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When you're a Nintendo gamer you're not betting on $599 machines and silicon.
You're gambling on ideas and surprises and heart.
EDIT: Also, can we move away from arguing over Metroid: Other M's reception? Go to the eight other threads in the forums to talk about that. We're taking one/two sentences from this entire feature and harping on them.
It was still one of the worst-selling games in the mainline series. It might not be far off from Prime 2, but it still sold less than it.
It really seemed like Nintendo was not happy with how Other M was received. There are some quotes from Reggie in particular that echo that a lot. It might have garnered a 79 MetaCritic rating, but it didn't seem to be up to Nintendo's hopes.
I'd be happy to see a new 2D Metroid period. I don't even care if they released an e-Shop download.
2D Metroid > 3D Metroid, period.
As for a MOM2? I wouldn't be completely surprised - there was a lot of assets put into that game and I could see them wanting to recycle them to recoup the development costs.
In August 2010, Other M hit stores, and was largely shunned...
...becoming one of the worst-selling mainline games in the franchise’s history.
I actually don't have any questions because I honestly don't care all that much about the story which was told in Other M or, indeed, the Metroid saga more generally.
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I was not too offended by Other M's story precisely because I never valued it much in previous instalments either; but I can completely understand why gamers would decry it. If Nintendo are going to choose to live by the sword they should also prepare to die by it.
Because if you have to explain it, the developer didn't do their job properly in conveying the story. And considering how fond Other M was in vomiting exposition and inner monologues at the player, that's particularly sad.
There are probably less than a thousand people worldwide who give a **** what the Japan-only Metroid manga did (and as you may have gathered, I'm not one of them), and most of those are probably in Japan where the franchise isn't popular. You're skirting the issue anyway. I specifically said Reboot Samus contradicts the other Metroid games. Her inner monologues in Fusion might have been similar, but she still isn't the completely unreliable wreck or master of redundancy in that game that she randomly is in Other M.
I'm curious what the hard sold numbers are, because they have to be comparatively low for Western devs to be ignoring the 3DS like they have.No they don't. See: Wii.
Having things to work things out for yourself is not only fun, but also fits in with the cryptic style of the Metroid series.
I guess it's cool that some fans out there care enough to spend time piecing the story together, because the developers sure as hell didn't.
The whole Deleter sub-plot was completely botched. The writing and timing of the scenes was done so poorly that people who beat the game still didn't understand that James was the deleter, since the game never flat-out went and said it
MOM's biggest problem is the entire plot is completely worthless in the grand scheme of things. Beyond Adam's death, MOM's plot never results to anything other than a sidestory. (A gaiden perhaps?)
Samus never really does much of anything of importance in the game, other than destroying the Queen Metroid and stopping Melissa. She doesn't even kill Ridley. She also lets everyone around her die - including failing to protect Anthony Higgs, who is just too much of a badass that he can take care of himself. It plays out more or less that Samus is there on the Bottle Ship, and all these events play out around her, with her only being important to the story at very few, short moments. The whole mission is just worthless. Even at the very end, Samus's "intrusion" didn't really get her very far, and the GFeds "take over" and then blow up the damn ship to try to erase their mistake.
It might be why no one likes the game's story.
I always thought that profits drove sequels - not sales. This could mean that the original release sold enough copies to turn a healthy profit, or that re-using the initial investment in tech and IP lowers the number of sales required to reach a profit for subsequent efforts. Sometimes the first game in a series can be a loss and still get a sequel if the second (third, etc) game can be quickly and cheaply created using already existing engines and assets.
Maybe not here but have you visited the rest of the internet? Most other gaming websites and message boards were filled with people declaring doom when the 3DS sales were poor last summer and how Nintendo would be developing for mobile phones soon.
@NinsageDo You have a 3DS?
