[ # ] Why Metal Gear Solid 4 Sucks!
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There are tons of things that you simply cannot understand no matter how hard you try. Stuff like “Why people watch American Idol” and “Are turn signals really that hard to use”. Everyone has things that they simply cannot grasp. Here are mine for today:
Why do people like Metal Gear Solid 4?
I don’t get what people find so appealing about these games… they aren’t games. They are hours and hours of mind bogglingly bad FMV sequences punctuated with the occasional part you get to play a very repetitious game. It’s like watching a really, really badly written and poorly acted hong kong sci fi movie that takes itself way too seriously and every hour or so you can push some buttons on your remote but no matter what you do your actions cannot avoid, change, prevent or otherwise improve the plodding, heavy handed story. Throw in more inane plot twists, completely immature poop jokes, shameless self exposition and more shallow one dimensional characters than your average soap opera and you have Metal Gear Solid. I think I loathe it as much as Halo now. It’s like being forced to listen to your crazy uncle prattle on and on and on about his conspiracy theories just so you might possibly get him to give you a dollar. I can understand liking the actual game that is hidden between all the crap sandwiches but you STILL have to take repeated bites of a very large crap sandwich to play it. It’s like telling someone you’ll give them some candy… if they let you hit them in the hand with a hammer for four hours first. I question the fans of this series taste repeatedly in my mind. If it was somehow possible to remove all the crap from Metal Gear Solid and leave you with just the game I would probably think highly of it… but if you remove all the crap then you have a game that would last about an hour…
The actual game, if it could be removed from the horrid story, gibberish dialog, shallow awkward characters and long winded soap boxing could probably be pretty good… provided they trimmed some stuff and altered the completely wonky control scheme, but as it is the framework ruins any decency the game portions generate. Metal Gear Solid -the game portions- is a mostly tasty sweet pickle slathered inside the biggest sh!t sandwich I have ever seen. I don’t like having to take repeated forced bites of said sh!t sandwich to get to that tasty sweet pickle relish, which is forever tainted with the aftertaste of sh!t from being inside said sh!t sandwich.
Halo at least had the gaul to let you -play- most of the time and feel like you were driving the story… Metal Gear just feels like one long, winding badly written movie that makes you play a game to see the next piece… of which it constantly interrupts your game to remind you of that.
Watch movie, watch more movie, watch even more movie… start to yawn… oh! I get to play some game now? Thanks!… oh wait… I was only allowed to play a few minutes now I have to watch more movie… and watch more movie. When is this going to be over? Can I play some of this sixty dollar movie I just bought?
As I said, I can’t understand how smart, articulate folks who by all accounts should enjoy smart, articulate entertainment can stomach the pure stupidity and ham-fisted storytelling that is Metal Gear.
From what I’ve seen more people are gay for Metal Gear Solid than there are penguins in the arctic. I just wish more folks would pipe up and admit that the storyline is one big crock of duck. I mean, I hear people clamoring to see this junk as an honest to god movie in the theaters… that would be the most painful Uwe Boll style horror I can think of. The only thing that saves Metal Gear Solid is that every hour or so you get to play a tolerably decent, albeit over hyped and overcomplicated, game for a few minutes. If you remove the sweet pickle from the sh!t sandwich I’m not sure many people would want it anymore.
Much like my qualms with modern anime I wonder if the Japanese get more out of all this malarkey than I am. I mean, the story of Metal Gear is just -so- Japanese… it’s dripping with Japanese… by that I mean the painfully cliched and shallow characters, the common themes of pointless sacrifice, mental issues and awkward almost misunderstood use of emotions like love, the seeming need for plots within plots within twists within convolutions as if a simple straightforward story was too easy, the over the topness of it all and always that ghost that the Japanese writer just doesn’t properly understand the west, westerners, how they act and react, what actually drives them and how they actually carry themselves. I mean Asians love to complain that “the western white man doesn’t know how to write Asian themed movies because he doesn’t understand the Asian mind” and they are RIGHT. The same goes for Asians trying to write western themed movies starring westerners doing western things. The story of Metal Gear is like a non westerner watched too many bad eastern imitations of western Hollywood action movies (which themselves have bizarre issues when viewed through the eyes of a westerner) and only gleaned the over the top junk from it all and then tried to shove it all together into one big pot.
