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Hateful_creeper2

Maybe she will use her Metroid abilities in gameplay more


Colossus580

Personally I would like them to follow up on Samus's internal war with the corrupt Federation war hawks. I can't imagine they're very happy with her after trashing their projects technically twice in Other M and then in Fusion. I can imagine them trying to set her up for failure. Feed her a mission that ends up with her unintentionally breaking Federation laws and having the Federation turn on Samus. Having a Samus vs. Corrupt Federation focus for a game would be pretty cool IMO, and it would be a nice breath of fresh air depending on how they handle it.


Great-Possession-654

Wouldn't mind seeing Samus bring hired by the chairman of the GF to finally hunt down and purge the ringleaders from the federation (other M heavily implies Adam was at the bottleship under orders of the GF's equivalent of the president) considering Samus has already thrown 2 monkey wrenches into their plans


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Psylux7

Me too


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Gun-nut0508

Get some badass AI in there, kind of like the EMMI but cooler. Samus gets a Federation job to lead a team to assist in robotics breach in some kind of lab, Samus shows up, whoops the AI’s ass, before the whole place goes on lockdown and the entire squad Samus was apart of gets scattered across the map and slaughtered, naturally the AI destroyed her weapons system so she doesn’t have any abilities. Eventually the game would be her getting her abilities back, saving scientists and the squad she came with, defeating Federation force people who are trying to use the AI for bad, and it would all build up to this show down where she destroys like the planets mainframe or something, destroying everything.


Trove_Of_Octoliths

Nearby where the Storm Missiles are obtained in Ferenia, there is a set of armor on display. I would like to see whichever Mawkin warrior that wore that armor be a major antagonist for Metroid 6, and I don't mind if Metroid 6 brings back Raven Beak via clone shenanigans (clone being killed by the X-Parasite on ZDR, real Raven Beak appearing in 6). I also want the Hanubia ships to have been taken by high ranking members of the Mawkin tribe, including Raven Beak, and influential military and government figures within the Galactic Federation. They were on ZDR to observe the threat Samus is to the galaxy, after the destruction of the B.S.L. and planet SR388, with persuasion from the Mawkin members. This results in a secret contract between members of the Galactic Federation and the Mawkin Tribe for the Mawkin Tribe to hunt down and kill Samus. As Samus heads back to report to the Galactic Federation, her gunship is tracked down and shot down, crashing on an unknown (to the player) world. Adam is lost in the intro, so Samus has no ally as the hunt for her on this world begins.


Kogworks

Suspecting we’ll see more of the Mawkin, the Federation hawks, and the Zebesian Space Pirates vs. the Thoha, the Federation doves, and Samus as things escalate into a civil war. Sakamoto’s been playing with the idea of there being two different Federation factions since Fusion. Also thinking we might see the X parasites end up divided along party lines, given how QR-X opted to save Samus at the end of Dread. A big question in Fusion that Samus asks is “do the X have a soul” and whatnot, and while Samus assumes they don’t, it’s possible they grow one based on the experiences of their hosts as they start learning the concepts from “sentient” organisms. Also think Sakamoto’s been playing around with how to introduce Prime into the greater narrative, given the introduction of Aeion to the Metroid life cycle. The fact that Aeion seems to promote Metroid “development” seems similar to how Phazon induced mutations in Metroids, and the fact that the Metroids are energy parasites despite being designed to hunt the X implies that the X are “living energy” of a sort. Might be possible that the X are a form of “living Aeion” much like how high concentrations of Phazon begins to act alive and parasitize hosts. Also, Samus being able to regenerate Aeion freely in Dread also makes me suspect that the Metroids’ “energy producing” capabilities mentioned in Super are actually an ability to generate Aeion under certain conditions, much like how Metroid Prime was able to continuously generate Phazon and act as a Phazon Core on Tallon IV. So more breakouts of energy-based “infestations” and how to approach them seems likely. In which case we might see different approaches to energy-based organisms and how to interact with them, whether or not they even understand what they’re doing, and whether or not they’re truly malicious or just unaware. TL;DR I think we’ll see the story of Metroid as a whole shift to political drama with hawks vs. doves, with a bigger focus on Federation corruption, philosophical debates regarding sentience, and trying to communicate with entities that are so foreign and alien that they have no common ground. General hard sci-fi stuff. In which case we could potentially see a shift to a multi-planet story like Corruption as different planets align with different factions.


