Stat me /tg/

Like Samus, and just so.

>>51462877
Samus with a vulnerability: Metroid

>>51462860
The gargantuan musclegirl Samus from Nintendo Power will always be canon in my heart

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>>51462877
Good to see this meme is still up and running.

>>51462860
Big girl.

>>51463585
I need to see this.

>>51462860
Can't, my copy of Feng Shui is in the box right now so I can't give you an abomination writeup.

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Been playing Prime today, so I was thinking... How strong is Samus, really? I mean, a lot of what she does is the suit. Jumpan and shootan are mostly the suit giving her lockons and things like space jump boots.
I know one source has her being brought up on a 100G planet, and while I love the idea of an unarmoured Samus surprising people by being able to pick up cars thanks to magic bird DNA science; I don't think it's canon considering she doesn't just punch her way to victory.

Basically, if I compared Samus to a regular Federation trooper or generic human soldier, how strong is she sans chozo suits?

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>>51464255

>>51464399
That's the conundrum isn't it? We just don't have much hard lore for her abilities without her suit outside of that one part in Metroid Zero Mission. But if we were to base her abilities on that, then she's would already be much stronger than even a top condition natural human. During that mission, she routinely survive multiple melee attacks from giant space pirate soldiers (contact), their laser beams; she could jump as high as she does in her suit and wall jumps (so the suit essentially just off-sets its own weight and give her the space jump ability) and run almost as fast as the space pirate soldier. All under super high gravity (100G canonically, which is so high it's a bit silly). Given all this, her choice to fight at a range is just a result of her training and preference. This makes sense since she is probably a stickler for efficiency, given how much time she spend during each mission on gathering different upgrades.

>>51464928
>given how much time she spend during each mission on gathering different upgrades
You mean about 25% different and 75% the same stuff she lost 5 minutes ago

>>51462877
That's the SA-X anon. It got gangraped by baby Metroids.

>>51464451
I wish I had half the balls Samus has. She rushed after Ridley in Super Metroid with nothing but Power Suit, Power Beam & not even morph ball.

>>51465223
Do you think Samus has this massive space warehouse filled with gravity suit upgrades and plasma beam cannons somewhere?
>"I really need to get around to organising this place at some point... next time."

>>51464451
WTF IS WRONG WITH HER NECK

>>51465665
She presumably gives some of them back. Prime 2's upgrades are easily explained as situational & unneeded outside the Dark Aether. Prime 3's phazon shit is explainable but not the Ice Missiles, Plasma beam, etc. Most confusing is Super Metroid happening right after Metroid 2. I guess she donated her gear to scientists or something. She could become rich if she patented her gear.

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>>51464399
If you are willing to take the manga as canon (it was hosted on Nintendo's website and there are manga panels on the Japanese version of Zero Mission) Samus can jump good, fall on the ground hard enough to create a crater deeper than she's tall (she was four years old then) and be barely bruised,

>>51465865
Is the manga canon? Some of the things there don't match up to Zero Mission despite Zero Mission having Old Bird & the ruins.

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>>51465865
As I said, it was hosted by Nintendo's official site.
And there are a few panels made by the manga's artist (and depicting manga only characters) on Fusion's cartridge (you need to activate parental controls on the Japanese version to see the panels)

>>51465865
>there are manga panels on the Japanese version of Zero Mission
There are some in the English version, too, like pictures of babby Samus in some of the endings.

>>51465908
It's like... pseudocanon. I'd consider it canon until they overrule it in games.

>>51462860
can't crawl/10

>>51466288
If the SA-X can do everything Samus can, then it can If Zero Mission taught us anything. It's just that doing so in the suit scuffs the finish, and it is a bitch to clean.

>>51467019
>It's just that doing so in the suit scuffs the finish, and it is a bitch to clean.
That begs the question, would the SA-X be able to just 'refresh' itself by doing that creepy waver the X do to get rid of stains and marks, or would it actually be forced to clean it?

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>>51464399
It's hard to say. In the suit I'd say she's capable of lifting around 10 tons or so, since in the manga she could punch through robots that resist missiles, and in Other M she could lift and throw a lava whale physically. There aren't really any other examples of her physical strength in any media, since she favors ranged combat.

Out of suit, though, she has shown some super athleticism. Capable of jumping 20+ feet in the manga and fast enough to jump in from of an energy weapon before her suit had even finished materializing. She knows at least a little hand to hand and could take on several members of the Federation Police unarmed. Otherwise, again, not much on her physical abilities.

>>51464928
>100G canonically

Technically it's not really canon, just an extrapolation from given information. The origin of the figure is that the given mass of Zebes was off by an order of magnitude, the actual number making it over 800 times as dense as Earth. And because mass affects gravity, some fans calculated the gravity Zebes should have at that mass, and it ended up being something stupid like 860 times the gravity of Earth.

So yeah, Zebes' gravity has never been officially given, that number is a calculation based on some official numbers that HAVE been given but are widely believed to be a typo. For the record the scan says something like 4 trillion teratons, but if you replace that with 4 billion teratons instead, you get a much more reasonable figure that's actually slightly smaller than Earth, IIRC.

>>51462860
SA-X≥10

>>51462860
SA-X stats:
>TPK
>Vulnerable to: Metroids
>Weapon: Ice Beam

What do you think Samus even does when not being... SAMUS ARAN, BOUNTY HUNTER and just Samus?
Her gunship doesn't look like there's a lot of space in there after all the tech, so I can't imagine she lives in it. And if she does, wow that puts a rather sad filter to her badass life.

>>51467762

Considering that, according to the Japs, she does everything for free, it would not be out of the question for her to live out of her car.

>>51467762
She's got Bird magic. That ship's big & fast enough to head to the nearest space hotel.

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>>51467762
>limited space
>a problem

>>51467844
Can we talk about the morph ball? It's simultaneously one of the most amazing and impractical abilities she has.

Technically it's astounding. Becoming energy, with a physical presence being a small sphere that can drop bombs and boost around? That's incredible.
But you have to wonder what the magic space birds were thinking when they decided that yesz this was something their warriors needed. The ability to become meter wide spheres, because the galaxy is littered with meter wide tubes for some reason.
I can only assume iit was some bizarre negroid countermeasure.

>So in case negroids get out of hand, our warriors need to counter their draining
>Okay, so these energy balls will force them to detach
>But there's no viable delivery method
>Unless.. we turn the warrior INTO energy!
>Okay, but then we need to contain ir
>The most stable way is a sphere
>So in an emergency the warrior can enter the anti-magnetic delivery mode and detonate the bomb
>Let's test it!
>Heh, wow look at that! You can roll around like that however you want!
>That's kind of neat

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>>51467966

>>51467966
>Negroid
Autocorrect is racist as fuck. But I ain't deleting that post. That's hilarious.

>>51467966
The Chozo can morph ball & speedbooster naturally. They just made technology that allows others to imitate them.

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>>51467966
According to concept art it's a natural ability some Chozo have, along with the High Jump and Shinespark. Apparently the upgrades are like prosthetics because Samus is disabled by Chozo standards.

