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mycot posted:Something like Genndy Clone Wars but with Metroid would be cool. On that same note, I always think of something like Samurai Jack. Like a series where half the episode is just Samus wandering silently through some weird alien environment.
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Darth Nat posted:On that same note, I always think of something like Samurai Jack. Like a series where half the episode is just Samus wandering silently through some weird alien environment. Primal but the dinosaur is a Metroid.
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Simply Simon posted:Castlevania The Adventure otoh has a phenomenal first stage track and otherwise nothing redeeming about it. Every time I convince myself that I liked it okay but just couldn't beat it back then, I try again and remember that, oh wait, I just liked one piece of music. See also: Crystal Palace from the sequel. Edit: cheetah7071 posted:Seems like a bad idea even if you could get it to work Metroid would be really easy to do as a movie. I don't know why everybody overthinks it. Cold open with the origin story of her colony being destroyed by Space Pirates and her parents dying, the flashback is a nightmare she was having in her gunship on the way to Zebes, she's entirely alone there, and every obstacle or so, we flash back to her childhood being trained by the Chozo, then her time with the Federation, each of which will be related to whatever hurdle she has to jump alone in the present on Zebes. Sort of a cross between an early episode of LOST, the Out Of Gas episode of Firefly, and Kill Bill. Action-adventure with horror elements and a character study about a stoic space bounty hunter. Two hours max, in and out. Don't waste anyone's time. LividLiquid fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Jan 3, 2024 |
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I think in order to get the same level of reaction these days you would have to have Samus be trans. So, yeah, they should do that.
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That's been my headcanon since I transitioned, so gently caress yeah. Do that. But it's a Japanese property, making it just slightly less likely than the "would never loving happen" it already is here in the US, so I really don't see that happening in my lifetime.
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Nintendo of all companies have lots of characters that play along gender lines (some handled better than others). Samus might actually one of them, if you take into account one of the early Metroid devs talking about his, ah, rather fetishistic headcanons about her. Heck, Japan in general has a completely different attitude toward gender themes than the US which is often reflected in their media. Although yeah I dunno if that kinda topic would ever be touched in a Metroid movie intended for a mainstream global audience.
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Icon Of Sin posted:That’s kind of where the whole series started though See, like, I never really understood the comparison though. Like maybe the bit where the crew explores the derelict alien ship and Kane gets facehugged, but the entire rest of the movie is set on a spaceship where a space monster murders helpless civilians. Metroid is about a badass armored warrior exploring a cave system and killing local wildlife before terminating the space pirate operations with extreme prejudice. Like yeah I know the developers have outright said it’s an influence, but I just don’t see any of it in the finished product. The developers of Super Mario Bros could have made the same statement and it would have made as much sense. It’s like if Steven Spielberg said “Caddyshack was a huge influence on my filmmaking” before releasing Schindler’s List. Xenomrph fucked around with this message at 05:39 on Jan 3, 2024 |
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Xenomrph posted:See, like, I never really understood the comparison though. Like maybe the bit where the crew explores the derelict alien ship and Kane gets facehugged, but the entire rest of the movie is set on a spaceship where a space monster murders helpless civilians. I think the influence was less setting and plot and simply more "Hey those Aliens are cool. We should make our own versions of that."
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TaurusOxford posted:I think the influence was less setting and plot and simply more "Hey those Aliens are cool. We should make our own versions of that." I think it was mostly atmosphere. The opening scenes of Alien formed a pretty strong backbone for the tone of the original Metroid, as did the idea of a super monster that everyone wanted as a bioweapon. There's also the "The tough as nails protagonist is a woman" thing, which was uncommon enough at the time that it was probably one of the things they went "And let's throw that in while we're at it", finishing with the timed escape sequence ending, similar to how Ripley had to book it at the end of Alien. Alien and Metroid went in their own directions as they continued (although ironically enough, Alien introduced the Ultimate Badass side of things the same year Metroid was released) but there's enough in common to see the influence.
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Just give me 1.5 hours of Dread cutscenes where Samus only speaks Chozo, Angry and Gun
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Simply Simon posted:Just give me 1.5 hours of Dread cutscenes where Samus only speaks Chozo, Angry and Gun A film that satisfyingly leads up to this classic news story 
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Grace Baiting posted:A film that satisfyingly leads up to this classic news story Make the soundtrack to the Queen’s area be a repeating Chozo signal, equivalent to the “THIS IS NOT A PLACE HONOR” warning signs and we’ve got a good start.
