#video game theory

[cartoon-buffoon]

SPOILERS FOR FINDING FRANKIE

Real quick one little thing I love about Finding Frankie that I see people also going fucking crazy over is the OST/Final boss fight and the song playing during it. I've genuinely been listening to it on repeat and I don't really like dubstep but this song scratches apart of my brain that hasn't been scratched since I saw playtime with Percy and it's boss fight. Like seriously listen to → it, it's golden.

But also the "STOP MESSING WITH MY FUCKING GAMESHOW!" before the beat drop is something I find both terrifying and awesome at the same time. Before this we are led to believe monster Frankie is just that, a monster. It appears as nothing more than some beast that real Frankie sicks on us in attempt to end us and only actually stops when he realizes the MC being alive could boost ratings. It is just a monster that listens to the commands of the puppet master to kill and nothing more.

And then this boss fight happens where we get evidence that: NO! ITS SENTIENT AND INTELLIGENT! The Cartoon Frankie that hacks the TVs and cusses us out doesn't appear to be the real Frankie because it makes no sense for him to cuss us out only to then give us a business proposition. After all we are doing what we are SUPPOSED to be doing, we are in the final area providing content and boosting ratings, logically real Frankie would want us to CONTINUE because we are in no way ruining it. That just leaves the only other one who would want us dead— Monster Frankie. After all people are apparently betting who will kill us and with the Xs under Henry Hotline and Deputy Duck it's clear people anticipate us to die to Frankie and it seems like Frankie himself has had enough of our shit. This is HIS gameshow and he's enraged you are still alive.

I also believe this because for some reason real Frankie comes and hushes us as monster Frankie walks above in the sewer area. My theory is that after the vent sequence where real Frankie holds back monster Frankie from killing us, monster Frankie gets fed up with us living thus he's going on a direct path to murder us disobeying orders leaving real Frankie to come and help us get to the finale. It's his show where HE is the star, not us, and in the final conflict he lets out his rage by somehow hacking the TVs and telling us to just fucking die already showing that he's fully in control of all the slaughter he did. This is just a theory after all but it makes the most sense to me and adds a cool bit of detail to monster Frankie's character.

[athencrys]

The Worlds of Minecraft gone past

there are theory's about the natural spawning builds in Minecraft that were clearly build by someone of higher intelligence than the natural spawning entitys.

Things like ship wrecks, Ocean Monument, especially the ancient city's and most recently the trial chambers.

Theres the apocalypse theory of a long lost civilization leaving these thing as traces of their former glory with us never knowing who build these.

But it may be simpler than that

Minecraft at first, was an empty world. Then some Players joined and filled that empty World.

When new Players joined a while later, the World was not quite as empty anymore.

We were our own lost Civilization.

At least i have lost one big world where i build City's, Escape Rooms and Temples.

How many more have been forgotten or abandoned?

[redtoondevils]

I have an idea for the DCA, and the safety of controlling germs. I wonder if, they have some kind of special design in their lenses, to give them a photo imagery of germs such as mold.

And other substances like bacteria, and toxins that are harmful to kids. Like UV lights.

And also to be able to sniff out detectible powder as drug use, and all that. -And doing mold sniff checks for kids lunch. I think that'll be very useful.

[koilikethefishh]

The slime theory w Mavuika

This theory discusses leaks that may or may not be credible btw!

So, I was thinking about the slime theory for the archons, which, if you didn't know, is a theory where slimes give us clues abt the archons. The anemo slime can create a wind current like Venti can, geo slime creates shield like Zhongli can, there are two versions of the electro slime like Ei and Makoto, the dendro slime can create smaller versions of itself like Nahida and Rukkadehvata, and the slimes you see when fighting the hydro hypostasis have a self-damaging version and a self healing version similar to Furina and Focalors.

So, looking at the pyro slime, the thing I picked up on was that it blows up when you kill it, as kind of a last ditch effort to damage your character. How this applies to Mavuika, I'm thinking that she might destroy herself to destroy capitano. I really doubt he'd be playable, considering that, if I'm not mistaken, he destroyed his vision when he got it. He'll probably just be a weekly boss like Signora, but I won't really know for sure until we see his model in game, because if he has a bunch of details like Signora did, and he doesn't have a bottom-of-shoe design, it'll be more evidence to him not being playable.

