Fabricant451

I am Thou, Thou art I | A Persona Interest Check

There's a distinct lack of Lovers or Empress in here

Kingdom Hearts Reimagining

I dunno, the Disney stuff was kind of core to the overall themes of the games, especially in BBS and 1 and even, at times, in 3.

Cosmic Tale: An RP With Robot Girls and Mecha Musumes

Maybe

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread

Disco Elysium is probably the best game of the year provided you like cRPGs, great writing, and dialog heavy interactions.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread

Ngl, looking back at Beyond: Two Souls, Jodie was better off as some sort of detective than a super solder by default. Could've gotten wrapped up in the goverment's spook stuff when she found her mom after spending a couple or so years trying to track down her location, figuring out what happened and stuff. .-.

...Sorry, Cage's games got mentioned and I had this in mind so, yeeh.

@Majoras End

But if she was a detective how could she be forced into a relationship with CIA boy even after deliberately sabotaging everything!

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread

I don't know how you can critique the game like so when there is clearly more mechanics shown than walking. Journey was an amazing game and that was nothing more than a travel through a sandy and snowy landscape, and Death Stranding has more mechanics than that.

What remains of Edith Finch is a walking simulator. You can't compare that to Death Stranding...

@NuttsnBolts

What Remains of Edith Finch is a two hour tightly focused experience. Death Stranding is a 40+ hour experience book-ended by 10 hours of tedious exposition. Mechanics don't make a game good, and if a game is mired in mechanics without making the mechanics work in a fun way then it makes the game worse because of it. Death Stranding is first, foremost, and primarily a walking simulator in the truest sense of the word. It's like American Truck Simulator but with the walking controls of QWOP and meters upon mechanics to keep track of with the interesting bit being the asynchronous co-op that isn't really co-op but kind of is co-op. Just because the game has vehicles doesn't make it suddenly not a walking simulator.

Walking simulator isn't a derogatory statement as much as some would like to think it is.

Death Stranding is a game where if you happen to kill an enemy you're told to carry the corpse somewhere - often up somewhere high and out of the way - to properly dispose of it or else it'll explode. Death Stranding is a game where you play Jenga with cargo that you deliver cross country while trying to get people to sign up for the internet. Death Stranding is a game where social media likes are currency, cell phones are handcuffs, and characters speak in tired metaphors for hours on end. If someone finds it fun to deliver pizzas but only after arranging your cargo so the pizza sits horizontally in your cargo sack while then having to plan the optimal route so you don't trip over rocks and watch your cargo spill out on the floor or get rained on by time so you have to repair it then by all means, enjoy it. But I can put the Death Stranding soundtrack in my American Truck Simulator radio and get virtually the same experience without Hideo Kojima thinking he's saying something profound in the same way college stoners taking philosophy do.

The difference between a game like Journey and a game like Death Stranding is that Journey was a passion project and Death Stranding is a vanity project. Journey didn't have to tell a story because the journey itself was the story and that personal experience contained within. What Remains of Edith Finch was a smartly focused, often clever narrative about life, death, and the legacy both leave on a family. Death Stranding has a character say "I brought you a metaphor" and has characters named Fragile, Heartman, Die Hardman, and Deadman explain their names for twenty minutes even with obvious reasons as to why. Metal Gear Solid was full of lengthy cutscenes of characters talking, especially in 4, but at least they didn't spend twenty minutes saying why Revolver Ocelot was called Revolver fucking Ocelot.

If Hideo Kojima didn't want to have his game be called a walking simulator then he shouldn't have been so purposely vague about it, but something tells me if he had come out and said "It's a game where you walk or drive and deliver packages and the more people who walk the same route or put up bridges the easier it is to travel to your destination to deliver your package" it would sound a lot less interesting to those who buy into whatever bullshit Hideo Kojima spits out. With dozens of outlets calling the game a walking simulator, be that in a negative review or a positive review, then I feel like there's some merit to calling it that.

