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[PA Comic] Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - Inquiry
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The final boss would be set in Antarctica against a giant robotic cat-apult.
I'm sorry for the pun.
The new Metal Gear Solid trailer features Snake smearing human ashes all over his face, among other very depressing things.
I mean, the Phantom Pain debut trailer had fucking ghost unicorns and flame whales. None of that on show here though.
Boss painting himself with a dead guy's ashes was a fucked image, I don't think that's a bad thing at all. :P
I always notice the little problems in mentality in games (and I am annoyed when most people don't). Metal Gear isn't doing one major thing that shows they're unstable. They've been showing little signs of mental instability since the franchise went 3D. It's why I never liked Metal Gear.
"He's not crazy. He's rich, so he's eccentric."
I guess the shrapnel in Boss' head is weird looking?
When I saw the comic, my only reaction was: "What?" After the newspost, it's still that. You win some, you lose some.
*I played MGS1 on the PS for a bit, but then for some reason didn't.
Had hoped the news post would reveal Tycho's confusion, but he didn't elaborate whatsoever.
I hope there's a Fourth Panel of this comic sometime soon. Would like to know what confuses them about the trailer.
I think Tycho's commenting on the tone of it; there's no gameplay here, it's all sombre cinematic that does not look fun in the slightest, hence "does he know it's vidya" bit?
The trailer from a year ago had hallucinations, you could make a joke about Kojima being on drugs or something. But what is so confusing about this second trailer which is referred to in the comic? It raises unanswered questions, but not anything vaguely worthy of saying Kojima has finally gone insane.
Dark Raven X: That might be it, but I really didn't expect that. I mean, we've gotten gameplay of MGSV from the first trailer and from Ground Zeroes. It's not as though trailers that showcase story are unusual in the industry (they're all too common). Sombre trailers aren't unusual either--though few do it this well.
That makes sense, considering the humor brand.
I think the PA humor brand is really more about hyperbole; I'm not knocking them (I like them!) but the jokes usually rely on some serious hyperbole, and Jerry has no problem carpet-bombing a post with some strong adverbs & adjectives.
I think a lot of gamer humor comes out of blowing up things to an extreme; you see it in the forum posts about PA, and in the posts and comics. Makes sense to me--thanks for sharing.
I'm not sure if you are replying to me; I didn't see anyone deny that the trailer is weird, so I assume you might be replying to me.
It is weird! Absolutely. However, it isn't incomprehensible, and it doesn't appear insane; it appears to be derivative of a number of works, with some themes that are instantly recognizable.
Does that answer your question?
I mean, attacking someone with anything close at hand, kicking tables at them or whatever, that's fine tactics. Soldiers are a pretty close lot, where veterans get caked with their friends' blood and bodies and stuck with bone shrapnel due to explosives, so a dramatic gesture of wearing their ashes isn't far fetched (particularly if everyone, including Big Boss, is feeling demoralized). Quiet's jumping kill sequence was strange (and neat), but not by the standards of Metal Gear (reminded me of something Grey Fox would do). The soldier in question had just been fighting with his fellow Mother Base soldiers, and decided to escalate it to cutting them up with a knife--"You want to stab your brothers? Then stab me!" is what I thought when I saw that scene, and you can see the soldier expressing clearly, "No! I never want to hurt the Boss!" as he changes from wanting to stab his fellow soldiers to struggling to not stab Big Boss. The shrapnel, "horn," embedded in Naked Snake's skull is hard symbolism, representing his descent into villainy--it is purposefully strange, but it doesn't seem an unreasonable element for a Metal Gear story.
I mean, stuff is definitely going down in that trailer. Isn't that what we want?
I cannot agree. A lot of people I've talked to were hyped by the trailer, and some even commended its artistry. I find it a skilful use of techniques to raise questions about the game without giving away much, and I found it quite cool. It does seem random, but this is engineered--Big Boss is facing a chaotic time, which will destroy him.
That's a good way of putting it, Streever.
Or basically anything that Three Rings has made. It's a solid design, but not a particularly new one.
Kojima tried to mindread me in 1999.
that's not shrapnel. those are diamonds, made from the ashes of fallen comrades that Snake has chosen to have sewn into his face.