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Super Best Friends Thread 13: "The Storm Has Come And So Have I" 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2

Skrams

Member
It means your friend has bad taste.

It means she's disappointed you didn't give her low quality and poorly written porn.

These are both correct.

Your friend seemed to just expect porn, but instead of just that she get sort of halfway there porn with a much better story and characters you actually like.

Man, now I can't wait for Volume 1 to come out in July since I already have it preordered.

Also since someone here might know, is there anyway to use Japanese PSN DLC on my US account for my Vita? I'm lead to believe there's no easy way to do with the way the account system works on Vita and I'd also be locked out of the DLC even if I did get it on my US memory card. If this is the case then the DLC that comes with P4 DAN will be kind of worthless, but not really. I'll just be annoyed that I need to switch memory cards to do it or something. I'd also have to buy a 8 GB memory card or something.

Don't tempt me to go watch this thing man. Curiosity can be a killer when you put it like that.

There's a reason THE BABY was an early running joke for the best friends.

Lemme ask you. Have you played any Metroid games? The more the better. Because there's a single, outrageous, unbelievable moment that can sum up the entire game.

You must mean the Ridley moment right? That's the first thing that popped into my head for character assassination because wow that shit was dumb.
 
You should do it, for the baby.

BABYBABYBABY

Watch it. Give the best friends more money.

I don't think they'd want dirty money like that if it's as bad as they say.

Lemme ask you. Have you played any Metroid games? The more the better. Because there's a single, outrageous, unbelievable moment that can sum up the entire game.

Super, Fusion, all 3 Primes. I should go play the original some day as I did play a bit but never got too far.
 
No. As soon as she saw Ridley and didn't just immediately fire, I had to stop. Why the FUCK would she lose her shit at seeing him and turn into such a bitch?

Yeah. That's Other M. Also the reason why the Plasma Beam unlocks is because Adam told her it was okay to use it. She locks her gear away voluntarily the entire game so that her fucked up abusive father figure can lord it over her.

Also, spoilers.

She doesn't get to kill Ripley or the real Final Boss, nor the Metroid threat. 2/3, men run in and do it for her.
 

Skrams

Member
This it the hardest 3 minutes you'll ever watch.

Knew it. That scene was also way longer than I remember and I am now morbidly curious if there's anyone who will defend that scene. Every other game it's just, walk into room, shootbang, Ridley is dead. Other M feels it wanted to have cutscenes and "cool" or "dark" back stories just because it could. No one questioned if they should though.
 
Yeah. That's Other M. Also the reason why the Plasma Beam unlocks is because Adam told her it was okay to use it. She locks her gear away voluntarily the entire game so that her fucked up abusive father figure can lord it over her.

Also, spoilers.

She doesn't get to kill Ripley or the real Final Boss, nor the Metroid threat. 2/3, men run in and do it for her.

The worst part of this is that it's canon and now makes that weird shit in Fusion make sense.

Time to purge that game from memory I guess.

Knew it. That scene was also way longer than I remember and I am now morbidly curious if there's anyone who will defend that scene. Every other game it's just, walk into room, shootbang, Ridley is dead. Other M feels it wanted to have cutscenes and "cool" or "dark" back stories just because it could. No one question if they should though.

Back story is fine if it makes fucking sense. Don't outright change the character.
 
Is it ok to leave Junpei behind forever or is there going to be one of those moments later in the game where I'm forced to use him?

Some what late reply, but I dropped junpei the moment I could switch party members around and I haven't used him since, he is severely under levelled but that still didn't stop me from getting close to beating the game
 
Knew it. That scene was also way longer than I remember and I am now morbidly curious if there's anyone who will defend that scene. Every other game it's just, walk into room, shootbang, Ridley is dead. Other M feels it wanted to have cutscenes and "cool" or "dark" back stories just because it could. No one question if they should though.

Go into the Other M topic and get ready to fucking vomit.

Also, Vidala, if that vid piqued your interest, Woolie used to really like Other M and thought it was great. When I pointed out this scene, right up until the very moment of the repeat in our Let's Watch, he'd say, fuck off, you're imagining that, she doesn't turn into a little girl. I'm legit furious during that Let's Watch because it's so offensive.

If you're morbidly curious, go for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkWQz4Ap6hA&list=PL72A90C88878A43B7

The worst part of this is that it's canon and now makes that weird shit in Fusion make sense.

Time to purge that game from memory I guess.



Back story is fine if it makes fucking sense. Don't outright change the character.

It actually can't be canon. The very first thing the game does is rewrite the ending to Super Metroid, it also flies in the face of Prime constantly, as well as Fusion and Super Metroid and Zero Mission. Basically it's a fucking mess and if it's canon then literally nothing else is.
 
Go into the Other M topic and get ready to fucking vomit.

