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She curls up into a ball and then becomes a swirling mass of energy. So it uses pokeball tech https://youtu.be/pJQnEVuYYs4
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MisterBibs posted:My Time At Portia continues to reveal things since I last played that I dig a lot, plus some I don't think I ever mentioned. Caves of Qud is not a super plot heavy game but the setting does post-post-apocalyptic really well. It's also a roguelike-rear end roguelike so definitely not for everyone.
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Oct 11, 2019 02:45
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There’s a cute piece of fan art I’ve lost track of that shows Samus shrunk down inside the morph ball, and she’s sitting in bed watching TV. Just takin’ a break.
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Oct 11, 2019 02:56
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Maxwell Lord posted:There’s a cute piece of fan art I’ve lost track of that shows Samus shrunk down inside the morph ball, and she’s sitting in bed watching TV. Just takin’ a break.  ?There's some other cute ones too (and also many for which I'd recommend turning on some sort of search filtering :|)  
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Oct 11, 2019 03:01
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Samus doesn't just have super intense Chozo training, she's also genetically enhanced. The Chozo basically altered her to have some of their own traits both to make her stronger/tougher and to make it easier for her to interface with her power suit. So Samus was already a buff, tough, badass and then she had basically Chozo mutations to make her even stronger.
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Oct 11, 2019 03:09
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And now she's part Metroid too, and probably part X-parasite too because that poo poo cannot possibly leave you unaltered.
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Oct 11, 2019 03:22
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 Stepping away from Samus for a minute, I'm back on board with Control for now. Something totally unexpected is just how much of a delight mixing in live-action footage turned out to be. I don't know how it works alongside the regular gameplay, but somehow it feels like a glimpse into a different time rather than a jarring disconnect from the rest of the game world.
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Oct 11, 2019 03:32
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So I have been playing Dual hearts this rpg platformer thing about going into dreams to find keys to open doors to get sacred orbs because your idiot companion dropped all the keys, and the game is very anime and also very silly. Whats nice is that there's a few times where it really emphasizes just how weird dreams can be, like in the second dream there are enemies that look really huge when far away but when you walk up to them they get tiny, and this is a actual gameplay feature because these enemies shoot at you while big. Also the third dream you go into is just santas, like actually just Santa Claus on vacation at the time and now I'm being attacked by snow santas that are actually just awful farting imps and some kind of awful wreath with detachable faces and ice walls with eyes and mouths are asking me to feed them fish and this feels like a trip on December 20th. I had somehow completely forgotten this part and I was yelling a little once the realization sunk in.
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Oct 11, 2019 03:34
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Captain Hygiene posted:
The lady just loves being a ball 
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Oct 11, 2019 03:37
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John Murdoch posted:Fusion introduced Adam and he spends most of the game giving Samus orders and controlling where she goes and what she does, something that she's just cool with for most of the game. The plot is also literally about Samus being severely depowered. Except you're forgetting the fact that it starts off that way and gradually comes clear that Adam and the Federation really aren't on the level so she tells them to go gently caress themselves. They also actively try to temper her upgrades because she's getting even stronger than she originally was, and that just goes badly for them.
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Oct 11, 2019 04:35
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Adam also doesn't control where she goes. The station is on lockdown and she has to work her way through to open each area.
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Oct 11, 2019 05:07
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She also destroys their secret lab and I was going to point out that she blows up a planet too, but she rather makes a habit of that and is a destructive force greater than any other Nintendo property and really most any protagonists in any game. In further Samus is a badass news, it was a morph-less, missile-less Samus with only the short beam that was picked to singlehandly wipe out the space pirates, everything else she just kinda found while there
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Oct 11, 2019 06:35
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I've actually counted, and Samus doesn't actually destroy THAT many planets. I mean, okay, she does take out several, which is definitely more than I have in my life, but the only ones she's destroyed in full are Zebes, SR388 and Phaaze (she also collapsed Dark Aether if you count it). Two of those she actually left intact the first time around, and only destroyed it later. Now, space stations, that's another story. There's only one space station in the entirety of Metroid that Samus has set foot on, that has also survived the game it appears in. Now, a lot of those aren't her fault, but still!
