I'm going to level with you -- I have no idea what the hell is going on in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots: Tactical Espionage Action (its full, official title). Having not delved too deeply into most of the games in the series, I'm quickly discovering that there's far more plot there than I can fit in my tiny human brain.
Starting tomorrow, Konami is offering up some help in the form of the "Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Database," which will be available for download on the PlayStation Store. The interactive app will contain "the official knowledge base" of everything Metal Gear, spanning back to the beginning of the franchise. Story lines, character profiles, diagrams detailing relationships ... my brain is hurting just thinking about.
If you haven't finished Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots: Tactical Espionage Action, never fear -- the program will black out all information on that particular title until you finish the game. Pretty fancy.
So apparently this game is pretty good, from what I hear. But seriously, does anyone truly know what the hell is going on?
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7:09 PM on 06.18.2008
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After finishing the game I finally had a clear understanding of what exactly went on during the course of the entire series.
thanks konami,thanks kojima!
Anyway, I love appendixes like these because it tells me that the creator is so dedicated to making his work into a full-fledged epic that he would go through the trouble of explaining absolutely everything so that the fans don't have to. It's one of the things that made Snatcher great as well.
I'll download it and make sure I have everything right!
I have played the Sons of Liberty like 5 years ago and only played half of the 3rd one.
I can't wait to play through Substance and Subsistence and then I may wait for MGS4 Sub(stitute for the version you should have waited and bought anyway...
I will "shirley" (@namelesstedd) be downloading this after I am through playing the first three. And the way that its supposed to black out the Fourth's info until you beat the game is a super sweet idea.
I remember the 2nd one being my favorite story even though I can't recall exactly what it was about. . .
That's a great feature.
:)
That's like telling a guy that you could enjoy buying fish at a fish market than rather going out and enjoying a good day's worth of fishing.
This was really nice of them to do. It'll be cool to get all the little details straight.
I love how in MGS4, if something is fucking crazy the obvious explanation is, "the nanomachines." I read a post somewhere that put it nicely; it is the sci-fi equivalent of saying, "a wizard did it." LoL! I love it :)
That being said I never played MGS3 (I just couldn't get into it) and I still managed to understand most of what was going on MGS4 even though I was often pulling my "wtf" face which kinda resembles the "there's something up my butt" face.