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[Isfet]

wanna make a joke wherein i say something like "Metal Gear Solid 9/11s looks really good"

or somethin'

but, hm. yeah, i'm curious.

honestly, i wish MGS went back to the visual style/aesthetic of MGS1 (really vivid, weird colors). it looks so dark.

[all monsters]

[shnozlak]

I really liked 2's oranges. 3 was pretty saturated as well. What I wonder is: can you make that work on higher resolution graphics without looking too weird and how much does the lighting engine play a part?
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[Takashi]

[Persona]

It's alright, it's not like Big Boss hasn't been subjected to xrays/gamma rays/radio waves before.
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[costel]

I just want to use that delicious FNC. Seriously anticipating this title though. I might have to revisit the whole entirety of the series.
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[CubaLibre]

FNC. Nicknamed "Old Reliable" in my intensive Raven Shield days.
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[BotageL]

[CubaLibre]

[parker]

[Rud31]

At the end of Peace Walker he wasn't even Big Boss. He was Vic Boss.
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[Felix]

I finally tried Peace Walker for the first time, co-oping the first few missions. it turned into a quasi-phone sex episode at one point but other than that I wasn't too impressed; the limited moveset vs. other games doesn't really feel in any way purposeful (ditto the theoretical emphasis on setpieces with all of these small, focused areas, that are so far not nearly as good as the shack in the Virtuous Mission). the monster hunter aspects are also so far pretty pointless -- it's not any worse than, say, Valkryia Chronicles as far as remarkably uninteresting party-management interludes go, but in no way is this any better than if MGS3's campaign had been co-op.

it does seem to be the only extant MGO implementation currently, so that's something, and I did get it in a bundle with 2 and 3 so I don't feel especially shortchanged, but so far I've seen nothing to indicate that this series is back on any kind of track.

meanwhile, as I mentioned elsewhere, I'm working through Twin Snakes for the first-ish time in 1080p on dolphin and not finding it nearly as limp as I remember from when I gave the actual native gamecube release a shot eight years ago.

[CubaLibre]

It's pretty obvious to me (as another new Peace Walker player) that the limited moveset is entirely a result of the game's original residence on the PSP. As are the bite-sized missions. In that sense I think it's really smartly-designed for its hardware. For me, a guy who likes bite-sizedness but loathes handhelds for a number of physiological reasons, it's a pretty nice little time.
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[Felix]

yeah, but even that is sort of fucked up -- the game gives you the option, but you're totally hamstrung if you use any control set other than MGS4-style boring third-person-shooter run and gun style. I like handhelds just fine; this seems fairly compromised. metal gear, to me, has never been about anything other than maximalism.

[Kilroy]

I'm expecting high things from this game. It might just be what MGS4 was supposed to be. So the timeline is after Big Boss was severely burned, right? And player character is Snake rather than Big Boss? I haven't finished Peace Walker so I'm kind of out of the loop here.

Edit: Er, wait. Eyepatch, so no, I am dumb.
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[parker]

[TXTSWORD]

I put PW on Monster Hunter style and never regretted it.

[Adilegian]

[Adilegian]

[Adilegian]

[Adilegian]

[Felix]

I'm upgrading my stance on peace walker to "pleasant cash-in." without co-op I don't think that any of the bite-sizing or the moveset restricting or the weapon upgrading or the easy levels are improvements on MGS3 -- MGS has still been "over" since 2006 as far as I'm concerned -- but for two people, it's very, very playable, and I am genuinely glad that I have a $15 ticket to MGO as it is.

[Grant Dempsey]

MGS is finally going full-on into immersion culture. Whatever this game's equivalent to Mother Base is, you'll be able to access it, customize it, probably set little weapons development projects in motion, etc., on mobile devices, so that you can get your GZ fix even on the rare occasion that you've acted on the crazy thought of getting some fresh air.

[TXTSWORD]

As someone who liked the mother base managing - this sounds awesome.

[shnozlak]

I just want to be out there on my own running one big mission that I might not come back from.

This base management stuff feels suspiciously like working a day job.
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[thestage]

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[thestage]

[TXTSWORD]

Yeah, I totally agree with you there. We'll have to see how it develops. For some reason I imagine them just diminishing the idea into "okay well snake has an iphone in the game then" and there's no real life mobile integration and then they're like "See we did it!!!" but that's all probably just wishful thinking.

The real danger isn't them finding ways to encourage the mobile use, though, it's them finding ways to limit your access to the game in a way that playing into their shitty idea becomes necessary to enjoy the full experience.

[Grant Dempsey]

I doubt that it's going to be an "important" part of the game experience, or at least that it'll be more important than MPO's "Find recruitment hotspots!" feature. It's probably just going to be a way of letting you micromanage your arsenal and your troops the same way you'll be able to in the game itself, in a special little Mother Base app. And maybe they'll throw in a cute mobile-specific minigame mode, so you can take some of your non-Snake guys through five to ten minute stages, or something.

[parker]

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/370508/metal-gear-online-to-be-developed-at-kojima-productions-la/

The worst part of Metal Gear Online was the Americans. So they're designing the next Metal Gear Online.
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[TXTSWORD]

Oh man - if they ruin MGO I'm going to be so depressed.

I mean - hopefully they'll see how serious MGO fans are about MGO? But like everything else they'll probably develop for an audience that didn't like MGO because that audience is larger.

[Grant Dempsey]

I hear there's some kind of base building feature!

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

wait, are you talking about the next MGO?

Man, that could be great. It probably won't be, and it's novelty would entirely depend on the game mechanics, but...hmm.



edit: Big Boss-rank top post

[elvis.shrugged]

If the average American MGO player could design the next iteration, there would only be four maps, the only gun would be the M4, the only way to kill people would be headshots, and half the screen would be covered in meaningless l33t dialogue and "KICK XYZ PLAYER?" prompts.

There's no way that the new MGO could be that bad. The main two things I hope that they will retain from MGO is how powerless you feel when being choked (total dread) and the compartmentalized level design.
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[elvis.shrugged]

True. :( My point was that MGO was so good that it was worth all of the shitty American players, not that it was bad and needed replacing (sorry if I gave off that impression). If anything, those problems were all caused by American players trying to turn MGO into the COD headshot-fest that it wasn't intended to be. I'm nervous that an American developer will bring out those very traits, like you said.
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[TXTSWORD]

Oh, yeah then I totally agree with you. The American player base did some pretty heinous shit with the tools at hand.