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Stat this body

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>>51468121

>>51468134
I thought the Phazon happened before the Super Metroid.

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Stat this ass

>>51468015
>the greatest warrior in her universe is a pathetic cripple by her adoptive parent's standards

Holy shit.

If we take the comic as canon (with some translation errors) then it's likely that Samus is several times stronger than a normal Federation soldier, and the time we see her outside of her suit in Zero Mission mostly confirms it.

Technically all of Prime is supposed to be considered non-canon, even if it fits in the timeline nicely between Zero Mission and Metroid 2.

Most of her bounty hunting is done for free, as most of the ships she's flown are loaners from the Federation. She probably does have a private ship of her own (maybe the one we see in Super Metroid), but I think she is forced to disarm most of her stuff after every excursion by the Federation because of the fear that she goes rogue and starts to blow shit up, no one could stop her (which is mostly true, based on SA-X damage in Fusion).

>>51468643
It's a side-story which is canon but not directly connected to the rest. Kinda like many EUs.

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>>51468643
>Prime is supposed to be considered non-canon

Sakamoto never actually said that, so it's a shame the myth became so widely believed. He said it was a "gaiden" thing, which more or less means a side story in the same sense you'd say sidequest. Not the main story of Metroid, but it's still considered canon.

>>51468586
-10 to butt.

>>51468799
But anon, how do you kill an ass?

>>51467983
It is a negroid contermeasure. In the event of emergencies, she can transform into a Basketball to disguise herself until she can escape.

>>51462860
WS:4 BS:4 S:3 T:4 W:1 I:4 A:1 Ld:8 Sv:3+

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Downy feather pubes

Size/Type: Large Magical Beast
Hit Dice: 5d10+25 (52 hp)
Initiative: +1
Speed: 30 ft. (6 squares)
Armor Class: 15 (-1 size, +1 Dex, +5 natural), touch 10, flat-footed 14
Base Attack/Grapple: +5/+14
Attack: Claw +9 melee (1d6+5)
Full Attack: 2 claws +9 melee (1d6+5) and bite +4 melee (1d8+2)
Space/Reach: 10 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: Improved grab
Special Qualities: Scent
Saves: Fort +9, Ref +5, Will +2
Abilities: Str 21, Dex 12, Con 21, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 10
Skills: Listen +8, Spot +8
Feats: Alertness, Track
Environment: Temperate forests
Organization: Solitary, pair, or pack (3-8)
Challenge Rating: 4
Treasure: None
Alignment: Always neutral
Advancement: 6-8 HD (Large); 9-15 HD (Huge)
Level Adjustment: —

If a man impregnates Samus, is it beastiality?

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>>51465982
>Samus's look post-Fusion is canon in two games
Thank you Zero Mission

>>51465737
BIRD DNA

>>51470016
No, its a feat of heroics.

>>51468642
Head canon achived

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>>51470016
>a man impregnating Samus
Immpossible, it would need to be a Man-and-a-half

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>>51472594
>Doomguy
>having sex

First date would be interesting admittedly, might need to vacate an entire plane of existence for it

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>>51462860
>Stat me /tg/

>>51472799
I'm convinced that DoomGuy isn't really a sexual being anymore, hasn't been for quite a while. I would compare him to Adol from the Ys games in that the only thing that brings him anything close to sexual pleasure is fighting demons. In fact DoomGuy is a bit worse than Adol since you can at least argue that Adol might have a thing for the character Feena. DoomGuy has no one at all that he might be remotely interested in romantically.

In short, when it comes to sex, DoomGuy has left humanity behind.

>>51472862
>DoomGuy has no one at all that he might be remotely interested in

Don't undersell my feelings for Shotgun-chan, faggot.

>>51465813

My completely unsubstantiated headcannon is that most of those upgrades are adapted for use only on the planet they are picked up in. Like, they would only work on SR388.

>Ice Beam and Missile tho?

Well, differing gravities and all? Hmmm.
Another possibility is that having all of those upgrades on all at once drains the suits batteries like nobodies business and she has to remove them to bring down her recharging bills.

The fact that Chozo schematics are all one-shots that are permanently removed after each mission is pretty weird and stupid.
But Chozo Science IS pretty weird and stupid.

In fact, ALL Scientists in the Metroid setting are Stupid and Weird, with the only differences between them being levels of Competency.
Chozo being at the top, Federation Scientists at the bottom.

>>51472885
Tube Pirates being NEXT LEVEL.

>>51472927

Space Pirates are between the two. They don't do what they set out to do, but they still end up with something.

Lemme find a pasta I did on the subject a whileback.

>Pretty much every scientist in the Metroid setting literally never ever think about the consequences of what they're doing. The only difference between the Chozo, Space Pirates and Earth Federation is levels of compentency.

>Case in point, the Metroids themselves.

>Chozo 1: We've found a race of mimic parasites on SR388 that could infiltrate and destroy all life in the galaxy
>Chozo 2: This is a problem. What should we do.
>Chozo 1: Let's create a super-predator that feeds off them to keep their numbers down
>Chozo 2: ...could we not just blow the whole planet up? We know how. I mean there's a planetary scale self destruct right here on Zebes. We could totally just put it on a ship and fly it to SR388 and detonate it.
>Mother Brain: I agree, I am all for this plan that involves removing the one safeguard that's stopping me from wiping out your pathetic dwindling species.
>Chozo 1: SORRY IT'S TOO LATE I AM ALREADY DOING A SCIENCE
>Chozo 2: ...wait, what did you just say Mother Brain?

Then you have Space Pirates

>Pirate 1: Let's try to mass produce the Metroids using radiation!
>Pirate 2: Whoops, instead of making lots of them, we've just made the original huge!
>Pirate 1: ...I know! Let's bombard Kraid with this stuff when he's asleep! It will be hilarious!
>Pirate 2: Oh god yes! He won't be able to use the tubes to get out of his room!
>Pirate 1: HA HA classic Space PiraTUUUUUUUBES
>Pirate 2: TUUUUUBES
>Pirate 1: TUUUUUBES
>Pirate 3: ...did I hear someone say TUUUUUBES?

And Earth Federation

>Scientist 1: Let's mass produce our own Metroids in a secret lab
>Scientist 2: Isn't that kind of risky? What if they escape?
>Scientist 1: IT'S ALREADY TOO LATE WE ARE ALL DEAD
>[and scientist 1 and 2 were X parasites]

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>>51465999
>I'd consider it canon until they overrule it in games.
It's not that I disagree with you, but the games aren't always friendly with concepts like canon. That is to say fuck Other M.

Actually, does anon have the screen cap of all the ways Other M contradicts almost every other game in the series? I lost it when my computer died.

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>>51468015
>>51468642
>Old Bird! Old Bird! I beat my high jump record! I got to 15 meters high!
>"Oh, child, I'm sorry, at least you tried."

