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Why is samus called a bounty hunter if she works for the galactic space police throughout 99% of the series?
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Think of her as a bounty hunter who does freelance work for the Federation.
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>>342371750

but she spends more time acting as a federal enforcer than going after bounties
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>>342371543
Because the goddamn Japs didn't know what a bounty hunter is. She's more of a mercenary.
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>>342371543
>Why is X called a bounty hunter if they work for the police throughout 99% of their career?
Because the people with legal monopoly of the use of force within their jurisdiction are the only ones who can legally mandate the use of force to ensure compliance with the law?

Someone post the Summer traffic stats so I can laugh and say you're lying.

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>>342373252
You're both fucking morons.
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>>342371543
Prime isn't canon
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>>342373840

these are bounty hunters. Samus is a space cop
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>>342371543
Bounty hunters literally work for the police you retards. Have you never seen Dog the Bounty Hunter?
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>>342373969
You wish, fag.
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>>342374032
How many levels of moron are you? Samus is, in this rendition, closer to a bounty hunter than she ever has been. Otherwise, they're more like headhunters, which is a totally different ball-game. Most people who play vidya and watch or read sci-fi don't know what the fuck a bounty hunter actually is, just that they're hard-boiled and tough dudes and gals that bring in people, dead or alive, for cash...and somehow always end up in the main plot for some reason.

Case in point: Boba Fett, not a bounty hunter, he's a headhunter.
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>>342371543
Because the Japanese think "bounty hunter" means Outer Space Superhero or Power Ranger bullshit
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>>342374128
can you explain what's going on in that pic?
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>>342371543
what do you think a bounty hunter is?
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>>342374646
Do YOU know what a "headhunter" is?
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>>342374721
>pornstar breaks up with madman criminal MMA fighter
>he breaks into her house top riposte to her while she's fucking another dude
>he kicks the shit out of both of them and goes into hiding
>Dog pledges himself to the hunt
>starts "canvassing" on Twitter
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>>342375004
>riposte to her
Oh shit I meant "propose"
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>>342371543
I think you got the idea wrong. She gets pay by the federation, she is not part of it.
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>>342374857
Stop trying for the "headhunters are corporate recruiters" thing. Words can refer to more than one thing, except that bounty hunters really only refer to one thing. A headhunter hunts after the price on someone's head, a bounty hunter hunts after a sanctioned bounty, generally by the entity or organization with legal monopoly of force within their jurisdiction.

This could be used for a lot of neat shit in sci-fi, but, it always gets swept under the rug for the same bullshit of the epic space anti(sometimes, if we feel like it)-hero.
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Why does Samus have long hair when clearly it doesn't jive with her suit. Real Samus would have short hair.
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>>342374646

Except people involved with Metroid's creation have literally gone on record saying they didn't really understand what "being a Bounty Hunter" meant and just used it because it sounded cool.

>Samus really isn’t about the money, a truth that confused the developer — and me, upon hearing this story — when it presented Nintendo a gameplay design that appealed to Aran’s chosen occupation. “We were looking for something more along the lines of a mission-based game where Samus collected bounties. And for the life of us we couldn’t understand why [Nintendo was] being so resistive to that concept. And then over the period of days we came to understand that their definition of a bounty hunter is not a bounty hunter. It is not someone who brings in bad guys for money. That concept was completely outside of their definition,” says Walker. Nintendo told Retro that Samus does not actually take bounties for those she hunts. (Someone should tell Nintendo that Aran has officially been labeled a bounty hunter for two decades now, a slight inconsistency.) “So we started joking that Samus was actually a pro-bono hunter. And occasionally we’ll run into those nuances of translation and culture that can sometimes derail us for days.”

From an interview with Retro by IGN.
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Post more Samus Lewds.
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>>342375403
Oh, that explains everything. She's more like spec. ops. or something.

Which is a whole fuckload cooler than bounty hunter.
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>>342375403

http://www.ign.com/articles/2009/08/29/a-space-bounty-hunter-in-texas?page=8

Just in case someone gets assflustered over there being no source for that.

>>342375639

Its still stupid as hell that Japan has been getting this wrong for over 25 years now.
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>>342375215
Retard
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>>342375806
Well, it makes sense, in its own way. Look at how the Japanese tend to view mercenaries, after all. Actually, look at how any fiction views mercenaries. It's probably more marketing appeal to relabel a special forces mercenary as being a bounty hunter, since it "sounds cooler", and you don't have the guilt by association for all the bullshit mercenaries are held accountable for in fiction.

