lol Metal Gear
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Still not done with MGS4 yet. Partway through the third act, but that's all. So no spoilers here.
I <3 wtf-land.
There have been some cool missions - keeping it vague, we've done some tracking of people without being spotted, letting the tracking lead us to the right place. As Bethla Sluice was the refreshingly different stage objective in FFT, so was this the refreshingly different objective of a Metal Gear stage.
In typical Kojima fashion, EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES LOL
That goes for the ones you'd expect (lol [spoiler] is [spoiler], and [spoiler] is the [spoiler spoiler]), but that goes double for stuff that you hadn't even really considered was even still vaguely relevant. hi MG2! hi a name dropped precisely once in the entire canon and never mentioned again
Oh right, good job on that, Konami, that whole bit where you re-released MGS1-3 in a bundle, called it the "Essentials" collection, left out the extra disc from Subsistence, then proceeded to make information from the MSX games actually be relevant. Thanks.
Those familiar with my feelings about women in the MGS universe - that they're pretty much only there to be seductresses, mothers, or damsels to distress to the male lead upon the woman's injury/kidnapping/death, as particularly exemplified by every female character in MGS2 (but also backed up by most of MGS3's female cast) - will be "delighted" to hear that it only partially holds true so far!
One of my other general gaming pet peeves is cropping up too, but I'll hold off on that for now.
And you know, she'll never forgive that womanizing piece of shit.
The public urination sequences have begun. At least, unlike with MGS2, no one got peed on.
Also it kinda feels like the MGS:PortOps extended dance remix, particularly in the first act, but, whatever.
Also feels kinda Half-Life-ish, an impression not helped by the random Overwatch-style announcements. Or the weird, uh, mini-Strider-like things.
Okay, one minor spoiler, behind the cut, in which I name no names or any specifics, just kind of a general fact of Metal Gear life, as first shown in MGS2 and later made disturbingly prominent in Port Ops:
NO ONE WHO DIES IS EVER REALLY DEAD *HEADDESK*
EVAR
EXCEPT THE ONES YOU LIKE
Comments are disabled, because I'm paranoid, which is sad because I would love to hear anyone else's spoiler-free take on this.
P.S. Act 4 is super awesome and I would play it over and over if I could. <3
Edit 6/22/08: We finished it this afternoon. Comments are now enabled.
Still not done with MGS4 yet. Partway through the third act, but that's all. So no spoilers here.
I <3 wtf-land.
There have been some cool missions - keeping it vague, we've done some tracking of people without being spotted, letting the tracking lead us to the right place. As Bethla Sluice was the refreshingly different stage objective in FFT, so was this the refreshingly different objective of a Metal Gear stage.
In typical Kojima fashion, EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES LOL
That goes for the ones you'd expect (lol [spoiler] is [spoiler], and [spoiler] is the [spoiler spoiler]), but that goes double for stuff that you hadn't even really considered was even still vaguely relevant. hi MG2! hi a name dropped precisely once in the entire canon and never mentioned again
Oh right, good job on that, Konami, that whole bit where you re-released MGS1-3 in a bundle, called it the "Essentials" collection, left out the extra disc from Subsistence, then proceeded to make information from the MSX games actually be relevant. Thanks.
Those familiar with my feelings about women in the MGS universe - that they're pretty much only there to be seductresses, mothers, or damsels to distress to the male lead upon the woman's injury/kidnapping/death, as particularly exemplified by every female character in MGS2 (but also backed up by most of MGS3's female cast) - will be "delighted" to hear that it only partially holds true so far!
One of my other general gaming pet peeves is cropping up too, but I'll hold off on that for now.
And you know, she'll never forgive that womanizing piece of shit.
The public urination sequences have begun. At least, unlike with MGS2, no one got peed on.
Also it kinda feels like the MGS:PortOps extended dance remix, particularly in the first act, but, whatever.
Also feels kinda Half-Life-ish, an impression not helped by the random Overwatch-style announcements. Or the weird, uh, mini-Strider-like things.
Okay, one minor spoiler, behind the cut, in which I name no names or any specifics, just kind of a general fact of Metal Gear life, as first shown in MGS2 and later made disturbingly prominent in Port Ops:
NO ONE WHO DIES IS EVER REALLY DEAD *HEADDESK*
EVAR
EXCEPT THE ONES YOU LIKE
Comments are disabled, because I'm paranoid, which is sad because I would love to hear anyone else's spoiler-free take on this.
P.S. Act 4 is super awesome and I would play it over and over if I could. <3
Edit 6/22/08: We finished it this afternoon. Comments are now enabled.