phantom_leo said:

Sorry. Not gonna buy you not buying it.

Was Samus fine, unperturbed and her usual hardened self at the beginning of the game? Nope. She was drifting around space mourning the loss of the Baby. She was deeply affected by its loss. She basically stood by and watched as it was pierced by Mother Brain's attack and exploded. The first thing that shows her a baby-to-mother-like sentiment in her life is obliterated. It had an affect on her.

I also don't see how you are getting 4 battles with Ridley before Other M...? Once in Metroid/Zero Mission. He wasn't in Metroid 2, was he? Once in Super. Then came Other. I could be wrong about this. I am also NOT counting Mecha Ridley, or whatever its name was... but in the end it really doesn't matter.

She witnessed the death of her parents by Ridley. She saw the obliteration of the Baby by Mother Brain... The difference in Other M is:

SHE WAS NOT ALONE THERE. All the other times she was. It was her versus everything else. There was no one else at risk BUT her. If Adam was like a Father figure to her, maybe her Unit was like a family to her? Maybe Anthony was like a brother figure to her? The whole "Princess" reference thing was kinda like the way a brother would talk to a sister. (No pun intended!)

After losing the Metroid, already being in a state of shock and depression, the thing that killed your Mother and Father shows up AGAIN and attacks a brother figure (and also threatens to do the same to a Father figure... Adam was on the ship too!)... How could Samus --NOT-- be reminded of her past then? They even showed her as her younger self for a moment reacting to Ridley. She froze up, but she didn't run...

Problem with all of this and the American reaction to this game is: They never emphasized Ridley and the Death of Samus' parents in this country. Maybe they thought the American audience just wanted a cold and silent killer? They actually took out the extra endings from Zero Mission (I think it was) that showed Child Samus and Ridley's attack of her parents...

...but it shouldn't matter. If from the very beginning of the game she was fine and unmoved, I would understand the backlash to her freak-out, but from the VERY beginning with her brooding about the Baby, responding to the "Baby's Cry" on the "Bottle Ship"... You HAD to know SOMETHING wasn't quite right with her and it had to be resolved somehow!

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Edit: OK. Duh! Yeah. The Prime games. I forgot they existed for a moment and where they took place during the continuity! That's 2 more Ridley battles, yes... but my opinion hasn't changed because of them!

...AND... Lest we forget:

Ridley directly KILLED Samus' Parents --AND-- Took the baby to Mother Brain which lead to ITS death too!

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Finally: Why are people acting so surprised about her having feelings and speaking in Other M? Didn't Fusion (a Six-Year Old game) already address the fact that Samus had feelings for Adam? Wasn't there long, drawn out monologues in THAT game too?!

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SPOILERS

I still think you are making to much of leap saying Samus was emotinal before the mission started. She seems to show it but she still fights hundreds of monsters with no problem what so ever. The Republic started to recreate the space pirates, the group that is her adversary, by then she had to be figuring out that this was a "here we go again" situation. Throughout all of this there is no hint of her being afraid for Adam or Anthony, she goes about her business like normal Samus.

It isn't until Ridley shows up that she acts completely out of character. Her first reaction was shock and disbelief that Ridley was alive again... uh this is a thing that has come back to life 3 times already, that is not the reaction a normal person would have. You claim Anthony being their renforces her memories of her family dying, maybe, then again if I see my "brother" being killed in front of me I might do something about it. It would give me more resolve to fight rather than scare me more than if I was alone. Samus had a panic attack and I don't see that in her character and if she would have one I figure it would be with a creature that can actually threaten her, kill her and destroy the entire galaxy, Ridley is not that creature.

Awesome, it looks like they've added a special skill for each character, like a potential that you choose when to use.

Huhu, it's like Plawres Sanshiro or something.

Ravenprose said:

I had the original Steel Battalion game last gen  Playing that game with Kinect =

You actually bought that? Did you get the whole controller package?

But yeah, playing it with Kinect will be odd. How will it work!?

gamingeek said:

I want that!

ASK_Story said:

Ravenprose said:

I had the original Steel Battalion game last gen  Playing that game with Kinect =

You actually bought that? Did you get the whole controller package?

But yeah, playing it with Kinect will be odd. How will it work!?

Yep, that controller was an effing monster too! It was bigger than my coffee table, which made it unconfortable as hell to play. I paid $220 for it, and never got off the 2nd level. It's a very cool game if you have the money, proper setup, and the determination to play it. Unfortunately, I only had the money.

Ravenprose said:

Yep, that controller was an effing monster too! It was bigger than my coffee table, which made it unconfortable as hell to play. I paid $220 for it, and never got off the 2nd level. It's a very cool game if you have the money, proper setup, and the determination to play it. Unfortunately, I only had the money.

I forgot how expensive it was. It's like buying a console just for one game. I always wanted to try it when I saw it at my near and now defunct Game Crazy. This was years ago!

Looked really intimidating!

Agnates said:

Hm, new House of the Dead for Kinect... New Suda game for Kinect... New Steel Battalion for Kinect... Project Draco... That Rez thing... All for Kinect... I guess Microsoft started handing paychecks again.

Nothing wrong with that, as long as devs are making money.

Foolz said:

Damn it, a game that actually makes me want the 360!

There are plenty of games that make me want a 360 but Reach, Halo 3 would be amoung the games I would pick up with the console.