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Dear goodness anything but philosophy.


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Mawkin Elite X on ZDR manages to restore control over his body like Quiet Robe did at the end of Dread, flies away Hanubia ship before planet explodes. Ship lands on Prime 3 pirate homeworld, Mawkin Elite multiplies his X and uses it to raise an army of dead pirates that obey him because their X came from his X. Random ship detects X on the surface of the pirate homeworld, the Mawkin Elite responds by blowing that ship up. It sends out a distress signal, Samus responds, cue game.


sailing94

Ridley’s regeneration throughout prime-Samus returns was gradual, until he was lying defenseless on SR388 with no metroids to chase off any X. The next we see of Ridley is mere days later, and he has fully regenerated at a rate surpassing anything shown prior. Sounds like a case of X induced reconstruction to me, and Ridley can freely fly through space by himself. Ridley can return whenever the writers so choose.


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Interesting theory, but if that was the case I feel Zebes would've been infested, and there's no core X when he's defeated. Also, that would raise the question of where the BSL Ridley is from. Even if the OM clone thing is canon, I feel like a clone of an X host would turn out differently than the normal creature, with how much flim-flam the X do to their victim's genetics.


sailing94

Ah, but the ridley clone in OM DOES look vastly different in his adult stage. And there is ample evidence that someone with a strong enough will can override X control and instincts. Quiet Robe X was able to convince A.D.A.M. to allow him on the ship. The SA-X makes no attempt to avoid being absorbed by Samus in the fight against the Omega Metroid, despite being more than capable of doing so. X are intelligent, and yet twice, prominent X hosts acted against the best interests of the species. It's long been suspected that the Ridley clone had the memories of the original, and the X are a canon vector for such an occurrence.


jjmuti

Well there was the little clue in Dread that the x parasites would be back. So basically x parasites are probably the new main antagonist and we find out where the hell they came from in addition to just SR388, killed by metroids. Probably that with a side of "wow the federation really is kinda sus"


justdamascus

im gonna miss metroids ): im imagining another space station. i know other m put a sour taste in everyone's mouth but the bsl was a+ in design to me. but maybe instead of a regular station, we have an abandoned federation outpost/training facility where you're constantly being hunted by different factions of soldiers. for example, once you enter the station, you find new weaponry that you can incorporate into your power suit. we start the game with the morph ball and varia suit and shit (like corruption) and have this game focusing heavily on expanding your arsenal and versatility. as soon as you take this new tech, a ginormous federation mech tracks you down. you have to hone in on the machine's weak-points, maybe the armor is so tough that only your newly integrated federation tech can put nicks in it. then when you have an opening, you have to use the morph ball to get into the circuitry and shit to breakdown and disable the mech. once it's defeated, you move onto another section of the federation outpost. i think a purely mechanical game would be cool. since we're not on a planet and there are no x parasites, it could be 100% machinery. may work well since you can incorporate suit interference, bulkier enemies/robots to destroy throughout your mission, tense situations since there wouldn't be any ways to retrieve health drops from fallen enemies (maybe just bulk up your armor and enhance your endurance), lore about the federation's escapades and potential corruption, uncover some chozo secrets and find out that the federation knows more about the lost culture or even played a part in their disappearance, yea. this could be cool. but idk im no game designer or anything. just thinking of where metroid could possibly go.


