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Hideo Kojima’s New Horror Game is Dubbed “Overdose”

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Tom Henderson has stated on his twitter that Kojima Productions have reached out to him to remove the article.

 
Aunt Carol said:
Wouldn't that tweet make you archive the article?

Not very much info, but interesting.
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No, because this isn't the lolcow part of the site, it isn't that important and as you said it's not much info other than "his game is called Overdose, and it's a horror game with a flashlight that may or may not be both a 3rd person and 1st person game"
 
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here's some activities to celebrate the occasion:
- grillin'
- doing arts and crafts projects that require scissors
- gazing at the sunset
- make 9/11 look like a fucking joke
 
hi guys it's time for me to doublepost again.
i dreamed about being in the big shell and vamp was there :) and snake

then i crushed an old lady with multiple cars.
 
Got a question that's been bothering me. How would Outer Heaven work if it never got wrecked by the machinations of Zero? Would it just be one of many countries out there or would it end up taking the world somehow?

Because from what I could tell, Outer Heaven is more or less a military dictatorship with the emphasis placed on soldiers being citizens.
 
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ZazietheBeast said:
Got a question that's been bothering me. How would Outer Heaven work if it never got wrecked by the machinations of Zero? Would it just be one of many countries out there or would it end up taking the world somehow?

Because from what I could tell, Outer Heaven is more or less a military dictatorship with the emphasis placed on soldiers being citizens.
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Imagine a force that could actively compete with NATO hanging out on the African coast. They're also big on hiring, doing or being. Sometimes they don't care about consent when they really want to do some hiring. They don't need much land, or resources, due to the insane GDP of being a global military trump card anyone can buy. Governance at all is a secondary concern, as the whole thing is a weird hybrid of a military and a corporation, and both those things can get away with a boatload of shit when they're rich.

It would never work, of course. Even if they hadn't been instantly fucked into oblivion by all the world powers running a train on them - and that's really the only way a situation like that could have played out - it couldn't have survived more than a generation or two removed from the cult of personality of Big Boss, if that. Everyone would get super rich or super dead for a little bit, though.
 
BillionBisonBucks said:
Imagine a force that could actively compete with NATO hanging out on the African coast. They're also big on hiring, doing or being. Sometimes they don't care about consent when they really want to do some hiring. They don't need much land, or resources, due to the insane GDP of being a global military trump card anyone can buy. Governance at all is a secondary concern, as the whole thing is a weird hybrid of a military and a corporation, and both those things can get away with a boatload of shit when they're rich.

It would never work, of course. Even if they hadn't been instantly fucked into oblivion by all the world powers running a train on them - and that's really the only way a situation like that could have played out - it couldn't have survived more than a generation or two removed from the cult of personality of Big Boss, if that. Everyone would get super rich or super dead for a little bit, though.
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Outer Heaven is really cool if you don't think about it too much. In the original games it made enough sense for 8-bit games but when Kojima tried to make even more sense of the MG lore in the Solid series Outer Heaven just raises questions that can't have good answers.
 
ZazietheBeast said:
Got a question that's been bothering me. How would Outer Heaven work if it never got wrecked by the machinations of Zero? Would it just be one of many countries out there or would it end up taking the world somehow?

Because from what I could tell, Outer Heaven is more or less a military dictatorship with the emphasis placed on soldiers being citizens.
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Outer Heaven being a "nation-state" is overblown in my opinion and honestly one of those things that Kojima should have more heavily retconned or explained as the series got more realistic/serious.

Outer Heaven in South Africa is no different from Mother Bases in the Caribbean and Seychelles. It's a headquarters where they conduct their business that is left to their own devices by the nations they occupy/border.

Big Boss wasn't interested in running a nation, he was interested in running a mercenary business and living outside (and eventually fighting) Patriot control and systems. Outer Heaven is the "dream" and he has referred to all of his bases/companies as Outer Heaven at points.

The best parallel would probably be the company towns of the early 20th century in the United States or Fordlandia in Brazil. Elon Musk himself has even talked about Starbase in a way that makes it sound similar to this concept.

Outer Heaven in South Africa being classified as a nation should have been one of those things that was later explained as simply that they were entirely self sufficient or that it was a classification made once the US/Patriots decided to openly attack them for having nuclear weapons/Metal Gear.

Zanzibar Land is the same situation as well, we just get more background on the state that supports Outer Heaven (or in this case, the nation that Outer Heaven supports). Big Boss wasn't the dictator of Outer Heaven, but he was given defacto military control of the nation as it was he and his men that provided the military might that allowed them to win their independence. This is really the only case that comes close to "Outer Heaven" becoming a nation, but it's more that they are just officially recognized as the military of said nation.
 
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Milwaukee Macho Man said:
Outer Heaven in South Africa being classified as a nation should have been one of those things that was later explained as simply that they were entirely self sufficient or that it was a classification made once the US/Patriots decided to openly attack them for having nuclear weapons/Metal Gear.
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I figured it was kind of like Transnistria, semi-recognized breakaway state except in this case funded by war money instead of organized crime. Outer Heaven's military power could make it a 500-pound gorilla, and you might justify letting them squat on your land as a symbiotic relationship, not to mention that it'd be really difficult to make them leave.
Milwaukee Macho Man said:
Zanzibar Land is the same situation as well, we just get more background on the state that supports Outer Heaven (or in this case, the nation that Outer Heaven supports). Big Boss wasn't the dictator of Outer Heaven, but he was given defacto military control of the nation as it was he and his men that provided the military might that allowed them to win their independence. This is really the only case that comes close to "Outer Heaven" becoming a nation, but it's more that they are just officially recognized as the military of said nation.
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Some day I would really like an explanation of why it was called "Zanzibarland." All I can think of is that actual Zanzibar was also an autonomous region (at the time?), but it seems rude to just use a different country's name for your own country.

Think of all the mail that gets mixed up between Austria and Australia in real life.
 
Yeah, in the 23 years I've been playing MGS I've never once saw an actual reasoning or explanation for why he chose Zanzibar Land as the name.

I can't even find a definitive answer on if it was Kojima who referred to it as "Zanzibar" in MGS as shorthand or if it was a translation mistake, since it was changed back to Zanzibar Land in Twin Snakes as far as I recall.

Hell, I'd still like to know if Kojima placing Tselinoyarsk in the same geographic area that Zanzibar Land was said to be in was supposed to mean anything or what. I know the MGS4 novelization apparently claims Tselinoyarsk became Zanzibar Land after the Soviet Union split but I wonder if that was an actual idea he was toying around with in his head or not.
 
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