Also, considering there hasn't been any leaks for pyro traveller, and there's a leaked venti voiceline that talks about the pyro archon giving her power to us, this might be more possible. If Hoyo doesn't have the guts to kill her off, though, my guess would be that she destroys the pyro gnosis to keep the fatui from getting their hands on it/to separate herself from celestia like when Focalors destroyed the hydro throne.

Although, I'm not sure how columbina would play in this, considering that she's the other harbinger in Natlan, and according to the fatui symbol theory, we'll have to fight her before we fight capitano.

anyways, that's all I have to say really. I'm excited for the story, hope Hoyo doesn't butcher it like they did Inazuma. Natlan story quest is probably gonna be long asf though, considering the AQ's are getting longer.

[pivziksixdude]

OH MY GOD.

You want to know something really interesting I just noticed?

In Ouranos Island in Sonic Frontiers, Super Sonic takes to the skies and defeats The End after receiving help from Sage.

Ouranos (or Uranus) was the primordial god of the sky in Greek mythology.

In White Space in Shadow Generations, Shadow gains the Doom Wing ability and can glide through the air.

Plus, The End and Black Doom are among the most evil Sonic villains, and plotted to use the protagonists' powers against them (Sonic inadvertently starts unsealing The End, while Black Doom strengthens with each Doom Power that Shadow gains).

Do you think that Shadow Generations is secretly a similarly themed mini sized version of Sonic Frontiers?

[birchtreecat]

yk what always made me wonder about Oxenfree? How long it took for everyone to notice that this isn’t reality. How long it took for people to go “oh, shit, this is a loop”

For Alex I feel like she was one of the first to notice, considering she was the one who “started” it all in the first place, especially considering her loop consisted of her dead brother Micheal.

But Nona? Rex? Clarissa? Jonas? What about later on, with Olivia? Would the loop have changed once they realized it was a loop to the horrors it seemed to be? Or would it just always *be* the horrors? Because at the beginnings of a loop, it almost seems to trap you with what’s on your mind- for Alex, it was her biological brother. For Olivia, it seemed to be her parents at the center of it. For Riley, her unborn kid Rex, and the future that would come with them. But what about after they get trapped? Are they stuck in the same hell day that they were trapped in the loop? Or do they blissfully enjoy things until something happens to break that, be it inner guilt or realization of what’s going on?

there’s so much about this game that I have so many questions for but all the devs just go “teehee secret :3” and I swear they enjoy the fan base’s ramblings and theories.

[fazbear-entertainment-logs]

A Problem With Theorizing Part 3

Now that Part 1 and Part 2 have laid the groundwork it's time to get into the point of all this.

To being off I would like to point out that a theory in the public vernacular is equivalent to a hypothesis in science. While a theory in science is far more sound can closer to a law like the theory of Gravity and Evolution.

A hypothesis or in this case general public view of the word theory is something that isn't inherently true and can be disproven.

But also, it is created via speculation and doesn't blatantly ignore information in order to craft it.

So why do I bring this up?

Well remember in Part 1 the mention of people nowadays saying his theories has gone down hill and he is spreading misinformation.

Well you see the thing is his theories haven't gone downhill, and they have always spread misinformation.

So in a post I have made on my Mario lore blog I detailed why I don't like Game Theory and brought up a quote from MatPat that originates from a now deleted Inside A Mind Video. MatPat said the following.

"You control the story. Don't feel like you have to talk about everything. Focus on the strongest evidence and brush aside some of the weaker moments or parts THAT MAY CONTRADICT WHAT IT IS YOU'RE trying to prove. For good example, look at the MARIO IS MENTAL series of videos--- I really focus in on that shoe grinding moment and AVOID ALL MENTION OF THE GOOD THINGS MARIO HAS DONE THROUGHOUT THE SERIES, In that way, I'm able to direct the viewer focus to what is going to be most compelling for the overall story I'm trying to tell."

