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.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I should get a brand new PC gaming rig to play MGSV and GTA V on (and probably spend over $1000 making sure it won't be outdated within a couple of years), or go for the cheaper option in the form of the PS 4.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!
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?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.
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....
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
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
There, I fixed ![]()
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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.
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?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?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!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!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
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.....

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
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