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>>51472880
>shotgunchan
>not BFGchan

>>51464083
FUckingh nightmar

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>>51467762

>>51473451
It's been that way for the others. The manga has been contradicted every now and then for a while. How was the Morph Ball obtained again?

>>51467781
Fucking Japan
>she's a bounty hunter
>but that shit ain't honorable
>she does it for free then
>how does she feed herself
>dunno, health pickups?

>>51474591
Considering all the stuff she winds up with it's very possible that she can turn massive profits by selling it off to the highest bidders

>>51474614
Would explain how she ends up with nothing at the beginning of the next game
>Man that auction was wild, time to go on vacation

>>51472823
>brain
>flair
>aim
>nerve

>>51472996
But wait
Weren't the Chozo dead by the time Metroid Prime happened?
Then what were the Aurora units if not ProtoMotherBrains?

>>51474591
I always figured she was just THAT much of a hollow shell of a person and ate nutrient goop out of a tube from magical chozo shenanigans. I mean, they can do matter/energy conversion, there's probably a hookup in the suit somewhere that drains off a little energy and turns it into food.
Lately, of course, she can just eat X parasites using her entire body because eldritch spaghetti DNA.

>>51474670
I presume it's the other way around, that the Feds based their Aurora units on Mother Brain. Otherwise there isn't any way to explain it. It's nothing special though, the Manga was never 100% consistent with the games.

>>51474841
Too bad there aren't any X anymore.

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>>51474670
>Hey, this thing went absolutely batshit and killed its hyperintelligent creators who finished science to the point that they decided to become monks instead
>We should make our own, it'll be baller
Oh, the federation.

>>51474908
Given how often the Last Metroid has been very much not the last, I've got 50 internets that the federation or space pirates got a sample before it went down.

The space pirates, of course, are trying to make X-virus/Phazon jello shots out of it.

>>51474450
BFGchan is just some haughty bitch. Sure, she's nice, but she's so flighty. Shotgunchan is the reliable childhood best friend that's always been at his side. She's a tough, working girl.

>>51467983
>>Negroid
>Autocorrect is racist as fuck.

It only knows the word at all because you taught it. Guess the SJWs were right after all.

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>>51472880
>>51475111
>Shotgun-chan
>Not Super shotgun-kun

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>>51472862
>Doomguy has left humanity behind

>>51472594
Samus x Doomguy...

The God-Emperor of Mankind is powerful enough to be their kid, but I can't see those two raising such a massive asshole.

>>51474976
remember, no more phazon since the whole planet blew up

but maybe metroid-resistant x-virus

>>51470016
i don't think that's possible with her fucked up DNA

>>51472862

>Doomguy
>Looks down at dead scientist while Hayden gives his "we had humanities best interests at heart" spiel, smashes screen afterwards
>Saves VEGA despite no-one telling him to do so, carries him in his suit
>No humanity

No Anon, you are the demons

>>51475386
>Implying Doomguy would let any child of his get involved with psyker shenanigans
Doomguy would probably withold thosegenes through sheer force of will

>>51474652
Those four words absolutely appear in the image.

>>51475713
>Throughout the game Doomguy had not one line of dialogue
>not even "UNF"
>Still has 10/10 characterization that other characters pick up on
I also liked how Hayden even picked up on the fact that Doomguy was doing what he thought was necessary

>>51475392
>no more phazon since the whole planet blew up

That one did anyway. The purpose of Leviathans is to make new Phaaze planets. No way of telling how many there would be.

>>51476135
Nah, blowing up Phaaze killed all of them

>>51476039
twice, actually

>>51476135
this >>51476162
Phaaze and the phazon was kind of alive

>>51475713
I never said that he had no humanity, I just said that sex or romance isn't really a thing for him anymore.

>>51474842

That or the Feds found a storage of Chozo made prototype Mother Brain units somewhere.
Just making a load of those and dumping them somewhere is something the Chozo would DEFINITELY do.

>>51476750
Considering the problems bioweapons have made, I can see why Adam hates them & even ordered SR388 to be destroyed to eliminate the X. He's some kind of anti-mechanicus & became an AI himself.

>>51472885
You know, you say that but the Federation has it's moments. They were able to actually effectively use Phazon reliably and without insanity with their elite troopers and associated technology, plus they apparently were able to work the kinks out of mother brain to make their own friendly AI biocomputers.

Way I see it, by Prime 3 they may be low on the tech scale but they're rising rapidly by making shit that actually functions reliably and safely. On the other hand they're running headlong into the civilisation filter that exists in the Metroid universe of an over-dependency on technology and forgetting magic/spiritualism.

>>51477034
The Phazon worked initially but then users started suffering from all sorts of problems. They managed to pull out early due to Samus destroying Phazon. The Space Pirates weren't so lucky. They got fucked pretty hard. No wonder the last Metroid being in captivity meant the galaxy was at peace.

>>51469647
DFP is justice.

>>51476750
>stealing shit & copyrighting the stolen material
Typical Feds.

>>51477071

...yeah for about two months. Then Ridley pops back up. Plus the fact that he went straight to and from Zebes implies that the Federation didn't even have any kind of surveillance in place in the area, which is bogglingly stupid from them.

I mean, they sent in exploration teams to SR388 and that place was just a Chozo outpost. At the very least that place should have been SWARMING with Federation Scientists trying to grab all of the lost Chozo tech that Motherbrain had amassed.

There should have been a station orbiting Zebes AT LEAST as big as the one from Fusion, and at the very least a sizable fleet on station. I mean, who fucking knows what else aside from Mother Brain was down there that could get woken up.

>>51472594
>>51472799
Aw fuck, I thought I had saved 2 pics of Samus x Doomguy like a week ago but it seems I didn't. They were pretty rad, kickibg demon's ass left and right and holding hands

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>>51477622
got it just for you

>>51477071
In Prime 3, Zebes was considered destroyed (after Metroid 1/Zero Mission), and then Samus brings the GF fleet right to the Space Pirates' homeworld/home base. They got fucked super hard in Prime 3.

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>>51477622
>>51478037

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>>51478060

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>>51462860
is there any homemade Metroid rpg ? you could make very good shit in this world while playing feds, space pirates or some aliens, you got pretty cool stories like the one of Bryyo to start creating things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEuLRtAG8Lk

>>51478446
I have seen one being posted in metroid threads here before. 1d4chan might have it.

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>>51478446
Ask and ye shall receive.

>>51478516
thanks a lot, going to read this

>>51478042
It's surprising they're still active in Super Metroid. Just about anything taking place after Super Metroid depicts someone third-party bringing them back as zombie slaves.

>>51478708
maybe their planet-base in prime 3 was just a front

>>51479423
For all we know, they have outposts in other galaxies. The Feds manage an inter-galactal organization & Prime Hunters took place in another galaxy, implying ships people like Samus have can cross galaxies in negligible time.

tfw this scene give more emotions than every shitty dialogues in other m

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXDdw6VCH-w

>>51468134
>Samus

>piss rainbow lasers

Suddenly reminded of that one Fallout Rule34 pic with that girl pissing glowing blue liquid after drinking Nuka Quantum...

