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hughesta posted:Watery Hall underwater section? You loving beautiful gem of a human. 
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I can't believe I only have 185 missiles. I must have missed so many upgrades.
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Feb 19, 2023 14:58
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Shyfted One posted:I can't believe I only have 185 missiles. I must have missed so many upgrades. The game plays a specific noise when one is around, which helps a ton. I also found my Official Nintendo Player’s Guide which I had kicking around so that helps
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Feb 19, 2023 16:03
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Okay I just got the pirate data about them trying to replicate the morph ball, it’s just so fuckin  I read it to my wife and we both couldn’t stop laughing
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Feb 20, 2023 01:05
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I will always love how halfway through Phazon Mines, the orange scans are just basically the Pirates saying "Y'know, I've had it up to HERE with that Hunter chick!"
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Feb 20, 2023 01:45
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Orange Crush Rush posted:I will always love how halfway through Phazon Mines, the orange scans are just basically the Pirates saying "Y'know, I've had it up to HERE with that Hunter chick!" There’s a gem about pirates bringing pets into the mines and them going crazy because of the Phazon. The game tells such a great story through the environments and logs. That’s definitely one of its strengths.
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Feb 20, 2023 02:03
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I was laughing at one of the scans by a tiny cave just off of Thardus’ cave, where it says they were trying to tame him and apparently making some progress.
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:There’s a gem about pirates bringing pets into the mines and them going crazy because of the Phazon. The game tells such a great story through the environments and logs. That’s definitely one of its strengths. wasn't there one about how the science team found traces of Rations in a Metroid's digestive system, which came with a warning to "STOP TRYING TO MAKE A METROID YOUR PET YOU IDIOTS" or something like that
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Feb 20, 2023 03:37
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Orange Crush Rush posted:wasn't there one about how the science team found traces of Rations in a Metroid's digestive system, which came with a warning to "STOP TRYING TO MAKE A METROID YOUR PET YOU IDIOTS" or something like that That might've been in Prime 2.
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Feb 20, 2023 03:50
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Bruceski posted:That might've been in Prime 2. Yeah that and “science team has vapor for brains” are from Prime 2. Prime 2 has the best pirate lore, absolutely nothing goes their way from the moment they land on Aether and it keeps getting worse by the second
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Feb 20, 2023 05:02
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Yeah Prime 2 Pirate Logs are mostly a list of the latest disaster that happened before Samus arrives. Then we get this one.quote:Another hunter, wearing the traditional colors of Samus Aran, made planetfall today. Horrific as it may sound, there are two of them now. We are bracing for a new assault. This dire turn of events may bear some good will. One of our scouts in Dark Aether saw a curious encounter. The Dark Hunter attacked the one clad as Samus near a Phazon site. Perhaps they are not allies...but foes. Perhaps we can forge an alliance with the Dark Hunter - an exchange, Phazon for the head of our common enemy.
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Feb 20, 2023 05:27
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It always makes me happy when people discover the best bit of lore in the series.
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Feb 20, 2023 07:12
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Space Pirates every time they discover a new deadly nightmare of the cosmos:
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The Federation is just as bad as the Space Pirates. They have clandestine metroid breeding and phazon weponification programs. All their stations are run by sentient brains in glass jars. They regularly do experimental testing on their own personnel often to ill effects. How many times have they injected Samus with alien DNA and other poo poo without her consent? 3?
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Feb 20, 2023 15:18
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To be fair to them I think she was basically dying every time and they did what they needed to do to save her?
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Feb 20, 2023 15:22
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Yeah, the one time was when she got owned by Dark Samus and they slapped the PED stuff on her and the other hunters to stabilize them, the other was when she got owned by X and they shot her full of Metroids after cutting away the most infected parts of the armor. Both times she was near death.
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Feb 20, 2023 15:24
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And then there's the time they gaslight her into having PTSD and abuse her by taking away her autonomy over her power suit. Space pirates just want to pirate and are just incompetent enough they keep getting their poo poo wrecked.
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Feb 20, 2023 15:44
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ExcessBLarg! posted:And then there's the time they gaslight her into having PTSD and abuse her by taking away her autonomy over her power suit. That was mostly just the one guy
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I don't know why y'all are making excuses for the Federation here. Some day Samus is going to figure out they're actually the ones behind all the really heinous stuff--even if unintentionally, and she's going to turn the tables on them. There you go Sakamoto, that's your next game.
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Feb 20, 2023 15:52
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At least when the Feds are experimenting with monstrous bioweapons they do it in sealed space stations so when lab containment is inevitably breached it doesn't destroy an entire planet. ...y'know, until Samus crashes the drat thing INTO a planet, but that's everyone's fault, really.
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ExcessBLarg! posted:I don't know why y'all are making excuses for the Federation here. Some day Samus is going to figure out they're actually the ones behind all the really heinous stuff--even if unintentionally, and she's going to turn the tables on them. I nean she did. Then they had to come begging because the X parasites came back.
