I Finally finished MGS4 (Spoilers)

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shio said:

darthdevidem01 said:

shio said:

Staude said:

shio said:
Too bad the story wasn't great. So much wasted potential.

 

what are you talking about ? the story was brilliant !

Planescape: Torment, Deus Ex, The Longest Journey, Mask of the Betrayer, Beyond Good & Evil, Grim Fandango... these have brilliant stories, not MGS4.

 

I disagree big time

 

MGS4's Story

Pros
- Some of the characters are great
- Highly emotional

Cons
- Uninspiring writing
- Archaic storytelling
- Excessive use of cutscenes
- Bad implementation of thematics and specific knowledge
- A lot of clichés


I compare MGS4's story to Spiderman 3: Fun to watch, but won't give you a lasting appeal.

I compare Deus Ex's to Blade Runner: The best Science-Fiction can offer.

And I compare Planescape: Torment's to the top 50 movies of all time combined: It is simply that much a masterpiece.

 

 

While I don't necessarily agree that MGS4 had excessive use of cutscenes, or archaic story telling (what does that even mean?), I do agree that MGS4's story wasn't that great, and had some wasted potential.  But I think that most of my gripes about that comes from the fact that he wasn't really planning on working on the series for so long, and sort of had to tie up all the loose ends for the grand finale.