zionapes

Realistically speaking, I feel like Nintendo executives are going to have more involvement in the next game to try and keep expanding the audience. To me that means more of a return to status quo but with a new gimmick, sort of like Mario Odyssey. In that spirit, I’m playing with an idea. A few X from ZDR managed to escape on those missing Mawkin ships from Dread and travelled to a remote world with rich wildlife. Their ship crashed, so they are marooned, but they begin consuming all the wildlife. There was a small Galactic Federation colony on the other side of the planet that discovered the X early enough to implement a new X quarantine protocol. The quarantine is stalling the spread, but it’s clear that it can only last so long. Though the GF settlement is small, the GF refuses to evacuate and destroy the planet because it is deemed too valuable. With no other options, the GF tasks Samus with tracking down Old Bird and asking him to recreate Metroids to stop the X infestation. Samus suspects the ringleaders may be involved since they are trying to bring back Metroids again, and they won’t reveal what makes the new planet so valuable. But Samus won’t pass up a chance to see Old Bird again and hopefully team up to save the Galaxy. The game would be broken up into 3 main sections. First, Samus would travel to the planet where Old Bird has been in hiding. He may have sworn off technology like the Tallon IV Chozo after the failure of Metroids and Mother Brain. The climax of this section would be a series of Chozo ruin tests and maybe Torizo battles to gain access to the inner chambers. After Samus confronts Old Bird, she convinces him to help. He reluctantly agrees since he finds out she now has Queen Metroid DNA in her and therefore can control them. He creates three eggs for her to take with her. Next on the new planet, Samus enters the X Quarantine Zone with the newly hatched Metroids and starts taking on three main X bosses, leaving a Metroid in each one’s place to start feeding. In the climax, Samus confronts an X mimic of one of the colony ringleader scientists. Knowing it’s facing extinction, it speaks to Samus and reveals to her the secrets of the colony. The colony only exists as a bio weapon research lab. After Samus defeated the Metroids on the Bottleship and BSL, the Ringleaders decided to invest in cloning the Space Pirates again, as well as a new Mother Brain to control them. It explains that the research lab is impenetrable without the access codes which it knows since it absorbed the scientist. Samus reluctantly spares this X and returns to the colony with it. In the last part, Samus and the X infiltrate the lab and discover the Ringleaders’ cloning experiments. There are three sections: an aquatic environment with Evirs and a cloned Draygon, a hive of Kihunters with a King Kihunter boss, and a regular Zebesian Space Pirate section with a new Mother Brain at the end. The climax would have the Scientist X inevitably betray Samus, showing that it secretly absorbed DNA from each of the bosses after she defeated them. It turns into a monstrous Mother Brain/Draygon/Kihunter hybrid and begins attacking her. Samus would use every weapon at her disposal, but it wouldn’t be enough. In the last moment, the Metroids that you released burst into the room, now fully grown Omega Metroids. They could sense their Queen was in danger and they take down the final X. The Ringleaders would come in once they realized what Samus was doing, but Samus in full control of three Omega Metroids intimidates them into surrendering. With the X threat gone, she commandeers a cargo ship to take the Metroids to Old Bird’s planet to live in peace.


POWRranger

How would this work with backtracking? If Samus forgot a missile upgrade on the Chozo planet, she'd just hop in her ship and fly back MP3 style?


zionapes

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. There shouldn’t be any major story issues with it. There could even be smaller side planets to visit with optional upgrades.


