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• Announcements
  

  Announcements regarding our community

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  Hey everyone! I wanted to create a thread to keep everyone posted on where I am at with sending out the donation prizes. I've been super busy catching up with work / family / life after the marathon, so I haven't had a chance to start mailing anything out yet - but I will be doing so shortly. After writing this post I'm off to acquire tubes for the posters (something I tried to do yesterday, but all three post offices near me were out of them). Anyway, here are the recipients of the prizes and the corresponding status, which I will be keeping up to date:

  @Nostradankus

  Custom Gameboy Advance (still in production - shell is currently off getting laser engravings) (ETA TBD) Art poster; Samus in Varia Suit w/o helmet by Ivan Flores (ETA shipping in 1 - 3 days) Metroid Sticker (ETA shipping in 1 - 3 days) MHQ Keychain (ETA ~ 2 weeks)

  BlazingGreyFox

  Art poster; Samus in Varia w/o helmet by unknown artist (ETA shipping in 1 - 3 days) Art poster; Zero Suit Samus by Ivan Flores (ETA shipping in 1 - 3 days) Metroid Sticker (ETA shipping in 1 - 3 days) MHQ Keychain (ETA ~ 2 weeks)

  JJtheGamerGuy

  Metroid Sticker (ETA shipping in 1 - 3 days) MHQ Keychain (ETA ~ 2 weeks) A special prize for being our first donor of MHQThon2017 (ETA ~2 weeks, probably ship w/ keychain)

  More winners and subsequent info coming shortly, going to try and take care of these top three this morning.
  Please let me know if you think there are any errors here and I'll be sure to correct them!

• General Discussion
  

  A place to talk about whatever you want

  General Discussion General Metroid Discussion Art & Media Game Creation

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  So everyone knows that the Alien movies have been major inspirations for the Metroid series. We know that there are several elements that are similar between the 2 franchises and even Alien Resurrection was echoed to an extent in Metroid Fusion. However, I noticed something....

  I started noticing some things in comment between Metroid Prime Trilogy and the 2 latest entries into the Alien franchise. I'm not saying Ridley Scott or others involved in the franchise took any inspiration from Metroid Prime Trilogy, but I'm noticing some very coincidental similarities. Here's a list of some elements I found interesting. Warning heavy spoilers ahead.

  "Black Goo" = Phazon: Both are bio-mutagens that seem to be capable of both pushing new levels of evolution and causing death. Both agents cause rapid growth/development/mutation in the living organisms they come in contact with. Both are biological in nature. Both are used to wipe out life on other planets and "infect" them.

  Chozo = Engineers: Both the Engineers and the Chozo are responsible for creating alien life forms either directly (in the case of the Chozo) or indirectly (in the case of the Engineers). You could take this a step further in saying that the Chozo created Metroids and the Engineers created humanity.

  Dark Samus = David: Both of these 2 become major elements of their respective stories. Dark Samus desires power through phazon and later she is pushing the development of the Space Pirates through phazon experimentation and harvesting. In much the same way David desires to be a god of sorts. He sees fit to destroy life and further the evolution of the xenomorphs with his black goo experiments. In much the same way they both desire to spread phazon and the black goo and the resulting life forms respectively. It becomes an overwhelming desire for both beings.

  So curious what does everyone think? I'm sure Ridley Scott and others know that Alien as a franchise has inspired Metroid, do you think Metroid has also inspired the Alien franchise? Let me know.

• Metroid Games
  

  Talk about your favorite Metroid games here

  Metroid Metroid II: Return of Samus Super Metroid Metroid Fusion Metroid Prime Metroid: Zero Mission Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Metroid Prime Pinball Metroid Prime: Hunters Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Metroid: Other M Metroid Prime: Federation Force Metroid: Samus Returns Metroid Prime 4 Metroid Fan Games

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  What are you guys doubting about Samus Returns on the final day? For me, the game not living up to my hype.

• Comments & Feedback
  

  Got a question? Ask away!

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  Hey everyone. Since MHQ is a work in progress, I figured this topic would be a great place for anyone with feature requests to post them. I'll probably clean up this topic intro post and list off things we are / are not doing. Fire away!

  Note: Please report any issues in the "Bugs" thread.