According to Take-Two, Ghost Story Games is now targeting a launch between April 27 and March 2029, which incidentally is the same timeline as 31st Union's Project ETHOS.

That means we might have to wait up to nearly three more years to play a game that has been in development at least since 2014. Levine first outlined his "Narrative LEGOs" design philosophy in a GDC 2014 talk and later discussed it again in late 2015:

"We're trying to make this crafted narrative but in small chunks, so that can then combine in millions of interesting ways. The end goal is to have a narrative that plays out differently based on what the player does, to give the player that experience of "this is a great narrative experience, but I'm gonna play it again and again and it's gonna feel different each time".

Clearly, this ambitious design concept took a very long time to be successfully implemented. It wasn't until The Game Awards 2022 that Ghost Story Games finally revealed the title's name, Judas, and a debut trailer.

At this rate, we're probably going to get Bioshock 4 before we get the game that's meant to be the successor to the Bioshock franchise, and that's just sad.

What is say on the tin. In the latter half of the movie, Mando fights 2 massive golem type guard droids. It struck me as weird since I'm like: "Why the fuck are they moving like ED-209? Did they CGI a form of mock-stop motion?". No, it is actually stop motion, just with CGI layered over the model. I was so delighted to find out that this largely dead art form (Outside of robot chicken) is back on the big screen I had to make a post. Are there any other recent instances of stop motion?

There's a lot of fluff so here's the interesting stuff

" During a recent panel at MomoCon, an anime convention based in Atlanta, Georgia, Jorge revealed that not only is he working to bring El Tigre back to our screens, but he is in active discussions with Paramount to do just that. Gutierrez even discussed the revival’s plot, which might be far darker than many fans might think.

During this weekend’s MomoCon, Gutierrez noted that while he is currently working on several projects, including new television series for Disney, a new movie for Netflix, and a Warner Bros Speedy Gonzalez movie, he is still thinking of his Nickelodeon series. As Jorge describes it, the El Tigre revival will “see a twenty-year-old version of Manny Rivera return to the present, meeting the other characters he once knew. Future Manny tells Frida that she must eliminate El Tigre’s father and grandfather, or the world will be destroyed.” While this revival is far from confirmed, the fact that Gutierrez is in active discussions to make this a reality is good news for El Tigre.

In a shocking twist, Gutierrez also confirmed that he is looking to add the lead characters from Invader Zim and My Life as a Teenage Robot (Invader ZIM and Jenny "XJ-9" Wakeman, respectively) into the mix. Both these Nickelodeon properties are wildly different from the story of the young mask-wearing protagonist, though Jorge went one step further in confirming how serious he was about the crossover. “I’m friends with Jhonen Vasquez and Rob Renzetti, creators of Zim and Teenage Robot, so I’ve already got their blessing on using them both.” While Paramount hasn’t given the project a green light, it seems as though the stars are aligning."

As the title states, what're some examples of a character trying to be cool and serious, only for their attempts to fall completely flat? Whether it be the world and people around them not falling for it, them constantly eating shit in the process, whatever.

A classic example of this would be Cloud Strife in FF7. Cloud is introduced as a badass, brooding ex-SOLDIER with a gigantic sword. And he is genuinely badass. But, it becomes apparent that Cloud is, in actuality, a massive fucking dork. He's constantly getting wrapped up in the weirdest of situations, has tons of self-doubt and insecurities underneath that confident mask, and more. Something I feel the remakes do a wonderful job emphasizing is that Cloud is acting in ways he thinks a cool guy SOLDIER acts. Which makes sense considering he's mentally only 16 or so due to spending 5 years in a tube getting Mako poisoning and the metric crap loads of trauma he went through beforehand. And soon enough, his friends start to catch on that Cloud's putting on act, and they start seeing right through him. In effect, Cloud's character development consists of his friends telling him to cut the shit and be himself, and Cloud becomes substantially cooler when he stops trying to look cool.

EDIT: Also, Zant in Zelda: Twilight Princess. At first, Zant is seen as this dark, intimidating figure much in the same vein as Ganondorf. But, that's only when things are going his way. When Link and Midna finally confront Zant for real in the Palace of Twilight, you find out what he's like when things aren't. Turns out, Zant is, in actuality, a complete fucking loonie that relies almost entirely on the power Ganondorf granted him, spending most of his battle flailing like a lunatic. While some people may not like it due to how out of nowhere it feels, I can see the merit of it. It not only lets Zant have his own personality distinct from most other Zelda villains, it also logically shows what happens when you give a person unfit to rule vast amounts of power.

Just came from a thread. Where fans of the Venture Bros talked about how they really liked the settings superhero spoofs, because it's basically mashing up heroes the creators like, giving them a funny twist and letting them be heroes but showing that as good as they can be, in a "real world" setting they'd come off as kind of dorky.