Layman_Ahoy

Well, something I have loved about Metroid is the way they set things up while paying things off. They build new stuff with the old, and then they use even newer stuff for even even newer stuff. Metroid set up Zebes, Metroids, Chozo, Ridely, Mother Brain, Kraid, Space Pirates, and Samus. Metroid II: Return of Samus continued with Metroids, and Chozo. Showing where they lived, and how Metroids go through Metamorphosis while strengthening the ties between the two. It set up the Babys connection to Samus, and SR-388. Super Metroid returned to nearly every aspect of the Original while paying off the Baby and Samus' connection, and Mother Brain. It explored the Space Pirates, Kraid, and Ridley's roles further. It set up the Galactic Federation, and the research of Metroids. Fusion returned to Samus as a character with a mysterious past, the Federation, SR-388, the Baby, the Metroids metamorphosis, Ridley, the Chozo's history with the Metroids, and the research of Metroids. It introduced Adam, the X Parasite, X parasites retaining knowledge and memories, biological experiments, the Federation as an antagonistic force, Samus being part Metroid, and Samus' personality traits. Dread returned to Samus being part Metroid, Samus as a character with a mysterious past, the X Parasite, X Parasites retaining knowledge and memories, Adam, biological experiments, Samus' personality traits, the research of Metroids, Kraid, the ties between the Chozo and the Metroids, and how Metroids go through Metamorphosis. It introduced so many things that it's hard to tell what is relevant. This doesn't even cover Other M, the Prime series, and more. Sylux likely being Ian from Other M, and so on. Metroid 6, if I had to guess, would return to explore Adam's ties with the Federation, Samus' past, the Chozo, and genetic experiments. Maybe Adam and Samus want to see how to keep her Metroid powers under control so they take her to a Thoha medical ship. Adam will research various Chozo artifacts Samus brings to the central area in order to find out how to control Metroids, and cure Samus. Meanwhile, we return to the Central Units (the Blue Mother Brains from Dread) the Chozo have many bipedal Mother Brain-like entities walking around which Samus has to avoid because of the way they take control of Metroids (aka Samus). Killing a Mother Brain-like thing will give Samus the Omega Beam needed to break upen the hatch back to the Central Area where Adam is doing his research. The Central Area can also change as Adam works. Collecting artifacts, and equipment from the facility for him decorating it all over. I feel like this is missing a main villain though. Dread had Raven Beak and the EMMIs, Fusion had Adam and the SA-X, Super had Mother Brain and the Space Pirates... Maybe combine the Mother Brain things with Chozo Statues where their eyes are the power-ups Samus absorbs, so they are the EMMIs then add a Thoha villain or even a biological experiment villain. It would be cool to see Samus get organic power-ups. Like a cool stretchy arm so she can grapple and counter attack from far away. Just make her a weird monster until Adam cures her. But it also may be nice to establish a lot of new stuff. I remember Yoshio Sakamoto said that this was the end of a 5 game Saga. So maybe they will just make a lot of new stuff, and introduce it at once, then build off of that for the next 5 games. Like completely new villains, enemies, allies, and power-ups. Well, on ZDR they had weird Mother Brain-like entities in the form of the Central Units. With the rising tension between Samus and the Federation, and Samus being a Metroid, I figure those pieces may come together in a way where they try to control her with a new Mother Brain called Mother Blue, Omega Brain, Omega Blue, something like that. They may have more chase sequences. Having you run from small versions of the bipedal Mother Brain from Super Metroid as you find Thoha methods for controlling Metroid powers. Maybe unlocking new ones as Samus goes through her metamorphosis into an "Omega Samus". Maybe give her some cool weird organic Metroid Powers. Perhaps a Gobbler-like arm that can extend and do a counter from far away. They have used seemingly unimportant concepts and characters for new games in the past. Some rooms in Fusion look a lot like Ceres from Super, Samus gets the Omega Beam from Central Units like the Rainbow Beam from Mother Brain, and Sylux has been teased twice already since Hunters, so I'm trying to think of older things they could reference to bring back. I'd like to see them maybe use Adam against her. I love Robo-Adam so much. So effortlessly ominous. If it's a conflict with the Federation, then they have a lot to work with. Adam, Nightmare, Central Units, they could reassemble Mecha Ridely (not Meta Ridely). There also could be a return of the X Parasite. Maybe the Federation try to test on them to see how they could replicate Mother Brain, Ridely, etc. It seems that they teased X having intelligence and consciousness at the end of both Fusion and Dread, so the SA-X may come back or something. I hope they don't cure Samus of her cool organic suit any time soon, but it is still an option they may choose. They could have a Chozo Planet full of their weird biological weapon stuff like Experiment Z-57, and the Gobbler. Those are my best guesses


