rocketpig said:
windbane said:
rocketpig said:
billy07 said:
rocketpig said:
Yes, there are ideas. The problem is that they're poorly acted, poorly written, and poorly implemented. That whole "storytelling" thing kinda flies right over Kojima's head. |
But your idea of a mature storytelling seems to be "less is more" which is clearly not the case in philosophy. If you want to have a truly indepth knowledge of philosophical ideas and subject matter you need to expose them in long winded text. They should be present either fleshed out completely or not at allb if they're going to be dumbed down as they were in MGS3. You can't do philosophy "gracefully"with allusions or such, that's simply touching upon the subject matter not exploring it. There's a difference between presenting idea's and providing in depth review of the subject matters.
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Then Kojima should write a philosophical text and stop torturing us by trying to force his message into a media that doesn't work well with his ideas.
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Actually, his genius is the merging of game and movie. I think his messages work great in his games. |
No, Mass Effect merged game and movie. With the MGS series, they're abrubtly separate entities that constantly jar the user out of the experience. |
Look, we clearly disagree.
Metal Gear Solid 1 was a masterpiece of its time. It was the first game to merge movie elements with game. When you beat the game you can replay it in a Theater Mode! It gives you text for the action segments. Playing those out myself did not take me out of the experience. The gameplay was really fun and I wanted to know what happened next in the story. I was blown away by the execution of philosophy, gameplay, cut scenes, and how well they all went together.
You can continue to attack his implementation, and I'll continue to defend it. Apparently so will Billy08.
It will be a sad day when Kojima retires. He is still the king of his genre.
