Ok so I took a look at the Metroid Database and on their home page they were making fun of people believing that Metroid Other M show Samus’s birth so here a link if you want to read what they put on this website but it’s not on MD it is on Joystick
I spy shinespark!
I preordered my copy 5 years ago! DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
But really, I could not understand that trailer. It was like they were speaking in another language.
PURAAZUMA BIIMU
Wait How? The game didn’t exist 5 years ago. 
>_>
No. I don’t like. I don’t like it. I don’t like it at all. This isn’t some movie where we fap ourselves to death. It’s a game. Now let us play it.
It’s a dumb idea, and I don’t know who would be willing to sit through 2 hours straight of cutscenes, but it’s not like it interferes with the actual game in any way.
SOMEONE’s never heard of the MGS series…
lol.
But so true.
I know of the series’ reputation for really long cutscenes.
I’ve only played through the first one, but there was nothing like that, so I just assumed it was the usual fanboy hyperbole.
…Okay? So play it. That’s an optional feature unlocked after the gameplay itself is over.
SotN had boss-help videos. Lots of other games have cutscene videos. NSMBW has level-tip videos. This combines all of those into one. So what the hell is the big deal? Even if you didn’t use those, their inclusion doesn’t hurt anyone.
What we should be complaining about is the fact that there will even be enough cutscenes to warrant such a mode.
Why? It shows the gameplay sequences, boss tips, shortcuts, etc as well. And even the MP games had plenty of cutscenes, including your precious Prime 1.
And either way, no one has ever given a reason why cutscenes in Metroid are bad.
Other than “it’s not Metroid.” Which is bullshit. It’s not up to you to determine what Metroid is, and every game has introduced new things anyway. No one balked at SM and bitched about how THIS ISNT METROID IN METROID YOU CAN ONLY AIM UP THIS RUINS THE FEELING OF HAVING LIMITED OFFENSIVE ABILITIES.
Or “Metroid has never had the story done like that.” Again, so? M1 only had optional intro scroll text. M2 had nothing at all other than the ending, IIRC. M3 added a long, narrative cutscene with still images and flashback cutscenes. M4 added dialogue and animated scenes. The series has always been evolving, but for some reason after Super people decided it should just stagnate itself forever.
What we should be complaining about is that Metroid has such a ridiculous, unsatisfiable fanbase full of delusions and obsessions with 20-year-old games.
Or better yet, let’s not complain at all, because it’s fucking pointless and unproductive.
everyting daz just said
ALL OF IT
is truth o3o
How’s “it’s not any game, period”? I have better things to do than sit through an hour or more of boring storyline, cheesy melodrama, and laughably bad voice acting. Even if it was somehow not everything I just described, I’m still paying money to play a game, not watch a movie. (I like movies, but who would ever spend $50 on one and NOT complain they’re being ripped off?)
Evolving implies improvement. In what way is passive entertainment inherently better than active entertainment?
I would say: “yes, that was a better time, before gaming became mainstream and before major companies like Nintendo started appealing to the least common denominator” but that would only contribute to YOUR delusion that my complaints can be reduced to “lol nostalgiafag argument”.
If we complain loud enough, they might just hear us! 
That’s the most tired, useless argument out there. By that logic games shouldn’t have graphics, because you could look at pictures or watch a movie for that too. They shouldn’t have text, why not read a book? Videogames are all about combining different forms of media into one contiguous whole. They have soundtracks, cutscenes, dialogue and plaintext all together with gameplay making one thing that can do something no movie, comic book or novel can do.
Unless you want every game to be stuck in the Atari age, we need to have some storyline, yes? And story is pretty hard to tell without any scenes at all. Even Super Metroid had scenes you could only watch.
oh god they’re mainstream my indie cred is dying
Go die.
The purpose of those things is to complement the gameplay, not the other way around.
No. That’s not to say that I dislike story in games and I know that you would have interpreted it that way if I hadn’t said anything, but it’s by no means necessary to a good “modern” game. Unless you consider every game made within the last few years that isn’t an action/adventure, FPS, or RPG to be “stuck in the Atari age”…
I agree. But there is such a thing as too much of a good thing.
If you pull your head out of your ass for a second and reread what I said, you’ll be surprised to see that I said NOTHING EVEN REMOTELY RESEMBLING THAT. (If you still don’t get it, I care about the effect it has on the games themselves, not what people think about them… “mainstream” is quite the buzzword I guess )
Um, was that really necessary? Anyway, I wasn’t being sarcastic; I was saying that complaining CAN be beneficial if enough people do it.