>Nanomachines have nothing to do with it; Armstrong is infected with the Blacklight Virus. >Nanomachines are everwhere in the MGS series, but they've never resulted in anything as over-the-top as Armstrong. The guy can catch and snap Raiden's HF blade, take hundreds of rapid-fire punches without flinching, and easily wrestle the ludicrously strong Raiden to the ground. He's stronger and tougher than any cyborg seen in the series so far.
>Armstrong's armoured, toughened body bears a remarkable similarity to Alex Mercer's blacklight-based augmentations , he demonstrates the same kind of incredible strength and durability, and unlike most cyborgs, he's pretty much indistinguishable from a normal human until he starts actually using his powers.
>Wario is meant to represent/mock Bill Gates. Rich and greedy, he entered the Video Game industry even though he had no business doing so. >And furthermore, Wario gains immense physical strength from devouring whole cloves of raw garlic, also like Bill Gates. >Alternately, Wario is the inspiration for Mulch Diggums from Artemis Fowl - a dwarf who can unhinge his jaw far enough to swallow a small man whole, and propel himself with flatulence.
>And furthermore, Wario gains immense physical strength from devouring whole cloves of raw garlic, also like Bill Gates. >like Bill Gates What
Jacob Reyes
>His stomach is apparently its own universe, but still, that doesn't feel out of reason.
Brandon Adams
>Alex went through Blacklight puberty. >So by the time we see Elizabeth Greene for the first time, she's been infected for about, eh, 40 or 50 years, depending on when Prototype 1 takes place. We have no idea what she was like for the first few years. (There is a Web of Intrigue node that talks about Greene staying in one place for a very long time and not decaying, which might debunk this theory if it mentions the specific amount of time she's been sitting there — I cannot recall the exact figure.) She might have maintained her own personality for the first few years, then... then the urge to reproduce started to emerge, like a human going through puberty. What if the same thing happened to Alex? What if the Black/Redlight life cycle involves amassing as much organic material as possible over the course of a year, then spending it all on spreading itself extremely quickly? If Alex had survived for a few more years, I bet he'd have developed pale, blotchy skin and a Voice of the Legion. And the same thing will happen to Heller, too... >"Mercer" was actually Supreme Hunter who survived the first game.
>The pimps have unionized I want you to fucking guess which game this is
Michael Morgan
> The G-Man is from the Black Lodge >Like others from the Lodge (Killer BOB, The Man from Another Place, the Giant, etc.) his motives are mysterious, he subscribes to Blue-and-Orange Morality, he appears in bizarre visions and talks in riddles. He possibly orchestrated the Resonance Cascade in order to gather garmonbozia (pain and suffering) from the scientists and the victims of the Combine invasion. In Half-Life 2, you play as a Gordon Freeman doppelgänger he controls in order to cause more chaos and destruction.
Logan Powell
>TV Tropes outside of the main page Cringe.
Nathaniel Rodriguez
Prey 2017 >This is all the Tau's fault >Some of the Ethereals somehow managed to hitch back a ride in time to humanity's distant history, and knowing some catastrophe was going to drive the beginnings of the Dark Age of Technology, decided to create that catastrophe by introducing humanity to the Typhon-a member of their Empire in the present era, having learned to feed on the life force of nonsentients. It was their belief that, if humanity discovered the Typhon could be made friendly, the Imperium would become much less of an Absolute Xenophobe. If you've been a bastard, they've done nothing except close a Stable Time Loop, as Mimic Morgan seems just as cruel and ruthless as a human as they do as a Typhon, but if you've been an okay person, they've pulled off something brilliant.
>Sams’ house is an interdimensional hub— and his Mom knows.
>Since we never actually see Sam’s mother, I’m gonna peg her as non-human: She has blue skin, like her son, so we’ve already got a bit of evidence in that direction. This theory states that not only is she a non-human entity, she has the ability to create and manipulate portals to other universes. She’s kind of an interdimensional explorer, who gave up her day job to settle down and raise a kid in a nice suburban community.
