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Metroid Other M "story" trailer
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Ignis Fatuus
Banned
We've got a race war going on in here.
Go South America!
Go South America!
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Boney said:You're making me cry
I don't wanna sound like a jerk but after you guys fucked up Rurouni Kenshin/Samurai X's dub I don't trust Chile anymore.
That said, I loved Garfield y sus Amigos' dub.
lostinblue said:Why won't third party games unlock them...
Plus this is no Kojima game, I doubt cutscenes last half an hour.
Skippable cutscenes should be mandatory in every game.
Goddamn, this is stupid.
Now you're bringing me into this!? :lolRegulus Tera said:
Didn't know Samurai X was a chilean dub.. I thought it was pretty good!
And Garfield is amazing bro.
Glad that's settled.. yeah Kaoru sounded a bit wierd, but it still was good acting.
*goes to watch samurai x in youtube*
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Boney said:
Huh, Wikipedia says it was Colombia. My bad, Chile's my friend.
My problem with the dub was that Kaoru sounded constipated every time she talked. Damn you, Colombia!
Boney said:
Amen.
Rush2thestart
Member
I hope there are some cool unlockables in this game. Such as a Ryu Hayabusa mode. A man can dream can't he?
Tathanen
Get Inside Her!
seady said:
Don't be ridiculous. I had literally no opinion of Team Ninja one way or the other, and I came away quite concerned from what I played at Nintendo's media event. People who were worried about the game were worried about it because it was worrisome, not because of Team Ninja. Let's not all become idiots and pretend that negative early previews were all just WRONG because newer previews are more favorable. It simply means that the first demo was shitty, and this one is better. Which is the direction the demos SHOULD be moving in.
Werent most early previews just people being skeptical? The first previews we saw in action really havent changed all that much control wise, or anything else for that matter aside from environment.
I just think the idea of Team Ninja working with Nintendo on Metroid finally sunk in. I mean looking at some of the first gameplay footage, the game still looks as good then as it does now.
I just think the idea of Team Ninja working with Nintendo on Metroid finally sunk in. I mean looking at some of the first gameplay footage, the game still looks as good then as it does now.
To be fair, there's still a couple of fairly skeptical previews, like IGN's and Giantbomb's. Maybe not skeptical, but not very positive.
I think the game will review ok, not amazing. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm sure I will love it, but some people will always have grips with the controls and narrative.
I think the game will review ok, not amazing. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm sure I will love it, but some people will always have grips with the controls and narrative.
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
Those images look amazing, some textures (the floor ones) dont look very good (Metroid prime 3 was bteetr in that regard) but the models are fantastic, and also seems to be the animations of it.
(only answering the things you asked form your post).
About the getting the south american accents for things, that was, as I said, during the majority of cartoons in the 60s, 70s and 80's, with Disney (the last south american dub was the little mermaid, now Disney has the best dubbing actors for their movies and cartoons, and their voices are very similar to their english counterparts) and other companies. The very last thing we got in south american was the dub of Halo 2, and it was called by microsoft neutral spanish, I have to say it was a fiasco and people went against it, at the end i think there is even a patch and Halo 3 has the same castillian spanish as the first Halo.
Maybe you think that is neutral (thats the the thing I most hear from south americans) but we surely dont, we dont think calling ALL people by usted is neutral, or "sesear" (although in andalucia they do this), the accent, or inventing words we never use here. Maybe is neutral for nearly all the countries in South America (and I respect that because I think is hard work) but you cant bring it here as we find it strange.
Theres a very funny video of an interview with Jose Padilla (one of the best dub actors in the world, with an awesome range of voices) were the tv host talks about the south americans dubs we had, that they were trying to tell us it was neutral, and how it could be neutral that the astronaut of an american base seemed like he had an accent from tijuana. He also talks of other interesting things, and does the voice of some of his characters (Mickey Mouse, Skinner, Braniggan, Niles from freiser...).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoSPu8gBuvI
I know you will as usual get only the american voices for the game, and I hope you get it at least with the spanish subs (that needs to be a norm there, so fight for that).
