Metroid: Other M - The Black Sheep....or so we thought

[Kenryoku_Maxis]

Phoeniks.Wright said:

Kenryoku_Maxis said:

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.

Sure, I didn't play it, but looking at the videos, and you can find ones where the guy just plays, no commentary, I saw 3 things which just shouldn't be here: an over-reliance on missiles, it's almost as if it was the standard beam it's used that much; the cutscenes with the characterisation of Samus. The quicker they get rid of this and forget about it, the better. And finally, you're exploring a metallic hub ship or whatnot. It is boring, very boring. In metroiod and the prime games, I'm actually exploring a planet, which offers such diverse locations, I was in awe when I played them, especially prime 1. Here, it's just "meh, some slightly different metal pieces".

I also don't think the entire series is crap, just that this game is horrible, and it looks that it's not going to get much better from this.

You rely on Missiles a LOT more in games like Metroid II, Fusion and Prime than in Other M.  You can actually beat nearly every boss just with charge beam, aside from probably the Queen Metroid (which takes a Super Bomb) and MB, which does focus on missiles.

Heck, you can even defeat Nightmare and Phantoon with just Charge Beams.  It'll take longer, but you can.

And while I've said dozens of times that Other M could have been more open ended and allow for more exploration, its not as bad as you guys make it out to be.  Each area is very distinct and each Sector mimics the same areas as in Super Metroid.  The only 'Metalic' focused areas are Main Sector and Sector 0.  Hell, I could even argue there's more 'metalic' style areas in Prime and Fusion than in Other M.

I still contend that you can't call a game crap without having played it.