FFXIV Random Complaint Thread: Look forward to it

[Carth]

Gameplay was great I thought (completely different from Prime but not necessarily bad). Story was eh but I had a lot of fun playing it. There are certainly worse games you could spend $12 on.

I love the series, heard the game was good/bad depending on who you ask but it was only $12 sooooo you just can't beat that.

Gameplay was okay at best for me. The control scheme is horrible (lol can't move in first person and gotta point at the screen), but the Sense Move mechanic was enjoyable if not spammy. But exploration is basically non-existent in the game and the story is worse than shit.

For $12 though I wouldn't complain much, but I bought the game when it was $60 so I'll always fling shit at it when it's brought up.

[Voyage1970]

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Best thing about Other M was Samus with short hair in her military uniform.

[Seravi Edalborez]

If they had allowed wiimote+nunchuk instead of lolsideways dpad it would have been like 5x more bearable. I had to adopt a weird backwards way of holding the 'mote for quicker missile-ing. /end otherM tangent

[Fojoop]

Gameplay was okay at best for me. The control scheme is horrible (lol can't move in first person and gotta point at the screen), but the Sense Move mechanic was enjoyable if not spammy. But exploration is basically non-existent in the game and the story is worse than shit.

For $12 though I wouldn't complain much, but I bought the game when it was $60 so I'll always fling shit at it when it's brought up.

Wii controls turned me off from the entire console. So many fantastic games I couldn't enjoy because of shitty motion controls.

[Obsidian]

The Prime Trilogy is one of my favorite games/collections from last gen precisely because of the Wii-mote. Especially after coming off the Gamecube games where you couldn't even free-look and move at the same time. The Prime Trilogy is the one Wii game I can definitively point to as a prime (haha, get it?) example of motion controls done right.

Edit: As far as the (admittedly) pretty bad story in Other M, I'm glad they at least tried a more plot-driven (or at least, more plot-rich) game. I think their mistake was getting Team Ninja to do it. I think with a better (or at least more experienced in regards to story-telling) studio, a more story-heavy Metroid game could really work well (Prime 4? Please?). I think before that happens though, Nintendo will have to figure out where they want that story to go (which was apparently one of the biggest problems with that potential Metroid movie. Nintendo just hasn't put a lot of thought into Samus's motivations, goals, or the world around her). I hope Other M's lukewarm reception didn't put them off trying again.

[Seravi Edalborez]

Prime 3 (and probably the other 2 in Trilogy, didn't get it unfortunately) are probably (one of?) the best use of the wiimote in the whole Wii game library. Just Other M's implementation was horrible.

[CrstyCptSteveWitherspoon]

I loved the prime 1&3, 2 wasn't as good imo but the wii controls for that game were awesome. I liked resident evil 4 for wii as well. Monster hunter was pretty good but I kinda goofed a lot with the way the motion controls worked and charging. Would have been better with a regular controller. Never tried any call of duty but I did like the FPS experience with the wii controls and resident evil/metroid.

[Corrderio]

Prime 3 (and probably the other 2 in Trilogy, didn't get it unfortunately) are probably (one of?) the best use of the wiimote in the whole Wii game library. Just Other M's implementation was horrible.

Too bad the Trilogy is 100+ now. I never tried Prime 3, but I enjoyed Prime 1 and Prime 2 somewhat.

[Carth]

Edit: As far as the (admittedly) pretty bad story in Other M, I'm glad they at least tried a more plot-driven (or at least, more plot-rich) game. I think their mistake was getting Team Ninja to do it. I think with a better (or at least more experienced in regards to story-telling) studio, a more story-heavy Metroid game could really work well (Prime 4? Please?). I think before that happens though, Nintendo will have to figure out where they want that story to go (which was apparently one of the biggest problems with that potential Metroid movie. Nintendo just hasn't put a lot of thought into Samus's motivations, goals, or the world around her). I hope Other M's lukewarm reception didn't put them off trying again.

Thing is, Team Ninja didn't work on the story, they worked on gameplay and aesthetics. The story was directed by Yoshiro(?) Sakamoto, creator of Metroid.

The Metroid series hasn't been doing too well over in Japan overall ever since Super Metroid, so Other M's reception might be the nail in the coffin.

[Corrderio]

Eh can't blame them. I kinda feel like Nintendo shot themselves in the foot when they brought the signature enemy in the game to extinction.

[Obsidian]

Too bad the Trilogy is 100+ now. I never tried Prime 3, but I enjoyed Prime 1 and Prime 2 somewhat.

Honestly, even for $100 (here it's around $80 for the "new" batch of reprints from EB Games) I'd say the Trilogy is worth it. Each game is easily worth thirty bucks. Failing that it's not difficult at all to install the Homebrew channel on your Wii and play it that way...

[Rocl]

Complaining about complaining about Metroid

[Corrderio]

Well if we want to get back on track...

-SE not having a spam filter. Getting sick of how botched RMT ads look now due to them countering SE's anti-RMT spam measures.

[Obsidian]

Pretty disappointed they decided not to outline all the incoming job adjustments today. Leaving it until the day of the patch leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

I guess they could do it during the LIVE letter, but that's not in English so it still is pretty disappointing.

[Pooke]

all? didnt they say there wouldnt even be that much (none?) outside of war, brd, and fixing flare?

[Obsidian]

There are also adjustments coming to MNK and DRG, and I'm hoping they're not ignoring Paladin's plethora of broken/useless abilities. The WAR stuff they talked about also wasn't finalized so it would be nice to actually see what they're doing.

[Kiarax]

Pretty disappointed they decided not to outline all the incoming job adjustments today. Leaving it until the day of the patch leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

I guess they could do it during the LIVE letter, but that's not in English so it still is pretty disappointing.

They said patch notes would be posted the day before, patch is still a few days away.

[Obsidian]

I assumed the day before meant Friday (today) because I didn't think they would actually post anything on a Sunday.

[Kiarax]

Well the patch is due Tuesday in moonland, given it's a 24 hour maint I expect them to just post the notes around the maint start.

[Pooke]

i believe they said the notes will be out monday.