At the end seems It dont know much about your language and you dont know much of ours so we are equal in that. :lol
So sorry again for being harsh with my other post. And better if dont talk here about it again becuase we are going off-topic.
Yeah guys, we better stop talking about which spanish is better, at least here, before someone thinks we are triying to troll. :lol
As I said, sorry for being harsh, but I couldnt stop letting you insult our language without giving my opinion. Hope this one is more friendlymantidor said:
(only answering the things you asked form your post). About the getting the south american accents for things, that was, as I said, during the majority of cartoons in the 60s, 70s and 80's, with Disney (the last south american dub was the little mermaid, now Disney has the best dubbing actors for their movies and cartoons, and their voices are very similar to their english counterparts) and other companies. The very last thing we got in south american was the dub of Halo 2, and it was called by microsoft neutral spanish, I have to say it was a fiasco and people went against it, at the end i think there is even a patch and Halo 3 has the same castillian spanish as the first Halo.
Maybe you think that is neutral (thats the the thing I most hear from south americans) but we surely dont, we dont think calling ALL people by usted is neutral, or "sesear" (although in andalucia they do this), the accent, or inventing words we never use here. Maybe is neutral for nearly all the countries in South America (and I respect that because I think is hard work) but you cant bring it here as we find it strange.
Theres a very funny video of an interview with Jose Padilla (one of the best dub actors in the world, with an awesome range of voices) were the tv host talks about the south americans dubs we had, that they were trying to tell us it was neutral, and how it could be neutral that the astronaut of an american base seemed like he had an accent from tijuana. He also talks of other interesting things, and does the voice of some of his characters (Mickey Mouse, Skinner, Braniggan, Niles from freiser...).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoSPu8gBuvI
I know you will as usual get only the american voices for the game, and I hope you get it at least with the spanish subs (that needs to be a norm there, so fight for that).
At the end seems It dont know much about your language and you dont know much of ours so we are equal in that. :lol
So sorry again for being harsh with my other post. And better if dont talk here about it again becuase we are going off-topic.
Boney said:If you really want to discuss this, take it to PM's.. I don't want you guys to get banned and you're making me cry
Yeah guys, we better stop talking about which spanish is better, at least here, before someone thinks we are triying to troll. :lol
Snytbaggen
Member
SpacePirate Ridley said:
Personally I don't feel like you're trying to troll, but I find it a little bit annoying when i enter the thread to find some Metroid news and is met by some walls of text about which spanish accent is the better :lol
Brad's new impressions on Giant Bomb are a little disconcerting. I think the game's visuals look great, but I don't know if I'll be able to stomach the combat, and it seems the level of exploration is still TBD.
Hot Coldman
Banned
braves01 said:
I thought that preview was mostly positive...
I guess I must be a little pessimistic concerning Other M, because the things that jumped out at me were: feels like GoW/Ninja Gaiden, fairly linear as far as Brad could tell, d-pad controls a little weird as people have expected (though I admit without actually playing it myself this is a toss-up, I had no problems with Mario 64 DS for instance).
At this point, I understand it's a different take on Metroid, but I'm still worried about how different it will be. Brad seems to think it feels enough like Metroid to merit the name, which is a positive I suppose.
At this point, I understand it's a different take on Metroid, but I'm still worried about how different it will be. Brad seems to think it feels enough like Metroid to merit the name, which is a positive I suppose.
Yeah, Other M seems to have gone through some questionable design decisions. But the same thing can be said with the Prime series and that one turned out alright. The previews definitely sounds promising, though. I'm really eager to play it.
Only thing I'm really not sure about is the story and the writing. Maybe I shouldn't care about it too much:lol
Only thing I'm really not sure about is the story and the writing. Maybe I shouldn't care about it too much:lol
lostinblue
Banned
I'd say Metroid has a pretty good plot for what it is.Luigiv said:
And then there's the whole scenarios and stuff that make the game really memorable.
I'm a bit concerned about the writing of the story. Japanese writers tend to go too deep into expressing character emotion to the point where it often comes off being unnatural and awkward. We see it all the time in anime. Even with Sakamoto at the helm of the project, I just hope they don't turn Samus into a fragile, emotional wreck of a character with her strange emotional relationship with "the baby" and all.
