The Metroid Thread: The E.M.M.I. just want a hug! (Dread Available Now)

Volt · June 15

Edit: Treehouse now with both parts.

Good vibes only brehs, greatness will be on our Switches on Oct. 8th, 2021.

Before the Dread Trailer reveal, it was mentioned that they're still working hard on Prime 4.

Edited October 8 by Volt
Fuck you bee.

Volt · June 15

@M A R T I A Nand whoever is a Metroid fan.

This game looks really good. Honestly can't wait. What do y'all expect out of it?

HD-Man · June 15

I expect Metroid Fusion on steroids, with more horror

Chadouken · June 15

I'm honestly more hyoe about this than if they had revealed Metroid Prime 4. I've been wanting a 2D Metroid for Switch since I got it. I was even hoping for maybe a port of Samus Returns on Switch, and would have been happy to get that. But to have a brand new game? I haven't been this excited about the Switch since Mario Maker 2 reveal. By far the best thing to come from this entire E3 event.

DoctaMario · June 15

This looks pretty nice. Lot of great stuff coming to Switch!

Definitely looks very informed by newer metroidvania games so far.

Volt · June 15

11 minutes ago, DoctaMario said:

This looks pretty nice. Lot of great stuff coming to Switch!

Definitely looks very informed by newer metroidvania games so far.

It looks like a mix of Fusion and Samus Returns.

And real talk, the atmosphere looks fantastic. Fusion had people shook, this might be even better.

iStu X · June 15

iStu X · June 15

Standard edition is live on Amazon.

Darc_Requiem · June 15

I still can't believe we got a Metroid 5. E3 wasn't a total waste after all.

JGreen · June 15

This was such a great surprise. I didn’t think we would get another 2D Metroid. Can’t wait.

iStu X · June 15

Hawkingbird · June 15

Dread is actually real! I still remember the rumors of the original Metroid Dread over 10 years ago. I was a big fan of Fusion and loved Samus Returns. Easily my most hyped game this year.

Camacho · June 15

Might be enough for me to finally get a switch. I bought a 3ds primarily for Samus Returns, was very happy with that game.

Volt · June 16

1 hour ago, Camacho said:

Might be enough for me to finally get a switch. I bought a 3ds primarily for Samus Returns, was very happy with that game.

What pushed me to get mine was Prime 4 being announced. Honestly, I don't regret it, it's a very nice handheld that you can plug in a TV. Library is pretty good too.

It was desperately needing a Metroid game on it.

Btw, there were TWO Dread sessions on the Treehouse. Turns out I missed the 2nd. Gonna link the vids in the OP too.

Spoiler

Wellman · June 16

Not going to lie, don't love Fusion but expanding on that Samus Returns game play is so beautiful in HD. They got me again.

RSG3 · June 16

2D Metroid is so surprising. Nintendo stole E3 with this game alone.

M A R T I A N · June 16

7 hours ago, Volt said:

@M A R T I A Nand whoever is a Metroid fan.

This game looks really good. Honestly can't wait. What do y'all expect out of it?

It looks like they’re bringing the stalker aspect back from Fusion with multiple types of robots that hunt you throughout the map. I’m all for that. Metroid has this great capacity to tell sci-fi Horror stories and I always felt they peaked at doing that with Fusion.

I’m really curious to know what’s going on with the story and where it takes place in the timeline. Fusion pretty much sits at the end of everything so they could really do anything they want to move the story forward if it’s post Fusion.

Pretty sure we see a Chozo sabotaging Samus during the trailer. Wonder what that’s about…

Volt · June 16

1 minute ago, M A R T I A N said:

Pretty sure we see a Chozo sabotaging Samus during the trailer. Wonder what that’s about…

A live Chozo.

This game finna be nuts.

Hawkingbird · June 16

27 minutes ago, M A R T I A N said:

It looks like they’re bringing the stalker aspect back from Fusion with multiple types of robots that hunt you throughout the map. I’m all for that. Metroid has this great capacity to tell sci-fi Horror stories and I always felt they peaked at doing that with Fusion.

