Topic: Metroid Other M

[Halbred]

The picture they chose is, I believe, FROM the E3 trailer.

[King of Twitch]

Samus and the City looks good.

[EasyCure]

Cosmopalitans in SPPPAAAACEEE! (?)

[King of Twitch]

Federation log 22152.1
Maybe some metroids aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Someone like Tingle.

[King of Twitch]

I swear on the Ubisoft 66 if one of the bounty hunters is named Carrie or Miranda, I'm going to buy a copy of Imagine: Party Babiez

[Stratos]

Aren't you supposed to swear upon something of value?

[BlackNMild2k1]

Since GP has the most uninformative and boring OP ever, I thought I would do her a favor and create one worthy of this game from all the information, pics and gifs found in this thread.

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Title: METROID: Other M
By Who: Nintendo & Team Ninja
Release Date: Summer 2010

Official Website: http://metroid.jp/

Trailers:
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-09-metroid-other/50355

Screen Shots:






GIFs:




Interviews:
Developer Interview with 1up

Sakamoto interview with IGN

Reggie mentions sales expectations for Metroid: Other M

Extra:
A frame by frame analysis by GameTrailers.com

[Caterkiller]

Awesome frame by frame analysis! So excited to see a Chazo in some sort of flash back! The biggest surprise in Metroid Zero Mission was seeing young Samus walking with who appeared to be her guardian. Thats right a non dead/statue Chazo. Very excitied for this game!

[Chozo Ghost]

This looks like it could be the game I've been waiting for since Super Metroid back on the SNES. The Prime games were FPS ala Halo, so they didn't feel like proper Metroid games to me. This game is in the appropriate third person perspective, so that's good.

[Kairon]

Just watched the trailer for this again. Big mistake. Now I'm hyped and there's nowhere to go but down! T_T

Actually, looking at this, I'm hoping for some utterly new 2.5D gameplay.

[Peachylala]

Samus' Japanese VA... could it be the same VA that voiced her in Brawl (if she DID get a Japanese voice over), or some voice actress familiar to Team Ninja?

Her voice sounds somewhat similar to Ayane from Ninja Gaiden Sigma.

Also, music on the web page is quite nice.

[ThePerm]

the weird thing about this is i had a similar vision to how the starfox world would be like...and thats pretty much the direction their going with this new metroid

[KDR_11k]

I don't care about Samus as a character, learning more about the Chozo is nice though (the real star of Metroid is always the environment and the exploration thereof, Samus is just an armored thing that jumps and shoots when we press the buttons).

I'll just point here for my concerns. The comparisons to Fusion make me think Other M will be another instant trashcan game that should never be made.

[King of Twitch]

“With Fusion, that game was very story-driven. In that game, I believe I was able to explain Samus as a character, as a person, not just somebody in armor. And I was not only explain Samus but the characters around her… with Super Metroid I showed, through her relationship with the baby Metroid, some of her maternal instincts. Between those two stories I feel I was able to explain Samus as a person. But because Metroid equals Samus, I’d like to develop her character further, as a soldier, as a human, also as a woman. That’s what they’re hoping to do with Other M.�
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The above is the most ridiculous quote I have ever seen any game developer make

The above is the most overblown Maelstrom quote I have seen since Maelstrom's last post.

[Chozo Ghost]

I don't care about Samus as a character, learning more about the Chozo is nice though (the real star of Metroid is always the environment and the exploration thereof, Samus is just an armored thing that jumps and shoots when we press the buttons).

Unless she is in Zero Suit or Bikini mode, in which case she is so very much more.

[KDR_11k]

I don't care about Samus as a character, learning more about the Chozo is nice though (the real star of Metroid is always the environment and the exploration thereof, Samus is just an armored thing that jumps and shoots when we press the buttons).

Unless she is in Zero Suit or Bikini mode, in which case she is so very much more.

Bikini mode is fine but wrapped into a horrible game, Zero Suit can go to hell along with all the other forced stealth sequences in games.

[Peachylala]

What if Zero Suit mode got rid of the stealth and added the famous Team Ninja boob physics?

This could increase Samus' fanbase by 90%.

[Kairon]

What if Zero Suit mode got rid of the stealth and added the famous Team Ninja boob physics?

This could increase Samus' fanbase by 90%.

Oh yay. Samus could be the next Joanna Dark. That's exactly what we need.

[Peachylala]

Have to get those new fanboys somehow.

Hell, even Steve Tilley (Sun Media's resident 'game' 'reviewer') thinks Metroid and Team Ninja is a good match.

Guess he's still depress Mario Bros. Wii wasn't real enough for him.

[Halbred]

I don't understand the rampant boycotting of character development for Samus. This isn't Mario--there's a continuous story here.

[Stogi]

Was it you Halbred that wrote about wanting to see the series flesh out Samus's past, specifically the training of her by the Chozo? Because that's exactly what I want to see. Just like Link, I think a Metroid game that focused on young Samus would be at the very least incredibly interesting.

[KDR_11k]

I don't understand the rampant boycotting of character development for Samus. This isn't Mario--there's a continuous story here.

When I want continuous story I play a linear game, when I want to come, see and conquer I play Metroid. Metroid to me is about being set loose in a world with no instructions beyond "kill the big bad at the end" and finding my way, learning the environment and making the world mine as I get used to the territory and enemies and find more gear.

[Stogi]

I don't understand why it can't be both.

You could integrate both really simply by having Samus uncover an unknown world, looking for her lost abilities, and every time she gains a crucial ability she can be transported through a flashback or whatever to the days where she first learned how to use it. So she finds the ability to screw attack and a flashback happens that lets you play out a training exercise given to you by the chozo where you had to collect pieces of something while never once landing or falling. In that time you could drop hints here and there about why the chozo became extinct.

[MoronSonOfBoron]

I don't know if the Chozo will be factoring in very much with this particular game, since most of what they've shown is from urban settings, possibly within Federation territory. Her years growing up amongst the Chozo defined her role as defender of the galaxy and placed her destiny in opposition to the Space Pirates and numerous other evils...

But then again, there's also the murky period between her graduation from Chozo training and becoming the Federation bounty hunter we know and play. There's a lot to be mined here, and from what I've seen so far, I'm willing to accept some intrusive story as long as we get those awesome action sequences up our collective wazoo.

Look, it could be worse, it could be MGS4 the 80-hour-long cutscene.

I don't think we have to worry about Zero Dignity Samus, considering Itagaki isn't running Team Ninja.

I'll be honest, I've always seen Samus as a cold, proud, admirable warrior goddess with little concern for mortal affairs; this is mostly due to a lack of characterization (and perhaps a desire to separate her from her feminine contemporaries). The ramifications of Fusion and Other M are quite alarming to me, but I can see what the designer's getting at in making Samus more approachable; rather than simply being a faceless cipher or idol, she can empirically represent a story or identity.

There's more to her than we could have ever imagined when we first blew into that NES cartridge; Samus is growing up, and if you really love her, if you want to hold on to her, you will have to get to know her. Maybe your relationship with her will change, maybe it won't, but one thing is for certain: the official site's piano theme tugs my heartstrings.