I'm surprised we don't have a topic for this already! (We don't, do we?!)
Anyways, new Metroid game! Looks absolutely stunning!
The trailer can be found here (http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-09-metroid-other/50258?type=flv).
I suggest watching it even if you aren't a Metroid Fan.
Any theories on who the girl at the end is? :o
I haven't played Metroid as often as I should (only the NES version T.T ), but if it's her mom...expect jaw drops.
What? It would make for an epic plot twist. (Or deus ex machina--however you prefer to view it.)
But here's the real question: Is it a Super Metroid remake?
If you have played or seen the end you find the following pic familiar...
(http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr12/HH92/othermsp.gif?t=1243998766)
Cool huh?
Well, I'm actually glad they gave the series a new focus, it's not that the Prime series wasn't among the best FPS, it's just that it's good to see Metroid going back to it's action packed roots.
It's weird, the girl seems to be someone from Samus's past, maybe a lost sister, of course that's just crazy talking.
I must say that the only thing I didn't like about the trailer is Samus's new look, IDK... she doesn't look as sharp as before, and actually looks a bit childish (japanese studio having something to do there?)
Quote from: Rorschach Mikaudes on June 02, 2009, 08:23:00 PM
I must say that the only thing I didn't like about the trailer is Samus's new look, IDK... she doesn't look as sharp as before, and actually looks a bit childish (japanese studio having something to do there?)
I believe that was intentional. Later on in the trailer you see her much more mature looking. Perhaps one was younger and the other was older.
EDIT: I found out who the general guy wearing the funny outfit was :
http://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Adam_Malkovich
My take is that it's related to Metroid Fusion in some way. Especially after I heard Samus' CO say "Any objections, Lady?"
I think it looks epic. Enough to make this E3 not a failure like last year's. I'll definitely be picking up this game, and I'm glad its not an FPS anymore(or at least it looks like you get to choose)
Quote from: The Metroid Wiki (Wikitroid)Malkovich would call Samus "lady" during missions and he managed to make it sound dignified where it would seem sarcastic from anybody else. When giving her orders he would end with "Any objections, lady?" The question was rhetorical as he knew she wouldn't disagree. It was just a phrase to denote their trust.
You can't look at this and tell me it wouldn't make an awesome CGI movie:
(http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/metroid/images/b/bd/Picture-18.png)
*drools*
My impressions:
They look like they got rid of the FPS aspect of the series. Awesome.
It looks like a prequel to the entire series, if I understand the timeline correctly. Hopefully that'll be cleared up soon.
Short-haired Samus looks cute. However, long-haired Samus is smexy.
Quote from: Hi no Seijin on June 03, 2009, 07:53:00 AM
*drools*
My impressions:
They look like they got rid of the FPS aspect of the series. Awesome.
They're combining third and first person aspects (i.e. some FPS and some ... it FPS [TPS?] )
Just like Zelda, it seems to switch to First Person only with weapons that require aiming, but seems to be very fluid.
Quote from: WIkipedia Article on Other MAn interview with series director Yoshio Sakamoto delves into the story and clarifies plot elements from the trailer. Set between Super Metroid and Metroid Fusion, Other M will involve Samus's commanding officer, Adam Malkovich, who dies sometime prior to Fusion. The new character who asks "remember me?" is one of Adam's soldiers. The female at the end of the trailer is not Samus, but a "very, very important character."
Hope that clears up some stuff.
EDIT:
Quote from: Hi no Seijin on June 03, 2009, 07:53:00 AM
It looks like a prequel to the entire series, if I understand the timeline correctly. Hopefully that'll be cleared up soon.
Here is the Timeline
(but it's from Wikipedia so don't get mad if there's errors) It was actually straight form Nintedo, so no worries!