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Feb 20, 2023 17:28
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The only remotely shady poo poo is other m related due to there seemingly being a group away wanting to use a bioweapons program to take over, and the english translation of fusion where it makes things much more sinister than the original translation. BSF was completely above board.
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Feb 20, 2023 17:59
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The federation being an actual government is way more interesting than being a fictitious group of people that are just your friends
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Feb 20, 2023 18:27
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Other M and Fusion make it fairly clear that the least savory parts of the Federation are a rogue element. Samus is clearly at least on good enough terms with them post-Fusion to take a job from them in Dread. As for Adam being a complete horse's rear end to Samus in Other M, well. That was just Raven Beak pretending to be Adam, obviously. I do think Sakamoto is gonna circle around back to that Federation storyline now that all of the Chozo and Metroid stuff is wrapped up. MJeff fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Feb 20, 2023 |
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Feb 20, 2023 18:39
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MJeff posted:Other M and Fusion make it fairly clear that the least savory parts of the Federation are a rogue element. Samus is clearly at least on good enough terms with them post-Fusion to take a job from them in Other M... Other M takes place before Fusion!  Samus has her full Power Suit in Other M, instead of the Fusion Suit. She never gets the old Power Suit back in Fusion, it just gets the Varia Suit colours at the end when you absorb the SA-X. The Suit in Dread is a redesigned/upgraded Fusion Suit, what with the base level version of it being blue.
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Feb 20, 2023 18:46
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Whoops. Take a job from them in Dread, I should say. 
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I hope Nintendo has gotten over hating bounty hunting as a concept
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She's as much a bounty hunter and cowboys in spaghetti westerns are actual cowboys, it's entirely aesthetic about an independent heavily armed person doing good around the galaxy/frontier and it's v cool and good.
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Feb 20, 2023 18:59
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The best bits of Pirate lore in 1 are the back-to-back logs in Phazon Mines that detail the excruciating failures of trying to replicate Samus' Morph Ball, how it mangled and mutilated 4 test subjects, and then the one immediately near it that reads "Now accepting applications for volunteers for prototype weapons testing! Increased rations and pay!  "
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imagine being the guy who signs up expecting to fire cool experimental weapons and hearing "ok we're going to attempt to crush you into a tiny sphere"
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Working as a Space Pirate is basically just being an Aperture Science employeeCave Johnson posted:For those of you who volunteered to be injected with Praying Mantis DNA, I have good news and bad news. The bad news: we're postponing those tests indefinitely. The good news: We have a much better test for you. Fighting an army of Mantis Men! Pick up a rifle and follow the yellow line. You'll know when the test begins.
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Next game Samus will be running around Federation HQ on Earth blowing up horrific failed experiments until there's a breach into the surrounding metropolis, and then Samus will have to navigate the labyrinthine streets of Vancouver- because it's ALWAYS Vancouver for some reason.
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Pastel Candy Snake posted:Next game Samus will be running around Federation HQ on Earth blowing up horrific failed experiments until there's a breach into the surrounding metropolis, and then Samus will have to navigate the labyrinthine streets of Vancouver- because it's ALWAYS Vancouver for some reason. The last meth head is in captivity. Florida is at peace.
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My favorite bit of silent characterization in Dread is when Quiet Robe shows up. Samus is immediately ready to start blasting before realizing he's one of the chill Chozo, at which point she just goes 'oh, sup grandpa' and sits down for storytime 
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samus speaking chozo while her theme music kicks in is still the coolest poo poo ever
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WHY BONER NOW posted:I would like to deal with x parasites in a prime game. X parasites in general are cool, they nudge the games towards body horror Oh man... I would kill for a Metroid X Resident Evil 4 X The Thing X Among Us. Where you're on a space station with a bunch of NPCs, who are randomly dying, and it turns out they've got parasites in 'em. That, or a Wind Waker style Chibi Metroid game.
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Pastel Candy Snake posted:Next game Samus will be running around Federation HQ on Earth blowing up horrific failed experiments until there's a breach into the surrounding metropolis, and then Samus will have to navigate the labyrinthine streets of Vancouver- because it's ALWAYS Vancouver for some reason. Turns out a Federation research facility on Mars has been researching ways of producing infinite energy using gateways to hell.
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There is only one non-Smash Nintendo series that should cross over with Doom and it isn't Metroid
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ImpAtom posted:There is only one non-Smash Nintendo series that should cross over with Doom and it isn't Metroid Ah, yes. Pikmin.
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Bloody Pom posted:My favorite bit of silent characterization in Dread is when Quiet Robe shows up. Samus is immediately ready to start blasting before realizing he's one of the chill Chozo, at which point she just goes 'oh, sup grandpa' and sits down for storytime I appreciate that remembering bird grandpa was the thing that made her really go "Y'know what, gently caress this guy." on Raven Beak.
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