Not talking about violence. Bounty Hunters tend to be of a less friendly variety of people...and I think Nintendo likes to create their characters as more likable.
A lot of people like Bobba Fett. He is one of the more popular minor villains within the franchise, and he is far from friendly or likable... well he's likable, because people tend to like bad asses. Bobba Fett even got his very own video game a few years back.
Samus doesn't need to be friendly because she's supposed to be isolated and on her own behind enemy lines like a female John Rambo. That's one of things which really sucked with the Other M because Samus was no longer alone in this game like she was in the other games. She had these other characters like Higgs and Adam who saved her ass on more than one occassion and gave her emotional support. A hero shouldn't need emotional support. A hero shouldn't break down and cry while on a mission, either.
But that said, a character can be ruthless to his enemies and still be friendly and likable to the good guys. Look at John Rambo and how in third movie he showed a softer side to that little Afghan kid, and even gave him his good luck pendant at the end. Samus could be something like that. She could mercilessly slaughter space pirates, and then at the end of the day give some little kid who looks up to her a trinket.
Meh. I'm kinda done with cover shooters, after playing all three Uncharted games and Vanquish. Cover systems get pretty boring after a couple of hours.
I agree. I absolutely hate cover systems. I would like to see Metroid be in third person, but leave out the cover system crap. Mario and Zelda are 3rd person yet they don't have a cover system, so why ruin Metroid with that rubbish?
My beef with cover systems is you have to figure out whatever button it takes to snap into cover and then use another button to snap out of it. I fucking hate that and especially when you are getting blasted at and you are pressured to figure it out.
Instead of using cover Samus should just evade the enemy attacks by running and jumping around. That's how its always been and that's how it always should be. Please don't **** that formula up by introducing a cumbersome cover system.