Nah, it is nice that you can blow away the bad guys when you need too. I played the game really stealth intensive, and I honestly found it easier than just going in with guns blazing. It is SO ANNOYING getting your stress meter back down once you have gone through a really intense firefight, such as the one during the fight with the third of the B+B's. You end up saving more time if you just go the stealth route, IMO, unless you just run from one area to the next without picking up anything and using continues like they were free condoms.
You really can avoid conflicts in this game easier than you could in the others. You just have so much equipment! The Mk II, the Solid Eye, Sleeping Gas mines, the amazing tranquilizer rifle, the OctoCamo, the ability to put a silencer on just about any gun. Snake is so well-equipped it isn't even funny. Forgot about the stun knife too!
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