I’m really curious to know what’s going on with the story and where it takes place in the timeline. Fusion pretty much sits at the end of everything so they could really do anything they want to move the story forward if it’s post Fusion.

Pretty sure we see a Chozo sabotaging Samus during the trailer. Wonder what that’s about…

A tweet from Nintendo of America said it was a sequel to Fusion. If so I want this game to make use of Samus metriod biology.

Volt · June 16

2 minutes ago, Hawkingbird said:

A tweet from Nintendo of America said it was a sequel to Fusion.

Straight up says Metroid 5 before the Dread tagline. Gameplay deadass looks like a mix of Samus Returns and Fusion.

The atmospheric detail in this game too. Lawd have mercy.

iStu X · June 16

So, on the amiibo subreddit many users are saying you can do web in store order at GameStop for both the collectors edition and amiibo 2-pack.

take it with a grain of salt but it’s worth trying.

Edited June 16 by iStu X

Volt · June 16

8 hours ago, Hawkingbird said:

A tweet from Nintendo of America said it was a sequel to Fusion. If so I want this game to make use of Samus metriod biology.

I just realized. Samus drains energy from that Aurora Unit-like thing to power her cannon up.

Could it be because of her DNA? As in, she grabbed that brain and could absorb energy because she's part Metroid now?

M A R T I A N · June 16

Man Samus goes through more changes on a cellular level than even Bruce Banner.

The Chozo enhanced her strength through cellular manipulation. Then she becomes corrupted with Phazon. Then she has to play host to the X Parasite which even further altered her DNA. The only reason she’s probably even still alive now is because of the way the Chozo groomed her into a super human.

Much like how she could absorb bits of the parasite in Fusion, I assume she can still take advantage of it somehow with her altered DNA.

JHDK · June 16

Well then.

My faith in Nintendo as the last bastion of genuine gaming is redeemed yet again.

JHDK · June 16

36 minutes ago, M A R T I A N said:

Man Samus goes through more changes on a cellular level than even Bruce Banner.

The Chozo enhanced her strength through cellular manipulation. Then she becomes corrupted with Phazon. Then she has to play host to the X Parasite which even further altered her DNA. The only reason she’s probably even still alive now is because of the way the Chozo groomed her into a super human.

Much like how she could absorb bits of the parasite in Fusion, I assume she can still take advantage of it somehow with her altered DNA.

Her DNA ultimately gets altered to where she can bend space-time, and she falls back millenia,to become the 1st Chozo.

The Chozo One, as were.

:coffee:

DoctaMario · June 16

I guess I need to play Fusion and Super Metroid. I started Super many years ago and must have gotten stuck because I stopped playing it and have never really played Fusion.

I want to say the last Metroid game I played was Prime Hunters and Pinball

RSG3 · June 16

8 minutes ago, DoctaMario said:

I guess I need to play Fusion and Super Metroid. I started Super many years ago and must have gotten stuck because I stopped playing it and have never really played Fusion.

I want to say the last Metroid game I played was Prime Hunters and Pinball

You should play Zero Mission, Super, and Fusion. Samus Returns on 3DS if possible.

DoctaMario · June 16

1 minute ago, RSG3 said:

You should play Zero Mission, Super, and Fusion. Samus Returns on 3DS if possible.

I played the original Samus Returns on GameBoy back in the day. Great game. Maybe I'll do Super once I finish up Dark Souls.

RSG3 · June 16

2 minutes ago, DoctaMario said:

I played the original Samus Returns on GameBoy back in the day. Great game. Maybe I'll do Super once I finish up Dark Souls.

I actually like Game boy Samus Returns a decent amount, but it's pretty old, limited, and hard to go back to so I thought I would recommend the newer more...modern day friendly version lol.

iStu X · June 16

What time line is this

Chadouken · June 16

I played through Return of Samus again just a couple years ago using the original cartridge and a Super Gameboy on my SNES. It's a little dated, but it holds up.

