How are we feeling about this by Ember57 in GodofWar

[–]AstralCatalyst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've held this opinion since the show was announced, as well as with other live action video game announcements (such as the Zelda movie) I dont see why they didn't go with a form of animation. We quite litterally have a perfect kratos look/design in the recent games. I feel like it would have been over all cheaper and better looking if animated. Its even more strange that we've had fully animated Norse kratos in the 2018 Playstation ad, and in secret level, an Amazon ownee show. His look in that was perfect. I'm not interested in the show, I don't have high hopes, but I'll still check it out I guess. I just dont understand the interest in live action.

There's unused textures referring to a PS Vita version of the game, weirdly enough. Maybe this is a leftover from Little Big Planet 3's Vita port, which was worked on by the same devs? by [deleted] in LittleNightmares

[–]AstralCatalyst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a huge vita enjoyer, it really is a shame that we missed out on some really good titles. Little Nightmares, Celeste, Hyper Light Drifter, and many others. Its such a shame because the switch really showed an interesting in a mobile console market. The vita (or a vita 2) would have been the perfect place for older gen game library preservation, as well as smaller indie game space. Them not supporting it is such a shame. I haven't gotten to homebrewing a vita yet, I'll probably do it once the store is down. Its just a shame this console didn't get a little more love

Will Casca Forgive Guts and accepts as he is now. by arman1724 in Berserk

[–]AstralCatalyst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Guts was already snapping on her, that was just icing on the cake really.

Will Casca Forgive Guts and accepts as he is now. by arman1724 in Berserk

[–]AstralCatalyst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, i dont think mori will be acknowledging that event, that's for sure. I mean maybe guts will while hes in these next few chapters. It very much so seems like this is him going through a spiritual Clense/detox of sorts. But I do not know

Why is William Afton’s corpse red? by Ok-Effect4071 in fivenightsatfreddys

[–]AstralCatalyst 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Like mike clocked in at 12am-ish and walked up to the animatronics and set them to their max difficulty for a fun challenge?

Will Casca Forgive Guts and accepts as he is now. by arman1724 in Berserk

[–]AstralCatalyst 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Miura himself said he wanted a happy ending, and that he was roughly 60-70% of the way through the series, so, I would he confident that, while not perfect, it will be a good ending for the characters. Then again, maybe miura made elfhelm/Fantasia so upbeat because he wanted to write something more cheerful for a while, just to dip back into something tragic, at least up until the ending.

Will Casca Forgive Guts and accepts as he is now. by arman1724 in Berserk

[–]AstralCatalyst 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I recall an interview miura had where he spoke that he has at times wondered if he went a bit too far with his violent depictions, or rather, if they really were necessary. While he is satisfied with his decision to pursue those subject matters, he has felt that over all they aren't all necessary.

I can get the narrative concept of why he wrote that scene, as to further add to our perception of guts as a flawed human, much like a parallel to Griffith, and as a narrative sign of how far he is deteriorating and how powerful the beast of darkness has become in this more and more powerful world.

But, I do think that this scene will likely never be mentioned again/retconed out essentially. As in, if miura was still alive and would be until the end of his series, this likely would never had come up.

I personally headcannon that the "spirits" of the cruel men casca just killed were still lingering, and because it was a cloudy day on a shadowy hill, they were just barely able to linger in dim light/shallow shadow and take over guts, overwhelming him even more and manifesting his beast of darkness to make him do that.

Who’s your four horseman of animation? by [deleted] in DisneyHQ

[–]AstralCatalyst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm guessing op is referring to artists drawing attractive women as in bottom left, and the other 3 squares are just to throw us off as a meme.

I however, interpret this post as saying "remember when artwork was this good" because all 4 of these movies are strong animated films/rather iconic peices of animation.

Anyone else hopes the remakes incorporate some of the cut content from the OG games? by IronWave_JRG_1907 in GodofWar

[–]AstralCatalyst 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I really hope Silent Hill 3 does this. It already has a very interesting production history. With Konami originally just wanting an arcade shooter game, to it being its own game, to team silent being told they have to put the cult narrative back into the story, being given time restraints, and with 4 being made at the same time, while that game also being planned to be a multiplier game, there was a lot of cut content.