If Metal Gear Solid was an anime it would fit right in like a fat guy laying a reeking garbage barge in a public bathroom.
To be as blunt as possible the reason I DON’T like it is because the story is crap. It is badly written, poorly executed and overall terrible. If that terrible story had been told in a way that involved the player rather than yanking them out of the game and the immersion to watch it transpire I would have much less to complain about. The point of a GAME is to immerse yourself in the world and control your character’s course in it, not to simply watch your character perform actions that you may or may not agree with. At it’s core it’s a control issue. Metal Gear Solid is a movie, it controls the course of everything and you are along for the ride… as opposed to a true “game” that you play and feel like you are guiding the direction of the game rather than it guiding you (even though it IS actually doing that).
What I really don’t understand is my big qualm is with fat guys stinking up my office can… the Metal Gear thing was thrown in simply because I’m sick of people giving it handjobs right and left all over my office, the internet, you name it. Metal Gear is like that hot chick in high school that everyone goes out of their way to be nice to and suck up to even though she is a shallow queen bitch that if you ever actually got a chance to date her you’d be putting up with mountains of crap on a daily basis and listening to her yammer on and on constantly about crap you could care less about. I know people still love the hot chick… I choose not to. It’s all opinion in the end and mostly my own personal inability to understand why people who I see as intelligent “deep” folks go so ga-ga over what I see as one of the most retarded things in recent memory.
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I just finished playing Mgs4 and I have to say it was pretty epic. Even though I have never played any other Metal games the only part of the story i didn’t understand were the parts where the characters were talking about things that happened in the previous games. There are many loading screens but they aren’t very long. Boss Battles were awesome because they were all different. There are some parts of the game where the gameplay becomes annoying and fun at the same time – SPOILER- Near the end of the last act cutscene where snake fights liquid in CQC. It was pretty fun because it was a change to the gameplay. It was annoying because it takes pretty long time to beat liquid and if you lose you have to endure trying to beat him again because the fighing is only interesting halfway through the fight. Some scenes are very humourous such as when psycho mantis appears and shows off his “powers”. There are also some parts where the game will advertise the power of the PS3’s bluray technology. Overall I thought the game was awsome. There are problems, but are minor that are easy to ignore. This is my OPINION.
This is just like Ricky said, an epic game. If you bought it and don’t like it, then it shows that you have never played any of the other MGS’s. Otherwise you would have expected all of this. Halo doesn’t compare to it because it is completely different kind of game. MGS is story and stealth driven, Halo is blow everything up driven. If you actually take the time in MGS4 to play into the stealth, and sneak everywhere, it will take 5 hours just in gameplay not including CG. If you just run and blow shit up, which is not what was intended, but is given as an option, then it will be like an hour! MGS series has the deepest storyline I have ever seen in a game. I goes way way way back, and very very deep. That is why it takes so long to tell. You are obviously an impatient child, who goes for cheap thrills as opposed to solid storytelling.
I actually disliked this MGS. I played ALL the MG games before and actually expected this one to be incredible.
While it was pretty epic. So many loadings/installing, FMVs galore and watered down difficulty made one of the dullest games of this generation. Hell, it even lacked the bunch of codecs that made codec-calling so fun on the past 3 games (and now is gone). Just like all the things on this generation, MGS is another overrated game for our weak market.
I have a reason why MGS4 is not the best game ever. Super Metroid
I don’t agree that mgs4 is the worst game ever, but I would agree that is highly overrated. Just hear me out.
First of, I love Halo. Sorry, just had to throw that in there. I understand why some people don’t like it, but for me, it is just a straight up fun shooter, and something I can always go back to and not get bored. I’m not obsessed with online play, especially because 10 year-olds who devote 50+ hours a week to it, will always own me, even in their sleep, haha.