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Oct 11, 2019 06:50
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RaspberryCommie posted:Samus doesn't just have super intense Chozo training, she's also genetically enhanced. The Chozo basically altered her to have some of their own traits both to make her stronger/tougher and to make it easier for her to interface with her power suit. Or she wasn't and then they made her that way. Or she was. The one good thing about Nintendo never shining a light on Samus' backstory is that you can say basically whatever you want about it and no one can stop you. Cleretic posted:I've actually counted, and Samus doesn't actually destroy THAT many planets. I mean, okay, she does take out several, which is definitely more than I have in my life, but the only ones she's destroyed in full are Zebes, SR388 and Phaaze (she also collapsed Dark Aether if you count it). Two of those she actually left intact the first time around, and only destroyed it later. If they ever just let their properties mingle outside of Smash Bros and Mario Kart, I want Samus to be a secret boss in some games. Regardless of if it's every time or not she does have a track record of making a planet go boom whenever she lands on one so I'd sure as heck be worried about Hyrule or whatever if she showed up.
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Oct 11, 2019 07:06
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MisterBibs posted:My Time At Portia continues to reveal things since I last played that I dig a lot, plus some I don't think I ever mentioned. The only ones I can really think of are Tex Murphy and Deus Ex and it's arguable the world is doing better in the latter. Horizon Zero Dawn maybe? It's long after the apocalypse (in a way, two of them) and while the robots are around there are stable societies and the game has a mostly hopeful tone when discussing the present. Non-ironic cheery post apoc games are rare.
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Oct 11, 2019 07:14
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RareAcumen posted:Or she wasn't and then they made her that way. Or she was. Nah, they did this year ago with a comic and it's been kinda pointed towards occasionally in one or two log in the Prime series I think? Ridley hosed up the colony world she lived on as a kid, killing her parents and everyone else. Chozo went through the ruins, found her and raised her. They juiced her up on Chozo biotech, as well as giving her power armor and training, to make her super-strong. And much as I really don't want to reference it, they do bring it up directly in Other-goddamn-M with the bit of her momentarily being a crying child when she comes face to face with Ridley. Even though it made no loving sense for it happen after killing him at least three times prior to that game.
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Oct 11, 2019 07:27
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Captain Hygiene posted:
btw, it’s worth going back to the menu to view those directly, because some of the in-world recordings are a shortened version, and the full version is only viewable in the menu. It’s mostly the recordings that automatically plays on the walls or TVs in the background like this, but I think even some of the recordings you see by directly interacting with TVs also do it
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Oct 11, 2019 07:51
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Cleretic posted:I've actually counted, and Samus doesn't actually destroy THAT many planets. I mean, okay, she does take out several, which is definitely more than I have in my life, but the only ones she's destroyed in full are Zebes, SR388 and Phaaze (she also collapsed Dark Aether if you count it). Two of those she actually left intact the first time around, and only destroyed it later. Only 3 planets have been destroyed. That is one of the smallest number of destroyed planets you can have.
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Oct 11, 2019 10:54
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When you think about it, how many species has she really genocided single-handedly? If you do some research you'll realize it's not that many!
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Oct 11, 2019 10:57
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Mokinokaro posted:Horizon Zero Dawn maybe? It's long after the apocalypse (in a way, two of them) and while the robots are around there are stable societies and the game has a mostly hopeful tone when discussing the present.
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Oct 11, 2019 11:27
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Zanzibar Ham posted:When you think about it, how many species has she really genocided single-handedly? If you do some research you'll realize it's not that many! I think it depends on your definition of 'single-handedly'. I would say that any that died solely as a result of a planet-cracking or colony-dropping act don't count, because she pretty clearly had help for them. And if we only count the ones she specifically drove to near or total extinction then the count's only at, like, two.
