GGT #49 is the same as GGT #48, but now it's Episodic and costs $10 too much

[quote name='Indignate'] I'll gladly spend six hours doing some menial task just to pick up some meaningless achievement,[/QUOTE]

:nottalking:

It wasn't meaningless. You got the Megabuster for the next playthrough.

Frying convicts with Mega Man's cannon>>>>>>>>>>>>>20 gamerscore
 
I'm kind of burned out on gaming right now, even though I still have a ton of newer release games to play through (Mafia II, Castlevania, upcoming SWFUII). Recently I've jusut been playing DS while watching Netflix. I actually just started watching Firefly yesterday, and it's a damn good show. Now I can see why so many people want Nathan Fillion to play Nathan Drake.


Oh, and just for Jim since I know he said was at the Phillies game yesterday, GIANTS GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES! WOOHOO :D
 
[quote name='Cheska19'] I actually just started watching Firefly yesterday, and it's a damn good show. Now I can see why so many people want Nathan Fillion to play Nathan Drake.
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Best show ever. Have fun with it!

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I played more Kirby yesterday, and that game is amazing. I already knew it was going to be cute and beautiful to look it, but it's actually a lot of fun to play as well. It reminds me a lot of the Klonoa series, which is my favorite 2.5D platforming series of all time.
 
[quote name='Cheska19']I'm kind of burned out on gaming right now, even though I still have a ton of newer release games to play through (Mafia II, Castlevania, upcoming SWFUII)[/QUOTE]

I'd be burned out too if I was relegated to playing that sort of schlock.
 
[quote name='Chacrana']I'd be burned out too if I was relegated to playing that sort of schlock.[/QUOTE]

Gotta get some Mushimesama Futanari and other bullet-hell shmups in there to break up the schlock, right dudebro? :cool:

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I'm old enough to have watched Firefly when it was on the air... :oldman:
It was okay then but I never understood the cult following it gained after it was cancelled.
 
[quote name='corrosivefrost']Gotta get some Mushimesama Futanari and other bullet-hell shmups in there to break up the schlock, right dudebro? :cool:
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I actually don't have Mushihime Futanari yet, but that does remind me I need to pick it up at some point.

Nope, I've been playing The Witcher, which is like... ridiculously good. That, and playing Law School, which is very time-consuming.
 
So far in costume quest I've been using
ninja, spaceman, liberty. Liberty has the TP battle stamp which is super easy to abuse.
 
[quote name='BlueScrote']So far in costume quest I've been using
ninja, spaceman, liberty. Liberty has the TP battle stamp which is super easy to abuse.
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I used the space ranger for a long while too... he's got a good special, that meteor strike hits hard. I tried out the TP battle stamp, but didn't keep using it because I had Liberty using the splash damage stamp, which immediately woke TP'ed enemies. I know later you could use the one that allowed for you to hit them and them to remain stunned, but I just kept using the +critical strike damage, +damage, and +splash damage & poison.
 
[quote name='BlueScrote']what does +critical strike do? Is a critical strike considered when you perform a 'correct' timing?[/QUOTE]

Yes, that's how it seemed to work when I used it.

So when using something like move L or mash [button] it's great, as there's just about NO way to not get a critical strike.
 
[quote name='DarkNessBear']Sounds like JSP...

Firefly is underrated
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Firefly is in no way underrated, every person with an internet connection can't shut up about how brilliant and amazing and perfect it was and how it being cancelled was the biggest atrocity in TV history. It was a decent show with a good cast and excellent character chemistry, but that was about it. The individual episode storylines often weren't anything special, and there was way too much time spent on bland action scenes and fights which just made me tune out because you knew 100 percent none of the main characters were going to take any serious repercussions from it. That, and stuff like "gorram" and using Chinese swears just made it feel cheesy.
 
[quote name='KingBroly']Did you come out of it as disturbed as I?[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I knew the story was fucked up when I played the game, but reading all of those moments in a line just made it so much more evident that Sakamoto is a fucked up writer. I really don't know why someone at Nintendo didn't stop that game somewhere along development when the story started taking mold.
 
I agree. I didn't really understand the complaints of the game's "sexism" until that article pieced it all together. I guess Nintendo thought it was fine because they were under the same mindset as Sakamoto. There's a GRAND cultural difference between Japan and the West, and this game proves that.

However, part of me still wants to hope that the whole 'authorization' thing was just tacked onto the story instead of it being very integral for character development.
 
[quote name='KingBroly']I agree. I didn't really understand the complaints of the game's "sexism" until that article pieced it all together. I guess Nintendo thought it was fine because they were under the same mindset as Sakamoto. There's a GRAND cultural difference between Japan and the West, and this game proves that.

However, part of me still wants to hope that the whole 'authorization' thing was just tacked onto the story instead of it being very integral for character development.[/QUOTE]
I believe that eveything in the story was meant to be character development. Especially the whole authorization thing, it just makes sense when you compare it to everything else in the game.
 
[quote name='BlueScrote']A good read, even as someone who hasn't played The Other M. I wish there were more gaming articles like this tbh.[/QUOTE]

I agree. This is a product of 2-3 people coming to the same conclusion on the game's story as a whole, at face value. It's not even journalists, it's a few Metroid fans, all of which were greatly offended by not only Samus' characterization/portrayal, but the idea that it was okay with it going on.

The story was done this way intentionally or unintentionally. But either way, with what's left on the table, it's VERY DARK and VERY DISTURBING.
 
It's bourbon, thankyouverymuch.