But anyway, I obviously have the 360, which is a huge disappointment compared to the original xbox. So, I got a PS3 recently, and I borrowed mgs4 from a friend, and was really excited to play the “goty”. I thought I was going to get myself hooked into a stealthy, strategical game. No, I have not played any other mgs or mg. It’s only in my old age that I’ve become addicted to video games. But I did start mgs4 with high expectations. It was fun, but I soon realized that I wasn’t even doing anything that “stealthy”. Like other people have said, I could just run and gun. Unfortunately, the game just did not make a good shooter. It seemed clunky and slow to me. But I really wanted to thoroughly enjoy the game, so I tried stealth, but that was also disappointing. It seemed like you just hump the ground for 10 minutes until you find your destination. I was hoping I could find different ways to manipulate npc’s or my surroundings, but it just didn’t happen.
Then, yes, there are the cutscenes. I definitely agree these were too long and drawn out. A lot of it is just talking, a lot of pictures. It reminded me of a bad soap opera, with no commercials. I had to start skipping some because, hey, I DO have work in the morning and I’d like to play some of the game before I fall asleep! Unfortunately, I can’t skip that much because then I get lost. I wish they could have incorporated more story into gameplay. IMO, that is what a game should be. Also, I have heard people say that it’s half movie/half game. That sounds really generous to me. The game seems about 75% movie. And you can argue that we can just skip the movies… OK, we’re left with a really short game, and that’s fine, but I’d consider that a decent game, not the best game of the year. However, even if you skip the movies, gameplay is still interrupted constantly. Sometimes I would start a level, and less than a minute later, it would have to load another part of the map. I’d just start to have fun playing, when we need to load either a cutscene, or another part of the map, or a call… I thought it was funny when they joked about “disc 2″. I even felt a little pride, like “yeah! I have a PS3!” But then you think about it, and why, with 50gb capacity, must the game so constantly be halted to load or install? It’s intrusive and gets in the way of what could have been a lot of fun!
Add in a lot of jiggly boobs and cheesy lines, and that pretty much sums up my experience. I don’t think it’s a horrible game. It is just not a great game IMO. I’d give it maybe a 6/10, something fun to rent, not to buy.
I have been a huge fan of MGS for a very long time. I really like snake eater. I liked the story, the graphics (considering its ps2) and the game play. A lot.
I just beat MGS4. I’ve had it for months and refused to play it until I got an HD TV. That’s how into MGS I am. I wanted to play this game right in HD.
I just beat the game and to be very honest this game is…”meh”. It’s really hard to give this game a single rating because it really is an interactive movie.
In terms of story and graphics I loved it. It was nice to tie up some back story and they did have some really epic plot twists….but they had a lot of really stupid crap to. A LOT.
The game play in this game was not nearly as intriguing or fun as the other 3 games. Although, as usual I really enjoyed the boss battles.
I dunno maybe my expectations were to high going in I dunno. This game didn’t suck by any means, but it really did have some ridiculous moments.
****SPOILER****
I’m sorry but Raiden stopping a fucken HUGE assault tanker with his back…on a dock…COME ON. I mean yeah MGS4 has a bunch of ridiculous stuff like nano machines and electric people blah blah…fine…but for some reason that was a bit much for me lol
as a fan I’d give this game a 8/10. i think 9’s and 10’s are pretty ridiculous. and depending on your level of acceptance of the things others have mentioned above, I can see why people rated it lower.
Hey, I just finished this crapgame.. if you can still call it a game. I felt so backstabbed by hideous Kojima that I found this page by typing mgs 4 sucks on google. The OP translated my own feeligns correctly and eloquently, DjC4 and the others are also spot on regarding the pathetic storyline and japanese storytelling in general.
Japanese are quite terrible storytellers with usually completely flat caracters and always the same themes over and over again. Most examples I’ve seen ofJapanese culture would make holywood seem intellectual and artistically rich. Indeed, the nerds that come with the ‘it’s too complex for you’ never read a real book or saw an actual film with depth.
Now before the ps3/mgsboyz will cry foul. I AM.. or was, a huge MGS fan. I waited for my HD tv too for 5 months before ”enjoying” mgs 4. MGS 1 is still one of the best gaming experiences I had in it’s time, MGS 2 was also pretty good, even with the longer cutscenes, and mgs 3, besides it’s horrible cutscenes and terrible story, had some pretty nice things in it gameplay wise.
