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KennyMan666
2004-04-09 07:47:38 pm
Viking
Precursor
When you have been in the restricted zone and destroyed the Metroid lab, you end up in Sector 1 (SRX). On your way back, you see at least one (or is it two?) broken Metroid larva shell. If you scout SRX, there's a few more. Logically, this would mean that there are a couple of at least Alpha Metroids around in SRX. But they just does not exist. What has really happened with them? I never thought about it before, but in my recent 100% game, it actually ticked me of a little. Usually I'm not the one questioning things in video games, but this just won't leave my mind.
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Metroid Prime
2004-04-09 08:01:54 pm
The X killed them? Laughing
ShadowMagus
2004-04-09 09:31:56 pm
It's highly possible a few SA-X took them out.  Remember, Adam said there were no less than ten, and you only see one go down with the lab.

My question is, why didn't all the SA-X gang up on Samus in the final battle?  Safety in numbers...
Wassup Dawgs
2004-04-09 10:08:33 pm
They probably have no real way of communicating with eachother quickly. They did split up to find Samus (probably), and the final battle only lasts less than a minute if you're good. Even if it did call for help, the others wouldn't be able to make it back in time to help.
RoboBlob
2004-04-09 10:54:02 pm
Ok, here we go.  Are you ready to hear the ultimate response that will end all debate?  Here goes:  *clears throat, looks stern*..........................................WHO CARES?
Wassup Dawgs
2004-04-09 11:28:41 pm
Quote from RoboBlob:
Ok, here we go.  Are you ready to hear the ultimate response that will end all debate?  Here goes:  *clears throat, looks stern*..........................................WHO CARES?

apparently the people who are talking about it  Rolling Eyes
Yoshi348
2004-04-09 11:30:54 pm
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Ready and willing.
Quote from RoboBlob:
Ok, here we go.  Are you ready to hear the ultimate response that will end all debate?  Here goes:  *clears throat, looks stern*..........................................WHO CARES?


<_< Come now, that was uncalled for. Especially since the question had actually gotten an answer, anyway.
ShadowMagus
2004-04-10 03:02:42 am
Blob, you seem to have become increasingly trollish.  I point to your post in the Letter to Thardus topic.  If YOU don't care, don't post.  Don't invade conversations you're not going to be a constructive part of.  What you're doing recently seems more fitting of someone on GameFAQs.
JaggerG
2004-04-10 06:41:55 am
Shifty Leader
That M2k2 guy
[quote="... What you're doing recently seems more fitting of someone on GameFAQs.[/quote]

Not on the boards I'm going to (at least not as much).

BTW, You know how Metroids are vulnarable to the ice beam (which the SA-X has)? Shouldn't it also be vulnarable to the ice missiles (which I can't help but unload on the suckas)? I think I've even tried diffusion and they still won't so much as flinch! I got super missiles, screw attack, power bombs...NOTHING WORKS ON THEM, THEY'RE INVINCIBLE! Yet all of the sudden, Omega Metroid takes a major beating by regular ice plasma wave beams!
KennyMan666
2004-04-10 08:16:29 am
Viking
Precursor
Quote from ShadowMagus:
It's highly possible a few SA-X took them out.  Remember, Adam said there were no less than ten, and you only see one go down with the lab.

My question is, why didn't all the SA-X gang up on Samus in the final battle?  Safety in numbers...

Ah, never thought of that... now it makes sense.

Nine SA-X on one Samus. That would... hurt.
Megafrost
2004-04-10 08:54:13 am
Yeah, especially for those of us that enjoy playing a 1% game... Shocked
Smops
2004-04-10 09:31:35 am
The broken shells could be from the metroid evolving. One metroid escaped, and thanks to the confederate's modifications, it evolved really quickly, while on it's way to the main deck. So it left the secret lab as a larva, and evolved in the hangar to Omega. You see a shell in the hangar.

Atleast, that's what I think.
Wassup Dawgs
2004-04-10 12:41:08 pm
Quote from JaggerG:
BTW, You know how Metroids are vulnarable to the ice beam (which the SA-X has)? Shouldn't it also be vulnarable to the ice missiles (which I can't help but unload on the suckas)? I think I've even tried diffusion and they still won't so much as flinch! I got super missiles, screw attack, power bombs...NOTHING WORKS ON THEM, THEY'RE INVINCIBLE! Yet all of the sudden, Omega Metroid takes a major beating by regular ice plasma wave beams!

Maybe it's chest never really hardened due to its rapid evolution and is still like it's larval form. That's why the missiles bounce off. Diffusion... I don't know.

I always thought that all those shells were from the same metroid too.
KennyMan666
2004-04-10 02:19:05 pm
Viking
Precursor
Quote from Smops:
The broken shells could be from the metroid evolving. One metroid escaped, and thanks to the confederate's modifications, it evolved really quickly, while on it's way to the main deck. So it left the secret lab as a larva, and evolved in the hangar to Omega. You see a shell in the hangar.

Atleast, that's what I think.