It's a game whose loop is delivering packages in true fetch quest fashion for 40+ hours. If that sounds fun to you, great, enjoy it. I play American Truck Simulator to unwind sometimes and that's a game where you just drive often empty roads for two hours real time. Hideo Kojima is like the Japanese David Cage except people give Kojima's writing a pass in the same way they don't for David Cage. I don't like either, but at least I can laugh at David Cage games.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread

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So I shouldn't tell you that I like Kojima's work?

@NuttsnBolts

You're allowed to like whatever you want. Just because I think he gets undeserved praise for being some kind of auteur when he's proven multiple times that he's bad at managing budgets, time, and penning narratives for his narrative driven games doesn't mean you can't like his stuff. I hope you enjoy an actual walking simulator full of melodramatic poorly written monologues and metaphors about as subtle as a claw hammer to the skull, I genuinely do. But I just...I think Kojima sucks so I'll take any chance to make that known.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread

Now that Death Stranding is an unfun modern version of QWOP trying to be Journey bookended by Kojima's godawful writing maybe finally people will come to realize what a hack he is and that being an auteur doesn't give you a free pass when your games have been shit for a decade.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread

The Outer Worlds is a good game. 10/10 would sell my soul to space corporate overlords.

Mobius Academy: The City in the Sky

alrght here i guess

Charlotte Danvers

”Why would I need a weapon? Have you seen what my fists can do?”
_{Face Claim — Eliza Taylor | Color — FF0532}

Name

Charlotte Danvers (Thordottir)

Superhero Alias

Charlotte Danvers

Age

18

Sex

Not as much as she'd like

Sexual Orientation

She's into wine, not labels

Hero Connection

Did the names not give it away?

Appearance

The important thing to note is that she's blonde, she's tall, and assuming it ever comes to that: she's the butch.

Personality Traits

Confident, Competitive, Proactive, Resorceful

Secret Origin

After a night of revelry where the king of Asgard convinced a fellow Avenger that "Kree and Asgardians can't have children, it's never happened!", Charlotte was conceived. Though technically a daughter of Asgard's king, as a half Asgardian she has no true claim to the throne nor does she particularly want it - though that won't stop her from being considered a princess when it suits her. While her brother spent most of his youth on Asgard, Charlotte spent hers on Midgard with her mother and the various hero figures her mother interacted with. At one point, Carol asked her dear friend Tony to babysit Charlotte while Carol had to tend to some off world business (Tony joked that it was an Asgardian booty call - he wasn't wrong exactly), and that was the last time Charlotte was babysat by Avengers.

The one thing of her mother's that Charlotte inherited, other than powers and weird DNA, was her sense of justice. Which was why when she turned 18 she was roped into going off with her brother and their idiot friend on a tour of the galaxy. It was like an intergalactic road trip, but Charlotte assumed it was more along the lines of 'help people out, then celebrate' and not 'celebrate ninety percent of the time and help people out like when the hangover ended'. Fortunately, the Asgardian side of her saw her challenging her brother to numerous drinking competitions throughout their adventure.

At least until their father and Charlotte's mother found them and demanded they do something with their lives. Fortunately, Mobius was open for enrollment.

Family Tree

Carol Danvers - Mother
Thor Odinson - Father
Soren Odinson - Half-Brother
Tony Stark - Godfather
James Rhodes - Godfather after the AC/DC incident

Abilities

Charlotte has enhanced physical strength thanks to her Kree and Asgardian blood. She is half Asgardian, a quarter Kree, and a quarter human which ultimately makes her unfit for blood donations.
Like her mother she can shoot photon energy blasts from her hands. She can also fly and doesn't need a silly hammer to do it.
She can absorb certain energy sources to charge her own photon, sort of like a battery.
It is yet unknown if she can tap into Binary like her mother.

Zofia

_{Face Claim — India Eisley | Color — EF4E0E}

Name

Zofia Maximoff

Superhero Alias

She hasn't even started to think of that.

Age

18

Sex

Female

Sexual Orientation

Uncertain. Questioning.

Hero Connection

She is the daughter of Wanda Maximoff. Her relation to Erik Lehnsherr is uncertain.

Personality Traits

Quiet. Determined. Patient. Inquisitive.