Now to bring back the pins, MatPat has said

"Hey if and when we get stuff wrong that's great too. We're okay with that it just means that we have more to theorize about."

"Isn't that you just falling into the same trap that you, the internet

accusers, have leveled at me? You say that I ignore evidence. That I don't do my research. That I ignore key details just to forward my intended narrative. But isn't that exactly what you're doing there? I mean, look at the facts."

" I am here having fun in my little corner of the internet trying to solve silly video game mysteries with a cool team around me and an awesome community of theorists. I would love you internet critics to join us. That would be awesome. We are an open-minded community. We are welcoming. We embrace you with open arms in the most fan-friendly way possible, but not in a way that's going to get us cancelled. But for the people over on Reddit and Twitter who accuse me and all the other theorists of ignoring important information for the sake of forwarding our own version of a narrative just because we don't care about this franchise, ask yourself honestly, who's really the closed-minded ones here? We're the ones pointing out this information. We're the ones who are trying to solve what all this means. To ignore it, that actually feels disrespectful to the franchise."

Now with the context of MatPat outright admitting to purposefully ignoring information that would contradict a theory he is crafting and intending to present using his Mario is Mental videos as the prime example.

This sheds a light on the comments where he says it is okay if they get things wrong, that they are open minded.

The claim he is ignoring important information for the sake of forwarding his own narrative and that he ignores evidence, is something he has admitted to having intentionally done.

From there he projects and accuses his detractors of being the people who are close minded and that they are ignoring the facts.

Keep in mind Mario Is Mental is a video he himself brought up trying to claim he doesn't cherry pick.

But it's one thing to claim he has done this and not show he has done this so let's do so.

In his Mario Is Mental video he makes several false claims in which I will bring up multiple that can been mentioned swiftly and shortly while abiding by information available in 2013 say for one example.

He claims Mario is running a Circus in Donkey Kong Circus when the only details we get about this game is Mario is watching the performance implying he is probably part of the audience.

He lied about the purpose of the magic whip.

He ignored the context of Mario's relationship with the Kongs.

He painted Wigglers as harmless ignoring Wigglers work for Bowser, the Wiggler placed on the Sandbird's egg was there because of Junior and was aggressive, and ignored the dialogue of the Wiggler in SM64.

He ignored the context of Cheep Cheeps also being part of Bowser's Army and do intend to do harm(Btw the info in this link has some information post 2013 but not all is) to Mario.

He not only lied about about Mario punching Yoshi, but in a later video titled Game Theory: Super Mario…BETRAYED! he quote mined an article to claim Nintendo confirmed it.

He ignored player's choice and other lore details that proved Mario doesn't drop Yoshi into a pit.

He brings up Luigi's Diary and ignores the context Luigi has been on countless adventures up to the point of Paper Mario 64.

He ignores the the fact that Luigi accidentally closed the door on himself in NSMBW which was shown in footage in his very own video.

He brought up Mario Is Missing which is just a major no, alongside ignoring Luigi's Mansion and Partner's In Time.

He brought up Power Tennis and ignores the context of the various victory animations in it and sibling being siblings. The very thing he brought up.

He just made stuff about Daisy and Pauline.

He straight up lied about Mini-Land Mayhem, in addition to the very same video showing there was a Peach toy.

He ignored the rest of the SMB Manual and falsely claimed Mario was killing Toads.

He falsely claimed Mario kills Goombas when stomping on them ignoring the context of how this works in the games.(Btw the info in this link has some information post 2013 but not all is) All while bringing up an unnecessary information about elephants.

This is not the only time he has done this, many of his theories have done this blatant spreading of misinformation and ignoring contradictory evidence all to craft a narrative.

