Welp, guess I'm not a Metroid fan. (Metroid: Other M related)

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Videogames don't need to provide role models- fuck it.

[Amake]

Videogames don't need to provide stories. And I say this as someone who lives and breathes for story. I'm perfectly fine with Samus being a caricature of a blank slate with no other purpose than shooting some funny-looking space aliens and jumping that shit, because those are the things I want to do when I play Metroid. I'm not looking to be told a story, especially not one that from what I've heard turns Samus into a self-obsessed, whining, insecure bimbo.

Heh, more and more I find I have little use for most games released in the last ten years or so. I'm going to play Super Metroid again and watch this music video and continue to call myself a Metroid fan.

[Kim]

Oh hey it's the same conversation about Final Fantasy we always have whenever someone brings up how they didn't like such and such Final Fantasy. Whoo.

[greed]

Yeah I keep telling myself not to bother but I always do. Eh. But yeah I've said my piece I'm calling Sonic on the series and pretending nothing bad ever happened and that Metroid finsihed with Prime 3(maybe 2). I'm good at ignoring reality when I want to.

That said I'm done with this thread. I try not to to think about this game if possible.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

Videogames don't need to provide role models- fuck it.

Well, considering they raised a lot of us and will undoubtedly be raising our children, we may as well campaign for them to do it in a way that we approve of. :P

Originally Posted by Invisible Queen

Videogames don't need to provide stories. And I say this as someone who lives and breathes for story. I'm perfectly fine with Samus being a caricature of a blank slate with no other purpose than shooting some funny-looking space aliens and jumping that shit, because those are the things I want to do when I play Metroid. I'm not looking to be told a story, especially not one that from what I've heard turns Samus into a self-obsessed, whining, insecure bimbo.

Heh, more and more I find I have little use for most games released in the last ten years or so. I'm going to play Super Metroid again and watch this music video and continue to call myself a Metroid fan.

Games without stories are going the way of the dinosaur. Well, on second thought, no, they're just clinging on in indie and casual games. And even many indie games at least try for a story. Games have gone from idle entertainment to a storytelling medium. The sooner we recognize that, the sooner we can demand better quality.

[Kim]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

Games without stories are going the way of the dinosaur. Well, on second thought, no, they're just clinging on in indie and casual games. And even many indie games at least try for a story. Games have gone from idle entertainment to a storytelling medium. The sooner we recognize that, the sooner we can demand better quality.

Not every game needs story. It depends on the game. IE - Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light has a terrible story, but it all took place in maybe fifteen minutes of cutscene tops, and it was a game where more story and more attempt to make a better one would have detracted from the experience. The story is irrelevant the experience, and just an excuse for the gameplay, so it works.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by NonCon

Not every game needs story. It depends on the game. IE - Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light has a terrible story, but it all took place in maybe fifteen minutes of cutscene tops, and it was a game where more story and more attempt to make a better one would have detracted from the experience. The story is irrelevant the experience, and just an excuse for the gameplay, so it works.

That I won't argue with. Having a story can be worse than not having one if it's done poorly enough. On the other hand, the reason poor stories like that come about is because the act of having a story itself is an expectation of modern games. We like shiny things, and a story is a shiny thing in productions filled with shiny things. The issue is that the market as a whole treats it as a selling point, so if you don't have one, people will throw up their hands and call your production tripe without even giving it a chance.

Plus it really helps when you're marketing the thing, because it gives you built-in eye-catch footage, not unlike a movie trailer.

[Amake]

We'll probably still be able to play NES Metroid 65 million years from now. I'm not sure where you're going with that extinction simile.

Now excuse me, but I'm going to tell some kids to get off my lawn.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

Well, considering they raised a lot of us and will undoubtedly be raising our children, we may as well campaign for them to do it in a way that we approve of. :P

Ok but anytime anybody in future says anything about games being art I'm going to bring this up and shit on everybody.

[Fifthfiend]

The best thing Nintendo could have done with Other M is hire Ted Woolsey to write the game an entire new plot for American audiences that don't like their Metroid jammed full of *what is the feeling of my purpose stars earthspirit rainbows* bullshit.

Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

Ok but anytime anybody in future says anything about games being art I'm going to bring this up and shit on everybody.

Thank you for the advance notice, now I can get a head start on assembling a collection of suitable gifs for these posts.