MiamiWesker said:
I am one of those "crazy ones." Instead of typing up my objections to MGS3, I'll copy and paste a very similar viewpoint to mine (except I didn't care much about the voice acting, since I don't expect much in video games in general). And I quote,
Kojima confirmed before the game was released that because of complaints from MGS2, he was simplifying the storyline. This came off terribly, because the game was left with a shallow plot, and roughly three meaningful characters. There was an absolute lack of any plot twists, there was very little meaningful character interaction (pretty much just between Snake and Ocelot and Snake and The Boss), and the horrid style of "don't reveal anything at all until the end of the game, where we dump it all on the player's head for full effect!" makes it all come off as forced and unnecessary, and ruins what could have been a touching ending scene.
Not to mention that because of the "simplified storyline," the whole plot was revealed in the trailers months before the game was released.
The gameplay was overhyped, promised to completely change how you play MGS, when in actuality, it added two new moves to Snake's arsenal, and made you go through boring menu navigation to change camouflage (which there were too many of that were useless). The Cure System was said to be a vital part of the gameplay, yet it could be avoided entirely (in fact, it's best to avoid it, because if you let wounds heal naturally, your life bar grows longer).
The voice acting was far below the bar that MGS and MGS2 established within the series. Hayter's voice was unnecessarily different, when he was supposed to sound exactly like Snake, Lori Alan was on again/off again in how well she could sound like a touching figure, or a person reading lines, and Neil Ross couldn't decide whether he wanted to sound like a sophisticated 2D Bond villain, or Bluto from Popeye. The Cobra Unit sounded like an assorted group of supervillains from an 80s cartoon.
The only standouts in performance are Josh Keaton as Ocelot, Jim Piddick as Major Zero (though he was effectively doing what he does in every role and playing himself, so take it as you will), and the woman who used the alias Suzetta Minet, who played EVA.
