why is this game named after an enemy that appears in the last level of the game.

why is this game named after an enemy that appears in the last level of the game. that's like if super mario bros was called "bullet bill"

  1. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    It’s a portmanteau of metro, a connected series of tunnels, and Android, a humanoid robot (what Samus was going to be originally). The name got adapted to the jelly fish because it has to mean something.

    It’s rather ironic when you consider metroidvania. A portmanteau of metroid and castlevania the latter of which is another portmanteau of castle and transylvania. Four words in one.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      I love Metroandroidcastletransylvanias.

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >I love MetroTrans

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          >t. Metroid Prime 4 fired writer

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >metro android
      Ha! I never knew that!

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Actually it was Android+Metro, so it should be Antro.

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        because its absolutely ebullshit retard

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >chudvania

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      even more ironic because metroid actually started the genre and castlevania didn't
      with other genres, it wouldn't be "wolfendoom" but rather "turokdoom"

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        metroidvania was coined to refer to castlevania games that played like metroid instead of like classic castlevania
        it was bastardized to refer to the whole genre because of idiots and apparently metroidlike didn't feel right for games that were mostly melee based

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous
      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        no thats actually true

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      technically 'castle' is completely left out here, so you could call it three words in one, but it is still a portmanteau of two portmanteaus.

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        technically metro is not a word, it is a prefix
        transylvania is a word derived from the roots "trans" (across) and "sylva" (forest), coined in a time before the word portmanteau (which is also a portmanteau) existed
        in conclusion, with the various segments not fully utilized, metroidvania means of a city-like android forest. this is obviously referring to the game nier automata, which predates both hollow knight and metroid dread by several years

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Urban mth.

  2. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    bullet bill is a good name

  3. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I want to lick Samus's sweaty abs.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      I want to suck her ginormous cock

  4. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >bullet bill
    Better video game name than "Super Mario Bros." to be honest.

  5. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    cause Metroid is the bad guy, like Sinistar

  6. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Because it's inspired by a movie named "Alien"

  7. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    bullet bill appears since the third world you stupid retard, he doesn't debut in the last level

  8. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Rank the Ridley fights

    Samus Returns >>> Other M >>>> Super > Fusion > Zero Mission > Prime 1 > Prime 3 > Metroid > Prime 3 intro

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      why is he red in the art but purple in game

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        localization

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          why would they do that

          • 3 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            Make him more striking. JP Ridley kinda blends in the background.

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        he's near dying in all the art, retard

  9. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    The entire reason Samus gets sent to Zebeth is because Mother Brain is going to make Metroids to conquer the universe. They're kind of a big deal.

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    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >make metroids to conquer the universe
      >the universe is mostly space, near absolute zero temperature
      >metroids are only weak to cold
      >a gigantic brain conceived of this plan
      Nintendo are very smart guy

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        A)They get dumped on nice warm conquerable planets
        B)Only the babies are weak to cold, older ones are merely vulnerable to it.

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          >A)They get dumped on nice warm conquerable planets
          How? This would require some kind of transport vessel. The metroids themselves, being a source of energy, are completely made redundant aboard any kind of vessel. A more efficient dissemination plan would have been to make a principal unit that is self-sufficient in both travel and reproduction, considering the vast distances in time and space that are required.
          >B)Only the babies are weak to cold, older ones are merely vulnerable to it.
          This doesn't solve anything. Do you want to conquer the universe or don't you?

  10. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >Why isn't predator named after the guy instead of the thing they fight end
    >Why isn't alien named after the girl instead of the thing they fight at the end
    >Why isn't Terminator named after the girl instead of the thing they fight at the end
    >Why isn't Fire emblem named after the main character instead of the thing they fight over at the end

    Retard.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Well they do solve that fourth one in Engage, since it's both.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Why can't fire emblem crawl?

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Kino

  11. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    why isnt it called frodo baggins

  12. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I love the atmosphere of the original Metroid

    Too bad the actual game is shit

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      learn how to jump, niqua

  13. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    It's named like this because Hollow Knight is better than the whole Metroid franchise btw

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      the difference is dread was an utter mediocrity that got the usual nintendo bonus because fanboys are so starved for metroid they can't recognize when something falls flat of just about everything that makes the series any good

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Hollowknight fucking sucks. It's genuinely worse than every other game in the genre. I would legit rather play castle in the clouds than HK. It might genuinely be the most overrated game on Ganker to date. I can't think of a single reason why it wouldn't be worse than every single Metroid and Castlevania game out there.

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >popular game is bad
        >in fact, it's literally the worst of its type
        you could just say you don't like it next time. going this far makes it sound like you just have absolutely terrible taste or you've played a whopping total of 2 games so your basis for comparison is also nonexistent

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          >popular game is bad
          The same could apply to the bait picture above itself, dumbfuck. The only selling point I see endlessly jacked off is that the game takes more time. Making me re-fight bosses but spongier and spreading out the upgrades thinly as fuck feels like shit when even hentai games pace their games better. What else does the game have? Fruity little bug people with lore I don't give a fuck about? "Difficulty" that ends up about as deep as this?: https://youtu.be/AQZtdXLWHk8?t=536

          >Popular
          Yeah a game so popular that it's only purpose seems to be to shit up other threads and never actually get its own.

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          he's right though. hollow knight is shit

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        hollow knight plays like a cellphone game and runs on any potato so tis an instant 10/10 for most zooms

  14. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Metroid sounds cool retard

  15. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Space Bounty Hunter VS The Reptilian Space Pirates That Are Supposedly Intelligent But Don't Look Intelligent At All

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >Reptilian
      Excuse me?

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