What direction should/will the Metroid franchise take?

[Mr Khan]

Khuutra said:

mortono said:

I would like the next game to not have Samus as the hero. I would, in fact, find it interesting if the next game portrayed her as the villain, or perhaps the damsel in distress. I would want the main character to remain nameless and faceless until the end of the game, just like the original Metroid. The unveiling could be something surprising.

I came in here ready to hash it out with the usual suspects (Mr Kahn, Aiddon, et al), but this

This

This is far beyond what I had been expecting. Samus as a damsel in distress? How do you justify this? Why not just have Samus never come out of the suit?

I'm a usual suspect now? I thought our opinions were mostly in line about what was best for the franchise (or have you changed your mind and become one of those "just give it back to Retro!" people?): keep Sakamoto on a tighter leash or at least get him a writer, keep the general playstyle of Other M (plus or minus a few of the finer points), and move forward from there.

Our disagreement was largely over Samus' portrayal in Other M, the difference being that Other M Samus was (sans the pre-Ridley freeze-up) largely how i pictured Samus to be anyway, so it was far less jarring to be introduced to this character

Mortono's actually hanging out on the Demotruk/Soleron end of the spectrum with his opinion, saying that the character of Samus is getting in the way of Metroid, so just make her into a damsel in distress completely (given that they already did in Other M according to people on that side of the argument), introduce somebody else, and make it about the gameplay again.