• Zero Punctuation: Metroid Other M
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[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;25005203]uh metroid prime 3 that had voice acting so how is it new [editline]08:14PM[/editline] That is the stupidest fucking thing I have ever heard. Is that really what it means?[/QUOTE] Well the final boss is a Metroid Queen so yeah I guess.
So the only thing that they could come up with to complete the M O M anagram was "Other M"? And it was for some Metroid Queen boss fight?
[QUOTE=Carbon Knight;25018128]So the only thing that they could come up with to complete the M O M anagram was "Other M"? And it was for some Metroid Queen boss fight?[/QUOTE] "It also may also refer to an infamous line from the end of Metroid: "THE GALAXY MAY BE INVADED BY THE [B]OTHER M[/B]ETROID. PRAY FOR A TRUE PEACE IN SPACE.""
"I was playing Metroid earlier today" "Really, which one, prime?" "No, that other Metroid game." [QUOTE=MisterMooth;25018189]"It also may also refer to an infamous line from the end of Metroid: "THE GALAXY MAY BE INVADED BY THE [B]OTHER M[/B]ETROID. PRAY FOR A TRUE PEACE IN SPACE.""[/QUOTE] That sound's like something John Freeman would say.
You've gotta love Yahtzee's criticism.
Other M was pretty good, but I wouldn't recommend it to someone who isn't already a fan of Metroid. The controls are a little goofy at first and the voice acting isn't great. For the first Metroid game to have voice acting, it kinda stumbled. If you've never played Metroid before you have a much better chance of liking the Prime trilogy or Super Metroid. Hell, even Zero Mission is pretty good. The only Metroid game I haven't liked so far is Fusion, simply because it can be beaten in like, under an hour.
[QUOTE=Bathacker;25019968]Other M was pretty good, but I wouldn't recommend it to someone who isn't already a fan of Metroid. The controls are a little goofy at first and the voice acting isn't great. For the first Metroid game to have voice acting, it kinda stumbled. If you've never played Metroid before you have a much better chance of liking the Prime trilogy or Super Metroid. Hell, even Zero Mission is pretty good. The only Metroid game I haven't liked so far is Fusion, simply because it can be beaten in like, under an hour.[/QUOTE] Hello, Metroid Prime 3 had voice acting and it didn't blow ass. No, this is Other M. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE8RTKBFlBI[/media] What a load of horse dicks.
Also, he didn't trash it as bad as I thought he would. The story isn't great, that's true, but I thought he'd tear this game a few hundred new assholes. [editline]12:52PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;25020055]Hello, Metroid Prime 3 had voice acting and it didn't blow ass. No, this is Other M. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE8RTKBFlBI[/media] What a load of horse dicks.[/QUOTE] Oh, right, forgot about MP3's voice acting. It was much better, you're right. [editline]12:53PM[/editline] But then again to say you hate a game for the voice acting is like saying you hate a sports car for the small drink holder. Overall Other M was okay, not great.
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;25020055]Hello, Metroid Prime 3 had voice acting and it didn't blow ass. No, this is Other M. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE8RTKBFlBI[/media] What a load of horse dicks.[/QUOTE] I don't see the problem. Sounds fine to me. I don't even see how the voice acting is an issue. Put a voice to it - everyone complains. Keep the character silent - "omg stop having a mute characterrrr" Plus, the original voices are Japanese anyway.
[QUOTE=Bathacker;25020057]Oh, right, forgot about MP3's voice acting. It was much better, you're right. [editline]12:53PM[/editline] But then again to say you hate a game for the voice acting is like saying you hate a sports car for the small drink holder. Overall Other M was okay, not great.[/QUOTE] I don't hate it because the voice acting's bad(though it is), I hate it because the story fucking rapes and emasculates Samus. The whole story and everything in it serves no purpose other than to make Samus look fucking stupid and helpless. It's more like driving a car and hating it because every hundred miles it starts spouting racist rhetoric. [editline]05:00PM[/editline] [QUOTE=MisterMooth;25020164]I don't see the problem. Sounds fine to me. I don't even see how the voice acting is an issue. Put a voice to it - everyone complains. Keep the character silent - "omg stop having a mute characterrrr" Plus, the original voices are Japanese anyway.[/QUOTE] Oh fuck that noise. No one complained about the voice acting for Mass Effect. Know why? Because the writing wasn't fucking horrible. Just having voices doesn't make the h8ers instantly dislike the game, having shitty voices and shitty writing does.
