My altered view of MGS4 now that I've beaten it.

[rocketpig]

DTG said:

rocketpig said:
Yes, I found that bit about Johnny very annoying.

Personally, I think MGS should end with 4 unless they want to do prequels. We saw Snake's story, end it there. That's what we cared about.

It would be like Lucas trying to transition Shia Lebouf into the main role of the Indiana Jones series. Indy dies with Harrison. Let it go. It was a good run, we all had a good time, now go develop a new idea.

 

I agree. Unfortunately the ending is nowhere near as definite as it has been made out to be. MGS5 could easily star Solid Snake again with little to no effort needed from the writers. I don't even understand why Kojima wouldn't have gone the extra mile to truly end Solid Snakes life story, but the way things ended seemed careless and Hollywood-ish which feels out of place in storyarch as dark as MGS.

I can already tell that not enough people are dying in MGS4 to make me happy. Even when they do die, there's nothing really tragic about it. It tries to draw on the heartstrings but I'm just not buying. Not enough has gone to shit to really make me feel bad.

Personally, I thought Snake should have fucking capped Naomi as a traitor. I don't care if she was or not, someone as embittered and worn-out as Snake wouldn't have given her the opportunity to do it twice and would have taken care of business the moment he saw her again.

You're right though, this game is starting to feel pretty Michael Bayish and that really bothers me. I may disagree with Kojima's storytelling and style but that doesn't mean he needs to go 100% whore like Bay. I may complain about MGS but it's leagues above anything done by that douchebag.