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Samus or the SA-X?

-4 STR

>>49892073
Yes

>>49892073
The one you want to reproduce with.

>>49892214
Waifu status: Mai
Abdominal status: delicious

>>49892094
Viruses don't have gender stupid

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>5e
SA-X
medium ooze

Armor Class: 20
Hit Points: 120
Speed 30 ft.

STR 16 (+3)
DEX 12 (+1)
CON 16 (+3)
INT 11 (0)
WIS 10 (0)
CHA 1 (-5)

Damage Immunities: fire, cold
Condition Immunities: charmed, poisoned, exhaustion, frightened

Regeneration: Regains 10 hp at the start of its turn if it has at least 1 hit point

X-Parasite form: When SA-X drops to 0 hit points, it transforms into a flying ooze. While in this form it cannot take any actions, speak, or manipulate objects. It is weightless, has a flying speed of 20 feet, can hover, and can enter a hostile creature's space and stop there. After being undisturbed for 1 hour, it regenerates 1 hitpoint and can return to its humanoid form.

Plus a bunch of magic items to account for the power armor that I'm too lazy to type out.

>>49892919
I'm not even sure how to classify the X parasites.

>>49892058
Like Samus, but less so.

>>49892058
Like samus but less so.

>>49892058
Plot armor/10

>>49895768
The SA-X boss ain't so hard & gets BTFO by baby metroids.

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are we posting metroid stuff again?

>>49892058
2+ save

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>>49896193
Absolutely

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>>49897288

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>>49897392

>>49892058
-10 Health Franchise

>>49892214
That still doesn't help.

>>49897392

>those shoulders

Man, are we back in the 90's or something?

>>49892214

But SA-X would make reproduction so much easier. She's literally a sentient giant virus, she can only spread herself and reproduce.

Can Samus even have children? She's like this Chozo-human hybrid and after Fusion, she's also part metroid now. If anything, all that hybridization must have made her infertile.

>>49899165
Not to mention, possibly immortal. Chozo died of old age, but only after a really long time. Add the Metroid DNA to that, and you have some pretty strange bio-chemistry,
Or maybe she lays eggs. Who knows?

>>49898625
we never left anon
welcome to the unending space-year of 1999

>>49899231

Hey, Chozo were bird people and Metroid come out of pods. She's now made out of 2/3 of species that AREN'T mammals.

It's a possibiliy, no doubt about it.

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>>49899279
That'd be nice.
Strong women in power suits is definitely a thing I miss.

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>>49899165
>>49899231
>>49899392
Unfortunately, because Sakamoto is basically Japanese George Lucas and also retarded, he's stated in a Q&A that Samus doesn't have Metroid DNA anymore. Apparently, absorbing the SA-X and the Ice Beam let her "recover her genetic condition."

Personally I'm not going to accept that bullshit as canon until it appears in a good Metroid game, but I thought you guys should know.

>>49892058
Bowel control : 0

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>>49900195
I still want it to be revealed that Samus was tremendously drugged for all of Other M and half of it never happened save in trip dream

>>49900173
Literally nobody cares about his word. Samus is part Metroid, end of story.

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Any news on the alleged Metroid game for the Switch?

>>49899165
Holy shit, I haven't been paying attention to anything since I played Prime when it came out.

I may need to find a timeline somewhere.

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>>49900276
>since I played Prime when it came out.
Prime and Fusion released on the same day.

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>>49900276
Here's a fanmade timeline.

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>>49900302
>Samus with harpy behavior despite herself

>>49900302
They may have been released same day, but I only got one for my birthday and I never went back to get the other.

>>49900326
Something just...doesn't seem right about having prime well before Metroid 2 or SM.

Like....really wrong. But that clears a lot up. Like the fact that I need to get back to gaming.

>>49900173
Samus likely has some knowledge of bio-chemistry given judging from her journal and notes. I presume she'd have some stuff on Metroid DNA with her somewhere.

>>49900326
>Samus is still in her 20s

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>>49900302
>Metroid/Zero Mission
Ex-Federation Trooper turned bounty hunter, Samus Aran, takes a commission to interfere with Space Pirate research efforts on her childhood home, Zebes. Samus blows up the planet.

>Prime
Samus discovers a Space Pirate research station, wipes it out. A metroid/mutagen/clone of Samus escapes.

>Prime Hunters
Samus fucks off to another Galaxy to collect a bounty, kills a giant space wizard.
Was also *the* arena FPS game for the DS.

>Prime 2
The galactic federation discovers Phazon, but Space Pirates have already built up a large reserve. Also there's a giant Phazon monster eating the planet.

>Prime 3
Giant Phazon monsters try to eat 4 planets. Samus destroys the half-eaten Space Pirate Homeworld. They rebuild on the Giant Phazon Monster Homeworld. Samus destroys that, too.

>Federation Force
Without Phazon, the few surviving Space Pirate's infrastructure collapses. Federation efforts to reverse engineer Chozo tech are finally bearing (shoddy) fruit. Samus unroots the last of the Space Pirate bases while 4 idiots durdle around in Mechs.

>Metroid 2
Samus goes to SR388 to wipe out the Metroid species. They were genetically engineered by the Chozo to keep a "the Thing" style menace at bay.

>Super Metroid
The Space Pirates make their last stand at Zebes. Samus blows up the planet (again) and drives them extinct.

>Other M
Non-canon.

>Fusion
X-Parasites on SR388 ruin Federation plans to clone Metroids. Also threaten to end the Galaxy. One almost eats Samus, but she's saved by Metroid gene therapy. She then wipes them out then blows up the planet.

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>>49900410
Yeah, the entire Prime series is between Metroid 1 and 2. It's mostly because in Prime, Metroids are still around, while Metroid 2 is the game where Samus wipes out the entire Metroid species (save one). It wouldn't make sense for Prime to take place after that.

THE BABY

>>49900479
Technically Other M is where some of the Fusion bosses were from. Knowing the Feds, they'd find some way or another to cause an outbreak or a mess.

>>49900535
Fuck you, kill yourself

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Can I just take a second to voice how fucking weird it feels knowing that America is basically the only ones who like Metroid and have any interest in the games and story, despite it coming from Japan where she's the black sheep of the whole Nintendo founders?

