my game is ass backwards.
You mother fuckers. I'm so glad I'm not the one who threw down 60 dollars or I'd be very upset. How long did it take to develop this game? Years? Well thank you Kojima, thank you for the fucking effort. What I get is a movie with a plot ripped out of the wachowski brothers asshole's that occasionally tells me to take a fucking step forward. Okay, I'm being harsh, I know, but before you ask, YES I PLAYED THE WHOLE THING. There is not something I'm "missing" I got the fucking point. Kojimas crack influenced idea of an "evolution in video game story telling" is just saying "Hey, I fucking ran out of gameplay ideas. Here's some shit you don't care about for 10 hours." No, I'm serious. If I would have skipped every cutscene, which regrettably I did not, the total amount of time actually playing would have accumulated to about
Four Fucking Hours. I defecate you not.
I actually enjoyed the other installments of this series, I really did, for the most part, but holy shit did they drop the proverbial "ball" on this one. The game tries to trick you early on into thinking this is "tactical espionage" but it's bullshit. It's like a used car salesman saying "Hey, take this car and you'l get 8 vaginas, and a cup of coffee whenever the fuck you want." Then you drive it thinking you're johnny cool-cat and boom, a spring pokes you in the dick and it's then that suddenly you realize "Oh that salesman, that card, he pulled a fast one on me!" You see, in the early parts in the game, Kojima Productions tries to be innovative by having a non linear path, but usually this "innovation" falls into two options. "Take the way with enemies." or "Take the other way thats safe" Well shit, it seems I've reached a fucking conundrum!
You know that saying "fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."? Well, I'm sure you know where I'm going with this. The other two hours of MGS4 is played completely different from anything else in the series. I swear I thought I was playing a third person version of Call of Duty 4. Here, I'll try to play it out what was going on at Kojima Productions half way through development.
Dev: "Well, what's next?"
Kojima: "Shoot the fuck out of everything."
A tad unrealistic maybe, but I'm sure I was close.
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Next time you should be more prompt with your hate for the next game critical hailed as great to collect.
Braid has also been taken too, put dibs on Gears of War 2 or Little Big Planet in advance bro.
The game is amazing... anyone who doesn't agree... needs to fall down some stairs.
Seriously though, I think I read an article somewhere about how the action-y sequences in MGS4 reflecting Kojima's feeling for the (games) industry in general, and the whole 'War has Changed' motif that comes up several times in the game. (can't remember if it was on Kotaku or Gamasutra, too lazy to find a link)
And it's not like you can't shoot the fuck out of everything in the other mgs games. You can sneak around get no-kills-no-alarms etc. etc. in mgs 4, but again, War has changed, hence, it will be harder to complete your mission using traditional means.
I have to ask though, if you didn't enjoy the story, why did you keep playing? That's usually an immediate turn-off for me, and one of the main reason that I couldn't beat World of Warcraft, the story was just so non-existent and difficult to follow, I just couldn't bring myself to complete it :P
Hey, yojimbo. Maybe he didnt buy it at launch. Maybe he just rented it now, and got through it the other day. And he didnt like it. Not everyone has to. And like DToiders are encouraged to do on the blogs, he shared his opinion. Stop the hate.
/rant.
OP: Instead of bashing on it with swears and metaphors, you could more clearly outline your points to get across why you didnt like it. Or you could just be doing it to enrage the community and whore comments. Who knows.
/rant
It's like the Matrix series. To love the whole series is to have bad taste. To think the whole series is some kind of genius is just some kind of dumb that i can't fathom.
Right? RIGHT!?
What I don't understand about your argument is that yes there are essentially 2 routes in any given map; you can take the safe route (most of) the whole way through the game, but all those sweet weapons would just go to waste; so at times you are "coerced" to use brute force.
I personally love the fact that I can take a safe route in a map, but halfway through, I decide I want to fuck shit up. RPG-7, anyone? Or maybe I want to throw some poor bastard to the ground and slice his fucking cockles with my stun knife.
This is called freedom of choice, and I don't see why that makes you so angry. If you don't like it, move to Russia.
Taterchimp said it best Yojimbo, let people blog about what they want, it's not about being cool, it's me being disappointed with a gaming series I actually liked.
Then they go and fuck it up.
Plus, I like bitching for the sake of bitching.
Why the fuck does everyone assume that you have to shoot everything up, when thats not the case???????????
plan your route, learn the guard movements, use patience and keep your cool in the game, then and only THEN you can sucessfully stealth past every mothertrucker in the game.
Stealth is still there, you just need to learn the process to use it.
Also, if I wanted to review the game, I would have. I can write my cereal blogs when I feel like it, they are there. But this is just me voiceing out my personal gripes with the game.
Fair enough, the game was HARD, but I suppose that's the bit I liked best.
It's not impossible to use stealth during the battlefield sequences, just really,really fucking hard.
That said, I have serious issues with the story, script, pacing, design, editing, redundancy, length of certain areas, and overall presentation.
The only way, I felt like I was about to snap the controller in my hands sometimes with pure fustration
If not trolling: I'm disappointed in you.
Heh.
Trolls rating trolls.
...oh wait thats just snake.
I love the MGS series and I enjoyed MGS4 enough to play through it 4 times. When you're going for a no kill, no alert run - 4-5 hours of gameplay is just about right.
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Miggles can gargle my skin sack.
Gargle your skin sack? Aaight, I'm down.
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I love you Chee, have my male children and I will make them wear girl pants just like his other emo dad.