If V for Voltron and The Last Joker taught us anything, it's that over-analyzing and over-theorizing things is always a smart use of time that isn't a sure fire guarantee of building expectations that could never realistically be met what?
Anyway, not to sound like Mister Braggy Pants Esquire the fourth, but I think I have Kojima pegged. So here's how I think Dead Steaks is gonna play out:
It's like 2097. Earth has been overrun by zombie space alien men all connected to villain man, played by Maddy Mads. Oscar Winning Fish Fucking Movie Man is a diplomat on earth, and he's trying to keep his baby away from Maddy Mads, because it's the most important baby.
Normal Reedus is a space man and he's trying to find out where Maddy Mads came from and how to stop him and his army of skeleton people and intestine tanks. But somewhere along the way, Normal Reedus gets ambushed by Maddy Mads and gets paired up with a Norman Feetus. So Normal Reedus and Norman Feetus have to fight their way across a strange ass parallel earth covered in crabs and space things. Normal Reedus will occasionally spout pseudo-philosophical trite about how Maddy Mads Hannibal and his kind will be the end of the world and that somehow, it's our fault.
Along the way, he meets Troy Baker Man and Naked Lady Man from MGSV for Vroom. They exposit how Maddy Mads and his army of evil alien ghost baby monsters are like death incarnate and that they want to spread death and ghost babies everywhere. And only Normal Reedus and Norman Feetus can stop him. And in a truly surreal sci-fi horror stealth action setting, Normal Reedus will combat these vicious threats in the most ground breaking way possible; by shooting the shit out of Maddy Mads and his evil skeleton men and eviler ghost babies. But because Kojima constantly referred to ropes and stick, Normal Reedus will occasionally mix things up by tying Norman Feetus to a rope and smacking him into Maddy Mads' army. And also he will find stick and hit Maddy Mads with it once.
Eventually this will culminate into a final showdown between Normal Reedus and Maddy Mads which ends before the fight can even begin because Kojima still isn't convinced we felt enough phantom pain killing Skullster without a boss fight. Instead, Maddy Mads will be crushed by a whale just before his boss fight, and it will be revealed that Oscar Winner Fish Movie Man is the true main villain, and you will fight his evil boss baby who pilots a giant alien Metal Gear Man. But after you throw Norman Feetus at it enough times, it explodes and kills the boss baby, leaving only Normal Reedus and the Shape of Fish Men Man, who is crushed by the boss baby's alien Metal Gear Man because feeling empty is more important than having fun.
But after all the bad guys are dead, it will be revealed that earth already died with everyone in it, and that Normal Reedus was in purgatory all along, and that all the ghost babies were actually aborted fetuses that never got the chance to grow up into bright young and sticky disappointments. It will end on a black screen and an out of context quote saying how there are twelve million abortions each year and that it's somehow killing whales, then Donna Burke or the ghost of a David Bowie cover band will sing and the game will be over.
PythonSelkin will make way too many videos claiming Dead Standing is a prequel to Metal Gear Solid Hills.
YongYea will somehow twist that the entire game is a big middle finger to Konami and conclude his review by saying, "I give Deaf Stealing a FucKonami out of 10."
It will be revealed that you can unlock super boss baby in Loot Boxes, and YongYea will finally be broken. Until he finds a way to twist how the Loot Box Babies are actually a brilliant metaphor that only a brilliant mind like Kojima could come up with and not the hack-frauds over at hastagfuckonami. Especially their evening janitor.
Hastagfuckthatguyinparticular.
And that will be Death Streaming.
It will receive universal acclaim from all critics. It will have a lot of clunky dialogue and way too much exposition and yet everyone will call it a masterpiece of writing that makes you truly emotional about the ghost babies.
That or Normal Reedus just spends thirty six hours bumming around in a semi-multiplayer open world, completely naked and throwing boss babies at aliens and other players.
But either way?
You will finally be ashamed of your words and deeds, Internets.
Hi everyone, /r/TheWalkingDead apparently didn't want these, but maybe you'd like to see them?
I had the pleasure of doing some media coverage of the Walker Stalker Germany 2018 convention in Mannheim Germany on March 17-18.
Norman Reedus and Jeffrey Dean Morgan did a panel on Sunday.
Other attending celebrities were Chandler Riggs, Sarah Wayne Callies, Tom Payne, Austin Amelio, Khary Payton, Alanna Masterson, Ross Marquand, Steven Ogg, Christian Serratos, Katelyn Nacon, Pollyanna McIntosh, Michael Traynor and the Sons of Anarchy actors Ron Perlman, Ryan Hurst and Tommy Flanagan.
You can find our photos from the event at https://www.starbesuch.de/2018/03/18/walker-stalker-con-bilder-vom-sonntag/ (Sunday, including Norman Reedus / JDM panel) https://www.starbesuch.de/2018/03/17/walker-stalker-con-erste-bilder-vom-samstag/ (Saturday - no Norman Reedus photos, sorry.)
There’s no official confirmation —
And there honestly hasn’t ever been, for any of its appearances (a tease here, a ‘Kojima will reportedly attend’ or ‘Decima engine showcase confirmed’ there) except if you consider heavy implication and previous patterns as proof:
Geoff Keighley and Kojima preparing for something at a ‘secret meeting’ they live streamed on Instagram...
...preceded and followed by a series of hang-outs/performance capture sessions with Norman Reedus...
...also Geoff hosts E3 Coliseum, an exhibition event that is open to the public. This could suggest an interview and an announcement.
Geoff is also a mainstay at E3 — he hosts his own interview series, ‘YouTube Live At E3 every year...
