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MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
#3451: Feb 27th 2015 at 10:44:54 AM

Please tell me there is a Raidenchu.
No Raidenchu, I'm afraid. But there is this.

EDIT: Scratch that, there is a Raidenchu. [1] And there's also Big Bosschu... I think.

edited 27th Feb '15 10:46:34 AM by MarqFJA

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
LordHerobrine THIS IS MY FINAL FORM from the Aether, on vacation. Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
THIS IS MY FINAL FORM
#3452: Feb 27th 2015 at 10:50:43 AM

Nevermind... I saw something that said that Metal Gear V comes out next week, but apparently it isn't until June... Forget it.

I am the once and future king.
EvaUnit01 Fandom Heretic Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
Fandom Heretic
#3453: Feb 27th 2015 at 12:24:34 PM

Should I bother getting Ground Zeroes now (since the price has come down a bit more at my local retailer), or just wait until there's a rerelease/bundle with Phantom Pain?

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#3454: Feb 27th 2015 at 1:13:58 PM

Well if you wanna wait until late June to play it sure but if the price has dropped it's worth the buy. It's a fun little game.

Oh really when?
EvaUnit01 Fandom Heretic Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
Fandom Heretic
#3455: Feb 27th 2015 at 1:41:54 PM

I'm content with waiting until next June if it means both games for a price I'll be happy with. <money troubles are troublesome>

SgtRicko Since: Jul, 2009
#3456: Feb 27th 2015 at 5:04:03 PM

My big debate right now is whether I should get a brand new PC gaming rig to play MGSV and GTA V on (and probably spend over $1000 making sure it won't be outdated within a couple of years), or go for the cheaper option in the form of the PS 4.

Ah... if only I had the money for both!

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#3457: Feb 27th 2015 at 5:05:20 PM

I bought the PS 4 as I didn't know about the existence of the PC version.

Even so I'm real happy with my purchase. Fun and easy to use, games run well on it.

Oh really when?
EchoingSilence Since: Jun, 2013
#3458: Feb 27th 2015 at 5:38:46 PM

I need a new computer anyway. My current one is dying, the batteries don't hold a charge and it can't run most of the new stuff coming out. One of which is Space Engineers.

FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#3459: Feb 27th 2015 at 6:56:38 PM

Am I nuts for just seeing the MG 1, 2, and Solid as a seperate series from everything that's come after? Even with all the canon bridging, I feel like they're two seperate titles....

SgtRicko Since: Jul, 2009
#3460: Feb 27th 2015 at 7:28:57 PM

[up]You're not. The tone of the original Metal Gear titles vs the Solid series, and now following the Big Boss prequels have very different themes overall. The original games were nothing more than your typical cheesy Hollywood military/spy movie plot just for the sake of the game having any plot at all. The Solid series was about the trauma soldiers go through and the deconstruction of certain action movie cliches, and how a person can amount to more than just their scene, genes or memes. And now the direction of Big Boss's story seems to be going is about how some military organizations justify war crimes and their own existence, vs what the public believes to be ethical. Oh, and how nukes are bad.

That, and it doesn't help much that Kojima never even expected the Metal Gear franchise to survive for this long: the guy wanted it to end with MGS 3 after all.

edited 27th Feb '15 7:35:55 PM by SgtRicko

EchoingSilence Since: Jun, 2013
#3461: Feb 28th 2015 at 4:45:08 AM

But now he doesn't mind. He is having a good time making his last game for the series and will be working on Silent Hills next.

LordofLore Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
#3462: Feb 28th 2015 at 5:04:08 AM

It's that time of the year when I watch one of the MGS documentaries so today I'm going to watch MGS4:

edited 28th Feb '15 5:04:48 AM by LordofLore

HallowHawk Since: Feb, 2013
#3463: Feb 28th 2015 at 5:34:05 AM

[up]

The original games were nothing more than your typical cheesy Hollywood military/spy movie plot just for the sake of the game having any plot at all.

But didn't Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake have tons of serious stuff, like these:

1. Fighting allies from the previous adventure (Kyle Schneider and Gray Fox).

2. The Western Bloc being not so in the right (NATO bombing Outer Heaven and covering it up as an earthquake, despite the presence of civilians and allies, treating Madnar harshly, and not granting Natasha Marcova/Gustava Heffner citizenship in the US).

