AceDiamond said:
Speaking as a veteran MGS player who is coworkers with veteran MGS players, and given that we're all actually excited for this game...you're wrong.
I didn't say every MGS veteran, just saying that I noticed a little trend. Many people who said that they've never played an MGS game said "HoLy CrAp It'S nOw AwSuM!"
Hell I'm surprised that I liked the trailer for this. But I did. Know why? Because it's letting us play as a Cyborg Ninja who cuts the living shit out of everything.
Well then, there's Ninja Gaiden, Devil May Cry, Bayonetta... Metal Gear
Solid games are not about that. Maybe if it's just a "Metal Gear" game or whatever then sure I suppose. But then, I'm just splitting hairs in the naming.
Fuck stealth, I wanna drop building parts on people. Violence? Oh please, this is nothing worse than when MGS4 introduced the Beauty and the Beast forces or when in Twin Snakes the original Cyborg Ninja went completely apeshit on a squad of genome soldier.
If you don't want stealth, don't play an MGS game. Trust me, there are
plenty of games that let you do this kind of thing. It just seems odd to me that MGS (at least this one) is going that route. The worst violence of this kind I can remember is Raiden de-legging the mobile moo-cow things, and that was nothing.
And as far as I remember with MGS4, the amount of violence leveled to blood splashing with weapons and such. I don't remember anyone being cut in half from head to groin. That kind of violence I've never really seen in any MGS game to my knowledge and is more akin to Ninja Gaiden, which does worry me.
Also I have to take issue with your "mainstream" comment. Are you seriously going to say that the 360 is "mainstream" while the PS3 is...i dunno "Maverick"? Not bloody likely.
Well...isn't it? I dunno, after a billion and one people saying "PS3 has the least install base, ther-eh-for developers must go multiplatform to turn in a profit!" and the fact that people always associate the 360 with the more "hardcore-mainstream"-gray n' brown shooters-testosterone filled-blood filling your screen-games console, it's kind of hard to not think that the more "mainstreame" audience had something to do with the fact that Raiden just chopped a guy's arm, then his spine, in half, ripped out his spinal cord, crushed it in a splash of white....sperm?, then proceeds to decapitate another soldier with blood gushing out, chop up another soldier in mid air 3 times, and then chops up [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtM3PGyiQUc] *GASP* a watermelon! [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArsonMurderAndJaywalking]
Now, don't get me wrong, that sounds
kick. ass. And honestly, if it were any other game, I'd be pretty psyched for this. But this is being touted as a Metal Gear
Solid game, and Kojima's lack of involvement shows. Say what you will about Kojima, he leaves a certain charm in his games. He would have made you chop up an entire fruit stand.
This doesn't mean that I will not give this game a chance. I'll leave my full opinion of the game when I actually get my hands on it. But I really can't shake the feeling that this isn't really a Metal Gear
Solid game. More of a Metal Gear
Raiden game.
