Giant Bomb: video games, comic books, and other misogyny

Buttlord

Dichotomy wrote: »

because what videogames really need is another way to lecture the player on how terrible they are

unironically this

i want my game to tell me to clean my room and do my homework

Tallahasseeriel

Nintendo is doomed

I played a khajiit "treasure hunter"

-Tal

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

The silliest use of non-lethality is in MGS2

Even if you take Olga down non-lethally, you're still pumping a pregnant woman full of tranquilizer

I have to think that would have some adverse effects

Wait maybe that's why Sunny is such an exceptional child

yeah that uh

that is what I assumed made Sunny the way she was in MGS4

though by Revengeance she seems to have gotten over it so I guess it really was just being super-sheltered?

UnbreakableVow

Microsoft is doomed

Just throwing this out there that today there is a sale on Xbox Live, MGS2 and 3 for $10

Tallahasseeriel

Nintendo is doomed

To my skyrim guy, hard work means lugging his loot out of his mark's manor to his fence.

"Why is everything valuable so heavy. I need to saddlebags for my horse."

Stilts

Nintendo is doomed

-Tal wrote: »

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

The silliest use of non-lethality is in MGS2

Even if you take Olga down non-lethally, you're still pumping a pregnant woman full of tranquilizer

I have to think that would have some adverse effects

Wait maybe that's why Sunny is such an exceptional child

yeah that uh

that is what I assumed made Sunny the way she was in MGS4

though by Revengeance she seems to have gotten over it so I guess it really was just being super-sheltered?

The epilogue scene with Sunny and Wolf is one of the funniest things in Revengeance.

Actually, pretty much every scene involving Wolf is great.

Speed Racer

Microsoft is doomed

to be fair in revengeance she's like a 12 year old girl building experimental rockets and i think running her own company?

that's still pretty dang abnormal

Speed Racer

Microsoft is doomed

also i want reveangeance dlc about rescuing baby sunny from the patriots

because seriously how the fuck did they totally gloss over that stuff in MGS4

"oh yeah that big cliffhanger in 2? It got taken care of don't worry about it. also Raiden's a cyborg now."

-Tal

Speed Racer wrote: »

to be fair in revengeance she's like a 12 year old girl building experimental rockets and i think running her own company?

that's still pretty dang abnormal

that's just being a ten year old genius, she no longer has any of the implied autism of mgs4

Moth 13

The hilarious thing about Iji is that even the pacifist route has you slaughtering dozens of people.

Virgil_Leads_You

Nintendo is doomed

Buttlord wrote: »

Dichotomy wrote: »

because what videogames really need is another way to lecture the player on how terrible they are

unironically this

i want my game to tell me to clean my room and do my homework

"Hello, We noticed you have shouted racial slurs at JohnGuy360.
Apologize in 24 hours, or we will publicly share audio and your name, as outlined in the signed user agreement"

Speed Racer

Microsoft is doomed

i honestly don't remember anything about sunny in 4 other than naomi teaching her how to make eggs

Speed Racer

Microsoft is doomed

although today I DID remember the part in 4 where Liquid Ocelot hijacks the SOP system and celebrates by making everything around him explode by finger-gunning

and in retrospect how did I ever FORGET about that

interrobang

Nintendo is doomed

bladewolf is the best character in MGR

Tallahasseeriel

Nintendo is doomed

m-maybe I should have kept playing MGS4.

I got bored of the cutscenes on like the third half hour one.

UnbreakableVow

Microsoft is doomed

I should pop in MGS4 again, turn it down to the easiest difficulty and roll through that game again just for the cutscenes

Great stuff

Stilts

Nintendo is doomed

-Tal wrote: »

Speed Racer wrote: »

to be fair in revengeance she's like a 12 year old girl building experimental rockets and i think running her own company?

that's still pretty dang abnormal

that's just being a ten year old genius, she no longer has any of the implied autism of mgs4

True.

I'm more inclined to chock that up to Sunny being an anime kid than to some sort of mental condition.

Because anime kids do absurd shit like that.