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;25020196]I don't hate it because the voice acting's bad(though it is), I hate it because the story fucking rapes and emasculates Samus. The whole story and everything in it serves no purpose other than to make Samus look fucking stupid and helpless. It's more like driving a car and hating it because every hundred miles it starts spouting racist rhetoric. [editline]05:00PM[/editline] Oh fuck that noise. No one complained about the voice acting for Mass Effect. Know why? Because the writing wasn't fucking horrible. Just having voices doesn't make the h8ers instantly dislike the game, having shitty voices and shitty writing does.[/QUOTE] Do you really gain anything by being so difficult to please? In all seriousness you're letting one bad aspect of a game ruin your whole experience of it. It reminds me of those people who throw away an entire apple because it has a bruise.
[QUOTE=Bathacker;25020818]Do you really gain anything by being so difficult to please? In all seriousness you're letting one bad aspect of a game ruin your whole experience of it. It reminds me of those people who throw away an entire apple because it has a bruise.[/QUOTE] Yeah, difficult to please. My ass. I'm asking for [I]less.[/I] I'm asking the people who can't fucking write, to not fucking write. But it wouldn't bother me as much as it does if the writing was just bad, I mean, bad writing can be funny. No, the writing is not only balls poundingly awful, but it's fucking offensive and frustrating. Why the fuck am I playing as Samus if by the end of the game she needs a strong burly man to come and rescue her from her own womanly emotions and incompetence? Why the fuck am I playing as Samus if she's short, skinny, delicate, and useless? It just completely ruins the feeling of the game. Don't say the story doesn't matter if the gameplay is good. Gameplay is not everything. The feel of the game matters just as much. And I find almost impossible to get into a game where, yes, I can beat some ubergalactic super monster into subatomic particles, but in the very next scene the character starts crying and freezing in combat waiting for a superior male to save her.
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;25021045]Yeah, difficult to please. My ass. I'm asking for [I]less.[/I] I'm asking the people who can't fucking write, to not fucking write. But it wouldn't bother me as much as it does if the writing was just bad, I mean, bad writing can be funny. No, the writing is not only balls poundingly awful, but it's fucking offensive and frustrating. Why the fuck am I playing as Samus if by the end of the game she needs a strong burly man to come and rescue her from her own womanly emotions and incompetence? Why the fuck am I playing as Samus if she's short, skinny, delicate, and useless? It just completely ruins the feeling of the game. Don't say the story doesn't matter if the gameplay is good. Gameplay is not everything. The feel of the game matters just as much. And I find almost impossible to get into a game where, yes, I can beat some ubergalactic super monster into subatomic particles, but in the very next scene the character starts crying and freezing in combat waiting for a superior male to save her.[/QUOTE] Why are you getting so mad? If you ask me you let things bother you too much. And I never said gameplay was everything. I said that individual parts of a game being bad don't make the game bad. In fact, you're pretty much accusing me of your own argument: the gameplay doesn't matter because the story is bad. It's not like I didn't notice the off-characterization of Samus or the relatively uninspiring writing. I just didn't let it bother me, and I enjoyed the game. You, on the other hand, let a bruise ruin the whole apple. I'm still curious what you stand to gain from that.
[QUOTE=Bathacker;25020818]Do you really gain anything by being so difficult to please?[/QUOTE] Are you suggesting that we should accept shit quality? If so, get out.
[QUOTE=Carbon Knight;25022551]Are you suggesting that we should accept shit quality? If so, get out.[/QUOTE] Why are you angry? The only person you're hurting is yourself. It's self-defeating to magnify one or two bad things about a game (or anything) until it consumes your ability to enjoy it.
[QUOTE=Bathacker;25023999]Why are you angry? The only person you're hurting is yourself. It's self-defeating to magnify one or two bad things about a game (or anything) until it consumes your ability to enjoy it.[/QUOTE] I'd much rather enjoy something that's genuinely good rather than fool myself into enjoying something that's full of shit.
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;25025126]I'd much rather enjoy something that's genuinely good rather than fool myself into enjoying something that's full of shit.[/QUOTE] I'd much rather enjoy both. And you're still fooling yourself.
It's a great game. Not as good as the Prime series, but then, what could be? [editline]06:33PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;25025126]I'd much rather enjoy something that's genuinely good rather than fool myself into enjoying something that's full of shit.[/QUOTE] This is why I'm beginning to fucking hate Facepunch. "I DON'T LIKE IT, SO IT'S SHIT NOT LISTENING TO REASON NUH-UH CAN'T HAVE ANY OF THAT."