>However, she still retains the power— and she uses her connections with dimensional deities to help her out with parenting. Kid’s freaking out over sleeping in the dark? Well, hey, you slept in that guy’s guest room for a month in college. Kid won’t eat his veggies? Seeing the effects of political imbalance amongst the food groups will teach him to have a balanced diet! Thunder and Lightning? Oh, they’re just the nicest couple! Of course they’ll put him up in the weather machine for a night— hopefully he doesn’t break anything.
>Anyway. This would explain why the characters in the “pretend” worlds make pop culture references and jokes that go over Sam’s head, and why everything always works out fine in the end. And as a bonus? That carrot that’s in every game is an interdimensional traveller as well. And, though it’s going out on quite a limb, he’s Sam’s biological father. It was a fling back when his mom was younger, okay? He’s clearly a child of the 60s, so it sounds about right, age-wise. She’d been meaning to have a little explorer of her own, anyway.Sam’s mom sends Sam off on interdimensional travels to raise him correctly, and Sam’s dad watches over him on these adventures.
>Alternatively Deus Ex and Metal Gear take place in the same 'verse.
>The Illuminati are the successors to the Patriots after they became defunct. The Cyborg Ninja program and GECKO program are the predecessors to the augments that Adam uses, which eventually give way to J.C. Denton's nanomachines once the public begins to trust them again, which they certainly wouldn't after the events of Guns Of The Patriots.
>This would make Smuggler a relative of Drebin, they even look similar, and have the same voice actor.
Aren't deus ex augments really shitty compared to mgs cyborgs?
Luke Price
>Aside from its layered story and eye-popping visuals, the player's ability to use the environment, weapons, and plasmids together made BioShock the most inventive shooter since Half-Life 2: you can light a splicer on fire, then electrocute the poor soul after they leap into the nearest body of water, or use the grenade launcher to glue proximity mines onto an Exploding Barrel, then lob it at a group of enemies. Verily, if torturing mooks is an art, BioShock is a virtuoso.
The last sentence is gay as fuck, but I do kind of want to start a new play through now...
Josiah Hall
That one is obviously a joke
Ryan Gonzalez
I don't believe you. I believe everything that comes from those TV Tropes subpages are very much sincere ever since that one guy wrote a whole fucking Nightmare Fuel page for a literal PBS Kid's show just because one of the characters stared at the camera with a smirk.
Carson Cox
I met my friend off tvtropes because I didn't like her review of LISA
Zachary Cook
Ooh neat, story time? I'm curious about what you and your friend were disagreeing on
Isaiah Wilson
> Tetris is a mind-control device created by the Soviet government. It didn't name The Tetris Effect for nothing. Tetris has no real right to be as addictive as it. Instead of watching the news, educating yourself, or meeting girls, you were playing Tetris, which has no Real Life application. Tetris was invented to weaken the United States, one citizen at a time, making it easier to take over in 20 or 30 years.
Luis Evans
>Awesome, but Impractical: Mages get quite a few of these. The Mighty Staff adds a huge amount of Strength, yet is mostly useless for most stat builds that mages use. The Dagger of Counter gives the largest critical bonus in the game, yet is usually employed during PVP to stall other players. Soul Linkers can also use the Dagger of Counter, which can turn them into Lethal Joke Characters when built properly, at the expense of longer leveling time (since all you can do is whacking one monster at a time with critical hits). Certain Monk builds can enjoy the power boost from the Mighty Staff as well. The Taekwon class is practically made of this trope. First, there is a massive power for a massive Interface Screw exchange detailed below. Secondly, there is their ability to become an unstoppable engine of destruction - but only after getting a specific buff from other class and only on three maps in the whole game, decided once and for all. It is possible to change the maps, but it's very impractical to do so, and you need some assistance to do it. Water Ball is an extremely fast, easily spammable, high-damaging Water spell - more so for Rogue classes, who can actually copy an overleveled version (level 10, while the version used by Wizard classes only goes up to level 5). The catch? First, you can't spam it unless you're either standing on water or have a Ninja or Sage slave to help you. Second, if you're using it on a non-PvP scenario, take a guess on what's the Element of most monsters that lives near or in the water. There's a hidden sewer in Glast Heim (Sewer lv3) that's the perfect place for leveling up Water Ball Wizards/Rogues, at least.