DoctaMario · June 16

1 minute ago, RSG3 said:

I actually like Game boy Samus Returns a decent amount, but it's pretty old, limited, and hard to go back to so I thought I would recommend the newer more...modern day friendly version lol.

I don't understand why they'd bring returns to 3ds and not switch. Guess emulation will be the way RE Zero Mission and Fusion but I'm going to set my sights on Super since it's on SNES online. Isn't Zero or Fusion a remake of the first game? I played the hell out of that one when I was a kid. I loved how weird it was and how well they did the "solo explorer on a weird hostile lonely planet" thing.

Chadouken · June 16

1 minute ago, DoctaMario said:

Isn't Zero or Fusion a remake of the first game?

Zero Mission is a remake of the original Metroid.

Edited June 16 by Chadouken

DoctaMario · June 16

11 minutes ago, Chadouken said:

Zero Mission is a remake of the original Metroid.

I'll have to check that one out. It's really a bummer that Nintendo doesn't have GBA, GB, or DS games available on switch. I understand to a degree why there aren't any ds games but the other two I don't get.

Chadouken · June 16

1 minute ago, DoctaMario said:

It's really a bummer that Nintendo doesn't have GBA, GB, or DS games available on switch.

Dude, for real. I really want to play through Fusion again before Dread, and I don't have a way of doing that since I don't have the game. It was available on the Wii U shop, but I'm not sure if Nintendo is even supporting that anymore. And my Wii U is packed up in the garage anyway.

DoctaMario · June 16

Yeah Nintendo is dumb. That kind of thing would print money whether they sold them or just added them as an emulator for NIntendo online.

As it is, the only other recourse is

Chadouken · June 16

3 minutes ago, DoctaMario said:

As it is, the only other recourse is

Could I find the game on my computer?

DoctaMario · June 16

Just now, Chadouken said:

Could I find the game on my computer?

I hear they released the game exclusivelyon this site called Google.... 🏴‍☠️

Chadouken · June 16

Just now, DoctaMario said:

I hear they released the game exclusivelyon this site called Google....

Word. I've never gone after that kind of booty before so I'll have to look into how to do all that. I'll hit up some folks on discord.

DoctaMario · June 16

1 minute ago, Chadouken said:

Word. I've never gone after that kind of booty before so I'll have to look into how to do all that. I'll hit up some folks on discord.

Let me know what you hear, I may be interested in that booty too

M A R T I A N · June 16

Zero Mission is so damn good. Totally what a remake should always strive to be. A re imagining that doesn’t completely trample over the original game’s vision.

Volt · June 16

Hawkingbird · June 16

Since Mercury Steam is developing this I would like to see them follow up on the teaser they left on Samus Returns of their being an evil group of Chozo

RSG3 · June 16

In glad to see Mercurysteam not only still getting work, but doing good work as well.

I liked Lord's of Shadow and thought the hate the series got was really unwarranted. Wasn't perfect, had issues but was a pretty good series over all and I'm glad to see them still doing work in series I like.

HD-Man · June 16

45 minutes ago, RSG3 said:

In glad to see Mercurysteam not only still getting work, but doing good work as well.

I liked Lord's of Shadow and thought the hate the series got was really unwarranted. Wasn't perfect, had issues but was a pretty good series over all and I'm glad to see them still doing work in series I like.

Oh, you liked Lord's of Shadow too? My dawg. never got to play the 2nd but the first was good fun and a worth edition to Castlevania.

HD-Man · June 16

1 hour ago, Hawkingbird said:

Since Mercury Steam is developing this I would like to see them follow up on the teaser they left on Samus Returns of their being an evil group of Chozo

Well, ppl caught some things in that trailer, u may get your wish...

Hawkingbird · June 16

14 minutes ago, HD-Man said:

Oh, you liked Lord's of Shadow too? My dawg. never got to play the 2nd but the first was good fun and a worth edition to Castlevania.

I'm also a fan of Lords of Shadow. It's my favorite 3D Castlevania.