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What is this franchise about?
Can anyone recommend a good analysis?
I have tried a few but games are pretty intellectually stunted. I have a hunch that Simulation and Simulacra (and maybe Society of the Spectacle in some ways) was some kind of inspiration especially in MGS2 on the themes about truth and perception, but i have never seen anything related making this connection (having said that modern google and DDG are stunted in depth as search engines. google-fu is dead)
In MGSV how much of the game was real and how much of it was perceived? Was it essentially a subtler reenactment of MGS2 in which you are nothing but a weapon directed by others?
Is MGSV What happens to then Venom Snake a foreshadowing of what happens to him as Grey Fox later in his life and the inevitable complete breakdown through loss of who he is, every identity implanted in him to make him nothing but the perfect soldier.
Did Huey really do all of those things, but most specifically, the betrayals of diamond dogs intentionally or were we presented information in a way that created his guilt? He was after all the only person questioning you were not the man everybody is reinforcing you to be, that would be reason enough for him to need to be gone, he directly states that you are not the snake he new and the nature of truth on mother base multiple times, humorously with the dog that is clearly a wolf. Also the same kind of anger in the soldiers is fomented against Quiet in the act before, which is shown as to be based in irrationality and in-group/outsider dynamics. Is what happens to Huey a copy of that?
1984 is heavily referenced in MGSV, in any analogy that can be made who is roughly analogous to who when it comes to characters?

These are just things worth exploring, I don't holds strongly to any of these suppositions. So don't debate-mode come at me plz.




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Every fantasy game their in almost makes these creatures as needlessly posh and obnoxious as possible. Only some elf tribes in wow and tes allow elves to bare any semblance of originality. All the other elves exist as greenskin knock offs like in the Harry Potter series or the Victorian ideal of what British people are supposed to be like.

Elf weapons are always the most disgustingly parsimonious and needlessly elegant tools ever. You can tell the concept authors just had to tell the players “oh yeah, these guys are just so much better than everyone else for using knives and slim bows instead of massive clubs and blades like all the other races.” That garbage comes off as so overly sanitizing that it can feel insulting to all the other cool factions.

Also the thalmor were not persecuted enough.

Kitten Space Agency is a space flight simulator in development meant to be the spiritual successor to Kerbal Space Program. KSP was meant have a sequel but Take-Two Interactive fudged it: KSP 2 is controversially still in early access on steam as its studio is all but shut down.

I have high hopes for KSA as it is being made by experienced developers, notably Dean Hall (creator of DayZ) and his studio RocketWerkz (Stationeer, Icarus) who are creating a custom engine with veteran KSP modders being part of the team.

In an interesting and quite controversial move, they are aiming to make the game free, relying on donations and grants from space agencies, and are refusing to release the game on steam (among other things because steam is pushing gambling on gamers).

Their development process is quite transparent trough their disc0rd and they routinely share their advancements: in vidrel you can see a flyby of mars.

Huh, there’s absolutely no difference between heavily modded Skyrim and the recent assassins creed games….

It's one of the best rhythm games on PC, with great artstyle and music. It's FLOSS so it's blessed by St. iGNUsius and has an amazing modding support as well. What are you waiting for?

I also wanted to recommend the Funkadelix mod which features real vocals and a cool aesthetic but unfortunately it's proprietary. Maybe the devs will release the source code when the full version comes out? At least keep an eye on it. If you have a Twitter acc you can ask the devs directly.

Also recommend other FLOSS rhythm games such as Osu! and Stepmania.

the staircase I am in goes on for 467 blocks deep or almost half a kilometer down. It takes minutes to get to the surface from bedrock level.

It's a shame this series is less popular than CoD. It's both more realistic, more cinematic, more tactical and more immersive. It does a way better job of replicating Saving Private Ryan, CoD is just a glorified shooting gallery. CoD occupies such a weird spot within the FPS genre: it's not arcadey enough to give you a power fantasy but it's not realistic enough to give you immersion. It just ends up trying to sit on both chairs and not doing both realism and power fantasy particularly well.

I support indie developers.
How do I use humble bundle?
How do I use itch . io?
How do I use steam?

How do we cultivate a community of games without advertising?
Everything coming out is monopolized, corporate, bloat, ingame purchase, pay to win, subscription-based, trash.

The game I play the most is not the game I enjoy the most.

All the games I used to enjoy became bloat after the indie developers introduced a bad actor developer insider.

>fighting game
>infinite projectile spam
Why do they do this? I just want to do some combos for God's sake.





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Unlike earth—more specifically Europe—most solid planets feature almost no oceans, shit tons of mountains, uneven terrain, chasms, and dog shit weather that stretches for kilometres and kilometres. Imagine how toxic a no man’s sky mod would be if you had to deal with a guy probably camping on one of mars’ mountains 2km away from you.

The screenshot I took is very much related given that this is what most fights would look like on a good day.