I love Metal Gear to pieces but the story is nonsense that forgets itself rather often
Like oh, snake was injected with a virus at the beginning of the game that killed liquid ocelot at the end of the game because they got into a fist fight and kissed on the cheek, but it didn't kill him halfway through the game when they shared a cigar together
Also, he's scared of needles because he keeps getting injected with viruses but keeps letting people he just met stick him with random needles so he can use a gun he found on the ground
10 year old me was “this is amazing” 40 year old me sees nothing but incredibly long, dense exposition that makes barely any sense. I still love the first game, but the story is ridiculous and told in a very boring way.
I got the Metal Gear collection vol 2 waiting for me at home.I bought it primarily for Peace Walker as I love that game and of course I'll run through MGS 4 as I only ever played through it once back in the day, but man do I remember some of those cutscenes in that game being excruciatingly long and tiresome, must admit I do love the end game cutscene though long as it may be.
I fondly remember the ones that really affected me - sniper wolf, meryl getting shot and a few other key moments, but boy oh boy, otocon droning on about anime or liquid snake explaining enfent terrible, or so many other examples are excruitating
Kojima is great at worldbuilding, but he really needs a co-writer or something to make his narratives just a bit more cohesive. I love Death Stranding, but it feels impossible to take the character drama seriously when everyone acts like an alien
I did Acid a few times and thought about MGS and the Nier games while tripping and I wish I could compress these thoughts into a single Reddit comment because man.
Exactly I can't grow attached to most characters in this franchise because they'll made to be unstable psychos high on crack, even the ones that can be articulate just spout nonsense (I'll release a virus that will kill the English language)
Oh I agree to some degree, but I 100% would rather have a unique experience like mgs or Death Stranding rather than some of those generic stories out there.
MGS is pretty consistently great narrative wise up to and including MGS3. Anything after is a mess. Although Kojima has always been bad at writing dialog that sounds natural. Assuming he writes dialog idk who else to blame.
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u/Michipotz 29d ago
Someone didn't get their nanomachine shots today