Quote from: WikipediaMetroid/Metroid: Zero Mission (1986/2004)
Samus travels through the caverns of the planet Zebes to stop the Space Pirates from exploiting the Metroid species for galactic domination. She confronts the cybernetic lifeform Mother Brain, as well as its guardians, Kraid and Ridley.[13] The 2004 remake Metroid: Zero Mission has an addendum to the storyline—after the defeat of Mother Brain, she was ambushed by Space Pirates and her ship crash-lands back on the surface. Stripped of her Power Suit and her ship destroyed, she is forced to infiltrate the Space Pirate mothership to find a way off the planet with only an emergency pistol for protection. After receiving a fully powered suit from deep within the Chozo ruins, she defeats Ridley Robot and escapes from the mothership before it self-destructs.
Metroid Prime (2002)
Approximately six months after the events of Metroid, Samus receives a distress signal in her new ship and travels to Tallon IV to stop the Space Pirates from exploiting a powerful radioactive substance known as Phazon. She discovers that the Chozo once settled on this planet, and their disappearance, as well as the emergence of Phazon, is due to a meteor impacting the planet decades ago. After ruining a Space Pirate mining operation and collecting the twelve Chozo Artifacts that allow access to the sealed impact crater, she confronts and seemingly destroys Metroid Prime, a Metroid that had been feeding off the Phazon Core of the meteor to increase in size and strength.
Metroid Prime Pinball (2005)
Metroid Prime Pinball is not a separate canon game in the Metroid storyline, but a retelling of the original Metroid Prime's story in pinball format.
Metroid Prime Hunters (2006)
When the Federation receives an unusual telepathic message, Samus is sent to the remote Alimbic Cluster in the Tetra Galaxy to uncover the rumored "Ultimate Power". Six rival bounty hunters that also heard the message actively attempt to secure the power before anyone else, including Samus. It transpires that the promise of ultimate power was actually a lie sent by the creature Gorea, sealed away by the Alimbics in a void between dimensions. Gorea attacks and sucks the energy and weapons from the hunters. After killing Gorea, Samus and the other hunters escape the cluster, empty handed, but alive.
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (2004)
Samus is sent to investigate the planet Aether after a squad of GF Marines was lost there. Samus finds them all dead, killed by several creatures, mostly by an evil race called the Ing. The Ing possess life forms, transforming them into monstrous "dark" versions of their former selves to wage war with Aether's dominant race, the Luminoth. Upon meeting the only remaining member of Luminoth (the others are frozen in stasis chambers, awaiting the destruction of the Ing), Samus learns Aether has been split into two dimensions by a meteor similar to the one that crashed on Tallon IV. Samus agrees to assist by recovering Aether's planetary energy (the "Light of Aether") from Dark Aether and thereby putting an end to Dark Aether and the Ing; however, Samus yet again encounters Metroid Prime, a heavily mutated being who had copied Samus' genetic code and stolen her Phazon suit at the end of her Tallon IV adventure, now in the form of Dark Samus.
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (2007)
Space Pirates shut down Galactic Federation computer systems and then engage in large scale combat in an attempt to further spread Phazon. Enormous Phazon-based seedships, known as Leviathans, impact planets and begin corrupting them with Phazon. Samus is charged with destroying the 'Phazon Seeds' and restoring functionality to the Federation's computer network. After purging three planets of Phazon (including the Space Pirate homeworld), the Federation locates the source of Phazon, planet Phaaze, which is made entirely of Phazon. As the Federation engages the Space Pirates in orbit, Samus enters the depths of the planet and succeeds at finally destroying Dark Samus and Phazon once and for all.
Metroid II: Return of Samus (1991)
The Galactic Federation deems the Metroid species too dangerous to exist, and after their own failed attempts, employs Samus to travel to the Metroid homeworld, SR388, and exterminate the entire species. After killing every Metroid (among them Alpha, Gamma, Zeta, and Omega Metroids) and the Queen Metroid, Samus finds an unhatched egg behind the Queen Metroid's chamber. Before Samus fires on the Metroid egg, an infant Metroid hatches and believes Samus to be its mother. Helping her escape back to her ship, it is handed over by Samus to the research station, Ceres, for study.[13]
Super Metroid (1994)
Before the scientists can conduct extensive research, Samus receives a distress signal from the research lab. She returns just in time to catch Ridley stealing the hatchling, having killed all of the scientists. She then follows Ridley to the rebuilt base on Zebes to stop the Space Pirates in their new plan to clone the Metroids and use them as a weapon. She kills the reborn versions of Ridley and Kraid, as well as new guardians Phantoon and Draygon, to confront Mother Brain once again. Samus is nearly killed in the battle, but is saved, and her suit supercharged, by the Metroid hatchling, shortly before Mother Brain kills it. Samus proceeds to destroy Mother Brain, and once again escapes Zebes during a countdown to an explosion. This time, the entire planet explodes, taking with it the few remaining cloned Metroids.
