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[Metal Gear Solid] Konami remembers it used to make games
manwiththemachinegun
METAL GEAR?!Registered User regular
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"Hiding from your enemies?! That's not a game!"
Metal Gear Solid is a tactical stealth action series created by Hideo Kojima, you may have heard of it. It has cool characters, great action, varied gameplay, an interesting story, and it's not afraid to have a laugh at itself, or at the viewer. It's fun, it's dumb, it's got long cutscenes, it hits you in the feels, and you probably already know where you stand on the series.
Feel free to talk about the Metal Gear series here. Konami has ruined enough things in general, so if you want to discuss the current evil activities of the La Li Lu Le Lo, I would direct you to the Konami thread.
"Manwiththemachinegun, I want to play Metal Gear! Where should I start! There are a ton of games!"
You can't go wrong with either Metal Gear Solid 1, the first Playstation game, or Metal Gear Solid 3, set in the 1960s as a clear homage to Rambo and James Bond movies. Consider those your gateway drugs.
The list of canonical games and when they are set:
Metal Gear - 1995
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake - 1999
Metal Gear Solid - 2005
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty - 2007-2009
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater - 1964
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots - 2014
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops - 1970
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker - 1974
Metal Gear Rising: Revengance 2016 - 2018
Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes - 1975
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain - 1984
Most games are either playable on PSN, PS3, or PC. If you have some combination of those two, you're probably set.
"So what's the big deal about Metal Gear"
It's a dating Sim,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL4ihdTZNFkA sitcom,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhoEdWH-fksA coming of age story,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCpOghwfhvsA Kaiju battle simulator,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gcx8ez7rWY&index=1&list=LLTQnO5AuzTXKjxKMFD9DwZAAnd... well, see for yourself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYM-vPKyxfAOther recommended material includes the Best Friends Play LP of Metal Gear: Revengeance, where a bunch of grown men nerd out over cyborgs in sombreros and Platinum games in general. And the Hiimdaisy, "Let's destroy!" series, a parody web comic that covered the first three games, and a bit of MGS4.
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That being said, the story is a bit of a haze to me at this point
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He could not have been kinder. I met him and got a picture and he signed my metal gear poster, and then went to one of his panels. His panel was interesting because of COURSE the first like 4 questions were "So what happened are you mad at Kojima?" and eventually he kind of got fed up and said - nicely - he met Kojima 3 times and each time was a handshake and a hello. He has no real ill will towards him, but he was never friends with him ever and doesn't really care. He was saying he used to ask about lines and stuff and every single time Konami/Kojima wouldn't let him change a word. Or even the pacing.
His favorite moment was when Big Boss finds the Mammal Pod in Peace Walker and is demanding answers from it. He had a close 2nd moment but my mind is blanking (I remember it being a genericish answer)
He was shocked when his script for 2 was so thin, and when he realized he wasn't the playable character he was pretty sure the game would tank.
At one moment the moderator said "So Snake is your baby" and he, in Big Boss voice said "But now I have to share custody" and it was genuinely hilarious.
He re-did the whole "But I like being in the box." part and explained how the humor came from him really, genuinely selling that Snake REALLY strongly felt that way. It wasn't a joke to Snake.
He said Randolph originally auditioned for Snake.
I went back to the Con the next day, and had him do a voice recording and he was a total pro and super nice. I was the best man in a wedding, and I told him I wanted Snake to call me in the middle of my speech and interrupt to wish them a happy marriage. He did a few takes and it was SO great.
So all in all, big David Hayter fan and it will always be a great memory.
About the only thing I've heard about Death Stranding (kosher to talk about that here?) is that it's going to be open world with vehicles, which makes me hopeful that it will be somewhat similar to MGSV. Very excited to play another game as good as MGSV, but without all the baggage and continuity of the MGS series carries with it.
Even though I would have been very excited by news of an MG1, MG2, MGS1 or MGS2 remake in the Fox Engine, I'm glad the series is finished. Yup. There'll never be another Metal Gear game. Not a single one.
Happy birthday, Snake!
Ah, here it is:
Word is the game is fun but really bland and non-Metal Gear.
So if I can access it I'll get a bit of messing around while I can.
So yeah, good luck crafting 190 bullets for your AR.
I found the game fun to play, but not "I'm going to buy it fun". It's a bit of a monster hunter feel where you're playing missions to get resources from the environment and using that to improve your gear and level up (you level up with the ingame currency). There's fun secrets around the maps which you get to briefly explore in between waves, like some small walkers we used to almost beat a mission we were underleveled for.
I had a prisoner extraction side op go wrong, and after some fierce combat defending the POW, with both gunfire and CQC, I called in Pequod who arced a perfect volley of rockets at the HQ, as I sprinted to safety, blaring "Take On Me".
"That was smooth Boss, real smooth."
I really want to try out the beta, but I don't really feel like deleting and shuffling space.
It's a survival game with levelling mechanics, so limited ammo and being generally weak is to be expected? IDK. Maybe I'll get around to shuffling installs... or not.
But if you can grab stuff from the supply box then that is just stupid that you can't use them automatically.
On the plus side, I bought Snake a tuxedo!
I had noticed that despite healing after taking damage during the assault phase and using a medi spray or whatever that the screen still flashed blood? Is there an injury system in the game too? never figured out why and since the time between waves was timed didn't want to waste it poking through menus.
The single player component is the open world with base building, that part seems much more interesting to me.
Think I'm in trouble. Class says "Main Class".
If there's a class/subclass system in this game, I'm fucked. Subclass systems AND a horde mode RPG? Oh nooooo.
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PSN: ShogunGunshow
Origin: ShogunGunshow
PSN: ShogunGunshow
Origin: ShogunGunshow
Seems awfully expensive. Looks like 100mb coins = 24 hour reduction. I was wondering if there was anything more worthwhile than that.
I mentioned earlier that with mods, the Phantom Pain becomes even more amazing. Such as: retaking Mother Base from Cipher:
Making the game work like old school Rainbow Six/Ghost Recon with "Realism" mode (It's still not realistic, but it looks great!).