"Konami Announces 'Metal Gear Survive,' Shows It Doesn't Understand 'Metal Gear'"

[kane_magus]

"Following the departure of Hideo Kojima from Konami, the publisher has taken over the Metal Gear reins and announced Metal Gear Survive. A multiplayer shooter that seems to have very little to do with what Metal Gear is about."

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Wait, hold on, you mean that Konami is still trying to make video games? I thought they gave all that up to get into mobile bullshit and pachinko horseshit. ¬_¬

So... multiplayer-only Metal Gear, huh? Yep, that sounds about as terrible of an idea as multiplayer-only Legacy of Kain and online-only Shenmue.

Rest in piss, Konami. Stick a fork in them. They're done.

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[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

Since I can't view Forbes articles I did a search to find details elsewhere.

"Set directly after the events of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, Survive sees the members of Militaires Sans Frontières not killed in that game’s finale transported through wormholes into an alternate universe, where they’re forced to battle a force of crystalline zombies and, it seems, at least one Metal Gear itself."

Yeeaaaaahh... Ok. Glad I'll be missing the game.

I was going to try to watch the trailer but the one on youtube is flagged to require you to log in to verify your age. Sure hope they aren't trying to market it to the pre-18 multiplayer crowd.

I'm willing to bet their "new take" on the Stealth aspects of the Megal Gear franchise essentially means "no take" on stealth as you fight through legions of fake zombies.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Forbes articles are annoying for me in that they try to load that pointless (advertisement laden) "Thought of the Day" splash screen bullshit the first time you try to load an article on that site (or maybe it's per browser session, I don't know), which then just redirects to plain www.forbes.com without actually loading the article. In any case, if you just try to load the page a second time, after closing the tab, it usually loads like it should, or at least it does for me.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Well, either that or you have forbes.com blacklisted on NoScript, in which case, yeah, it won't load at all.

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

I don't have a blacklist on NoScript, I technically have a Whitelist. A very small whitelist at that (maybe 2-3 sites). Beyond that for the sites I do actually make use of I'll temporarily allow them until the browser closes if need be.

After Forbes failed to weed out malware from their advertising earlier this year (or was it last year?) I just have no desire at ALL to whitelist them, even temporarily. It's not like they're going to pay me to fix any damage they help do to my computer if malware gets hosted by their ads again.

As such, I'll just get my news elsewhere.

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

On a semi-kinda related note, for the last few months I've been pondering maintaining a list. A list of articles pointing out every instance of stupidity/incompetence/etc by companies and the like regarding failures to safeguard their systems and customer data.

Probably the only thing that's been staying my hand at attempting it is because the damned task feels like it'd be a Full Time Job. (Seriously, has there been a day that goes buy where you don't discover a new mishandling of customer data (stolen data kept in readable plain-text), of malware being hosted on ad networks, of DDoS attacks (rather small fish in the ocean of stupidity I admit.), of vulnerable IoT devices (in more recent cases, such devices being hacked by exploits to be added to botnets among other things), and the list goes on and ON.

Part of me gets exhausted thinking of the amount of updating that list would need. Part of me gets depressed at what that exponentially growing list tells us.

[dmjewelle.livejournal.com]

All I'm imagining is everyone sneaking around zombies and people saying it sucks because "there's nobody else online". That's what a MGS online game should be.