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Oct 11, 2019 11:41
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Cleretic posted:I think it depends on your definition of 'single-handedly'. I would say that any that died solely as a result of a planet-cracking or colony-dropping act don't count, because she pretty clearly had help for them. And if we only count the ones she specifically drove to near or total extinction then the count's only at, like, two. Not that many!
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Oct 11, 2019 11:47
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Kennel posted:Only 3 planets have been destroyed. That is one of the smallest number of destroyed planets you can have. lmfao
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MisterBibs posted:My Time At Portia continues to reveal things since I last played that I dig a lot, plus some I don't think I ever mentioned. Splatoon?
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Oct 11, 2019 12:23
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Control endgame spoiler: Holy poo poo the Ashtray maze.  I don't know if "one of the coolest gaming sequences of the year" counts as a little thing, but holy poo poo.Also, I like how, as the Board started getting corrupted by the Hiss, they started doing its weird insane babble but in their own already-strange vocabulary. "baby, baby, baby, yeah" became "small child, small child, small child, affirmative". Polaron has a new favorite as of 12:35 on Oct 11, 2019 |
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Oct 11, 2019 12:33
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Polaron posted:Control endgame spoiler: Holy poo poo the Ashtray maze. It's worth going through all the Hotline calls in the codex because some of them have extended coversations with the Board.
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Oct 11, 2019 13:07
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It's not like Samus installed the self-destruct sequences in these planets. The blame should fall squarely in the hands of the Space Pirates for putting a dead-man's switch in Mother Brain.
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Oct 11, 2019 13:22
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LawfulWaffle posted:It's not like Samus installed the self-destruct sequences in these planets. The blame should fall squarely in the hands of the Space Pirates for putting a dead-man's switch in Mother Brain. Zebes sure, SR388 was all her. Also, the self destruct feature on the Fusion spacelab is pretty terrifying if it can blow up a planet. WTH federation?
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Oct 11, 2019 13:42
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ItBreathes posted:Zebes sure, SR388 was all her. Samus can’t help it that the Metroid Queen was a load-bearing boss.
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Oct 11, 2019 13:45
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ItBreathes posted:Zebes sure, SR388 was all her. Given the nature of the work conducted on it, having a "make everything in a large radius around the station go away now" button is pretty sensible. Last thing you need is something contagious getting out into the galaxy at-large. Especially the X-Parasite.
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Oct 11, 2019 13:48
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Mierenneuker posted:Samus can’t help it that the Metroid Queen was a load-bearing boss. Actually SR388 survived Metroid II, it got blasted apart by the Research Station drop in Fusion. Phaaze was a victim of a load-bearing boss, though. And among space stations, so was the Frigate Orpheon in Prime 1 and the Bottle Ship from Other M. Dark Aether was kinda 50/50, the planet collapse was from something else that just happened to coincide perfectly with the death of a giant monster. I don't know why, but I find quantifying and categorizing Samus' feats of ludicrous, absurd levels of destruction really funny.
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Oct 11, 2019 14:22
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Given the nature of the work conducted on it, having a "make everything in a large radius around the station go away now" button is pretty sensible. Last thing you need is something contagious getting out into the galaxy at-large. I feel like it was for deniability. Someone snooping around and finds out about your horrible evil biotech research? The obviously civilian research station can't shoot them down before they report it, so just blow up the whistleblower and the evidence at the same time.
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Oct 11, 2019 14:32
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Cleretic posted:I don't know why, but I find quantifying and categorizing Samus' feats of ludicrous, absurd levels of destruction really funny. "Every single thing on this goddamn planet can die, I hate it here and this job loving sucks. Oh hey you cute wall jumping dudes and ersatz Road Runner, you guys are cool, lemme open a door for you. Everything else can suck my morph ball. Aran out." I'd like to see a short scene of her after a mission, relaxing a little bit while trying to type up a debriefing report for one of her missions. "Engaged Space Pirates again, experimenting with Metroids, again. Ridley, Kraid, Mother Brain were present and defeated. Enemy force detonated planet, recommend survey team investigate remains."
