Do the japanese not know what a Bounty Hunter is?
>Bounty Hunter
>constantly doing tasks for the Federation (some not even involving hunting bounties)
>gets called up by them on a moments notice and hasn't been shown to be hired by anyone else
>works along side them occasionally just like a regular solider
Seriously. Is this character just some Federation solider for hire? That's a lot more boring than "Bounty Hunter"
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Samus being a bounty hunter was a localization thing.
Nintendo is the kind of company that will reiterate a mistake for three decades just to avoid anyone noticing a game was originally in another language.
No it wasn't.
Friendly reminder that every Metroid thread (including this one) after Other M is automatically shit. A shame AM2R only temporarily gave us decent Metroid threads again.
There have been good threads for a couple of weeks, there were 2 yesterday, sorry you missed them.
Japan just thinks the word bounty hunter sounds cool.
Samus is more like a freelance hero than anything else.
Literally this. There's the infamous story of Retro wanting to add in Bounty Hunting sidequests to Prime, and the Japanese liaisons were appalled. Because of course Samus would never hunt things down for money.
Samus is essentially more of a mercenary, doing independent work for hire rather than working entirely under her own impetus and then turning in whatever she tracks down. One assumes they didn't like whatever the Japanese term for mercenary is, and thought Bounty Hunter was really cool, so they just went with that.
Any thread that starts with ZSS is automatically shit.
Except the multiple infamous manga and anime depicting bounty hunters disproves this theory.
In essence, Nintendo is simply retarded.
I anything, Japanese metroid commercials indicate samus is a scientist.
We also should consider that we don't see all her jobs in game.
I'm willing to posit that during breaks in the timeline, Samus is off repoing space yachts and cuffing space deadbeats, but her xenoarcheology and Federation contract work is a lot more fun than sitting in a seedy rim-world bar, running faces and sipping cold coffee.
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Her ass isn't that big.
It is for me
I want samus to sit on my face!
>I anything, Japanese metroid commercials indicate samus is a scientist.
Wouldn't this make more sense anyways, since she relies on advanced technology from an extinct race?
>Do the japanese not know what a Bounty Hunter is?
No, it's literally just Sakamoto.
>Japanese game
>Female bounty hunter
>Gets fucking paid
>Can't afford her? Sucks to be you.
Mail is great.
>Samus is actually a scientific and laboratory minded person, but has to occasionally deal with going out into the field to make a living/save the day
Would be an interesting interpretation, though maybe not for a main game.
They call her a "space hunter" in Japan for this commercial
Why do people keep saying this without citation?
That is such a cool commercial, why do japs hate Metroid?
Because people on Sup Forums like to pretend they know what they're talking about? Where have you been?
They're casuals with poor taste.
That's a good question. I'm curious as to why Metroid sales are so low on Japan.
>Echoes sold 470,000 copies in North America in December 2004.[48] It was the ninth best-selling game in its debut month in Japan with 16,105 copies sold, ranking it behind Yu Yu Hakusho Forever and Hanjuku Hero 4: 7-Jin no Hanjuku Hero.[49]
This is borderline Wikihow artwork.
>using the fps prime series to judge metroid sales in Japan
GEE I WONDER WHY
also zero mission had a cool commercial
MUH
The first 3 games did fine in Japan but ever since the 8 year gap it's been one flop after another over there.
I think it's because the audience that likes more serious adventure games moved on to the Playstation and never looked back.
Man, I'm not one of those fags who hates anything to do with the Zero suit but it's like this commercial was the precursor to Other M.
>Ass shots, sexy poses
>Samus screaming
>Suit tied to emotions
Yeah I know Prime had Samus scream upon death but that's death.
>using the fps prime series to judge metroid sales in Japan
>[Metroid: Zero Mission] has sold over 439,000 units in the United States and 69,000 in Japan as of February 2005.
>That fucking commercial
No wonder Prime games didn't do so well.
It can't be just because of population amount. Does Japan just not like those types of games? I've heard LoZ also sells relatively low over there because nips want a play fast and save sort of game, like Pokemon.
I played AM2R when it came out and had so much fun, I decided to play Metroid Zero Mission and to finally complete Super Metroid. These games are just way too good. I will probably play Prime again on of this days.
I wonder if it's because they were turned off by the comic book aesthetic.
Zero Mission's comic book aesthetic doesn't run that deep. Samus still looks like she's drawn by a japanese artist.
And Boku No Hero Academia is popular there.
No it wasn't. Japan just doesn't know what a bounty hunter is.
Metroid is a niche game, anons. Even the best selling Metroid got beat out by Splatoon on WiiU
It doesn't have to be niche, Nintendo just needs to learn how to market the games.
There's nothing inherently unmarketable about Metroid.
How many excuses are you going to make for Japs with no taste?
Trying to figure out why something is the way it is isn't the same as making excuses for it.
im sorry what the fuck
>american game
that sakamoto approved
>other m
>japanese game
>varia suit is supposed to be barrier suit
uh... yeah?
>AHHH ADAAAM SAVE ME!!!
I'm glad they fucked that up. "Varia" sounds so alien and unique.
The games depict other bounty hunters, I think it's just that they try to make Samus look like she has some sort of moral code. It is worth noting that in Super Metroid's opening when she talks about finding a new bounty to hunt, the Japanese subtitles don't say this at all.
