Mirror’s edge.
I played some Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2.
Okay, I beat MGS3 for the third time. Now I’m doing a “fuck around” run, where I play the game in a tuxedo and use the Patriot throughout the entire game.
Man, it feels sooooooo good to skip all those cutscenes and Codec conversations. I mean, I love Metal Gear Solid’s storyline, but I’m sick of the heavy handed approach to storytelling the games have. I guess it’s the only way the story can work, I mean with such a massive amount of information that needs to be told for the story to make sense. But it’s still annoying as hell.
I especially hate it when, right after you think you made some sense out of the situation and think you have a firm grasp of the story, there’s a plot twist that fucks it all up. I beat MGS: Portable Ops a LONG time ago (it’s the last MGS I played for the first time, until MGS4 that is), and there’s STILL shit I’m figuring out to make sense! Like why did the American Philosophers take away Ocelot from The Boss only to give him to the Russians? Then, just a few days ago, I remembered that, if you stay after the credits, you hear how he’s triple crossing them and that he’s really working for the Secretary of the CIA (who he then kills in PO, for some reason.)
Why was Volgin nuking Sokolov’s research facility part of the Philosopher’s (now called “The Patriots”) plan to get the Legacy (as revealed in Portable Ops)?
How is Sokolov fucking alive in Portable Ops?
Why does Grey Fox sound like an emo teenager in PO but has a thick accent in Metal Gear Solid?
Why did Portable Ops fuck so much up?
And while I’m at it, since I already know this little bit about MGS4, how is it possible to get burned alive yet somehow come back years later and you look as if nothing happened? Ie Big Boss was burned alive by Solid Snake’s ghetto flamethrower in “Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake”, yet he appears perfectly normal in the few screenshots of him I have seen in MGS4!
I’m hoping MGS4 will clear all of this shit up, but I know there’s still going to be more plot twist and more fucking cutscenes that I will have to torture myself with to understand everything. But at least I know it’s the end. And from there on I can spend months piecing everything together.
Wow. I don’t think I have ever been this critical over MGS before. I mean, I obviously love the games if I’m willing to endure this amount of confusion.
The metal gear solid series is my second favorite game series next to half-life. Even though i’m strictly a PC gamer I will sometimes play the ps2 just to play metal gear solid.
Warcraft III.
Jeez, I’ve been playing Borderlands a lot lately. Great game!
It is, level 30 at the moment.
Mirror’s Edge. Definitely worth the $5 I paid for it. I would have bought it for $20. Although the cutscenes suck, the NPC animation sucks, and it does take control away from the player WAAAY too much… Maybe I’m just spoiled by half-life.
Portable Ops was some spinoff game that I don’t think Hideo had anything to do with the main games (thought it was still pretty cool). Also, Grey Fox isn’t in it. Just because Null has a machete and is fast means balls.
Also, it’s not like Metal Gear Solid is meant to make sense, so don’t bother trying to work it out. Just enjoy the awesome (apart from MGS3 :3).
fix’d
Also, Null’s real name is Frank Jaeger.
My proof?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YwoPH7GBvo
1:32-2:06
Gee, I wonder who else has that same name?
https://metalgear.wikia.com/wiki/Grey_Fox
I understand PO was a spin-off, but it’s still canon (apparently, since there’s some shit that’s mentioned in MGS4. I’m not sure what.) So all of the game’s rectons and story elements are canon as well.
I know MGS isn’t supposed to make sense, but if there’s a way to have it make sense, I’ll find out.
For example: Though Liquid died in MGS1, his soul continues to live in his arm, which is now on Ocelot’s body. Retarded, right? Well, not completely. In a hidden Codec conversation in MGS3, it’s revealed that Ocelot is The Boss’ child, with “The Sorrow” (who can talk to the dead and is now a ghost) being the father. So Ocelot/Liquid is using his/Ocelot’s father’s “spirit powers (or whatever)” to keep Liquid/himself alive.
Yeah, it’s still kind of retarded, but I can swallow that. I mean, this is the series that has human cloning/walking nuclear tanks/stealth camo/cyborg ninjas, and a ton of other cazy shit.
[COLOR=‘DarkSlateGray’](No wonder Splinter Cell seems so dull to me.)[/SIZE]
So, it all makes sense: You just have to MAKE IT make sense.
Can’t wait until I play MGS4.
I was playin some Team Fortress 2.
Oh snap, I take that back, he is Grey Fox.
I find that it’s just best to ignore that arm thing. It doesn’t make sense, no matter the way you look at it. Even if it did make sense, it’s just hilariously bad writing. “BROTHER! I live on through this arm!” I mean, really now. Still, I like the games and the story.
Episode Two.
That’s what I like about the MGS games: The writing can be bad at times, but it’s good enough so that it can just be considered part of the game’s charm. Plus, the great voice acting makes up for it.
Well, I WOULD ignore the arm thing, if it wasn’t for the fact that it’s a big part of MGS4 (you know, he’s called “Liquid Ocelot” now.) In MGS2, it was only there for a few brief moments. In MGS4, he’s Liquid Snake all the time now!
I started playing MGS2 for the second time a little while back, and for about a month me and Sassy would always burst out with that “I live on” line every so often. I can tell it’d get even more frequent if I played MGS4.
I’m sorry, but what?
I’ve been playing the crap out of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, working on the story line. Course, I’m not going for 100% completion, just trying to finish the story, which I have never attempted before. I’m not going to play any other games until I finish San Andreas, that includes my new Xbox 360 that I got for my birthday.
Make sure you keep your XBox in a place with high ventilation. And if you want to be extra safe, get a Nyko Intercooler EX. Sure, it may almost be as loud as a fucking vacuum cleaner, but you’ll get used to it. I’ve been using it for two years now. I don’t even think about the noise anymore, and I never had my 360 RRoD once.
And make sure Garth or anyone on the forums doesn’t catch you using it, or else you’ll be called a “console fag.”
I finished off Mirror’s Edge and then played some L4D2.
What’s so difficult to undertstand?
- Replayed MGS2, reminded of retarded arm plot.
- Became running joke.
- It is in MGS4, therefore, more running jokes.