they’re just emulating the PS1 version straight up

It probably didn’t. Theatres take a big chunk of the box office. Half of the worldwide total is a very rough rule of thumb.

I wonder if that reaction directly led to lower box office for Dead Reckoning. “Another movie without an ending? Fuck that.”

Fast X and Across the Spider-Verse?

She’s younger than Hayley Atwell though. There can’t be too many hit franchises that kill off the female lead only to replace her with an older female lead.

It was likely a deliberate choice. For its faults, compared to most other two-part movies, Dead Reckoning managed to find a relatively satisfying place to end. I suspect that was achieved by largely backgrounding the Entity in part 1 with the intent of bringing it properly to the fore in part 2.

I never bothered with a Pro, and I don’t remember any games being unplayable (even Cyberpunk ran okay on a base PS4, aside from the bugs).

1) It’s not every 3 years. The last few generations have lasted ~7 years each.
2) Because everyone being on the same hardware is the one major benefit of consoles over PCs, for both developers (games can be properly optimised because they don’t need to take account of infinite hardware variations) and players (you…

Rock of Ages?

Which would make sense, given it’s a flashforward.

Except it’s entirely possible that, as far as Kojima is concerned, Akio Otsuka is THE definitive voice for Snake.

Is it possible that OB wasn’t just remembering things, but that Loki was actually changing time in the TVA?

Not that crazy. Presumably, Kojima was never entirely happy with Hayter’s performance, but didn’t find anyone closer to what he wanted (or more famous, if you prefer) until MGSV, so in the meantime, Hayter would keep getting the role by default.

It could be that they’re all just regular stormtroopers in janky armor, but that’s the least likely—and least interesting—explanation.

But April 26th 2011 is still 6 months before shooting started, so if that script didn’t contain any running naked down the street and otherwise closely matches the final film, either the scene was added after the “last draft” (far from impossible, but it seems awfully random to add one scene and then drop it right as…

it has an unnecessary, and therefore suspicious review embargo

Here’s a quick guide to the comic continuations. It’s not that complicated, but there is a ton of stuff.

Same formula, different family, still fun

Totally agreed — the lore was kinda interesting in the first one, but it was never going to stand up to the scrutiny of further exploration, and it really, really didn’t. But I would add that Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 not having endings is right up there too.

A mod? Nah, Bethesda should create an official patch that automatically does that for any reference to the player character if it detects this mod in use.