>>49900479
I think what we can take from this is that while Dodongo Dislikes Smoke, Samus Aran HATES Planets

>>49900562
I think he was referencing Metroid 2's ending, Super's opening or fusion's opening.

>>49900556 Other M was a cheap riff of Fusion's setting mixed with bad writing. By the Dead or Alive Volleyball people.

>>49900587
She's more or less an Exterminatus with tits and ass.

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>>49900587
I like to think Samus is an example of the Chozo's nightmarish spiritual power turned to the purpose of destruction. Planets die because she is THAT immense a cosmic presence, despite being masked as a human. Shit just comes to utter ruin when she turns her intent on it, whether she means to or not.

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>>49900258
It's ending will foreshadow Sylux to hype for an upcoming game.

>>49900594
The guys at Nintendo actually did the writing & Team Ninja only did the gameplay. Also, Fusion focused more on Samus's conflicts with the X as well as the Feds later. Aside from the Deleter, Samus really didn't have very much direct Samus vs Feds in Other M's story. It was Samus vs creation of Feds who rebeled because the science team has even more vapor for brains than the Space Pirates.

>>49900583
Americans like badass women.

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>>49900627
Federation Force already did that.

>>49900583
There's no excuse for Other-M.

That said, I think maybe it's a combination of game style and the main character. If we ignore Other-M:

Samus is neither damsel in distress, nor 'the healer chick'/love-interest, but more importantly, despite not being those, is NOT one of those "I am empowered female, look how need-no-man I am" personality-less lisa-simpson-like characters we keep seeing over and over and over. So, WE like her, but the japs don't like those ellen-ripley types when they're hard professionals that much.

Metroid games are sidescrolling exploration with not that much story or linearity to them. Socially, you can't discuss your favorite characters/waifus/partycomps/etc, at most you probably hate an area or share hidden missile container locations. Sidescrollers also tend not to be cutting edge tech, as the good ones focus instead on tight controls and avoiding things like slowdown.


Think also Korea as a separate example; what THEY like to play tends to be vastly different from anything we consider acceptable in MMORPGs...

>>49900641
>The guys at Nintendo actually did the writing & Team Ninja only did the gameplay.
Doesn't make the writing good. The only good thing to come from it was Ridley's Little Birdie design.

Please stop mentioning that game.

>>49900653
And so did Prime 3.

Obligatory "What is the best system to play Metroid in" post

>>49900535
DELETE THIS

>>49900672
I'm gonna give a goofy one-shot of it a try in a tool-light GURPS, but I can see M&M working pretty well for the setting and ideas.

Joke Idea: Break out Unknown Armies or CoC when Samus has to depart all earthly ties and fight threats with the Chozo.

>>49900672 Best FPS is Metroid: Prime.
Best side-scroller is Another Metroid 2 Remake.

>>49900587
>>49900600
Fusion was a space station, not a planet. Metroid/Zero Mission also just blew up the pirate installation there, not the whole planet.

I mean, there's still a disturbingly high ratio of "Planets with space pirates on Samus has visited" and "Planets that exploded after Samus visited", but clarity.

Also, prime 2 was technically a planet and the same planet in another dimension.

>>49900672
Obligatory "GURPS"

>>49900641
I'd also like to mention the SA-X. It's more or less Samus vs herself. She finds herself in the same shoes as all those Metroid she killed in SR388. She's not the hunter with all the powers & not using them because she isn't authorized, she legitimately can't use them & worse yet her enemies can. She isn't the hunter, she's the prey in Fusion & it's surprising how many ways the X manage to sabotage her. Turning off the power, attempted boiler explosion, freeze her through the blue X, etc. Despite being the X's number 1 enemy & predator due to her Metroid DNA, she truly isn't the hunter this time.

>>49900609
I like this theory. It makes sense, considering the chozo ascended to a higher plane or something. What they left behind and empowered is basically an elemental force of plot guided by them and stuffed in the body of a hot woman.

>>49900684
>Fusion was a space station, not a planet.
Samus also destroyed SR388. Orbital bombardment.

>Metroid/Zero Mission also just blew up the pirate installation there,
Zebes is completely destroyed in Super Metroid.

>>49900665
>Please stop mentioning
>I'm going to bring it up just to ask it to stop being mentioned.
Hold on a second, I'm going to light my house on fire to cool it.

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Give your ideal Metroid game/setting concept.

Mine would be one focusing on Samus doing a lot of actual bounty hunter work, with a social side in doing investigations at bars, homes, charity events, and so on. I'd try to work in a running-to-endgame subplot with dreams or something as she has to investigate some spiritual threat (that she can gun down messily at the end).

>>49900703
Samus is basically Darth Vader but a good guy and raised by goddamn pigeons. She's monstrously strong but has a crazy kind of moral code and understanding of the big picture.

>>49900665
No one said it was good.

If you want someone to stop mentioning, see>>49900479

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>>49900703
>It makes sense, considering the chozo ascended to a higher plane or something.
Nah. The chozo died off. Infertility is a hell of a drug.

The Space Pirates were trying to ascend to a higher plane or something though.
Their obsession with Metroids as mostly to figure out how Space Magic worked.
And also because Mother Brain was designed to assist with making Metroids.

>>49900707
People forget that part. Samus went ultra genocide and planet nuked a Chozo world with a freakin' The Thing space station to get the job done. This woman is worse than Radical fucking Larry when it comes to being *all business, all the time*

>>49900682
>AM2R
Am I the only one who thinks that's a bit overrated?

>>49900736
Anon no he's right, the game mentions Chozo ascending in some spiritual manner. Samus is the last living half-Chozo and link to whatever and whoever they are now.

>>49900609
No, I think that takes it too far, you're making her into some kind of offense version of Chirico Cuvie.

Rather, she's a damned jinx in the same way as all those detective manga protagonists. Planning a trip abroad? Someone dies on the plane, someone ELSE gets murdered at the hotel Samus got reservations to, and the horrific experiments pick THAT weekend to go out of control only because while Samus is there is the best time for it to get caught and put back in its cage

Problem is, she's not a detective, she's a power-armored death machine with weapons normally found on heavy vehicles, and her solutions all range from "Itano Circus" to "I waste it with my plasma wave cannon".

