[Adilegian]

[Adilegian]

[Grant Dempsey]

It's a skill you've got to purchase. Called Defensive Offense or something like that. Unless this is a different dodge-slash we're talking about.

I think you can even cancel it into itself, and unlike parrying it's not strictly a response move, so you can create quite a bit of distance and pretty quickly by dodge-slashing repeatedly.

[Adilegian]

I just surprised myself with this.

Lock onto Dwarf Gekko on the ground, ninja run, then hard attack while ninja running. This will pop the Dwarf Gekko in the air, give you a little slowdown prompt. Go into Cutting Mode, and you'll dice while you're on your back sliding.
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[Drem]

You can also do this on regular enemies. It feels great sliding through a group of guys and dicing me some sashimi.

[analogos]

adi why are you so bad help

[Grant Dempsey]

Can somebody persuade me that Sundowner has more than two or three attacks and one counterattack? I was worried about that fight on top of ReMistral/ReMonsoon and everything else in File R-04, but after I felt it out a bit, he turned out to be tremendously manipulable. He fought kind of like a mellowed out Solidus. He never even got around to swinging the big pillars at me the way he does in one of the trailers. I'm curious what he looks like on higher difficulties.

[Adilegian]

[BotageL]

[108]

so hey, how long is this game? i'm wondering if i will have time to weekend it, and don't want to google "how long is metal gear rising" because spoilers etc

specifying the length in terms of other metal gear solid games works for me :3
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[klj5j6li]

[Adilegian]

[klj5j6li]

[Ronnoc]

Yeah, my ending rank was 3 1/2 and it was not that.


I'm a bit sad that one of the DLC lets you play as Wolf because I <3 him

[Schwere Viper]

Aaaaaaah guess what broke street date today~

Yesyeyesyesyesyesyes

[Grant Dempsey]

MGR really wants to be the anti-TDKR.

[Adilegian]

I've been thinking today about how Revengeance reflects and distorts the "feel" of Metal Gear. Some starting thoughts:

* Revengeance is what Metal Gear looks like without the varnish of faux military seriousness.

* That notwithstanding, the sci-fi seriousness of Revengeance puts it well in the camp of MGS1 and MGS2 for building its world out of purportedly "hard tech" concepts.

* The trademark remixing of series elements still communicates a concept, except this time, without the same kind of thematic import, the concept is "lol this is a Metal Gear game."

Specifically, I'm thinking of Raiden's half-Kitamura half-slapstick descent from the armed drones back into the helicopter, only to fall from well above the skyline back into Denver's concrete, which earns him a Big Boss Salute from Doktor and, later, the recognition that "haha you fell."

* The final boss is Volgin and Solidus put into a blender and then re-skinned as post-middle aged Frank West.

* The game also plays finely along the line of being half-Platinum half-stealth in that there are a number of different ways to approach given set pieces. I remember, particularly, a hostage-rescue set piece as Raiden's escaping Denver. There's one guard with his back to Raiden on an elevated concrete outcrop, and, next to the hostage, there are the token two guards and a heavy bipedal mech. I tried a variety of ways to approach it to save the dude, and I ultimately settled on using ninja-run with the FOX sword, one-hit slicing the guard on the outcrop, then running to hide behind some APVs. Then I threw a distortion grenade to disable the guards near the prisoner, cut them down, and took on the armored mech. I know there's got to be a different way to approach that, and I'm very curious to see how the scenario changes with the unlocked subweapons (which I didn't mess with at all during my first playthrough).

* I really liked the nod to Peace Walker after the penultimate boss fight as Armstrong emerged from a spherical control chamber as seen atop the AI-Boss.

* I also thought it was interesting that the game's Metal Gear was largely unannounced, presented as a matter of course. It fits with the general feel of the game: it's ignoring many of the explicit conventions of the majority of the Metal Gear series such as the relevance of a doomsday weapon which, at least, appeared in MGS4 as the Outer Haven yet all the while envelops itself in recognizable calling cards from the series in terms of pacing, atmospheric elements, etc.

