Metroid: Other M

[Geoff]

[quote author=Spore link=topic=4912.msg170318#msg170318 date=1282351952]
[quote author=Didzo link=topic=4912.msg170313#msg170313 date=1282349595]
Wasn't there supposed to be a Metroid movie made at some point?

Probably like there was supposed to be a Halo, Gears of War, Bioshock, Zelda, Mario, Half-Life, and Metal Gear Solid movie.
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Yea, Id love to see all of those made into movies

Second thought, maybe not
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bob hoskins and john leguizamo are the man

[CaffeinePowered]

Holy fuck this game has WAY too much talking, and WAY too much narrative.

Metroid games are about solitude, exploration, and uncovering backstory in much more subtle ways. I wasn't thinking this would be of super metroid or even metroid prime levels of greatness, but I'm fairly disappointed with at least the beginning of the game.

[KarthXLR]

Holy fuck this game has WAY too much talking, and WAY too much narrative.

Metroid games are about solitude, exploration, and uncovering backstory in much more subtle ways. I wasn't thinking this would be of super metroid or even metroid prime levels of greatness, but I'm fairly disappointed with at least the beginning of the game.

It seems to be a common criticism. Apparently the first hour of the game is misleading.

[Chief]

Holy fuck this game has WAY too much talking, and WAY too much narrative.

Metroid games are about solitude, exploration, and uncovering backstory in much more subtle ways. I wasn't thinking this would be of super metroid or even metroid prime levels of greatness, but I'm fairly disappointed with at least the beginning of the game.

watching videos?

anyways reviews seem just absolutely mixed, and apparently narrative is only within the beginning and the end of the game, but exploration like in other games seem to be not as much influential i guess as in past metroid games

then again, i never liked looking for secret items. god damnit

[CaffeinePowered]

watching videos?

Own it

[Chief]

[quote author=TheDarkChief link=topic=4912.msg171408#msg171408 date=1283025509]
watching videos?

Own it
[/quote]today is august 28th
it released august 30th


howwwwwwww

[CaffeinePowered]

[quote author=Caffeine link=topic=4912.msg171411#msg171411 date=1283028464]
[quote author=TheDarkChief link=topic=4912.msg171408#msg171408 date=1283025509]
watching videos?

Own it
[/quote]today is august 28th
it released august 30th


howwwwwwww
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Pre-Order + ISO

[Geoff]

dtoid gave it a 6.5







hurricane katrina of shitstorm is brewing

[Vongore]

dtoid gave it a 6.5







hurricane katrina of shitstorm is brewing

I stopped believin Dtoid reviews a long time ago, specially since they noticed giving bad scores meant more pageviews. It's not like i don't agree with the FFXIII or Assassin's Creed scores, i totally do, but what i don't like is the Editors attitude, specially that Sterling guy, who is like "i don't care what you say, i'm so hardcore gamer it hurts".

And by reading this review, it's just more of the same. I haven't played the game yet, but GT's review is way more credible than Dtoid's.

[shoopfox]

[quote author=geoff link=topic=4912.msg171442#msg171442 date=1283041878]
dtoid gave it a 6.5







hurricane katrina of shitstorm is brewing

They made Deadly Premonition like GOTY so I always have some love in my heart for their reviews
I stopped believin Dtoid reviews a long time ago, specially since they noticed giving bad scores meant more pageviews. It's not like i don't agree with the FFXIII or Assassin's Creed scores, i totally do, but what i don't like is the Editors attitude, specially that Sterling guy, who is like "i don't care what you say, i'm so hardcore gamer it hurts".

And by reading this review, it's just more of the same. I haven't played the game yet, but GT's review is way more credible than Dtoid's.
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[Spore]

[quote author=geoff link=topic=4912.msg171442#msg171442 date=1283041878]
dtoid gave it a 6.5







hurricane katrina of shitstorm is brewing

I stopped believin Dtoid reviews a long time ago, specially since they noticed giving bad scores meant more pageviews. It's not like i don't agree with the FFXIII or Assassin's Creed scores, i totally do, but what i don't like is the Editors attitude, specially that Sterling guy, who is like "i don't care what you say, i'm so hardcore gamer it hurts".

And by reading this review, it's just more of the same. I haven't played the game yet, but GT's review is way more credible than Dtoid's.
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The Dtoid Other M review wasn't by Jim so it probably wasn't just page view trolling.

[Squishy3]

[quote author=Vongore link=topic=4912.msg171459#msg171459 date=1283047565]
[quote author=geoff link=topic=4912.msg171442#msg171442 date=1283041878]
dtoid gave it a 6.5







hurricane katrina of shitstorm is brewing

I stopped believin Dtoid reviews a long time ago, specially since they noticed giving bad scores meant more pageviews. It's not like i don't agree with the FFXIII or Assassin's Creed scores, i totally do, but what i don't like is the Editors attitude, specially that Sterling guy, who is like "i don't care what you say, i'm so hardcore gamer it hurts".

And by reading this review, it's just more of the same. I haven't played the game yet, but GT's review is way more credible than Dtoid's.
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The Dtoid Other M review wasn't by Jim so it probably wasn't just page view trolling.
[/quote]Yes, but there's still editors on Dtoid that are like that. Like the guy who gives every SMT game 9.0 or 10 or whatever. They're great games, but it really does feel that he's looking to give them a perfect or near-perfect score everytime, just like Jim Sterling gives bad scores to every game that's hyped up. I don't read Dtoid reviews anymore though, I wish more people would adopt Kotaku's style of game reviews and just list the good and the bad parts of it and skip the numbered score altogether. That way you can pick it up based on whether or not the good and the bad appeal to you, or whether if the good appeals to you enough that you can stomach the bad parts.

[K2]

I wish more people would adopt Kotaku's style of game reviews and just list the good and the bad parts of it and skip the numbered score altogether. That way you can pick it up based on whether or not the good and the bad appeal to you, or whether if the good appeals to you enough that you can stomach the bad parts.

While I do think that Kotaku's review style is better in theory, I don't really like it because they never really convey how much each particular "Loved"/"Hated" really affects their overall enjoyment of the game. I'll read one of their reviews, and it'll say that, for example, a game has some cool gameplay ideas, but the controls have some issues. The problem is that I don't know if those few neat gameplay ideas make the game worth buying or how severely those control issues harm the game's overall quality.

Maybe if the final summary paragraphs did a more thorough job of weighing the good against the bad it would work better, but as they are now Kotaku's reviews don't do a great job of quantifying how good the good parts and how bad the bad parts of a game really are.

[KarthXLR]

TL;DR

Reviewers have only opinions, play the game for yourself and decide.

[Didzo]

TL;DR

Reviewers have only opinions, play the game for yourself and decide.

Thereby bypassing the entire point of reading a review.

[beep beep diglett]

more reviews should just state the facts on the game and list the good and the bad

[Squishy3]

more reviews should just state the facts on the game and list the good and the bad

exactly, if every review site just listed what they thought was good and bad and a simple closing impression of the game, you can chalk up a good impression of whether or not you'd enjoy it, and see which parts of the game are universally agreed as bad or good or just decent, or whether some sites list "the camera doesn't work well at all" but other sites would say it does work, but could be better.

[Versus]

i'm glad i haven't visited dtoid for a long time

[Squishy3]

so this game is enjoyable, you'll either love it you'll hate it :p

[KarthXLR]

so this game is enjoyable, you'll either love it you'll hate it :p

eeeeeehhhh, I'll rent it sometime.