HOWEVER! MGS 4 is utter shite! The series have been consistently worse starting MGS 1. 1 was already heavy on the jap-storyline, but hey, it was on ps1, and there was a LOT of actual gaming to do. MGS 2 had less, mgs 3 had even longer cutscenes, but at least there was gaming. And in 4… omg sometimes I walked 10 minutes in a total of 4 hours of ‘game time’. WHAT THE FUCK!!!!???
I hate this game, whine about it to people who know about it and just scrap it from my memories with the previous games. What a terrible load of crap. I never had to save IN a cutscene, nor did I start playing games on my pc whilst simultaneously ‘playing’ a game on my playstation.
Anyway, next time I’ll try to play it on uberhard and just skip all the cutscenes. There is nothing to be missed anyway.
The only good thing about this pretentious piece of japcrap is the graphics and the intro soundtrack.
This game is easily the most pretentious game ever made. Obviously closely followed by the completely empty headed, hollow and made-for-retards Final Fantasy series.. and all the jrpg diarreah that follows that.
I sure as hell won’t buy MGS 5. The critics can’t be trusted, for they are all nerds and do not share my having of actual taste, therefore they won’t be able to inform me.
Oh, and the jrpg lovers out there will need to try a REAL rpg for once, like planescape torment or fallout, stfu and get their asses handed tot hem since those games require actual thought.
MGS4 was a disappoinment. Like the two previous posts said, its only like by uber nerds who think Jap animation is the best thing since Jap animation. I did understand the whole plot it was just got a bit ridiculous, Big Boss still alive!? Come on!! And it seems they try to explain everything too much. Be concise Hideo and just say one sentence, don’t give me a thesis on why ketchup is red and not blue.
You want a game where you can some awesome action and a lot of ass kicking, go for Ninja Gaiden or Uncharted.
This game was really shitty, and I agree with just about everything the writer says. The story is fucking gay, over sentimental, too complex, has stupid annoying as fuck characters, and an ass load of cutscenes. People actually have the audacity to ask me how I can have an opinion on it if I don’t play (in this case sit) through entire game, to which I respond go fuck yourself, because I want to play a fucking video game, not watch a movie. Times like this I thank god that games like Half-life 1 were created, one of the first games in 3-d I actually liked… It’s basic FPS, tells a very good but basic story. Want to know the beauty of it? NO CUTSCENES. That’s right people, Valve managed to tell a decent story without the use of hour long cutscenes. Whatever happened to games that didn’t require hours of loading, and install time, complex hard to understand story lines, soap opera dialogues, and annoying characters to be fun?
While I respect your opinion, I do not respect you and others calling our opinions wrong. I played through Metal Gear Solid 4. Yes there were a lot of cutscenes. But I enjoyed every minute of it. That’s just how I am. I love story and characters. And the gameplay was good, and the controls aren’t bad at all (albeit a bit confusing at first) and the game blew me away. And like I say to all people who bash things: Just because you don’t like it, it doesn’t mean it’s bad.
Also, for the people who complain the cutscenes are too long, you do actually realize you can skip them, correct? And another thing, if sneaking around quietly isn’t your thing, then go play Gears Of War. Clearly this game isn’t for you.
IMO, I’d have to give Metal Gear Solid 4 a 9/10. And before you say, “OMFG UR A MGS FANBOY,” MGS4 was the first MGS game I played. I played the first bit, then went and bought the others. It’s not a terrible game. You just don’t like it.
One reason people stereotype is that it is too difficult to take in all of the complexities of other people. (ie, they don’t have the brain processing power to understand the beauty of the complexity of the world so everything they can’t understand must be gay/fag)
Once one has sorted and organized everyone into tidy categories, there is every incentive to avoid processing new or unexpected information about each individual. Assigning general group characteristics to members of that group saves time and satisfies the need to predict the social world.
