Borkachev on 03 April 2008
Maybe you hould have actually listened to the ending because you obviously have no clue what it was about.. It was easily the most intelligent and profound ending of any video game, it actually spoke a message to you and made you think.
Raiden, are you receiving? We're still here.
Raiden: How's that possible!? The AI was destroyed!
Colonel: Only GW.
Raiden: Who are you?
...blah blah blah
Raiden, are you receiving? We're still here.
Raiden: How's that possible!? The AI was destroyed!
Colonel: Only GW.
Raiden: Who are you?
...blah blah blah
That entire conversation is rambling, schizophrenic nonsense. I really don't feel like subjecting myself to it all again and going through it line-by-line to explain why, but I assure you that's the case. Read it again. You know all that stuff you thought was deep because you didn't understand it? No. It's just bullshit. The time-cube guy can sound deep too if you start from the assumption that he's smarter than you.
Just for an example:
Colonel: The digital society furthers human flaws and selectively rewards development of convenient half-truths. Just look at the strange juxtapositions of morality around you.
Rose: Billions spent on new weapons in order to humanely murder other humans.
Colonel: Rights of criminals are given more respect than the privacy of their victims.
Rose: Although there are people suffering in poverty, huge donations are made to protect endangered species. Everyone grows up being told the same thing.
Colonel: Be nice to other people.
Rose: But beat out the competition!
Colonel: "You're special." "Believe in yourself and you will succeed."
Rose: But it's obvious from the start that only a few can succeed...
Colonel: You exercise your right to "freedom" and this is the result. All rhetoric to avoid conflict and protect each other from hurt. The untested truths spun by different interests continue to churn and accumulate in the sandbox of political correctness and value systems.
Rose: Everyone withdraws into their own small gated community, afraid of a larger forum. They stay inside their little ponds, leaking whatever "truth" suits them into the growing cesspool of society at large.
Colonel: The different cardinal truths neither clash nor mesh. No one is invalidated, but nobody is right.
Rose: Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is being engulfed in "truth."
Colonel: And this is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper.
Rose: Billions spent on new weapons in order to humanely murder other humans.
Colonel: Rights of criminals are given more respect than the privacy of their victims.
Rose: Although there are people suffering in poverty, huge donations are made to protect endangered species. Everyone grows up being told the same thing.
Colonel: Be nice to other people.
Rose: But beat out the competition!
Colonel: "You're special." "Believe in yourself and you will succeed."
Rose: But it's obvious from the start that only a few can succeed...
Colonel: You exercise your right to "freedom" and this is the result. All rhetoric to avoid conflict and protect each other from hurt. The untested truths spun by different interests continue to churn and accumulate in the sandbox of political correctness and value systems.
Rose: Everyone withdraws into their own small gated community, afraid of a larger forum. They stay inside their little ponds, leaking whatever "truth" suits them into the growing cesspool of society at large.
Colonel: The different cardinal truths neither clash nor mesh. No one is invalidated, but nobody is right.
Rose: Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is being engulfed in "truth."
Colonel: And this is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper.
Just look at that. Good god, how many irrelevant and unconnected ideas were crammed into those few lines? What do any of them have to do with "selectively rewarding development of convenient half-truths"? What does that even mean? I assure you that Kojima didn't know when he (or whoever) wrote it.