So the rogue scientist who'd hidden in the reactor room gets caught... and bathed in rapid-fire streams of fucking plasma.

And the murderous space pirate gets caught and unmasked in the very core of a planet... by a massive barrage of high explosives

And the evil monster gets caught... and power-bombed over and over and over in a room full of delicate equipment.

By the time Samus Aran walks out of ANYWHERE AT ALL, there's been so much collateral damage that entire worlds are breaking up.

>>49900737
I'll repeat what someone else said: Samus is basically a walking exterminatus.

>>49900740
People praise it because it was a herculean output for it being one guy doing the job. You gotta start somewhere, and he did way better than anyone asked. We're Metroid fans, we take whatever we can get.

>>49900754
With a nice body

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>>49900684
Fusion's space-station was planet-like enough. All those filthy "environments" and "terrains" and "ecosystems"...

Makes her charge her arm-cannon just thinking about it.

>>49900736
What is that little comic strip from?

>>49900756
It truly is great for a fan game but I just don't think it's as "OMG BETTER THAN SUPER METROID" as some on other websites have been saying.

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>>49900736
>Nah. The chozo died off. Infertility is a hell of a drug.

The ones in Prime 1 did ascend; the Chozo Ghosts Samus encounters are spirits pulled back to reality by Phazon.

The rest of the Chozo did die off or had ambiguous fates, but the Tallon colony specifically ascended.

>>49900750
And that's when she's not colony-dropping the fucking place on purpose!

>>49900765
Its a deliberate recreation for research purposes. They want their wildlife to feel right at home.

>>49900773
That's just flattery and hyperbole. Tune it out and enjoy the game for what it is. I just wish it had somehow managed to fuse the look of the Omega from Fusion with the threat of the ones AMR2 had.

>>49900773
Never got to play it; the site's been cease&desisted already. Surely there's a copy floating about?

>>49900776
It's the fate of the Chozo race as a whole that's most mysterious, since so many different colonies of them seemed to exit in its own manner. I actually appreciate the setting for having a Precursor style ultra race that is on its way out the door in obscurity by the start.

>>49900725
>Social side
Eeh. The biggest strengths have always been the exploration and puzzle shenanigans, I'd rather have more exploration shenanigans.

I know it's not terribly original, but cross the zero mission zero suit and SA-X sections, and toss a healthy dose of Dead Space in there.

>>49900773
That's definitely a matter of opinion, but it's at least better than Fusion.

>>49900769
Tonari no Kyuuketsuki-san

>>49900776
>the Chozo Ghosts Samus encounters are spirits pulled back to reality by Phazon.
Though they were Chozo that weren't able to fully die. Something to do with the Leviathan's seal?

>>49900794
I found that to be one of the weirder parts. Due to how different the Fusion & Metroid 2 Omega Metroids are, ways of killing them, flight, etc, I couldn't even tell it was the Omega Metroids. It felt especially odd given how much was imported from other Metroid games.

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>>49900750
I kind of want to see a Super Mario Sunshine game where Samus is just trying to relax on a pleasure world but shit just keeps going horribly wrong until it's a massive clusterfuck of missiles.

>>49900813
I'm imagining the social as being mostly bar fights, intimidation segments to really Vader out, and cases of dead silent observation. Not actual chatter trees and dialogue wheels.

>>49900818
Thank you kindly.

>>49900818
*Thought

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>>49900818
>We have returned to Tallon IV, borne here against our will by a great cataclysm from the reaches of space. A meteor came, casting a dark shadow of debris over the land with the violence of its impact. Though we perceived this from beyond space and time, it was but a curiosity: a brief flare in the universe. But the meteor brought with it corruption. A Great Poison burst forth into the land, clawing at life with such violence that we were ripped from our peaceful state and find ourselves wandering as shadows of the mortal forms we left behind, searching for why we are here.

One of the log entries from Metroid Prime. I interpreted it to mean Chozo Ghosts.

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>>49900725

Set over an entire sector of space, you have to track down leads, hunt pirates, beat information out of them, and assemble the clues you receive to learn the location of the final level-planet.

>>49900840
>Master Chief, Doom Guy, and Samus together on a vacation

>>49900801 Ask >>>/v/ for a torrent, plenty of them have it.

>>49900725
>Give your ideal Metroid game/setting concept

You play as space pirates.

It's a horror game.

>>49900840
I have a different proposal: She shows up at a not-fully-infested-by-weird-alien-hijinks station and has to deal with the survivors. Some of the survivors are, naturally, infected and about to explode into chryssalids. Drop Double-Batman-In-A-Walking-Tank into the situation and have the player make choices for who lives and dies, including getting survivors to safety or just letting them deal with the insane wildlife themselves.

Really, that's another thing, >>49900750
Wherever she goes, the wildlife is incredibly deadly and a threat to people wearing a walking tank.

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>>49900887
That is the exact idea for my one shot

The enemies are going to be a remote Samus cloning facility gone berserk

>>49900880
Actually I went looking for it and found this

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>>49900859
Isn't that Chozo migrating to Tallon IV to deal the the Leviathan spotted from Elysia?

>>49900583
im from europe and i love metroid

>>49900887
Those logs in prime were the fucking best.

>Log 11.222.8

>Science Team is attempting to reverse-engineer Samus Aran's arsenal, based off data acquired from her assaults on our forces. Progress is slow, but steady. Command would dearly enjoy turning Aran's weapons against her. We believe we can implement Beam weapon prototypes in three cycles. Aran's Power Suit technology remains a mystery, especially the curious Morph Ball function. All attempts at duplicating it have ended in disaster; four test subjects were horribly broken and twisted when they engaged our Morph Ball prototypes. Science Team wisely decided to move on afterward.

>>49900899
>>49900887
Dark Heresy, then?

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>>49900916 I loved the Pirates sense of desperation. Also how they always came off as more competent than the Federation.

