I think the 3DS controls can fix all the control issues of Metroid Other M

[Resident_Hazard]

tolu619 said:

Resident_Hazard said:

theRepublic said:

Resident_Hazard said:

If Other M truly pioneered a new type of gameplay, it would've caught on and been used in more games.  But it appeared only in Metroid Other M.  

I would say that the fact that Other M's particularly bad gameplay set-up has appeared only in Metroid Other M is testament to how crappy it was.  

Other M only came out 9 months ago.  If something was going to copy it, we probably wouldn't know about it yet.  Other M did have new gameplay.  Just because you don't like it, or it doesn't get copied by another game, doesn't mean it wasn't new.  Besides, there are pleanty of great games that don't get copied.  Even though this is a copy cat industry, it is usually only the really succesful games that get copied.

Oh right, it wasn't all that long ago.  I guess I just tried to erase it from my memory that much harder.  

At any rate, I guess this is just a matter of semantics.  I see "pioneering" as something that carries over and is used by others.  You know, like when dual-analog for FPS was pioneered and became a staple of the industry.  Other M's control scheme certainly was different... but also crappy.  So, new--yes.  But I seriously hope it doesn't catch on. 

He's right, only really succesful games get copied, evn if the gameplay is crappy. And most metroid games sell only about 1 million lifetime sales. The D-pad control doesn't feel bad now that I've started playing, it just takes away the ability to walk, which won't be useful in this game anyway.

The D-pad was only a minor nuisance to me.  Aside from stupidly limiting Samus's 3-D movement to occasionally awkward 45-degree angles, that is about the only thing in the controls that functioned, one could say, as the developers likely had planned.  Pretty much everything else about the controls bothered me.  From the often disorienting swtiching to 1st-person views, to the next-to-impossible to use Health recharge move during boss battles, to the brain-dead button-mash auto-aim run-n-gun gameplay, to the moronic and initially confounding pixel-hunt sequences, to the generally empty and useless "scanning" to the motion-controlled dodge moves in 1st person mode that succeeded only in making me an even better sitting duck...

I think you get the idea.  I mean, play any other Metroid game before Other M (including brainlessly linear Fusion) and then go back to Other M.  Every other game has solid, sharp, often fluid control.  Nothing is disorienting, nothing is broken.  There is no pixel-hunting.  You can still move in any form, view, or situation.  The gameplay was never brainless button-mash shooting.

Essentially, while even standing on it's own, the controls in Other M are bad enough, but the fact that they're crammed into a Metroid game and feel and operate absolutely nothing like the way a regular Metroid game feels is partially what really gets on my nerves.  

I think Team Ninja was making a Ninja Gaiden game for the Wii and Nintendo stepped in and said, "Hey, why dontcha just take out all those swords, and put in mindless shooting with Samus in this engine?"  Because when you get right down to it, the last thing Other M is, is a Metroid game.