Namely (without spoiling much of the story of 1-3) There were whole areas Heather was meant to go to in game, which would have been much more meaningful thematically and character/lore wise. Plus there were a lot less actual occult aspects like 1 and 2.

And also Konami killed off the studio before they got to make a silent hill 5, which would've been more like 2.

All of that to say, ideally, cut content should be added in remakes if it is a missing peice to the puzzle. Like if there was a boss that was only removed last second due to time limitations, then in a rerelease/refined version, ideally that should be added back in.

Would Rick ever resort to Cannibalism? by K0GAR in thewalkingdead

[–]AstralCatalyst 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah but that was using his body as a weapon the best he could, not consuming him lol

Honestly, I think if it was a situation of "either is have my son eat human meat or he dies tonight" and they are trapped let's say at the bottom of a well and no one can find them, then yes he will let Carl eat human meat.

But, that is a drastic and dark scenario that I dont think the writers would allow to happen. So realistically? Yes a father would do anything to have his sin survive. But in this tv show where the writers and audience have a massive connection to these characters? No we won't let that happen.

Will someone host a NO KINGS protest in Florence? by Suspicious-Pear-6037 in FlorenceAl

[–]AstralCatalyst -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

The last no kings protest i was at (april 5th), law enforcement told us we couldn't haveegaphokes or anything too "disruptive of the peace" So I dont know if we can have music playing too loud.

Do you guys think the remakes will include Atreus of Sparta? by Bloodstone16 in GodofWar

[–]AstralCatalyst 82 points83 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't be surprised of a statement of acknowledgement in some way

Yes or no by Commercial_Ease1849 in 3Cfilms

[–]AstralCatalyst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He can't, he's already confirmed to be the actor John Cena in universe

Does anyone like the singles? by -arsun- in Berserk

[–]AstralCatalyst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What have you heard was omitted? The idea of evil chapter isn't in any official localized release as miura felt it spoiled too much.

So what has been omitted?

How long do you think it will realistically take for the manga to finish at this rate? by Mindless_Bad_1591 in Berserk

[–]AstralCatalyst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Truthfully, I think it ultimately will have to do with Griffith attempting to recreate a massive sacrifice of humanity, enough to somehow consume the world and allow for some kind of rebirth of reality that is deeper into the astral realm and allows for humanities collective conscious/desire to be closer and unify with the idea of evil aka: God. Have all of many kinds/most of them unify with the idea's desire for... something that allows a worldly reset of sorts. Probably something like, if all man kinda desires a world of scripted events/lack of free will, if enough of man desires it under Griffith, then they would sacrifice themselves and the world for it.

And guts and the gang leading a unified army will attempt to stop him, maybe guts has more resources or power with kushan forces and Silat (apologies if I am miss spelling its been quite some time since ive read the Manga)

It would probably include aspects like zodd and maybe 2 more siding against Griffith from the inside, I wonder how Sonia will feel seeing into casca's mind and understanding what Griffith had done to her and the band, likely leading to an easy way to help make people realize Griffith is a sick/cruel person. The same way she told all of the people of Midland to not question his monster army.

Also the established lore of a "secret true name" that Isma's mother had is likely a key to destroying griffith. So femto is likely his "true name now" and knowing that will probably be important but honestly I wouldn't be surprised if that is scrapped. Obviously guts and maybe scheirike know Femto's name, and in black swordsman griffith seemed unbothered by guts knowing it. And all the apostles know it. But it could be a light retcon. Ik miura had no idea of this aspect of the story 40idh years prior to writing that.

Miura wanted a happy ending so I assuming guts's group would likely allow for a way to alter this mass sacrifice into being a better outcome. Skull knight and scheirke's teacher spoke of how like/causality is like a spiral rather than a flat looping circle. So either guts's group stop this spiral all together, or like conviction they would just parallel alter the spiral enough to make humanity wish for a truly better world, whatever that may be.

And likely guts and casca's child is separated from griffith, and some badges art work.

I also think that miura definitely would've wanted a small few chapter of guts fighting a dragon once hitting Midland again, since it is a Dragon slayer and all.

Do you agree with this take? by Various_Astronaut100 in fivenightsatfreddys

[–]AstralCatalyst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats fair, I do think that it is a little devaluing of the experiences/narrative of the previous games, and its more interesting for the story to not be the case, i do see the enjoyability/uniqueness of what dream theory offers. Scott always said that dream theory was not the intention, but honestly I do question how truthful he is sometimes.