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>>49900943
I love the feeling that Prime 1-3 gave them, of being this legitimate threat of a nation hellbent on insect-like crazed resource acquisition and conquering of space. Their incompetence is scary because their reckless ways STILL produces results they can use, and quickly. It'd also legitimize the stale-bread Fusion plot of the Bad Federation, if you painted it as their own mad push to keep ahead of the threat and preserve a tenuous peace.

>>49900943
The federation always struck me as a bunch of twats anyway.
>Oh fuck space pirates are fucking everything up with cloned metroids
>Samus blows them all up
>Let's clone some more for shits and giggles, with even fewer safety regs

>Space pirates are fucking everything up with semisentient mutagenic blue jello
>Samus blows it all up
>We should ALSO fuck with it because reasons
>Samus gets knocked out
>We should totally stick completely experimental blue jello booster systems into all the superfriends while they're unconcious

>Oh fuck, the X virus is ruining everything
>Samus gets knocked out
>Let's stick metroid stuff in her while she's knocked out and see what happens

>>49900899

>>Go into the lab to see the results of the latest batch
>>They tried taking out the human DNA segments to see what would happen
>>The lead scientist is just standing there
>>Touch him, he crumbles to dust
>>(Metroid scream in the distance)

>>49900878

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihH88jPOTMw

>>49900982
>if you painted it as their own mad push to keep ahead of the threat and preserve a tenuous peace.
>keep ahead of the threat
Space Pirates were wiped out before Fusion.

I guess there's still the Kriken Empire?

>>49900834
>Please help us, someone's been leaving graffiti ALL over town!
>... how much are you paying?

less than 3h 15min later.........

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>>49892058
Remodelled shithole/10.

>>49900223
I like to think of it as an early draft of Federation propaganda to turn people against Samus. The events still happened, just not the way they were portrayed in the game.

The big difference is that when Samus showed up to the station and was talking with the marines that were already there, one of them mutters something about how anyone could do what she does with her arsenal, so she turns almost everything off to show that it's not the suit, it's her. Instead of Adam authorizing things, he's calling her up and desperately begging her to turn her upgrades back on so she can finish what she's doing faster.

>>49901216
Samus low% runs just to show up some fuckers who be frontin

canon

>>49892058
Pathfinder:
Human Aegis 3/Soulknife (Soulbolt) 17 with Student of the Astral Suit. Slap your DM until he lets you use the high-psionics variant of Soulknife with 4th-level manifesting, then fluff that as power suit abilities.

>>49900609
>>49900703
>Samus is a Sexy Amazonian Eldritch Horror of planetary destruction

>>49901001
>>They tried taking out the human DNA segments to see what would happen
>TFW SamusClone comes out exactly the same as the original


>

>>49901379
Sir, I did not think my boner could get bigger but by God it did

>>49900684
Fusion was both.
The parasites came from the planet, so she dropped the space station onto it and blew it the fuck up to make sure they never spread, or to make sure the federation full retards wouldn't try to weaponise one of the only things on fiction more terrifying and potentially apocalyptic than the thing.

>>49900672
Give Google a run for Metroid Marines. Might be something that'd interest you. I'd upload it myself but I don't have the pdf on me

>>49901379
>>49901390
>Eldritch Horror Samus
Think she has a cult?

>>49900760
And a cute ass.

>>49900878
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9pW7PpypMU
For reference Doomguy would be Lautrec in this, Samus is Solaire and MC is Oscar.

>"Oh god what is that creature!"
>"Look at those soulless eyes!"
>"IT MUST BE A DEMON! LET'S KILL IT!"

>>49901804
Nice tits too

>>49901671
Maybe, but they probably have a radically incorrect idea of what she looks like.

>>49900594
Team Ninja was hamstrung by Nintendo. They didn't even get a chance to fuck things up for themselves so don't go blaming any of Other M failures on them.

>>49900901
Thank you, anon.

Downloading to my phone until I can transfer it.

>>49901956
It's still my headcanon that she's one of the 2 unnamed primarchs. Which would explain a lot.

>and I can't seem to find my saved greentext about it

>>49901956
Radically how?
They think she's some faceless horror when she's really a 10/10 Amazon or they think she's musclegirl fapbait and she's really some betentecaled horror?

>>49902697
The former.

>>49901252
This. It even does the freezing blasts. Don't forget to take the Charged Shot, Psionic Grapnel and Telekinetic Athleticism blade skills. And stick the Trailblazer archetype on aegis for better exploration abilities.

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Somewhat relevant.

Also
Downy
Feather
P U B E S

>>49901847
Soon enough we'll be having relevant mods that add them into Deathwing.

>>49901847
ThePruld is a gift unto the Souls community.
Episode 3 when tho?

>>49901956
>>49902697
>>49902713
>Cult of HorrorSamus starts causing trouble, believing their dark goddess is coming to usher in the apocalypse
>Samus get hired to wipe them out

>>49902927
What a tweest.

The funniest shit was where Relic wanted to put bounty missions in 2, and the Japanese denied them, saying "Samus wouldn't do that, she's a good person."

Nintendo had a radically different idea of what a bounty hunter was than America did.

>>49900643
I'm an American and this is true.

>>49903179
I think the nips said they meant 'mercenary' instead of 'bounty hunter' but things were lost in translation

I wish Samus had black hair. T_T

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>>49902927
>golden power armor with rocket launcher on right arm & hand/power fist on other
Maybe even the Inquisition are fans.

>>49903629
>merecenary - someone who does things solely for pay; a mercenary fighter who fights for the highest bidder
>bounty hunter - someone not from the government who captures criminals and fugitives for pay
At least a bounty hunter might be working for a legit gubmint and believe in their ideals. A mercenary just believes in your money.

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>>49900583
how is it weird?

americans love alien

>>49902859
god forgive me between this and the eldritch cult

>>49905187
I wonder if Samus would be considered an abhuman or a xeno.

>>49892058
Aegis

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>>49900326
can we please sue Nintendo for mishandling this series so badly?

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>>49905531

>>49905373
She literally has alien DNA so yes

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>>49905566
Is this what it's like being a salaryman in Japan? A project manager says some dumb shit and everyone else just stands there with his cock in their hands like "yes, of course mr nagasaki" while one guy in the room mentally prepares for sudoku because he has to live with the consequences?