And speaking of "the baby", why couldn't they just refer to it as the infant metroid? Calling it the baby sounds silly when spoken by a monotone Samus.
As far as the story goes, I hope it sheds some more light on the relationship between Samus and Ridley. If I recall correctly, the manga said that Ridley can regenerate his damaged body by consuming the flesh of humans. That may give an actual explain why he's always being ressurected in the games. Then there's Mother Brain's role in the manga and how it originally served the Chozo before betraying them.
And speaking of "the baby", why couldn't they just refer to it as the infant metroid? Calling it the baby sounds silly when spoken by a monotone Samus.
As far as the story goes, I hope it sheds some more light on the relationship between Samus and Ridley. If I recall correctly, the manga said that Ridley can regenerate his damaged body by consuming the flesh of humans. That may give an actual explain why he's always being ressurected in the games. Then there's Mother Brain's role in the manga and how it originally served the Chozo before betraying them.
Oh please, you can't say the MGS dub is "amazing" with a straight face.
Here's the intro.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny6mgl81u5c
The Colonel sounds terrible, his pronunciation is firmly spaniard, and he doesn't know how to say half of the english words (they decided to leave the names untranslated). For example, he says "chadou moses" instead of "shadou mousses". Or "Raven" instead of "Reiven". All of his "Z" and "S" are way more sibilant than they should be.
The MGS ending. Naomi's voice is like a little girl. Her accent isn't as strong as the Colonel, but the acting is terrible anyway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy46Bi7pBYE
A different example, Halo 3, which was dubbed in mexico and spain, given the reaction from spain to the mexican dub for Halo 2.
Mexico: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmIqPMVV_oQ
Spain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fKpPxas0yg
Jesus. Cortana is all "Algo que sssssolo teniasss tu. Lo adivinassss? ssssuerte". That's not a neutral dub at all. I can accept that Spain likes to hear a Z that's more dental than the S, but they just seem to replace all the Ss for Zs here. It's horrid.
About the award that Fox gave the spanish dub of the Simpsons, it was an award for being the best dub in europe. I dread to hear the quality of the other dubs.
Here's the intro.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny6mgl81u5c
The Colonel sounds terrible, his pronunciation is firmly spaniard, and he doesn't know how to say half of the english words (they decided to leave the names untranslated). For example, he says "chadou moses" instead of "shadou mousses". Or "Raven" instead of "Reiven". All of his "Z" and "S" are way more sibilant than they should be.
The MGS ending. Naomi's voice is like a little girl. Her accent isn't as strong as the Colonel, but the acting is terrible anyway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy46Bi7pBYE
A different example, Halo 3, which was dubbed in mexico and spain, given the reaction from spain to the mexican dub for Halo 2.
Mexico: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmIqPMVV_oQ
Spain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fKpPxas0yg
Jesus. Cortana is all "Algo que sssssolo teniasss tu. Lo adivinassss? ssssuerte". That's not a neutral dub at all. I can accept that Spain likes to hear a Z that's more dental than the S, but they just seem to replace all the Ss for Zs here. It's horrid.
About the award that Fox gave the spanish dub of the Simpsons, it was an award for being the best dub in europe. I dread to hear the quality of the other dubs.
"The baby" is said because they share a connection, and since it doesn't have a name, baby is the next in line.Hiltz said:
You can say Fusion story is definately nothing special, which of course isn't if you compare it too good books or movies. But boy was I entretained by it, nothing really obstrusive (except for purists) and had a nice little arc.
I expect this to be the same. Prime had a fantastic way of telling the story via log scans and architecture, but this isn't about that, it's about human interactions and emotional baggages. I think it'll be an ok story in terms of video games domain.
Here's a mostly positive hands-on from Joystiq and a mostly negative hands-on from Arstechnica.
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/08/06/preview-metroid-other-m/
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/08/why-is-this-a-metroid-game-hands-on-with-other-m.ars
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/08/06/preview-metroid-other-m/
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/08/why-is-this-a-metroid-game-hands-on-with-other-m.ars
EmCeeGramr
Member
"This game feels exactly like 2D Metroid in 3D."