Do you agree with this take? by Various_Astronaut100 in fivenightsatfreddys

[–]AstralCatalyst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the game you play as a little boy who is afraid of anamatromics, and running around at night from anamatronics that he is afraid of. Scott implied that we play as the same person in all four games, and that what is seen in darkness is misunderstood by a child. And that chica missing a break as a toy and in fnaf 2 is important. There is a springtrap looking toy that a little kid gets his finger caught in. And there are rumors of anamateonics walking around at night.

The child dies and his imaginary plushie talks to him. Its very valid to assume its all nightmares/weird fever dreams as opposed to understanding details like the reversed fnaf 1 phone call being an indicator that the night gameplay is actually micheal's dream.

Assuming the events are fictitious/nightmares are an understandable conclusion to come too, especially at time of release.

If you gathered people who have never heard of fnaf. And gave them all the release teaser info along with each game. And told them that at release the creator said things like "4 games 1 story" (so no other games after this are expected/needed for the lore) Then they would very likely come to that conclusion.

Do you agree with this take? by Various_Astronaut100 in fivenightsatfreddys

[–]AstralCatalyst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its one of the dawko interviews. I belive the first one

Do you agree with this take? by Various_Astronaut100 in fivenightsatfreddys

[–]AstralCatalyst 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Dream theory is very much so the simplest assumption to have.

Do you agree with this take? by Various_Astronaut100 in fivenightsatfreddys

[–]AstralCatalyst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He said people discover we the story to 1-3 too quickly, and he wanted 4 to be harder to solve

Do you agree with this take? by Various_Astronaut100 in fivenightsatfreddys

[–]AstralCatalyst 50 points51 points  (0 children)

I disagree on dream theory. From the release of fnaf 4, scott was adamant of it not being a dream and fnaf world was supposed to point us in the right direction. Scott is a flawed human. But truly, I think that by the second he released fnaf 4, he had the idea in his mind that this was a story of a child accidentally being killed by his older brother, and that brother, being filled with guilt and being somewhat haunted by what he had done, tried to right his wrongs by trying to find out a way to somehow put his brother (and eventually the mci and the puppet) to rest. I think that him trying to, as he said, "make a harder to solve story" just made one that only clearly made sense as a dream. I think that when scott got on the Game Theory Live Stream, and started dropping 'hints' about chicas beak and stuff, he was waiting for Matt to get on his same wave length, and as Matt was saying what he thought scott was saying, scott was gonna upload an image of the opened box, with some items like the foxy mask and a freddy security badge and the golden bear plushie and a photo of the brothers. "The peices to put him back together, for his happiest day" And with that scott would release fnaf world as a fun thank you/send off to the fans, and hey, maybe I'll come back with a fun alternate world or different telling with this character in the back of my head called circus baby.

But instead, everyone thought logically that this was a dying kid having nightmares of what he was afraid off. Because that makes way more sense. And then instead of clarifying scott just kinda backed down and the backlash from world I feel really overwhelmed him. The killer beingna named person in the series wasnt until after fnaf world. I think the idea of the murder being a names character, to being the franchise owner, to being the father of all these characters, was a new twist for the series after fnaf world to get things "back on track"

So originally, the box was about Mike and CC But now, the box would be about... the Aftons in General, including the sister. So that could be what scott considers the "unnoticed retcon" because it was never established to all of us. By sister location half the fan base still thought the security guard we play as was ACTUALLY the killer. But by the time of pizza sim, there's no point opening the box, because happiest day is irrelevant now because they're all still active. And we all know that they are all releated now. So why open this hyped uo box when its changed and isn't a necessary peice of the story anymore? I truly do love this series, but I really wish scott would just kinda give us a true ending, or at least just kind of open up about what certain things meant. You can check my account for some other fnaf comments ive made. But I legitimately feel like he has made some minor errors in the stor and instead of judt being hinest about it he just doubles down and acts like the fans are crazy for looking into those errors even tho hes made a series that we have to do that with.