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>>49905566
>Ha ha! (laughs)

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>>49905646
as far as i can tell yes

to much respect for elders in spite of CLEAR fucking senility
its basically why Nintendo is slowly killing itself

>>49905652
hold it together brother, the hate train has barely cleared the top of the rollercoaster

>>49905646
Yeah. In the other counties the man calling the shots has different surname and the sucker that will have to deal with the consequences prepares for getting a new job instead.

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>>49905678

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>>49905697

>>49901252
let's not forget about the metaforge PrC

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>>49900672
boop

The coolest metroid character besides samus was that robot that got into a meh for combat.
I am eternally asspained he got fucked over so bad.

>>49900583
It's kind of Backwards, Metroid is popular in Japan, but Other-M was received better there than Prime.

Puts Nintendo over a barrel though, as either way they'll be pissing a lot of people off with whichever game they release.

>>49906170
>Other-M was received better there than Prime

Why do the Japanese have such shit taste?

>>49906197
Basically Japan still has some very fucked up attitudes regarding gender, and IIRC Other M was conceived as an attempt (basically influenced/done by Team Ninja) to make Samus more "traditionally feminine" according to traditional Japanese standards (i.e. submissive, obedient, quiet, modest, and willing to be dominated and mistreated by men).

>>49903629
Do-gooder actually. They're really uncomfortable with the idea of bounty hunters over there.

>>49892058
Level 20 barbarian

>>49905566
To be fair, it may explain why Samus in Fusion's opening and the SA-X don't look like they have the Gravity Suit. No purplish outline against the Omega Metroid though.

>>49906197
Japan hates anything even vaguely resembling a First Person Shooter, seeing them as both ultra-nerdy and ultra-violent.
That most FPSes are PC games doesn't help, since Japan has a phobia of computers.

>>49906421
It's supposed to be more in line with her manga portrayal. She's still an emotional wreck who somewhat recovers.

>>49906519
Other M was clearly inspired by the manga, but it contradicts the manga constantly. And both Fusion and Zero Mission already tie into the manga directly.

>>49906519
But she literally pointed her blaster at Malkovich's face in the manga because she thought he might raise objections about her going to Zebes. She was clearly not putting up with his shit.

>>49900740
Oh it's absolutely overrated purely to spite Nintendo. It's still neat.

>>49906539
The problem is, some of the contradictions aren't really contradictions & I've seen times where Prime & elsewhere had some contradictions too. Fusion's Omega Metroid is absolutely nothing alike the Metroid 2 ones. No Super Missiles & just Ice Beam? I wonder what it must have been like making that Metroid 2 fangame & having these two different portrayals in mind.

>>49906421
Don't blame Team Ninja for that game, they were basically the code monkeys; the blame all goes to the director Sakamoto.
(source: I was super hyped for this game and watched all the development behind the scenes videos before launch) fuck what a disappointment

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>>49906582
And Adam didn't raise any objections, because he trusted Samus despite having just met her. Yet in Other M he doesn't trust her at all.

>>49906582
So? Even in the other m flashbacks she bickered with him & eventually left. It's blatantly obvious that Samus is older, has an overly affectionate view of Adam which even the Fusion computer called her out on, and is more willing to cooperate given how they have similar goals & Zebes is too destroyed, not to mention a shell of its former self prior, to care about.

>>49906635
As someone who isn't a fan of Other M, there's such things as people's opinions changing. Samus did leave him right after he sacrificed his brother to become a bounty hunter.

>arguing about Metroid lore
Anything that is said in a cutscene (as opposed to text logs or showing it without any dialogue) is almost always mind-bogglingly stupid.

Metroid lore was always about "show, don't tell" and piecing information together from vague clues and text logs.

Other M fucked that up royally. Fusion is also kinda guilty of that.

>>49906808
I don't remember much of that in Super Metroid's pretty well crafted minimalist story.

>>49906511
this whole posts makes my head full of fuck

jesus japan was nuked to softly

>>49907017
I'll be honest, the number of bland military shooters in the market is enough to turn me off. Now everyone's going all future space shooter. What started this trend anyway? Halo? No, too early. Black Ops 2? Maybe.

>>49907042
CoD4 unfortunately. During it's time, it was the freshest best thing in the market. Then everyone started copying it, they started copying themselves and here we are.

Still, when you pile up trash like Black Ops with fucking Bioshock, you deserve a nutshot, even if you are a whole country.

>>49906511
it also doesn't help japanese are literally retarded, like 2 nukes weren't enough levels of retarded. seriously, their society is inefficient as almighty shit and their suicide rate is through the roof for seriously retarded reasons. It also doesn't help at all strata of their society everyone is corrupt as shit as well as shitting on everyone below themselves constantly; where a singular fuck up will destroy you and your family for the next 9 generations.
its a special brand of holy fuck you guys are actually retarded.

>>49907042
>What started this trend anyway?
sci fi shooter?
Doom

military shooter?
Wolfenstein

>>49907115
Wolfenstein probably had a big part, fuck I love that game series

>>49907088
Come on, you know how saturated the market is. Ever since some time, it isn't just COD4 & its more or less modern warfare, no pun intended. By some point it was starting to become like the later COD games & future warfare with some rather questionable frankenguns. Seriously, /k/ sometimes has threads about fictional weapons & I'm not the only one who cringes at someone crappy attempts to be futuristic. BO3's weapon designs were so hit or miss.

>>49907017
To be fair, most people who use computers to game in Japan are playing porn game.

>>49907145
>yfw New Order Nazis were literally stealing from the Jews
>all their technology was based on crap stolen from an ancient Jewish society
I wonder how /pol/ would react to that.

>>49907251
As opposed to the rest of the world?

>>49907266
I use it to browse image boards.

>>49907346
nerd

>>49901924
And those thighs...

>>49900760
>>49901804
>>49901924
>>49907499
>>49900754
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQDPuODPLDw

>>49907254
I thought it was kinda funny, killing Jews and taking over the world with Jew stuff.

>>49907621
Cracked me up

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>>49907621
Is this still the starbomb song with the most fan animations? There's so many of them.

