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xlost7 on 12 November 2008
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KylieDog said:
xlost7 said:
vlad321 said:
xlost7 said:
@KylieDog

wow, so much for bursting a hopeless bubble. I sure will not base my buying decision on your post. And are you a Metal Gear Solid fan?

 

What does it matter if you are a metal gear solid fan or not? That does not change the quality of the game all of the sudden. It still remains a mediocre movies with good gameplay in between either way.

 

Because if your a Metal Gear fan you could fight through it. Considering reviewers didn't find much flaws in the game at all. He just said the story was just crappy, nothing about the gameplay. I know Metal Gear central aspect is its story. But why did the story fail?

 

Without spoilers...

It failed to deliver on previous set-up plots we had been waiting for a continuation of, instead just writing them off and replacing them with something new.  The new plot has been done a million times in various movies, books and also in games over the years, and tries to use this to explain -everything-.

On top of that, it re-writes canon facts with new ones, some of which are complete nonsense, and it also makes a quite a few timeline mistakes with older games.   In fact there is one instance the game actually contradicts itself, telling us new info about the past, then tells us something else a few chapters later that means the first bit of info shouldn't have been possible.

It also destroys the character of a few characters, without explanation.  New characters are faceless shells.

All told in the most slow and badly written way possible.

It's just....poor.

Since you meantion it the gameplay also sucks, its more a shooter than a stealth based game, its rediculously short, even by MGS standards, and one of the longest chapters (not counting cutscenes) requires you do almost nothing to progress through it.

Okay, I can agree with you on the gameplay part. After playing the demo of it today. I was just roaming the environment and came across two enemy's they both saw me and I thought the consequence would me to die really quickly first thing was to either hide or not. Well I just thought in my head let me shoot them down. Well dude I just put the camera in first-person mode and I ended up killing 4 enemies, I actually thought at the time it was a shooter and not a stealth game. 

The enemy wasn't able to call his teamates so I was like. Okay where is the challenge. Then what was weird I saw two different squads killing each other. It was like I was in a middle of a battle and I didn't have to shoot anyone. 

Also I can agree with you on the written story part. Kojima just tried to find a way to end this story. It might had been rushed but by you giving me the description on the story. It was plain obvious he just wanted to slap anything in to get it done and over with. So I am beginning to agree with you now.