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>>51467844
>Pic Re-

>>51467980
DAMN IT SHAS'O!!!

>>51468642
>>the greatest warrior in her universe is a pathetic cripple by her adoptive parent's standards
>Holy shit.
Chozo ain't no joke anon...

>>51474908
>Too bad there aren't any X anymore.
Well she's also part Metroid now, and they don't NEED to feed on X parasites, just energy in general.

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>>51482718
>Well she's also part Metroid now, and they don't NEED to feed on X parasites, just energy in general.
I wonder: does she have to bite, like the Metroids did? She was able to just absorb X through her skin (well, her armor) so could she just stick a finger into an electrical outlet? Or kill a man by grabbing his wrist and holding him in her raised-on-a-100G-planet grip?

Why am I aroused?

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>>51483091
she can already become energy by turning in her morph ball form
maybe that's the way she can absorb it

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>>51483091
>he was able to just absorb X through her skin (well, her armor) so could she just stick a finger into an electrical outlet? Or kill a man by grabbing his wrist and holding him in her raised-on-a-100G-planet grip?
>Why am I aroused?
Because Metroid-hybrid Samus.

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>>51483518
>Metroids with the spawn rate of Zerg

How rich do you think Samus is from collecting all those bounties?

>>51483875
None. Because Japan is stupid and didn't know what a Bounty Hunter is. They just thought is sounded cool. When they found out, because the Metroid Prime makers were going to have bounty missions, they were horrified. Apparently bounty hunting is illegal or looked down on in Japan.

>>51483875
>>51483916
She's pretty much a mercenary. She makes enough to afford all her ships.

>>51474929
To be fair, the Aurora Units worked out pretty well until they got Phazon'd. And even then, if it weren't for Aurora Unit 313, they wouldn't have been able to destroy the planet Phaaze. Although that did happen because of Phaaze using the computer itself...

>>51483875
>>51483916
I loved her in the old Captain N comics. In one of them, she accepts a contract from the heroes to help beat Mother Brain by destroying some valuable mineral or the like.

Once she's paid, she betrays them and hands them over to MB, because she paid more.

Once she's paid, she breaks the heroes out to prove that she's one their side, and the valuable minerals are destroyed in the confusion.

Cut to Samus in her ship counting her two paychecks, with a pile of the valuable minerals behind her.

Made me want to marry her.

>>51484283
Are those comics out and about anywhere?

>>51484309
Not that I know of, sadly. But if I ever get a working scanner I'll put 'em up on /co/.

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>>51484283
I'm fond of the one where she gets wrongly arrested and proceeds to beat the shit out of the entire inmate population without her suit.

>>51484309
Metroid Database has some, but I'm unsure how extensive the collection is since I haven't looked in a while.
http://www.metroid-database.com/manga/listing.php?vid=4

>>51484054
>the Aurora Units worked out pretty well
they were so shit that even when it's Phaaze who use them they fucked everything up

>>51484413
That's my girl!

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>>51483671
>Metroid Hydralisks

>>51484483
I wonder if the Space Pirates used looted parts from an Aurora unit to rebuild Mother Brain. I wonder if Samus even destroyed Mother Brain the first time. So many of her enemies survive constantly.

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>>51484498
Incidentally, that dinosaur guy she's using as a club to beat the others with?

That's fucking Kraid, as depicted in Metroid 1's manual.

>>51484576
BEST GIRL
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>>51462860
Like samus, and just so.
alternatively -10 hp

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>>51484413
thanks for the link
this Ridley is pretty fun

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>>51484576

>>51484839
>tfw you will never be prison raped by SamAss

>>51484283
That's some straight up PC behavior

>>51485227
Anyone have the Great Traveler Quintuple Cross?

>>51469659
N Large magical beast (mythic)
Init +10M; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision, scent; Perception +16

DEFENSE
AC 23, touch 11, flat-footed 21 (+2 Dex, +12 natural, –1 size)
hp 165 (10d10+110); fast healing 5
Fort +16, Ref +9, Will +7; DR 5/epic;; SR 21

OFFENSE
Speed 30 ft., fly 60 ft. (average)
Melee bite +17 (2d6+8), 2 claws +18 (1d8+8 plus grab)
Space 10 ft.; Reach 5 ft.
Special Attacks disorienting pounce, mythic power (4/day, surge +1d8), pounce, rend (2 claws, 1d8+12)

STATISTICS
Str 27, Dex 14, Con 24, Int 2, Wis 14, Cha 10
Base Atk +10; CMB +19 (+23 grapple); CMD 31 (35 vs. trip)
Feats Great Fortitude, Improved Initiative M, Iron Will M, Skill Focus (Perception), Weapon Focus (claws)
Skills Fly +5, Perception +16
SQ immortal

>>51468738

Sakamoto isn't a part of metroid anymore, and since Tanabe took over, Prime has been made official canon again.

>>51483916
IIRC She is called a bounty hunter because mercenary has a kind of negative connotation to it and Nintendo wanted her to be a good person

>>51485401
Except a bounty hunter is quite literally a mercenary. She doesn't do it for free.

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>>51485436
Might just be remembering it wrong or it's some language translation shenanigans.

>>51485401
She's an ASS-ASS-in

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>>51467844

>>51485764
Samu-chan is cute! CUTE!

>>51469606
Bitch, Samus is a Primarch.

>>51469606
Varia Suit = Sv: 2+, 4++ vs heat weapons
Gravity Suit = Sv: 2+/5++, 4++ vs heat weapons, ignore difficult terrain

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>>51473451
A bit late, but here you go

>>51486689
That humorous image is actually rather nonsense. Samus dislikes working with others & only done it once before with a superior she likes before according to Fusion. Makes me wonder what all those times in Prime 3 count as. Not to mention how hard a smaller portions of the fan base complained about how the Talking Metroid's were prior to the whole different growth cycle thing. Somehow, they forget to mention the number of times Fusion fucked with everything. From the Omega Metroid being weak to ice instead of Super Missiles to the retcons, it's a disaster which Other M had the idiotic move to build upon.

>>51486943
*Tallon Metroid

>>51486689
>tfw you played Fusion
Good gameplay, great atmosphere & soundtrack, terrible railroading & they made me think poorly of Samus' intelligence.

>>51486943
>Following the commands of this blunt, computerized CO is something I have to bear, as it was a condition of my taking the ship. For someone who dislikes taking orders, this is the second time I've found myself having to do so. It makes me recall my other CO...
When you criticize Other M, have some legit criticisms. There are plenty of those, railroading, dull as fuck voice acting, why stick with these?

>>51487025
I didn't think there was that much wrong with Fusion's story except the weird mix up at the end.

>>51487100
It was the execution. If there is a list of things not to do in a Metroid game, Fusion's railroading would be somewhere near the top. Unlike the rather well done minimalism of Super Metroid & later games, they infodump it 24/7 & have Samus obey her ship's computer like some divine code until the endgame. It's nice to have a story, just don't do as Fusion did. I've encountered a few DMs who had a nice idea but were so focused & unflexible that they pissed off their players with their railroading.