(ie, they don’t have the brain processing power to realise they lack the brain power to understand the world, and they are happy in their little universe)
People also tend to stereotype because of the need to feel good about oneself. Stereotypes protect one from anxiety and enhance self-esteem. By designating one’s own group as the standard or normal group and assigning others to groups considered inferior or abnormal, it provides one with a sense of worth. (ie, they lack the self-esteem to convince themselves that they are worthy and normal so they NEED to convince themselves the others are inferior to them and abnormal. since they can’t prove themselves different and worthy from other game players, they NEED to label others as fags/gay so it satisfies their ego)
Sociologist Charles E. Hurst of the College of Wooster states that, “One reason for stereotypes is the lack of personal, concrete familiarity that individuals have with persons in other racial or ethnic groups.” (ie, they lack the brain power to process the difference between people, and lack the guts to leave familiar territory to explore the world, so they divide the world into 2 groups only – fags and non-fags)
Stereotypes focus upon and thereby exaggerate differences between groups. Competition between groups minimizes similarities and magnifies differences. This makes it seem as if groups are very different when in fact they may be more alike than different. (ie, they have a profound need to demonstrate to the world that they are slightly different from their fellow peer gamers, so they need to keep telling people they are computer/console game players who are not fags and only plays FPS which are well received by the gaming world and all the rest are computer/console game players who are fags and only plays FPS which are well received by the gaming world.)(No, I didn’t type this sentence wrongly, they are the one who are trying to explain to the world that they are different)
@ Teh Gamer
(is this a typo and you really wanted to type The Gamer?)
Cut scenes are nothing but mere tools of expression.
You can kill a soldier with a knife, a pistol, a shot gun, an assault riffle, a rocket launcher or a grenade. If you like, you can kill him with you bare hands (if the game creators are were willing to invest their time to allow it in the game). A weapon is just a tool. You can use it or choose not to use it.
So MSG uses cut scenes, and half life doesn’t. Some people like cut scenes, you and other don’t like it, me and others like both types. Some like to see the game from a 3rd person’s perspective as if watching a movie, you and others like to look at things only from the point of the player, me and others like both methods and enjoy the ways both the creators of MSG and half life choose to express themselves.
Now that you have grown up a little and discovered that you don’t like cut scenes, and like how the way half life tells the story, next time ask and check out the internet before you buy any new games, since this seems to be decisive factor for you in choosing the games you like.
Now be a good boy and run along, and go discover something else in life.
@ Florian
If critics can’t be trusted with their reviews and comments, then I suppose as an armchair critic, what ever you have commented isn’t worth much either?
Since when has any serious gamers buy games based on other people’s opinions? Don’t tell me you buy what other people say is good without finding out yourself?
I loved this Article. It shows that MGS4 isn’t the second coming of the Messiah.
Basically MGS Fanboys are not even threat, they are just annoy flies you need to swat at to get rid of them. Of course they come back eventually.
Reading the Japanese reviews of MGS4, also shows that there are Japanese Gamers who didn’t take to MGS4 either. In fact, they complain about the cut-scenes and story plot just like the Americans. Funny as heck, totally recommend reading some.
I have noticed something quite common when it comes to people who review MGS overall. It’s the weak insult MGS Fanboys use all the time, to belittle others who don’t like what they like, and to protect their Precious.
THE LIST every MGS Fanboy must memorized.
1) “OMG, you’re just not intelligent enough to play this game”
2) “You MUST play the previous games in order to understand the MGS series!!”
3) “Oh, you do know you CAN skip the cut-scenes right?”
4) “This must be your first time playing MGS”
5) “Hideo Kojima is God”
6) “Go play (insert game they loath here) and be a fag”
7) “If you were a REAL FAN, you would know that Metal Gear Solid has ALWAYS been like this”
We get it, you LOVE Metal Gear Solid regardless of how flawed and ridiculous it has gotten. We know you are blinded by it’s shininess.
Another thing I have notice, is when people review MGS4, they also point out their liking for previous installments, yet that doesn’t seem to be enough for the MGS Fanboys, every review about Metal Gear Solid must be Perfect. Or you face their wrath of whiny text replies.