>>49907743
To be fair, there aren't that many good songs on Starbomb albums. I consider, like, five, maybe six of them good overall.

>>49907764
A lot of them are funny, they're just funny once. I lost my shit and spewed tea through my nose the first time I heard Toad Joins The Band, but didn't put it up for listening after that.

>>49907889
No, I meant, like, I dunno, musically good or something.
Something you'd like to listen simply because it's catchy. They have a couple of such songs, but they are rare and scattered all over their albums.

>>49907042
>Now everyone's going all future space shooter.
>What started this trend anyway?
Future Space Shooter specifically? That goes back to Tribes, but Halo made it big.

>>49907743
https://youtu.be/Ky-eaH9C1l0
https://youtu.be/8Tienbh0J5U
https://youtu.be/70Ph_aAw0x0
https://youtu.be/TrGxcoYCJzc
https://youtu.be/oKfNwE6WcDA
https://youtu.be/k7t16w8YFR4
https://youtu.be/SkWEy5W4IN4
https://youtu.be/7vIUsNXpS_A
https://youtu.be/r_B2LRrdgqM

>>49907743
>>49908328
Her bits in "Another Villain" are also pretty funny.

>>49907092
>Be Japanese
>Nod my head agreeing throughout your entire post

Oh fuck. We are screwed.

>>49908906
Well, to be fair, you have your better points.

You don't have bans on research in genetics and cloning, so I've been thinking of trying out for getting my PhD somewhere in Asian countries.

But the whole "seniority is more important than actual talent" business is frankly turning me off.

>>49900583
Its for the same reason Cowboy Bebop was more popular in America then in Japan. They were made by people who were really into western films and style and as a result ended up alienating their own domestic audience.

After-all western developers have had a pretty good track record in making Metroid games both official and unofficial while in house Japanese developers just don't seem to "get it" in the last decade after losing the westaboos from the development staff.

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>>49909002
>don't have bans on research in genetics and cloning
That explains everything.

>>49900583
THE MUSIC THOUGH

Taking a moment to comment on how the sounds of the SA-X's footsteps are legitimately one of the most terrifying sounds I have ever heard in a video game.

>>49906511
>seeing them as both ultra-nerdy and ultra-violent.
Yeah, that Attack on Titan cartoon is A-OK tho

>>49910970
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO-x7j5RyGc

>>49911288
Normal people don't watch anime in Japan.

>>49911448
Normal people don't watch anime in general tbf

>>49911540
Hey, watching anime for fun is fine and dandy.
Immersing yourself in "anime culture", however...

Honestly, the best animufags I've met in my life were people who did just that - watched anime.
They didn't buy related merch, they didn't show in conversation and their powerlevel was almost undetectable - not because they consciously hid it, but because it was just another hobby for them.

>>49900672
Deathwatch/Space Hulk

>>49900887
It's like a Reverse-Alien.
A pack of Xenomorph scientists desperately trying to an unstoppable Human that's hunting them in their own ship.

>>49905706
The thing that always gets me the most about Other M is how fuckers like MovieBlob and Preston worship it as the best game in the series, despite howling about sexism in every other game they see

This thread has convinced me that I need to replay the Prime Trilogy. Thanks guys.

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>>49912102
movieblob was always cringe worthy, but its what made it clear to me that they specifically are regressive sjw's

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>>49900887
>>49911991
>Game starts, lots of safe areas, the Hunter located largely around exits and some backwater corridors
>As the game progresses you start losing safe areas, the Hunter is somehow getting even more dangerous
>Defence mechs are decimated, corpses of your colleagues litter what used to be safe havens
>The Hunter barrels through the science labs, containment breaches everywhere
>Nowhere is safe anymore

>>49912280
I remember going right in Super Metroid at first. It wasn't long before you have to go down & then backtrack though.

>>49901847
Don't you mean this?
https://youtu.be/bzJDimvPW1Y

>>49912655
dont forget "why are you looking for the sun in the abyss"

>>49911346
The moment 2 SA-X's appeared on the screen I shat myself

>>49912949
likewise. that and the music for it discovering you was fuckign terrifying when i first played it
didnt really wear off until like, the fifth run or so.

>>49912949
We never got confirmation if the SA-X you encounter is always the same one until restricted labs or if they're different ones.

>>49913471
Well, I mean, ADAM refers to it as "The" SA-X. So there's that.
Also we're told that it's an organism that's basically hijacked the organic portions of your Varia Suit, so while it could potentially divide it probably wouldn't be able to replicate your systems.
Though honestly, who fucking knows.

>>49913558
It seems to have just about everything Samus did though.

>>49913629
Well yeah, because it had your suit with all your abilities.
I was just saying it's unlikely that there could be multiple SA-X's because they probably couldn't replicate the suit itself.

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>>49913558
>>49913706
Near the end of the game ADAM mentions that there are approximately 11 SA-X on board the station. Fucking 11. Try to imagine a universe where there are 11 evil Samus Arans running around, capable of reproducing asexually. You probably can't, because at that point there is no universe.

There's also a scene during the Restricted Lab where an SA-X gets overwhelmed by Metroids before the sector gets ejected and self-destructs; so you do see at least one SA-X die before you actually fight another. Given that Samus personally saw two of them, I think it's unlikely ADAM lied about anything related to the SA-X of their numbers.

Part of the reason the X are so pants shittingly terrifying is that they CAN replicate Samus' suit. There's another boss that's basically an X that downloaded the Varia suit data before you could get to it, and they also do things like take over the security robot, mimic Chozo Statues, and every single beam weapon Samus gets in Fusion. Even the plasma beam was assimilated by them, so they're pretty high on the galactic apocalypse scale.

>>49913737
Oh shit, I fucking forgot that part.
Goddamn, I should replay it but the R-Trigger on my GBA is borked.
Anyone know any good emulators?

>>49913558
Yes but Adam is a cunt and absolutely not to be trusted. So it's really at least as likely as not that he's either wrong or intentionally lying.