...besides that, we have a shaky-but-more-likely-to-be-true-than-not ‘on and off’ theory;
Death Stranding was announced at E3 2016
(And had a second trailer the same year at The Game Awards 2016 in December),
which falls under the category of ‘Significant E3 appearance’ (‘On’).
Then E3 2017 came around and, no-show. (‘Off’),
E3 2018, both as a PR thing (to avoid the ‘Why is Kojima avoiding E3?’ Headlines), seems likely for an ‘On’ appearance based on this.
And besides this, we have this tease:
78 days and counting...
Please comment with any others along with an article/video/image link and I’ll add them above :)
I love Smash Bros as much as the next guy, but if the new game being made for the Nintendo Switch doesn’t include EVERY SINGLE ONE of these characters, then it is 100% going to be trash. Obviously, I’ll still buy a Switch so I can play it and find out. I actually own the Switch already but I’ll buy one that’s just for Smash Bros.
Anyway, here’s the list:
Goku The Cast Of The Jersey Shore Buster Bunny from Tiny Toons A Pokémon Snap Station All Sonic OC Characters Goku The Elusive Bigfoot Claire Danes circa My So Called Life Alex Jones Eggplant Emoji Steve Jobs Played By Ashton Kutcher That alien robot Dr Wiley turns into Berenstein Bears (alt skin for Berenstain Bears) For some reason, a car Young Jerry Seinfeld Metta World Peace Knight Ray Man Billy Mays The Mighty Sarlacc (playable character AND stage) Waluigi (circumcised skin) Arsenio Hall Harambe God Goku The End of Racism (we apologise in advance that this character cannot be selected) Good Eats era & Cutthroat Kitchen era Alton Brown Zelda from Pet Cemetery Goku Erectile Dysfunction Luigi Sonic Chad Muska from Tony Hawks Underground 1 Dave Grohl Goku Mads Mikkelsen and Hideo Kojima M’Baku Samurai Jack Error from Legend of Zelda: Adventure of Link None of the Joestars The Crying Indian From Those Recycling Ads Bugs Bunny Dressed as a Girl Bunny Geriatric Luigi FDR in a mech suit Goku Former Daily Show Host Craig Kilborn Unlockable Character Silhouette That glitch where you can see Samus naked if you shock her with pikachu and pause at the exact right time Horny Single Women In Your Area Looking To Fuck The Letter H Goku CNN’s Wolf Blitzer A human centipede Link with a Gun Anthony Scaramucci That Same Homeless Guy You Always See On Your Commute To Work Walter White The Illuminati Goku Jar Jar Binks Drake’s father Honey Smacks mascot Hurricane Katrina Noam Chomsky He Hate Me Solid Snake Jessica Rabbit Sheeva with four tits Reunited R.E.M. Senator Armstrong in a Red Baseball Cap Barack Obama Mrs. Game and Watch The Person You Lost Your Virginity To The nice guy at the deli who knows what you want before you order it which really helps to make your neighborhood feel like a community Noctis Lucis Caelum The Main Soldier and the Main Creature from Small Soldiers Halo The Italian BMT now $5 at Subway Both of the Moms from Fresh Prince Busty flower from conker’s bad fur day Goku Kenan Thompson Final smash: NUNCHUCKS Hitler, but Like, Not in an Offensive Way Ty Pennington for Guaranteed Rates Old AIM Account G-String Samus The Cast of The Breakfast Club That One Gringotts Goblin That Borders On Anti-Semitism Left paddle from pong Mario But With Pancake Nipples Unsold DVDs of the movie Pixels The physical manifestation of the three-fifths compromise Joe Valentino From Great Neck Nissan Mike Ditka Eddie Murphy Eric Garland (final smash: Game Theory) Pinky and the brain Vectorman Steve Buscemi Jean Claude Van Damme’s Character From Bloodsport Vice Reporter Bob from Reboot Wario without a skeleton The 1989 New York Knicks Zelda (the boy) The White Guy In The Roots Bananaman Vacation Jason Some Minor Character From Final Fantasy That Everyone Fuckin Loves For No Reason Ethical Consumption Under Capitalism The Boss Baby The Paperclip From MS Word Yung Linc The General from those insurance commercials The Baby Dinosaur From the Show Dinosaurs Bob Ross’ 2″ Blender Brush Goku Master hand’s wacky cousin crazy foot A Child Soldier (sad, right?) The hand coming out of the toilet that needs toilet paper in Majoras Mask might as well include van hammersly while we’re at it The “do not blow” warning on the cartridge Fleeting Happiness Goku Tetris Blocks Afroman Fox Angry Sun from World 2 Desert in Super Mario Bros. 3 A fidget spinner A Five String Fretless Bass Ben Carson during REM sleep Stephen King When He Was Addicted To Cocaine Ridley GAME GENIE The entire polyphonic spree Arwing That Just Keeps Doing A Barrel Roll Rick & Morty From Rick & Morty Whatever is Making That Weird Noise When You Hold Z as You Start Up Your Gamecube A random baby Lou Albano Mario The housekeeper that always has to vacuum right in front of the TV while we’re playing Kevin Smith in an ill fitting batman suit Spock Cooking Dada (alt costume for Cooking Mama) Dad’s character stuck in a corner Sean Penn The Front Bottoms Megan Fox’s Thumbs Ruth Bader Ginsberg The biggest, blackest dick Seth McFarlane (skin for Todd McFarlane) Robert Mueller No Items Lootbox Splatoon A Guy On a Segway Brian Deegan Broodals Dune Sandworm (assist trophy) Serpico Only one ice climber Yoshi Andross’s Brain Goku Mary