Game mechanic. Same deal with any Nintendo game you play. Mario touches a goomba. He turns small. He runs into a wall. No prob.
Same deal with Link. At the end of the game, the simpliest of enemies drains your hearts.
In game, Samus runs on Energy Tanks. You get so much health reserves that touching any ol' enemy will do something to you just so the bar goes down.
Running into a little alien bug that you faced in the first world with the Light Suit in Echoes, you get hurt. Game mechanic.
IRL, a suit of advanced armor that protects against futuristic missles and lasers would easily protect from a bullet. Hands down. She isn't wearing aluminum here.
You dont know what she is wearing, and even tho in the game it dosent say exactly(or does i duno) you still take damage, and even on the game it (kinda) says she can still take damage from bullets. So yeah, she will eventually be hurt by bullets.
IRL, a beam of highly charged electricity or the beam of a sheering hot plasma or w/e would kill any human. No questions asked. The Wave beam could very well not shoot the way it does in Prime, but it's still a blast of electricity that would severly shock or kill a human.
The lasers/electricity as you know them in Metroid are pretty unrealistic to now-a-days standarts, meaning she cant shoot plasma from her canon, nor shoot a thunder from it. At top, the laser gun would shoot a laser as hot as, i duno, 100/150C top? And even this dosent kill imediatly.
A gun that fires bullets that can't penetrate her space age alien armor. Too add to that, her visor wouldn't be the kind in a motorcycle helmet. It'd be made durable to protect against punishing blows and weapons. Snake would need to get in dangerously close to simply aim right at her visor.
But do bullets pierce a rockets hide to cause it to explode upon contact? Serious question. Does it? Seen it in games and movies, but does that really work IRL?
Yeah, they do, some bullets are actually made just to do that, they have a different "front", which usually varies from bullet to bullet, and varies for what were they made for. I mean, there are even bullets that can pierce diamond, so yeah, some bullets can actually pierce the suit/visor.
And snake dosent need to be close, his weapons have good aim, and he kinda has a sniper rifle, and with the 1337 training he had as a soldier he can easily shoot the visor if he was allowed to aim.
Snake's intelligence barely shown in game. He'd knowledgable about weapons, but he's no rocket scientist. IQ is only the measure of your brains potential, not necessarily knowledge. Someone can have the IQ of 103, but surpase the knowledge of someone else who's got the IQ of 135. It would have been more difficult for the 103 guy, but he can still out think someone who's got a higher IQ. It's to measure someone's potential, not overall knowledge.
A IQ of 180 means that you can think faster and actually find better solutions for situations faster than other people.
And your example is like saying: "Sometimes a weak guy can win a bulky guy, so weak guy > bulky guy". Not really, you cant take exceptions as a rule, so straight forward saying, snake will react/think faster than samus.
In battle, IQ would play a very minimal role, if any. Samus isn't dumb as you make her seem. She stumbles upon situations by surprise. Just like Snake does.
Snake will be making better tactics that can actually surpass the technology issue he has.
ex. MGS3: Snake trusts EVA, but she betrays him in the end. Snake got caught by Volkin with his disguise which lost him his eye as well as being brutally beaten. Snake trusted the Boss, who also betrayed him which landed him into being severly wounded. Snake got caught by Ocelot and was surrounded by soldiers.
Samus has her fair share of problems, but they were all a result of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
With all his experience snake has learned over the time, just look to MSG4, whereas samus even in the most recent games still to the same dumb things(like link breaking a key everytime he uses it
, kudos for reference).
Neither could have controlled what could've gone wrong. Saying Samus' landed herself in dangerous situations out of stupidity is completely bias.
In regards to training, they're both at their best, but Snake was still bested by other highly trained soldiers (the Boss, for instance).
I agree, saying samus is dumb is bias, but the truth is, samus isnt dumb, its snake that is smarter.
CQC would be downright useless in this fight. It won't do anything and would be a foolish manuver in a weapon battle. She has more than enough weapons to keep him away as does Snake, only Samus' will actually kill. Not to mention he has absolutely no approach. He can't get near her. If she was capable of super combat as Zamus, then she'd gonna beat Snake by a landslide in that suit.
With CQC snake can just choke samus and she wont be able to do nothing. He can even remove her helmet if he is given the chance to CQC her. I know samus has good melee, but snake was trained for a long time just on CQC, meaning he should have the adv here.
Long range is Samus with her beam weapons. They destroy guns and she can't be hurt by them.
Samus' rocket is already better by not requiring lengthly set up, like an RPG does. Samus wins there.
Samus has armor. Snake has none.
Beam weapons dont destroy bullets, because actually a temp of even 500C, wont melt the bullets, just explode rockets, so then bullets will tank the laser just fine. Plus, bullets go throught it, you were the one that said it(the bug things).
She has a very limited amount of them, and they explode on bulelt contact, so if she tries to shoot one and its hit by a bullet near her, G_G;
Snake dosent need armor :O.
Another example of how deadly Samus is IRL, even though she fails in Brawl.
GG's
Never GG before the time arrives :D.