3. Snake claiming he came to Zanzibar Land to rid himself of the nightmares he had since the previous adventure.

edited 27th Apr '15 9:24:51 AM by HallowHawk

MightyKombat I am he as you are he as you are me and we are a from in mai mouffff (Ten years in the joint)
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are a
#3464: Feb 28th 2015 at 6:11:02 AM

Okay, you really need to not pepper questions and stuff with all that fluff, it looks like one big run-on sentence.

Also Mg2 had fucking Deadly Poisonous Zanzibar Hamsters. No other MG game has had anything close to that especially with one guy boldly stating it.

Are explosions science?
HallowHawk Since: Feb, 2013
#3465: Feb 28th 2015 at 7:23:23 AM

[up] There, I fixed [up][up].

As for your second sentence, yes, I know about the poisonous hamsters. What I was saying is that, MG 2 was more serious than its prequel.

MightyKombat I am he as you are he as you are me and we are a from in mai mouffff (Ten years in the joint)
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are a
#3466: Feb 28th 2015 at 8:04:09 AM

In all seriousness? Even in the better translation Konami put out, it was still fairly action movie-esque, aside from the serious stuff. Snake still took to things with a decidedly "lol" attitude and made corny oneliners (his fakeout near the end with Holly where it looks like he's about to kill himself or Holly...and then offers her a ride home) and the Hamsters. The goddamn owl puzzle where you fool the world's dumbest sentry as well. I'd say its more serious in tone than MG 1 was but when you put it next to later installments its still surprisingly cartoonish.

Are explosions science?
Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#3467: Feb 28th 2015 at 8:13:53 AM

MGS 1 had a lot of that same Hollywood Action tone though. Again it was more serious just like MG 2 was to MG 1 but it always had a very...B-movie feel to it. Especially with Terminator Liquid. And the Snake/Meryl romance.

MightyKombat I am he as you are he as you are me and we are a from in mai mouffff (Ten years in the joint)
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are a
#3468: Feb 28th 2015 at 8:17:45 AM

And Snake's goofy line about "onions on infomercials". Granted, Twin Snakes tried to

But then Twin Snakes went the wrong fucking direction with all the Matrix shit going on. IIRC though Kitamura did make more faithful cutscenes but Kojima wanted Kitamura to do them his own way. So we got crazy Matrix shit. And Snake flipping his fucking lid at Baker.

Are explosions science?
Pulse The Fool from Yadayadaville Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
The Fool
#3469: Feb 28th 2015 at 11:35:22 AM

I didn't really have a huge problem with Kitamura's direction, as over-the-top as it was- Metal Gear is an elaborate melodrama either way.

Then again, I'm biased towards Twin Snakes for dropping the silly and borderline racist accents a lot of the English cast used in the first Solid, so don't mind me too much.

I sure said that!
MightyKombat I am he as you are he as you are me and we are a from in mai mouffff (Ten years in the joint)
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are a
#3470: Feb 28th 2015 at 11:40:41 AM

Yeeah, that was also kinda weird. The wacky accents were dropped but the cutscenes got even more cartoon crazy. Its...ummm.

Are explosions science?
EvaUnit01 Fandom Heretic Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
Fandom Heretic
#3471: Mar 2nd 2015 at 1:33:03 PM

Picking up Peace Walker again. Cleared the first Zadornov mission. What a prick.

Now to show the cute lady friend a good time. Yare yare daze~

Pulse The Fool from Yadayadaville Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
The Fool
#3472: Mar 2nd 2015 at 10:55:04 PM

On one hand, it's a little creepy, considering the assumed identity of the disguise we call Paz is way, way too young, but on the other, you can do goofy stuff with all those commands. It's kinda fun in that sense.

Kaz is even better, though.

edited 2nd Mar '15 10:55:35 PM by Pulse

I sure said that!
LordofLore Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
#3473: Mar 3rd 2015 at 9:06:52 AM

MGSV release date has been leaked early due to people finding the video that's going up tomorrow in IGN's code. September 1st 2015.

edited 3rd Mar '15 9:09:05 AM by LordofLore

FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#3474: Mar 3rd 2015 at 10:19:44 AM

I'd even say MGS 1 was very different from all the games that have come after it. It seems a lot more stand alone than the others, more balance between gameplay and story, and just the overall tone seemed to give an idea of more being at stake, the Metal Gear in question was more than nominally important.....

Beaver Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#3475: Mar 3rd 2015 at 10:25:04 AM

[up][up]

I'm pretty good with that.

Is this a Jo Jo reference?

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