What games you DON'T want to see at this years E3

[Mario4Ever]

*Adam Malkovich*

Adam's a dick as a computer, so for him to be a dick as a person really didn't surprise me. The game would have been much better without him, regardless.

 

[Vommack]

In a way.

I get the whole PTSD angle. I think it's a viable character aspect. The problem is that the PTSD storyline was already done in the manga-she was shocked at Ridley, got over it, blasted him into pieces, onto Mother Brain.

So, when Ridley has already come back and been blasted 4 times after she's overcome her PTSD, why would it all of a sudden surface again the 5th time? Is it really such a surprise?

1) I would imagine that the manga is something with which the majority of the fanbase is unfamiliar, so they wouldn't know it was already done.
2) This time was different. Ridley's been rebuilt by the Space Pirates, which want her dead, and indirectly infected by Phazon by a Metroid, which wants her dead. However, chronologically by canon, the last game in which Ridley appeared was Super. He was defeated on Zebes. Zebes exploded. Ridley is on the Bottle Ship because the Federation took his DNA from Samus's suit and cloned him. Because there aren't two Ridleys as far as we know (excluding the mechanical prototype in Zero Mission), that means he died on Zebes, which makes his sudden (to her) appearance on a Federation-owned ship in the middle of nowhere rather surprising (whereas Ridley-X isn't surprising because Ridley's corpse disappears from the Bottle Ship).

1)To the best of my knowledge, most fans at least know of the manga. Zero Mission throws in a passing reference to the PTSD too, although it's blink-and-you'll-miss-it.
2) Ridley got blown up, followed by his seed blowing up, followed by Phaaze blowing up and (presumably) all of the Phazon in the universe blowing up with it. That sounds pretty dead to me. Not to mention what the Feds might've done with the Homeworld after they cleared out the pirates. (Actually, them stealing the body there makes more sense then stripping DNA off her suit...)

Speaking of Metroids-if Samus ran into a Metroid cloning program on the Bottle Ship, why the *bleep* would she be surprised the Federation did it again in Fusion?

My guess is that she thought the Federation wouldn't be dumb enough to try again.

Actually, expanding on that...Why didn't she expose that the Feds were doing all that in the first place?

 

[Mario4Ever]

Hell if I know. I don't even know if any government bodies exist outside of the Federation.

 

[Aiko Heiwa]

ITT: People complaining about a game in a series that is already overrated.

 

[Crackin355]

I don't want to see a Super Mario Galaxy 3. I think the two games were good enough on their own and they can move on from that concept.

ITT: People complaining about a game in a series that is already overrated.

do you enjoy going into threads and telling everybody that things they like are overrated

 

[Pokemon DP]

^best to ignore aiko, crackin'; you'll just fall into her trap by taking the bait

 

[fantanoice]

No it didn't. What it did was characterize Samus as someone content with following orders when everyone knew she could realistically disobey them with impunity. It really did nothing to the series's storyline other than explain why Nightmare and Ridley are in Fusion.

You mean it characterized Samus as someone who cannot form independent thoughts, but has to confirm everything she thinks and does with the ideals of a man she has an unhealthy obsession with.

A man who watches her burn alive while she runs through super-heated areas without the protection from her Varia suit upgrade, not wasting a moment allowing her to protect herself because Samus is incapable of making the decision to save her own life autonomously.

A man who constantly treats Samus like shit even though she does her utmost to follow every inane order he gives, never disobeying him, never failing him, and never doubting him.

And most glaringly, a man who has the fucking audacity to shoot Samus in the back and knocks her unconscious, while a live Metroid that could be invincible is hovering directly above her! And the game plays this guy as a hero. It wants the players to like him. To root for him. To agree with him that this was a valid course of action.

Adam sure is lucky that dinky freeze gun of his worked on that Metroid. It had been previously established that those particular Metroids were resistant to cold. It would have been very plausible for the gun to fail. And had that happened, Adam's stunt would have killed Samus. And that's not even going into how that act is deplorable by itself already.

Like, really, I'm not even that big of a Metroid fan, and that scene absolutely disgusts me. It's basically the culmination of the story of a guy with an ego problem, physically and mentally abusing a woman who idolizes him because she, in his eyes, disrespected him. And the worst thing about it is that the game doesn't even question this for even an instant. He is celebrated as a hero for shooting someone in the back who trusted him and would never have willingly disobeyed him. I still to this day cannot believe that this scene is part of a good video game series. I don't like to get angry at video games, but this scene, this atrocious piece of shit, makes me absolutely livid. Especially considering how Samus used to be such a respectable icon for independence, competence, and gender equality.

No one should defend something like that. It's fine if you enjoy the gameplay or whatever, but don't defend this scene. It is disgusting.

This needs to be framed and hung on every wall.

Kudos to you, Gab.

 

[Ray Trace]

Super Mario Galaxy 3 is the only game I really don't want to see

 

[freakworld]

Please none of this NFP stuff from Nintendo.... Ugh

fail

 

[Ray Trace]

Super Mario Galaxy 3 is the only game I really don't want to see

Now i'm pretty happy

 

[Aiko Heiwa]

I don't want to see a Super Mario Galaxy 3. I think the two games were good enough on their own and they can move on from that concept.

ITT: People complaining about a game in a series that is already overrated.

do you enjoy going into threads and telling everybody that things they like are overrated

no

i just call it like i see it