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PowerRider Since: Jan, 2011
#1: Sep 17th 2011 at 9:05:54 PM

I'll be blunt, the current image on the Metal Gear page sucks! It's nothing more than a joke image that hardly represents the entire series. I originally changed it to a generic "Metal Gear" logo, but then some other user reverted my change and insisted on using something more visually appealing than a logo. So I decided to put an image from the Metal Gear 20th Anniversary album cover that shows three different incarnations of Snake (MGS1-3). Some other user reverted my change and then insisted on making a thread here.

This is the image I've uploaded.

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/b0006633_4cac1b2a8e484_814.jpg

edited 17th Sep '11 9:06:14 PM by PowerRider

Bookyangel2438 from New York City Since: Jul, 2011
#2: Sep 17th 2011 at 9:21:57 PM

I like the current one. >.>

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#3: Sep 17th 2011 at 9:28:14 PM

An in joke on Snake's smoking habit?.... Not for a work's image no.

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#4: Sep 17th 2011 at 9:38:04 PM

That's a horrible pic...and honestly, I'm not down with the "three Snakes" pic either, it's way too dark and jumbled. I'd say either a logo or the box art for the first game in the series is good enough.

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#6: Sep 17th 2011 at 9:43:11 PM

[up][up] That's in use on the first game's page(part of it any way). This one is the entire series page.

IMO let's find a good pic of Metal Gear Solid or Solid 2's Snake in a sneaking suit.

[1] like this one.

edited 17th Sep '11 9:46:18 PM by Raso

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PowerRider Since: Jan, 2011
#8: Sep 18th 2011 at 9:57:58 AM

No cover artworks! The game-specific pages already have the ones for their corresponding games and it'll be wrong to have one cover represent the entire franchise in that case. The MGS 2 Solid Snake illustration is not that suitable for the page either, since it's from one specific game.

If my previously suggested image is not good enough, how about this one? It's from the MGS Peace Walker Memorial CD Box set, which had the soundtracks to MGS 3, MPO, MG Music Collection and MGS Peace Walker. Here's the full version.

Another suggestion is to just stick to the logo: https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Metal_Gear_Series_logo_3494.gif

edited 18th Sep '11 10:01:40 AM by PowerRider

PowerRider Since: Jan, 2011
#9: Sep 18th 2011 at 10:15:25 AM

I went ahead and changed the image on the page again, so please leave feedback.

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#11: Sep 18th 2011 at 10:55:37 AM

Yeah, that was a bit speedy, considering the thread's only been open for about 12 hours, and overnight for the US on a weekend day at that. The number of posters in this section of the forums is at it's lowest on the weekend.

Leaving the thread open for more input.

edited 18th Sep '11 10:56:32 AM by Madrugada

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Bookyangel2438 from New York City Since: Jul, 2011
#12: Sep 18th 2011 at 11:01:26 AM

[up]Should the image be reverted until we get to a decision? Should I put in on a Image Links thread?

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#13: Sep 18th 2011 at 11:04:55 AM

I'd support pulling for now. I'm not a fan of it.

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Bookyangel2438 from New York City Since: Jul, 2011
#14: Sep 18th 2011 at 11:09:54 AM

[up]The current one or the cigarettes one?

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Bookyangel2438 from New York City Since: Jul, 2011
#16: Sep 18th 2011 at 11:17:01 AM

[up]Oh.

No one would object if there was an Image Links for this page?

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INUH Since: Jul, 2009
#17: Sep 18th 2011 at 11:18:20 AM

Sure, go ahead. I've never seen why anyone would complain about an Image Links page, even if they didn't find the content content especially great.

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PowerRider Since: Jan, 2011
#19: Oct 1st 2011 at 1:56:46 PM

Two weeks later and nobody has any issues with the current image. Can we close this discussion now?

Bookyangel2438 from New York City Since: Jul, 2011
#20: Oct 1st 2011 at 1:57:40 PM

Meh, not a fan of the one now.

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PowerRider Since: Jan, 2011
#21: Oct 1st 2011 at 6:28:23 PM

Better than the "cigarettes box" image previously featured.

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#22: Oct 1st 2011 at 6:43:42 PM

The current image looks like a corrupt jumble.

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#24: Oct 1st 2011 at 9:04:18 PM

Two weeks later and nobody has any issues with the current image. Can we close this discussion now?
Dude, when you put it up, multiple people said you shouldn't have, and I stated that it should have been pulled for being put up without any consensus.

Did you mean that nobody besides you has supported the current image? Because that would be an accurate statement.

edited 1st Oct '11 9:04:41 PM by INUH

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plenum Videoludus ergo sum from Italy Since: Jan, 2010
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#25: Oct 2nd 2011 at 3:54:37 AM

Call me boring, but personally I would go with just the title.

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