Story will 'play a big part' in Metroid Other M

There's nothing to force feed, because there is no story. Go rescue the princess, go recover the triforce, etc etc.

To say it's on par with a game like Mass Effect is beyond ridiculous, even for a nintendo fanboy like yourself Mr Khan.

You're deliberately portraying their stories as simpler than they are. A little digging yields you a world in their games. Just 'cuz you have to dig a little deeper shouldn't make a difference.

tmac, you said:
"I have to go all the way back to the SNES era for me to remember the last time I played a nintendo game with a meaningful story, and even then it was made by someone like Square Enix."

I think what you meant was:
"I have to go all the way back to the SNES era for me to remember the last time I played a nintendo game."

yeah, compared to Gears of War (GET TO DAH RESONATOR KABOOM!) or Halo (GET TO DAH GIANT SPACE RING KABOOM!) or God of War (GET TO MOUNT OLYMPUS KRATOS!) or even Mass Effect (GET TO DAH DVD BOXSET OF STAR TREK AND TAKE COPIOUS NOTES ON EACH EPISODE CHEKOV) Nintendo games just cant keep up

Dude, wtf? At least remain somewhat reasonable even if you (obviously) don't like Nintendo.

Prime 1 had a fantastic story, not to mention OOT and WW. Paper Mario on the GC had a really funny well done story too - Eternal Darkness comes to mind as well.

I like your posts generally but you're getting a little stupid....

just sayin

People seems to forget one important internal 1st party team that create lots of deep, meaningful,serious story (hell sometime it is the opposite, funny!)...Intelligent System!! They also create the 2d metroid....One of my favorite video games teams with EAD, Treasures, Clovers (RIP), Cave (Shmups FTW), etc.

They are responsible for the 2-d Metroid games, the infamous Fire Emblem series that date back since Famicom and Super Famicom. The advance wars series and the Paper Mario games (yup it is an RPG with a fun story, hell i love the mario luigi).

I am a big fans of Fire Emblem...too bad most of the earlier games were in japan only, because you can't understand a damn thing lol, but i love Ogre Battle, FF Tactics and most Strat RPG and they are usually riddle with political theme and the Fire Emblem series is known for that.

(PS 3 of them are in the japan VC....mmm since there are tons of dialogue...one would hope to see it coming to VC translated...praying here! me want Thracia 776!)

Fire Emblem is known to be one of the first tactical rpg and here is an excerpt from wiki: "The series is also renowned for having deeply developed characters, as well as the fact that most units' death—or defeat in battle—is permanent in the game until the end of the play through" (source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_emblem)

tmacairjordan87....for christ sake...u are a shame for all his royal airness the king number 23 JORDAN (RESPECT)

1987...if u are really 22 years, u are still a young pups that needs to OPEN his eyes and close your inner fanboy sexualness, too bad for you if you can't enjoy gaming on all system. To limit oneself is to degrade and deprive of the diversity that life has given upon us. amen brotha

Guys, the Greatest Joystiqqer Ever, John Z, has made it so we don't have to deal with this asshole anymore.
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/51770
'cus if Joystiq won't ban him, even after he's admitted that he deliberately trolls Nintendo topics, the least you can do is block his worthless ass.

Hahaha! Now he sounds like the retard he really is! I really do love it!
Derp de derp derp derp de derpderp!

Oooh I'm intrigued. Now I can block all the annoying nintendo fanboys and I can talk to all the real gamers.

Hahaha! I am seriously laughing out loud at this.

It's great!

@Naeem
How does it feel to be trolled?

Again.

That's odd. All samfish says is nintendo sucks now. Why the sudden change of heart? :P

Oh you are my savior Sam.

As horrible a poster as some of you like to make Tmac out to be, what do I see every single time he posts?

Every single one of you BRINGING YOURSELVES DOWN TO HIS FUCKING LEVEL.

God, I can't stand this shithole anymore. Stupid people used to be the minority.

It's ok, they've helped me a lot with my psychology paper I've been working on for over a year (on behavior patterns and how they're influenced). I've purposely been upping the trolling to see what I could get out of them, and it's worked brilliantly. So brilliantly, that someone actually took time out to write a code to stop me.

But yeah now's as good a time as ever to complete it, since I only have a month left to finish it. Sorry I've put you all through that, even though it was fun to watch all the reactions both good and bad :P.

Although, it's not like I haven't tried to tell you all it was an act before. The real me doesn't even hate nintendo, it's more like a begrudging indifference. Hell, I'm surprised none of you caught on when I was openly saying I was getting a Wii. I'm going to be getting one around christmas time just in case they do actually drop the price, although I should know better than to follow Patcher's rumors but I figure I might as well with this one.

I completely agree with Chad, and I even own an xbox360, without having any shooter (well GoW and RE5 came with the console), Because most of them are explosions and manly men shouting each other. I like the jrpgs on it though, people should hype them more so they release more (not only on the 360, on the wii too).

Also why is everyone forgetting Fire Emblem, and Zelda (try to make a timeline, it creates one of the most complex stories in games), also mario rpgs (the first one,paper(s), M&L) have really well written story, sure it's not completely serious, but it's really funny (and comedy is difficult to write, considering how different is everyone's sense of humor).

I honestly don't understand why people say stupid shit like that. "Nintendo doesn't get this franchise anymore." Nintendo CREATED Metroid. They've been making Metroid games since the 1986. Believe me, they get it. All this speculation and worry about how the game will turn out is because WE don't get it. Metroid is about plenty of exploration, but it is just as much action and puzzles, too.

So this one actually gives Samus a story. Great. I want that and I'm sure everybody wants that. They're just worried about how it will turn out. The only other Metroid games that provide a backstory for her would be Fusion, and Super Metroid (but only slightly).

But I hope that this doesn't come off as me bashing you unnecessarily. Its just something I see all over the place. I'm sure this game will be absolutely fine and I'm not sure if there's really THAT much to worry about.

"since the 1986"....hahahaha woops. forgot to fix that.

@chriscanberg

It makes perfect sense that the creator of something can lose sight of what made it great. Think of the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy. George Lucas made it, but he clearly did a poor job of carrying over the things that made the originals great.

"So this one actually gives Samus a story. Great. I want that and I'm sure everybody wants that."
I don't. Metroid has always been about exploring desolate alien worlds and the Prime series introduced logs so you could piece together what happened there. That is fantastic. We don't need black marine mentors chatting us up or stuffy looking admirals. Those things failed to make any other game compelling and they will make metroid just another space shooter.

I think they mean more appealing to 45 year old mothers that bought into waggle controls...

I would be very fascinated in the direction they would take it, since Samus would naturally be a wanted criminal, since she defied the Federation military and destroyed the SA-X, their Omega Metroid, and blew up their whole space station in defiance of their orders

In fact, that might be why they've hesitated to commission a Metroid V. They might have written themselves into a corner, unsure about how to take Samus in the direction of outlaw

Yeah. Misfit Toy is so much more badass.

Making a personal attack huh? Okay, well I'd pick on your name but I grow tired every time I get close to finish reading it...

That was like the pork of comebacks.