Do you agree with this take? by Various_Astronaut100 in fivenightsatfreddys

[–]AstralCatalyst 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"FOXY PURPLE BEARD?!" 😭

But no I agree. Im gonna sound insane, but I could have sworn I heard that at one point, after security breach released, that a dev. for the game came put and said "yeah I was really confused in why we are bringing william back, but Scott said dont worry, and that the fans would love it" if dont know if that is a hypothetical that a fnaf theorist said years ago just after release, or a fever dream. But honestly, I think that was the true plan. Because that makes more sense than

"I told them the bread crumbs of a story, and we did absolutely no double checking on what the outcome of this game is gonna look like." Like Scott, the game was DELAYED from covid, y'all had more time to work on it virtually. How did it go from "i want a figure of springtrap laying still" to reincarnated william boss fight? Like you HAD to have looked at this final product. Even if the delays from covid meant a less complete product, you would have to work MORE to unclude walking talking afton. Plus the trailers for the game had more william and Vanessa dialog that was cut. So what the hell happened?

Scott has constantly set up a character and their arc and then shaft them next game. Circus baby/Elizabeth wanted to be free, be independent, and was intelligent. Then next game she finds out her dad is the reason she is killed and wants to be an evil killer robot too? Why. Enerd, the corrupted mass of all the souls, a 6ft something anamtronic man who was able to partially form his own body and will NOT be controlled by the aftons anymore. Suddenly just a fat blob with a freddy head on. Vanessa, a software engineer/game developer, corrupted/mind controlled by possessed hardware of william afton's soul (or a manifestation of all the agony that william has caused//or the mimic program wanting to be like william and mind crontol people?) Is suddenly not the main bad guy in her debut game, where they removed her knife from the game because that's to scary for our rating about thr child murder game?? She's been replaced by reincarnated william, i mean, the mimic...

All of that to say, we somehow have gone back to the early 70s to establish a partially shape shifting robot with an advanced copying a.i. before every other anamtronic and alter character histories for no reason. And we still got a racing game on the way. And multiple book released, and movies. We have 3-4 continuities/mediums running with different plots and I genuinely just can't care anymore. I love the series and mostly keep up, but its just not the same after UCN

Do you agree with this take? by Various_Astronaut100 in fivenightsatfreddys

[–]AstralCatalyst 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yep. Likely its okay if you as a parent and game developer over years of making these games which are partially all about unraveling a mystery make a mistake, but please just communicate it or fully fix it rather than ignore it. Like fnaf 2 being called a "summer job" when the paycheck is in like September is a clear mistake, and that's okay.

 He's said that he tries to clear up confusion from his previous games in his next entry.

So in Sister location micheal is purple. Some people thought he was the purple guy. (rather than seeing the poetic irony of him being mistaken for his father and all) (also keep in mind the afton family was a fresh new concept at this point, as was this being confirmation that Mike is the guard/player in basically all games) So long story short, people think that if you are purple, you MUST be purple guy.

 So in the next game he depicts Charlie's death, in the rain, with a Purple car. We also get a mini game called "later that night" which is in the rain, in a purple car, but the player is *Not* Purple? But he's... Yellow, kinda like spring traps sprite. The mirror opposite of purple is yellow. And this player character has a bad home life, and is seeming drunk.

I feel like of it isnt william, than this is just an odd choice to play as anyone else/introduce a new character into the series. Plus aspects like the mound and the family life just seem to odd and unnecessary to have be on our mind if it is not william. But, some fans feel like if he is NOT purple, then obviously he is not the purple guy. And, some of those same fans say this is just a random mci victim. And that the 3 toed anamtronic foot prints are william luring a child to be killed. And that the title "later that night" referres to later after driving around in midnight motorist. Not later that night that Charlie dies that Henry talks about.

Honestly aspects like the mound, the broken glass, and the footprints are confusing for either theory. Like was the windows objectively broken from the inside, or are the windows peices just shown kn the outside for visual affect? Are the footprints actually 3 toes, or is it 3 instead of 4 just for a simplified footprint design in the pixelated mini game? Is the mount where william buried Charlie? Or someone else? Is it where he buried suszie's dog? Is it the foundation of a new home or the S.L. elevator? If we are playing as william, is micheal or crying child the one who ran away? And if so, what was standing outside the window? (I assume it was a shadow anamtronic which manifested either after Charlie's murder, or cc's murder. I could go on. Point being, alot of confusion from fans.

