Korgeta wrote:There is a lot of possibilities for Metroid, the character samus is certainly popular in western markets but it's the home turf she lags on (but is still on SBM series) so she's not forgotten but I would say personally Nintendo is probably better leashing the Metroid IP to Microsoft and that may have been considered in the past, but it all comes down to money. I will say the unnecessary sexualisation of her in Other M did no favors. (extreme emotional stress can make it impossible to use the suit? Not much of a battle suit is it then?!) ugh.
I don't know specifically what Retro is up to and they've lost a bit of their talent over the years, but there's no reason a new series in the vein of Prime is off Nintendo's punch-list. They obviously care very little for the IP considering it's shelved and ignored constantly in favor of Marios and Zeldas. The game really could make good use of a hybrid 1st and 3rd person format as the tech is there.
Blizzard has The Vikings as playable characters in Heroes of the Storm, but this doesn't mean that IP isn't deader than a box of door-nails. Same with Game and Watch for Nintendo.
Going to beat a dead horse here: Samus's sexualization combined with daddy and baby issues in Other M is IMHO one of the smallest problems with that "game." Metroid Prime, and even some of the later 2Dplatformers, set a really high bar for the series. And that's saying something as Super Metroid easily makes "Best game EVER" lists to this day. To take that huge back-step in the areas of audio, graphics, asset design (character models and environments), and gameplay mechanics (read: just everything) with Other M dealt the series a huge blow.
Other M was just bland. So goddamn bland. There are literally no "wow" moments whereas Prime 1 (and 2) were full of them. And it was insulting to Samus on top of that. Had it not had the Metroid IP to work with, it would have been instantly forgotten for the uninspired design aspects and the just mind-bogglingly sexist depictions of the lead. Like, Bayonetta can be taken as insulting to women (though some consider her empowered, that's besides the point) but the gameplay across nearly any review site is handled the same: the games play very smooth, they look awesome, and the audio is top-notch.
Gamers usually don't mind being insulted as long as they aren't bored. The Baby The Baby The Baby scenes were really just driving the message home: this game is not worth your time.
Majority of Metroid content I'll be basing off is from the prime series, but the goal I had in mind was to treat it as halo but with Metroid lore grafted onto it, Halo lore is my priority but immersing what i can of metroid to make it sound reasonable.
Well, you do have a war of opposites here. The UNSC fights for parity against the Covenant whereas the Space Pirates fight for parity against The Hunter/Chozo tech. Throw in crazy shit like Phazon and Metroids, possibly even X-parasites: mix in the Flood and you got all kinds of crazy shit. Metroid does have an edge in the "batshit crazy" technology areas though.
Chozo tech itself seems like something The Prophets would place a heavy emphasis on if only for the religious imagery. Though I have no idea what time-frame you're talking about with Halo. I gave up on the series when 343 took the reigns. It's terribad now.
I was thinking of making Ridley shorter but that would be a betrayal to one of his defining features which is his size, as for his torso, that's just a standard sketch, I may adopt it as that in the end given I am modelling him into halo (where antagonists generally have a broad torso) just as i might change Adam's hairstyle a little (he'll be the guy left to the MC)
Does he have to sit on a throne? Could be something like a "dog bed" he curls up on and just uses his elongated neck to rise above the room when talking down to people. You could then have him unfurl later to show his full size.
That's what I always liked about Ridley: he's not "big" he's "long." As if when fighting him he can literally come at you from any angle at any time because his limbs are just so damn long he could possibly, while standing in front of you, stab you in the back.