Metroid: Other M

[Vampyr]

I like how you flip between first person and third person. It looks like motion controls being used for something useful for once.

[manasecret]

That trailer makes it look pretty effin' sweet. I wasn't that excited for this game until I saw that.

[Xantar]

Originally Posted by TheSlyMoogle

And they will. The guys who made Ninja Gaiden will not fail me. They can't. Can they?

Depends. Is there volleyball involved? [/troll]

[Carnage17]

despite no longer owning a Wii, i am super psyched for this game for the following reasons

1) it's a new metroid from the director of the 2D classics like Super and Fusion
2) team ninja + samus aran
3) innovative, distinct control scheme
4) the most notable (and perhaps only) case of a company going in a COMPLETELY new direction with one of its strongest franchises. tienen cojones, Nintendo. buenos suerte! who says other franchises can't change up the formula like this? after all, if it flops, you can always revert to what's already proven

[BreakABone]

On your last point, Nintendo did also turn Metroid into a First-person game so its not like they aren't use to it with this franchise.

[BreakABone]

Metroid Other M has been dated for Sept 3rd in Europe (So only 4 days after the states)

And here is the Japanese box-art?

[ZebraRampage]

This game is going to be great. I have a feeling it'll feel like playing some SNES games back in the day. There's a lot of down time in the FPS Metroid games, but in Metroid: The Other M, it seems as though you're always on the move and killing enemies. It reminds me of Super Metroid in that aspect.

[Angrist]

The Metroid Primes got so boring after a while, because the coolest enemies usually didn't respawn.

If that's what you mean...

[BreakABone]

http://www.officialnintendomagazine....e.php?id=18691

The more I see of the game, the more questionable it becomes.
I just don't know

[ZebraRampage]

Originally Posted by Angrist

The Metroid Primes got so boring after a while, because the coolest enemies usually didn't respawn.

If that's what you mean...

I suppose that's one way of putting it. In Super Metroid, when you enter a room, all of the enemies are attacking you, or getting in your way based on what they do, and I guess they do respawn in order for this to happen, so yes, that's probably what was good about it. Maybe in Metroid: The Other M they won't respawn, but what I noticed is that it just had more of the old Metroid feel while going through sections of the world. It had that similar flow. In the Metroid Primes, you could kill whatever you wanted whenever, based on the weapons you had, because you could aim anywhere. I guess there were some restrictions, but you could just stand far away and kill something. They were much slower games, but still great nonetheless.

[Angrist]

Just as BaB is less and less impressed, the game looks better and better to me.
Then again, I always assumed it would be a Ninja Gaiden game with Metroid. Now it shows more classic Metroid gameplay, which is nice.

[soccerant]

I played the E3 demo and walked away disappointed, but not to the point where I'm not interested. I'm cautiously optimistic.

My qualms:

Controls are awkward. When the game took a side-scrolling approach, I had assumed that movement would simply have you moving left and right. You actually still move in 3D space. This requires the use of a control stick. With a D-Pad you aren't just stuck with 8-direction movement, but you're also stuck at two speeds: stand still, and Usain Bolt.

Didn't feel like Prime. Yeah, I realize that it's not supposed to, and that's why this is more of a personal qualm than an objective problem, but there are problems that I foresee with this change. Where Prime may have been lacking in the story aspect (if you didn't read the scan logs), Other M compensates, and that's what thing I'm really excited about. However, who can forget the first time they walked out into Phendrana Drifts? It was incredible then, and it's still remarkable now. Other M's demo didn't have any areas that engrossed the player in such a way. However, neither did Super Metroid or Fusion. So this is more of an observation than a complaint.

When I say that it doesn't feel like Prime, I mean for you to remember what I said about the control. Samus has one speed: lightning. This goes against the calm exploration of the Prime trilogy, and again, some might like that better. This is just a personal issue.

Last, there weren't many Metroid-esque puzzles in the demo. I know there's not much you can place in a demo, but there weren't really many morph ball puzzles, backtracking rewards for new weapons, and such.

Other M's demo makes the game look like it's shaping up to an action space-opera than a standard Metroid game. But hey, I'm all for the dramatic story---that's why I'm still excited for the game. And I'm putting faith in Nintendo in that they'll make sure that the title oozes quality. One thing that everyone will have to get used to (because it won't be changed), is D-Pad control.

[Jason1]

I expect this game to be good, but in no way as awesome and ground breaking as Prime was.

[BreakABone]

New "story" trailer

The game play they show is awesome.

[BreakABone]

Video Games | Metroid: Other M | Exclusive Action Trailer HD

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New shiny, game play trailer from GT-TV





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