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[SkyMyl]

http://thegeekfighters.com/the-geek-fighters/the-super-gaming-bros/video-game-reviews/842-sgb-review-metroid-prime

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[Silverhawk79]

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[Spud]

[spoiler]You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
Official messages from Omegle will not be sent with the label 'Stranger:'. Strangers claiming to represent Omegle are lying.
Stranger: Im looking for horny chicks with pics
You: i just happen to be a horny chick
You: with pics
Stranger: nice babe
Stranger: age?
You: 17
Stranger: same
Stranger: us?
You: yea
Stranger: cool
Stranger: can I see a picture?
You: sure
You: http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-ash1/v215/152/91/744555362/n744555362_2565550_2721.jpg
Stranger: your really hot babe
Stranger: are you wet?
You: not yet
You: but i hope i will be soon
Stranger: wanna role play? or do you have an msn or something and do cam sex
Stranger: ??
Stranger: you there?
Stranger: babe you there?
Stranger: hello?
You: hey
You: do you have any nudes?
Stranger: no
Stranger: I only have one of my face
You: could i see it? ;)
Stranger: one sec
Stranger: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=26702&id=100001556806332
Stranger: did you see it?
Stranger: did it work or did it not show you?
You: says it's temporarily unavailable
Stranger: hold on let me figure out how to get you a pic
Stranger: here
Stranger: http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff133/ultrakd/P1010300.jpg
Stranger: that work?
Stranger: babe?
Stranger: hello?
You: oh hey
You: sorry about that
You: so
You: wanna role play
Stranger: sure
Stranger: what were you doing?
You: you aren't my man
You: you don't need to know what i'm doing 100% of the time
Stranger: ok
Stranger: Im sorry i didnt mean it that way I was just curious
Stranger: so role play is good....you wanna start?
Stranger: ............
You: OK
You: HERE I GO
You: I caress you while you sit down
You: BUT
You: I turns out
You: I'm actually a man
You: And while our dicks are getting harder
You: I put on my robe and wizard hat
You: I cast Lvl. 3 Eroticism. You turn into a real beautiful woman.
You: I meditate to regain my mana, before casting Lvl. 8 Cock of the Infinite.
You: I spend my mana reserves to cast Mighty Fuck of the Beyondness.
You: I steal your soul and cast Lightning Lvl. 1,000,000 Your body explodes into a fine bloody mist, because you are only a Lvl. 2 Druid.
You: Robots are trying to drill my brain but my lightning shield inflicts DOA attack, leaving the robots as flaming piles of metal.
You: King Arthur congratulates me for destroying Dr. Robotnik's evil army of Robot Socialist Republics. The cold war ends. Reagan steals my accomplishments and makes like it was cause of him.
Your conversational partner has disconnected.[/spoiler]
Spoilers because of the size.

[Mystic]

Spud wins.

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[SkyMyl]

[spoiler=Really intercourse ing long post containing me talking about Other M]

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Good intercourse ing job. That really says a whole lot about the game. Why not help TK decide when you can just call the game homosexual. Yeah, intercourse ing original, Custom.

Well, I'll contribute some. First, Other M has bad qualities, that can't really be debated. There's going to be at least one thing that will ruin the experience for you. How much the bad aspects ruin the game for you, however, will vary person to person. If you're looking for 3D Super Metroid, it's not here. Go play Metroid Prime for that. Other M is an action game, one that has some familiar aspects of Metroid, and plays much more like Metroid towards the end. Hell, the game as a whole picks up quite a bit during the last third.

Story isn't really that stellar when compared to nearly every other game in the series, but it has some nice continuity nods to Fusion (Nightmare fight, anyone?), but at the same time kind of intercourse s up the continuity of the series. It's like what Nintendo did with Zelda. It was straightfoward at first, but then they started to bullpoop with the timeline, and some details about the games became inconsistent with each other. But again, if you don't give a intercourse  about the story in Metroid, then just ignore it. It's there, it gives everyone a reason to be there, just let it go.

Brief moment, the music is non-existent. Almost non-existent. Other M tries to be atmospheric and adds a touch of horror to the game, much like Fusion did. Except, the difference is, it doesn't work. There will be times when you're FORCED to stop running around, and the camera switches behind Samus, who's holding her arm cannon readily, and starts to walk very, very, very slowly. It brings the gameplay to the halt, and doesn't add any horror, suspense, or anything whatsoever to the game. It just slows the pacing down, which is a kick to the groin for speedrunners. There are only two instances where it works rather well, not because of how mood changing it's trying to be, but it's because they both happen towards the very end of the game.

And the voice acting is bleh. Samus sounds like a robot at times, nearly everyone else is passable. Speaking of Samus, that is going to be something you will either really like, or really, really hate, is Samus's characterization in Other M. She's either a complete vagina-y, in contrast to the stoic, badass woman we've always envisioned her as (Unless you've read the manga, which I haven't.), or the game provides her with overdue character development. I didn't really find her to be a vagina-y, except for the bullpoop Ridley moment. Go to the General Gaming board topic Custom made, if you haven't already. Video of the bullpoop Ridley moment can be found there. Everything else, I blame the writing, and the voice acting.

Gameplay. It starts out very action based, compared to every other Metroid game, and it stays that way for more than half the game. It can be fun at times, or it can be incredibly boring. It really depends from person to person, just like everything else. The game is also the most linear Metroid yet, so if you loved non-linearity, and running around, sequence breaking, exploring places and backtracking, get ready to be disappointed, because Other M does not offer any of that. Running and exploring, yes, but there will be times when the rooms are just narrow corridors, which makes the spacious rooms so much more enjoyable. So yes, you can't sequence break, if you're into that, and you can't explore. You're also forced to save, because the doors lock themselves each time you enter a save room you haven't been in yet, so you're forced to save, which also gives your map a little more of the sector you're currently in. The first time you go into each sector, you will follow a pattern of reaching each save room, then finding a way of getting to the next.