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LividLiquid posted:That's been my headcanon since I transitioned, so gently caress yeah. Do that. ✊😎  https://nitter.net/quahn06/status/1533164656386535424 (Just gonna ignore your second paragraph there for all our sakes  )
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So is the accepted interpretation of the end of Dread that Quiet Robe was somehow able to be revived by the X parasite but not "taken over" so his actions were his own and not some never before seen actions of the X? I mean, he speaks and such which we don't see X parasite copies do, and overall actions don't seem like sometime an X parasite would do, so I guess just *handwave* he is special and wasn't just a copy?
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He’s such a chill dude that it calmed down the X.
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Levitate posted:So is the accepted interpretation of the end of Dread that Quiet Robe was somehow able to be revived by the X parasite but not "taken over" so his actions were his own and not some never before seen actions of the X? I mean, he speaks and such which we don't see X parasite copies do, and overall actions don't seem like sometime an X parasite would do, so I guess just *handwave* he is special and wasn't just a copy? The two warring interpretations of the ending are "Quiet Robe stayed himself and helped Samus" and "the X are a primitive mix of cunning and dumb, so they were trying to weaken the Metroid (and didn't realize they were saving her from an exploding planet)." We know that they understand using traps, because of the Ice-X and SA-X in Fusion, so one lying in wait in her ship for her isn't outside what we should expect.
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Einander posted:The two warring interpretations of the ending are "Quiet Robe stayed himself and helped Samus" and "the X are a primitive mix of cunning and dumb, so they were trying to weaken the Metroid (and didn't realize they were saving her from an exploding planet)." We know that they understand using traps, because of the Ice-X and SA-X in Fusion, so one lying in wait in her ship for her isn't outside what we should expect. How is the latter even a thing? He does the pose and everything
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ImpAtom posted:How is the latter even a thing? He does the pose and everything Mostly attempts to figure out an alternative for what happened that doesn't involve willpower/unexplained magic, is my guess?  I've seen it theorized before, but I do think it's less credible as an explanation.
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Einander posted:Mostly attempts to figure out an alternative for what happened that doesn't involve willpower/unexplained magic, is my guess? I demand an explanation for the game where my protagonist got so incredibly angry her suit transformed into a scarier suit!
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ImpAtom posted:How is the latter even a thing? He does the pose and everything I think the idea is less that the X is too stupid to know what it's doing and more the X always does the most optimal choice for survival (like killing metroids), and since Samus is the last Metroid in existence the best thing it can do is make her less Metroid-y. As for the pose we already know X-infected repeat the last thing their hosts did, like Quiet Robe X and Raven Beak X repeating their last words. mycot fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Jan 3, 2024 |
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It's gonna turn out that Samus is both part Metroid AND part X in the next game to make the bloodwork even more absurd.
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ChaseSP posted:It's gonna turn out that Samus is both part Metroid AND part X in the next game to make the bloodwork even more absurd. Samus has two different suits with different sets of powerups and switches between them at specific event points, hire me nintendo
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ImpAtom posted:I demand an explanation for the game where my protagonist got so incredibly angry her suit transformed into a scarier suit! DNA, duh 
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ChaseSP posted:It's gonna turn out that Samus is both part Metroid AND part X in the next game to make the bloodwork even more absurd. Maybe the next game will have Samus touch something sharp and all the extra DNA will fly out of her like Sonics rings.
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I feel like Samus has to be at least part X now because she's lost the weakness to ice thing.
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wasn't that just the varia suit e: gravity suit, gently caress
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Levitate posted:wasn't that just the varia suit No, that protected her but she couldn't use ice beams in Fusion because it would gently caress up her Metroidness, which is why she had Ice Missiles instead. She got the Ice Beam back after fusing with the SA-X at the end because it solved that problem. That said Ice Missile is back in Dread so maybe it was a temporary fix or something.