Nah, Metroids doesn't evolve that way. The only time that a shell is left behind is when the Larva evolves into an Alpha.
Yoshi348
2004-04-10 02:43:18 pm
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Ready and willing.
Quote from JaggerG:
BTW, You know how Metroids are vulnarable to the ice beam (which the SA-X has)? Shouldn't it also be vulnarable to the ice missiles (which I can't help but unload on the suckas)? I think I've even tried diffusion and they still won't so much as flinch! I got super missiles, screw attack, power bombs...NOTHING WORKS ON THEM, THEY'RE INVINCIBLE! Yet all of the sudden, Omega Metroid takes a major beating by regular ice plasma wave beams!


I think that falls under the same category as why Link's sword goes right through innocent townspeople.
chinchillax13514
2004-04-10 03:55:27 pm
Yes, and it's so annoying. I keep on slashing Princess Zelda, but she doesn't die! Argh! Oh well...at least I have SSB Melee...
Dark_T_Zeratul
2004-04-10 06:57:49 pm
Quote from KennyMan666:
Quote from Smops:
The broken shells could be from the metroid evolving. One metroid escaped, and thanks to the confederate's modifications, it evolved really quickly, while on it's way to the main deck. So it left the secret lab as a larva, and evolved in the hangar to Omega. You see a shell in the hangar.

Atleast, that's what I think.

Nah, Metroids doesn't evolve that way. The only time that a shell is left behind is when the Larva evolves into an Alpha.

And when a Gamma evolves into a Zeta, if I'm not mistaken.  In any event, Omega Metroids aren't weak against the Ice Beam in M2 either, so I'm just going to go with the above theory because it makes the most sense.
Smops
2004-04-10 07:09:18 pm
Real solution:

The producers of Fusion just wanted a bad-ass final bossfight that you didn't except.

They did not care about the plot and all.

Just a fight with the (almost) strongest metroid ever.
JaggerG
2004-04-11 01:48:19 am
Shifty Leader
That M2k2 guy
...Who also happened to be the only one with a weakness?

Yeah, I guess those metroids that attacked SA-X were protected by Zelda's magical powers.
MetalRidley
2004-04-11 02:32:52 am
I think a little creative license is warranted to the Fusion makers. RoS's metroids were a little... underdeveloped. I mean, come on, under that system, an Alpha was weaker than a larva! (in that you didn't even have to freeze the alpha) Metroid evolutions should be more complex than "now, you have to shoot more missiles at it!"

However, I can't really say I like the "cold is bad for metroids" idea they're going with nowadays. I always thought of it as coldness allows metroid larva only to be hurt, by solidifying their liquid-y bodies. Cold shouldn't be the metroid-killer weapon against the more evolved types.
JaggerG
2004-04-11 02:45:03 am
Shifty Leader
That M2k2 guy
Did you know that in SM youcould toggle the abilities on and off? I didn't notice until I got the plasma beam. Then I toggled ice beam off, and it took a hit less for everyone (last hit always froze them, and another right after would kill it). All ice is good for is freezing them and making them into platforms.

BTW, just beat it today for the first time: 9:45 at 75%! I explore too much. Not to mentiong the stupid glass ceiling puzzle!
Syl
2004-04-11 09:14:54 am
the shells happen when a metroid larva => alpha metroid, go play the first 2 minutes of metroid 2 again if you don't think thats true.

What happened to thsoe metroids? good question.. Perhaps they were moving all around the environments, doing the typical metroid thing... Samus was just lucky enough to never come across one till the zeta at the end?  BSL is a huge place, and those X seemed to really want those metroids dead.
KennyMan666
2004-04-11 09:44:02 am
Viking
Precursor
Quote from Dark_T_Zeratul:
Quote from KennyMan666:
Quote from Smops:
The broken shells could be from the metroid evolving. One metroid escaped, and thanks to the confederate's modifications, it evolved really quickly, while on it's way to the main deck. So it left the secret lab as a larva, and evolved in the hangar to Omega. You see a shell in the hangar.

Atleast, that's what I think.

Nah, Metroids doesn't evolve that way. The only time that a shell is left behind is when the Larva evolves into an Alpha.

And when a Gamma evolves into a Zeta, if I'm not mistaken.  In any event, Omega Metroids aren't weak against the Ice Beam in M2 either, so I'm just going to go with the above theory because it makes the most sense.

Now that you say it, the Zetas actually emerge from Gammas like that... but still, they don't leave a larva-like shell.
JaggerG
2004-04-11 12:04:16 pm
Shifty Leader
That M2k2 guy
Quote from Syl:
Samus was just lucky enough to never come across one till the zeta at the end?


You mean Omega? Zeta is like the 6th letter of the alphabeta, isn't it? Well, what ever. Maybe the SA-X double teamed a few that escaped and there was only that one left.
Syl
2004-04-11 06:32:36 pm
Quote from JaggerG:
Quote from Syl:
Samus was just lucky enough to never come across one till the zeta at the end?


You mean Omega? Zeta is like the 6th letter of the alphabeta, isn't it? Well, what ever. Maybe the SA-X double teamed a few that escaped and there was only that one left.



oops, I meant omega, sorry, the thing at the end was far too nice to be a Zeta.  Though still too easy to be a true Omega.

(metroid evolution:
Egg - Larva - Alpha - Gamma - Zeta - Omega - Queen(?)