This is basically a really good example of what I think Kojima might have wanted his own internal team to have done... to create a post-Kojima Metal Gear title. I'm interested to see what other teams might do with the IP. This is Platinum putting on the costume and finding where it fills it out best, and I'd like to see other teams with idiosyncratic or even niche styles attempt the same.
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[Adilegian]

Also this conversation just happened.

Wife: "You have a new Metal Gear. Why aren't you playing your new Metal Gear."

Me: "Oh, I just want time to think." [reflective pause] "About Metal Gear."

Sudden revelations.
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[Adilegian]

Also liked: the fact that the cutscenes and setpieces of the trailers were disinformative.

EDIT: I also find that Boris has a younger Old Snake appearance due to his mustache as well as the basic facial structure.
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[Grant Dempsey]

That's funny, I was just thinking that in the Phantom Pain trailer Big Boss looks exactly like an older younger Old Snake.

[Adilegian]

[Grant Dempsey]

[Adilegian]

Just as a small observation... at the Customize screen, you can toggle the new moves you unlock off an on. I don't know how this would effect the gameplay, but it's worth noting as a feature that could have unintended consequences nonetheless.
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[Grant Dempsey]

Are there moves that, if "equipped," will prevent you from performing other moves? That's the only reason I can think of, other than not liking certain moves and wanting to make it impossible to perform them accidentally, that might make toggling moves important.

[Moogs]

maybe some sort of nod to godhand's move menu?

[analogos]

[Adilegian]

[Drem]

It took me over 7 hours (hey, there are a lot of codec conversations!), somewhere towards the end of mission 2, to realize I never tried pressing R2. The ability to lock-on to enemies is amazing.

[Grant Dempsey]

I just found out that if you cut off an enemy's legs and just walk away, the enemy will disappear (as in fade off-screen, rather than explode). Do this for all enemies in a given battle and you'll get a No Kills bonus like the No Damage bonus.

So MGR's got its own form of non-lethal play after all. Much harder than tranqing people from eight miles away.

[klj5j6li]

[Adilegian]

[Adilegian]

Looking forward to the never-to-be made game, Metal Gear AC!D Rising, featuring the terrifying war machine, Metal Gear Omeprazole.
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[Schwere Viper]

Just finished this three hours ago. End game clock was 4hrs, 11mins. I got pretty shitty grades, though.

Just playing the game is a sheer pleasure. Thinking about it right now I can't think of a single point where I wasn't enjoying myself (okay maybe the drunk, stumbly "oh god i'm actually killing people ;_;" bit just before Quinton Flynn wrecks his vocal chords). The final boss' rant was incredible, and I was quite taken with the new Metal Gear's appearance even though it was a pretty run-of-the-mill fight. The fact that the true final boss is basically NANOMACHINES is just amazing.

This is one of Platinum's best games. A "Metal Gear Gaiden" with an action game heart. I'll be playing this again.
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[Adilegian]

[Schwere Viper]

[Moogs]

Some people are like "they shouldn't have called this Metal Gear."

I punched them all in the face.

[Adilegian]

[Adilegian]

Ran after a civilian that I saved before he could exit the map and hit him with my sword. Good juvenile Metal Gear humor.
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[TXTSWORD]

So is no one out off by the extremely invasive story elements, interactive cutscene battles, and extreme brevity? I mean - the gameplay being extremely satisfying definitely saves it but yeah j/w. I kind of wish they'd have thrown something in that would tie into the proper series canon more than just this side story. It stuck pretty exclusively to its isolated content. Though, I think with the writing of rising I'd be a little afraid.

Just did a full playthrough on hard last night and started a wooden sword playthrough but hey is there anything to gain by going non lethal other than a Cheever? I'd have liked for there to be some unlocks for non lethaling bosses.

[Grant Dempsey]

[Adilegian]