I do indeed find the Solid 10 reviews for MGS4 to be very openly bias and just typical Kojima masochist showing their pride and having no shame in doing so. The guy could fart in their faces and they would proclaim that it is the sweetest smelling flatulence they have ever had the privilege of engulfing into the pockets of their lungs.
If Kojima wants to make movies, then he should do that, because apparently he forgot what the two combination words of Video+Game means.
It seems like most of you have a problem more with fanboys than you do with the game.
The controls were well done, the cut scenes were well done, the music was well done. The story is simply unique in it’s own, what the hell can you criticize about it? it’s the story the creator made up so it’s not going to be exclusively perfect to every person, what story is?
I can agree with comparing gameplay aspects, yet they were VERY well done. Perhaps you should step back and ask yourself whether you hate the game or the people who like it.
your all fagots mgs is the best game and games ever kojima rules!!!!!
Man, this reminds me of the FF7 vs. FF8 battles. but i have to say after reading some comments, there many unintelligant people on this page. for those that say JRPGS, and MGS are not “teh hardcorez” or make people a lesser gamer a mistaken. it makes us more a gamer do to the fact that we devote time, and thought into our gaming experiance. the final fantasy series is “hardcore” gaming series, it been around for years and has a HUGE fanbase. just becasue some people dont like blowing random things up does not make them cowards or not true gamers. it just means that they like a differant experiance. I love
Halo and half-life, but my favorite game of all time would have to be Golden Sun for the GBA. it capitvated me..something that has not really happened to me since, i mean i did play halo 3 for hours on end, and i didn’t take MGS4 out of my ps3 for a month, but neither game took me to such a world, such a wonderful experiance as Golden sun.
and hideo kojima is awsome for making Boktai.
@ Val
omg ur comment is so gay my gaydar bleeps at my screen. You try to put yourself above it by copypasting some random crap about bias, yet obviously YOUR opinion is right? Come fucking ON! The reason I read reviews is because games are fucking expensive. I dont like MGS 4 and dont gimme that crap about it being too complex for me. It’s a very basic and pretentious game. If you wanna be so hardass, go read some books but dont come crying to me about games being too difficult for me. Go play CIV 4 or something, at least you will have some minor case trying to portray your false sense of superiority. It’s exactly nerds like you that motivated me to write up my first rant in the first place. You suckers make me sick.
Personally, MGS4 wasent the best it could of been, i liked MGS3 for the ps2 much much better, but what this game needed to accomplish it did, it summed up the whole story and made all the fans happy, with its climax. i dident think it was over rated at all, i never saw one commercial for it up until 4 months after its release, if anything’s over rated its halo 3, halo 3 is just another generic FPS with aliens. so all in all, we should all band together and recognize the true enemy is halo
I loved MGS4, and this was my first time playing any MGS series. i agree that Halo 3is more overrated than MGS4. Halo 3 sucks. Why did u continue playing it, when u thought it sucked?
@ Jesse James Hollywood
“If Kojima wants to make movies, then he should do that, because apparently he forgot what the two combination words of Video+Game means.”
You do realize that the word “video” is in “video game” too, right? I see what you’re trying to say, but honestly, what was the point of that sentence? Regardless of what you think, he didn’t, in fact, “forget”. I’ll get to why later. And why bash Kojima just because you hate the fanboys and don’t like the game? Get over it, dude. And I’m only picking on you because I happened to see that little line from you and it inspired me to make the following rant.
@ the rest of you
Kojima will make and should make games however he wants. There is more to expressing yourself artistically, literally, and figuratively than limiting yourself to a single medium. Whatever your opinion is on Kojima’s MGS series, you can at least respect him for trying something different and creating a unique method of storytelling separate from previous traditional or conventional ways to tell a story, whether or not you believe he succeeded in this. Even if you can argue that the story was utterly ridiculous tell me what story isn’t at least a bit ridiculous. It IS fiction, after all. How believable do you want it to be? The point its that either way, it will never be real. Thus, in reality anyone can write a story however they want, as long as they are consistent in they way they tell it.
