I was never interested in the franchise because what I've watched of Samus has given me the impression that she is a self-loathing, eternally grumpy ingrateful bitch. I really have no idea what she's like in canon, but what I've seen of the series through cutscenes and reading up on the story gives me this impression.

Samus was never portrayed as self loathing (much less ungrateful about anything, no idea where you could have even gotten that from), not even in Shitroid Other MW3 ...but let's not talk about that game because it's stll shit anyway.

Samus has never been portrayed as emotion heavy charachter, much less self loathing in any way but there have always been small showings of her human side;

>In zero mission she has a nostalgic moment when she see's a small drawing she made after she was rescued and rough to zebes

>In prime one she is clearly angry after finding out Ridley has been revived (agan)

>In Prime 2 she takes a moment to close the eyes of one of the dead marines she found after having watched how he died in a log entry

>Prime 3 was one of the more emotional games. She is forced to kill 3 of her comrades and is forced to watch dark samus devour them afterward. The first time she cant do anything but watch in horror, second dime she tries to save Ghor in vein and is visibly angry afterward. The third time when Gandrayda dies rather horrifically in front of her she can't even bring herself to watch and turns away. Even at the end of the game she takes time out after her mission is complete to silently mourn their death's alone.

>Metroid 2, Samus is sent to exterminate the Metroid species but in he end, she finds a metroid larvae which thinks she is it's mother, so she compassionately spares t's life and takes it with her.

>In Super Metroid, said Mettroid  shows up to save her life at the end, and ends up being killed protecting her from mother brain, Samus, immediately shreks mother brain's shit for it. And on her way out of zebes as the entire planet is about to explode, she still makes time to save a buch of animals along the way.

>In Fusion she reminisces about the metroid hatching after she learns it's DNA  was used to save her life. She feels an emotional connection to the AI sent to assist her since it reminds her of an old freind, and later it is revealed the AI is indeed a computerized version of said person. She becomes clearly angry after  she finds out the Federation plan to use the X Parasite, possibly for bio weapons. Samus even plans to Allahu Akbar the station to stop them, but the AI who shall not be named calms her down and gives her a better solution. In the end she wonders about her future as what she just did was a clear act of aggression against the Galactic Federation.

Samus is weak as a character

Quote from: True Turquoise on August 13, 2015, 12:14:48 PM

Samus is weak as a character

Sthap Tru, Other M doesn't real.

:c

Quote from: Chakas on August 13, 2015, 11:23:24 AM

I was never interested in the franchise because what I've watched of Samus has given me the impression that she is a self-loathing, eternally grumpy ingrateful bitch. I really have no idea what she's like in canon, but what I've seen of the series through cutscenes and reading up on the story gives me this impression.

Samus was never portrayed as self loathing (much less ungrateful about anything, no idea where you could have even gotten that from), not even in Shitroid Other MW3 ...but let's not talk about that game because it's stll shit anyway.

Samus has never been portrayed as emotion heavy charachter, much less self loathing in any way but there have always been small showings of her human side;

>In zero mission she has a nostalgic moment when she see's a small drawing she made after she was rescued and rough to zebes

>In prime one she is clearly angry after finding out Ridley has been revived (agan)

>In Prime 2 she takes a moment to close the eyes of one of the dead marines she found after having watched how he died in a log entry

>Prime 3 was one of the more emotional games. She is forced to kill 3 of her comrades and is forced to watch dark samus devour them afterward. The first time she cant do anything but watch in horror, second dime she tries to save Ghor in vein and is visibly angry afterward. The third time when Gandrayda dies rather horrifically in front of her she can't even bring herself to watch and turns away. Even at the end of the game she takes time out after her mission is complete to silently mourn their death's alone.

>Metroid 2, Samus is sent to exterminate the Metroid species but in he end, she finds a metroid larvae which thinks she is it's mother, so she compassionately spares t's life and takes it with her.

>In Super Metroid, said Mettroid  shows up to save her life at the end, and ends up being killed protecting her from mother brain, Samus, immediately shreks mother brain's shit for it. And on her way out of zebes as the entire planet is about to explode, she still makes time to save a buch of animals along the way.

>In Fusion she reminisces about the metroid hatching after she learns it's DNA  was used to save her life. She feels an emotional connection to the AI sent to assist her since it reminds her of an old freind, and later it is revealed the AI is indeed a computerized version of said person. She becomes clearly angry after  she finds out the Federation plan to use the X Parasite, possibly for bio weapons. Samus even plans to Allahu Akbar the station to stop them, but the AI who shall not be named calms her down and gives her a better solution. In the end she wonders about her future as what she just did was a clear act of aggression against the Galactic Federation.

If the metroid series is anywhere as boring as what I just read, then there is absolutely no chance I'll ever get it

Quote from: Dragonic Overlord on August 13, 2015, 12:04:02 PM

If the metroid series is anywhere as boring as what I just read, then there is absolutely no chance I'll ever get it

There's a reason why "metroidvania" is a subgenre of action platformers.