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PTSD or Weakness: Real Experts on why Samus didn't Shoot

Stephen Kelley of Gamrfeed talks with an Army Veteran and a psychologist on their views on Samus's now infamous breakdown in "Metroid other M".

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BeardedGamerShow5750d ago

Brilliant article, I hope this gets some nasty commenters eating their words about this controversial Other M scene.

CombatEvolving5749d ago

You can't portray someone as an all out badass and then in one game turn them into an overly emotional train wreck.

TheROsingleB5749d ago

Who is to say that she wasn't an emotional wreck prior to this game? They may not have showed signs of it during older games because most of them were pretty void of any hard back round story for Samus other than "Bounty Hunter. Metroids. Mother Brain. Pew Pew Pew."

digitaledge5749d ago

As I've said in my comment further down, Other M is a prequel to the Prime Series (and more), and is set just after Super Metroid.

It IS possible that Samus has learned to control/conquer her feelings/fears by the Prime games.

I would imagine that her reaction is kind of similar to the likes of Michael Myers sister in the Halloween movies. She 'kills' him, and the next time she sees him, she is frozen with fear. Every other time she sees him after that, she's like 'Oh, here we go again'! lol

HowarthsNJ5749d ago

What other reason could there be?

EvilTwin5749d ago

@CombatEvolving

She's still portrayed as an all-out badass. Just look at what she does in the game.

They are just using words now to explain the character. And to be honest, it's been this way, even within the game. Samus shows her emotional immaturity all the way back in Return of Samus. She can't bring herself to finish the job, leaves one baby Metroid alive, illegally transports it back to the Galactic Federation, and what happens? Comes back to bite her.

That's followed up by Super, when the baby Metroid is kidnapped. What does Samus do? She makes a rash decision and follows Ridley directly to Zebes, where she finds a much more dire situation than she anticipated. As a result, she has her ass handed to her by both the hatchling and Mother Brain.

Samus is indeed a badass. But she isn't invincible. And she has more emotional baggage that would take waaaaaaaay longer to get into (think if you were someone who lived your life all alone taking suicide missions). For some reason, people don't want to see that portrayed.

stragomccloud5749d ago

Did you even read the article??? PSTD
I have a friend who works for San Diego County as part of the mental health team. He works with survivors of torture refugees and soldiers coming back from service. From what my buddy says, the game is pretty accurate in it's depiction of a case of PTSD.

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ReservoirDog3165749d ago

You know, I'm not the biggest Metroid fan but this actually made me want to play Other M.

stragomccloud5749d ago

Remember? It's been called ignorant and disrespectful to voice and think such things. Therefore, the people that thought that way before will continue to ignorantly believe that.

TheGameLlama5750d ago

Well this is... really good stuff. Awesome.

bmw695750d ago

Great and insightful article - journalism at its finest

Kantor5750d ago (Edited 5750d ago )

Somewhat overanalytical, but I fully agree that the soldiers who have been scarred by battle deserve more respect and attention. Very good interview, as well, though.

Braineater24485750d ago

Great article. Thanks for the insight.

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U.S. patent examiner rejects Nintendo’s summoning characters patent as obvious: non-final ruling

The rejection is non-final (and even when such rejections are labeled as “final”, the process is far from over, given that there can be, at minimum, an appeal to the Federal Circuit).

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Relientk7765d ago (Edited 65d ago )

Good, as they should! A game mechanic like that shouldn't be locked behind a patent, and Nintendo didn't invent it either.

PRIMORDUS64d ago (Edited 64d ago )

Nintendo wants to keep wasting money on bullshit lawsuits, real smart in this economy. They should put that money aside for other game projects. On the other hand, I don't care if they waste it all either, and they are screwed in the future maybe that will teach them a lesson.

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Nintendo Completes Share Repurchase and Sets Price for Secondary Offering

Nintendo completed its share repurchase and set its secondary offering price at 8,347 yen ahead of March 16 delivery.

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Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs

Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade.

Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath.

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Deathdeliverer90d ago

Well dayum lol. Old agent orange pissing off every industry and nation.

0hMyGandhi89d ago

The fact that you have ANY disagrees will forever baffle me. And to the (apparent) MAGA contingent that exists on this website, enjoy your 8-9 dollar gas.

AuraAbjure89d ago (Edited 89d ago )

Yes, they had better be pissed after Trump told them the way they rip off the USA is over.

EveryPlatformGamer90d ago

LOL I read this on gaff, will they refund the money back to the gamers? highly unlikely. Didn't they just raise prices and pass it onto the gamers? Only Nintendo would send out the Ninjas to the US government.

-Foxtrot90d ago

That’s what I was thinking, imagine them winning hypothetically, getting a s**t load of money back which they would have lost if they hadn’t raised their prices and it’s business as normal.

It would just mean people paid more for no reason since they got the money back anyway.

Outside_ofthe_Box89d ago (Edited 89d ago )

A lot of companies partially passed the cost to consumers instead of all of it. They would still have to at least pay that back to gamers, but we know that won't happen. What's also sad is that prices won't come back down after the initial hike caused by tariffs.

People didn't understand the full repercussions of tariffs. That alone should have cost him the presidency if people knew it was a permanent price hike for consumers

Inverno90d ago

The people should sue these companies for having to over pay cause of these tariffs.

Eonjay90d ago

Naw they should sue the government for forcing the tax to begin with. No one reasonably expects these companies to absorb the taxes. Many smaller companies tried and were shut down or faced to increase prices to try to maintain their business. The tariffs effect everyone.

Inverno88d ago

I meant it mostly as a joke cause we all know the costs of these tariffs were passed onto the consumer. But it's seems no matter how vocal we are here in the states our "representatives" don't seem to care enough to represent us. And things are about to get worse.

Killer2020UK89d ago

The companies were doing what the law required then to do, the tariffs however were illegally implemented. Usually it's criminals we punish, you seem to have different ideas 🤷‍♂️

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