Sue Dan Harmon Arthur from the movie Arthur starring Dudley Moore Pontius Pilate Norm Abram of The New Yankee Workshop Marc Maron (his moves are all just talking at you before you get a chance to do anything) Clippy Alt: Mario’s Mushroom Dealer Kirk Van Houten’s representation of Dignity Biker Mice From Mars A Dusty Rock Band Drum Set Goth from the Goth Rave Video Wakko from Final Fantasy X Phil Spencer in a blazer Steven Tyler circa Permanent Vacation Dr. McStuffins My Uncle Who Works For Nintendo Lorne Michaels Wiimote Anne Coulter’s Conscience Maynard James Keenan Friend’s N64 controller that’s sticky and you’re not sure why Potsy from Happy Days Jon Bon Jovi Florida Man Detective Pikachu With Danny Devito’s Voice Not Goku Dennis from It’s Always Sunny Sakurai Christopher Plummer Tim The Toolman Taylor Sex Fox (Robin Hood but we just call him sex fox) John Waters Bob the Tomato Bayonetta, but it’s a person covered in bayonettes The Kenyan Gundam from G Gundam Berenstain Bears Nick Rutherford from Good Neighbor Stuff a.k.a. the one who didn’t get on SNL Jared Before The Weight Loss But After The Pedophilia Stalin in a Mario Outfit Archivist Toadette Invisible John Cena MechaSheeva 7/8 Nurse Joys Goku Some fine people on both sides Louis Farrakhan The /r/gaming Reddit Mod A Cease and Desist Order From The Makers Of Tekken A Monster from an Alesana or Bring Me the Horizon or whatever Shirt A Baseball Player from the Baseball Episode of Samurai Champloo Goku The Justice League Snyder Cut Kevin Nealon Katt, the hot girl fox from Starfox 64 The Cast of Hamilton IT The Prophet Muhammad The Avatar of Empty Nostalgia The Realization That Your Parents Have Had Sex Before and They Could Be Doing It Right Now RL Stine Dan Hibiki Nude Waluigi Wearing Only Sunglasses The Noid Emma Goldman in a mech suit The Song “Accidental Racist” Kramer Bubsy John Madden Lawrence Krauss Terry Gross S-tier Pichu Dana/Zuul That fuckable rabbit from Space Jam Eater X Paul Blart Sora Modern Metallica 2 Suit Samus Henry Rollins from the Def Jam video game Goku The Cast Of Pawn Stars Goku Bowser and Peach’s Horrific Love Child Pepsiman Temba, his arms wide A refurbished Wii U Young Sheldon Blue from blues clues The Ever-Changing Concept of American Whiteness Goku Action Bronson Scorpius from Farscape Masturbating Louis CK Todd Mcfarlane George Lucas Manic Charlie Sheen A BOSS Metal Zone Ice climbers fused with pichu Spike from Cowboy Bebop Every Wu-Tang Clan Member Except U-God Due Process American Badass Undertaker Agumon Reba as Colonel Sanders Master Chief Mario Lopez Fat Bam Margera Parker from Gold Rush Alaska Helen from HR Goku Executive Producer Dick Wolf Carey Elwes ‘The Claw’ from Liar Liar the Jim Carrey Movie Paul Ryan’s Spine Goomba Who Has Been Training All His Life To Avenge His Squished Parents Drunk Tony Stark Elliott Ness Scott Ian Michael Vick Farm Raised Pikachu HR Giger Porgs Dante and Randall Goku The Last Samurai The FBI Goku Flavor Flav’s Clock The Pod Save America Crew The Italian Aliens from Star Wars The Last Jedi Tom Holland Spider-Man Goku Abobo Jill Stein Vince McMahon An Inanimate, Empty Tanooki Suit John Carpenter Waluigi’s Foreskin Death Grips Wakka Mansplainer Mario on Wrong Kind of Mushrooms Chicago Police Officer’s Mustache Michael Jordan The Dude Who Milks The Cow in the 1 2 Switch commercial My Waifu Loot Boxes the personification of your uncle’s racist anti-Obama rant Time’s Person of The Year: You Mario, But After He Divorces Princess Peach And Gains 30 Pounds Common Naked Raiden from MGS Ernest P Worrell Young Shia LeBeouf Missingno Violent J Lionel Hutz Biggie Ghost Pepper Hot Wings King Eeeeee Paul Rudd in that Nintendo commercial Ayatollah Khomeini Garfunkle Goku Billy Mitchell The Beastie Boys Anita Sarkeesian Edd, but not Ed or Eddy The pinching your face guy from Kids In The Hall Nintendog the Bounty Hunter Goku Dave, but his mom grounded him from video games for a month Cooking Mama Shia LeBoef Leisure Suit Larry Goku Steven Hard Tim Fred Durst with red hat! The Broken iPod I’m Too Nostalgic To Get Rid Of Seasonal Affective Disorder The Demiurge Tupac Hologram Metal King Dedede Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Odysseus Fabio when a bird died on his face Watto and Jar Jar (Plays Like The Ice Climbers) Crying Jimmy Kimmel The Nasonex Bee Racist Black Caricatures That Japanese People Don’t Realize are Super Offensive Dinkie Dino (Mom bought instead of Tamagotchi) Silk Button-Up Shirt Of Anime Character Goku Barron Trump Goku PUP Goku The old racist Jynx Tomi Lahren Member Berries Beat Takeshi Nude code Lara Croft A Rabid Nintendog 90s Kid Jew Cappy Slender Man (Obese Version) Gordon Ramsey Mikey Erg Kylo Ren including nipples WrestleMania 2000 Steve Blackman Tuxedo Mask Boner from Growing Pains Gallagher (King Dedede alternate costume) The Teacher You Accidentally Called Mom in Third Grade Bob Villa Quentin Tarantino’s Character ‘Jimmy’ from Pump Fiction Hallucinogen Dealer Who Hangs out at the Same Coffee Shop as All Your Town’s Teens Bob Hoskins Samus Only 90s Kids Malcolm Gladwell (unlocked after 10,000 hours of gameplay) Literally every Pokemon ever Trump’s twitter password