Quote Originally Posted by Bolivar View Post
Wolf, you're writing pages of text and going out of your way to deny that someone who saves war orphans and pays for people's tuition may be sympathetic to a few people. If you don't think the original Metal Gear Solid attempted to move Big Boss away from the two-dimensional villain he was portrayed as in the original Metal Gear games then I just have to laugh and walk away shaking my head.
That's like saying Solidus is a great guy because he raised Raiden (of course, there's that little snafoo about who put him in that predicament, but...).

Anyway, the majority of MGS4 I kinda had a problem with. It was literally the first thing that popped into my head when I saw this thread.

-Raiden. I swear to God, am I the only person who would've rather had Raiden as he was at the end of MGS2, than the angst ridden pile of scrap we got? Raiden was advertised as like, the second coming of Gray Fox, and he spends most of his screen time in the game coughing up blood or acting his life was completely devoid of value (he says to Snake, a man who is literally MONTHS away from dying)

-Nano Machines explain EVERYTHING. Vamp's immortality, bringing Big Boss back to life, everything. It was kinda cool seeing how dependent the government became on Nanomachines back in MGS2, but they left a certain element of supernatural-ness.

-I agree with Wolf Kanno on how Big Boss is built up like this big damn hero. What was originally the tragic breakdown of a great hero is now the heroic crusade of the worlds most influential man, and the hero we've been following is just a pawn being used for the other side.

-The War Economy. Okay, so I understand that in MGS1, the reason they were making Metal Gears was not only a form of nuclear deterrence, it was also an economic plan to save Arms Tech, which was going under. That was a well thought out plot point. But from what I understand (bear with me, last time I played the game was in 2010), the idea of the War economy is something similar to that... but with PMC Armies and the SOP system (the term got thrown around so much it lost most of its meaning)? One of the huge appeals of Metal Gear is that despite its wacky moments it feels like I could watch the news and hear a rumor about a terrorist attack during the START 3 treaty, or a suspicious partnership between DARPA and Arms Tech. But to hear that Mercenary Armies with Tech comparable to the US military is all a part of some new form of economics never meshed well with me. Or that all forms of weapon authorization are regulated by tiny machines installed in our bloodstream. The NRA would never get behind that .