Metroid

I didn't mean to imply that that's what I want from an actual MP game. Just that the new Doom feels a bit like a more violent and action-packed Prime game.

I'm kinda drawing a blank on how that would feel. The fights in Metroid Prime that were actually fights and not hazard-clearance were kinda like a frantic struggle for me- Win or lose they tended to be over fast and decisively.

The Prime games were all about the exploration and stuff to me.

I actually feel like the speed and decisiveness of the violence is the one thing that Metroid could take from Doom. Particularly in Corruption, it felt like I had to shoot everything 150,000 times, and boss fights seemed to be... maybe about half-again too long?

Then again, you probably were supposed to feel outmatched at every turn.

Not that I disagree that every thing just soaked up the hits in Corruption and that it could have stood some trimming.

edited 17th May '16 5:21:13 AM by Pulse

Ah, you're probably right. It definitely shouldn't be Doom fast, for sure.

Samus' gunship.

That's a really solid design. I like how enormous the...Exhaust? Engine? tube-thing in the back is.

It's basically perfect.

I still prefer the design of her ship in Corruption. It was really freaking cool.

Samus was part of the Federation Army between being trained by the Chozo and becoming a bounty hunter. What rank do you think she was at the end of her time there?

Less than a general, higher than a private.

Probably not an officer.

Samus' skills that set her apart from a normal human are probably what made her some good profit as a bounty hunter/mercenary.

And since a lot of her personal weapons are things she picks up on the planets she visits, a lot of her ship might be made from those pieces too. The money she gets from missions pay for extra parts and upkeep.

Those two are completely separate career paths.

I don't know much about space military, I'mma be honest.

Or terrestrial military.

Or in general.

Short version is, General is a CO rank, Private is enlisted and promotes through the NCO ranks. Officers don't start as Privates, they're big-picture guys who go through schooling and education and learn how to give orders and organize the military as a whole. Many never undergo basic combat training because they aren't meant to be field soldiers.

Privates enlist, go through combat training, learn how to shoot a gun and when, and then they're put into the field. They promote into the various NCO ranks, which are small-picture leadership roles. You lead the men, you give the orders, you say where to shoot and when to take cover, etc.

I don't know how space military does it either but generally anywhere you see ranks like General, Admiral, Private, etc. getting thrown around, the two separate career paths can be reasonably assumed. IIRC, Samus was an Enlisted soldier so unless she quit and went to Space Military Academy to study large-scale war tactics, she'd never be a General. Her highest achievable rank would be whatever the space military equivalent of a Sergeant Major is.

edited 19th May '16 2:30:32 PM by TobiasDrake

I don't think her rank was ever brought up in Other M, and in the manga she was part of the Federation Police, not the army, so I don't think she was ever addressed by rank there.

Probably why she quit.

The Hunter is a much more impressive sounding rank.

True but Samus could have easily received a battlefield commission at some point.

Wouldn't it be the marines?

Moving military terms into space is always tricky. Space Is an Ocean, so most space forces are navies. But the ground troops count as marines.

Armies are probably still planetbound.

What counts as an airforce in space though? Just the fighter pilots?

The army is also where the GF banishes all its assholes to, don't forget.

Crafts that can fly both in and out of an atmosphere, maybe?

edited 19th May '16 4:09:52 PM by Pulse

Like Fat Colonel?

edited 19th May '16 5:28:27 PM by Anomalocaris20

The list of GF Army members we know of is Fat Colonial and Adam's squad, all of whom were either assholes or basically non-entities except for Anthony.

Wasn't there that guy in Prime 3? He was likeable.