These include Rosalina UNMASKED, Bowser's BROKEN HOME, Luigi's SECRET Identity, Toad's DEADLY Secret, Super Mario…BETRAYED!, The END of Princess Peach!, Yoshi's Identity Crisis! What is a Yoshi?, You Are WRONG About Toad!, The SECRET Family of Waluigi?!, Mario is IMMORTAL!, Mario Is A FRAUD!, Mario RPG SOLVED!, Pokemon GO's TRAGIC END!, Pokemon Are Going EXTINCT!, Mewtwo's Secret Human Clone!, The Sonic Speed videos, Sonic is Lying…AGAIN!, How Mega Man DOOMED Humanity!, Who is Mega Man's TRUE Villain?, etc.

Among many of his other theories from whether it be Splatoon, Zelda, Halo, Metroid, Undertale, For Honor, Ace Attorney, etc. etc. etc.

I'd also note MatPat treats his critics like they don't have any solutions when they criticize him, when that is far from being true.

Continues in the Final Part.

[perch-the-cat]

Idk why but this morning I woke up with the idea of a Mario conspiracy (this isn't part of my headcanon it's just a conspiracy I came up with)

So you know the sunken ghost ship from Super Mario World and how it was a ship from SMB3, well what if originally there was supposed to be a boss for Dinosaur Land in SMB3 but the ship sunk. But who would be the boss? Well you know Blue Bowser (Bowser's alleged brother) what if he was meant to be the boss of Dinosaur Land or a Koopaling we never found out about? What if they are one of the boos in that level

Well, it might not be true but I feel like that's a good theory-

[afewnovelideas]

I've been following FNAF Security Breach and the new DLC Ruin and I've got some theories:

Could the Mimic be Patient 46 instead of Gregory?

I was thinking about how the Mimic had copied Gregory to manipulate Cassie, and something about that reminded me of something I heard on the Patient 46 tapes from the original SB game. So I searched for transcripts of the tapes.

(https://freddy-fazbears-pizza.fandom.com/wiki/Retro_CDs)

On CD 15-4678, I found the line that sparked my idea:

Note: A fifth therapist has replaced the fourth.

Therapist: I saw some inkblot test results in your file. I like inkblot tests. You want to do one? Yes? Okay. How about this one? What do you see? What? You want to hold it? Okay.

Therapist: You think it's a mask? It reminds you of a mask, like a disguise? Yeah, I can see that. You like the idea of being disguised? Disguises let you be sort of invisible, don't they? You can get away with almost anything when you're invisible, can't you? Yeah? You like that idea, huh? Well okay, moving on. I have another report we need to talk about. Apparently, the techs were reviewing communications going in and out of this building and they came across some interesting things. They say you were in communication with someone, or maybe something. pretty strange. What do you think about that? Nothing? Well the techs say it looked to them like it was an attempt to manipulate you, or maybe to lure you somewhere.

Therapist: There, that's better. On this side of the desk I can see your eyes. The thing is, when I read the communications I get something different out of them. I don't think you're being manipulated here. I think you're the one doing the manipulating.Huh? Ok... then how about this? I have this still shot the techs pulled from the security footage that recorded you in the pizzaplex. That's you, isn't it? I know this image is distorted but I think it looks like you. And you're not alone here. You're talking to someone, or something. it's hard to tell. What are those things? They almost look like rabbit ears. What? You find that amusing? Well I guess it is.

When I read through the rest of the Patient 46 transcripts, the more I think it makes better sense that the therapist is talking to the Mimic overeat of either Gregory or Vannessa's "Vanny" persona.

What if Patient 46 was the Mimic, and these "therapy sessions" were regular check ins to determine how this AI's personality was developing over time, or to investigate if the animatronic was trying to escape their confines in the underground bunker beneath the Pizzaplex and how they were doing it?

[mellohd]

Sitting here psycho analyzing Overtime over lunch, I also have like 6/7 pages of notes. THIS IS SO FUNNN I NEED TO DO THIS MOREE

After I take notes on Bleeding Edge I’m gonna do a more in depth character analysis of everyone I deem important! My brain is just rapid firing theories rn

PLEASE PLEASE SOMEONE ASK ABOUT MY THEORIES 😭😭😭

Again if you have any theories, interesting facts or screenshots etc please dm me, put it in my asks or comments! I’m making a video essay/wiki article over Overtime as a passion project hahaha

[thejesterofmoths]

(POST 3, SPORE)

(This part is background information, and not the story I've pieced together)

For the last post about background, I'll talk about Steve.