Speed Racer

Microsoft is doomed

interrobang wrote: »

bladewolf is the best character in MGR

wolf is great but i gotta give it to Senator Armstrong

-Tal

interrobang wrote: »

bladewolf is the best character in MGR

false it's the guy who eats pizza

Stilts

Nintendo is doomed

Speed Racer wrote: »

interrobang wrote: »

bladewolf is the best character in MGR

wolf is great but i gotta give it to Senator Armstrong

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJvOxFhVNbQ

Speed Racer

Microsoft is doomed

the other awesome thing about mgs4 I remembered: piloting Metal Gear REX and using it to fight Liquid Ocelot piloting Metal Gear RAY

that game had a lot of fuckin' rad moments in it

it's a shame the overall story's a bit of a jumbled mess

-Tal

oh my god that thumbnail

Stilts

Nintendo is doomed

-Tal wrote: »

interrobang wrote: »

bladewolf is the best character in MGR

false it's the guy who eats pizza

That guy is literally my former college roommate.

Not even joking.

Half-naked Rei figurines, imported magazines filled with anime girls in swimsuits and Lucky Star posters on his wall.

Mr. G

Nintendo is doomed

Speed Racer wrote: »

also i want reveangeance dlc about rescuing baby sunny from the patriots

because seriously how the fuck did they totally gloss over that stuff in MGS4

"oh yeah that big cliffhanger in 2? It got taken care of don't worry about it. also Raiden's a cyborg now."

That's what Rising was about when Kojima Productions was making it

interrobang

Nintendo is doomed

Stilts wrote: »

-Tal wrote: »

interrobang wrote: »

bladewolf is the best character in MGR

false it's the guy who eats pizza

That guy is literally my former college roommate.

Not even joking.

Half-naked Rei figurines, imported magazines filled with anime girls in swimsuits and Lucky Star posters on his wall.

living the goddamn dream

Speed Racer

Microsoft is doomed

Stilts wrote: »

Speed Racer wrote: »

interrobang wrote: »

bladewolf is the best character in MGR

wolf is great but i gotta give it to Senator Armstrong

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJvOxFhVNbQ

that line is great but the whole buildup to it is also awesome

because the game deals pretty much exclusively with MGS cyborg technology and they don't really mention nanomachines at all

and Armstrong starts hulking out and being magical and it's like what the fuck is going on is he magic or something?

And then

THAT'S the answer

interrobang

Nintendo is doomed

Speed Racer wrote: »

Stilts wrote: »

Speed Racer wrote: »

interrobang wrote: »

bladewolf is the best character in MGR

wolf is great but i gotta give it to Senator Armstrong

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJvOxFhVNbQ

that line is great but the whole buildup to it is also awesome

because the game deals pretty much exclusively with MGS cyborg technology and they don't really mention nanomachines at all

and Armstrong starts hulking out and being magical and it's like what the fuck is going on is he magic or something?

And then

THAT'S the answer

it's also really really really subtly foreshadowed in a codec conversation with Doktor

where he sorta mentions that while he hasn't been following nanomachine tech recently because cyborgs are the new hotness, he wouldn't be surprised if there was some crazy recently-developed stuff out there that could rival cyborg tech

and then whaddya know

Buttlord

i just bought trackmania

i am looking forward to doing silly driving

-Tal

I like how he uses a lot of the same animations as the mastiff gears

Speed Racer

Microsoft is doomed

i appreciate that magic is a real thing in MGS and no one really seems all that phased by it

Speed Racer

Microsoft is doomed

an astronaut exploding into a screaming fire ghost because he was briefly exposed to vacuum years earlier makes perfect sense to everyone

Melding

Microsoft is doomed

to be fair with all the crazy shit going on, magic is probably the least of their concern.

Huntera

what if

The nanomachines

knew magic???

Buttlord

i'm looking at the cover for trackmania

there is a car

jumping through a loop

why is that car jumping? hell if i know! but that looks radical and i wish to do this

Speed Racer

Microsoft is doomed

ocelot tricked fortune for YEARS into thinking that she had magic luck powers, just by planting a really powerful electromagnet on her that repelled bullets that she somehow never once noticed

and then in the end it turns out that she actually DOES have magic luck powers

Tallahasseeriel

Nintendo is doomed

Fucking vampires man.

Speed Racer

Microsoft is doomed

you would think that ocelot would pass out those electromagnets to like, everyone

though then again half the time you killing the bosses is all part of his plan to begin with

-Tal

let me tell you about liquid ocelot

liquid is ocelot's persona

Speed Racer

Microsoft is doomed

Uriel wrote: »

Fucking vampires man.

he's not a vampire he just likes to drink human blood and has nanomachines that can heal any wound no matter how severe

God

UnbreakableVow

Microsoft is doomed

Dextrocardia was a thing that I didn't know existed until MGS2

So, thanks, game

Taught me something