Also, Vidala, if that vid piqued your interest, Woolie used to really like Other M and thought it was great. When I pointed out this scene, right up until the very moment of the repeat in our Let's Watch, he'd say, fuck off, you're imagining that, she doesn't turn into a little girl. I'm legit furious during that Let's Watch because it's so offensive.

If you're morbidly curious, go for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkWQz4Ap6hA&list=PL72A90C88878A43B7



It actually can't be canon. The very first thing the game does is rewrite the ending to Super Metroid, it also flies in the face of Prime constantly, as well as Fusion and Super Metroid and Zero Mission. Basically it's a fucking mess and if it's canon then literally nothing else is.
SHES FOUGHT HER LIKE 5 TIMES!!!! WHY IS SHE FREAKING OUT!!!???
Its like of Mayrio started having a panic attack after either Peach got kidnapped or he had to fight bowser again.
 

Randy42

Member
I've always been a bit fuzzy on how Nintendo handles canon. Cause there's canon, and then there's stuff like canon in comics which gets rewritten all the god dang time. Nintendos games are usually so loosely connected I'm never quite sure, tho Metroid is admittedly probably their main franchise I'm least familiar with.
 
It actually can't be canon. The very first thing the game does is rewrite the ending to Super Metroid, it also flies in the face of Prime constantly, as well as Fusion and Super Metroid and Zero Mission. Basically it's a fucking mess and if it's canon then literally nothing else is.

Isn't the whole deal in Fusion though the fact that the computer is that Adam guy and basically tells her when she gets to unlock her next ability? That sounds like the same rough outline to me.

I may watch it if I ever want to just torture myself. Those few minutes I just watched give me the same gut reactions that the Kingdom Hearts Parking Lot video give.
 
Man Woolie is the wrongest he's ever been in that fucking series of videos. I'm getting fucking pissed just thinking about it. Ridley is so cool apparently handwaves the total character assassination of a great character to him.
 

grimmiq

Member
Oh damn, I thought Ken in P3 was voiced by the same person that did Cubert in Futurama..disappointed that I was wrong.

I've gotten to the point where the only characters I'm liking are Akihiko, Koromaru and Aigis..and if I need to deal with anything that they're weak to, dropping everyone and soloing bosses with immune personas..
 
Perfect. Bye forever Junpei.
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mrmyhthef

Member
Wow I forgot she straight up turned into a little kid for a second. That's some shit.

Yeah. That's Other M. Also the reason why the Plasma Beam unlocks is because Adam told her it was okay to use it. She locks her gear away voluntarily the entire game so that her fucked up abusive father figure can lord it over her.

Also, spoilers.

She doesn't get to kill Ripley or the real Final Boss, nor the Metroid threat. 2/3, men run in and do it for her.

The worst part is it doesn't even make sense why she would do that. The reason being she wouldn't accidentally harm the soldiers? You're not even with them for like 90% of the game. And the fucking suit upgrade which protects you from lava isn't going to harm shit.
 
Oh damn, I thought Ken in P3 was voiced by the same person that did Cubert in Futurama..disappointed that I was wrong.

I've gotten to the point where the only characters I'm liking are Akihiko, Koromaru and Aigis..and if I need to deal with anything that they're weak to, dropping everyone and soloing bosses with immune personas..
Bosses usually have Element break skills which nullify any resistances.
Bosses never have full party coverage though.
 
Wow I forgot she straight up turned into a little kid for a second. That's some shit.



The worst part is it doesn't even make sense why she would do that. The reason being she wouldn't accidentally harm the soldiers? You're not even with them for like 90% of the game. And the fucking suit upgrade which protects you from lava isn't going to harm shit.

It's because she's desperate for approval from Adam because Samus Aran is actually a weak-willed, emotional, useless woman.
 
Man Woolie is the wrongest he's ever been in that fucking series of videos. I'm getting fucking pissed just thinking about it. Ridley is so cool apparently handwaves the total character assassination of a great character to him.

This makes me think of you just sending him a random text at 4 am just saying "Fuck you, man."

It would be justified if he really thinks that.
 
This makes me think of you just sending him a random text at 4 am just saying "Fuck you, man."

It would be justified if he really thinks that.

Well, this is the guy who loves Metroid so much that he really liked Other M and could sleepwalk through Fusion because he knows the game like the back of his hand.

EDIT: Oh man that was the shit wasn't it. Oh jeez, haha.
 
It's because she's desperate for approval from Adam because Samus Aran is actually a weak-willed, emotional, useless woman.
You mean the same woman who killed an entire planet full of blood thirst space pirates and killed giant lovecraftian horrors without showing a molecule of emotion isnt a weak willed emotional baby? Stop talking crazy pat.
 

Zenfalcia

Member
Man Woolie is the wrongest he's ever been in that fucking series of videos. I'm getting fucking pissed just thinking about it. Ridley is so cool apparently handwaves the total character assassination of a great character to him.