Meanwhile, in real life, mercenaries have more often than not been a key part of military force and power projection, and no more or less well-behaved than their state-organized counterparts.

Fuck realism, though, we still would need to address how Samus can curl up into a ball less than 1/5th her volume if we go down that route.
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>>342376184
>and no more or less well-behaved than their state-organized counterparts.
Blackwater's conduct in Iraq begs to differ.
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>>342376318
>muh Blackwater
Nice choice of PMC that's been under the most media scrutiny in history. Let's also ignore the seedy actions that coalition troops took in the theater as well. Remember, m-m-mercenaries are b-b-bad!

I can't stop thinking about how well Samus would fit into a Metal Gear game in the Zero suit.
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>>342376318
Also those Nigerians that Qaddafi hired to kill his own people after he realized the Libyan army wouldn't
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>>342376523
>Remember, m-m-mercenaries are b-b-bad!
PMCs have an interest in keeping the conflict going (they are not the only ones though)
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>>342376523
>Giraffe neck.
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>>342371543
Did you play Other M? Pretty much shows why she left the Federation
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>>342377112

of course I didnt. You think Im some kind of masochist?
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>>342375215
>semantics matter
>except when i'm explaining shit
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>>342377045
PMCs have an interest in getting in and out alive, since money's no good when you're dead. It's almost like your understanding of them comes from vidya and movies.

>>342377097
She can curl into a ball less than 1/5th her volume, and giraffe neck is cute.

Anyway, let's get back onto the topic of Metroid.
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>>342373969
Prime is pseudo-canon. It is a side story but can be inserted or removed without affecting the story between Metroid and Metroid II
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>>342375215
I still think those heels are dumb.
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>>342377165
Then there you go. She only involves herself with the Federation if it has to do with Space Pirates. She does the job and comes back to be paid.
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>>342376168

Stop playing dumb, you know full well the term for ancient peoples that hunted other humans for their heads were called headhunters. Obviously calling Boba Fett a headhunter doesn't make much sense considering he never kept anybody's heads (disintegrations and all) so he'd be better described as a freelance hitman or mafia fixer of some sort.
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>>342375215
HAHAHAHAAH lol reterd beby got BTFO lololol!

>>342376168
>>342376168
>>342376168
>>342376168
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>>342377476
>implying I don't know what you're really after
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>>342377231
>PMCs have an interest in getting in and out alive
The grunts do, the higher ups who sit in their cozy offices all day making the real money however don't. It's almost like your understanding of them comes from vidya and movies.
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>>342371543

Because Sakamoto and Gunpei thought the word was cool, even though they hate the idea of her hunting bounties. She is in all actuality a hired gun.
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>>342377597
>Puffy Nips.
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>>342377662
Yeah, that's really great for recruitment: Come join the Fucksworth Private Military Company, where the death rate is high, but the pay is even higher! Not to mention all the media scrutiny that PMCs tend to receive when they're active on the field, now. Not to mention how active non-organized policing of activities is in the information age. Not to mention how illogical it is to continually deplete an area through conflict, rather than waiting for the next available need to come up that your company can fulfil. It's almost like soldiers and force projection, as a commodity, have an almost constant natural demand.

But yeah, the guy in the office is thinking of how best to keep a long-standing conflict in the Middle East running even longer when he could be raking in some dosh from South America or something. That makes sense.
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>>342375371

The Suit has impossible proportions, so it's my head canon that it dimensionally segments her body much life the morphball does, including her long hair.
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>>342375371
>real Samus is just a boy with boobs!
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>>342377870
>a hired gun

Does she have lotta loyalty?
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Its a completely made up story so they can change the definition of words as they want to
Maybe bounty hunter means working for police, who knows
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>>342376523
Well, Big Boss DOES have a weakness for strong, blonde haired women.
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>>342378235
She's not a big guy, so no.
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>>342375004
Did Dog catch that asshole?
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>>342378308

All you see ingame are either missions where she is directly hired to do something for the federation or does something for free when she gets a distress signal. The idea the Nintendo of Japan pushes is she does shit for free because of a vendetta against the space pirates and is simply a vigilante of sorts, since when retro wanted to do bounty hunter side missions the idea was rejected due to them claiming that wasn't her character, confusing retro because nintendo has been claiming she's a bounty hunter for years.