The Duplass Brothers Any Of The Well-Received Minority Superheroes Released By Marvel Pregnant Luigi The Coach from Punchout Kirby But With Asthma The 3rd, 7th, and 10th Doctor Who Darth Insanius Animal Crossing’s Serial Public Masturbator Mac Tonight Tommy Wiseau Yoshi Getting Punched in the Head by Mario Slavoj Žižek Mel Gibson before all that Darth Icky Lando Calrissian Charles Nelson Riley Dr. Zaius Hard Times Managing Editor Bill Conway Del Close Raspberry Pi Emulator Running SNES Games Bowser’s Contractor Jonah Ryan Pizza Rat Cake Boss Breath of the Wild Link Chris Gaines The whole team from Major League 2 Wawaluigi Doom Guy A bucket of human teeth Red Blood Falcon Wilson from Castaway Checkered Vans from Middle School Tobias Funke Tim Armstrong Embarrassing Walk-to-Work Sweat The Property Brothers Ms. Carpal tunnel Jeff Rosenstock Goku Laughing Alexa Rain Man A Large, Silent, Orange Goku Mew One-and-a-Half Jenny Lewis reprising her role from The Wizard Crazy Hand Anthony “Sully” Sullivan North Korea (new stage) All the girls from Mambo #5 Stanley Ipkiss John Legiuzamo’s Character from “The Pest” A room temperature glass of tap water Pac-Man but as a Mii Mark Zuckerberg The kid banished to Hell at the end of the Crossfire commercial Glenn Danzig Collin Kaepernick Kneeling for the National Anthem A Stale End Piece of Bread That No One Wants to Eat Mario’s mustache Mario in that green boot from Mario 3 Ike Eisenhower King Bob-omb Emotional labor Max Headroom Goku Dwight Schrute Mario Toad’s Hat and You Can’t Convince Me Otherwise OB/GYN Mario Dale Gribble with Pocket Sand Birdo The Creeping Realisation That Your Parents Will Eventually Die Elon Musk Madcatz Controller An AR-15 assault rifle Pickle Rick Shitty Roommate Mr Game and Watch Oddjob Goku Corpse of Billy Mays Shigeru Miyamotos Niece The Corpse Of Glass Joe [Ice Climbers confirmed NOT in Smash 5] CATS From All Your Base Are Belong To Us! LOL, Remember That?! Unconditional Love A horse Donkey Lips From Salute Your Shorts Goku Pablo Sanchez Goku Tails Wayne Brady Union Scab Captain Falcon The turtle from Zelda but with Mitch McConnel’s head The Next Cloverfield Movie Middle Schooler in a Naruto Sand Village Headband Swedish Chef Tupac The Receipt You Never Found to Return That N64DD Acid Reflux Ganondorf but like similar to the way he is in the fucking Zelda series Seven Fire Emblem Reskins “Slow Hand” Eric Clapton Sonic OC Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray Entire Lineup of LA Kings From NHL ’95 For The Sega Genesis A Guy With Three Hands Holding an N64 Controller The Next Porn Star Who Tries To Become A Mainstream Actress George Soros Jazz Hand Gratuitous Girl In A Thong My Dad Spumpy Musical Guest Janelle Monae Brian Michael Bendis Arthur from the cartoon Arthur Those Creatures That Look Like Dicks You Made In Spore Hypothermic Ice Climbers A Virtual Boy Shovel Knight Mama Luigi Fi Flex Armstrong Toon Snake Crystal Clear Pepsi June 1998 Copy of Nintendo Power Uwe boll looking for a new movie idea NRA Spokeswoman Dana Loesch Wii Fit Slacker Larry the Cucumber Calvin Peeing on SEGA The band Save Ferris Fine, Sub-Zero, Stop E-mailing Us Dwayne Hector Elizando Mountain Dew Camacho Zergling Rupert Murdoch A NYPD Officer who nods at you when he sees your Cro Mags shirt Garth Brooks & Chris Gaines Internet Communist Captain Clickbait Fortnite Lucina (Marth skin) Jared Leto’s Joker Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration All the sexy hedgehog drawings from Deviant Art EA’s Integrity Dr Cube from Kaiju Big Battel Bobby Flay Michael Cera as Player X (alt skin: Tobey Maguire) The Underwear Model From A Kohl’s Ad That Guy At Your Local Restaurant That Says “The Usual?” When You Come In The Dam Level From Ninja Turtles Pregnant DeviantArt Sonic Mecha King Ghidorah X-Man Raekwon the Master Chef Jr. A misunderstood nazi Samuel L. Jackson Screaming Sonichu Jake Lloyd (young anakin skywalker) Rash from Battletoads K̶e̶v̶i̶n̶ ̶S̶p̶a̶c̶e̶y̶ Christopher Plummer again Mom’s Spaghetti George W Bush from “Bush Shootout” (George W Bush skin) Method Man The Crash Bandicoot suit guy from the Pizza Hut commercials The ghost of Roger Ebert, who still insists video games aren’t art Norman Reedus Puff Daddy Goku Vegan Bowser That Kid That Pac Man and Ms. Pac Man Make After They Fuck Each Other Green Boots (Dead Body On Everest) The old man from Zelda Waluigi Bizmarckie Blink-182 Era Matt Skiba Logan Paul Rocky Balboa The Pixelated Penis In Japanese Porn Uganda knuckles Dr. Robotnik (replacing Dr. Mario) Joey from Joey’s World Tour Ernest from the Ernest movies The Racist Guy In the Movie “42” The Poems from doki doki Buzz Lightyear Drunken Step-Father Alt-Right Wario That Orca Character From Street Sharks The 1972 New York Yankees Ted Cruz With That Gun That Cooked Bacon The Merchant from Resident Evil 4 Fat Suit Weird Al Goku Saibamen Divorced Ice Climbers Cap’n Crunch My Older Brother Who Will Totally Kick Your Ass! Ziggy from The Wire Koji Kondo The all new 2019 Jeep Grand Cherokee Misfits-Era Glenn Danzig Nizoral anti-dandruff fungus targeting shampoo Stan from Eminem’s “Stan” The Pizza Delivery Guy Who Doesn’t Judge Mike Myers