| Phoeniks.Wright said: Although I have never played Metroid other M, I have seen a good chunk of it on Youtube, and having played through the Metroid prime trilogy, Fusion and only played the original, but never finished, all I can say is that MOM is a pretty bad Metroid game. |
Yeah, because 'lets play' videos aren't bias in any way....
I will admit, Other M is nowhere near the best Metroid game. But the gameplay and design was still good. Its just the story and forced real-time events that hurt the game. If the story was handled more like Fusion, it probably would have been much better.
| Phoeniks.Wright said: @OP: True, it might crawl it's way to 1-1.5 million sales, but when you compare the userbase sizes, it should be expected, no? And even if it did make Nintendo money, the point was to make Metroid more popular with this direction, but not only did that fail, it probably alienated quite a bit of Metroid fans, like me. They should look back to what made Metroid a hit in the beginning. |
How can it have alienated you if you didn't play it...
And that brings up another point. Most of the people I see say the game was horrible was people who either didn't play it or had a negative opinion about it before they did.
I won't deny the series took a backwards step from what the fanbase wants. But that doesn't mean the entire series is crap just because you didn't like (or didn't play) one game in the series. That's like saying all Future Zelda games are bad because of Twilight Princess or all Mario games are bad because of Mario Sunshine. Sometimes Nintendo tries something new and it doesn't work.
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