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We have a new Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance trailer
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EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
It's robotic. From memory, the only organic parts of Raiden (as per MGS4) are his head, sans the lower jaw, and spine.
Oh, I never played MGS4. I'm going to be playing MGR completely blind on story, not that I care, as I previously stated little interest in watching the cutscenes or caring about the story in the first place.
CosmicGroinPull
Member
It's like watching a puppet talk.
bone_and_sinew
breaking down barriers in gratuitous nudity
I stopped after Portable Ops when it urinated all over Major Zero, The Boss, and started urinating on Big Boss.
I guess my problem with it is that, like, he already got over all of his issues in MGS2/4. And now he's been reset. Again. It feels like watching Snake go from experienced badass in MGS2 back to be a doddering tool in 4. Nobody can progress past their archetype in the MGS universe; it's just reset button, all day, everyday.
...
I really should stop caring about the character development/narrative integrity of this series so much.
Y'know, if I was being honest, I probably should have just walked away after a previously cool villain started getting manipulated by his grafted hand.
But I didn't.
Damn you Kojima.
mickcenary
Member
Okay, so I won't deny that it looks like quite a bit of fun, but holy shit, does it look stupid on all fronts; and bland.
Anticitizen One
Banned
This is such a bullshit argument. The first MGS on Playstation was very grounded. Yes it did have some comic booky elements but it wasn't any crazier than say the first Iron Man movie or The Dark Knight rises. After the first game it started progressing into really weird over the top anime stuff and with Revengeance it has become pure asian sci-fi fantasy and doesn't take place in any semblance of the real world. It is unrecognizable from the universe of the original game (or even MGS 3 and peace walker).
I can't help but feel that dmc would have been better handled by platinum games. I means seeing what they did with revengeance is unreal(no pun there). Imagine old Dante kicking ass with this combat that runs fluid and doesn't look janky.
Ohh well all hail Raiden the true feel of 60fps.
Ohh well all hail Raiden the true feel of 60fps.
bone_and_sinew
breaking down barriers in gratuitous nudity
lol yeah, the magic hand that's been retconned like 3 times. MGS2 did piss me off a little at the time. But if I had bailed on the franchise after 2 I'd have missed out on my favorite game ever in 3.
SolidSnakex
Member
Rising just matches the main character. It really doesn't make sense for the world around Raiden to be grounded when he's so over the top. That's why I think that Platinum and KojiPro have attempted to distance it from the core series. It doesn't seem like we'll see many returning faces in the game, and Snake is already confirmed to be absent. They want people to view it on its own.
And I really don't think that MG was ever that great. It's a series about a clone that fights giant robots and supernatural enemies.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
For what it's worth, I didn't spoil anything. MGS4 kinda just throws the whole mostly android thing at you with a thin back story, and Rising was supposed to fill that gap properly.
Bruce Lee Kicks
Member
Fixed.
GoncaloCCastro
Member
That voice acting is so over the top! Story will be all kinds of weird and crazy, I love it! The gameplay, like the former trailers showed, seems really cool and amazing. Can't wait to try the demo.
It would be cool if Raiden became what he once was, a crazed killer and a deranged psychopath.
It would be cool if Raiden became what he once was, a crazed killer and a deranged psychopath.
This one.
Supreme Stephan
Member
These will do.
The E3 trailer last year saw Raiden using a staff like weapon with a blade on each end, the same one Mistrel has. So each Boss fight may well yield a new weapon if that's the case.
polyh3dron
Banned
Raiden's shit is fucked up so he has to shoot/slice everyone.
The story looks retarded beyond belief and the cutscenes definitely have that uniquely cheesy Platinum style to them, but the gameplay looks so amazing.
This will fill the void left by the true DMC series.
The story looks retarded beyond belief and the cutscenes definitely have that uniquely cheesy Platinum style to them, but the gameplay looks so amazing.
This will fill the void left by the true DMC series.
