Hardly, and please don't compare Metroid fans to Sonic ones. The Sonic fanbase has always been messed up and will never universally like the next game. Other M did MUCH more than something like ruin the color of Samus's eyes.

(But the title is terrible.)

Quick google search, and these are the 4 most common results (mostly the last one)

-It's a good game, just not a good Metroid game (usually something about being too linear). Oh, and the story sucks.
-I thought the game was really bland and the control were clunky. Oh, and the story sucks.
-I really liked the game, I thought it was flawed but it was really enjoyable. Oh, and the story sucks.
-HOLY F*** WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO SAMU- Gameplay? What is gameplay?

That is total nonsense to hate the game because of the name One reason SuperMeatBoy didnt have as many hits as it should have would it launched on Xbox

I thought his death was funny. You have the random guy who knows Samus and is always randomly showing up to help or something, then he just gets killed by Ridley. Randomly, naturally. If it was supposed to be emotional (I'm sure it was), it failed completely, though. The others were even more generic than him and thus more boring, though I sort of enjoyed that one of them was a traitor the whole time and was slowly killing off the others, And Then There Were None-style. That's what I'm talking about when I say it had a cheesy sc-fi horror vibe at times.

That was a very informative video, but now I want Nintendo feature a game on how Mario and Peach first met...

Wait, did they already do that in Partners in Time?

they were babies and it seems like they knew each other.

Also thank you for reminding me of Baby Peach making my ears bleed.

There were so many things wrong with it, including the fact that the ring thought Ryan Reynolds was the only human being qualified to wear it, so it flew over to him, trapped him in a giant green bubble, and took him to the first Green Lantern. That and the bad guy's head kept inexplicably and hilariously getting bigger.

Hm, let's see...
"Wow, this game still in top 10! Suck it up, admit it, it's a great game."
"I actually liked the gameplay in this a little."
A quick user review giving it an 8.5
A mixed poll.

People are arguing over the quality of the game. It's not universally hated. At all. My point still stands. It's not a universally hated game by any stretch of the imagination.

"One big S◆◆◆ cube with a story line of mario. how fun" is wat mark from boston says about supermeatboy

The first poll is not mixed as most of the voters, voted on the negative half.

"The worst Metroid game. And that includes the original and Prime: Hunters.

Broken gameplay mechanics and terrible level design warrant it being bad. Also, I'm guessing you're a 12 year old boy.

But Other M has horrible balance, horrible level design, and mediocre controls."

And there's even a topic saying: The hate for Metroid: Other M

My point stands as well. Also, notice the discussion going on, on the board. Sort of clarfies my point. (Let alone that board is nearly dead and has a publicly known reputation.)

One poll (or for that matter, a dozen polls) isn't enough to prove definitively that Other M was universally hated.

The best proof I've seen for either side of the argument is this thread, in which some of us hate it and some of don't. Doesn't sound like [insert universally hated game here] to me.

The reader review average is 6.7/10 out of 82 reviews. That is also worth noting.

Not exactly flourishing with praise.

Personally, I wouldn't use GameFAQs as a good indicator of whether or not everyone hates a game anymore than I would use 4Chan to gauge how much American hate a certain Anime. Biggest collection of trolls, jerkwads, and haters I've ever seen on a video game board, and yes, that means it's worse than IGN.

Not exactly flourishing with hate. A decidedly average, mediocre, lukewarm score, in fact.

Chrono try 14

What would you use as a good indicator? This isn't directed at you, but I'm trying to raise the question of whether we even have one.

...Anything else that's not GameFAQs. Seriously. I've been to a lot of forums. They still take the freakin' cake.

Agreed. If it was, like an average 3.2, I'd see it, but a 6.7? That's pretty good for a game that's supposedly "divisive"...

Wait, are we talking about GameFAQs or 4chan here?

GameFAQs. But 4Chan's far worse, don't get me wrong. But they're not necessarily a video game forum. They're an Japanese culture Image board.