Metal Gear Thread 2020

[sharkythesharkdogg]

Finished MGS3, still my all-time-fave. Shame the HD collections doesn't seem to have the Ape Escape parody game with it, but then again licensing probably made it a no-go.

Started MGS4, and I forgot how much of a serious change up the controls were. I keep trying to use my gun like in MGS3 and got myself killed........We'll see how far I get before I just quit.

It's been years, but, uh, it definitely made an impression. I was pretty let down in a lot of ways. It seemed to replace strong narrative and fun gameplay with all the surface level stuff that made MGS stand out. The new characters were mostly bad, the story was beyond convoluted, and the humor and fanservice mostly fell flat. The loading screen commercials seemed to have a more easy to follow narrative.

Past that, the game's story is just sad. Since the story telling wasn't great to me, that sadness wasn't poignant or engaging. It was just bleh. Kojima just seemed exhausted with the universe, and it seemed to come out with an exhausted, depressed, apathetic main character that just wants to die. Also let's try to tie in every last character from the previous stories because that's what the fans want, we can't forget the eye candy. It just seems like the game is tired of itself and resentful that it had to exist. Maybe that's just me. I've heard 5 is much better.