And that doesn't change the fact someone wrote that article about the story in a gaming franchise that reached its zenith 16 years ago.

Nor the fact other people still cared enough about Metroid's convoluted narrative to read said article.
 
[quote name='manthing']Y'all actually read a 6-7K word article about a Wii game?

:rofl:[/QUOTE]

So Wii games can't be controversial? Let alone a Nintendo game?
 
[quote name='KingBroly']So Wii games can't be controversial? Let alone a Nintendo game?[/QUOTE]

It's more of a 'If a tree falls in the forest...' deals.
 
[quote name='KingBroly']
The story was done this way intentionally or unintentionally. But either way, with what's left on the table, it's VERY DARK and VERY DISTURBING.[/QUOTE]

I have a feeling that it was just bad bad writing. They didn't think to connect the dots with the themes/events they were portraying. Although some of the events they discuss are very wtf
The 'leader' shoots samus in the back? wtf?
 
[quote name='seanr1221']Does the article just basically point out how sexist the story is? If so, that's japan for you.[/QUOTE]

It goes far beyond that.

BlueScrote, I really want to believe it's bad writing. But even if it is, we're left with something that's repulsive.
 
[quote name='BlueScrote']I have a feeling that it was just bad bad writing. They didn't think to connect the dots with the themes/events they were portraying. Although some of the events they discuss are very wtf
The 'leader' shoots samus in the back? wtf?
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On some deranged level this could work. If Samus had a "hero complex" and the person doing it really *would* die, shooting her in the back might've been the only way to stop her, since she wasn't expendable... but if so, they should've handled it different -- like Adam should have been gone and only left a video for Samus explaining what happened and why he did it. But this isn't the case, so back to WTF?!
 
[quote name='Jesus_S_Preston']Japan is fucked up as shit, they hate women and blacks have you ever seen a black anime character lips out to their ass[/QUOTE]

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Man, I should play something tonight. Maybe Outrun 2006 because it's fun. Or one of my many backlog games. Hmm.
 
[quote name='BlueScrote']I have a feeling that it was just bad bad writing. They didn't think to connect the dots with the themes/events they were portraying.[/QUOTE]

The problem is there aren't really very many dots to connect, and I can't imagine that with all the people who worked on the game nobody (including writers) managed to realize that the way they were portraying Samus was disgusting.

For me all it took was that one story sequence which was the very first one inside of the Bottle Ship (and is brought up in that article): "Having received mission orders from Adam, I felt confused and strangely exhilarated at the unexpected turn of events." When I heard that it seemed very clear to me that the plot was going to be horribly sexist; and all my previous assumptions about Samus being a strong female lead were shattered. In my opinion you can't be a strong character if you can't function without someone telling you exactly what to do, at that point you're just a submissive puppet; and I think that females are portrayed like that too often, when in fact they are just as capable of making decisions on their own.
 
I don't know why they decided to flesh out the Metroid story. Bounty Hunter shoots shit, has a pterodactyl as a rival that she beats the fuck out of once in a while.

Why it had to evolve from that is beyond me.
 
[quote name='Mr. Beef']I don't know why they decided to flesh out the Metroid story. Bounty Hunter shoots shit, has a pterodactyl as a rival that she beats the fuck out of once in a while.

Why it had to evolve from that is beyond me.[/QUOTE]

The other games had REALLY good environmental storytelling, that's why.
 
[quote name='KingBroly']The other games had REALLY good environmental storytelling, that's why.[/QUOTE]

I can agree with that. The Metroid Prime games are a testament to subtlety in great storytelling.
 
So, I have an obnoxious "friend" that always brags about how he gets games early, has a high gamerscore ect. with his hacked 360. He was banned once before, but got a new 360 and rehacked it.

IS there anything someone can do... someone that's against hacked consoles?

I'm not the "friend"...
 
[quote name='manthing']If he plays on LIVE, they'll get him in November.

Or as I like to call it 'Microsoft's Holiday 360 sales boost'[/QUOTE]

They've done it before and they'll do it again.
 
[quote name='KingBroly']The other games had REALLY good environmental storytelling, that's why.[/QUOTE]

I agree that Samus was well portrayed in the past with minimal use of actual dialog; but that doesn't explain what Mr. Beef was pointing out which is that they decided that they needed to NOT do what had worked well in the past and instead try and actually define Samus through dialog, and in doing so seemingly invalidated a lot of what I had personally perceived about Samus's character from the previous games. And perhaps part of that was that Samus was kind of a blank slate before except for her actions in the games so her motivations were left up to the player to imagine, and so everyone already had their own notion of what Samus was like, probably very few of which matched the view that is given in Metroid Other M.
 
[quote name='Mr. Beef']I don't know why they decided to flesh out the Metroid story. Bounty Hunter shoots shit, has a pterodactyl as a rival that she beats the fuck out of once in a while.

Why it had to evolve from that is beyond me.[/QUOTE]

They did it in Fusion and I thought they did a great job with it. Part of the reason why Fusion is my favorite.

I never cared for scanning shit to find out pieces of a story that wasn't really worth finding out.
 
[quote name='whoknows']They did it in Fusion and I thought they did a great job with it. Part of the reason why Fusion is my favorite.

I never cared for scanning shit to find out pieces of a story that wasn't really worth finding out.[/QUOTE]


I think Fusion is my favorite Metroid as well. Although I need to replay Super Metroid again to refresh my memory of that.

Finished Costume Quest with 200/200. Really enjoyed it.
 
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