>>51487164
The railroading was one of the reasons Other M saddened me. You'd think that Fusion's backlash & Zero Mission returning to its former style would say a thing or two.

>>51467781
So she lives off space hotpockets?

>>51487210
I wonder if Samus ever learned bird magic cooking. Maybe her ship has some automatic food maker.

>>51487434
There's a missile factory and shielding generator in it, I would hope there's a food replicator.

>>51487615
I wonder if she's sad her golden space toaster got blown up during Fusion.

>>51487164

Thing is, I love Fusion AND Zero Mission. But in different ways.

One is a very polished (and if you're going for a low% run fucking near impossible) linear platformer, the other is classic Nintendo exploration game like SM and Zelda where you pick up items that expand the area which you can explore until eventually you gain access to the final levels.

Then there's AM2R, which is the greatest Metroid game Nintendo ever Cease and Desisted.

>>51472799
>>51472862
You guys might want to give this a look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rxPZbhuhQ8

>>51488032
The problem is the linearity. When I think Metroid, I think Super Metroid & exploration. Discovering where to go next rather than be told where to go next. It has all the atmosphere of Metroid in the most un-Metroid linear style I could imagine. That Ridley scream was ear rape.

AM2R I was initially skeptical about due to how the original was. A remake of that game of all things? What impressed me was the new content. The new bosses, the new areas, that's damn good. They didn't just remake it, they added to it. If they only remade it with new graphics & shit, I'd have dropped it early on.

At least it's hard to screw the game up. The original was before Super Metroid standardized the style & at least had some exploration. It wasn't high budget thus there's no way they'd find a way to mutate the game into something else with unnecessary features like some remakes do unless the developer tried. It's great & simply going for & sticking to an updated remake altogether avoids many pitfalls.

>>51488349
>That Ridley scream was ear rape.

That Nightmare tho

I think Fusion is a really good platformer. It's like comparing Rondo of Blood with Symphony of the Night, both are good platformers, but have completely different styles.

>>51486689
Other M is bad Metroid fanfic made playable.

>>51488551
It's more alike comparing the 3D Castlevania style to the rest. The older Castlevania style had been here & honed from the start & up to a point. The Metroidvania style was more alike how Super Metroid got popular & it became the norm.

>>51488551
I don't want to think about how many times I've played it through. Metroid Fusion was the second game I ever played on my Gameboy Advanced. The SA-X scared the ever-living shit out of me as a kid.

>>51492676

At this point it's literally a toss-up as to what I've spent more time on, Zero Mission or Fusion.

...that's kind of a damning indictment of how cack-handed I am on Zero Mission now that I look at it.
I mean, they literally just hand out sequence breaks in that game to you. My PB should be under two hours by now.

>>51492763
Confessional time. I've played every Metroid game in existence...except Zero Mission. I've even cleared all the ones I've played 100%. Never played Zero Mission.

>>51492863

Zero Mission is a treat. In many ways you could consider AM2R a spiritual sequel to it over a remake of Metroid 2.

>>51492676
The SA-X is definitely one of the best things from Fusion. It make the player feel like they're the prey. Everytime it shows up, the music stopping, the footsteps, it's great.

>>51472885
i believe that is cannon for the grav suit, that it is specially calibrated for the planet it is located on.

>>51472885
My headcanon is that she sells them between games.
That gunship eats fuel like crazy, and she can't claim the bounty on Ridley because the bastard keeps coming back to life.

>>51462860
Str: 2
Ref: 3
Mov: 3
Foc: 4
Int: 3
Per: 4

Combat Skills:
> Exotic,
> Heavy

Vehicle System Skills:
> Command,
> Gunnery

Equipment:
> (Secret Knowledge) Morphing Archon Tech Retractable Armor with Shield Node Variation and (Secret Knowledge) strength-enhancing exoskeleton.
> (Secret Knowledge) Armor-mounted particle cannon / auto-cannon hybrid w/ optional Burn keyword, tactical sight and Targeting Matrix.
> "Self-Propelled" cannon (missile)
> Body-Mounted Kinetic satchel "launcher", can only be dropped when in Morph Ball form, only delayed explosions
> Energy Infestor Whip
> Archon Tactical Array, in helmet

Every equipment is personalized, benefit from the Advanced Ammo mod when applicable.

Traits:
> (Command) Lone Wolf
> (Gunnery) Blast Shot
> (Heavy) Tank Buster, Melt Armour
> (Exotic) Martial Arts, Field Tested

> (Influence) My Baby
> (Fate) Hero
> (Level) Gifted

> (Str) Eye Candy
> (Ref) Agile Build
> (Mov) Sure Footed
> (Int) Neural Implant (can lock-on naturally)
> (Per) Eagle Eye

> (Phys) Acrobatics
> (Resolve) Fearless
> (Aware) Deduction
> (Surv) Tracker
> (Mech) Maintenance
> (Elec) Power Flow

There you go, Fragged Empire Samus. Not going to stat her spacecraft, but her very high level combined with the "My Baby" trait ensure it is badass.

>>51488349
most of the bosses in AM2R weren't very good. The only one I was actually impressed with was the Queen.

Good fangame, but it's definitely not fusion/zero mission/super tier.

>>51485764
sauce?

>>51494620
Obviously, she's neither Legion, Nephilim, Corporation nor Kaltoran.

I would give "Humans" access to two Secret Knowledge, Max Ref 3, "Research" +2, an additional professional skill (Planetoids in her case) and drawbacks called "Infertile" and "extremely high value".

This is an extremely snow-flaky high level character, so I suggest you strip her of most of her gear after the introduction, like through a suit malfunction.

>>51494701
>Infertile
>implying she can't make babies

>>51495757
Fragged Empire lore.

>>51463209
>vulnerability: Metroid

but she's the only person in the galaxy who consistently eliminates Metroids

>>51472885
>My completely unsubstantiated headcannon is that most of those upgrades are adapted for use only on the planet they are picked up in

In Prime 2 she starts with Varia Suit, Space Jump, Morph Ball Bombs, and I think even Power Bombs at the beginning. Then there's the fact that SA-X in Fusion has all her abilities from Super.

>>51468015

I hate when lore does this, because then you have to wonder how the fuck did this niggers manage to die off. If they're all as powerful as Samus and there were thousands of them or more, why are Metroids even a threat?

>>51495875
OP is the SA-X.

>>51496054
They ascended to a higher plane for the most part.

>>51496079

Prime lore has them bing killed by Metroid Prime though, plus why would they just up and leave after unleashing Metroids on the galaxy?

>>51495946
Except the Gravity Suit & I've never seen the SA-X use the Charge Beam. All her strongest abilities my ass.

>>51496054
They're a threats l to everyone else. The Chozo buggered off.

>>51496126
Just the ones on that planet, iirc. And I think they assumed that anyone scanning SR388 would fuck right off upon discovering the Metroids.

