The release of the Metal Gear Master Collection Vol. 2 got me thinking about the future of the franchise, where can the series go from here. MGS4 pretty much wrapped up the series, I’m not sure if there are many more gaps in the lore that you could fill in with a prequel-midquel game. All I’d wanna see at this point is a Virtual Mission Maker so that I can play more Metal Gear-style gameplay without having to worry too much about lore, which would probably end up being like a Metal Gear version of Hitman: World of Assassination, maybe the in-universe justification could be that your playing a random soldier that’s playing through VR simulations based on Snakes. Also another Rising game would be nice.

Hey better ask reddit. My friend and I were having a discussion and this came up. Trying to think of a character from any fiction who comes closest to guts. The best answer we could think of was Revy from Black Lagoon. Not many characters can come close to Gut's level of trauma.

So a little backstory is that I was doing an observation on how some characters in video game RPGs have a tendency to repeat themselves by saying one phrase for some reason.

Some examples are River City Girls and Disgaea 4 as I had started noticing how the main characters of both games will say one line a lot in their games as RCG has the girls constantly asking the main adversaries about their boyfriends.

Then with Disgaea 4, I found it interesting how Valvatorez has a tendency to repeat the words “sardines” and “promises” as he has a strange tendency to repeat those two phrases throughout the game as I don’t know why he has to be so obsessed with doing such a trait.

(i voted nyafia on top, who doesn't love a cat with a double-barrelled shotgun)

Ultron be moving like it's Bomb Rush Cyberfunk over here.

No BS this time

I just wanna hear about your weirdo interest for no reason.

Mine is Lost Kingdoms 2.

I love that game. Its like a 4/10 kinda game. But its the one that I like the most, because I feel like it.

Lara Croft’s adventures in Amazon MGM Studios‘ new Tomb Raider series proved too much for UK safety authorities.

Britain’s Health and Safety Executive, better known as HSE, concluded that the high-profile drama breached UK safety laws during production at Shinfield Studios earlier this year, according to a previously unreported ruling.

Deadline can reveal that Project Temple Productions Ltd, the special purpose vehicle through which Sophie Turner‘s Tomb Raider series is being produced, breached the Health and Safety At Work Act 1974 and Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002.

HSE determined that Project Temple Productions Ltd failed to ensure that crew members underwent “biological monitoring” to ensure adequate control measures were in place for the spraying of isocyanate paints, one of the leading causes of asthma in the workplace.

HSE guidance states that appropriate personal protective equipment should be worn when spraying isocyanate paints, and that an “invisible mist” emitted by the substance can take up to 20 minutes to clear. An employer must know the clearance time for the space in which spraying is taking place.

HSE issued Project Temple with an “improvement notice” in April, meaning the company had to take action to remedy a breach of health and safety law. Within a month, Project Temple had complied with the relevant regulations, according to a notice page on HSE’s website.

It is rare for HSE to issue notices against TV shoots, with just four productions being called out by the health and safety watchdog over the past four years. Tomb Raider was the highest-profile of these productions.

Something I have a particular fondness for are the kind of games that people enjoy playing for their questionable design aspects as the game is clunky, but makes for good snark bait value for let’s players.

Like one of my favorite games I was just recalling were the ones by MDickie as his games are hilariously bad in artwork and gameplay design that a skilled let’s player could have a field day finding comedic value in his games.

Recently as part of a stopping and starting process of fixing my youtube rotted attention span, I've made the decision to try and read one book a month, finish one game a month, and watch one new movie or show a month just to start. However, what inspired this post was another post here that turned into a brief discussion about people who only watch one type of medium (Cartoons was the given example.) And another comment thread which made an interesting observation about how movies, books, and shows make for better 'water cooler' conversation with coworkers and strangers than video games.

Now, sticking to a specific medium isn't necessarily indicative of a lacking media diet. There are horror cartoons, comedy books, romantic video games-genres can carry across mediums after all. But there is I think, a general feeling that sticking to a particular medium can make things too narrow.

So today, I'd like to ask-what is your personal media diet like, do you consider it important to keep it balanced. And most importantly, what does a 'balanced' media diet look like to you? What does an unbalanced media diet look like? I'm really curious to hear some answers on this one.

As the title states, what're some cases where, in some alternate timeline, an old piece of media was made today, and how'd you think it'd be received?

A lot of older, foundational manga and iconic moments within would be probably get a different reception in the modern day. For example, in Dragon Ball, both Staff Sergeant Black and Master Roshi would be an even worse look. But I can also see people screaming "RETCON!" and swearing off the manga at the reveal of Goku being a Saiyan. Likewise, readers would be so fucking confused at the turn from game of the week horror shenanigans to Duel Monsters in Yu-Gi-Oh. Finally, the concept of JoJo switching out protagonists at the end of each part and the introduction of Stands would also probably throw a lot of people for a loop.

How come the most recent two podcasts on Spotify don't have the video with them? Did I miss something? Thanks in advance ☺️

I’m a big fan of non-standard or uncommon names or versions of classes in RPGs. Like how Miitopia doesn’t have a Paladin class, it has a Chef class that fills the role of tank-that-can-heal. Hell, it even has a smite-like attack.

Just “Mage” is boring, but “Warlock” implies some form of dark and/or forbidden magic, which is much more interesting.

What are other alternate names/versions of RPG classes you’ve seen?

The similarities with Mark of the Ninja make sense now, they've got the lead dev (Nels Anderson) in as a consultant.