>>49913737
>Try to imagine a universe where there are 11 evil Samus Arans running around, capable of reproducing asexually.
>SA-X is the penultimate lifeform
>If Samus hadn't stopped them they'd have replaced all other life in the universe with an infinite number of them

>>49913786
robo adam and other m adam are not remotely the same character in execution, i cannot believe anyone has to point that out

>>49913776
VBA-M.

>>49900627
>vomits phazon
As someone with a recent food sickness, that hurts just to think about

>>49913786
>implying you can't trust the a.i. who was keeping secrets from you, didn't want you to get the diffusion missiles & was working for the Federation

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>>49913814
Robot adam is less of a cunt than real adam, but still a cunt who shouldn't be trusted with anything.

>any objections
Yeah I want a ship that doesn't give me fucking lip.

None of this would have happened if I had a Daneship.

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>>49914091
A Dane ship would be pretty boss.

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>>49914156
They should've stuck to the original design.

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>>49914156
I kinda wish they went for the peg leg and eyepatch. Shame they'll never have dane in another game again, unless the stars align and retro gets to do another metroid title.

>>49914185
>>49914188
Danemind

You know, OP's pic finally made me realize something very important. How the fuck did Samus see shit on either side of her with those ridiculous shoulder pads?

>>49914453
Tactical Visor. Shit's amazing.

>>49914453
It's a 2-d game, all she had to worry about is stuff coming from behind.
You just can't see them pull back when looking around in the prime games.

>>49914156
This webm reminds me that after the Fed Scientists saved/gave a phazon injector to samus, they threw their fucking logo on her chest. What cunts.

>>49914671
Given how everyone loves to reverse engineer Chozo technology, it was only a matter of time before someone did that.

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bump

>wake up in absolute darkness
>turn into a morph ball, power bomb your way out
>confused, no idea where you are, last memory is blacking out in your ship
>break out of the locked room you're in, people start shooting at you
>defend yourself and run out, duck into a vent and hide to figure things out
>suddenly a version of you in a blue suit shows up and starts firing at you
>know that a doppelganger of you would cause massive damage if allowed out
>start sabotaging this other you by changing the climate control and power functions throughout the station
>finally have a showdown with your doppelganger, who is now much stronger
>she kicks your ass
>and then you suddenly react and change, turning into a monster
>run off, realize what has happened to you, that you are not *you*
>check station systems, see that the station is in a decaying orbit and will impact the planet
>it's just what you would have done
>see an Omega Metroid on the cams in the space dock
>know your doppelganger--the real you--is getting her ass kicked
>go and sacrifice yourself for her survival

SA-X was the real hero.

>>49915665
I've always felt that way, that the SA-X gained sentience and when it realized it was a just a phony, it forfeited it's life to mean something not just be some defunct clone

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>>49900258

>>49916442
>>49900258
See, this is why today's webcomics are horrible.

The unedited version fucks up royally - IT EXPLAINS THE FUCKING PUNCHLINE.

A lot of people bitch about excessive text in comics, but this is a prime example of excessive VISUALS in comics.

The same joke is delivered better through three panels as opposed to five. It's more concise and more funny.

I feel like we need a hero we don't deserve. Some sort of Thog that would deal not only with text, but also with visuals.

>>49906808
Fusion felt like they were attempting something new, other m felt like a vanity project gone wrong

>>49900725
>>49900871
The "bounty hunter" part of Samus was only put by the japanese who thought it sounded cool. When they found out WHAT a bounty hunter was, they were horrified. Prime 1 was supposed to have bounty hunting side missions, which is how they found out.

Put simply: She's a mercenary, and they used cool words that they didn't understand.

>>49905099
Japan hears "Mercenary" and thinks "honorable ronin who swore loyalty to no lord"

>>49917201
>ronin
>honorable

>>49917113
Not even mercenary. Going by the other hunters we see "Bounty Hunter" is just Feddie speak for space hero.

>>49917235
Except by the series' own admission all the "space heroes" are getting paid for their services.

>>49917228
Japan sees "Ronin" the same way americans see Clint Eastwood type cowboys or Europe would see wandering knight errants

A little rough around the edges, but they do what's "right" in the end because personal pride/honor is more important than money.

>>49917306
Then they have it completely backwards. The whole point of a mercenary action is that it's done because of money, not because ideals or principles.

>>49900725
Starts with you trapped inside a massive structure without an explanation other than the walls having been cracked open and the area being heavily damaged. The space pirates hijacked a chozo construction system and caused it to go out of control massively overbuilding the structure. Going down the structure is more like chozo construction until it intermixes with actual chozo ruins. Going up eventually leads to the space pirate base which is itself constantly moving further out as the structure grows.

As you go on though the game though you have all sorts of problems, clearly having been infected with something, and finding clues as to what it is. Until just a little bit into the game you fight a space pirate general when you have a massive fit in the middle of the fight and get crushed. Next thing is a cutscene of Samus landing on the platform you were fighting the general on and finding your remains. Turns out you were a clone that was created by the space pirates and now you will playing as the actual Samus(who pulls something out of the first suit of armor and seems to live through everything that happened until then) where you have to track down the other clones for their equipment, and to try and stop the space pirates from cloning you.

>>49913776

Just use visualboy advance, I've played fusion for the first time in there and never had any problems

>>49916409
>>49915665

I personally am a fan that it just dropped everything and anything else when it saw a Metroid there and went full on murder kill kill rape kill mode. Instincts and all that.

Remember the SA-X going berserk on the baby metroids earlier in the game?

I just have a giggle thinking that for all the stoic horror the moment anything metroid appears the SA-X drops everything to go "FUCKING METROIDS GET OFF MY UNIVERSE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

>>49912231
I'm one of those people that hasn't yet played it.

I agree with your point.

>>49917885

Same

>tfw no good gamecube emulator

>tfw first metroid game ever was Fusion

Every time I hear people talking smack about it being too linear I feel a pang because of nostalgia, but what can you do

So, question

Could Samus defeat The Boss?

Zero Suit, stun/whip blaster only.

>>49917940
Wait.

>first good Metroid game was fusion
Nigga, you best be joking.

The original was hard as Hell, especially for its time, and Metroid 2 was just as difficult if not more so. soI consider them both fun as fuck.

Why would you say that something that was developed decades after the original was the first one that was fun?