[QUOTE=postmanX3;25026253]It's a great game. Not as good as the Prime series, but then, what could be?[/QUOTE] Er, quite a lot of things, actually. [editline]10:42PM[/editline] [QUOTE=postmanX3;25026253]This is why I'm beginning to fucking hate Facepunch. "I DON'T LIKE IT, SO IT'S SHIT NOT LISTENING TO REASON NUH-UH CAN'T HAVE ANY OF THAT."[/QUOTE] You have literally captured my person in a sentence. What fucking reason? The writing is probably some of the worst ever put down, excluding any given JRPG of course. The gameplay ranges from okay to awkward at best. The graphics are probably the best thing about it all in all and yet they're still shit compared to just about anything on the Xbox. For good reason, but the point still remains. I fail to see what truly redeeming features this game has that make it immune to criticism. How is this game better than any other given Metroid game or, more importantly, any other given action game? [editline]10:48PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Bathacker;25025578]I'd much rather enjoy both. And you're still fooling yourself.[/QUOTE] How am I fooling myself? I don't want to be fed shit when they could be putting out something decent. If everyone were like you the only things being released would be shit because no one would give a fuck. Don't give Metroid games a story if A, you are going to make it detract from the rest of the game and B, if you have the writing ability of a baboon. I'm not going to give it a passing grade just because the game cartridge wasn't full of poisonous spiders, the game is bad, I'm not going to say it isn't.
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;25026282]How am I fooling myself?[/QUOTE] I'm willing to admit the game has faults. You're unwilling to admit it has virtues. You have convinced yourself that this game isn't any fun because it doesn't meet some arbitrary standard you have. [QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;25026282]I don't want to be fed shit when they could be putting out something decent. If everyone were like you the only things being released would be shit because no one would give a fuck.[/QUOTE] There's nothing wrong with wanting a better game, but when it supersedes your ability to be happy with games of average quality, your expectations are too high. Also, you have accused me of being content. Guilty as charged. [QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;25026282]Don't give Metroid games a story if A, you are going to make it detract from the rest of the game and B, if you have the writing ability of a baboon. I'm not going to give it a passing grade just because the game cartridge wasn't full of poisonous spiders, the game is bad, I'm not going to say it isn't.[/QUOTE] I'm perturbed by how adamant you are about being negative. You'll happily listen to Yahtzee when he tells you to hate a game, but you react violently against me when I ask you to give it a second look. Over the previous posts, you have described Other M as something more odious with every pass. You've gone from describing why you dislike the game to making excuses why you MUST hate it. It's this determination to hate, it isn't healthy. I give hated games the benefit of the doubt, I overlook minor flaws, I recognize and remember the good parts of the game rather than the bad. In this way, I'm able to enjoy games that other people snub, and I have fun. You are outwardly condemning this. Why?
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;25020055]Hello, Metroid Prime 3 had voice acting and it didn't blow ass. No, this is Other M. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE8RTKBFlBI[/media] What a load of horse dicks.[/QUOTE] Wow, that's pretty bad.
the monotone voice acting killed it dead
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;25026282]Er, quite a lot of things, actually.[/quote] Right. So clearly you already have a bias against the Metroid series. [quote]You have literally captured my person in a sentence. What fucking reason? The writing is probably some of the worst ever put down, excluding any given JRPG of course. The gameplay ranges from okay to awkward at best. The graphics are probably the best thing about it all in all and yet they're still shit compared to just about anything on the Xbox. For good reason, but the point still remains. I fail to see what truly redeeming features this game has that make it immune to criticism. How is this game better than any other given Metroid game or, more importantly, any other given action game?[/QUOTE] No one said it was immune to criticism. All we're saying is that "herp a derp I think the story's bad and it wasn't pretty enough" is no reason to discredit a game outright.
Why don't we all just calm the fuck down and let people be entitled to their own opinion?
[QUOTE=IdiotStorm;24996503]Don't forget Saint's Row 2[/QUOTE] And almost everything by Valve
[QUOTE=Blargtastic;25029962]Why don't we all just calm the fuck down and let people be entitled to their own opinion?[/QUOTE] Try telling that to the [url=http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=980721]majority[/url] [url=http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?p=24986375#post24986375]of[/url] [url=http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=999504]Facepunch.[/url] People here are dumb, especially regarding the term "opinion."
So you want everyone to adhere to your own opinion because you think everyone else's is stupid? Go to best korea.
[QUOTE=Carbon Knight;25030365]So you want everyone to adhere to your own opinion because you think everyone else's is stupid? Go to best korea.[/QUOTE] The irony is so thick... oh, you know the rest.
[QUOTE=postmanX3;25029008]Right. So clearly you already have a bias against the Metroid series. No one said it was immune to criticism. All we're saying is that "herp a derp I think the story's bad and it wasn't pretty enough" is no reason to discredit a game outright.[/QUOTE] no, i loved the prime games i just think there are lots of games that are just as good faff off with your persecution complex and no, the story isn't bad, it's offensively bad.
From what I've heard this "weak Samus" has actually been developing for a while now in Japan, it's just that they never adapted it into the games until now. I guess it would have been best left non-canon.
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