>bullet casings
Guys.
I pirated that Federation Force game on my 3DS and it's not bad. It's fulfilling my need for a First person alien planet shooter with light puzzle solving.
Shame that every other mission I have to hear the general say
>we're working in collaboration with Samus Aran
>She's doing recon work for us and here's the information she shared
>etc
Plus that final boss fight sounds like another FU to the fans.
In the first Metroid, she takes a bounty for Mother Brain to hurt the space pirates.
In the second Metroid, she takes a bounty for the metroids (yes that's bounty hunting, look up the definition)
The third and fourth Metroid games have more to do with Samus doing the right thing more than taking a job, so do Prime and Prime 2. Hunters and Prime 3 goes back to bounty hunting a bit.
Here's the kicker
Captain Falcon is also a bounty hunter
What do the Japanese subtitle say?
Japan makes good games
Japan doesn't play good games
>I anything, Japanese metroid commercials indicate samus is a scientist.
What? Show me the translations
It's a WH40k crossover dummy
if samus was a bug eyed loli that said kawaii so randumb xD things every 5 seconds it would the most popular videogame in japan
>It can't be just because of population amount.
IIRC Japan has 1/3 the population of the USA, you'd still expect at least 100 thousand sales if you were nearing 1/2 million in the USA
I remember Sakamoto saying Sci-Fi in general wasn't very popular in Japan and that the series was niche.
But why would samus be using a stub pistol?
We need 2 F-Zero games. A racing game and one where Cap goes hunting bounties.
What the hell is the robot in the second panel?
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But we did just get F-Zero Mario Kart DLC
Stop being entitled
>In the second Metroid, she takes a bounty for the metroids (yes that's bounty hunting, look up the definition)
I didn't really get this. The metroids live on this planet, how was she expecting to kill them all WITHOUT blowing up the planet? For every one she kills with beams, surely there are two more bumping nasties to reproduce. The situation resolved itself with said-planet blowing up, but still. This would be like me going to Washington DC saying "I'll fix Zika" and then just wandering Miami with a gun.
Because Samus is not strong enough to blow up a planet.
Remember Star Fox adventures? Be careful what you wish for.
Entitled? What context is this?
Besides, you don't hunt bounties in DLC.
You could fix a lot more than zika by shooting up Miami
this
Never played it and I doubt most people wanted a star fox adventure game.
So what you do guys think about the AMAZING FINAL BOSS for Prime: Federation Force?
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kill me
>surely there are two more bumping nasties to reproduce
Nope, only the queen can lay eggs and a metroid can only evolve into a queen in a lab under certain circumstances. The space pirates had no idea how to create a queen.
>remodeling_your_shithole.png
To show off of course, didn't work out tho
sure
Is there a video for this?
I bet Samus could fix zika just by scanning for zika-infected mosquitos, blasting away, and collecting upgrades.
But at some point she would find some giant abomination of nature that was the source of zika, and her glorious battle with it would trigger Dead Hand en.m.wikipedia.org
maybe the SJW's are right about Japan not being able to respect women
Regardless of what she's called, Samus very clearly is not a bounty hunter. Bounty hunting as a concept is a hard sell in Japan because the whole concept of doing shit on your own because you have contempt for the status quo is alien and almost offensive to them, and she's a woman on top of that. That's why they have to keep portraying the Galactic Federation as either incompetent or up to no good, because that gives Samus justification for going solo. Everything she does is for moralfag or personal reasons because Chozo are somehow involved. There aren't even any real established organizations outside of the Federation for her to seek bounties from.
haha
I wish, it's a poser gallery.
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So do the feddie troopers have unlockable colour schemes or something?
>tfw first three bosses of Metroid Prime are wasps
It's split across two lines, but it just says that she left the colony and then went back when she received the distress signal. One important difference is that it explicitly says the distress signal came the next day, which makes a lot more sense in the context of everything being fucked when she gets back. The English text makes it sound like she was only gone for a few hours or something.
>But at some point she would find some giant abomination of nature that was the source of zika, and her glorious battle with it would trigger Dead Hand en.m.wikipedia.org
Yeah thanks a bunch asshole. See, this is why no one pays you, Samus.
hey you primefags got what you wanted, more primeshit, now fuck off with your gay halo clone. You did this to yourselves and have only your shit taste to blame.
this is why Sup Forums is shit
Not really understanding why they changed that.
I wonder what will get a sequel first, Federation Force or this doujin.
When Nintendo makes a good Metroid game, it will change.
cool story faggot maybe you should start writing your own fanfiction
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stale bait
get newer bait
A.) Nintendo will never make a good Metroid game ever again
B.) Sup Forums will always be shit
How can Nintendo be so ass backwards towards cute bounty hunters when Battle Angel Alita and Iria are a thing? Worst case should be them lazily emulating these characters not the utter rape that occurred in Other M and beyond.
I take it that's supposed to be ACfag
It's not the fact that they disrespect her as some kind of brainless idiot who's constantly brainwashed and beaten by generic infantry. It's the fact that they couldn't even give her a good boss fight. It's insulting.
But hey, as Other M proved, Nintendo hates women unless they're showing their tits and ass everywhere.
>No abs
Fusion suit was a mistake and bimbo Samus needs to go.
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