and Kanye West 501st Legion Clone Trooper Nerfed Pichu Midlife Crisis Mario The Verizon commercial guy who now works for Sprint or something Kung Lao but with Cappy Felix Biederman from Chapo Trap House The C Stick Mayor McCheese Ol’ Dirty Bastard (as Big Baby Jesus) Ajit Pai Chad Kroeger (his super smash summons Scott Stapp) Alan Thompson Jr. from the Whole Foods Front Register in White Plains, New York A Catcalling Construction Worker Lizard Person (skin for Barack Obama) Black Panther and if you don’t pick him we’re telling everyone you didn’t like Black Panther Jack Black Aunt Beru That one guy who still talks about gamergate Solid Snake’s Cardboard Box with a Labo Logo Bob Hoskins Mario Polybius Arcade Cabinet Nora Roberts Shrek Duke Nukem Arthur from the movie Arthur starring Russell Brand Gandhi Bill Maher Just Alternating Between Saying “Invisible Man In The Sky” and “The N-Word” FBI Agent Michael Scarn Tony Soprano An original press Project X Straight Edge Revenge Siri Navi Illegitimate Bowser Jr. Nintendog Freddy Krueger but when he’s the giant snake thing in Dream Warriors Henry Winkler Master Chef Palette-swapped Clones of All of the Above 75 Interchangeable Fire Emblem Characters King K Rool Lanky Kong The 7 Up Dot Joe Camel Punxatony Phil
I love Smash Bros as much as the next guy, but if the new game being made for the Nintendo Switch doesn’t include EVERY SINGLE ONE of these characters, then it is 100% going to be trash. Obviously, I’ll still buy a Switch so I can play it and find out. I actually own the Switch already but I’ll buy one that’s just for Smash Bros.
Anyway, here’s the list:
Goku The Cast Of The Jersey Shore Buster Bunny from Tiny Toons A Pokémon Snap Station All Sonic OC Characters Goku The Elusive Bigfoot Claire Danes circa My So Called Life Alex Jones Eggplant Emoji Steve Jobs Played By Ashton Kutcher That alien robot Dr Wiley turns into Berenstein Bears (alt skin for Berenstain Bears) For some reason, a car Young Jerry Seinfeld Metta World Peace Knight Ray Man Billy Mays The Mighty Sarlacc (playable character AND stage) Waluigi (circumcised skin) Arsenio Hall Harambe God Goku The End of Racism (we apologise in advance that this character cannot be selected) Good Eats era & Cutthroat Kitchen era Alton Brown Zelda from Pet Cemetery Goku Erectile Dysfunction Luigi Sonic Chad Muska from Tony Hawks Underground 1 Dave Grohl Goku Mads Mikkelsen and Hideo Kojima M’Baku Samurai Jack Error from Legend of Zelda: Adventure of Link None of the Joestars The Crying Indian From Those Recycling Ads Bugs Bunny Dressed as a Girl Bunny Geriatric Luigi FDR in a mech suit Goku Former Daily Show Host Craig Kilborn Unlockable Character Silhouette That glitch where you can see Samus naked if you shock her with pikachu and pause at the exact right time Horny Single Women In Your Area Looking To Fuck The Letter H Goku CNN’s Wolf Blitzer A human centipede Link with a Gun Anthony Scaramucci That Same Homeless Guy You Always See On Your Commute To Work Walter White The Illuminati Goku Jar Jar Binks Drake’s father Honey Smacks mascot Hurricane Katrina Noam Chomsky He Hate Me Solid Snake Jessica Rabbit Sheeva with four tits Reunited R.E.M. Senator Armstrong in a Red Baseball Cap Barack Obama Mrs. Game and Watch The Person You Lost Your Virginity To The nice guy at the deli who knows what you want before you order it which really helps to make your neighborhood feel like a community Noctis Lucis Caelum The Main Soldier and the Main Creature from Small Soldiers Halo The Italian BMT now $5 at Subway Both of the Moms from Fresh Prince Busty flower from conker’s bad fur day Goku Kenan Thompson Final smash: NUNCHUCKS Hitler, but Like, Not in an Offensive Way Ty Pennington for Guaranteed Rates Old AIM Account G-String Samus The Cast of The Breakfast Club That One Gringotts Goblin That Borders On Anti-Semitism Left paddle from pong Mario But With Pancake Nipples Unsold DVDs of the movie Pixels The physical manifestation of the three-fifths compromise Joe Valentino From Great Neck Nissan Mike Ditka Eddie Murphy Eric Garland (final smash: Game Theory) Pinky and the brain Vectorman Steve Buscemi Jean Claude Van Damme’s Character From Bloodsport Vice Reporter Bob from Reboot Wario without a skeleton The 1989 New York Knicks Zelda (the boy) The White Guy In The Roots Bananaman Vacation Jason Some Minor Character From Final Fantasy That Everyone Fuckin Loves For No Reason Ethical Consumption Under Capitalism The Boss Baby The Paperclip From MS Word Yung Linc The General from those insurance commercials The Baby Dinosaur From the Show Dinosaurs Bob Ross’ 2″ Blender Brush Goku Master hand’s wacky cousin crazy foot A Child Soldier (sad, right?) The hand coming out of the toilet that needs toilet paper in Majoras Mask might as well include van hammersly while we’re at it The “do not blow” warning on the cartridge Fleeting Happiness Goku Tetris Blocks Afroman Fox Angry Sun from World 2 Desert in Super Mario Bros. 3 A fidget spinner A Five String Fretless Bass Ben Carson during REM sleep Stephen King When He Was Addicted To Cocaine Ridley GAME GENIE The entire polyphonic spree Arwing That Just Keeps Doing A Barrel Roll Rick & Morty