Metroid: Other M (2010)
A new title featuring story, cutscenes, and dialogue new to the franchise. Series director Yoshio Sakamoto confirmed the title will take place between Super Metroid and Metroid Fusion.
Metroid Fusion (2002)
While acting as a bodyguard for researchers on the planet SR388, Samus is infected by a native creature known as the X Parasite, originally the prey of the Metroid species. Doctors surgically remove portions of her Power Suit and cured the X infection with a vaccine created from the DNA of the baby Metroid from her previous adventure. The vaccine not only allows her to survive the parasites, but to absorb them to power up her energy and weapons. She is then sent to investigate a disturbance at the Biologic Space Labs research station, where it is revealed that specimens from SR388 had been carriers of the X parasite. An X mimicking Samus, nicknamed the SA-X, has taken control of Samus's old suit, methodically breaking into different parts of the station to allow the X parasites to infect the entire station. While trying to destroy the rapidly multiplying X as well as clones of the SA-X, Samus discovers a secret Federation Metroid breeding program. Realizing the threat this would pose, Samus' shipboard computer, Adam, suggests that she alter the station's propulsion to intercept with SR388 and destroy the planet as well to finally wipe out the X and Metroid populations. After changing the station's propulsion, Samus races back to her ship, where she encounters an Omega Metroid combating the weakened SA-X she had fought earlier. The SA-X is quickly destroyed by the Metroid, and Samus absorbs the SA-X parasite to use her regained weapons to destroy the Omega Metroid and leave the station before it collides with SR388.
Hey, but Samus spoke, does that mean she will speak on a normal basis? Maybe this she will have a meaningful dialogue and we will have a chance to have a glimpse of her personality.
Also, cross fingers for ZeroSuit missions.
Necropost!
But according to this one GameStop I dropped in on, Metroid: Other M seems to be set for release in America January 1, 2010.
There's no way they'll have it done that early. It's been what, two years since Prime 3?
Don't think that thought hasn't entered my head. But it would still be nice if that's the real release date.
Besides, what's not to say they didn't have another team start on Other M while Prime 3 was being worked on?
Im just glad that you can actually fight(instead of just shooting things) The Prime series was good but it lacked alot of everything except for walking. I highly doubt that the woman at the end is Samus's Mother(who died in a Space Pirate raid, killed by Ridley as it were) or Sister(Samus was an only child). My theory comes from the title, Metroid: Other M. Im thinking that she could be a clone of Samus, much like the X in Metroid Fusion, or is the X. But I think to really know that we will just have to wait till it comes out and we play it to the end. >:(
A clone of Samus is possible, but not because of the X. It has been stated that Fusion is the last game in Metroid's timeline so far. Unless it's retconned in Other M, Samus's first encounter with the X was in Fusion.
Quote from: Winry Rockbell on November 19, 2009, 08:47:36 PM
A clone of Samus is possible...
Unfortunately, it's not. Many fans speculated this after seeing the trailer. But Yoshio Sakamoto and Yusuke Hayashi both have stated that it is
not a clone, but still an extremely important character. Also, "Wikitroid" brings up a good point:
Quote from: WikitroidThe title of Metroid: Other M is abbreviated to "MOM", and the subtitle is an anagram for "Mother", strengthening this game's connection to maternal themes from the series history, such as Mother Brain (who appears in the trailer).
It may also refer to an infamous line from the end of Metroid: "THE GALAXY MAY BE INVADED BY THE OTHER METROID. PRAY FOR A TRUE PEACE IN SPACE."
Yoshio Sakamoto, the co-creator of Metroid, confirmed that the name will have significance in several instances, indicating that Other M is the final title.