>>49918011

No nigga, I meant that the first metroid I ever played was fusion.

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>>49913737
>There are 11 SA-X on board the station
Jesus Christ was that terrifying the first time I saw it

>>49917991
She's harder, better, faster, stronger than a regular human, right? How's her CQC?

>>49918238
Bad

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I know it wasn't great, but I really enjoyed Prime 3, it was fun.

I really liked the evolution of the suit. It felt more natural, unlike the usual "BAM, NEW SUIT!"

>>49918238
>>49918305

Is it? I was under the impression that she's pretty good at it, but I don't think I really have much of a source

I don't think a hardened veteran would be bad at CQC even with all the power armor in the world.

>>49917940
I thought Dolphin was a decent enough emulator now?

>>49917251
They still have to eat and such.

>>49918351
What the fuck do bird people know about martial arts? She can probably box your face off but the boss's CQC is high tier

>>49918443

Hasn't she been active as a bounty hunter for years after the chozo got exterminated?

I mean, she probably picked up some good moves just to keep herself alive

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>>49918443
>What the fuck do bird people know about martial arts?

They have the best kicks.

>>49918498
>chozo battle suit
>chozo soldier genes
why would she need formal weapons training

>>49918522
She gets chumped on by all sorts of stupid shit when it gets into melee range. Stuff like those hoppers

>>49918534
maybe you should have fired more missiles at them

>>49918522
>>49918534

So not even Samus can beat The Boss, god damn.

Needs more power bombs, I suppose.

>>49918561
Exactly. The solution is always "use a bigger gun" and "bitch, dodge", not CQC.

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>>49918238
Samus once punched a guy through a wall.

>>49918569
The Boss would be literally powerless in the face of even a bare minimum Varia Suit. Samus's baseline stats are extremely impressive, but her strength lies in her tools, she's not really prepared to fight without them.

>>49918637
She also turns into Solid Snake as soon as she loses the suit.
>>49918620
He seems to be wearing a copy of her suit

>>49918655
>She also turns into Solid Snake as soon as she loses the suit.
not really, considering she can't actually do anything to the pirates without her suit

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>>49917991
>ZSS vs. The Boss
i think we all win no matter the result

>>49918669

True, but the pirates are space lobsters with what you can assume is a tough exoskeleton

That doesn't really say much if she can't choke them with her bare hands

>>49918698
snake can punch walls down with his bare hands, though

>>49918726

Are we talking brick walls, or "hey-we-better-make-those-steel-walls-really-sturdy-because-we-are-in-fucking-space" walls?

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>>49918655
>He seems to be wearing a copy of her suit
Yeah, he was using it to commit crimes and have her take the blame. He then forced her to break her Arm Cannon, thinking she'd be defenseless without it.

>>49918769
>it's the escaped convict D'Angelo!
Did Araki write this?

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>>49918769
>Samus and Joey
Damn do I love that series.

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>>49918620
Don't forget the time she KO'd someone who'd stolen her Screw Attack by kicking their exact center of rotation.

>>49900583
In addition to everything said by
>>49900643
>>49905131
>>49906170
>>49909429
Western audiences like open-ended games much more than Japanese audiences. Thus, one of the biggest draws to the series in the west is something many Japanese players are indifferent or even hostile to. Other M, the one Metroid game received better in Japan than in the rest of the world, is ultra-linear. This is one of the many aspects of Other M that royally pissed off western fans of the series.

>>49918844
>Samus as The Woman with No Name

>>49918904
But I thought the Japs loved the chance to work to achieve a golden ending

>>49918922
They do, but for them the appeal is less "Congratulations! You explored enough to find every secret." and more "Congratulations! You did everything right."

>>49918669
Athleticism, recon and infiltration. Without the suit she can climb, jump, sneak, hide and probably shoot with the very best, but melee is not her strong suit.

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>>49918983
To be fair, most of the enemies she encounters aren't really the types that melee would be particularly effective against. I mean, look at these things. Where are you even supposed to punch them?

>>49919013

The answer is always the eye.

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>always thought the federation troopers were cool
>always wanted a spin-off game where you played as one and learned more about the federation itself
>mfw it actually happened
oh well

>>49919117
What about the ones that don't have eyes.

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>>49918443
Before they went into decline, the Chozo were a warrior race that conquered most of the galaxy.

>>49917113 c also: Captain Falcon
Though I think he actually does *some* bounty hunting.

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>>49900495
I wanna fug that burd

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>>49919610
>Though I think he actually does *some* bounty hunting.

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>>49919683
So, is Captain Falcoln related to Judge Dredd?

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>>49919714
I don't see why not

>>49919683
>>49919697
>>49919710
>>49919725

I really want a Samus/Captain Falcon crossover story with them hunting together.

>>49919803
Sounds like a great co-op game to be honest. The Cap is mid-to-short range with his pistol and CQC, Samus is mid-to-long range.

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>>49919846
Too bad neither franchise gets much love anymore so it won't happen. At least we have Smash.

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>>49918983
There is bit in the manga where Samus floors some GF Police while dressed as Carmen Sandiego. She does have some skill in hand to hand combat, but she's not really a master of it.

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>>49920024
Are we doing this now

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>>49920160
Is this the comic where Samus beats the shit out of every single criminal on the station with her bare hands?

>starsharks
Fan-fucking-tastic.

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>>49920269

*pours one out for Syren*

>>49918038
Apologies.

To be fair, I haven't slept in a while and I'm stuck at work, so my speed reading comprehension is down.

>>49920282
>Thar jean/varsity jacket combo

Lol

I want a new 2D Metroid with semi-random SA-X encounters.

You're revealed to be the last SA-X that barely survived Fusion's end hunted by the real Samus

>>49919683
You know who made this? Jim Shooter, the greatest editor to ever live.

>>49918669
I took that as being less 'Samus can't do shit' as 'Space Pirates really are THIS nasty, and are only easy to beat normally because Samus in the Power Suit is that strong, this is why the Federation is having such trouble with them'

>>49915665
This is now my new headcanon.

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>>49920282
These have me reminiscing about all those comics in the middle of old Nintendo Power magazines.

>mfw I still have a bunch of them