From Rick & Morty Whatever is Making That Weird Noise When You Hold Z as You Start Up Your Gamecube A random baby Lou Albano Mario The housekeeper that always has to vacuum right in front of the TV while we’re playing Kevin Smith in an ill fitting batman suit Spock Cooking Dada (alt costume for Cooking Mama) Dad’s character stuck in a corner Sean Penn The Front Bottoms Megan Fox’s Thumbs Ruth Bader Ginsberg The biggest, blackest dick Seth McFarlane (skin for Todd McFarlane) Robert Mueller No Items Lootbox Splatoon A Guy On a Segway Brian Deegan Broodals Dune Sandworm (assist trophy) Serpico Only one ice climber Yoshi Andross’s Brain Goku Mary Sue Dan Harmon Arthur from the movie Arthur starring Dudley Moore Pontius Pilate Norm Abram of The New Yankee Workshop Marc Maron (his moves are all just talking at you before you get a chance to do anything) Clippy Alt: Mario’s Mushroom Dealer Kirk Van Houten’s representation of Dignity Biker Mice From Mars A Dusty Rock Band Drum Set Goth from the Goth Rave Video Wakko from Final Fantasy X Phil Spencer in a blazer Steven Tyler circa Permanent Vacation Dr. McStuffins My Uncle Who Works For Nintendo Lorne Michaels Wiimote Anne Coulter’s Conscience Maynard James Keenan Friend’s N64 controller that’s sticky and you’re not sure why Potsy from Happy Days Jon Bon Jovi Florida Man Detective Pikachu With Danny Devito’s Voice Not Goku Dennis from It’s Always Sunny Sakurai Christopher Plummer Tim The Toolman Taylor Sex Fox (Robin Hood but we just call him sex fox) John Waters Bob the Tomato Bayonetta, but it’s a person covered in bayonettes The Kenyan Gundam from G Gundam Berenstain Bears Nick Rutherford from Good Neighbor Stuff a.k.a. the one who didn’t get on SNL Jared Before The Weight Loss But After The Pedophilia Stalin in a Mario Outfit Archivist Toadette Invisible John Cena MechaSheeva 7/8 Nurse Joys Goku Some fine people on both sides Louis Farrakhan The /r/gaming Reddit Mod A Cease and Desist Order From The Makers Of Tekken A Monster from an Alesana or Bring Me the Horizon or whatever Shirt A Baseball Player from the Baseball Episode of Samurai Champloo Goku The Justice League Snyder Cut Kevin Nealon Katt, the hot girl fox from Starfox 64 The Cast of Hamilton IT The Prophet Muhammad The Avatar of Empty Nostalgia The Realization That Your Parents Have Had Sex Before and They Could Be Doing It Right Now RL Stine Dan Hibiki Nude Waluigi Wearing Only Sunglasses The Noid Emma Goldman in a mech suit The Song “Accidental Racist” Kramer Bubsy John Madden Lawrence Krauss Terry Gross S-tier Pichu Dana/Zuul That fuckable rabbit from Space Jam Eater X Paul Blart Sora Modern Metallica 2 Suit Samus Henry Rollins from the Def Jam video game Goku The Cast Of Pawn Stars Goku Bowser and Peach’s Horrific Love Child Pepsiman Temba, his arms wide A refurbished Wii U Young Sheldon Blue from blues clues The Ever-Changing Concept of American Whiteness Goku Action Bronson Scorpius from Farscape Masturbating Louis CK Todd Mcfarlane George Lucas Manic Charlie Sheen A BOSS Metal Zone Ice climbers fused with pichu Spike from Cowboy Bebop Every Wu-Tang Clan Member Except U-God Due Process American Badass Undertaker Agumon Reba as Colonel Sanders Master Chief Mario Lopez Fat Bam Margera Parker from Gold Rush Alaska Helen from HR Goku Executive Producer Dick Wolf Carey Elwes ‘The Claw’ from Liar Liar the Jim Carrey Movie Paul Ryan’s Spine Goomba Who Has Been Training All His Life To Avenge His Squished Parents Drunk Tony Stark Elliott Ness Scott Ian Michael Vick Farm Raised Pikachu HR Giger Porgs Dante and Randall Goku The Last Samurai The FBI Goku Flavor Flav’s Clock The Pod Save America Crew The Italian Aliens from Star Wars The Last Jedi Tom Holland Spider-Man Goku Abobo Jill Stein Vince McMahon An Inanimate, Empty Tanooki Suit John Carpenter Waluigi’s Foreskin Death Grips Wakka Mansplainer Mario on Wrong Kind of Mushrooms Chicago Police Officer’s Mustache Michael Jordan The Dude Who Milks The Cow in the 1 2 Switch commercial My Waifu Loot Boxes the personification of your uncle’s racist anti-Obama rant Time’s Person of The Year: You Mario, But After He Divorces Princess Peach And Gains 30 Pounds Common Naked Raiden from MGS Ernest P Worrell Young Shia LeBeouf Missingno Violent J Lionel Hutz Biggie Ghost Pepper Hot Wings King Eeeeee Paul Rudd in that Nintendo commercial Ayatollah Khomeini Garfunkle Goku Billy Mitchell The Beastie Boys Anita Sarkeesian Edd, but not Ed or Eddy The pinching your face guy from Kids In The Hall Nintendog the Bounty Hunter Goku Dave, but his mom grounded him from video games for a month Cooking Mama Shia LeBoef Leisure Suit Larry Goku Steven Hard Tim Fred Durst with red hat! 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The purpose of the Ruse has always been to achieve two goals. The primary goal is for Kojima to use his Video Games to prove to us that "There are no facts, only interpretations". Yes, I know you are just as sick of hearing it as we all are. There is a reason that Kojima put that Friedrich Nietzsche quote in the beginning of The Phantom Pain, it serves as the thesis for his work on what will one day be known as the Metal Gear Solid V Compilation.
