Metroid

I very much enjoyed Galaxy 2. Better than 1.

I wouldn't mind Miyamoto heading a Metroid game. It's really only the Mario series that he tends to gut the story out of. Pikmin 3 had more story than 1 or 2, for example.

Galaxy 2 was a pretty good Expansion Pack. Didn't really feel like a full game, though; just a new set of levels for once you've completed Galaxy.

edited 22nd Oct '14 8:01:14 AM by TobiasDrake

To be sure, it was basically all the stuff left on the cutting room floor from the first game, and since Galaxy was a good game, of course Galaxy's Director's Cut content was good too.

... Anyway!

Another thought I've considered is Retro or NLG handling a ALBW-style return to the 2D format of Super Metroid and Zero Mission. Perhaps a "Gamma Mission" that fits into the same timeslot as Super but features a differing map?

edited 22nd Oct '14 8:04:45 AM by Pulse

I feel like they really shot themselves in the foot making Metroids near-extinct in Metroid II. Now they have to come up with increasingly convoluted ways to keep the title creatures around and relevant in all post-Metroid II games, and it shows, what with Other M ripping off Fusion's plot.

They definitely shot themselves in the foot with that. I don't think they ever intended to continue the franchise past Super Metroid, so it wasn't really a problem. As of the end of Super Metroid, the Metroids are 100% extinct, Planet Zebes has exploded, Mother Brain and Ridley are gone forever, the Space Pirates are - if not also extinct - severely crippled, and the galaxy is at peace. The end.

The complete, utter, absolute end. This was the kind of ending where there's not really anywhere to go from there, which is why Fusion had to introduce the idea of the Galactic Federation being villainous in order to continue the story. Fusion was basically the second part of a Two-Part Trilogy.

The Primes also had to dance around Super Metroid's pretty definitive ending by setting their story prior to it.

edited 22nd Oct '14 8:15:18 AM by TobiasDrake

Oh! Oh!

A 2D Metroid that seems to be a remake of Metroid II but shoots off the rails a third of the way through and starts an alternate timeline where the dancing around the near-death of the Metroid species ceases to be a factor!

Oh god we'll need a Zebes Historia sometime down the line if they decide to do a split timeline.

...Maybe they could go full Alien Resurrection and use cloning of Samus's messed up DNA to try to recreate the Metroids?

I'd also kinda be interested in an Alien/Metroid crossover.

Like, I'm not sure whether Nintendo and Fox would be able to get along, but.

Pretty sure Sega's management of the Alien franchise in games runs out this year or the next.

edited 22nd Oct '14 8:30:03 AM by unnoun

Samus confronts yet another replica of herself and wonders how many times in one life this is going to happen.

Honestly, I don't care how convoluted the continuity is. Fusion and Prime 3 had really good stories, and Fusion showed a lot of potential for how amazing Samus's characterization can be. But ultimately, I just want to explore cool alien environments, fight Metroids, fight Pirates, get power-ups, fight Ridley, and do all the cool stuff that I love playing Metroid games for.

It turns out that the Chozo made a SR388 clone, complete with Metroids on it?

(Hey, considering the levels of their technology it's perfectly plausible, and I'd like to see the other Metroid stages in a 3D Metroid game.)

edited 22nd Oct '14 8:37:32 AM by rmctagg09

They could just retitle the franchise.

Here's the thing about the Metroids: prior to Fusion's introduction of the X Parasite, they're barely plot-relevant. When they are involved in the story, it's for what they are rather than anything they do. They're a scary alien lifeform that makes for a good top-tier enemy on the sliding scale of Mook toughness, but that's really about it as far as their contributions to the plot.

I've never understood why Metroid is named for them in the first place. It's like if the Mario franchise was called Hammer Bros., or if the Zelda franchise was called Darknut - which would, admittedly, be a pretty badass title.

edited 22nd Oct '14 8:35:38 AM by TobiasDrake

There's the question of whether metroids need to be in a Metroid game.

Legend of Zelda has games that don't really involve Zelda. Link's Awakening and Majora's Mask leap to mind.

Given the rumor I heard that the word Metroid out of universe comes from Metro Android or a robot-esque person running around in tunnels aka Samus and in-universe Samus has become (part) Metroid, it seems like its come full circle.

I say just keep going forward. Artifact title? What artifact title? Samus is the ultimate warrior (Metroid). And she's got Metroid genetics these days, so you could really of anywhere , so long as Samus is the main character.

Actually, maybe Miyamoto would work if they did it Pikmin style. Leading an army of Metroids.

...I kinda like the cloning idea, admittedly. Trying to extract Samus's Metroid DNA to make more Metroids.

And some of the cloned Metroids end up having weird human traits because body horror is always fun.

I sorta think I'd definitely like an Alien/Metroid crossover though.

Not so much with Predator though. I've never quite been a fan of the Predator series.

And I think a Metroid game roughly akin to Prometheus, focusing more on the Chozo might be neat. Kinda.

The Feds would have to have Umbrella levels of stupidity to keep making Metroids though

They tried to capture the X Parasites.

They created a copy of Mother Brain to control an army of lobotomized Cyborg Pirates. And freeze-proof Metroids.

...And it's not like the Pirates wouldn't do the same.

edited 22nd Oct '14 8:49:58 AM by unnoun

Fed Army Vs. Fed Marines with Pirates doing their thing in the middle of the turmoil would make for an interesting background for a game, thinking on.

And everyone has a Metroid Queen/Samus clone.

Samus don't get caught and experimented on. It will only lead to grief.

Well, I mean, probably not the Marines- Dane's a cool guy who doesn't like that stuff.

The Pirates' clones would probably be more biomechanical-y and deformed-looking, while the GF Army's would be more "clean", so to speak.

edited 22nd Oct '14 3:31:17 PM by Pulse

I mean, they could get hair samples from all the times she takes her helmet off at the end of each game.

They could get a blood sample when she goes to get her space-flu shot.

Nintendo seems big on co-op these days. So the next Metroid will involve Samus being cloned again, except this time the clone will defect and join up with Samus because reasons. Cue the Space Pirates panicking at there being two Hunters working together.

I'm sure they got lots of Samus juices during that initial X infection thing.

I knew space flu was a myth.

"Space gives you colds" indeed!

I'm onto you Big Cosmic Pharma!

"Oh no, not again!"

edited 22nd Oct '14 9:06:18 AM by Bocaj