Talk:Metroid: Other M/Archive 2

Reggie's response to its reception
Reggie issued a response to Metroid: Other M's sales and its quality on Kotaku, mostly with him "trying to figure out" what went wrong with the game. - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 00:58, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Abusive relationship
Would this review be useable? It raises some very good points, I think, which I haven't seen covered elsewhere.98.222.213.161 (talk) 04:06, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
 * This is briefly covered by David Wolinsky whose review is cited in the article. I'll add it as another source, thank you. -IsaacAA (talk) 11:44, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Sales figures?
The lifetime worldwide total sale figures from VGChartz added on the article isn't technically reliable. Can anyone give a reason why is this needed? Hounder4 TALK LOG 09:59, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Whoops, didn't realize there's a problem with the reliability of this site. -IsaacAA (talk) 19:12, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Removing and paraphrasing lenthy quotations as per WP:Overusing quotations
Abby Heppe's review recieved a quotation box, and TGO's review received a lengthy quotation in the reviews section. Both are overly long and put too much emphasis on one reviewer, giving the impression of a debate instead of an encyclopedic article. I propose to remove the quotation box and to leave out the lengthy "He concludes..." from the paragraph. -IsaacAA (talk) 11:12, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

NPD sales during September 2010
I found a little bit of info on sales figures for Other M. This one - reported by NPD Group - said that it sold around 173,000 units in North America during September 2010 (last year): "The second title we'd like to single out is Nintendo's Metroid: Other M, developed in conjunction with Team Ninja. Having moved only 173,000 units, the title serves to highlight the ongoing challenges in the Wii market, even for Nintendo itself." I guess anyone forgot about that until now... -- Hounder4   (Talk)  (Contribs) 19:33, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Gameplay screenshot
Okay, I've uploaded a new image regarding on gameplay elements (Metroid Other M Gameplay perspectives.jpg). It provides information on both perspectives besides the previous image showing only the third person view (Metroid Other M Counter Attack.jpg). -- Hounder4   (Talk)  (Contribs) 19:36, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

More stuff
WhisperToMe (talk) 18:00, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Pankikis, Tom. "Metroid: Other M Yoshio Sakamoto on a more emotional Samus." Computer and Video Games. September 6, 2010.
 * "3. Samus's Thoughts and Feelings." Nintendo.

Fan Boycotts
Why aren't there any sites listed that are against the game its both boring and sexist so it needs to be mentioned. --58.7.111.155 (talk) 13:47, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
 * 1) I'm not aware of any boycotts. Can you provide some sources on them?
 * 2) As far as sexism goes, there is the quote: "G4 TV's Abbie Heppe considered a portrayal of Samus as "sexist"; she wrote that she "cannot possibly wield the amount of power she possesses unless directed to by a man", and found that her anxiety attack cannot be reconciled with her previous portrayals.[66]
 * 3) As far as being boring goes...you could add it if you have some reliable sources to back it up, but at this point, the criticisms already in the article are a lot more detailed and better thought out than just "boring"... Sergecross73   msg me   14:03, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Douse it say anywere that Other M or the next instulment is or will be the last to the franchise due to the gradual reduction of the lead role? --58.7.186.0 (talk) 12:40, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Here's a link to an extremely well-thought article dissecting the writing of Metroid: Other M and why it's bad for the franchise. It brings up a lot of good points. When Other M first came out, many of the general criticisms were examined as separate entities with their own problems, but the writer here makes a note that if the complaints throughout the story are taken as a whole, the story isn't suffering from bad writing, it's suffering from a competent writer with some serious issues on what a healthy relationship is supposed to be and how this relationship devalues Samus as a hero and a person and even glorifies it. I'm surprised this article wasn't referenced here, because this article understands the game from a literary perspective, and since Sakamoto clearly wanted us to examine the story, an article that delves into the repercussions of the writing of Other M would be very beneficial to the page's negative reception portion. --50.193.239.113 (talk) 18:58, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Sales
Five years has passed, and neither Nintendo or NPD Group have releasing reliable sales numbers for this game. Looking through the custom search engine for reliable sources, the article from GameZone says that one million copies were sold by January 2012, but uses VGChartz as its reference. Per WP:VG/S, it's best not to use this source. I tried searching for reliable sources on updated figures, but no avail; so the sources that are already in the "Sales" section is all we can use. --  Hounder4  02:41, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Virtual Console releases. New consensus on the matter.
I have discovered multiple Wikipedia articles (such as Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time) that have the supposed Virtual Console release dates. I would like a consensus on the matter of adding Virtual Console releases and references to them. They ARE typically stated in this list. I don't know why Wikipedia articles can have correctly displayed information! Zacharyalejandro (talk) 17:14, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Those other articles are wrong. See the template documentation at Template:Infobox video game. This should not be discussed at Metroid: Other M, but at WT:VG if you want to change the consensus. -- ferret (talk) 18:42, 17 September 2016 (UTC)