Metal Gear Solid 2 was amazing!

[Dr.Grass]

d21lewis said:

Seihyouken said:
It's hard to truly appreciate how great Metal Gear Solid 2 was until you've read James Clinton Howell's essay analyzing MGS2 and realize how much the game subconciously played with your mind.

http://www.deltaheadtranslation.com/MGS2/DOTM_TOC.htm

Seriously, after reading all that and having played every game in the series, it's hard to argue that MGS2 isn't by far the greatest game in the series.

The best thing to come out of this thread is this link.  The incite in that article (surprisingly user friendly, too) was very impressive.  If you haven't read it, READ IT!

I read it and I thougt it was stupid.

That guy is just over-philosophizing and pointing out the 'significance' of everything in MGS2. I can also babble on about why exactly I decided to position my couch at a specific distance and angle from my LCD, but the point is if it doesn't sit comfortably then all the philosophy is useless. MGS2 had a lot of finer points to the story but Kojima ruined it with - oh wait lets quote:

Rainbird said:

And you can say whatever you want, but someone being possessed by a hand, a guy running on water and an entire terrorist takeover turinng out to be nothing but a training mission are just some of the things that made me go "Well this is fucking stupid".

There. It was fucking stupid.