Poor facebook...
I feel sort of bad that my poor little facebook feed has been overrun with every little Metal Gear thought that pops in to my head. It's just that for the most part, they're mildly amusing (to me) and fleeting, so it hasn't felt right to sit down and write a proper livejournal entry or anything. Like livejournal is only for fancy and formal things. Yeah.
Anyways. METAL GEAAAAAAAAAAAR.
Geez, I can't even remember what it was that had me thinking about the series again. Not that I'd ever stopped liking it, I just tend to experience an ebb and flow with my various fandoms, which is probably normal. New X-Men movie comes out? Time for Nightcrawler love to run high. Been to an animu convention lately? Time to fawn over all the old school things I was surprised to find merch for/talk about how Sailor Stars was the best season evarrrr!!11one (I don't know if I actually believe that, but it holds a special place in my heart...)
But yeah, for some reason, MGS made a little "boop" on my radar, and the next thing I knew I was watching the movie versions of the games on youtube, starting with Peacewalker, moving on to the hiimdaisy dubs, and eventually Sons of the Patriots and most of Metal Gear Solid. (I've already seen MGS 4 perhaps... two or three times.) I also found out that there was a well written (??!!???) novelization of 4, that was translated into English and Otacon was the narrator. At first I thought the fandom gods were just smiling down on me, but after I got into it, I realized it was actually the most logical choice, since he is both the character the average player can identify with- as well as a constant observer of the events of the game. On a side note, this is one of the few books I read the foreward and afterward for, and the story of how Kojima chose Project Itoh to write the novel is in itself a touching story.
Also, it's probably worth mentioning that after watching MGS 2, I feel a lot more sympathetic towards Raiden. If anything, I feel that he was a little *too* chill about some things, like picking up with Rosemary right after the game's events. Then again, this may explain why he became so distant during the events of MGS 4, and was so quick to believe that Rose had left him so easily. He's not the worst after all! I also felt a bit more sympathetic towards Emma, even though I'd seen all her scenes before. She wasn't quite as whiny as I remembered her being, if perhaps grossly misguided in her attempts to get onichan to notice her.
As I usually do, I visited the TVTropes page of the games I went through, because I like knowing what other people have noticed- and whether it confirms my own thoughts or surprises me. One thing I came across was that somewhere in the game, as you're going through Emma's files or computer or something, one of her passwords is "Venus in Cancer". This sounds super deep. Is this an astrology reference? Mythology? Is she referring to gods as she creates programs that control the destiny of mankind? Uh... actually, it's a mistranslation. The actually password is supposed to be "Venusian Crab", which is a monster from a B-movie called "It Conquered the World". So it looks like Emma has her own brand of geeky streak. I don't know why, but knowing that kind of stupid trivia about the game makes me happy in a weird way. Like I really know something almost secret about a (fake, video game) person. Actually, doing a little research, it looks like the movie only found distribution on VHS tape in the US and the UK which TOTALLY FITS. I'm sorting out thoughts right now for a short fic about Emma, and this little detail is probably going to make it in there. This is sort of half the reason for me writing this post anyway, to sort out my thoughts from the last week or two.
Anyways, here we are. I finally have a day off with no large obligations, a music playlist that will encourage me to actually write something, and I've managed to stave off the tears I felt welling up from (re?!)reading a particularly good fan-fiction. Perhaps I'll also overcome the pointless worry that I won't be able to write something as good as the best of what I've read. Haha...
Right. Now to work!
Anyways. METAL GEAAAAAAAAAAAR.
Geez, I can't even remember what it was that had me thinking about the series again. Not that I'd ever stopped liking it, I just tend to experience an ebb and flow with my various fandoms, which is probably normal. New X-Men movie comes out? Time for Nightcrawler love to run high. Been to an animu convention lately? Time to fawn over all the old school things I was surprised to find merch for/talk about how Sailor Stars was the best season evarrrr!!11one (I don't know if I actually believe that, but it holds a special place in my heart...)
But yeah, for some reason, MGS made a little "boop" on my radar, and the next thing I knew I was watching the movie versions of the games on youtube, starting with Peacewalker, moving on to the hiimdaisy dubs, and eventually Sons of the Patriots and most of Metal Gear Solid. (I've already seen MGS 4 perhaps... two or three times.) I also found out that there was a well written (??!!???) novelization of 4, that was translated into English and Otacon was the narrator. At first I thought the fandom gods were just smiling down on me, but after I got into it, I realized it was actually the most logical choice, since he is both the character the average player can identify with- as well as a constant observer of the events of the game. On a side note, this is one of the few books I read the foreward and afterward for, and the story of how Kojima chose Project Itoh to write the novel is in itself a touching story.
Also, it's probably worth mentioning that after watching MGS 2, I feel a lot more sympathetic towards Raiden. If anything, I feel that he was a little *too* chill about some things, like picking up with Rosemary right after the game's events. Then again, this may explain why he became so distant during the events of MGS 4, and was so quick to believe that Rose had left him so easily. He's not the worst after all! I also felt a bit more sympathetic towards Emma, even though I'd seen all her scenes before. She wasn't quite as whiny as I remembered her being, if perhaps grossly misguided in her attempts to get onichan to notice her.
As I usually do, I visited the TVTropes page of the games I went through, because I like knowing what other people have noticed- and whether it confirms my own thoughts or surprises me. One thing I came across was that somewhere in the game, as you're going through Emma's files or computer or something, one of her passwords is "Venus in Cancer". This sounds super deep. Is this an astrology reference? Mythology? Is she referring to gods as she creates programs that control the destiny of mankind? Uh... actually, it's a mistranslation. The actually password is supposed to be "Venusian Crab", which is a monster from a B-movie called "It Conquered the World". So it looks like Emma has her own brand of geeky streak. I don't know why, but knowing that kind of stupid trivia about the game makes me happy in a weird way. Like I really know something almost secret about a (fake, video game) person. Actually, doing a little research, it looks like the movie only found distribution on VHS tape in the US and the UK which TOTALLY FITS. I'm sorting out thoughts right now for a short fic about Emma, and this little detail is probably going to make it in there. This is sort of half the reason for me writing this post anyway, to sort out my thoughts from the last week or two.
Anyways, here we are. I finally have a day off with no large obligations, a music playlist that will encourage me to actually write something, and I've managed to stave off the tears I felt welling up from (re?!)reading a particularly good fan-fiction. Perhaps I'll also overcome the pointless worry that I won't be able to write something as good as the best of what I've read. Haha...
Right. Now to work!