>>51496181

it had power bombs and Screw attack, aren't those pretty much the strongest?

>>51496242
>Just the ones on that planet, iirc

If there was more than one of them on Tallon and they got killed by Metroid Prime, the point still stands.

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>>51495946
I'll always appreciate Fusion for having the best excuse for starting you off stripped of modules.

>we had to carve your suit off to stabilize your CNS and apply radical gene therapy, sorry about that

>now that you're cured, we accidentally set The Thing loose on our station and need you to take the fall for it good luck bye!

>>51496296
If you're asking why they didn't push Prime's shit in, it's because by that point they'd rewritten their genes to cause them extreme, crippling pain when they committed violent acts.

>>51488551
>I think Fusion is a really good platformer.
yes but you don't really want just a platformer when you play a metroid

>>51495757
you forgett the spaguetti DNA

>>51494699
http://www.metroid-database.com/manga/?vid=6&cid=29

>>51496387

>they'd rewritten their genes to cause them extreme, crippling pain when they committed violent acts.

Only the Chozo would think this was a good idea, and only the Chozo could possibly have implemented it.

Anybody else would have gone "I dunno mate, what if some cosmic space dick from beyond the Galaxy starts shit and it's down to us to be bad enough (bird) dudes to save the Galactic Federation President? Or for that matter what if we have to put down any one of at least 20 genetically modified murder-species that we made in our spare time because we were bored?"

"At the very least we should probably make sure we've dealt with the Space Pirates first, since we were the bumbling chumblefucks who gave them spaceflight in the first place UNLESS I'M REMEMBERING THAT WRONG."

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>>51496296
>If there was more than one of them on Tallon and they got killed by Metroid Prime, the point still stands.
the Metroid Prime is strong enough to kill all the chozo on that planet Samus only killed it because she went full phazon

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>>51496387
>tfw to intelligent to destroy the bioweapon you built

>>51496387

what the fuck? This is probably the dumbest thing I've read today

>>51496620
They gave every chozo super powers, then they invented super power gun control policies.

>>51496620

These are the people who's response to the X parasite was to invent the Metroids.

This is a race that has clearly traded massive INT, STR and CON bonuses in exchange for an utterly abysmal WIS penalty.

>>51474538
d'awww

>>51496687

So they were all as powerful as Samus but they couldn't stop the Metroids themselves because they were willingly crippled. I'll allow it, but I would prefer if the lore explanation was just more along the lines of "Samus's suit was just special and set her above even the most powerful Chozo warriors"

>>51497024

It still might have, presumably Mother Brain knew what Chozo were capable of and planned her defences accordingly.

>>51497052
>>51497024
The power that sets samus apart from normal chozo?
The ability to turn into a smaller ball than they could.
Since her ball was only 1.5 meters, and not the 1.7 of a chozo warrior, she could fit in the custom anti-chozo tubing.

Best GM

>>51497024
See >>51468642

>>51468642
It's more like... how a dwarf with no arms would be to us, but we then gave the dwarf robot arms to compensate and it turned out to be a fucking amazing fighter to the point that battles look like Yoda fighting in the prequels.
And it then became the best fighter even against us so we were like "holy shit, here's some special custom power armor! You've earned it!". She became their best fighter in the end.

By all rights Samus SHOULD have been a pathetic cripple by the Chozo's standards but she then turned around and became the warrior equivalent of a special olympian who can wipe the floor with the regular ones. Partly because of augments, partly because she's just that fucking good.

>>51464451
>6'3"
She's a big girl.

>>51496387
You've got to wonder what the writers were thinking with that. Why not just a vow of nonviolence?

I always figured the Chozo gained some transcendent knowledge and either willingly faded due to some cosmic cycle bollocks or they let themselves die because that would let them ascend to another plane. Or something like that.
You mean they really did just fuck up so incredibly hard they ended up killing themselves? Disappointing, really.

>>51497111
trips of truth

>>51497358
I figured it was a mixture of that and the Space Pirates wiping out their planet. IIRC, Zebes was the home planet that Samus grew up on and that was the Chozo's home, and while she was off bounty hunting the pirates showed up and gave them a nice, clean genocide.

Hence why Samus shows back up to both get paid and provide some righteous vengeance for her adopted peoples. Now THAT is how you bounty hunter, convincing people to pay you for doing something that just feels right.

That also explained to me why there was shit like chozo bartenders and dudes in robes in the game complete screens in later games - The race was just mostly killed off, with remainders who'd left the planet throughout the galaxy, but they'd lost their home planet and the rest were all working in the Cantinas and shit, dispensing wisdom on drunks and occasional adopted baby girls who come by once in a while.

>>51496296
It lacked her greatest defense & a charged Plasma beam is deadly as hell.

>>51467966
I vaguely remember one line in prime mentioning the morphball is for meditating in, Samus just likes rolling around

>>51496546
>>51496620
The Chozo used to be conquerors. They were having a guilt trip.

Also the manga features a Chozo who tries to fight Mother Brain to the death, knowing that even if he wins he'll still die.

>>51497212
see >>51497294

>>51497358
The Chozo had lived so long that they're all old & can't reproduce anymore. They previously didn't care but it bit them when they found out no one could breed. Maybe that's why they injected their DNA inside a little girl. They gotta reproduce somehow.

>>51497024
All the still-living Chozo are really old, and their physical and mental abilities are nowhere near what they used to be. So Samus's original suit was better than GF technology, but not incredibly so.

Then in Zero Mission that suit got destroyed and she got a more powerful one from an ancient "God of War", which she uses for most of the series.

>>51497319
for U

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>>51497358
>>51497949
>>51498025

>>51497024
If memory serves, Samus's suit is the chozo equivalent of light armor

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>>51462860
>X Template
In their base form, basest, gooiest form, these things are immune to projectiles, alongside many other things. That is to say fuck a duck you cannot put them down with weaponry that is on any and all levels below the ultimate manufactured predator in the galaxy. Infection abilities that put the Thing to shame and give it a raging erection in the same breath, also achieved through that nigh unkillable form mentioned earlier. Also, asexual reproduction. Fuck me. What's that? You've achieved the grossly difficult task of striving for half an hour? Congratulations! There's now two of you! All the bells and whistles attached!

>Samus's Walking Armory
Because fuck this space station.

>Samus's Intelligence
Samus designed her spaceship. That's fucking ridiculous. Moreover Samus is also a tactical genius and has exceptional quickness and deduction skills. Remember the Scan visor from the Prime games? That's not some magic-bird-science tech, that's Samus taking the random composition information the scan gives her and formulating her own thoughts and plan on par with Sherlock. Fuck's sake the mechanic even pauses the game while Samus thinks.

That's all stated, though, in game the SA-X is a dumb motherfucker.

>Hornoad Template
I mean, it has it, and even manages to make it relevant with the final monstrous form it utilizes.

