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AegisP Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man
#21176: Apr 1st 2025 at 6:56:34 PM

I need to know what Accelerationism means in this context.

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HeraldAlberich from Ohio (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
#21177: Apr 1st 2025 at 7:01:35 PM

Watching the trailer again, it looks like the Scan Visor is rethemed as another psychic ability—Samus holds her hand out to find a scan target, then does a Pstandard Psychic Pstance while scanning. This may justify how she’s still able to gain knowledge without her ship, since she’s been teleported to the new planet. In the past games, the Scan Visor was consulting her ship’s computers.

The psychic powers are presumably bestowed by that Power Crystal placed on her forehead as a Third Eye. I’m surprised the round crystal on the back of her hand isn’t reshaped to match it.

RedHunter543 Crimson Paladin Since: Jul, 2016 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Crimson Paladin
#21178: Apr 1st 2025 at 7:06:04 PM

You know who else has psychic powers?

Mother Brain.

"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"
diddyknux (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#21179: Apr 1st 2025 at 7:09:43 PM

Well, remember Mother Brain was originally a Chozo creation.

RedHunter543 Crimson Paladin Since: Jul, 2016 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Crimson Paladin
#21180: Apr 1st 2025 at 7:12:04 PM

Yep.

I do wonder if her parenting of Samus will play a role since I can imagine Samus thinking about the time Mother Brain raised her and remember the psychic powers she demonstrated.

"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"
Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#21181: Apr 1st 2025 at 7:14:39 PM

I need to know what Accelerationism means in this context.

I assume they mean "If you want a really good Metroid game, make a really bad Metroid game first so it kicks everyone in the ass and spurs on a much better title next." Pulling the pendulum as hard as you can to one side, even though you hate that side, so that it swings back much harder to the other side.

Not quite a 1:1 with accelerationism, but I think that's what they were going for.

Edited by Anomalocaris20 on Apr 1st 2025 at 10:16:14 AM

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Resileafs I actually wanted to be Resileaf Since: Jan, 2019
I actually wanted to be Resileaf
#21182: Apr 1st 2025 at 7:50:43 PM

Yes, that is the joke I was going for.

I do not actually believe in accelerationism, that's a stupid belief system.

AegisP Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man
#21183: Apr 1st 2025 at 8:21:06 PM

I cant believe how easily I achieved being the page topper and not when I deliverately wanted tried to lol.

I am glad you guys clarified thank you!

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Jaryl from Austria Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
#21184: Apr 1st 2025 at 8:29:31 PM

Watching the trailer again, it looks like the Scan Visor is rethemed as another psychic ability—Samus holds her hand out to find a scan target, then does a Pstandard Psychic Pstance while scanning.

not necessarily, she already did something like that during the ending of Metroid Prime 2 after defeating Dark Samus for the last time (at around 6:49) :

Edited by Jaryl on Apr 1st 2025 at 5:32:22 PM

tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#21185: Apr 2nd 2025 at 6:29:10 AM

Prime 4 is gteting a Switch 2 version with 120 FPS support and mouse controls!

Edited by tclittle on Apr 2nd 2025 at 8:30:38 AM

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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#21186: Apr 2nd 2025 at 6:29:26 AM

Neat

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tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#21187: Apr 2nd 2025 at 10:04:10 AM

Prime 4 on Switch 2 has a Quality vs Performance mode: 4k 60 fps or 1080 120 fps.

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#21188: Apr 2nd 2025 at 5:41:01 PM

Not a lot Metroid related in that Direct, just some technical specs about Prime 4, but we still don't have a release date.

rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#21189: Apr 3rd 2025 at 6:02:08 PM

Treehouse Gameplay preview for Beyond's Switch 2 version.

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#21190: Apr 3rd 2025 at 6:14:23 PM

I was right when I said it looked like the Lamorn had a metroid nucleus inside them. So these new things burrow inside their targets and control them. I'm really not sure how I feel about this. Saying that one metroid imprinted on Sylux partially solves this, I guess. He would have had to kept this information secret from his new pirate friends though, since it's kind of a major plot point that the pirates were never able to actually control the metroids. But here they are. And it has always been implied that a metroid army would be unstoppable, and that Samsu had to stop them before the pirates could utilize them in that manner. All of this is fine if these are just mochtroids, but now I'm not so sure they are. This burrowing inside other organisms and controlling them is... I don't know if I want mochtroids to be able to do that, and I don't want metroids to be easily controlled, so I'm at an impasse. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure that this is exactly what Metroid Prime did to the phazon meteor creature on Tallon IV to become the final boss of the original Metroid Prime.

Edited by WillKeaton on Apr 3rd 2025 at 7:33:46 AM

HeraldAlberich from Ohio (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
#21191: Apr 3rd 2025 at 8:04:55 PM

And I think I was right about Samus’s new psychic Scan Visor, because there she is in the prologue, before losing her ship and gaining psychic abilities, scanning the “normal” way with no visible hand motions.

rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#21192: Apr 3rd 2025 at 11:02:43 PM

I like how in the Scan for Space Pirates they make it explicit that it's an umbrella term for a whole bunch of different species that take up their banner.

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RedHunter543 Crimson Paladin Since: Jul, 2016 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Crimson Paladin
#21193: Apr 3rd 2025 at 11:04:32 PM

I just had a conversation about that in the politics thread. Funny coincidence.

"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"
drac0blade Since: Jan, 2015
#21194: Apr 3rd 2025 at 11:33:14 PM

Finally putting to rest the age old question, "What kind of species goes around calling themselves 'Space Pirates'?"

diddyknux (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#21195: Apr 4th 2025 at 12:49:14 AM

This isn't the first time we've known that. Ridley and Kraud are obviously very different, but even foot soldier Space Pirates, the ones we see in the Prime games sometimes differ from ones in the 2-d games (though Prime 2 onwards do start having some with crab claws and such)

Edited by diddyknux on Apr 4th 2025 at 2:49:22 PM

RedHunter543 Crimson Paladin Since: Jul, 2016 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Crimson Paladin
#21196: Apr 4th 2025 at 2:34:50 AM

Yeah, Ridley was called a space dragon in some non-canon materials.

Funnily enough, one other member of his species was a respected judge within the Federation.

"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"
Ookamikun This is going to be so much fun. (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
This is going to be so much fun.
#21197: Apr 4th 2025 at 4:57:21 AM

You are about to enter the courtroom of Judge Scott Percy Francis. The Federation soldiers are real. The cases are real. The missions are final. This is Judge Scott.

Edited by Ookamikun on Apr 4th 2025 at 4:58:03 AM

diddyknux (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#21198: Apr 4th 2025 at 5:37:46 AM

<Me, rereading the topic after getting off a work and seeing typos I made on my phone>

WHO THE HELL IS KRAUD!?

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Live Jet Reaction
#21199: Apr 4th 2025 at 7:07:52 AM

Isn't that Fake Kraid?

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