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I can definitely see where they're coming from. Thankfully, I don't bother with most Triple-A games anymore. Doesn't make it any less a problem though. Want to soak up the atmosphere most of your games, then I suggest you start going back to older games from the PS2 and PS1 generation, or start tackling all indie and lower budget games.

 
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Don't get too excited. I'm happy too, the tampersome expectations. Those are more than likely finishers. Besides, this isn't the first Sonic game to be of the stylish action variety. Granted, if all goes well, will be a lot better than that other Sonic game.

 

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I can definitely see where they're coming from. Thankfully, I don't bother with most Triple-A games anymore. Doesn't make it any less a problem though. What's a soak of the atmosphere most of your games, then I suggest you start going back to older games from the PS2 and PS1 generation, or start tackling all indie and lower budget games.

I feel like I've been lucky enough to miss most of the games they're talking about.

Though Borderlands feels right on the nose from the like 3 hours I played of it before I got bored and stopped.
 
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It had no responsibility to tie up all those "loose ends." The game would have benefited by leaving most of them open and then having more time to tell a cohesive story (and maybe let the player play the game more). Most of them weren't even loose ends or plotholes or whatever. Like, I didn't need to know that nanomachines made Vamp a vampire.
 

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It had no responsibility to tie up all those "loose ends." The game would have benefited by leaving most of them open and then having more time to tell a cohesive story (and maybe let the player play the game more). Most of them weren't even loose ends or plotholes or whatever. Like, I didn't need to know that nanomachines made Vamp a vampire.
Well, to be fair, Nanomachines are responsible for everything per MGS4. MSGV went one step further and made everything in the prequels the fault of magical parasites.

Except when it's actual ghosts and shit. Or just Ocelot being so Random a series of massive superintelligent AI that run the planet can't figure out what the hell he's doing because none of it makes any sense. Or Ocelot might just be mentally ill but in a weirdly exclusively beneficial way.

Okay, so basically everything in the Metal Gear Series is because of one or more of the following:
1.) Ocelot being cra cra
2.) Magical Nanomachines
3.) Magical Parasites
4.) The La Li lu le lo
 
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