In other words Kojima wants to prove to us through his video games and public persona that everything is surrounded in a sea of misinformation. That there is no such thing as a fact or rather a truth. That the truth is something easily hidden or adjusted to serve those promoting or presenting said information.
It's really important for the Ruse to be taken seriously to understand that it is not about Metal Gear Solid V. The ARG (Alternate Reality Game) we call the Ruse is simply the latest chapter in Hideo Kojima's career as an artist parading as a game developer. With that said, each installment in the Metal Gear Legacy should be treated less as a seperate game and more as a mutually exclusive selection thats part of the same ARG. The ARG is essentially Hideo Kojima's life. How ever the ruse ends for this compilation of games, know that it will not be the end. It will continue with his future products much like how in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty we had a much smaller "ruse" or "ARG" in which Raiden was hidden from us.
Colonel's speech at the end of Sons of Liberty is likely the closest we will ever get to Kojima explaining thoughts that inspired the Ruse.
In the current digitized world, Trivial information is accumulating every second, preserved in all its triteness. Never fading, always accessible. All of this junk data preserved in an unfultered state, growing at an alarming rate. The World is being engulfed in truth. You seem to think that our plan is one of censorship, it is about providing context.
Our Ruse Cruise is an ARG where Kojima is going to show us that despite all of the trivial information that is constantly accumulating regarding his termination from Konami, it was never factual or true in the first place. That we interpreted it that way due to the context provided to us by trusted industry members and affiliates. The very nature of this experiment, or game on Kojima's part constitutes the idea that he does have something worthwhile to teach us. This is simply that Media Manipulation exists.
We were simply part of those "living in gated communities afraid of joining a larger forum, conveniently leaking whatever truth suits them". Even this thread, is simply my interpretation or my truth.
Its a similar concept to the movie The Life of David Gale directed by Alan Parker. It's a pretty shitty movie but it deals with the idea of capitol punishment. Basically, Kevin Spacey plays David Gale who is an activist opposing Capital Punishment. At some point in the movie one of David Gale's fellow activists is discovered murdered and all evidence at the crime points to him being the killer. He is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. After Gale is executed, a video is mailed out that shows the female activist and Gale conspiring to prove the innacuracy of the Justice System. The female activist kills herself, and afterwards Gale plants evidence that leads directly back to him as the culprit. Essentially, Gale and his partner proved that the criminal justice system could fail to protect the lives of innocents, and even execute the wrong person.
Of course in order for an ARG to be successful it really has to accomplish two things. First it needs to be able to make money, increase stock value, spur word of mouth advertising, inspire journalism or in some way shape or form increase revenue's for its company. In this case it needs to be successful for Konami and Kojima. Secondly, the end game of the ARG has to be valuable to consumers.
In the event that the Ruse is real, and we are able to complete Kojima's ARG it will absolutely accomplish all of those goals. Can you imagine Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, and Youtube just collectively losing there heads? The internet as a whole will be foaming at the mouth producing untold levels of junk data regarding the entire act. If it is in fact real, and pulled off correctly it will be unbelievably successful for Konami and Kojima.
So where does Metal Gear Survive fit into this whole thing?
The latest entry into the Metal Gear franchise suggests that we are now at the half way point of the ARG. Much of this information is common knowledge at this point but its important to understand Survive's role to play. In Metal Gear Survive the character is told that they are going to hell, or is already in hell. The setting for Survive is called Dite. This name is lifted from Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri which is a long poem dealing with views on the afterlife. The poem is seperated into three sections.
These sections are titled Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradisio. Each respectively explores the concepts of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. Furthermore, our AI Companion in Survive, is conveniently named Virgil. This name is shared with a roman poet who guides Dante throughout Hell or Dite. It appears that Survive's Dite takes place underwater, or below some type of suspended body of water as well. This is important in regards to Death Stranding.
