What was the point in that? Did the article hurt your feelings?

i whole heartedly agree

i LOVED mg on nes as a kid, and am dying to love it now . . .

but the story turns me off big time. its why i dont watch anime or stuff like that. just way overdone 'look how deep this is! and metaphoric!' story.

give me splinter cell any day.

having said that tho, i still try to play every mgs game, and i hope they just chill out and deliver a great game and not worry about if the story is too hard to follow if you try to get high and play or something :P

i stopped reading after u said MGS dosent have good writting.

A better written MGS wouldn't be MGS. Half the fun is the overwritten cheesiness and the annoying exposition

Annoying Guy / provocative Girl: that's all because of the "gizmolicious thingie", Snake...

Snake: the gizmolicious thingie?

Annoying Guy / provocative Girl: yes, it was introduced by the watchacallit while trying to infiltrate the miltary-confectionery complex.

Snake: the watchacallit?

[sepia footage of the tower of Babel being built starts rolling] ...

And again, that's probably due to the translation that occurs from Japanese to English.

the writing isn't bad, it's just very heavy handed.  It isn't bad.  If you want bad writing, look at a little game called Star Ocean The Last Hope(English version).  Some of the dialogue is that game is nothing short of horrendous.  The game is even more heavy handed than MGS and repeats even the simpliest plot points into the ground.

I'm willing to bet it's just as overwrought and long and preachy in Japanese.

Anyway, yeah, regardless of source, the core point of the article is right: Metal Gear Solid needs better writing. Or, at least, Kojima needs a good editor.

It is common in the Japanese language to repeat words as a question, or atleast that was what I heard on NeoGAF.

The problem many have started when  FFVII came out.  FFVII convinced developers that it was alright to have overly lengthy cutscenes.  That is what I read on a site called TVTropes.org

I always saw that as a cheap device to focus the attention of the player on the entities that are relevant for the game, a bit like the bolded or coloured text spans in so many adventures and RPGs. But of course, I don't speak Japanese.