So his justification for liking that particular Ridley is that Ridley is just cool regardless of her role in Other M?
Oh damn, I thought Ken in P3 was voiced by the same person that did Cubert in Futurama..disappointed that I was wrong.

I've gotten to the point where the only characters I'm liking are Akihiko, Koromaru and Aigis..and if I need to deal with anything that they're weak to, dropping everyone and soloing bosses with immune personas..

That's extreme, but sure. What ever works for you.
 
I disagree with them, but looking at Other M, you can see why a huge contingent of people are horrified at the idea of Link speaking. Because this shit can happen. Hell Other M killed Metroid. Other M was 7 years ago and the only Metroid thing we've gotten since then is a fucking Nintendoland minigame.
 
Well, this is the guy who loves Metroid so much that he really liked Other M and could sleepwalk through Fusion because he knows the game like the back of his hand.

EDIT: Oh man that was the shit wasn't it. Oh jeez, haha.

Metroid is fucking sick but you can't just hand wave away the bad like it never happened. He's like that fucking donkey from Family Guy.

Reference.

Maybe that's why she dates Little Mac, its the only way for her to feel Big

Don't ruin it man. That shit's hilarious when there's no meaning behind it.
 

Zenfalcia

Member
Wow I forgot she straight up turned into a little kid for a second. That's some shit.

The worst part is it doesn't even make sense why she would do that. The reason being she wouldn't accidentally harm the soldiers? You're not even with them for like 90% of the game. And the fucking suit upgrade which protects you from lava isn't going to harm shit.

I think it's just story BS written up by crap writers to justify locking away your abilities, just like the old games when you had to unlock your abilities.
 
I think it's just story BS written up by crap writers to justify locking away your abilities, just like the old games when you had to unlock your abilities.

"Oh no, a space pirate EMP went off!"

A shit excuse, but it's better than the garbage they went with. It's Metroid, we don't really care how she loses her powers. Half the fun is getting them back.
 
I wish I could play the Primes again because I've forgotten a lot of the small aspects in 1 and 2. It's definitely going to be one the first things I play whenever I snag myself a Wii U.
 
Prime 2 and Fusion easily have the best abiliteases because the loss of your gear creates a huge new problem for you to deal with.
I dunno how I feel about abiliteases. Like I love the abilitease In Dot.Hack GU because haseos a fucking badass but then gets fucking reckt and has all his power data drained, and you dont get all your powers back till the second game!
 
Ability teases are great as long as you don't have to go through some utter bullshit useless powers first before you get the cool ones. Spread them out.
 

Zenfalcia

Member
"Oh no, a space pirate EMP went off!"

A shit excuse, but it's better than the garbage they went with. It's Metroid, we don't really care how she loses her powers. Half the fun is getting them back.

It's a lot better than actually having them and then being told not to use them due to a guy telling you not to. There's a difference.
It's partially because I refuse to use the others when I'm doing non boss stuff that they're all like 10-15 levels below the others.

It doesn't help when you don't use them that much and keep not using them.. I did that and it got pretty bad when I needed them, but had to grind to level them up.
 
I wish I could play the Primes again because I've forgotten a lot of the small aspects in 1 and 2. It's definitely going to be one the first things I play whenever I snag myself a Wii U.

This is how I felt. I didn't realise the Prime games were that old and that I'm now not a young munchkin. It feels fucking great replaying Prime 1
Prime 1 has a super dumb reason for you losing all your powers though
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Randy42

Member
Ability teases are great as long as you don't have to go through some utter bullshit useless powers first before you get the cool ones. Spread them out.

Yeah it kind of sucks in games where that first short stage you have all your abilities and find one youre in love with, then lose them all and spend the whole game trying to get it back but you don't until around the last 10%. A real ball breaker.
 
It's a lot better than actually having them and then being told not to use them due to a guy telling you not to. There's a difference.

That's why whenever I'm playing a game and they have a dumb excuse for something, I always try to tell myself "It could be worse". Now I have a reference to how much worse it can be.

This is how I felt. I didn't realise the Prime games were that old and that I'm now not a young munchkin. It feels fucking great replaying Prime 1
Prime 1 has a super dumb reason for you losing all your powers though
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Honest to god all I remember in Prime 1 is that first level and the final boss. I played the demo of that first level at K-Mart so many god damn times while I was saving up to buy it myself.
 

mrmyhthef

Member
I don't really like ability teases in general since for me, part of the fun in getting new abilities is not knowing how they work. Like they could be good, or they could be garbage. Makes deciding between abilities more exciting.
 
Oh I guess G.U. doesnt count as an abilitease since you only see haseo with his cool as fuck armour and weapon in a cutscene...I still love G.U. and everyone should play it...too bad its impossible yo find...
 
I don't really like ability teases in general since for me, part of the fun in getting new abilities is not knowing how they work. Like they could be good, or they could be garbage. Makes deciding between abilities more exciting.

I think it depends on the type of game.
 
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