Secret Origin

Though Zofia never knew her father - her mother promised her that she wasn't part robot - but she thinks the world of her mother, probably because it's her she has to thank for her abilities. Zofia was always something of a quiet child, never really crying but always wanting to walk before she could crawl. At a young age there was pressure on her based on the assumption that she would follow in the footsteps of her mother when it came to heroics (not so much the villainy part, of course) but her mother always assured her that the choice would be Zofia's alone.

When Zofia first set something on fire with dark flames she had something of a freakout that caused a vase to be destroyed which, in turn, led to a long talk about how Zofia was different, and not just because she is a mutant. Zofia wanted to understand her newfound powers even if she herself doesn't quite understand what they are. Other mutants or heroes have things that are far easier to explain: how does she explain something she doesn't even understand?

Mobius, it seems, will help her discover what even her fellow mutants can only speculate about.

Family Tree

Wanda Maximoff - Mother
Unknown Father

Abilities

In simple terms, Zofia's abilities are akin to dark, chaos magic. She can produce bolts of dark-colored magic, but that's not the extent of her powers. She's been able to levitate herself if she focuses - it's easier to make other people or things float. She knows that her powers are somehow tied to the Dark Dimension but the extent to which she doesn't know. She can control her powers when they're smaller scale. She hopes she can control them when it's bigger than bolts of chaos magic.

Riley

_{Face Claim — Bailee Madison | Color — A2CD48}

Name

Riley Quinn

Superhero Alias

She's considering 'The Fantastic Amazing Spectacular Incredible Wonderful Marvelous Dazzling Lady Hulk' but is afraid she might be burying the lead

Age

18

Sex

Female

Sexual Orientation

She's not exactly picky

Hero Connection

Despite never actually meeting the man in person, Riley is 'connected' to Dr. Bruce Banner. She's a big fan of his work and hopes he doesn't seek legal action.

Personality Traits

Quirky. Intelligent. Excitable. Exhausting

Secret Origin

Before she was 'Riley Quinn, Sometimes Raging Lady Hulk' she was just 'HulkStan62' on various web forums, social media, fanfic sites, and blogs. She was rather infamous for her numerous rants about the hero ranking and why Hulk should be number one or at LEAST in the top five. Every time someone mentioned the destruction and rage monster thing she called them a troll just before telling them to like her comments. Her parents, neither of whom are super in any capacity other than super ordinary, often told Riley she was wasting her incredible intellect by sitting in front of the computer for thirteen hours a day. It's hard out there for a child genius. But she had to admit they had a point.

Riley, in all her glorious intellectual glory, figured if people disagreed with her about her thoughts on The Hulk then the best thing to do would be to prove to them that not every gamma radiated rage monster was...you know...a rage monster. After finding a decently skilled hacker that may or may not have been on Stark's payroll, Riley found notes from Banner's days before he was, well, a shirtless green giant. Fortunately for Riley, with superheroes and aliens and such being common place, so too was it easy to replicate gamma - which was really just fancy electromagnetic radiation. Which Riley, after testing it on some test monkeys (she didn't have time for ethical quandaries and apes are close enough to humans!) she got impatient and flipped the switch.

She woke up in the hospital two weeks later. She considered it a failure until she saw in the mirror that she was, well, taller, stronger, greener, and...Hulkier. The revelation caused her to trash the hospital room in a bit of rage but fortunately for the staff - who were equipped to deal with enhanced individuals - she reverted back to Riley Quinn fairly quickly. Enrollment to Mobius wasn't too far behind even as everyone she knew called her actually insane for almost killing herself like that.

The unfortunate thing about doing unsanctioned science experiments on herself is that she doesn't actually know what triggers her transformations. But someone at Mobius is bound to know.

Family Tree

Her parents are of little consequence, but her idol is Dr. Bruce Banner.

Abilities

As Riley her abilities consist of being a genius and convincing people to listen to her ramble about her internet habits because if they don't she might get angry or upset or something and they wouldn't like her when she's angry or upset or something. When she does manage to become The Fantastic Amazing Spectacular Incredible Wonderful Marvelous Dazzling Lady Hulk she has superhuman strength, speed, durability, and endurance. Also green.