Making the Boost Ball deal damage on contact would probably help a little, without completely removing the sense of vulnerability you get when crushed into a tiny ball.
...Actually, that could be tied into the non-essential, tiered upgrades easily. The game begins with Samus having access to the Morph Ball, and later consuming a boss to obtain the Boost Ball, both of which are necessary to progress. Non-essential upgrades, like the ones which allow the Morph Ball to damage enemies in Boost form, as well as others which increase the amount of deployable bombs, et cetera, would be obtained through bonus bosses discoverable through backtracking and exploration.
edited 11th Nov '13 6:58:26 PM by Null
...Didn't Samus' consumption of the SA-X's core stabilise her Metroid components...?
They're still there, but I doubt she'll be growing fangs any time soon - regardless of how good it'd look
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Of course, in gameplay it'd basically end up like Pokemon or Pikmin, with her basically throwing them at people. Certainly a unique parenting style.
But I don't think it's ever actually possible for the Metroid traits to go away in the same way it isn't possible for the Chozo traits to go away. The stuff that basically makes the suit work to begin with.
Of course, the X were only in Fusion itself anyway, and we've seen what Metroids eat outside of that. And we've seen some of their abilities.
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...That's actually a good look. Huh.
edited 11th Nov '13 7:32:01 PM by unnoun
I posted a link to an Operation Rainfall editorial that defended the game a couple of months ago. Cider was the only one who made a direct response to it, so I'm curious as to what other people think about the defenses presented in that article.
As for Metroid Sequels in general, I should probably be kept far away from any of their development because I am the kind of fan who would inevitably go crazy from the control. I mean, when someone says "Fusion" sequel is as soon as I'm done with the Prime 3 one. No, my Prime 3 sequel has nothing to do with that ship at the end, I really do not know what Retro planned with that but my sequel would take place in between the death of Dark Samus and Samus's "mission complete" transmission to Admiral Dane. The events of this sequel would then be brought up again in the Fusion sequel.
Modified Ura-nage, Torture RackI just want to see a game where Samus attempts to socialize with people, fails miserably, and winds up pecking at their hair and preening.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.(Nintendo Presents)The opening scene shows Aurora Unit 313's severed head falling towards the Earth, breaking into pieces and dissolving away to reveal Dark Samus's form, which violently explodes.(An insert here studios production) Samus, knocked on her back from the shock of impact, arches back and we zoom inside her to see her phazon tumor shrivel up and dissolve into nothingness(Metroid...) Samus sits up and stands, looking upon the decaying caverns of a dying planet. With a heavy sigh behind her helmet, she dials for her ship on her command visor takes off as Phaaze undergoes a chain reaction explosion.(insert subtitles here)
From there, control goes to the player as Samus awakens...not in her cockpit but from behind a monochrome view of a pod...like thing. The player can barely maneuver enough to improve the first person view but the sounds of slurping and scratching outside and if you wait long enough you can see the source of the sounds crawl across the front. hypermode offline. Mash B to break free (or wait long enough for the swarm of head sized teeth balls to break in attack, your choice). hazard shield offline. You are out among eye searing wreckage of indeterminable origin under attack but in no serious danger, avoid them, shoot them if you want, maybe scan a few recorded in log, press start for further reading. Nova beam offline.
Your come across a shoot open door by going far enough to the left of your initial breakout (going right will meet you with a barred pathway held in place by a mechanism that seems to have an unstable core grapple voltage offline. Leaving through the door reveals a corpse mutilated by more of the enemies you have become acquainted with. Further logbook entries will construct a hypothetical model of what it looked like prior to death, suspecting those dents to be wing sockets. spider ball offline. More wreckage similar to your pod and more corpses. Suspected alien text detected, translation pending. seeker missile offline. New fauna in the ruins/wreckage, most flighty, some hostiles of a bipedal sort which dump acid on Samus if killed at too close of a distance (disorienting but not damaging enough to bother varia suit shielding). plasma beam offline.