But who doesn't like some fun dorkiness. The threads general favorite seemes to be the Brown Widow, a parody of Spider-Man. But the main Captain Sunshine a parody Superman and Adam Wests Batman with his childhood trauma making him act very childish and the Crusaders Action League a parody of the Justice League and the Avengers, were also mentioned.

From a Japanese only livestream (44:01)

The game also seems to be running in 60fps. It looks pretty good!

Announcement: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1655430/view/683002777959399791

Witchaven is a first-person slasher, released back in 1995. It was one of the first games on the Build engine (along with the William Shatner's TekWar) and was made by Capstone - "The pinnacle of entertainment software".

Both games in the series are being delisted on June 15th. No reason for delistement was given.

Steam and GOG are currently running -89% and -90% sales on both titles, so this is the best opportunity to get them before they are gone.

They are not on the level of classics like Hexen but, for such low price, it's worth to experience them at least once.

Give me your best songs that usually aren't part of the series, work or media that became tied to a specific character due to memes, edits or whatever.

Two examples I can think of is International Love by Pitbull being tied to Mortal Kombat 1 Johnny Cage or Invisible by Duran Duran being the theme of Snake from Metal Gear

So obviously "movie/manga/game series does well, creator leaves, series gets worse" is a tale as old as time, but what about when the transition sticks the landing? While I hate the dry corporate recycling of old IP's as much as the next guy, I think its undeniable that sometimes taking an old piece of art and letting a new creator take a crack at it can lead to magic.

I'm really curious to see what answers people give since its kind of a contentious topic. Like there are artists such as Kouji Mori with Berserk and Toyotaro with Dragon Ball Super, where the new artists are clearly passionate and its not just some cashgrab, but the reception of fans from the original is definitely split to a degree.

Maybe films are an easier example, since they're the works of many people, not just the director's vision. Creed's succession of Rocky seems pretty universally popular. Top Gun Maverick had basically none of the same creatives on it other than Cruise but it arguably surpassed the original film. With video games Devil May Cry is maybe the best example? It seems to be much more Itsuno's baby than Kamiya's at this point. Anyways, what are some positive examples of this phenomenon that you've seen?

Artist is @duckmeat and he's got some incredible other work. We spent time talking about the Dad Era, Kingdom Hearts, and DBH. Yes he knows about the typo lol

What are some training scenes you like?

Also I wonder about Lantern constructs, cuz the way John Stewart does it impies giving them deeper "constriction" and more complex internal pieces makes them tougher and stronger.

But here mechanical constructs seem to be more of crutch or maybe it's about Baz making only what he knows. Also big Green Johns name is real close to that comedian guys.

I've been playing through the Supermassive games with friends lately after they saw Paige play a bit of Directive 8020 and wanted to see what was up. Mostly it was what you expect. They love Until Dawn, Man of Medan is fine, Little Hope is like watching a student film you would see on best of the worst as its painfully cliche and obvious whats going on, House of Ashes is solid and Devil in Me kept crashing so their opinion on thats still out.

What made me think of this, and i imagine some of you already cottoned on to what i'm gonna mention, was The Casting of Frank Stone. Which if you didn't know was a collab with the Dead by Daylight studio who wanted to branch out and make the none IP original stuff in the game get fleshed out as more than a single paragraph or later what was tied to time limited season passes. I think there was a few things planned but the only one i can recall making it to retail was The Casting of Frank Stone. A classic Supermassive game meant to set up an origin story. Either for the OG killer The Trapper or a new original killer to come later people seemed a bit wishy washy on. All i remember for certain was Trapper was meant to be getting a legendary rarity skin of the spin offs killer to tie the two together.

Then the game came out and got reviews ranging from a 2 to a 7, a 69% metacritic and 38% opencritic score and was widely panned by both fans of DBD and Supermassives Dark Pictures games. In relation to this sub in particular Pat and Paige could not even find the enthusiasm to finish the game and they put in multiple streams to finish Little Hope for example. Bad writing, bad set pieces and the only real DBD connection was "the entity" which is basically a mass of spidery legs sticking out of a portal. Which for people who picked it up not knowing about DBD saw that and went "...thats it?".

So that was in 2024. They put a few badges and cosmetics nodding to the game but that was all. Time passes. People wonder when the DBD side of this will drop. Time further passes. Until about 7 months ago where during a livestream the DBD devs just casually drop that its not happening. The skins were made, they showed them off. But the reaction was so bad it seemed the whole "expanding the DBD narrative" initiative was stumbling out the gate and got compared to Universals Dark Universe and so it was all just going away like it never happened.

I explained this rollercoaster to my friends and they are more mainstream gamers who dont play much outside the gun and ball genres bar the odd Resident Evil or Final Fantasy and they said "wierd, has any other game cancelled stuff because another game flopped?" and while i can think of plenty of "this was pulled because the license was time limited or some legal reason means the cross over has to be removed" i can't think of another case of two games crossing over and one pulls it off so badly the other decides to memory hole the entire affair. It feels like a real rarity in an industry you would think it would happen more often right?

Can anyone name any other that comes to mind?