Save Rooms do give you health and missiles, which is good, because enemies don't drop items at all. No health, and no missiles. That's up to you. You can always replenish your missile supply whenever you want by holding the Wii remote up and holding A, which only takes a second. Replenishing your health, however, requires you to be at 23 units of energy, and when you use the same technique, your health will slowly fill back up, and when it fills up all the way, you're at 99 units of energy. And, the amount of energy you can replenish with this technique can even be upgraded, once you find the item that enhances it, but you won't ever be able to replenish all of your energy tanks, even when you have 100% completion. Basically, this technique takes away the point of killing enemies. There are times when you're forced to kill enemies so the doors can unlock, but most of the time you can just run right past them unless they're annoying you! You can just be a pacifist until you NEED to kill enemies, so unless you really like the combat system, and enjoy fighting, then go right ahead and slaughter everything, because that's the only reason you'll kill enemies.

And of course, there's also the pixel hunt segments. Parts where you're forced into first person mode to look for something arbitrary, to advance the plot. Like the aforementioned third person segments, these also bring the game to yet another halt! For example, in the very beginning of the game, you're forced to look at a ship in the docking bay. You're supposed to look at a specific part of that ship. And what is it? The Galactic Federation emblem somewhere on it! I just saved you a good two minutes of your time.

That's the other part of Other M, is the first person mode. The only way to use missiles is by pointing the Wiimote at the screen, holding B to lock on to an enemy, and pressing A. To be perfectly honest, and I know that you guys will think I'm even more of a faggot for this, I really do like this aspect of the combat. While it's absolute poop searching for pixels, switching to first person mode, for me at least, didn't present as many problems as everyone else has brought up, but to use it correctly you need a quick hand, and you need to know when it's best to not use it in the heat of combat. But your mileage will definitely vary on how good the combat aspect of first person mode is.

Very briefly, since I went off on atmosphere when mentioning the music, let's talk about the music. It's forgettable. Again, the game barely uses music to maintain a creepy, empty atmosphere, and the only time you'll here music, is when you're fighting enemies, and even then it's pretty forgettable, with the exception of Ridley's theme and the track that plays when you're fighting the Desbrachians. Other than that, everything is forgettable and barely noticeable. I call bullpoop, because...well, go play Metroid Prime, Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion...hell, even Prime 2. All of them used music, rather kickass tunes at that (Not so much with Fusion), and had a darn good atmosphere (Prime gets a second mention), something I think is key when it comes to Metroid.

The last thing I want to mention is item hunting. After you beat the game, all the linear restrictions are gone, and you're free to explore the entire Bottle Ship, as if it was a real Metroidvania from the getgo. You can also use this chance to get 100%, by searching the areas for items. Now, in this game, items are rather easy, compared to other Metroid games. Your map shows you the location of items with a registered blip on it, but it doesn't give any other specifics other than that. How you find the item, and how you obtain it, is up to you to find out. It sounds merciful of them to include an item radar, but 90% of the items are so easy to get that the radar only hastens your approach to 100%! The items can range from using a bomb to go into a morph ball tunnel that's slightly out of path, to jumping up a platform to reach an obviously placed item. Compared to some of the poop you had to do just to get a measly missile expansion in, say, Fusion, this is ridiculously easy, to the point the game is mocking you. The few items that are difficult, though, are only because their solutions are placed in the most unnoticeable, well blending locations that you wouldn't even think that it would be the solution. Sector 1's last missile in the same room with a Power Bombable wall and the Main Sector's very first missile expansions are the tip of the iceberg when it comes to how well hidden they are, but that may be my incompetence there.

So, what do we have so far? A linear, action based Metroid game, that has numerous moments that slow the game down to a halt, has a rather average story when you compare it to, say, Super Metroid, Prime, or even Fusion, takes the point of killing enemies away when it's clearly more action based than exploration based, and has rather easy collectibles. If you're a diehard Metroid fan who hails Super Metroid as perfection, you hated fusion, or you're looking for a long game to play, stay away from Other M.

tl;dr

If, however, you're just looking for a good game to play over the weekend, or you're not really a massive Metroid fan, or if you really don't give a intercourse  as long as it's enjoyable, then give it a shot. It's $50, and it's short, and again, there will be qualities about the game you'll hate about Other M, but how much you can forgive these qualities will depend. It's certainly a unique experience, and it's definitely one of Nintendo's most ambitious takes on one of their franchises, but it's not for everyone. The last third of Other M will either redeem the time you spent playing the first two thirds, or it will peak the experience for you. At worst, it could do absolutely nothing, you'll consider it a piece of poop, and you'll sell it back at Gamestop to buy a different game.

That's not all I have to say, but I just wasted a whole intercourse ing hour typing about Other M. I do like it, but again, there are just a good number of downsides to it that just drag the game down. It's definitely not the best Metroid game, but it's a decent one.[/spoiler]

[ME86]

[Java]

"It's now or ever and I just wanna live when I arrive, it's my life. BON JOVI" LMFAO. Worst attempt at reciting lyrics. EVER.

[Rayquarian]

There is one safeguard which is an advantage and security to all,
but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust.

[SkyMyl]

We evolve...beyond the person we were a minute before! Little by little, we advance a bit further with each turn. That's how a drill works!

[Light]

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[SkyMyl]

http://ichimonai.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1711&p=137799#p137784

[Mystic]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl1UlHogEl8

[SkyMyl]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56f2Kt6IeZU