>>51497925
>this ability allows one to enter an energy sanctuary
>separated, yet connected to the world
>those of us connected to the harmony of the cosmos can use this to listen to the music of the universe
>oh hey samus
>yeah, your armor has it too
>I can replace it with something else later
>human's haven't gained that ability yet after all
>sure, you can try it out!
>...and you're just... rolling around
>yeah that actually looks pretty fun

Do you think the Chozo had morph ball sports?

>>51498629
I bet it's something like

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

Only with basketball instead of motorcycle combat.

>Young Bird down the court at supersonic speeds... He jumps... Shoots... Two points! He morphs... Two more points! And now Young Bird is the ball!

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>>51497925
>>51498629

>>51496054
>>51496079
>>51496126
>>51496192
>>51496242
>>51496296
>>51496387
>>51496546
>>51496552
>>51496607
>>51496620
>>51496669
>>51496687
>>51497024
>>51497052
>>51497111
>>51497358
>>51498025
>>51498032
>>51498171
My understanding was that while individual colonies were wiped out (and said colonies were the Chozo equivalent of hippies trying to be one with nature), what the fuck happened to the Chozo race on a whole is unknown but the two main (in universe) theories is that
A) It's always been known they're space faring nomads so they likely just fuck off outside of known space and will be back in a few millennia
or
B)It's known they FINISHED both science and magic and were working on philosophy to round out the hat trick, so they probably just finally finished it and with nothing left to do in this universe they ascended to a higher plane out of sheer boredom

>>51497807
In the comics there were only like two Chozo living there in Samus's lifetime, the pirates DID kill them, but they were old as fuck

>>51499324

If they really FINISHED science and magic to the point where the only way to go further is to ascend to a higher plane, then I don't see how the galaxy can still be littered with their mistakes.

>>51498629
>Do you think the Chozo had morph ball sports?
what do you think all those half pipes were for in the first place

>>51499361
What mistakes?
Most of their shit was functioning perfectly until someone else came and fucked with it
Prime was just about the only time that wasn't the case and those were Chozo hippies that got fucked up

>>51499401

>ok so the X parasites are fine as long as no one does anything about the Metroids
>and the Metroids are fine so long as no one exposes them to literally any energy source
>and the Metroid Prime is fine as long as no one goes near this entire fucking planet

I mean, I GUESS it's subjective whether you want to count those as mistakes or not...

>>51474591
By the magic powers of poor communication they thought `bounty hunter` meant `space hero`.
When they learned of their mistake, the franchise was big enough that they didn't want to backpedal.

>>51472823
Those are literally stat blocks. From /tg/'s F-Zero homebrew, IIRC.

>>51464451
the thing that always bothered me about this was the arms.

i know power armor shouldn't be form fitting but going by the cutaway there her arms shouldn't be able to move.

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>>51499401
>>51499476

Eh, the X and Metroids were kind of self-solving problems if you look at it from the perspective of bird people that live as long as Chozo do. The Metroids were a super predator that had wiped out 90% of the indigenous species on SR388 in less than 20 years, so given a little more time the X would have gone extinct, followed by the Metroids once they ran out of food because apparently less than 40 Metroids can crash an ecosystem that fucking hard. It's something an Elf would do.
>It'll take less than a century, blink and you'll miss it

Shit only started to go south when the Federation decided to explore a barren rock with nothing on it, losing two exploration teams and a military escort in the process of capturing a single Metroid. Then the Space Pirates stole it, and that probably would have been the end of it had Mother Brain not been present to tell them that not just just any energy source works, only beta radiation does. Or lets them multiply, at any rate, because Metroids were actually designed to foil cloning attempts that didn't use that specific method.

As for Metroid Prime, that was more or less a splinter group of hippies encountering solidified Chaos that would have given the full Chozo a run for their money in similar circumstances. Not a whole lot else they could have done, since that specific group decided to abandon most of their tech.

>Why didn't the Chozo make some failsafe just in case

They did, and they call it Samus.

>>51462860
Goodness: 1

>>51494620
>>51494701
>>51495814
>Fragged Empire

Dunno why I'm only hearing of this now, but it sounds kinda cool. How does the system work? Only ever played DH 2nd and I'm shopping around to find something new to introduce to my group.

>>51484793
Ah man, is that a fucking pre-Super Ridley?

>>51503319
Back when Kraid was shorter than Samus.

>>51503319
no, it's from a non-canon half-metroid/half-kid icarus universe where they know they are in a game

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>>51503842
He means that it's using Ridley's pre-Super Metroid design. In the manual for the original Metroid, Ridley's art looked like whatever that thing in the image is, and Kraid was an orange dinosaur with green fur. Probably to match the tiny sprites.

It wasn't until Super Metroid that Kraid and Ridley's designs were solidified into what they are today, with Ridley being a dragon and Kraid a giant.

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Additional reminder of ASS

>>51498587
Scanning shit was my favorite part of the Prime trilogy.

>>51504411
Likewise. Also, chekt.

>>51496375
At this point the Federation became irredeemably stupid.

Don't die on me!

>>51504411
My favorite scan was in (I think) 2. It was a space pirate log in a metroid science area. Apparently some of the space pirate "scientists" wanted to feed the metroids... normal food. They got reprimanded for it because the metroid got sick. I just imagine these space pirates trying to feed the thing a donut.

>>51507488

...how on earth would a Metroid get sick from eating normal food? The thing is an apex predator that can eat anything, but it's allergic to peanuts?

>>51504977
>implying they weren't before

>>51508169
they absorb energy, they even may don't have a digestive system

>>51496375
Now I think about it, Prime 3 did the same thing.
>so we had to tear your armor apart and jam an experimental phazon reactor in there
>we might have broken everything while we were at it, turns out we still don't understand magic bird science
>oh and you're cursed again Can you go and fix everything for us now? Again?

>>51462860
So a guy in my gaming group is going to run a Metroid RP with us as Federation Troopers. He's going to be home brewing the FFG SW: Edge of the Empire system.

Any advice or considerations I should pass his way?

>>51508430
But this was probably the stupidest thing ever.

>>51508981
he can use those rules >>51478516

>>51508169
metroids don't have mouths or digestive systems
one was found with food inside of its body

now remember, these are space pirates we're talking about
how do you think they got that food inside the metroid?

>>51496375
In hindsight, their X removal method only consisted of removing X infected parts, the shit in her nervous system is still there.

>>51509926
>tfw any man brave enough to sex a 6'3" amazon would probably get turned off by your feath pubes
Or drained of life by your Metroid vagina dentata.
Or infested with X from your vaginal fluids, and then absorbed into your skin.

>>51477499
>implying the Pirates secretly don't work for the Federation

>>51510072
The former is a nonfactor and the latter two are a bit of a turn on actually

>>51498773
>>51498629
Something like the unholy bastard child of marbles or billiards, skating on a vert ramp, and sumo wrestling.

>>51462860
+3 Sweating palms

>>51510072
The vaccine luckily handled the rest. It seems that Metroids life drain before the X has a chance to infect.

>>51504977
Well, how could the federation have known that the infecter suit parts they send to B.S.L station would form multiple clones of samus with working weaponry.