The notion that japan doesn't know what a bounty hunter is is a falsehood, cowboy bebop and other anime clearly show they know what a bounty hunter does. This is specifically a nintendo error.
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Why is Samus so perfect?
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>>342378314
Just darken her suit a little and she'll fit right in.

>>342378840
Genetic manipulation, probably.
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>>342378623
Sort of, the police got him but Dog claimed he helped them out
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>>342379173
>#itshighnoonsville

Really?
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>>342379052
Genetic manipulation is pretty much the standard for Metal Gear. Why would her role be, though?
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>>342378840
Because she is.
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>>342379532
To be honest, no matter how much Samus is portrayed with a pistol, I always imagine she'd be better suited as a sniper when she isn't a literal walking tank. Probably more of a velvet assassin, in terms of characterization, but for who? Why?

I'm now actually thinking of how you could fit Samus into Metal Gear, fuck /v/.
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>>342379052

If the Chozo can produce superhumans, and had a common enemy with the federation, why didn't they create more Samuses?
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>>342371543
She's more of a poacher and we never see her actually collect a bounty
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>>342379928
Isn't that good, though? /v/ is about video games; never feel ashamed to talk about 'em. As for Samus being an assassin from afar, I could see it. Especially if she's out of her suit and her mark has as many guns as she does.
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All the rule 34 of her and not one with her actual dimensions. She's supposed to be like 6'8" and like 225 pure muscle.
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>>342371543
Bounty Hunters take government contracts all the time. Didn't you watch Star Wars?
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I wanna cum on Samu's feet.
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>>342379928
post the opened suit version
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>>342380154
Maybe it's cost-prohibitive? Maybe it takes a long time? Maybe they were wary of what always seems to happen when you make a superhuman army?

>>342380692
She'd definitely approach the situation intelligently, and I'd imagine she'd only go in if she could get enough intel to act, first. Long-range in most cases, but, what if it would end up being a sniping battle? Samus with a machine pistol, working in the shadows, etc.

>>342380945
Good job judging against a neutral background someone's height and muscle density in a futuristic setting where people can launch missiles from a human-sized platform and turn into tiny balls.
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>>342375403
I was under the impression that the GF was contracting her for all this dangerous shit, which would make her a mercenary if not a bounty hunter. But if she does it for free, how does she make a living?

Samus part time retail worker game when?
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>>342380154
Maybe they didn't and maybe Nintendo shit the bed by not exploring this question sooner.
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>>342378089
The morph ball doesn't do that.
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>>342371543
I'm pretty sure Hackamoto mentioned during a Q&A that Samus doesn't actually hunt bounties, she just takes missions that are about killing Pirates.

He just picked "bounty hunter" because it sounds cool.

As a rule of thumb never expect Metroid lore decisions to be more than convenient plot devices.
Not counting the Prime games, of course.
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>>342381154
No, I think those stats were from like a nintendo power issue.
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>>342381796
It does in prime, as the pirates tried a physical system that brutally maimed the test subject.
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>>342381154
I suppose it would all depend on who her target is. I could see her hired by the Patriots to take out key members that opposed them. As they run the government, Samus might trust them a little more than the "renegades" that are fighting back. Samus would basically have Quiet's role, but with hopefully more character development.
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i like samus
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>>342382339

Do vorefags project on the creature or on to Samus?
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>>342382136
I could see her as being aloof and declaring that "it's about the money", or "about the contract". Under pressure, though, she might admit to some sort of interpretation of justice needing to be administered as applied and precise force, by those who hold the rights to it. For her, ideals and beliefs might fall behind that realization of "justice".
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>>342382579
Some people wanna be the prey, others the pred. Sometimes both. The only constant among vorefags is that we're all hopeless and pathetic.
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>>342380154
>Genetic mutation with Chozo DNA
Just a mean to explain why no one else can use a Chozo suit, should the need arise why she can survive [insert life-threatening bullshit] and to make Samus an even specialer snowflake.

