I now have an excuse to post this.
*funniest freaking summary of MGS ending I've ever read
This just highlights how poor 2008 was for console gaming.
Best fan service ever. It comes down to whether you like it or not, the game doesn't really stands up as a standalone title, but holy moly that was like a love letter to many MGS fans out there.
Loved MGS4. Best part?
Metal Gear Online.
That was my shit.
I think I only love/loved MGS4 because it was more MGS and more of my fav character SS. As far as the story and they direction in which the plot went, I hated it... But I couldn't stop playing it. I wish it had gone differently tho.
Same, man. Loved that game. I had a Stun Only clan. One of my characters ended up with something like 8,000 stuns, no kills. I had some truly devious strategies. >
This game is literally a punishment.
It's the sins of the fanbase for not accepting MGS2.
WE BROUGHT THIS ON OURSELVES
No, seriously. The amount of "fanservice" in this game is fucking horrible.
"LOL I'M PHSYCO MANTIS REMEMBER ME SNAKE?!"
"I'M GONNA READ YOUR MIND, REMEMBER HOW I DID THAT?"
"WAIT, YOU DON'T HAVE A MEMORY CARD, OHHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOO".
"WHY AM I ALIVE, EVEN AFTER MY HEART BREAKING MONOLOGUE IN THE FIRST GAME? WHO KNOWS!?!!!"
The entire game is Kojima trying to please fans and that's why it's awful. 1-3 he did whatever the fuck he wanted and it was awesome.
4 is when he lost is spine.
4 is where the franchise took a turn...
...down a path it couldn't come back from.
4 is where MGS died.
Absolutely.
That's a great way to describe it.
It sure did!
Exac-- wait, what?
Ah, I get it. This is an ironic echo of the over the top, melodrama that the MGS series is famous for, isn't it? Very clever!
Man was this game disappointing. I hate what they did to Snake too.
Haha. It's true though, the game killed the series. At least for anyone with sense and taste.
It's sad to see Kojima trying now to squeeze stories in to that universe where there's still space left in the timeline.
Shell of the designer he used to be.
I guess I have no sense or taste. MGS4 was mostly a mistake but 1 thru 3, PW, and GZ are still fantastic and all footage of TPP looks great. MGS4s existence doesn't affect them.
Except for that whole AI plot in Peace Walker which was an attempt to bring in the MGS4 storyline of Zero making AI machines to rule the world make more sense, or at least plant the seeds into the storyline.
Haha. It's true though, the game killed the series. At least for anyone with sense and taste.
It's sad to see Kojima trying now to squeeze stories in to that universe where there's still space left in the timeline.
Shell of the designer he used to be.
Except for that whole AI plot in Peace Walker which was an attempt to bring in the MGS4 storyline of Zero making AI machines to rule the world make more sense, or at least plant the seeds into the storyline.
- Worst boss fights in the series (by a large margin)
- Least interesting bosses
- Worst pacing when it comes to gameplay and cutscenes
- Solid Snake is a depressing aged piece of jerky instead of a wisecracking and angry aged piece of jerky
- Naomi's character arc is fucking lame and dumb to the tenth degree
- Humor is lacking and is a lot more forced
- Overly depressing and drab characterization
- No mystery or intrigue when it comes to technology or what seems to be the supernatural
- Raiden's character development was a lame gray fox attempt
- Vamp's arc is just as lame as Naomi's
- The writing overall feels flat and drawn out to the point of not caring about the mythos
- Drebin and his diaper monkey, I mean its a monkey with a diaper
- Mount Snakemore, jesus christ
- Raiden's breakdancing and mouth combat
- No clear or recognizable themes in the story
Off the top of my head.
Considering there is nothing in your head, not much of this means anything.- Worst boss fights in the series (by a large margin)
- Least interesting bosses
- Worst pacing when it comes to gameplay and cutscenes
- Solid Snake is a depressing aged piece of jerky instead of a wisecracking and angry aged piece of jerky
- Naomi's character arc is fucking lame and dumb to the tenth degree
- Humor is lacking and is a lot more forced
- Overly depressing and drab characterization
- No mystery or intrigue when it comes to technology or what seems to be the supernatural
- Raiden's character development was a lame gray fox attempt
- Vamp's arc is just as lame as Naomi's
- The writing overall feels flat and drawn out to the point of not caring about the mythos
- Drebin and his diaper monkey, I mean its a monkey with a diaper
- Mount Snakemore, jesus christ
- Raiden's breakdancing and mouth combat
- No clear or recognizable themes in the story
Off the top of my head.
I loved MGS 4 up until the Big Boss shit at the end. The part where Snake had just been fried in the microwave hallway, and he looks up and screams "Otacon!!!!". Seriously, was tearing up at that point. Then when Otacon says "Snake had a hard life", it was fucking waterworks. If it ended there I would have been sad for Snake, but satisfied. When BB showed up, I was hoping he had some magic Nanomachines cure that would make Snake young again, and they'd somehow team up for the next game. Instead I got a lecture on binary, Zero in a wheelchair and boredom.
lol, I would have preferred if it was left out all together, but at the time I was so damn sad that Snake was supposedly dead I wanted him to be saved. *tears up*
Yep, all the bad choices they make in 4 taint every other game now.
The truth is, any story/world is going to get stupid/convoluted after enough games (hi Resident Evil) but with Metal Gear Solid 4 they really fast tracked that fact and hammered the final full nails themselves in one whack. Impressive.
awesome vids.... MGS4 spoilers galore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aocnQQ0sz4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj_Oxc97awE
And MGS series spoiler galore here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EafM9F1ejk