For example, Star Wars was different for its time, but did everyone hate it? No. (I hope I don’t even have to mention that it’s almost quite the opposite) Did everyone have to like it? No. It’s a matter of opinion. Is this game exactly like/ better than Star Wars? No; that’s not what I’m trying to say. It is merely an example. Like MGS4 there are the typical people who hate it just to hate it—whose opinions are always right, of course—or the fanboys, all the people in between and the fanboys—whose opinions are always right, of course—as with anything, really.
In short, stop bitching (I couldn’t find a better word to describe it, really, but I apologize for the change in diction and—while I’m apologizing—grammatical quirks) about this game just because the game wasn’t the way you wanted it to be. Relax. Liking the game isn’t about brainpower or it “sucking”. It’s about what your own interests are; what seems good and appeals to you more for whatever reason. There is always a reason. Something cannot just “suck”. If you don’t like it: good for you. If you like it: good for you. We can agree to agree or agree to disagree. I just want everyone to stop this inane fighting over whose opinion is supposedly better. And I don’t just apply this to MGS4, but with everything and anything anyone can have an opinion on in general. Yes, you may disagree with me, but I’ll ask that you do it politely and without resorting to coarse or pretentious language at least, please.
Thank you for taking the time to read my humble opinion (a.k.a. mild rant) and I hope you all have a nice day. :)
P.S. Oh, and by the way. I liked the game.
I only watched my brother play it last summer though, but the story was good, albeit it too exposition-heavy. I enjoyed (most of) the characters and thought the ending to the series was perfect, despite never having really played any of the games before. My real gripe is that there could have been more gameplay and less cutscenes. My brother thought it was alright, but that MGS3 was the best game in the series. I’ve only just recently played MGS2 and thought that it had similar problems like MGS4, but I enjoyed it. For it’s flaws, the games’ seemingly endless cutscenes or other issues don’t bother me much. I guess it’s just my thing. My OPINION.
I agree with everything being said here.
Thank god someone else besides me hates these games. I go over to Gamespot and about 99% of people are giving these things 9 or 10 out of 10. It’s truly mind boggling. You’ve got characters who couldn’t possibly be any shallower, they sound like they’re drugged or maybe just semi-lucid. Then you’ve got these incredibly long-winded cutscenes that stop making sense after about 90 seconds, but they keep going for an hour. Then you get to play the game for 10 minutes, then another hour long cutscene, just piling the nonsense higher and higher until it becomes agonizing to sit through. And then there’s always some girl who wants to talk about your relationship – a thousand freakin’ times! – while you’re busy trying to save the world.
The game aspect of it is a shooter with a really awful control scheme. I am at a complete loss to understand what people see in these games. They talk about the “movie” aspect of the things, but for the love of god, they’re the worst movies I could ever imagine. They make Sci-Fi Channel Originals seem like Citizen Kane in comparison.
Well, I just have to say that Mgs4 is the best piece of interactive entertainment available. It’s tongue in cheek highly playable emotionally engrossing and a visual tour’de force (despite the less than desirable resolution). The only game that has ever meant something to me more than just killing time. Unforgettable (Unlike many games this generation).
Sorry. but mgs has always been convoluted and nonsensical… the only thing that has changed is long ass fmvs instead of short ones.
as to the plot.. beh.. I preferred serious sam!
I disagree with his opinion, which is fine.
But the blog creator sounds like he thinks that his opinion = fact.
This isn’t a stealth game theres no incentive to be stealthy when the enemies run at you in a straight line and you can buy unlimited ammo for a m-60. Splinter Cell is a stealth game, this is a mess.
The cut scenes needed major editing, but Kojima is so successful no-one must have had the balls to tell him: “Hey you’re being a self indulgent wanker”
The gameplay was woeful, snake was a disaster
to control. “oh, i can use triangle to vault over this 3 foot wall but not that 3 foot wall” thats just lazy. He ignored the gameplay and concentrated on the ridiculous cut-scenes.
Lol – I liked the article… and I really liked all these posts defending what a great game it is – those are better than the article itself….
Ive never played it, or any of the Metal Gear games…
But you’re all douchebags for crying because someone doesnt like it…