Steve is the only character in all of Spore who speaks audible, human words, whichever your game is set to be in, in my case, English.

When you pass the Grox, and venture far enough, you will find a large, glowing ball. Several times larger than a star, but too neat to be anything else.

You click on this orb, out of genuine curiosity. You have no idea what might happen, you hold your breath, and you watch your ship move slowly towards it.

I only suspected that there was more to Spore, because I got Dancing With The Devil, and found that the game might be more than it appeared. I was playing this game for more than ten years when I clicked on that orb. There was never any mystery until maybe a month before that.

The game pauses for a moment. Everything pauses. Silence, static, peace. Perhaps the game has crashed, spore is known for crashing at the worst of times. When was the world saves last, anyw.. oh.

The ship floats slowly towards the center again, and you scroll impatiently down.

You're met with a cut scene.

A small, silly robot, with a goofy, energetic voice introduces himself as Steve. What a silly name, Steve.

Steve offers a gift. A staff of life, which allows you to entirely terraform a planet with a single click. You found him, and in the moment, it feels like Steve is a genie in a bottle.

Joyous, and excited, Steve rambles on. And then the cut scene ends.

The grox begin to attack again, but when you check your terraforming panel, you find your hard earned staff of life.

If you haven't yet learned, the Grox can only live on a T0 planet. Curious..

You ponder for a few moments, and then realize that you did not encounter a genie.

You. Encountered. Spode. The Source. STEVE. As far as you can tell, you met this world's godthing.

You did not know that there was a final boss, and you thank the stars that this games final boss is your friend.

[cartoon-buffoon]

A thing I noticed immediately when watching Finding Frankie and was an inconsistenty is the footage not used from one of the earlier trailers because THIS was the trailer I saw that got me properly excited for this game. In the official game trailer released 7 months ago (not the release date trailer which features the fall guys inspired characters dying before it switched to game footage). You can see some stuff NOT used in the final game and I wanna show them, break them down, and give my opinion on why the ending we got feels a bit... Weird? Disjointed? Yeah disjointed, let's go with that.

Okay for starters we see an sequence where we actually are in our apartment and the cereal box is poofed onto the counter, I'm assuming this was placing it on there and this entire environment was scrapped for what is now the ending cutscene where we see our apartment as Real Frankie talks to us

I'm assuming this was cut for time constraints and to get straight into the action. Who cares about a sequence where we have the player physically opening the cereal box when we ya know—can solve everything by simply showing a cutscene which gets the point across better and is a thousand times more cinematic? But ya know in the ending area we do get to walk through our apartment so they didn't COMPLETELY wanna scrap the environment so they repurposed it.

Okay second off is the character who I'll refer to as "Buddy" (like Boris in BATIM)

Now this comes RIGHT AFTER you put on the suit and we can clear as day see this was a section almost entirely cut from the game. This isn't the starting line and another contestant awaits us. I find this interesting because it leads me to believe Buddy over here was gonna be some sort of helper. During this sequence where we see Buddy during the trailer a voice line Real Frankie has goes unused but it's in this trailer, he can be curiously heard saying "The mask conceals your voice and identity to avoid cheating with other contestants!" Which is kinda an odd thing to say which leads me to believe Buddy was gonna be possibly our version of a tutorial however Buddy would still be killed because as well all know: Frankie hates cheaters. The line "the other contestants have mysteriously died... Not sure how that happened but oh well!" Meaning the idea of us being the sole survivor was always set in stone but sadly Buddy was nothing more than a corpse in the current game we got.

