On the topic of avian Samus: I was picturing Samus angrily pecking at Adam, and how much better Other M would have been if she did that at some point.
Then I started picturing it with her helmet on, and the result was hilarious slapstick.
edited 13th Nov '13 10:35:47 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.But this isn't rotten eggs. It's a video game. It won't kill you.
Uh... What is your post Cider? What is its purpose?
I'm too simple-minded and sleep-deprived to geddit.
Fight. Struggle. Endure. Suffer. LIVE.I was typing from the assumption it would be a first person 3D game. I have three ideas for a Metroid game, two are first person 3D and one is 2D (a sequel to Fusion, after the Prime 3 one)
Recorded in log(Morphology: Esison freighting chief Hill, press start for further reading)The self repair mechanism is back online, I do not have the ability to make this transport flight worthy...not here. he laments. (Morphology:Esison freight captain Fibre, press start for further reading) If Hill is correct, these Albonese are the same invaders who attacked the Alimbic Cluster, them bringing you here may be a prelude to another invasion. she speculates. The good news is that there are plentiful stores of what we need and an intact tower from which we can call off world reinforcements. The bad news is these areas are largely where the Albonese presence seems to be strongest and some of them have been blocked off by our guardsmen escorts before they were completely cut down and scattered. I do not expect you to do alone what they failed to do collectively, but we could really use some intelligence.. says Hill The biggest concern at this point is your psyche. If your see an inconsistency between your mechanical and organic components, run for the nearest safe room and stay there until they are inline again. We will identify your position and help how we can.. Fibre, explaining save rooms encase you have not used any yet as well as a game mechanic that will be getting on your nerves until you find the proper upgrade.
Thanks to the gravity shell's increased shielding, not only can you freely roam through the city without spontaneously dying (though some areas will still take their toll) the Cyclopean sentries who stalk through the city are no longer instant kills, they merely cause you to enter a locked down version of morphball that cannot be exited until you enter a save room or the sentry who locked you into morphball is destroyed power bomb generator offline. Exploring an area outside of the crater city will reveal a familiar site, sound
. (Scattered, press start to read) Seventeen troops, obliterated, spontaneously ripped to pieces. Not only are we hopelessly lost without explanation or way of returning but now the very fabric of the universe seems to be unraveling us! Specters from the past seem to be haunting us on top of it, while our most recent advancements now fail. Phazon seems unable to instantly decompose here and the Metroids have grown more bothersome than ever. Occasionally we pick up transmissions from other pirate bands, though their authenticity has not yet been confirmed, as we cannot yet bypass this wall of death before us. But make no mistake, we will yet conquer!
edited 13th Nov '13 7:20:52 PM by Cider
Modified Ura-nage, Torture RackThe main Metroid thread, apparently. We have cloaked ourselves in the skin of the Great Adversary, now fallen to oblivion.
...You mean beam switching? We've been doing that for a while.
Then Retro removed it in Prime 3 because they hate fun.
edited 14th Nov '13 8:38:13 AM by Scardoll
Fight. Struggle. Endure. Suffer. LIVE.Prime 1 had really good beam switching. I especially liked the subtle detail that apparently Samus's finger position determines which beam she's using. One of my biggest complaints about Powered Armor is that it's never quite clear how you manipulate it. What action, inside the suit, makes it transition to Missile? Or Super Missile? How do you swap visors? Powered Armor is usually content to just make the entire machine psychic, doing whatever it needs to do because you willed it to do so.
Prime included that neat detail that the position of Samus's fingers recalibrates her blaster - presumably firing the blaster by pressing in a trigger mechanism with her thumb, hold down trigger to charge? - and I appreciate them for doing that.
edited 14th Nov '13 8:56:07 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.For people who disliked it for its story, it wasn't unanswered questions that they were upset about.
edited 14th Nov '13 1:11:13 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Honestly, it wasn't even the answers being unacceptable. It was the presentation of the answers.