"I don't know if this feels like Metroid or not."
"Why is this a Metroid game?"
well at least we have a wide variety of opinions for once in gaming journalism
"I don't know if this feels like Metroid or not."
"Why is this a Metroid game?"
well at least we have a wide variety of opinions for once in gaming journalism
GrotesqueBeauty
Banned
I've been saying since Fusion/Prime that the series was groping in too many directions and dividing the fan base, and the varied reactions to Other M reflect that.EmCeeGramr said:
SpacePirate Ridley said:
This is what happens when they get voice acting in Metroid, bad things happen, just look at this thread! :lol They even make us fight between brothers.
But all is cool, languages are just that, neither good nor bad, what is bad is the horrible VA and story of other M, but I'm already over it.
What I'm starting to realize is that there is no "Metroid" formula, and that we should give the benefit of the doubt to the guys involved in games like Wario ware, Ninja Gaiden and Super Metroid at the very least. They didn't start developing games yesterday.
Barrow Roll
Member
I actually attended the event in Vancouver, BC last night. Getting a bit of hands on time assuaged one of concerns a bit which was the D-pad movement. I had no trouble controlling Samus in a 3D space with the D-pad. We basically played the E3 build; the organic area of the Bottle Ship and the fight with the 2 chameleon creatures. Combat has a bit of a learning curve, especially in the "boss" fight. My instinct to stay back and fire charged shots wasn't the way to go and I ended up dying on my first go. The game encourages you to go in for the close strikes to do massive damage.Kard8p3 said:
Countering is a bit tricky at first, but I find that if you just hold the fire button down then Samus will counter any attack that comes at you. Samus apparently dodges if you tap the D-pad in a direction right before an attack hits you but I felt like most of the time it was unintentional on my part. I don't like how when you lock on in first person mode that you have to fire a missile. Why can't I lock on and fire a charge shot? I hope we can dial up the turn speed in first person mode. Game has a certain rhythm that "clicked" after playing it a second time. Seems enjoyable, never really frustrated with the controls but it does feel limited. Also not a fan of invisible walls in Metroid. It seems counter intuitive to the idea of exploration in Metroid.
Game looks good, not as good as Metroid Prime 3, but it looks good. Samus looks great in motion. Cut scenes look phenomenal. Voice acting and story seem kinda meh. I still don't remember Anthony Higgs.
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
I dont really understand, how can some people say theis is the 3D Metroid experience while others say its not.
Its totally opposite, even if they are opinions one of them doesnt seem to understand what is the Metroid experience.
That or nobody knows what is actually the Metroid experience.
We have said we would stop and the only thing Im going to respond you is you dont like it, well you are not from here, you dont have to hear it, we love it so it doesnt change anything, sorry.
Its totally opposite, even if they are opinions one of them doesnt seem to understand what is the Metroid experience.
That or nobody knows what is actually the Metroid experience.
But Ive read that is a limitation so people dont relay too much in FPS mode.Boney said:Yeah, that's the first time I heard of that.. what gives?
And I don't think we'll be able to adjust FP view turning speed
ElFly said:
We have said we would stop and the only thing Im going to respond you is you dont like it, well you are not from here, you dont have to hear it, we love it so it doesnt change anything, sorry.