Don't think too hard about it.
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>>342379173
Is Dog even a real bounty hunter?
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>>342382693
So the big question then comes down to would she be a "hero" or "villain" in Metal Gear? The series is known for being a gray blob in this regard, with many characters appearing heroic or villainous depending on how they are viewed at the moment. I guess a better question would be does Samus oppose or cooperate with the playable character or is she the PC herself?
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>>342373252
This. Japs have brain damage when it comes to loan words.
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>>342383552
I'd want her to be in the opposition, but that's because of my boner for anti-villains, especially ones that can be used to explore how an extreme position has its pitfalls. Given her justice fixation, she'd be entirely bound by laws, even if she has "extra-legal privilege". So, you could have moments where she's "heroic", but only because it's a requirement for upholding her understanding of "justice".
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>>342380547
The closest thing we ever have been to see her Off Mission is what... The Flashback to her delivering the Baby in Super?
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>>342382339
>what am i doing in here?
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>>342384196
Yeah, a reoccurring enemy could work. Unlike Quiet, who is captured, Samus manages to escape after you beat her, either from a gadget she has or the player can spare her. If you try to kill her, she'll remember and be more spiteful during her next fight. But if you let her go, she'll be a little more lenient on you. If you've spared her enough, she'll show you the same mercy if she beats and captures you.
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>>342385054
The only problem with that is just how far would Samus let her emotional responses dictate her decisions? On the other hand, having her constantly square off against the player, and resort to more and more drastic/uncharacteristic means to meet her goals would be an interesting conflict to see played out. Sparing her might kickstart the gears in her head that, maybe, a ruthless pursuit of some mandated "justice" might not have its total merit from before. Meanwhile, if you're relentless against her, she might come back swinging ever harder, willing to compromise that sometimes, fulfilling a greater "justice" requires that lesser breaches be made.
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>>342375371
The woman inside the suit doesn't exist in the first place. She's a myth, something made up to make the public more comfortable with this alien device.

The real Samus is a Chozo AI weapon with unknown goals.
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>>342385462
She might try to suppress her emotions, but she still has them. Like how she couldn't bring herself to kill the newborn metroid after it hatched. Her growth over the game depends on your own. She'll come back swinging harder after every fight, but your actions depend on her attitude towards you. It can become a friendly rivalry or a no holds barred death match as the fights go on. Then if you lose during her last fight with her respect, she'll put the pistol to your head but can't pull the trigger. However, if you tried to kill her earlier she won't hesitate to finish you off. This would serve as both a story element and a gameplay one if the player wants tougher battles.
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>>342387068
Much as that never made sense to me, you have a point. It would also put meat on the bones, being able to see how she reacts and what she says to behaving so, as so far introduced, uncharacteristically, in terms of development. So, it would serve as more than just a challenge meter, and might even affect the end-game. When spared, maybe there's a heel-face turn; when not spared, maybe you end up having to eliminate her to get through, in some way. Or some out-of-left-field story shit offs her.
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>>342388136
Something I was wondering, though. Is this the same Samus from Metroid who somehow finds herself in the Metal Gear series, or has she always existed in the world? I ask because that would be a huge deciding factor when you try to establish her personality and her ultimate fate. If dimension travel is a thing, she would need to escape death to return to her own universe. But if Samus is just a new Metal Gear character, she could have a lot more freedom, being a blank slate but with some predetermined factors.
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>>342389184
I'd prefer to think of it as "she's always been in the MG universe", rather than transported from Metroid. As wonky as things can get, I think that would definitely jump too many sharks. At the same time, we've been using her Metroid personality as a template the entire time, haven't we? It fits, even in terms of appearance and possible mannerisms.

All in all, this is just a thought exercise, but I like the idea of it stemming from "What if Samus was a Metal Gear character" instead of, "What if a wormhole".
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dead games general?
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>>342389531
Maybe you could just go with it and remake her backstory in MG. Her parents are killed by pirates somewhere in Africa and she grows up a war orphan. Already fits in the tone of the series. Samus then swears to bring all those who challenge "authority" and "justice" down and trains to fight. She's then contracted to kill the player who is fighting against a corrupt government, but to Samus, you are no better than the pirates who killed her parents and is determined to bring you in, alive or dead.
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>>342390306
Which gives us the perfect reason for her to be intelligent enough to know that the government contracting her is pretty shit, but still have motivation to follow her contract through, beyond professionalism. Any sort of removal of authority leaves a power vacuum, and it's that kind of power vacuum that leads to people being free to oppress the weak, without any mandate or reason beyond their own gain. Even if the strings of government are tugged by those sorts of people, she has enough optimism to believe that authority can restrain the greatest excesses. While that situation might not be the best, it's preferable to the anarchistic mire that people such as pirates can thrive in. That could also be used as a way to get the player to question whether or not they're doing, ultimately, especially if the end goal is to destabilize that government to the point of collapse.
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>>342371543
Galactic Federation Police was always a common misconception, they were always a military that's why this was retconned in Zero Mission, Other M and the Prime sub series.
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>>342390874
So there you have it; Samus could very well fit in Metal Gear in pretty much every way possible. The Zero Suit still might be a bit too futuristic though, and I'm not sure where she'd get such advanced equipment without her connections she had in Metroid. Or maybe she's testing some new armor of some kind?
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>>342371543
Wow I hate you, she exactly looks like my highschool crush.
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>>342371543
Reminds me of this porn star who quit WAY too early.
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>>342391985
The Zero Suit could have a recoloring or a slight redesign, but it would be neat if she was field-testing some sort of smart suit. Something with nervous stimulators, ballistic protection, vitals monitoring. In terms of other gear, maybe just retrofit her to fit in with the in-game universe. In our situation, we're thinking of her as part of the Metal Gear universe originally anyway. Maybe, in our theoretical game, the government contracting her has some shadowy financiers that grant her access to some top-end equipment.
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>>342371543
>Why is samus called a bounty hunter if she works for the galactic space police throughout 99% of the series?

