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Post by Lampz on Apr 3, 2016 11:29:27 GMT
bladefd , MGS got a bad PC port, that's probably why you're having problems. If you have a PS3, you can get the PS1 version in The Legacy Collection or on the PSN Store. You can get a PS3 for super cheap now, I'd recommend it if you don't have one already. It's also the only place you can play MGS 4.
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Post by Lampz on Apr 3, 2016 15:00:48 GMT
I doubt a random dev could come out of nowhere and make a game with the same type of heart and cool little things as MGS Also the games never really felt like rehashes, as they kind of switch things up on you Absolutely. Kojima is one-of-a-kind. That man is MGS. |
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Post by Lampz on Apr 3, 2016 17:01:47 GMT
Thing is about Raiden, he was an avatar of us, the player. That's why it was so hilarious when people were pissed off about having to play as him.
I loved Raiden in MGS2, he was my kind of hero. Every bit as skilled as Solid Snake circa MGS1, but green as goose shit, borderline insane naivety, refusing to question an ever increasing amount of strange events, rude, hen-pecked, androgynous looks. Everything about him is just so out of place and flies in the face of everything we are told about what a "bad-ass soldier" should be.
This is exactly what made him such a fascinating character!
Then to see his mental breakdown, realisation of the horrific truths, reconnecting with himself and breaking the chains that held him down.. it's beautiful.
MGS4 Raiden and Rising Raiden, I don't even consider them to be the same character. It was dumb fans who didn't understand the character at all, and their knee jerk response robbed real Raiden fans of a potentially brighter future.
Kojima made him "cool" ... which instantly made him uncool in my eyes. Vapid, shallow, flashy cool, all style no substance.
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Post by Lampz on Apr 3, 2016 17:02:35 GMT
I feel like the MGS4 version of Raiden was making fun of the fans even more than the MGS2 version. It was like Kojima saying "you guys are so simple minded that I can make you like this character by making him an overpowered immortal ninja".
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Post by Lampz on Apr 3, 2016 17:05:48 GMT
What's even more hilarious is that our protagonist, Snake, was old, decrepit, and on the verge of death. We had to play as a suicidal senior citizen. And that's the last we ever heard of him.
MGS4 was the most reluctant fan wank game ever made. Like "FINE, you want Snake? You can have it, but he's miserable and old and dying". That's the best way to sum up that whole game.
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Post by Lampz on Apr 3, 2016 17:11:17 GMT
On the contrary, I honestly believe Metal Gear Solid 2 to be the greatest video game ever made.
I'm still shocked with how deep and genius some of that game is.
James Clinton Howell said it best when saying that MGS2 is a game about how we shouldn't let cultural memories inform how we act in situations that seem similar to those that created our culture memories. It's a game that really subverts expectation in such a clever way, turning it into, not just the best video game of all-time IMO, but one of the best stories ever told.
MGS3 is a tear-jerker with a brilliant plot, but MGS2's meta-nature, postmodernism and absurdly deep and layered story earn it best video game plot for me.
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Post by Lampz on Apr 3, 2016 17:14:31 GMT
This codec call is insane. I have no idea how the producers predicted what was going to happen to the internet.
"What we propose to do is not to control content, but to create context. The digital society furthers human flaws and selectively rewards development of convenient half-truths. Everyone withdraws into their own small gated community, afraid of a larger forum. They stay inside their little ponds leaking whatever "truth" suits them into the growing cesspool of society at large. The different cardinal truths neither clash nor mesh. No one is invalidated, but nobody is right".
This describes today's world perfectly.
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Post by Lampz on Apr 3, 2016 17:39:59 GMT
Fuck Rose though.
Fuck her with a bag of dicks.
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Post by Rondo on Apr 3, 2016 17:49:37 GMT
One of my most vivid memories of Metal Gear is playing Phsyco Mantis and him reading my memory card, and having to plug the controller into the other port.
Metal Gear broke the 4th wall pretty often which made it even more enjoyable.
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Post by Lampz on Apr 3, 2016 17:57:02 GMT
The bait-and-switch in MGS2 with Raiden is legendary.
If you go to 4:02, you can see a very important bit that a ton of players overlook.
The second Colonel changed Jack's codename from Snake to Raiden, his voice changes, going from cool and confident to wimpy. The first thing Raiden mentions with his wimpy voice is VR training.
Then the actual beauty of the game is Raiden is literally stepping through the same events as Shadow Moses but in this situation he's a green soldier. Imagine being in his shoes. No real experience, yet your going against a former Navy Seal Team that's been upgraded to a different Special Forces group, 25 Metal Gear's, Ocelot who at the time is one of the deadliest marksman in the world, and Solidus Snake the perfect clone. Raiden had the right to act scared, this guy went on a mission that we'd have been crying to leave if we were in his position. That was the point of this game. It wasn't supposed to be us playing as a legendary soldier again, it was just supposed to be us, inexperienced soldiers with the only recognition on our backs being a couple of video games to call experience.
It's the little things that matter!
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Post by Lampz on Apr 3, 2016 18:03:50 GMT
One of my most vivid memories of Metal Gear is playing Phsyco Mantis and him reading my memory card, and having to plug the controller into the other port. Metal Gear broke the 4th wall pretty often which made it even more enjoyable. Loved that boss fight, so unique. It was one of those things that made the first MGS so special. |
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Post by bladefd on Apr 3, 2016 21:16:29 GMT
I remember getting frustrated trying to aim in MGS2 with the ps2 controller  Especially when you fought the 3 massive metal gears with Raiden.. so tough and took multiple tries lol |
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Post by Lampz on Apr 5, 2016 21:19:23 GMT
I have yet to play The Twin Snakes.
That shit is apocryphal.
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Post by Lampz on Apr 6, 2016 17:08:28 GMT
MUCH more than just a game.
Wow.
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Post by bladefd on Jan 24, 2017 3:47:06 GMT
Hey mister moderator mister moderator, MGS Phantom Pain is a fun game. Playing through it. Have you played it yet, Lampz yboo? |
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