Speculate who was following Samus at the end of MP3

tomatobob

2009-09-16 05:36:18 pm

One shall stand, one shall ball.

Those Zoomers seem to do just fine on Zebes for not being Chozo.

fizzer|me-is-liam

2009-09-16 06:03:14 pm

YAY TEXT

Nah she has improved agility and stamina etc.

It said the blood thing in the booklet for Metroid Prime.

Why couldnt she have survived on Zebes "before evil haunted the caverns below"?

perfectnote

2009-09-16 06:11:13 pm

She couldn't have survived because of the atmosphere of Zebes. Have you read the E-manga ?

tomatobob : I'm talking about Samus. She's an human (well, was), trying to live on an alien planet. I've never said that others species couldn't survive.

fizzer|me-is-liam

2009-09-16 06:21:44 pm

YAY TEXT

No, is the E-manga official, produced by Nintendo and all?

perfectnote

2009-09-16 06:26:29 pm

Yes, it's an official manga (sorry, don't know what to say more than that).

Terrization Zillion

2009-09-16 10:24:34 pm

Believe it or not that's actually a floppy disk.

Quote from arkarian:

no benefits to doing so.

What!??!? Have you not heard of this character? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samus That worked with flying colors, and boost balls.

noah-x

2009-09-21 01:12:25 am

I don't think is Sylux, but I do think it's another hunter.

Chozoid

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Chozoid: 2010-03-07 09:14:24 pm

2010-03-07 09:13:43 pm

My theory: It's no one. The developers at Retro Studios are just fucked up people that want to give little kids nightmares.

They just wanted to keep the tradition of having bad 100% endings so they, instead of making some clever reference to the GF's command to Samus to exterminate all Metroids or the continuance of the Space Pirates, they just put some crazy stalker motherfucker follow Samus because he wants to look at Samus' ass.

EDIT: Woops sorry didnt see how old this was :p

Toozin

2010-03-08 02:39:26 pm

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

It's certainly not the oldest topic to be resurrected.

I can't remember if I actually replied in this thing or not and I can't be arsed to look, but I pretty much agree with you exactly. It's just some ship that will likely never be revealed.

Chozoid

2010-03-08 08:12:14 pm

Yeah and imo it was just some lame attempt to have a creepy ending.
And the weird part is that once I beat Corruption I actually had no interest in the ship.

Opium

2010-03-09 02:42:00 am

They do have an opportunity to reveal it in MoM's story somehow since MP3 takes place before the events of MoM. I wouldn't be surprised if they do it.

sabata2

2010-03-09 02:49:23 am

ANKOKU

My bet is we won't know until Retro makes another Metroid game. Undoubtedly set between Corruption and Return of Samus.

arkarian

2010-03-09 03:40:30 am

red chamber dream

i hope you're being sarcastic ...

Toozin

2010-03-09 04:35:33 am

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

I'd actually be extremely suprised if it came up in MoM, given the apparent tendency of R&D1 to ignore Retro's storyline contributions, and visa versa.

UchihaSasuke

2010-03-12 08:40:39 pm

my umbrella goes directly to Bankai

prime is just a spinoff anyway so we can forgive the RD1 guys for ignoring that storyline.

tomatobob

2010-03-12 10:50:42 pm

One shall stand, one shall ball.

No we can't, Prime was as close as Metroid got to a good story and by far the only one that told its story well. They should be taking notes.

TheGreenManalishi

2010-03-13 05:22:21 am

Prime didn't have a story as much as it had backstory. The story is 'go to planet, get Chozo tech/artifacts, kill big crab, SUCCESS!', the back story is where there's real depth.

tomatobob

2010-03-13 06:08:57 am

One shall stand, one shall ball.

Yes, and no other Metroid that attempted a running plot came close to that quality. It's an action series with exploration elements, a cutscene barrage saying "THIS IS WHAT IS IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW STOP IT ALSO MORE ENGAGING PLOT INTRIGUE!" would be out of place and annoying. See: Fusion to a slightly lesser extent Corruption.