Because people like to assign jobs like "bounty hunter," "mercenary" and "assassin" to women since they think those jobs are glamorous when women do them. That somehow they won't have to get their hands dirty or do any grunt work. They can just sit around looking pretty until it comes time to do a flying scissor kick on 10 guys effortlessly without getting a scratch before they collect a big pay check and go home.
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>>342374646
>Case in point: Boba Fett, not a bounty hunter, he's a headhunter.

Boboa Fett worked for the Imperial government to bring in Han Solo. His father worked for portions of the Republican government too. He is a bounty hunter who works for organized crime on the side.
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>>342392563
Sure, sure, smart suits aren't a stretch for Metal Gear. Pretty much nanomachines, but existing outside your body. It would be a more advanced version of MGS4's octocamo suit, that blends in with the enviroment while boosting muscle performance. It would be a bit more bulky than the Zero Suit, bringing parts from both it and her actual armor design wise.
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>>342375403
It doesn't help that bounty hunters pretty much don't exist in the modern world outside of the US and event there they are called "bail agents".

I think that Nintendo mean that Samus doesn't do it for the money but because it's the right thing to do or whatever, they don't want their character to be seen as a heartless mercenary who's only interested in money. But she's still a contractor and not part of the military, which has been very consistent in all games.
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>>342393808
A bit more, but not by too much. Still needs to have that sleek look, while still being functional. The whole point of it being miniaturization. Maybe it could also have adaptive camouflage? Then the suit's default color wouldn't really matter, would it? Either way, it doesn't, nor should it be, skin-tight in the MG universe.
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>>342380154
They didn't make her superstronk to make her the ultimate soldier, it was just a byproduct of making it so she could survive on Chozo
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what can you tell me about Samus? I never had a nintendo console as a kid, feels like i really missed out :(
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>>342395320
too late, just jerk off to all the porn
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>>342395494
I DEMAND YOU GIVE ME A CHILDHOOD! dad :'^(
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>>342395012
Maybe something like a FROG suit, then? They're worn exclusively by women. Since Samus would be sniping, you could remove some plating for added maneuverability in exchange for less durability. You could also make it so she upgrades her suit depending on your strategy, like reinforcing her helmet if you land a lot of head shots on her.
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>>342396135
Depending on her assignment, less or even more armor. A FROG suit, with a little redesign and tweak, could be a good marriage between the power suit and the zero suit. It also gives some good dating and chronology without spelling it out for the player, unless maybe she's testing out an experimental prototype.
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>>342396428
So now we have her motive, armor, personality, even her origins. All that's left is to come up with the actual fights. I suppose at first, Samus goes with the lightly armored suit to take you down from a distance. As she doesn't know you yet, if she beats you it's game over. If you snipe her back and beat her, she is able to retreat before you can get close enough and her opinion of you doesn't change. If you get to her perch before beating her, you can engage in close range combat. Beating her here will give you the option to spare her or kill her as mentioned. If you let her go, she'll be shocked and tell you she still has a job to do. Going for the finishing blow makes her activate some sort of smoke screen and slips away, eagerly ready to find you again.
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>>342397775
Of course, she has everything already organized so that you have to go through chokepoints and open areas, probably by coordinating the grunts you'll have to either neutralize or sneak past. Getting through the open spots might require some timing for cover, while the chokepoints allow her to reposition. Her final roost is probably booby-trapped in multiple ways, and that smoke-screen's preset so that she has an easy out if you are ruthless.