For example, the mystery of the Deleter - whose name is still ridiculous - is solved. It is, however, solved simply via process of elimination, and only for those who were still paying attention to this plot point long after the characters had stopped caring about it. The end result is that the answer is irrelevant, because the mystery was, itself, irrelevant and served only to kill off some minor characters while contributing nothing to the story. Also, Samus never learns the answer to this plot point, it's just sort of answered for the audience's benefit; Samus herself contributes nothing to the plot, as events just sort of happen around her.
This pretty thoroughly encapsulates the problems people had with the story: it wasn't that its ideas were bad, so much as how it went about presenting those ideas.
edited 14th Nov '13 2:20:50 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I don't see why you'd expect people to just want instant gratification. The series formula is pretty well set, I think people would be more upset had they not doled things out.
Also in hindsight, i totally was basically talking about beam switching. Except you can upgrade those individual beams and junk.
edited 14th Nov '13 7:03:21 PM by OdieFromTheOz
nyo ho hoA question about Other M. And let's be honest...you think some of the people that disliked it for the story and its unanswered questions wanted instant gratification and everything given to them on a silver platter?
Well that's pretty fucking presumptuous.
I'm not sure what the unanswered questions are that you're talking about. We basically know everything about the story, since there's nothing there beyond the glue used to solder it in between Super and Fusion.
Fight. Struggle. Endure. Suffer. LIVE.ResolveScience team suspects we were torn from space time by that whatever they say it was Phaaze unleashed as the cowardly marines retreated against the might of our glorious armada. Death to the Dark Hunter! She must have known her control over us was slipping and have seen a perfect opportunity to have us removed. But we have survived, it seems, due to another realm encroaching on ours. The rules of are only superficial similar to space and time as we previously knew them and venturing beyond the point of crossover has disastrous effects for us, yet the indigenous lifeforms encountered so far all seem to be in no danger from it. Science teams is preoccupied over how this state of existence came to be but it is obvious it exists for our benefit. Under her control or not, the living planet obviously could not bear to see the complete erosion of the space pirate cause and granted us this boon. We will adapt to this place and leave it stronger than we entered.
The space pirates, are of course, deluded as ever. They are not under Dark Samus's control but they are targets for the same psychic assaults Samus is and they, unwittingly fall further and further under enemy control as the game goes on to the point they end up as the subjects you can observe inside Albonese holding tanks and can scan them to see the results of the experiments done on them.
Metroids not so much, they would remain virtually unaffected but instead shriek a lot, eat everything and mutate into new forms better suited to the unstable environment. Splitter Metroid, which is a controls its body down to the molecular bonds and deliberately goes from One to Million to One as a means of transportation, ambush and escape. Metroid Polyp. Join together and anchor themselves in a region they deem safe then grows to encompass as much of it as possible, sucking in all energy like storm drain. Heavy Metroid: draws from the area itself to warp gravity, allowing it safe movement and causing everything around it to have its movement slowed (even with your gravity shell, until you get the next shielding upgrade).
Luckily for you, your enemies are also dealing with (and getting devoured) by these Metroids so after another boss fight in one of their compounds Samus gets the clock stopper, a weapon which forcibly repels virtually all types of energy and temporarily locks what it passes by in time as it gains momentum. (It is basically the ice beam with nasty recoil and ammo consumption, frozen enemies will float in the air again!) Using it will also allow you to break barriers around where you first entered the city (which will get you chewed out by Fibre at the first safe room you save/recover at after doing so).
You will also find logs, the Albonese will be untranslated at first but Jafrac will include details of all the guardsmen (and women) who fell (and eventually you will find an alive but severely injured one from whom you will get a power beam upgrade, the arrow beam, which bits sticking out of enemies, immobilizing the weaker ones, annoying arrows to bosses and such. Charging a shot leaves behind an energy stake you can use as an improvised platform in certain places. You also get notes left behind from Jafrac at the founding of the J-74 colony, during the Albonese invasion before the guard arrived and even get to see one locked up begging to be killed as it slowly mutates into an Albonese bioweapon which serves as a mook debut cutscene.
edited 18th Nov '13 1:05:15 PM by Cider
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I just assumed there were unanswered questions about the story and personality of Samus that people had after Other M (like: how's this supposed to match up to Fusion and beyond?). If there aren't, then the person I was talking to about it in another forum must have used the wrong argument to defend the game with.