Prime set you out with a simple concept, investigate a distress signal -> Find Frigate -> Find out what the hell happened to that thing -> Ridley! Kill it kill it! -> Chase him to planet. From there you get to fill in the story of what happened to Tallon IV, what the pirates are doing there now and by extension what you need to make them stop doing, and what the Chozo were doing before. Some of the Chozo lore alludes to current events with their seeing Samus coming and leaving what they can for her to give her a chance which is neat too. It's not deep or complex stuff, it gives you enough to go with and lets you do your thing. Being an action game your actions are the a lot of the story, (If you are going to just discount backstory, and you shouldn't, this is important) defeating phazon mutated abominations one by one, taking on the pirate operations often responsible for those creations, and finally taking the fight to the source of the planet's troubles and finally clearing out the poison as the Chozo called it and keeping it. Hooray! You saved a planet from horrible phazon destruction!

I mean, if you want you could dumb any game's story down to GO TO PLACE, DO THING, YOU WIN. and say there's no story if you want, that doesn't make it the case or even a real point. Metal Gear Solid: Guy is really good at his job, gets cloned, clones fight a lot but one is good and also robots with nukes that sound like cows, also nanomachines THERE'S NO STORY.

Yes, and no other Metroid that attempted a running plot came close to that quality. It's an action series with exploration elements, a cutscene barrage saying "THIS IS WHAT IS IS HAPPENING [i]RIGHT NOW[/i] STOP IT ALSO MORE [i]ENGAGING PLOT INTRIGUE[/i]!" would be out of place and annoying. See: Fusion to a slightly lesser extent Corruption.

Prime set you out with a simple concept, investigate a distress signal -> Find Frigate -> Find out what the hell happened to that thing -> Ridley! Kill it kill it! -> Chase him to planet. From there you get to fill in the story of what happened to Tallon IV, what the pirates are doing there now and by extension what you need to  make them stop doing, and what the Chozo were doing before. Some of the Chozo lore alludes to current events with their seeing Samus coming and leaving what they can for her to give her a chance which is neat too. It's not deep or complex stuff, it gives you enough to go with and lets you do your thing. Being an action game your actions are the a lot of the story, (If you are going to just discount backstory, and you shouldn't, this is important) defeating phazon mutated abominations one by one, taking on the pirate operations often responsible for those creations, and finally taking the fight to the source of the planet's troubles and finally clearing out the poison as the Chozo called it and keeping it. Hooray! You saved a planet from horrible phazon destruction!

I mean, if you want you could dumb any game's story down to GO TO PLACE, DO THING, YOU WIN. and say there's no story if you want, that doesn't make it the case or even a real point. Metal Gear Solid: Guy is really good at his job, gets cloned, clones fight a lot but one is good and also robots with nukes that sound like cows, also nanomachines THERE'S NO STORY.

Toozin

2010-03-13 03:13:24 pm

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

People seem to confuse the terms 'story' and 'plot' a lot.

TJF588

2010-03-15 03:01:47 am

once GameFAQs, now Twitch

Quote from Toozin:

People seem to confuse the terms 'story' and 'plot' a lot.

In discussing FFI and FFIII(SFC), my friend refers to those as scenarios, since according to him, a story requires character development. In spite of FFI just being a scenario, I very much like its 'story', or at least what's going on in the world (not that my friend doesn't, mind). I (and others?) don't need a character/s to appreciate a world...or something.

Toozin

2010-03-15 06:59:34 am

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

Well, see, a story is made up of many different components, not all of which are entirely necessary. Plot, which is the actual events that occur, is usually what people refer to when they talk about 'story', but they often ignore character, setting, tone, mood, and all that other fun stuff that makes up a good story.

Quietus

2010-03-15 07:24:29 am

Super Secret Area - Dead Ahead!

I don't believe that most people distinguish between any of the labels. Most people, myself included, probably just see tham all as meaning the same thing: the stuff that happens between the introduction and the ending. Plot, story, events, whatever...

TheGreenManalishi

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TheGreenManalishi: 2010-03-15 02:51:35 pm

2010-03-15 02:51:09 pm

Quote from Toozin:

Well, see, a story is made up of many different components, not all of which are entirely necessary. Plot, which is the actual events that occur, is usually what people refer to when they talk about 'story', but they often ignore character, setting, tone, mood, and all that other fun stuff that makes up a good story.

I'd have though that, until Other M, the two were interchangeable when referring to Metroid, because the plot pretty much is the story.

Luna_Aran

2010-09-10 09:46:50 am

Super Metroid Addict

Of course that the ship that was following her was Higgs's XD