Samus just can't annihilate everything on screen, otherwise there wouldn't be a game to play in the first place?
Uh, yeah, that goes for literally every single game ever, it's not just a Metroid thing, you don't see Link cutting down wooden doors, Mario breaking through walls and pipes, Pokemon cutting down tiny ass trees, and so on because that's not how games work. There's a thing for this, it's called gameplay segregation.
Again, I have something to say about that later.
i mean go ahead, but it better be worth while.
The SA-X needs a Super Missile to destroy that hatch, which is a grey one and is at the lowest security level, and it may even not be active in that moment (it doesn't glow, but that may be a game development problem).
Yes and? The weapon it used wasn't the point, the point was outside of gameplay Samus can easily destroy everything in her way without any issue because we see the SA-X do it all through the game, even when Samus gets the same weapons and becomes stronger then the SA-X, that issue still exists, because gameplay dude. Point is she completely ****** it, the security levels don't change the material the doors are made of dude, it's literally just the existence of it a door is locked or not, that is all the security levels do, it's just clearance and unlocking the doors. And that was one example, there's a multitude of examples in the game, you know how many times you come across the SA-X's trails of destruction? Doors and locks completely blown out, entire ROOMS leveled and destroyed.
The SA-X using Samus' own equipment has destroyed doors, gates, locks, entire gameplay portions that result in the level layout being changed, and you're going to argue that Samus can't actually do that even though we literally see in the same game that she can when unhindered? And that doesn't even just go for the SA-X, the security droid and Nightmare do the same.
It calculates it as if Samus wasn't protected by the spaceship itself, there's a lotta issue with that. Besides, even if it was fine, it should be moved to an on-site blog and properly evaluated.
That may not even be a issue, pretty sure Samus scales to her ship, hell she might even scale
above it depending on which ship and the timeframe.
True, I'll give you that.
Any actual reason it should scale to her other weaponry? It's not like it draws from a magic source, for all we know her freezing tech is way better than anything else.
Pretty sure there is, I'd have to look though (it's not like I have metroid scans or anything saved, not really my main thing on the wiki as you probably know, probably best to ask DDM on that one). And uh, magic source? You'd be surprised as to what exists in Metroid (magic is one such thing). And no, her ice beam is explicitly not anywhere close to her best weapon, Plasma beam is always >>> Ice Beam to give an idea, and even Plasma aint her best, except against Metroids who are weak to cold of any kind. Ice Beam is just considered one step above her basic weapons for the most part.
I mean, they say she won't survive Zebes' harsh environment, I think if the gravity was lethal they'd outright mention that instead. But no, in the very first few pages of the second chapter you can straight-up see her standing outside of any particular places, and without any weird clothing too.
Why would they? They don't mention a lot of things like the acid, windstorms, toxic environment, ridiculous temperature spikes, etc. It's dangerous outside of Crateria and Torian, that's what we're told, and it's not wrong.
Yes, you do see her standing straight up without any protection, but that's still within the chozo domain? (Pretty sure it's the ruins actually). Also see below on your point, they have a huge forcefield that can briefly hold up against a black hole. As long as Samus is within Crateria or Tourian, point remains, nothing is actually questionable here, it'd only bring a issue if she was anywhere else.
You could say that they were already protecting her from it somehow, but don't you think that's a lot of assumptions compared to just saying the Metroid Prime mass is either a mistake or somehow doesn't affect gravity? To me accepting it without further proof feels like accepting a Magnitude 20 earthquake statement.
Not really. We know a few things for certain, Samus couldn't survive outside of the Chozo designated areas for a multitude of varying factors.
We know the chozo are quite capable of creating tech that also negates the effects of harsh gravity and they do it often.
And we also know for a fact that they have a giant forcefield that can withstand black hole tier gravity for some time.
Honestly, the only assumption that needs to be made is that one the few dozen things that Crateria and Tourian is protected against is the gravity, which we know they can and have easily done before and given we know they're protected from all outside forces more or less, why wouldnt gravity be apart of those?
This only works if you're under the notion that Zebes doesnt have high gravity to begin with, but if we're to believe it does, then by default, that place is protected against it as that would just be one of the many things that gets told to **** off within those areas.
And as for it being a mistake, I'll be real with you, I thought that once too, **** ask DDM, pretty sure I brought it up to him a long time ago as well given it does sound kinda ridiculous, but looking at what we're told pointblank.
We're told Zebes is a hyperdense planet (so it being super dense due to the mass is the point and not an oversight, even if it's black hole dense, it doesn't matter, that's the intention).
Zebes has always been given higher gravity in every outside material (not to this extent obviously, but it's clearly intended to have high gravity, Retro just went a overboard, but it being insane doesnt make it wrong).
And as for it being a mistake? That's actually something that's basically confirmed to not be the case, Metroid Prime was gone through two completely different versions, the original Prime and the PAL/Trilogy version had almost the entire game's logs and data entries and lore completely overhauled and redone, yet out of everything, Zebes' stats were untouched, even though 99% of the game was completely rewritten, put simply, it was intentional and they kept it like that on purpose.
Zebes' shield with "the gravitational field of a micro black hole", which easily also overpowers Zebes' gravity, beginning to suck stuff in. Considering Zebes' mass is comparable to actual, non-micro black holes, this makes no sense if we work under the assumption that its gravity is at those levels. It was even said this black hole would swallow the planet.
You're confusing mass with gravity, 960g while tough aint shit compared to an actual black hole the size of a country. Of course a black hole swallow the planet, it could be 10,000g and the black hole would still do that.
These "Kreatz" and "Mauk" guys, whose species didn't evolve on Zebes, can also stand on it just fine in chapter 6. This is before the Chozo even realize they're here, mind you.
And? They aren't exactly human and we know they're superhuman. This isn't an actual point unless we know exactly how strong they are, they'd just scale is all. Chozo didn't evolve on Zebes either, they're just ridiculously superhuman.
Samus is once again on Zebes without protection, before even meeting with the Chozo again, when she confronts Ridley as a kid in Volume 2, Chapter 10, Page 5
But that's literally wrong though? I'm like 99% sure that's Samus' home colony.