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Oct 11, 2019 14:46
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I like to think her level of destructiveness-as-solution extends to all walks of life, like her roommate gets home to find their place a smoking crater with Samus out front cooling her blaster arm. "I did the housecleaning"
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Oct 11, 2019 14:50
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Captain Hygiene posted:I like to think her level of destructiveness-as-solution extends to all walks of life, like her roommate gets home to find their place a smoking crater with Samus out front cooling her blaster arm. "I did the housecleaning" If she's in a bar and a fight starts, it ends VERY quickly. Along with the bar's existence.
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Oct 11, 2019 14:55
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Captain Hygiene posted:I like to think her level of destructiveness-as-solution extends to all walks of life, like her roommate gets home to find their place a smoking crater with Samus out front cooling her blaster arm. "I did the housecleaning" "But Samus! All your powerups were in the dishwasher!" "Well, guess I'm starting the next game having to find them all again."
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Oct 11, 2019 15:04
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"You, uh, destroyed them all last week" would be a pretty fun in-game explanation, honestly.
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Captain Hygiene posted:"You, uh, destroyed them all last week" would be a pretty fun in-game explanation, honestly. Certainly on par with: forgot them, got attacked, surgery done, ordered not to use them
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Oct 11, 2019 15:14
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I feel like from an outside perspective Samus' missions must look like those tumblr articles about how humans look to other alien races. "We sent her to investigate a planet and she blew it up. Again. We're going through the logs and reports for the THIRD TIME with a dedicated science team and we still don't know what happened to Zebes." "Note to Command: Never, EVER, assign Samus a mission on a populated planet or ship. See logs for prior missions."
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Zanzibar Ham posted:I suppose 'she's cool with being ordered around' is one way to read it, even with her inner monologue describing how she's only grudgingly accepting its commands due to needing to pay the Galactic Federation back for the new ship they provided her. I didn't mean it literally, but that's my fault for being glib I guess. She's not actually 100% into it, no, but she pushes back against it very passively for most of the game. And thanks to its linearity the game tends to contrive situations where Samus is forced to go off-script and then get chided by Adam for it. As for losing her abilities, it's down to the ludonarrative and the tone. In Prime 1 she loses all her powerups, but only after fighting through the frigate and getting caught in the aftermath. (It helps that all of that is playable and not a long-winded cutscene.) And then once on Tallon IV, while she needs to start from scratch, she doesn't feel wildly outmatched by her surroundings. Meanwhile Fusion gives Samus a lethal weakness which the SA-X can exploit and even beyond that, Fusion is infamously much harder than the other games and tends to be stingy with energy tanks. Like I said, it's not concretely Very Bad Other M-tier or anything, juuuust off-kilter enough to make me  in light of its follow-up.(If you go full blown analyst with it you can also read into how Fusion's antagonist takes on Samus's original, physically imposing form while Samus simultaneously has to make do with a more lithe, pared down form. Also for more weirdness in how they handle Samus there's also that whole epilogue in Zero Mission that gave us the Zero Suit in the first place. Though that does cap off with some good catharsis once you get the Gravity Suit and go on a rampage.) packetmantis posted:Adam also doesn't control where she goes. The station is on lockdown and she has to work her way through to open each area. That's true for the color-coded security doors, but not for the main airlocks leading into each area. Those are frequently locked down completely to force Samus in certain directions. And yes, it is a device used by the developers to keep scripted sequences on track (or otherwise not have to create additional variations of certain areas), but during the climax it's also made clear that the one controlling those doors is Adam, full stop. Edit: Also, the scene in question completely hinges on Adam's willingness to betray his masters and let Samus do as she wants, rather than Samus herself getting to really do anything. The SA-X can blow huge holes in the station and doesn't have to play by the rules, but Samus is still under Adam's thumb up until the very end. And even then she doesn't say "gently caress this" and ditch him, they instead work in tandem to throw the station into SR388. The reveal that it was actually for reals Adam the whole time is also just glossed over with a "oh, turns out the Federation uploads dude's brains into AIs sometimes, how about that". John Murdoch has a new favorite as of 16:23 on Oct 11, 2019 |
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