I love Samus. It's kinda crazy how she's becoming much more prominent in Nintendo's lineup. Not complaining though.
When is Nintendo going to acknowledge her 40th?
The three Metroid games that sold well are NES, Prime 1, and Dread.If Ravenous sells well, it breaks the CURSE of low sales in a niche franchise.
>>748101202>heDid they know? >If Ravenous sells well, it breaks the CURSE of low sales in a niche franchise.I've seen nothing but good press for it. I think we're good.
>>748099087It's a natural consequence of the Metroid games not being seen as quite as prestigious.Series like Zelda and Mario involve a lot of mandates, micromanaging, backstabbing, sabotage and other office politics, because of Japanese face culture.The further removed it is from being a respectable, Japanese Nintendo product, the better it is.
>>748099087>Samus design peaked in SM>Fusion's crop top and shorts was also pretty good>From zero mission to dread she's just looked like a generic barbie in a blue bodysuit Why...
>>748102029Yeah, you're not wrong. Right now, the games are being handled by people who just like them. MercurySteam loves Samus so much. Retro loves her too, but note that Tanabe was in charge of that debacle.
>>748102660I do miss the 90s space babe aesthetic in general, and Samus especially rocked it.
Metroid is one of the few Nintendo IPs that has an ongoing narrative, and that's one of the things that makes it really appealing.
>>748100741I'm genuinely surprised Retro didn't try to make Samus butch in 4.
Despite samus being an objective bombshell, I can never fap to her just because idk it just feels wrong.She will always be my hero, she will always be the ideal woman, that I will compare women IRL to, but I just cannot see her in that lustful way. It makes me feel bad
>>748106350It's because the way they try to sexualize her in these games isn't actually erotic, it's titillating but not actually sexy. IDK how to explain it but it just doesn't hit.The hip sway she had in samus returns and dread's walk animations is sexier than any zero suit
>>748106263Why would they? In both versions of Prime 1, they made her face look normal, not butch.
Unironically. Why is Nintendo's competition so comparably unwilling to actually nurture a property/franchise? Metroid would have been dead and forgotten after just a couple of games under Playstation of Xbox management.
>>748111991Could not even begin to tell you, man. I'm still mad as fuck that Ape Escape and Gravity Rush are dead as hell. Given recent happenings, I guess Sony just straight up hates video games.
>>748111991Main reason is cost, second reason is opportunity cost. They can't produce a game without spending hundreds of millions of dollars and they'd rather be spending those sort of resources on CoD skins. It means that niche IP eat shit under Xbox/PS management. Stick to that mindset for long enough and suddenly legendary IP like Doom are considered too niche to invest in.
>>748112557>They can't produce a game without spending hundreds of millions of dollarsWell, they CAN, they just refuse to.
>>748100741Revealing Ravenous in the general is the best we're gonna get, I accepted that as someone who vastly prefers Metroid over Zelda
>>748111991Fromsoftware nurture their franchises far better than this glorified goonbait.
>>748112739How so?
>>748112713>I accepted that as someone who vastly prefers Metroid over ZeldaBased.
>>748113030Despite a 10 year hiatus, armored cores comes back from the dead with the best game that fromsoft ever made. AC6 just had far more love put into it than dread or prime ever did. Thats because armored core has always been fromsoft's golden child. The entirety of their souls games exist to fund it. Essentially it's their passion project. I wish metroid was more like armored core.
>>748101508>Did they knowMaybe. But at the same time American instruction manuals back in the day were famous for just making random shit up about the plot mostly because they got barely any support or source material from the Japanese publishers. Even as late as Bomberman 64 2 I remember being confused as to why the back of the box, the game manual and the game itself all had uniquely different stories.It doesn't help that the name Samus is usually a masculine name.It's likely barely anybody involved in localization knew Samus was a woman, this was 1986/1987, female video game characters that weren't just teamed up with a male hero were still extraordinarily rare, especially in the console space.
>>748099087>she's becoming much more prominent in Nintendo's lineupIs she? Even the best selling Metroids are a fraction of things like mario kart, Zelda, smash etc. Frankly I don't think nintendo gives a toss about the franchise OTHER than what it can offer their wannabe disney division for creating sci-fi movie slop.
>>748113535The fact that we're getting Metroid games at all again is a good start, plus they're actually new and not remakes and ports like what even Zelda's getting right now
>>748106890It's not male gaze in the classical sense of the term. Because she's not really mugging for the camera like something like Senran Kagura has camera cutouts to put the girls front and center when their clothes get damaged.She is sexy and there's no pretending that her midriff baring athletic outfit or zero suit aren't designed for fanservice, but in a way that doesn't feel contrived and there's no like psychological disconnect like something out of a gacha game where the girls are basically designed for porn but also have a self-insert-obsessed personality and are mentally children.
>>748113657But the games we are getting kinda suck. Dread was low quality, a 5/10 being generous.
>>7481137292/10, made me reply
>>748113713Is Samus on Planet Namek?
>>748102660>musclesis this woke?
>>748115038It's based and canon.
How have Metroid folks recovered so fast after the massive disappointment that was Prime 4? The Prime series in general is only 50/50 in quality. Do you Metroid bros rely mostly on the 2D entries for maintaining your love of the series?Prime 3 (mediocre)Prime 4 (bad)Prime Hunters campaign (bad)Other M (Bad)Federation Force (Bad)Dread (good)Only one good game since 2009...
>>748115365based
>>748113712I don't think you understood. Cutting to blatant fan service shots or damaged clothes or whatever is the same kind of unsexy shit Metroid does with samus, especially the zero suit and her smash depictions. Like it's tacky, it's trying so hard to titillate you that it just doesn't work it falls flat. Like one of those gacha ads where it's just really bad jiggle physics all over the screen as if I have the brain of a chimpanzee and will give them money for that
>>748115416Oh and SR (mediocre) but there are some fans who hate it
>>748101508>Did they know?Yes.
>>748115416>Do you Metroid bros rely mostly on the 2D entries for maintaining your love of the series?At this point, yes. I've just accepted that Prime 1 is gonna be the best Prime
>>748115626>he, himAre those... freaking pronouns?AIIIEEEEE SAVE ME TRANNYMAN
>>748115765Your brain is broken.
>>748101202>>748115626they did that to hide that she was a girl. You found out at the end of the game that it was actually a girl the whole time.
>>748115416The problems with Beyond are well known and have already been addressed. >Prime 3 (mediocre)Nah. Corruption is still a great game even if it's not as good as the first two. >Prime Hunters campaign (bad)Eh. I thought it was okay.
>>748115626Holy crap. Could this mean that the creators of Metroid intended for Samus to canonically be transgender? Specifically ftm?
>>748115416Prime is a subseries, so Metroid never fully jumped into 3D. The 2D entries have specific design elements that make them unique even among metroidvanias, uniquely good, uniquely non-slop. It's like how the original 5 3D Zelda games don't have any direct competitors.As of now, 3D entries are 3rd party as always, and 2D entries are 3rd party going forward, so both are like spin offs which add interesting elements but don't progress the series forward.
