Metroid

Samus has blue feet and can imitate voices flawlessly. She has mastered the art of using a sharp stick to stab things and once won a bar fight in this manner.

@Cassidy The Devil: Birds are descended from dinosaurs, right? Just how weird are you willing to go?

And now I'm picturing Samus with three horns sprouting out of her head.

What kind of dinosaur would Samus be?

Well, today I learned that I suck at Metroid. It took me about five tries to kill the first boss battle in Fusion. I could not hang on those ledges for crap. And then I remembered that you don't have to hit up on the control pad to jump, the A button works fine alone. I feel very slow now...

A velociraptor?

edited 31st Jan '14 10:02:39 PM by ScorpioRat

Tyrannosamus Rex

A Metroid Queen.

An Omega Metroid sorta looks like a T. rex, and Samus is now part Metroid, so maybe she'll eventually evolve into a Metroidsaurus.

If the Chozo are anything like the protagonists of Star Fox, which are also anthropomorphic animals, then I doubt that they'd be that different to humans (except in how they look, of course).

But don't take that as me trying to stop this hilarious insanity going on here, no. I find it funny what you guys are coming up with. xD

Metroidasamus Rex.

Aw yeah.

Samus as the Rappy from Gmod.

Samus: SEE.

Now I want to watch Samus go on a mission with Seeman as her partner, him pointing out every missile expansion, secret passage, ect.

edited 1st Feb '14 9:56:10 AM by Anomalocaris20

I'm in Sector 1 in Fusion, and that SA-X still manages to be Nightmare Fuel, even with the limitations of a gameboy game.

edited 1st Feb '14 10:52:00 AM by ScorpioRat

SEE

When I was younger I'd always cover up the screen or hide the gameboy under something whenever I got to the bit when you saw it's face.

Still gives me chills.

And the way Adam-comp pretty much says that you can't do jack against it just adds to the terror. I can't even have the comfort of being able to shoot at it wildly without getting Ice Beamed to death.

I remember it took me like a week to get the courage to play Fusion after entering that bit. I had no idea it was scripted at the time and was completely paranoid that it'd jump out behind me and one shot me or something.

Yeah, same here... to this day, the SA-X still gives me nightmares from time to time...

It was kind of like Silent Hill, now that I think about it.

Even though I kind of preferred Metroid Prime as far as Samus-replicating villains go, the SA-X still stands out as one of the best implacable foes in any game, under Pyramid Head and on about the same level as the Mr. X Tyrant. Shame we never got to fight an intermediate stage between armour and frog, though.

The thing that always got me the about the SA-X were those godawful footsteps.

...holy shit. Fridge Brilliance.

Ridley looks like a cute birdie early on in its life cycle, according to Other M.

Samus is actually scarred by the discovery that a bird-like creature could turn out to be her brutal arch-enemy.

That's exactly what it's supposed to do.

You know, I kinda wonder how Fusion would be if the SA-X weren't scripted. You'd have a chance of it appearing in certain rooms (Obviously not cramped rooms where there'd be no hiding, or side-rooms where an SA-X appearance would interfere too much with solving a puzzle for an item). It'd be rare enough that you'd only encounter it four or five times a playthrough, but you wouldn't know WHEN or WHERE your paths will cross.

Also, although every possible avenue to criticise Other M has been taken tenfold, I really think its lack of horror elements is one of the starkest ways it falls short of the series' tone; especially when compared to its spiritual predecessor, Fusion. Although no game in the series fits wholly under the genre, the conventions of horror are frequently used to great effect to deepen the sense of a labyrinthine, alien world, alternating in claustrophobia and daunting scope. And also heaping gratuitous Alien references in wherever they fit.

Some of the series' most memorable environments were created through this ethos - the GFS Valhalla, the Ghost Ship, the dilapidated secret passages of the BSL, Skytown's xeno research facility and the rotten heart of Phaaze - something which the bottleship's endless sterile corridors were noticeably lacking.

How much is Prime 3: Corruption going for these days? I want a Prime game, and I'm probably not going to get access to the first two or the Trilogy. Maybe Gamestop still has a copy floating around.