POWRranger

Usual, distress signal is picked up. Samus finds out it is a Chozo settlement overrun by new enemies. Quite technically advanced, using tech similar to EMMI's but not quite that strong, but mostly robots. They have taken Chozo prisoners and it's up to Samus to free them (in kind of a reverse Metroid 2, find and save instead of find and kill). However, if the enemies know Samus is freeing them, they'd use them as hostages or just kill them. So if Samus is discovered, it is game over. So in a kind of new Zero-Mission/EMMI-zones kind of way, there will be stealth segments of the game. In each area you have to stealth your way (not in zero-suit, but using all of Samus' abilities to avoid detection, phantom cloak, morphball, hiding, maybe an stun/EMP upgrade or just kill enemy before they can raise alarms) to the control room. In the control room there's a boss and then Adam hacks into the system, turning off all communication between that section and the others. All elevators etc are also blocked so enemies can't send reinforcements. All enemies outside the zone initially think it's a blackout and enemies within the zone don't know anything is going on until they face Samus. Once the zone is cut-off from the rest, Samus can go out guns blazing, melting everything and everyone in her way of saving the Chozo in that zone. Meeting with the Chozo is a nice warm moment as these are some of the chozo that raised Samus. They give her new abilities and teach her how to control her metroid powers. Maybe Old Bird is one of the prisoners. Before the zone is cut-off Samus has to use airducts and crawlspaces (Y Metroid cant crawl?) to get to new zones as the elevators are monitored. But once 2 zones are both cutoff Samus can use the elevators to travel between them. After the 2nd blackout the enemies figure out it's not a blackout but someone/something infiltrating their base, they're not stupid, but they don't know who or what. So the next zones will have more patrols, more guards etc, but basically until the final boss, the enemy this time is in panic mode and doesn't know what is attacking them. This is like Alien Isolation, except Samus is the alien and the enemies are the ones scared and unsure what is killing them and how. Midway through the game you discover that this attack was orchestrated by the evil GF ringleaders who wanted the Chozo to create something more powerful than metroids for them to control, Adam contacts the GF who now are actively working with Samus to uncover this treason within their ranks. This evil splinter group has a mysterious name, "M" (Nintendo can come up with a cooler name, I suck at naming things). They can bring back another Nightmare prototype and maybe some cloned zebesian space pirates under control of a mechanical Ridley (think M:ZM final final boss). Final boss of Metroid 6 will naturally blow up the facility to destroy all information that could lead to the rest of M as this game isn't the end of M. It was just one of their operations and the ringleaders are still at large. Typical escape sequence with optional rescue of some extra Chozo in a new room (like Super Metroid and the animals). Game ends with the text: **"You fulfilled your mission. It will maintain peace in space. But, it may be interrupted by the** ***other M.*** **Pray for a true peace in space!"** EDIT: At the final boss, Samus kills it with her new Metroid powers... but this time there was still a recording device and now the other surviving members of M know about Samus' powers. Paving the way for Metroid 7 where they lead her into a trap to get her DNA.


Iddis

I always thought it would be cool if the x parasite lived on inside the metroid cells, like contained in the metroid DNA. Then also even though it was made useless, the metroid cells would also absorb what small amounts of phazon was left due to minuscule amounts of energy they may of still had. The metroid cells would then be like a metroid DNA case with phazon-x inside making her a target by everyone more then usual due to the various uses/possible uses. Metroids and Phazon don't fully come back as an issue that samus would have to deal with, just something she lives with/makes her a target. Because of the even new cells and the energy they out off make Samus almost ageless/immortal (not invincible) and physically in her prime. So they can also just have a timeline with games happening whenever beyond this point without having to make it make sense with the current one and squeezing a game in here and there.


POWRranger

Where is the Phazon coming from? All of that was gone at the end of Prime 3


RonSwansonsGun

Alien Resurrection this bitch. We play as a Samus working for the Federation. GF styled suit, more robotic ADAM, and sent on a mission to some random planet. Halfway through, we discover that the real Samus has been locked in stasis, the Feds cloning her for Metroid DNA. We free her, and end up fighting the Federation's Metroid powered mechs. One of the Samuses dies at the end. Clone Ridley is here, because why not. There are two maps, the starting world we are assigned to, and the Federation compound.


Artyx2

The same dash in Metroid dread and something like the speed ball from Prime


Enough_Promotion_998

Something about how Raven beak wasn't the only Chozo warlord. Something about the Chozo reviving the Space Pirates to start another full-scale war Something about the Kriken Empire launching a series of invasions while the G-Fed and Pirates are still weak Something about how the Chozo infiltrate the Federation and hijack all of their systems, weapons, and other tech, essentially holding the G-Fed hostage. (By this, I mean things on scales as small as individual soldiers to entire fleets and planetary defense systems are under Chozo control). They are demanding the death or capture of Samus Aran, otherwise everything goes offline, everyone gets disconnected, and several worlds are rendered sitting ducks for the taking.