It's not that it removes it, quite so much as it replaces it with something distasteful.
For example, One of the biggest points of contention is the scene with Samus freezing up and turning into a visual metaphor for a small child when faced with the awe-inspiring terror that is Ridley, the nightmare of her childhood that destroyed her village and haunts her every waking dream. This would be a spectacular and powerful scene much, much earlier in the canon, before she killed him umpteen times. By this point in the timeline, he's not really much the nightmare of her childhood anymore, he's just a recurring nuisance. Post-Super Metroid, it's just too late to have her suddenly react in terror at the sight of Ridley for the first time ever.
We know why she reacted that way. It was meant to be a depiction of post-traumatic stress disorder. There are no unanswered questions here. The question itself, however, is unacceptable because of the context.
edited 16th Nov '13 7:12:02 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.

If you want a 3D 3rd person Metroid, play Nintendo Land. I say this as a person who usually bashes Wii U The last shot shatters the force field completely, knocking the "Albon Raider?" ("???" if you have not found enough scan data yet) into a tumble and sending energy shards raining down on Samus, cutting into and becoming embedded in the Varia suit. Samus tries to track her erratically moving foe as it tries to stabilizes itself. As soon as its still and level again Samus has it inline from a charged but flinches as the shards push themselves deeper into the armor. The Albon grips its rod with all four of its hands and seems to be charging up for a big attack of its own. Samus grinds her teeth together and releases the trigger before it can finish though, causing a huge explosion that seems to obliterate everything around Samus, causing her to fall into a dark void. A slow fall though.
Scanning alien artifact for compatibilities...updating Chozo Battle Suit Ver SA 1-446B-VM 6-P...gravity shell acquired!(new item fan fair plays)distorted areas of space-time now by passable (cuts to map and highlights previous city rooms which were instant death to enter), improved movement in fluid environments, shielding has increased seeing nothing else to during this descent into who knows where, Samus looks herself over. The spots where it felt like (looked like in player's case) the shards had cut into her were actually places where they grafted to the varia suit and formed the seems for a new layer of armor, which seems to be a mixture of broken rod pieces and purplish pure energy. In fact, the skin under the armor does not hurt anymore and she almost forgot it had in the first place.
The she suddenly looks alter. The player will see two orange dots, indicating potential hostiles nearby she hears a combination of moans and clicks coming from where they register on the mini map (which astute players may recognize as placing them and their ship near an not go zone in the ruined city, shooting at the dots will cause them to scatter faster than your shots can reach them) connection found, connecting to gunship...initiating Jafrac translator...This might be a little disconcerting at first Gradually the sinking feeling gives way to solid ground and blackness gives way to color, depth perception and the source of the noises she heard.
Like the enemy you just fought they have four eyes and four wings which glow when they take flight. Unlike your enemy their torsos are much less human like, more resembling that of a featherless birds and they seemingly protrude from a centipede like base, the sixteen pairs of legs each possessing a grabbing appendage. There are also grabbing appendages between the wings, one of whom is hunched behind the other holding what appears to be a cross between a pair of shears and Chebaca's bow castor and trying in vain not to cower in your sight (not that there is any reason for an alien creature to show human signs of fear). I took some liberties with your communications systems. The larger one in front gestures as if to signal it is "speaking". One with more skill and knowledge of your...civilization, could have likely brought us to an understanding in a less...intrusive manner. But all my attempts at reaching you and your...transport, were unreceptive until now. Samus lowers her arm cannon, slightly.
Admittedly, only one of us was trying to communicate.] This text came through with a much lighter sound per "key stroke" and the figure behind gestured, as if it was speaking now. Most of us were convinced you were an enemy weapon and had wanted you dismantled, this one's disagreement was a sure sign of madness that clearly called for detention. Even after he proved you were under a psychic assault and shared our common enemy you were dismissed as weak minded, unnecessary redundancy in this mechanism... It gestured toward Samus's spaceship ... but it seems all but Hill had the wrong idea.
Edit:It seems the forums do not have a yellow highlighter.
edited 13th Nov '13 10:31:00 AM by Cider
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