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Metroid: Other M "In Retrospect" - Part One

Oct 12, 2010 05:50

The transcript...more or less:

I recently looked up the article on Samus Aran on Wikitroid and discovered something that really bugged me and has me both confused and concerned. It might have been nothing, I could be making a big deal out of nothing, after all, but here it is. At the top of the article, there was a box that read:

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arremmmdee October 13 2010, 01:54:13 UTC

it's not a postmodern entertainment medium

it's video games

theegad October 13 2010, 08:12:26 UTC

Video-games are not a constant within themselves--they evolve just as movies have evolved. Therefore, they *are* a form of post-modern entertainment as they continue to reflect the ever-changing culture that continues to develop and interact with them.

arremmmdee October 13 2010, 16:23:05 UTC

it's just video games, bro

theegad October 13 2010, 16:34:57 UTC

What does that even mean?

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arremmmdee October 13 2010, 22:24:55 UTC

Did you listen/read the interview I put in my video? He stated the question quite clearly.

He asked after the fact, not before.

And what he made sucks. Hence, my review.

Right, but part of your issue raises the issue that Sakamoto just made whatever he wanted vs. necessarily caring about the fans and that is why Other M is terrible, he also made whatever he wanted vs. necessarily caring about the fans every other time he's made a video game, too.

What makes you think I've liked or disliked *any* of his games? What makes you think I've even played all his games?

I didn't mean to say anything about you specifically, I meant it in the same way the announcer does when he says "If you love monster trucks, loud noises, and beer, then you'll love the Monster Truck Rally this SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY..."

Fusion was a good game. Sakamoto made that.I'm not personally saying whether I think or whether or not Fusion actually is a good game, just that 'if you do not like other m because it's sakamoto making whatever he wants, then you logically ( ... )

theegad October 14 2010, 07:02:38 UTC

He asked after the fact, not before.

So? You asked a question and I answered it.

Right, but part of your issue raises the issue that Sakamoto just made whatever he wanted vs. necessarily caring about the fans and that is why Other M is terrible, he also made whatever he wanted vs. necessarily caring about the fans every other time he's made a video game, too.

You still haven't cited anything that would lead me to believe any of this is true.

I'm not personally saying whether I think or whether or not Fusion actually is a good game, just that 'if you do not like other m because it's sakamoto making whatever he wants, then you logically cannot like metroid, super metroid, fusion....'I don't like Other M for a number of reasons, and Sakamoto's involvement is just at the pinnacle of those reasons. What's more, I cited George Lucas in this particular context because of what you're saying here. Just because the Star Wars prequels were really bad doesn't mean the original three Star Wars were bad ( ... )

arremmmdee October 14 2010, 12:49:43 UTC

I don't think you don't understand what I'm saying, I think you don't want to understand what I'm saying. Whatever bro, you keep playing your Post-modern Entertainment Medium video games and find yourself disappointed and your time wasted over and over, and I'm going to be over here playing simple, mindless arcade games on my iPhone and actually have fun.

theegad October 14 2010, 21:54:06 UTC

I don't think what you're saying is understandable whatsoever, which was why I was trying to make sense of it. If I didn't want to understand, I probably would not have said anything at all.