Third is something I wanna note because this line appears in the old trailer, went used in the game, but makes no sense? Now we all know of the whiteboard with the status of the contestants on it

We are lucky contestant number 3, yet for some reason contestant number 4 is MIA for some reason... Now the reason why this makes no sense is because the broadcast states 3 bodies were found yet only 2 are marked terminated??? This is weird because we actually only see 2 death's on screen (ehhh 1/2)

We all know of the CRUNCH Monster Frankie gives the one cheater who gets a headstart, but after he dies it's at this point the player probably gets jump scared so they don't see it but an animation plays of Monster Frankie reaching over and plucking the second contestant up like a piece of candy. Now while this is happening the fourth contestant actually WALKS BACKWARDS AND OUT

My man does a back pedal, immediately avoiding this and seemingly leaving. According to the police report though that's not the case, we never see it but it seems after Frankie munched on the first 2 he went for the fourth contestant leaving us, lucky number 3, alive. Now the reason why I find this so interesting is because despite what the police report says, Real Frankie has yet to mark contestant number 4 as dead which wouldn't make sense? If Real Frankie saw the first 2 die logically he'd also be able to witness Monster Frankie pry open the shutter the 4th contestant is hidden behind and kill him. But he doesn't? This is where my theory comes in about the very odd ending:

I don't think we were meant to survive, but rather contestant number 4 was supposed to steal our winnings?

Like the ending of us plummeting into the incinerator REALLY does make it seem like we die and this bitch comes in after hiding behind a door the entire time and goes "lemme get that 5 million" because everything is already taken care of. Consider contestant number 4 is MIA and we don't exactly know why it really does seem the intended ending was that we die and number 4 steals our cash prize. However the police report contradicts this seeming like contestant numbers 1, 2, and 4 all died by Frankie leaving us all alone and alive. My explanation?: the devs just didn't really bother recording lines or redoing cutscenes to fix any mistakes they had when scrapping this idea, it's why ya know in the ending cutscene it's made apparent we ARE the winners as contestant number 3. Like all things considering, and I'm definitely not calling them lazy, I think this was a case of not exactly caring about the lore because ultimately this game wishes to set itself apart from other horror games thus the VERY LITTLE lore and concrete explanations we get.

Idk that's all for now, just some neat stuff I thought I'd point out

[whateverwords33]

God of War Theory

I believe the next game will focus on...

Roman Mythology

To clarify, I believe this will be a one-off game and not their next major title. Similar to Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales or Uncharted: The Lost Legacy.

• Spoilers •

After what happened in Ragnarok and Atreus now doing his own thing, Kratos could make his way back home to Greece to reflect on everything. But on his way back...he stumbles into the land of Roman mythology.

In my vision, the Gods would resemble their Greek counterparts but be their own person, like twins. This would let Kratos interact with these Gods "again." The major conflict could be the Gods are worried when they find out who he is, because they have heard the story of their Greek twins perishing to their new God of War. While Kratos is trying to show them he's a different man now, they will attack him and Kratos will fight back in self-defense, but he's ultimately aiming for peace. He's trying to show them he's a different person, not the same God of War in the stories they know. This will let Kratos reflect on his past and come to terms with what happened and accept who he is as a person. He's grown, he's not just a killer; he can be someone worthy of praise, like the mural he saw at the end of Ragnarok. With this closure, he can move on from his past and not let it haunt him anymore.

Then he will go off to somewhere new...like Egypt for the next major title.

TLDR; Kratos visits family on his Dad's side

[redtoondevils]

I do have a theory in regarding to Six's appearance. I don't know if this is thought about, by more people. What if one of the crows, specifically the one that landed on the suitcase, is Six?

The game is heavily subjected towards crows. These kids has magic, this can be speculated, that they can shapeshift. Certain ones could do.

Six in particular having dark magic, very much associated with the Northwind from the comics. This idea could likely suggest, that Six is the one that turned into the bird, and is watching the new protagonists from afar. The birds don't seem to be hostile.

Unless, of their mechanics prove me otherwise, and they are actually there to swoop into you, once you get into their range. So, it is not known at the moment. But, it's one possibility.

[ghostsonholiday]

Newest Lethal Company video. Lore, skits... and I did the thumbnail art myself!!

[prokopetz]

As far as wild-ass Deltarune fan theories go, I don't think "the prophecy is already fucked because Dess was supposed to be the second hero and Susie was supposed to be the Roaring Knight, but for unknown reasons they've traded places" is really how it's going to go down, but I admit it has a pleasing symmetry.