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Can of worms man, can of worms @.@

I've talked about the story in depth before and while it wasn't good, it isn't as bad as a lot of people make it out to be. Overall the game was decent and disappointing, not a demonic hell spawn that murdered the families and pets of gamers worldwide...

EDIT: I will add that I actually really liked the VA for Samus. Also, I think your first point is some good food for thought that is actually a pretty interesting way to look at things.

team ninja has no respect for women...

Team Ninja was involved. What did you expect?

Metroid's story always kind of ranged from non-existant to bland, to just plain sucking. The only difference between Other M and the Prime games is that Prime is super overrated and Other M was just called out for what Metroid was. Prime's story is even worse and more boring than Other M.

Not much needs to be said after this post. this sums it up pretty nicely.

I love this game '-'

I thought it was one of the worst games I've ever played. The story was atrocious, the controls sucked, the gameplay was awful, the voice acting was beyond horrendous, only thing that didn't suck was the cutscenes which looked pretty good.

Other M in no way, shape or form representative of what the Metroid series is. Metroid has great music, good enough story, exploration, and upgrades that you get and use freely, and each Metroid game feels unique in it's own way. Other M is none of those, the music is plain and mostly recycled, the story is terrible, no exploration whatsoever (even the linear Metroid 2 and Metroid Fusion had more than Other M for crying out loud), getting upgrades didn't feel like an accomplishment due to Samus being controlled by Adam's orders, and the game is plain unoriginal, I don't even think it has 1 original boss (haven't played it in a while, so I'm not sure) and copies everything from past Metroid games, from the orange rings, to the bosses, to the freaking music.

The "overrated" Prime you speak of has all those things. It has great memorable and original music, it has a great-good enough story (how you came to the conclusion that a generic "federation is secretly evil" type of story is better than one where you had to hunt down the most powerful metroid in the universe is beyond me), the game is pure exploration, has plenty of upgrades, including new ones, and is unique in the sense that it was the first 3D and first person Metroid, introduced scanning, and other things.

TLDR: Prime >>>>>>>>>>>> Other M

Even though it's justifiable from a story stand point, it's just a a lame gameplay element that is a terrible dumbing down of the series' gameplay. really the gameplay's biggest failing is the upgrade system.