Lunncal said:
Racecarlock said:
It's not supposed to be fun or comfortable. Well, that's nice. The franchise that had metal gear rising in it is finally ditching fun for the same shit every game feels it has to do nowadays.
Next thing you know pac man will have child soldiers in it. I was never into metal gear, but this change probably won't sway me. Maybe this game, like spec ops, is more suited to people who don't watch the news and therefore don't get their fill of violence and rape before the morning is over. Me? I see enough of this stuff in the news already. I guess I'll be playing some more The Orange Box.
Um... what? Child soldiers have been in the Metal Gear games since Solid 2 at least, and the first Metal Gear Solid game was also pretty damn dark. The overriding theme in every Metal Gear Solid game actually is that war is really,
really shit (maybe it was the same in the original 2D Metal gear games too, but having never played those I can't say). Also Rising was a spin-off that intentionally had a pretty different tone and style to the Solid games, and as far as I'm aware it was made by different people. I really don't know what point you're trying to make here. That media shouldn't depict violence and rape at all?
I'm not saying that media shouldn't depict violence and rape. But when it's all that is ever depicted, it starts to get a little tiring. Like "Ooh look how dark the world is". As if I didn't already know. Even if the news didn't exist whatsoever, every game has tried to make a point about how horrible war is or how shitty and shallow us americans and our smartphones and reality shows are.
I guess metal gear might have always been this dark. Whatever.
When is someone just going to come along and make a game where I can ride dinosaurs and sharks or something? Okay, it wouldn't make a point about society or some shit. Fuck reality. I know it sucks. I'm not saying metal gear needs to. Maybe an assassin's creed spinoff? Something? Something that's not trying to be so fucking dark and gritty everywhere and isn't trying to make 86 different political points?
This is why I love Saints Row IV and Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon. They both chose to rip apart things they love. Saints Row IV loves video games and does make fun of them, but in the end it says that video games are awesome and fantasy is awesome and being a big hero is awesome, so why not just be a badass? Hell, that's the objective. Be a badass. Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon is very much the same thing. In love with games and the 80's and willing to let you just do awesome shit when you want to do awesome shit.
And what do they get for it? Complaints. "Oh this is unrealistic" "Oh this is too wacky" "Why isn't this making a broad point about politics and culture or the nature of gang violence or war?" "Reign it in. No more wacky stuff. From here on out, it should be serious serious serious." I hope volition doesn't listen to the people who said SR IV was too wacky. I like wacky. I have always liked wacky. I have always liked fantasizing.
When I was younger, one of the first games I remember playing was cruisn' usa. At that time I wasn't allowed to drive real cars because I was at a young age. But cruisn' usa said "Screw that, give me a quarter, and drive like a maniac you crazy bastard!". Same thing with raiden, which let me take a superpowered plane and just explode everything. And again with X-wing, which let me blow things up in space.
So it was with most games I grew up with. Star Fox and lots of various nintendo 64 driving games. And battletanx, which had full sized nukes in it. You could launch a full sized nuke from a tank and blow everyone up. This was a game that was similar to a lot of car combat games at the time, but with tanks. Imagine a full sized nuke in something like twisted metal except all the vehicles are tanks. That's what it was like and it was incredible.
Rogue squadron, same as x-wing. Here, be luke skywalker for a few hours and defeat the empire by destroying all of their shit.
The GTA series. Holy fuck is that awesome. Now you can go wherever you want and blow stuff up and skydive and do all sorts of other crazy things. Until GTA IV came along, that is. Then GTA V came along, and while the basic stuff that makes free roam fun (Parachutes, airplanes, lots of explosive weapons, fun cheats) are all there, all of the humor feels it now has to make a point about how spoiled LA people are or how liberal liberals are or how republican republicans are. No more having a nudist, a housewife, and a pastor on a talk show to discuss morality. Now it's just politicians actually being slightly more sane than real politicians. Now all of a sudden, we have to make a point.
It's not bad for entertainment to make points about society, but god damn, does every piece of entertainment have to make points about society? Can't one just not try to talk about politics and just let me relax and escape this hell we all call the real world? Just a few more games than I get now. Is that too much to ask?