>>51510694
+3 Sweating palms aura, I'd say.

>>51510823
>Hey this X stuff copies everything it touches...
>Does is copy machines?
>*shrug*
>Off it goes!

>>51511523
Dont remember anymore, but I think they did not know anything of X-parasite before Samus shot the critter that had it and got infected. They didnt know the capabilities of it.

>>51511523
They didn't even know that it copied shit at that point in time. It was just a weird ass goop virus to them so they put it in a secured capsule and sent it to be studied further.

Things only went wrong because the thing found a fucking Power Bomb and blew open the rest of the containment measures.

>>51508430

I don't think they really did anything comparatively stupid in the prime games, which were the only other time we see them before Other M. I dunno, maybe sending a single ship to chase down a space pirate vessel in unknown space counts.

>>51511730

One has to question where all the researchers sequestered in the Metroid Breeding Labs where and what they were doing when all of this started to go down.

I mean, at the very least you would have thought they would have applied the X-Vaccine to themselves.
SA-X is basically the only thing that could get into that lab via either Plasma Beam or Super Bomb, and we know that the SA-X never went there until you did.

...so, where are the researchers?

>>51511784
They went out for pizza. When they were on the way back, they saw all the explosions.

>>51507488

I think my favorite was the "Another hunter, wearing the traditional colors of Samus Aran, made planetfall today. Horrific as it may sound, there are two of them now."

>>51475219
nah

>>51511784
Humans are too unreliable. They got AIs.

>>51509615

Is the answer "tubes"?

>>51511553
They indeed did not know of the parasite before hand. Samus' encounter on the planet was first contact.

>>51511784

The X parasites copied other scientists and pulled an "emergency human meeting on level 3". Or something similar.

>>51513398
The scientists were told there was cake. They ran immediately.

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>>51485291
I gotcha senpai

>>51517081
>tfw you will never make an army of Soritas with Samus pauldrons
I tried making a Chaos Dwarf Sorcerer Ganon-Dorf. Now I need this.

>>51513282
TUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUBES

Anyone got any non-combat clothing Samus? I remember one where she's relaxing with chozo robes on that I never got around to saving.

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>>51517343
Something like this?

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>>51517383

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>>51517383

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>>51512388

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>>51498826
http://www.metroid-database.com/reader.php?d=sm/manga/english&m=m

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>>51462860
>Pic Related, 1/Session

>>51499324
There WOULD be "those that didn't leave", which explains the dead ones in the games; Think of every old person that doesn't want to move out of a condemned house or away from shitass old village; there will always be people who go "fuck this. I live here until I die".

So most likely the race - as a whole - ascended, with the usual types to remain behind doing just so and finishing their lives out quietly.

>>51504977
Every government system eventually reaches a size and scale where it has become too large for the civilization it's supposed to serve to keep it under control. At that point it begins to spin out of control, with individual departments breaking unity apart and increasingly treating anything not of their specific department as the enemy.

Take the FBI and CIA spying and blackmailing other .gov organizations, for example. Or Dukes and Earls starting to call themselves king. Or the Roman Senate in its falling days. Once the leadership of a civilization begins to break into compartmentalized subsystems, this is ever the result.

So what we see here is that the galactic federation has begun to enter that stage of its existence. Those in charge of military research give NO fucks anymore about ethics, morality, "those assholes that do science and thus aren't us" or anything else. "We can weaponize this, this is for us, it's ours, fuck anybody else". Meanwhile various watchdog organizations have probably also already fallen given the lack of response; in other words what should've been keeping these guys in check is now going "fuck this how's that our problem, they're not OUR people".

This means that most likely, were it not for the Zebes setback - metroids or no metroids - the Space Pirates were about to rise to prominence very fast. They may even still have a chance as things deteriorate further if they can recover the loss of their mother brain system.

>>51518334
I always figured the lack of ethics was due to desperation, with all the fucked up biological weapons and eldritch horrors lying around the galaxy. Not everyone has a supercool awesomesuit that converts matter to energy and vice versa.
They don't give a shit about the consequences because they're scared as fuck the space pirates are gonna make metroid-guns FIRST and just start fucking everything up.

>>51518504
Nah, the federation does its lack of ethics too... personally you could say? They're keeping things to themselves. Desperation would have the entire combined government working together and giving no fucks, but giving those no fucks together.

A good example of the desperation model is R-Type. One of the Space Corps major discoveries in that series was psychics. As in ESPers and whatnot (also black magic, believe it or not). The result? It was shared and blown open to the point where there are mass-produced starfighters (both government and private) specifically designed for use by them - the test-tube cockpit was designed to be snapped in and out so that any fighter coming in for re-arming also swaps its pilot for a fresh one; turns out forcefully amplifying your powers to a vehicular scale burns you out quite dangerously fast. This isn't just some black ops on one station: this is something the entire population knows and signs up for.

The Galactic Federation will eventually get desperate, but right now they're at the "assholes fucking each-other over" part of an empire's decline.

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>>51518712
Aren't Forces in R-Type *exactly* the Bydo that came to murder them from the future?

>>51519336
It's wibley-wobbly timey-wimey things. They're not just the forces developped to fight against them. They're also the unknown enemy attacker in the future so horrific they were considered a good idea to develop to fight them.

Basically a double time-loop ensuring their own existences. Which makes things more tragic when you consider they're basically lost puppies seeking their owner to protect them.

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>>51510270
Could you repeat this in front of me ?

>>51500766
They have floating joints, just like the spot where her legs meet her hips.

>>51517352
did someone say TUBES ?

>>51495946
>and I think even Power Bombs at the beginning
Nope. There were sequence-breaking techniques to get Power Bombs early specifically for the Boost Guardian, because that motherfucker was broken as hell but one Power Bomb will blow him away.

>>51510072
feather pubes sound good to me

>>51519793

I meant the VERY beginning, before all her stuff gets stolen by Dark samus

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>>51519793
>>51519812
*stolen by the Ing

Samus had a bunch of upgrades in the beginning of Prime 2, but they weren't available to the player. All of the "guardian" bosses were using stolen upgrades, so storywise Samus did start off with the grapple beam, spider ball, and power bombs, even though the gameplay didn't allow their use for the prologue.

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>>51464399
Samus' suit doesn't enhance her physical strength, it gives her an environmental shield, weaponry, automatic data logging with her ship, etc.
While it adds many upgrades to her speed and jumpi capabilities, it doesn't actually enhance her physical strength, and since the suit is also space bird magic, at least the most basic form of it, it's controlled entirely by her mental efforts. Which is why it can perform 1:1 reaction speed movements.

>>51484283
I wish this Samus was canon

>>51478516
I see I'm not the only one with a love for the Agency FB font. it's just such an efficient font to work with.

>>51520367
I don't remember, did you have all these upgrades at the start of Prime 3 ?

>>51523759
Some of them but not all.

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>Samus reproduces by laying eggs

>>51525662
Only if I deposit them inside of her