of Samus is the game telling us what to think about her, which is not how a character study actually works.