I REALLY, REALLY wish I had Fusion right about now!

I'd LOVE to play that again... I don't quite remember everything that transpired in that game any more. Major plot points, yes. Only tiny bits of the Adam/Samus dialogues, though...

(Oh! ...and Zero Mission, too!)

If I didn't sell games I would never be able to play new ones.

Dvader said:

travo said:

If I didn't sell games I would never be able to play new ones.

In that case rent them, its cheaper

I usually don't sell them for a couple years.

I really wanted to skip work today to finish this.

phantom_leo said:

All Life in the Metroid Universe starts out innocent.

The Path a being picks is decided partially by circumstance

but mostly by choice.

Other M is a Tale of Two Women.

One is Flesh Wrapped in Machine.

The Other, Machine Wrapped in Flesh.

When the bonds between Mother and Child are Severed,

One chooses to open her heart to Emotion;

She learns to Love and Protect and becomes a Hero.

The Other is denied her Emotion

and chooses to Destroy.

Two sides of the same coin. An Ouroboros of Irony,

both giving Birth to each other.

One becomes the stuff of Legend. The Other meets her end in Infamy.

Uroboros? Complete Metroid saturation!  I knew Wesker was behind all this.

Nintendo Power's Top 9 Metroid games. Do you agree/disagree?

1. Super Metroid

2. Metroid Prime

3. Metroid Zero Mission

4. Metroid Prime 3 Corruption

5. Metroid Fusion

6. Metroid

7. Metroid Prime 2 Echoes

8. Metroid II Return of Samus

9. Metroid Prime Hunters

They only list 9 but 10 could be Metroid Prime Pinball!

Where would you guys place Metroid Other M on that list?

ASK_Story said:

Nintendo Power's Top 9 Metroid games. Do you agree/disagree?

1. Super Metroid

2. Metroid Prime

3. Metroid Zero Mission

4. Metroid Prime 3 Corruption

5. Metroid Fusion

6. Metroid

7. Metroid Prime 2 Echoes

8. Metroid II Return of Samus

9. Metroid Prime Hunters

They only list 9 but 10 could be Metroid Prime Pinball!

Where would you guys place Metroid Other M on that list?

List is wrong, who puts Prime 2 under the original, what the hell. And the best Metroid game is Prime.

1. Prime
2. Prime 3
3. Super Metroid
4. Prime 2
5. Zero Mission
6. Fusion
7. Other M
8. Metroid 2
9. Metroid
10. Hunters

Dvader said:

List is wrong, who puts Prime 2 under the original, what the hell. And the best Metroid game is Prime.

1. Prime
2. Prime 3
3. Super Metroid
4. Prime 2
5. Zero Mission
6. Fusion
7. Other M
8. Metroid 2
9. Metroid
10. Hunters

That's different from my list.

Here's mine:

1. Zero Mission
2. Super Metroid
3. Prime
4. Other M
5. Prime 3
6. Fusion
7. Prime 2
8. Metroid
9. Metroid II
10. Metroid Prime Pinball

I left Hunters out and put Pinball on there instead. That's how much I didn't like it.

bugsonglass said:

you love Prime 3.  you only think that you hate it

If only I loved or hated it! The things I despise most are those that are worthy of little reaction...and ironically result in a lot of vitriol from me.

SPOILERS:

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Mother Brain, Ridley, the Space Pirates and the Original Metroids Gave Birth to (the Legend of) Samus.

Samus as a Bounty Hunter had to do some Horrific/Heroic things to achieve her missions (Exterminate an entire Species into Extinction).

Samus had a brief moment of redemption when she showed Mercy to the Metroid Hatchling on SR388. (She was becoming a Killing Machine.)

The Metroid Hatchling redeemed itself when it sacrificed itself to save Samus, also showing that Metroids aren't exactly Evil until they are made to be so...

Samus witnesses the eradication of the Baby (Metroid) in front of her eyes, and is covered in it's remains, but brings an End to Mother Brain at that point using its Power.

Samus unwittingly brings the Baby's Genetic Material back to the Galactic Federation.

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The Galactic Federation initiaites a Plan to use the Metroids as a Bio-Weapon, cloning the Metroids using the Baby's DNA.

The Scientists realize they need a Mother figure to control the Metroids and Lead the Zebesian Bio-Weapons.

Using the idea of the Baby's Imprinting upon Samus as a Model, Madeline Bergman (gives Birth) Re-Creates Mother Brain in the guise of a Human Female.

As her intelligence grows, Melissa Bergman develops emotions and starts to see Madeline as a Mother figure to her. (Even Mother Brain isn't beyond Redemption!)

As the events of Other M unfold, Samus' acceptance of her responisiblity for her actions that brought about all of these events --PLUS-- the Love and affection she felt for Adam and Anthony...

...(the reclaiming of her Emotions) helped her Redeem herself, proving she was NOT the Death-Dealing, Bounty-Hunter, Killing-Machine she COULD HAVE become...

...Even as MB, being denied HER emotions --AND-- being ripped away from/feeling betrayed by Madeline Bergman, BECOMES the literal Epitome of a Killing Machine.

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There's nothing mysterious or out-of-place about the entire Other M story-line. The story is written to be an illustration of the whole Birth-->Life-->Death-->Rebirth-->Life-->Death cycle seen so often in Literature and Anime.

This illustration is further driven home (with a ten-ton Hammer) by the whole deliberate Baby/Mother references scattered throughout the game. "Baby's Cry" being one. The "Bottle Ship" being another.

Samus plays the part of the Archetypical Hero here by recognizing her place in the Grand Scheme of things (MB gave "birth" to her, She gave birth to MB) and rises above it (as cliche as it sounds) using her ability to Love.

It's an incredibly well-written harmony of Cause and Effect, Birth and Death, Sin and Redemption... In my eyes, at least!

(Sorry, Vader but the plot of Other M makes a WHOLE HECK OF A LOT MORE SENSE than ANY Resident Evil!   )

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The Ouroboros or Uroborus^[1] is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon swallowing its own tail and forming a circle.

The Ouroboros often represents self-reflexivity or cyclicality, especially in the sense of something constantly re-creating itself, the eternal return, and other things perceived as cycles that begin anew as soon as they end (compare with phoenix). It can also represent the idea of primordial unity related to something existing in or persisting from the beginning with such force or qualities it cannot be extinguished. The ouroboros has been important in religious and mythological symbolism, but has also been frequently used in alchemical illustrations, where it symbolizes the circular nature of the alchemist's opus. It is also often associated with Gnosticism, and Hermeticism.

Carl Jung interpreted the Ouroboros as having an archetypal significance to the human psyche.^{[citation needed]} The Jungian psychologist Erich Neumann writes of it as a representation of the pre-ego "dawn state", depicting the undifferentiated infancy experience of both mankind and the individual child.^[2]

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