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ah right yeah I was going off Dread being the latest in the timeline and it's been a lonnnnng time since I played Fusion e: regarding Fusion and Dread, I feel like the Shinespark puzzles weren't that bad in Dread...the one in Burnenia was probably the worst but I feel like Fusion had some terrible ones
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At the end of Metroid Fusion Samus has to fight an Omega Metroid, and SA-X either fuses with Samus to help her kill it (as I interpreted it) or it just gives its energy to Samus to help her beat it like the Baby Metroid did in Super Metroid. Either way, it gives her the ability to use the Ice Beam again. Either way, it seems to indicate X-Parasites as capable of...something. Maybe they have intelligent thought if they live long enough. Maybe something of the host is left. Maybe Chozo-discipline can increase the odds of the host shining through the infection or giving the X enough thought to act intelligently. Raven Beak X sure seemed more angry than your average X monster, which could be some of his hate bleeding through. Xenomrph posted:Live-action Metroid movie, is it possible, or even a good idea? It's absolutely doable, but I guess the real question is what kind of story people wanted to tell. Trying to replicate the plot of Alien or Aliens would probably work, but doing a more horror-focused movie would mess with people's expectations of a Nintendo movie, because that wouldn't be very kid-friendly. Samus also isn't just some random person who steps up, she's a trained warrior, so you'd probably have a harder time adding a subplot with other characters to round out the movie. I feel like also when Metroid does get its plot in, it likes being both mournful and sentimental, which is pretty weird for something evoking Alien. Maybe you shouldn't kill off all of these creatures who seemingly pose a threat to all life in the galaxy? I don't know how you get that across.
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A Metroid movie should just be like The Raid or Dredd except with aliens.
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a series seems more interesting. monster of the week style but with overarching plot
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and flashbacks to her time as a federation soldier, with all the melodrama and hurt feelings and stuff 
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Levitate posted:ah right yeah I was going off Dread being the latest in the timeline and it's been a lonnnnng time since I played Fusion Also half the endgame items in Fusion are just power bomb tanks. If you 100% the game you end up with 74 power bombs. SEVENTY FOUR! I didn't realise how bad it was until I did a randomiser run
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SlothfulCobra posted:At the end of Metroid Fusion Samus has to fight an Omega Metroid, and SA-X either fuses with Samus to help her kill it (as I interpreted it) or it just gives its energy to Samus to help her beat it like the Baby Metroid did in Super Metroid. Either way, it gives her the ability to use the Ice Beam again. When Quiet Robe first gets absorbed by the X he can still talk and operate computers, so the X parasite is clearly able to access some of his memories and personality, but he immediately uses it to try to kill Samus so the X still seems to be in the driver's seat. I think the end sequence is supposed to reflect some level of gestalt intelligence rather than Quiet Beak wresting control back altogether; had the planet not been about to explode it presumably would have kept fighting, but like the SA-X at the end of Fusion when it realized it was hosed it became willing to throw in with Samus, so Quiet Beak got to show through more.
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Do you guys think Metroid Prime 4 Samus will be Realistic Samus (MP1) or Anime Samus (MP2 and MP3)
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WHY BONER NOW posted:Do you guys think Metroid Prime 4 Samus will be Realistic Samus (MP1) or Anime Samus (MP2 and MP3) Prime 1 Samus has proven to be an exception in how Nintendo wants Samus to be designed. Her look got cemented with Zero Mission and I doubt it's gonna change any time soon.
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the holy poopacy posted:When Quiet Robe first gets absorbed by the X he can still talk and operate computers, so the X parasite is clearly able to access some of his memories and personality, but he immediately uses it to try to kill Samus so the X still seems to be in the driver's seat. I think the end sequence is supposed to reflect some level of gestalt intelligence rather than Quiet Beak wresting control back altogether; had the planet not been about to explode it presumably would have kept fighting, but like the SA-X at the end of Fusion when it realized it was hosed it became willing to throw in with Samus, so Quiet Beak got to show through more. I wondered if re-starting the EMMI's had more to do with Samus needing their abilities/get up to snuff to fight Raven Beak and it wasn't so much trying to kill her as providing the tools she would need
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WHY BONER NOW posted:Do you guys think Metroid Prime 4 Samus will be Realistic Samus (MP1) or Anime Samus (MP2 and MP3) Realistic Anime Samus
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Bring back the powerhouse Samus from the early 90s.
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ImpAtom posted:That said Ice Missile is back in Dread so maybe it was a temporary fix or something. But I'm betting it's that the devs forgot she was cured.
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