GoncaloCCastro
Member
60FPS?
polyh3dron
Banned
Moral Panic
Member
Horrendous voice acting. I can't believe someone actually wrote that horrible dialogue and the delivery was even worse.
LowParry
Member
This is Blim we're speaking about. Of course!
polyh3dron
Banned
god dammit
someone hasn't played vanquish.
this is par for the course with platinum.
Knux-Future
Banned
Not everything has to be super serious guys.
The fact that they are going crazy with this is awesome.
Besides this is a game about a CYBORG NINJA. If they took it completely serious it would be just as silly
We also don't have context for Raiden losing his shit
The fact that they are going crazy with this is awesome.
Besides this is a game about a CYBORG NINJA. If they took it completely serious it would be just as silly
We also don't have context for Raiden losing his shit
Rickenslacker
Banned
Everything about the voicework seemed awful.
Everything about the game seemed bitchin'.
I should find the money to preorder this.
Everything about the game seemed bitchin'.
I should find the money to preorder this.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Not sure if people are really understanding that there is a massive portion of Raiden's life and personality that were never depicted in the series; his tenure as Jack the Ripper. A child soldier that must have lived by becoming a persona that relished in what he did. Solidus was always somewhat surprised by NuJack and what all the therapy and whatever had managed to stitch together as a decent normal guy rather than the psychopathic killer he used as a tool in many a war.
This game obviously just has that persona resurfacing, with the old trope "become a monster to kill the other monsters".
This game obviously just has that persona resurfacing, with the old trope "become a monster to kill the other monsters".
So it's a proper Metal Gear game, right?
Is this before or after the skinny psychic bondage man tries to have your ally sexually assault you for shits and giggles? Or maybe around the time an inuit juggernaut wielding a Gatling gun can somehow make his raven face tattoo become an actual raven?
The only Metal Gear game that was grounded in any semblance of reality was the very first one. The series started its descent into the stupid as early as Metal Gear 2 where Snake had to avoid poisonous hamsters, fight an 80 year old man trying to strangle him by using remote controlled missile launchers, and fight NASA Ninjas.
You could say the same thing about our future too, I'm pretty sure 50 years from now will seem like another world.
I know MGR is only a little in the future thou, it's easier to not compare the games, ignore the Metal Gear name and just enjoy it. That's why I enjoyed Bayonetta so much, I went in with an open mind and it was amazing.
P.S I have a feeling the story, however absurd will grow on us.
Synless
Member
I thought they pieced him back together at he end of MGS4?
ShinoguTakeruKoeru
Member
Don't forget! Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake has a section where you hatch an owl egg and make the owl hoot, and a guard hears that and goes "OH IT MUST BE NIGHT TIME" and changes his shift IN BROAD DAYLIGHT so you can infiltrate the facility.
I feel like, moreso than Peace Walker or even MGS4, Rising will be the line-in-the-sand game that tears down the perception of the entire series as it forces us to confront what the beast has become. Some fans will continue to revere Kojima as a Gaming God and avoid this game like the plague, and some fans will just let the crazy wash over them as they've always done and play. And the rest will line up for the midnight launch in cardboard boxes while wearing white wigs and chanting LA-LI-LU-LE-LO.
He had visible scars from each part they stuck back together, so who knows if that body was really his that they kept in a fridge, or was just parts they grew? This is Metal Gear World where they could reconstruct
Big Boss by using the imperfect clone bodies of two of his clone sons as Lego pieces to put him back together
Edit: Not related, but holy crap this is the second time that my post was at the bottom of a thread page. This is NOT a skill that I want to cultivate.
Well it's featuring a country, not yet seen in the Metal Gear Solid series and it's post SoP. Inhabited urban areas, have also been rarely shown in the series, outside of MGS4 Act 3 which was still very bare.
Though i'm probably over thinking things. Just the fact that it's a different developer and that Kojima is probably little more than a consultant on it, would explain a lot.