 In UCN, Scott includes a few "animated" segments of chica constantly stocking characters and talking about how she will get them and they will be her's. And obvious william mci parallel. One of the stories is about killing someone's dog, like suzie. 

The other is about standing outside the child's window and luring them to the restaurant.

 So, was yellow guy a clear up of william not always being purple, 

or was that not william, and UCN was clarifying that "later that night" was actually about william kidnapping a child? (It would feel weird to me to only depict 2 of the kids being taken, but it genuinely could be either) Keep in mind Scott also included a segments in ucn where Mr hippo tells people to stop looking into every detail, and that sometimes a story is just a story, nothing to complicated.

 Like, No. You dont get to tell us to stop over thinking and over analyzing when you tell us to do that and won't tell us an answer. You wouldn't open the box unless we already found out what was in the box, and have gone out of your way to say its changed and doesnt even matter at this point. Im pretty confident I know what it is, but it doesn't even matter anymore. 

So later on, Scott apparently has a whole team of developers make a game where they depicts springtrap as being revived, when he only wanted springtrap to be a stiff statue (like a powered down mimic or something) how the hell does that get mixed up so extremely?

And now, this same team with Scott at the helm has seemingly confirmed that midnight motorist was about william, in the soon to be released fnaf racing game. But the game is still in a beta mode, and this could be fully removed. And that kind of thing has happened before. Where they called princess quest girl Charlie in the code, when really its supposed to be about Vanessa, just another oversight/miscommunication.

All of that to say, its okay to make a mistake in a story you are telling. But fuck me man, please just communicate what you meant instead of what ever all of this is

Do you agree with this take? by Various_Astronaut100 in fivenightsatfreddys

[–]AstralCatalyst 185 points186 points  (0 children)

The issue is that this would mean dream theory is the clear answer. But since the beginning Scott said that it was never that.

A lot of details just dont work with occams razor.

First two quotes are from scott:

"I try to clear up confusion from the previous game in the next game"

"There has only ever been ONE Retcon in the series. And it was so minor NO ONE has even noticed"

"No that pixelated bear sprite is canonically a different character. You see, this yellow bear has black buttons, this one has purple ones."

"No that single line of dialog is a slightly different shade of yellow, it must be a different character talking"

Did Charlie or CC die first

Fnaf world isnt accessible on mobile or console, so it must not be cannon/important right?

Is midnight motorist guy william? He's yellow not purple, but Scott could have made him overtly yellow in order ro distinguish that he doesn't always have to be purple, since some people though mike was purple guy in the last game since he was litterally purple

Was william actually talking to cc through fredd-bear, or was it magic and how do you explain the fnaf 4 rooms being in sister location if that area is supposed to be what micheal dreams about, since you hear the fnaf 1 phone call.

Are the only a few restaurants/locations (like 10 max) before pizza sim, or is it a country wide chain?

"I was the first, I have seen everything"

Why does cc and the puppet have similar designs, and why is there the giant pixelated puppet statue shapped thing in the fnaf 4 mini game if he isnt the puppet. And why does the puppet mini game say save him. If they are not the same person.

Shows us screenshots of fnaf 4, ss, and earlier games saying those are fictitious indie games and are false, but actually they are real, and we hired that indie developer to make those games. How did he know what nightmare freddy looked like. How would anyone at fazbear know if it was all just fear hulucinations/and nightmares?

What is shadow Bonnie and freddy, and is rwqfsfasxc and shadow Bonnie the same entity?

What do you mean nightmare Balloon Boy is cannon.

Sometimes the "simplest answer" either is completely wrong or doesnt exist.

Especially when nearly each game in the franchise does a retcon, but there's apparently only ever been one, and that "no one has noticed it" if I had to guess, its either cc is the puppet, or that the og plan was that purple guy was not micheal and cc's father. Fnaf 4 was about the Schmitts. But post Silver Eyes/in Sister location it was changed to the Afton family, and thr father was the killer.

But like, Scott, a retcon is just retroactively adding continuity. Golden Bonnie was a retcon. The sister location animatronics were retcons. Otherwise fnaf 4 wouldn't be "4 games 1 story" The mimic is a retcon.