Barrow Roll
Member
There weren't any headphones at the booths so I can't give any real impressions on sound and music. Before we got to play a Nintendo rep gave us a demo of the beginning of the game with the big purple bug creature and the Federation Troopers. He would turn down the sound during gameplay so he could talk and turn it up during cut scenes. There was also random music just on in the background though. Pretty annoying actually.Teknoman said:
Hmmm, I'd say maybe for about 30-40 mins? The demo was short, it was the same one at E3. You run through an organic section of the Bottle Ship, you fight the 2 chameleon creatures, run through a bit more and you get to an unopenable door. I played it about 3 times in total. First time I got spanked by the chameleons. Second time I breezed through it and felt like a pro. Then a buddy of mine found out that at the beginning of the demo you can go the other direction from the save station and back track through some other areas that I guess we weren't supposed to because one of the booth guys said they hadn't seen this area before. We actually found an energy tank. Kinda neat.Kard8p3 said:
Well before we jump to any conclusions let me clarify this a bit. The chameleon dudes have an attack where they will grab you with their tail and toss you at which point you can counter and grab their tail and toss them. I didn't extensively test it or anything, I just noticed that maybe twice I finished charging up my shot and was holding the fire button when one of those guys grabbed me and Samus proceeded to counter it. At no point during that fight or the demo did I just run around with the button held down and have any kind of invulnerability. Just something I noticed happen to me like twice.Plinko said:
Dodging and countering are different. Dodging is when you time your D-pad press in a direction when an attack is incoming. It'll go a bit slo-mo for a sec. Countering is done by pressing the fire button (1) right before an enemy attacks you to return the attack. I think you do have to time it, I think my experience above happened purely coincidentally because I had just finished charging up my shot with the button held down. I didn't have enough play time to gauge how wide the window for countering was.Easy_D said:
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
Some new images with new zones, just click on more.
http://metroid.jp/#/control/
The backgrounds feel like Super and Zero to me.
BTW I hate the loop song in the web, because it never gets to the awesome epic part
http://metroid.jp/#/control/
The backgrounds feel like Super and Zero to me.
BTW I hate the loop song in the web, because it never gets to the awesome epic part
A long and mostly positive hands-on from Examiner:
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-...endo-of-Canadas-Metroid-Other-M-preview-event
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-...endo-of-Canadas-Metroid-Other-M-preview-event
Wait watSpacePirate Ridley said:Some new images with new zones, just click on more.
http://metroid.jp/#/control/
The backgrounds feel like Super and Zero to me.
BTW I hate the loop song in the web, because it never gets to the awesome epic part
is that a planet I see?
Tritroid
Member
No, pretty sure they were the same species/race. The frigate Samus lands on in Prime 1 actually has Pirates that had escaped from Zebes before the internal explosion.AdroitOne said:
There's really no reason why they look different in each Metroid game, or even each Prime game for that matter; It's just a different take on their design. For Prime 1, since it was the first Metroid realized in 3D, Retro took a lot of artistic liberties in the design of multiple classic icons from the series. Retro revamped a lot of their art for Prime 2 coming off of Prime 1 however, which is why the Varia suit has a lot of design differences between the two games.
Tritroid said:
I can't remember where I read that, (I believe a metroid wikipedia type site), but yeah. I can't find the site right now so I have no source, but I do know that the space pirates people see in the main series are the Ki Hunters (the mantis like creatures). The ones in Metroid weren't considered Ki Hunters. Really, I actually love the designs in Metroid Prime more than the main series
. They looked much more intimidating.The Space Pirates in prime 1 were all sorts of awesome compared to Prime 2 and 3.AdroitOne said:I can't remember where I read that, (I believe a metroid wikipedia type site), but yeah. I can't find the site right now so I have no source, but I do know that the space pirates people see in the main series are the Ki Hunters (the mantis like creatures). The ones in Metroid weren't considered Ki Hunters. Really, I actually love the designs in Metroid Prime more than the main series
Metroid Killer
Member
Huh?AdroitOne said:I can't remember where I read that, (I believe a metroid wikipedia type site), but yeah. I can't find the site right now so I have no source, but I do know that the space pirates people see in the main series are the Ki Hunters (the mantis like creatures). The ones in Metroid weren't considered Ki Hunters. Really, I actually love the designs in Metroid Prime more than the main series
Ki Hunters =
Space Pirates =
Ki Hunters in Super =
Space Pirate in Super =
Ki Hunters in Other M =
Space Pirate in Other M =
While Ki Hunters are some kind of Pirates they are not the same as the actual Space Pirates. There were no Ki Hunters in the Prime series.
Metroid Killer said:
Ah ok, that makes sense now. Thanks for clearing it up. I guess the site where I got that info is wrong also lol.
I guess they are the same. Still, I liked their design in Metroid Prime better. They actually looked like they could do damage to Samus
.