Will MGS4 live up to MGS2?

[Onimusha12]

God so many misguided souls.

MGS2 is not the worst game ever made, but its such a painful fall from grace for the series. MGS2's message is in fact intelectual and meaningful, however its delivered in such a way that completely ruins it and the game. If you need to read a frickin' paper by a Texas Professor to figure out what a game's asinine message is, then its a fair bet that the game fails to convey itself in an effective means on its own and thus is a failure in and of itself without assistance to derive that meaning.

The defense of MGS2 here has been perhaps best illustrated by the contradictory claims that both "MGS2 shouldn't be compared to Cinema because its a game" and that "MGS2 shouldn't be held to the standard of other games because its Cinema not a Video Game". Make up your mind. As for the rest of us who have graduated from our High School state of mind we don't need mass media to tell us what is intellectual or what should be liked. How ironic that the very meaning you claim is so true and life changing in MGS2 is the very ideology you ignore in embracing this game becasue on Hype, Sales and Reviews that tell you its good and you're suppossed to like it.

Why must a game abandon all other aspects of redeemability to be intellectual as you claim is perfectly fine with MGS2? Why must all games which are fun and entertaining in contrast to MGS2 automatically be labeled unintellectual by default? The ideal game is both intellectual and fun, its naive and insulting that you assert its one or the other. MGS2 is neither really. Its mediocre at best.

If you think MGS2 is the best of the series then I honestly have to wonder what your standard of an MGS game is.

The only people who think MGS2 is highly intellectual are more often then not the psuedo-intellectuals that argue the Matrix is "deep", the same people who still think Titanic was the best film ever made, the same high schoolers who think the legalization of marajuana would cure all of humanities problems.

All of your defenses for MGS2... Every last single one of them has been nothing more than pointing your finger to someone else and saying, "He/They say its good so it must be!" You've not presented one single self supporting fact or solid point to support this game being anything you claim it is. All we've been given on your behalf is your dope head praise of its convoluded genius and conflicting claims of it being both a cinematic masterpiece yet at the same time exempt from the same standard other cinematic masterpieces are held to.