Another door breaks open to a sheer drop with formations resembling a city collapsed into a crater far below. Communication is established with gunship, which shows up on an unconnected spot on the map (no nearby landing spots so forget about the command visor) Alien text is now being checked against your database. While you do some platforming to get to your ship (or alternatively, fall off the side of the cliff and explore the "city". screw attack offline Most of it is blocked off by more barriers whose foundations look susceptible to a change in internal pressure ice missiles offline so you will eventually have to make your way back up. You will also encounter cyclopian sentries who can kill you in one hit through transfiguration and rooms that the scan visor will advise not to even go near, whose entrance results Samus's molecules being scattered in a similar manner to the Echoes portals(another instant death) so you will probably want to get back up sooner than later. P.E.D. offline
Two rooms from your ship, "match found, translating Jafracan transmission" (press start to view private Biscuit's final update). I blamed Bay for everything today with what I thought was my dying breath but but the realization that this is going to take awhile has caused me to think things over. Bay may be an embarrassment to the Esison Guard but the blame clearly lies with Hill. The aliens must have searched us out by tracking the vitals of the one he insisted on keeping alive, it may have even released a distress signal. Bay said he was coming back with reinforcements but don't bother, just purge this section . X-ray visor offline
One room from the ship, a save station and a data packet you can scan. (UMS 9583 part 1, press start to read) I can see why these aliens haunt Fibre's nightmares, their assault on the J-74 alpha colony are unlike anything on record. Still, their value, both on an ecological and technological level, is easily worth one hundred times more than anything we as a people may have lost here. And the Albonese, as I have dubbed them, may not be the only alien presence amongst us. The nature of this specimen still alludes me but it seems most similar to the elusive Alimbics or Chozo, in a crude way. Most importantly its only reaction to our presence have been defensive, in stark contrast to the Albonese.
With that, Samus steps through the door to a wide open plateau were it rests undamaged...her red ship from Zero Mission. Scanning reveals (Raider class jump ship owned by Samus Aran. Temporal distortion detected, press start for further detail) connection to gunship lost, searching for connection at which point Samus is shot at by "her" ship. Cue boss battle (it would be like the one in Nintendo land and try and throw Samus around with a grapple beam. After doing enough damage it fades away to reveal a bigger, meaner, slightly more humanoid version of the model your scan visor put together. It has four eyes, four slowly moving glowing wings, two arms and prehensile feet grasping a rod that also glows.
At this point Samus start to uncontrollably take damage while it puts up a force field than can only be bypassed by charged shots (she has to shoot it enough before she dies) and it occasionally launches destroyable blasts at her which sometimes drop health pickups.
edited 13th Nov '13 10:29:01 AM by Cider
Modified Ura-nage, Torture RackLink to the Operation Rainfall defense article
I'm not sure what you want us to say. It's the exact same shit I heard two years ago, the same shit that has been debunked hundreds of times.
"You just had a completely made-up characterization of Samus. She was always like this in Yoshio Sakamoto's head, because I can read his mind."
"He's Sakamoto. That means his version of Samus is the only one that matters. Fuck all those other people involved in Metroid games, they don't count."
"It's a realistic portrayal of post-traumatic stress disorder. Doesn't matter that nobody was ever complaining how it was an unrealistic portrayal."
"Samus now has weaknesses, which means she's more human. Being useless and emotionally fragile is human."
"Concentration makes more sense within the Metroid universe." (what the fuck)
"Fusion did linear first, so linear is okay!"
"We finally have a 3rd person 3D Metroid! 10 out of 10."
No wait, that last one was the Metroid Database.
edited 13th Nov '13 7:00:25 AM by Scardoll
Fight. Struggle. Endure. Suffer. LIVE.Regarding the hypothetical "defeating enemies and taking their powers" mechanic for the Fusion sequel: wouldn't that basically make her Mega Man?
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.For the record, that article did admit that the game's writing is flawed, but the ideas and intentions were good (similar to what Tobias Drake said a couple pages back). In his words in the comment section: "It is perfectly possible to recognize bad writing while still finding worth in the story and characters."
That's what makes this article a little different from the others. Whereas many defenders would insist there's nothing wrong with the writing if you make your head squint, this one readily admits it has flaws, yet continues to like the game anyway. To be honest, I don't know if that's better or worse than admitting its perfect the entire way.
edited 13th Nov '13 9:46:25 AM by Nettacki
I'm not going to let someone feed me rotten eggs just because they could have been an omelette if prepared differently.
You are not alone.

Just coming up with ideas.
And I do like some power-ups that are more like "sub-weapons" I guess. Gotten from normal enemies more likely than not.
...Although Pac-Troid might be kinda fun for the morph-ball sections. One or two at least.