Its important to understand that at this point of the Ruse we are all embarking on our journey through Hell, Purgatory, and eventually Heaven. Survive is in classic Kojima style a perfect representation of Hell. A Metal Gear Solid game without Kojima's approval which places its "heroes without names" directly into hell. The irony is almost taxing, Survive is the first chapter of Divine Comedy for us being forced to play through Metal Gear by Konami. In other words, our paradise would be Metal Gear Solid (A), made by Hideo Kojima (B), and produced by Konami(C). Survive nails 2/3 of our needs.
So where does Death Stranding fit into the ARG?
Death Stranding is the second step of the Ruse and it deals with the idea of Purgatory. At TGA 2017 Kojima said “One of the themes of this game is life and death. So I want people to realize that when they die in the game, that isn’t the end.” Additionally, “Death will never pull you out of the game”.
In the TGA 2017 trailer of Death Stranding we see Sam's (Norman Reedus) two allies perish while being dragged off by Unspecified Lifeforms. After the first ally is shot and killed, the man trying to save him has a randomly generated artificial womb appear on his chest carrying an infant. This is the theme of reincarnation put into play. In the TGA 2017 trailer we see Sam engulfed in a massive explosion and then he appears underwater. What's interesting is that in Death Stranding each time you die you are sent to an underwater world.
According to Kojima Sam (Reedus) has special abilities that allow him to travel through this world in first person, and it exists as an element of the game play. This is significant to Survive thematically because Dite appears to be underneath a body of water in hell, and we know Death Stranding deals with the idea of Purgatory which is in between Hell and Heaven. So in Survive we have a sky made of water, and in Death Stranding we have a separate world that exists under water.
The only appropriate conclusion is that the third piece of the puzzle which represents Paradisio will be above the actual water and on earth. Death Stranding exists as a convenient middle ground and nails 1/3 of our needs. It is a Kojima made game, however it is not Metal Gear, and we dont have Konami backing him.
Chapter 3 is supposed to be the final chapter of Divine Comedy; Paradisio. After going through Hell with Konami, and Purgatory with Kojima we will join our Big Boss again in Paradisio or (Outer) Heaven.
A Note on Kojima's Character
Kojima always said that he wanted to direct movies. Theres a great episode of the tv show Icons about him, where he states that he wanted to get into movies but felt it would be too difficult. As a result he saw the emerging success of video games as a medium and decided to jump on board the train. He felt that he could use video games as a means to eventually direct movies. Lets be clear, this was a business move. Kojima stated in an interview with Official Playstation Magazine;
I don't think they're art either, videogames. The thing is, art is something that radiates the artist, the person who creates that piece of art. If 100 people walk by and a single person is captivated by whatever that piece radiates, then it's art. But videogames aren't trying to capture one person. A videogame should make sure that all 100 people that play the game should enjoy the service provided by that videogame. It's something of service. It's not art. But I guess the way of providing service with that videogame is an artistic style, a form of art.
Kojima is an artist parading around as a businessman. For this reason its obvious he deeply respects monetary success in addition to actual art. If you take a look through a great deal of Kojima's tweets you can see how much attention he pays to big budget actors/actresses and movies. Hell, even the announcement trailer for Metal Gear Solid 4 payed respect to The Call of Duty franchise, albeit as satire. So it should come as no surprise that Kojima chose Norman Reedus for PT, and Death Stranding.
Norman Reedus was chosen specifically for his success on The Walking Dead and his near super stardom in the USA. However, whats most interesting is that Kojima appears to be a reasonably big fan of The Walking Dead as a whole. And why shouldn't he?
The Walking Dead is one of the most successful TV Shows in history. Personally, I think its awful, but that is aside from the point. According to Variety back in 2013 the show was pulling in about $11,000,000 in advertising revenues per episode premier. Now imagine re-runs, merchandising, apps, games, and all other additional sources of promotion.
Norman Reedus and The Walking Dead are the link from Metal Gear to Kojima and to Survive. In fact I've never played a game that so closely resembles the action of The Walking Dead TV Show. The use of Gadgets like fences, and weapons like spears is lifted directly from the action sequences of The Walking Dead. I'd be willing to bet if you looked up the defense based action sequences on The Walking Dead they would bare a striking resemblance to the gameplay of Survive. I say this because TWD is one of the few zombie shows/movies that pays a great deal of attention to its characters using the environment to there advantage. Obligatory mention of the "How bout them Zombies eh?" tape in The Phantom Pain.
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In 2012 , kojima Said : When asked at his PAX Prime presentation if he'd like to make more spin-offs about other characters besides Raiden in the upcoming Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, he said, "I'm not a huge fan of spin-offs, so it's hard to say at this point," but added, "We've talked previously about a game featuring The Boss as a main character. This is something I'd really love to make."
The Boss was in a mission during WW2 But was Shot and sent in the COMA . She was Pregnant at this Time . Moreover we all know she was sent to space . She was a warrior , pregnant and a searcher in the Space.
Death Stranding shows ombelical cords, a Norman Reedus Character who lost a Baby and have a scar. Moreover the second shows Soldiers... Dead soldiers from WW2 Ludens visit Space ... At least a virtual space.
What if Death Stranding was a Spin Off of Metal Gear Solid that speak about The Boss who was pregnant at the time , in a coma . Her baby was taken by the philosophers .
She said she was alive because of her baby , she fought to be alive again.
In the game we have two worlds. One as we are "alive" , and the Purgatory. BEETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH
We have Time Rain which ages us quickly. Because in the coma we don't know how many time we spend and we continue to get old .
Mads Characters might be The Sorrow who can talk to dead corpse and might want to awake her...
Does anyone know if Jeffrey Dean Morgan is going to sign autographs in Chicago? I think that he always had presale, but I only got the Norman Reedus one.