Subsequent appearances would probably be adjusted based on how you've approached her before. If you've proved you're good at avoiding shots, and can catch her in her roost, she'll go for the quieter, stalking approach, maybe armed with a machine pistol. On the other hand, if you never managed to catch her at her roost, she'll go for sniping again, where possible. If you out-sniped her, maybe her aim gets tighter, since she's been trying to one-up you. That route would be the cleanest, since the final showdown would just be between two rivals. You could be locked into having to out-snipe her in the end, like you'd been doing all along.
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>samus in a metal gear game, power suit included
>the codec calls are exactly the same as it is in brawl
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>>342398346
This is pretty much everything V should have been. Open world boss fights that use the entire enviroment and not just a game of hide and seek.

I like the idea of her trying to beat you at your own game, such as trying to sneak up on you after you already assume she's sniping. This would actually be the most challenging way of fighting Samus as if she catches you, you are captured and your fate depends on her thoughts of you. If she hates you, she'll just shoot you right there. But if she respects you, she'll knock you out and you'll get a chance to escape like in Dead Rising.
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>>342399581
That could be worked in as a way for her to be able to contact you at later points, too. Basically, you earn the chance to witness deeper character development and interaction with her if you end up captured and she respects you. By the end, that heel-face turn mentioned before could end up happening through that. On the other hand, you can learn more about her backstory through documents if you have to snuff her, and maybe even get access to some sort of new gear.
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>>342401267
That would actually be somewhat heart warming. Samus has you and is taking you to the rendezvous to turn you over to the govt. forces. On the way, she'll tell you a part of her backstory. You can stay and listen or you can try and escape right away with a tool designed just for such an occasion. What do you mean contact, though? If Samus can reach you, it kind of ruins the hunt.
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>>342402009
Maybe it would start off as simple stuff, like dead-dropped messages, or recordings. Every so often, you might come across a two-way radio you can answer, something with a prompt in the environment, like a beep and a flashing light, or even her voice coming through telling you to pick up. Nothing forced on the player, entirely up to them whether or not they want to continue going down that route, but also not put so far out of the way that it can be absolutely missed.
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>>342402328
I can see leaving behind some recordings, but what would they be about? Her encouraging you to surrender? It seems a little unprofessional for her to just have a chat with you in the field. Samus still considers you a dangerous outlaw needing to be brought to justice.
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>>342402817
I can see how it comes off a little more like a social link than something professional, but I'm thinking of it in this way. If you've earned her respect, then it's pretty obvious she won't be dumping all her eggs into one basket. The two-ways would be there for goading you on, trying to throw you off balance, but ultimately resulting in revealing conversations between the PC and Samus, where both of their stances are challenged as they're trying to out-psyche each other.
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>>342403736
Ah, mind games. Nice concept, but it's somewhat hard to pull off in a video game since... well, it's a video game. Most people don't let pixels get under their skin. But if you could actually have Samus anger to fluster the player into making a mistake, that would be amazing. Not really sure what she could say, though. She does seem kinda flirty in her Brawl taunts, so maybe she uses some of her feminine wiles? Again, pretty in tune with female enemies in Metal Gear.
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>>342392412
NAME ME PLS
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>>342405274
Okay. You are now George.

Welcome to /v/, George.
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>>342392412
SAUCE!
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>>342404610
It's one that makes sense within her character, though: she'll use any means at her disposal to achieve her mission's parameters. So, at worst, you gain more understanding into her character, how she thinks, feels, acts, and what she's willing to go through to get you. At best, the dialogue could be cleverly designed to get the player's blood pumping, distracting them, even feeding in misinformation or making her even more sympathetic. As for how that would happen, well, probably a mix of some sort of cheekiness, her wiles, and hard-bitten seriousness. Those conversations would only really happen if there's a major reason for them too, in-game, so it's not like it's an every-level thing. After all, she'd only risk something like that if she had appropriate leverage or need.
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>>342405829
FFFFFFFFFFF HNNNNG
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>>342405667
>>342405274
>not knowing how to reverse image search
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>>342405749
Sounds like a pretty solid role now. Almost wish the two series were owned by the same company so we could see an actual cross over. Who knows? Maybe Nintendo will buy Metal Gear after Konami's done making Pachinko machines out of it.

Nice swapping ideas with you.
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>>342406846
Not a bad series of ideas at all. I have mixed feelings about it ever becoming reality, because it could just end up being all fanservice. I wouldn't complain too hard, but it would be a bit of a missed opportunity.

Good talk, yeah. Have a good one.
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>>342371543
There is a reason why this series is dead OP.
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