Nintendo Switch: any other salty WiiU owners out there?

[Jaicee]

bdbdbd said:

Jaicee said:
I have the Wii U and generally enjoy Nintendo's systems (though not as much as Sony's), but am thinking of waiting for a while on the Switch for two basic reasons:

My secondary reason is the price tag. The announced launch lineup is too anemic to justify spending $300 for me. I'll want to wait until the systems has more games and/or a lower price. That's my secondary reason.

My main reason for waiting is that I'm mad at Nintendo for booting Samus Aran from the Metroid franchise (as a playable character, I mean). The original Metroid happens to have been the first video game I fell in love with and it wouldn't have been as special to me without Samus, so Metroid Prime: Federation Force is pretty much blasphemy in my mind; blasphemy for which I aim to punish the big N in my own little way by refusing them my money for a year or so. It will just make me feel better to do so.

I think they should've left Samus out of Other M, so we could just call Other M a shitty spinoff. What's good with leaving Samus out of Federation Force is, that now we can just call Federation Force a shitty spinoff. Always think of the bright side of life.

I don't see how Other M could've done without Samus. The whole story was about how the final events of Super Metroid lead her to abandon her badass bounty hunting ways and learn to follow orders instead...a conservative theme that is precisely the whole problem with the game, as it elminates both of the franchise's traditional appeals: the sense of freedom that it offers (Metroid was one of the first action-adventure franchises to offer semi-open-world design) and the feminist appeal of a strong and independent female lead in an action role (I believer the original Metroid was only the second action-adventure in history, and first to make to the Western world, to offer one, the vanguardism of which is responsible for cementing her iconic status in the gaming).

Federation Force can be considered in many ways simply a logical extension of that same problematic trajectory, with its story revolving around the Galactic Federation's quest to become autonomous and not need bounty hunters anymore. That premise makes it easy to just get rid of the most iconic female hero in games altogether. The bottom line is that the thematic direction Nintendo is taking the Metroid franchise needs to change if the franchise is to ever revisit the things that made it awesome in the first place. That's my view.