Vlog (6-16-08) - Metal Gear Solid 4 (1)

Here's my impromptu take on the new Metal Gear Solid game, Guns of the Patriots.

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[loosekarrott]

@themoogoat why?

[themoogoat]

spoony will never be this interesting again ;_;

[drhploveboat]

...and anyone who would enjoy a Metal Gear game, who may have played part 2 or 3 first, would probably go out and get the other games so that they could play the whole story. this being the case, just about anyone who did play part 4, already played 1-3. and no it's not really necessary to play the old games that came before Metal Gear Solid 1 in 1998, at least I don't think it is, I never did. so yes it is a game made for the fans of the series, but that's already a given anyway.

[drhploveboat]

hmmm...the way he says: "you have to be a fan to like this game," makes it sound like there are only a small handful of people who played these games. and that's certainly not the case, it's still one of the best selling series of the Playstation console. anyone who played and enjoyed a Metal Gear game would have watched all the cut scenes, at least during there first time through.

[fuzzydude64]

@Zachattack2490 Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2 on he MSX are part of the series. Thing is, the Metal Gear games on the NES are not. Hideo Kojima (MGS creator) has said himself that he had nothing to do with the NES games and are not part of the series.

[Usul573]

@XJVHS

I like how some games put you into the story, leaving you in control and your actions shaping the story and the action being meaningful.

Splinter Cell only has like 2 minutes of cutscenes between missions and has radio talk during the mission while you keep playing.

MGS certainly is unlike anything else out there I think, and it can be really good, but it can be very annoying.

[XJVHS]

@Usul573 Cutscenes nearly killed me! Why the **** they had to be so long? My reaction when cutscene started was "oh no, not another cutscene!"

[Usul573]

@zeroluu

But in COD you don't have to go into the menu, interrupt the gameplay, wrench bullets out, put on bandages, change clothes, paint your face, eat food, and worry about all that stuff.

COD plays so that you don't have to worry about anything except ammo, and even that you never really have to worry about.

[Usul573]

@XJVHS

That's not true, the Big Boss emblem is the one they gun for.

Extreme difficulty, no kills, no continues, no alerts, no healing items, under 5 hours.

But, it's optional to play like that, but as you get to hard and especially extreme you have to be stealthy to survive.

MGS4 controls well, but differently.

I kinda felt like the series was tired, with MGS4 retreading the same ground without much new to say, just tying the strings together and ending, with LONGASS cutscenes.