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BT The P: This duplicates Mission Control, but maybe the video game version is unique enough to spin off.
Morgan Wick: If so, some parts of the description will need to be removed or reworded, as as it stands, it shuttles from being a linear-fiction trope and a video game trope.
Seth: I see very little difference if any between this and Mission Control
Fly: I agree, but I think the key difference is the completely unexplained audio and visual feed. For example, in the MGS example, Iroquois Pliskin (to avoid incredibly obvious spoilers) provides background information on the story, characters, and the main character's weapons and equipment. To trigger a conversation about a weapon, the main character has to have it equipped, at which point Pliskin will launch into a speech starting 'Looks like you've got a [gun name here] there' or something to that effect, and go on to explain about it. But he has NO POSSIBLE WAY of knowing. Metal Gear Solid 3 takes this to an egregious level. While the Pliskin example could be handwaved away with the applied Nanomachines showing up everywhere in that game, MGS3 is set in the 60s and has no such access. And yet Para-Medic is still able to cheerfully start speeches with 'Looks like you've caught a [animal name here]...'.
Another key difference is that Mission Control is only ever contacted for plot purposes. Voice With An Internet Connection is also about 1) exposition to help immersion ('That gun you're weilding is a Troperville TL-DR, developed in the twenty-first century to combat ignorance'), 2) gameplay hints ('While running, press the X button to perform a dive-roll'), 3) meaningless banter to add flavour and personality and fun for the Fan Fic writers ('Are you smoking? A great man in the East once said...'), and 4) a vehicle for plot speculation (usually taking the form of 'I can't believe that [plot element] actually happened!') so that the main character doesn't look like a complete idiot.
Seth: Instead of two identical tropes with only minor differences, wouldn't it be better to expand Mission Control to include those features?
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