>Cave Story is a sequel to EarthBound, with the basis that Giygas defeats Ness. >At the end of the EarthBound game, Ness and his friends have their souls deposited into robots and are sent back in time to fight Giygas. The premise is that Giygas succeeds against Ness, and receives a massive burst in power, but he does not manage to destroy the world. Instead, Giygas winds up infusing himself into the existing world, creating the new world where Cave Story takes place. Everything in the world is left the same for the most part, except that the future is altered completely by the fusion, meaning most of the events of EarthBound never happen, and Giygas becomes a force of nature that runs through everything and everybody. Pokey is captured by Giygas before he has a chance to escape to another point in time, and gets an ironic punishment for his arrogance by being transformed into Balrog on accident. Ness is left inside his robot body and cast into the new world, where he is discovered by the government post-Giygas and has the robot body remodeled into Quote. The same happens to his friends, with Paula remodeled into Curly. This would explain why Quote and Curly are different from the other robots created to fight the Mimigas/destroy the Crown. The floating island and its residents are actually Giygas’ Magicant, which was given physical form because of Giygas’ victory and fusion with the world, turning everything inside his head into physical reality. That means that the Mimigas, and all the enemies in the game, are all incidental creations of Giygas’ imagination. The Core of the island is a physical artifact of what remains of Giygas’ mind, which is why the Magicant island falls once the Core is finally destroyed. Giygas, as mentioned before, becomes a force that rests inside of all the creatures on Earth. (This force can manifest itself as overwhelming rage or magic.)
> Fall Guys is a fictional game show that airs on television inside the world of Splatoon, with Inklings dressing up as the eponymous "beans" in silly costumes and competing for the crowns. >The environment and characters are very colorful and cartoony, and the music is very reminiscent of Splatoon music. Since Inklings dissolve in water, it was implemented as a mechanic in some rounds while also substituting water with the more harmless pink slime. It is an alternative to other more "serious" competitions like Turf War, instead being a series of mini-games where losing is not as bad and Inklings can have casual fun (besides the occasional grabbing and pushing).
Lincoln Young
Anyone remember the troper tales section? Pretty sure it was removed for being too retarded even for tv tropes.
Jonathan Morris
I'm pretty sure thag its still there
Nathan Morales
Saints row 2
Luis Foster
some of them are archived off-site but it was completely expunged from tvtropes itself
Camden Hernandez
Troper Tales is gone for good, it was too autistic even for them
What's wrong with TV tropes? Why do you bitch about it all the time?
Kevin Gray
Go back.
Logan Moore
It's good if you want to use it to search for media with specific tropes. Foud a lot of obscure good shit on this site. The problem is that it's users are all fucking autistic.
Oliver Cook
>Kane and Lynch are actually being filmed in Dog Days >It's for a "true crime" documentary that got way out of hand. Originally, it was simply to show the public the seedy underbelly of Shanghai by showing Kane and Lynch making the arms deal with Glazer. However, Lynch's desire to ham it up for the cameras with his tough-guy antics at the beginning of the game throws the three of them (the camera guy probably being the only crew member that follows Kane and Lynch around 24/7) in way over their heads. The only reason that the camera guy sticks around with the two instead of just hopping on the next bus out of Shanghai was probably because Shangsi wanted his blood too, and so the only way for him to stay alive was to stick with the two guys with guns who seemed to know what they were doing. Interdasting....
Kayden Anderson
I haven't played this game but don't they turn around and talk to the camera man at some stage?
Matthew Edwards
The War between the NCR and the Legion is based on the second Iraq War
>First there's the fact that the war was still on when New Vegas was released. The NCR clearly represents the United States. A western power that invades a desert territory with the stated aim of "bringing democracy to this land" but the real reason of securing strategic resources to better meet the energy needs of it's populous, only to get bogged down in a quagmire that might soon bankrupt them. The Legion however, would represent Al-Qaeda, an army of brutal, reactionary, misogynistic terrorists well known for their disregard for human life and human rights. The people of Nevada represent the people of Iraq, who mostly want both groups to just fuck off and let their country live in peace.
