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Gaahl said:I recently finished MGS1 again, and after this and MGS4 I have to say that for me, it's not the stealthy parts that make those games great.
IT's the boss battles, the cinematography and the story that stand out for me.
So if Platinum Games want to make a Metal Gear Bayonetta, I'm all for it.
Shinola, meet shit!
Gaahl said:Besides, I don't think they just do this for the money. MGS is an established series, if they wanted to make money, they'd just do MGS4.5 and be done with it. Turning this new Game into a mindless fun slasher is actually pretty risky.
I wouldn't call turning the franchise into an action game for the lowest common denominator of gametard whose favorite movie is Sucker Punch a risky move, especially coming from the same guy that alienated everybody by making the sequel to his A-list selling franchise game a post-modern video game critiquing the medium and his audience (people forget, as big as MGS is, it might have been/become even bigger before MGS2 turned off a lot of casual MGS1 fans forever). Everything they've done with Raiden since still feels like an apology for that, or an elaborate joke/fuck you.
Aazealh said:Kojima never was anything but a "George Lucas". What's your problem with this game exactly? That its premise, story-telling, action and characters are preposterous? Because if so, I don't see how it's any different from the previous entries in the series...
There's levels of preposterous though, and good preposterous and bad preposterous; anything can be done well. I'd say the better comparison for Kojima is John Carpenter, who was obviously an influence, and made a career out of making good and then bad preposterous films. Rather than comparing all his early good movies to his later shitty ones, for Kojima's comparison let's focus on the perfect example, the Escape movies. Escape from New York is just as preposterous as Escape from L.A. is, but it's much better about it, or L.A. is much shittier, I don't know which but same difference. Anyway, the same goes for Kojima, perhaps MGS3 was all the great preposterous he had left in him, and now we're in the Ghosts of Mars phase of his career. So, while he's always done preposterous stuff, I wouldn't compare games like MGS1 and Snake Eater to MGS4 and whatever he's doing now.