Armads said:
Wiped said:
Armads said:
Wiped said:
Ninpanda said:
My guess is that Retro's next project is either another Donkey Kong, another Metroid game, or a new IP.
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Yeah. And I guess that tomorrow it will either rain, be sunny or neither. Profound guessing skills.
I think Nintendo will give Metroid back to Retro after the less than stellar Other:M.
Personally I think Other: M desevered to bomb for its stupid name alone. Other M? Seriously? It needs more explosiveness, like Metroid: Inception. Anything else would be better.
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It's name makes perfect sense for the game. The story focus's on samus' mother-daughter connection with the baby metroid and the whole series actually revolves around mother daughter relationships. Mother-brain the pirates made to control the metroid. Queen metroid which naturally controls the metroid. In Other M Madeline and Melissa Bergman are introduced another mother-daughter relationship. Samus's character never had a mother because her whole family was killed by Ridley and so she becomes attached to Adam as a sole parental figure, but he is of course male. the name Other M was chosen because of it's obvious acronym MoM, or Mom. The names not stupid, but someone who can't figure out what the game they just spent 10-12 hours playing is about possibly is.
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Of course there's a reason to call it Other M, they didn't just pluck it from thin air. It makes a lot of sense too. But bottom line, it's still a very dull word for a game title. Mayaswell have called it 'Different M' or 'Relative M'. It has absolutely NO zing to it, no wow factor. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Halo: Reach, Burnout: Revenge, these are good subtitles. 'Other' never will be.
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How is the word Other any different from the word Reach? Anybody who hasn't already played the past five Halo games wouldn't gather anything more about a game called Halo:Reach than Metroid: Other M. Also when it comes to choosing subtitles you should be glad it has something to do with the story and has meaning behind it instead of being simple buzzwords like 'revenge', ressurrection, returns, or extreme. Out of what you listed only Uncharted gives you a good sense of what you'll experience and sounds exciting at the same time.
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Exactly. You hit the nail on the haid there - 'Other M' may give you a good sense of what you're describing, but I personally dont think it is exciting enough. It just isn't. It is too bland a word to be in a title, in my opinion. It's not exciting enough, and though Metroid fans may argue, it is surely something that will have put some people (non-fans) off.
And for the record, Reach is a much much better subtitle - it suggests searching, variety, expansion, discovery. Other suggests... an alternative. Wow.
