[Torma Usuda]

[neva-01]

My impression of the original MGRising was that it would be the first game to (really) let you be a Predator from the Predator movie. So, yeah, there would be stealth, but it reward close combat as well, and close combat wouldn't be combo oriented, but about killing guys with a sword, somewhat akin to how that would work in real life. Revengeance is fine; I'm not saying it's a shitty game. But, to me, it was a poor replacement for what could have been a way more interesting game. How many high caliber DMC/NG/Bayonetta style games do we already have? I like those games a lot, but MGRising looked like it would be something new.
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[analogos]

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

I admit I haven't really played anything from this console generation except stuff like the Lost Planet demo for PC, but I was under the impression that the genres of Sneaking Action and Stylish Action weren't nearly as robustly represented in quality A~AAAAA titles. At least at SB, while there was a good show of support for Bayonetta and a number of indie titles or maybe sleeper hits, there didn't seem to be a lot of collective enthusiasm for the latest Devil May Crys, Splinter Cells, MGS4, etcetera.

I guess there were the portable Metal Gears and maybe Deus Ex 3 and such, but it seems like one of the bigger things missing from this generation (for a large variety of reasons) was the tightness and focus that made those two genres really stand out during the PS2 era. Instead we saw a lot more open-world or multiplayer or customization-focused stuff. I'm not really complaining (I haven't played any of these games, after all), and I'm not saying there was a critical shortage of satisfactory stealth or slashing or shooting, but I don't think the competence and care put into the Rising we got should be discounted.

And again, I say this as the guy who fantasized about a sweeping experience that explored both Raiden as shadow-lurking, robot-carving, cyber-spinal-fluid-drinking predator and him as this almost Marvel-worthy increasingly tragic character who lived as a child soldier and went on a daring raid into Area 51 to rescue Olga's child and got turned into a nearly inhuman cyborg and also there was that thing about studying as a tracker from an Alaskan shaman and who knows what else.

I suppose I'm just using Blade Mode on a dead horse at this point.

Speaking of horses, do you think Big Boss will be able to kill and eat horses? Like maybe he rides one off a cliff and he survives but the horse is crippled and well, it would be a waste, right?

[neva-01]

[neva-01]

[shrugtheironteacup]

don't worry everyone Riddick 3: Maybe Better Than Dark Athena?!?? is on the way for all your stealthshanking needs
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[Toptube]

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

[CubaLibre]

[Iacus]

[neva-01]

[Winona Ghost Ryder]

http://www.dualshockers.com/2013/09/15/hideo-kojima-is-in-trouble-with-the-tgs-demo-of-metal-gear-solid-v-enemies-are-too-unpredictable/

[Iacus]

[Torma Usuda]

[idle]

[parkbench]

I think Torma is right about gay minstrelsy. It's very common, and you just come to wince every time you see a character who you know is not given the depth any other would be given as a matter of course. Homosexuality is weird scary marionette that's dangled in front of the player every once in awhile, nothing more. Which truthfully sucks.
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metafilter vs. youtube comments

[allensmithee]

the reason kojima loves the bisexual characters is because there is a lack of conviction to make any character full gay. it's half-stepping.
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[Iacus]

[This Machine Kills Fascis]

I think allen is saying that from Kojima's warped perspective, having a character be bi- is "half-stepping"

Like, he's too afraid to make a gay character, so he makes a bi- character to get some of the gay flavor (for cheap jokes or to appear progressive), perhaps because declaring a character to be gay would "change the way the way the fans think about him," or something.

So Kojima is "half-stepping" by creating fictional bi- characters instead; the sentiment is not that real people who are bi- are "half-stepping" in their sexual preferences or that creating bi- characters in general is somehow not as good as creating a gay character.
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"Godzilla could be anyone."

[Tulpa]

[allensmithee]

i dont see there being any interest in creating bi characters but rather like its something kojima thinks is funny almost.
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[Iacus]

[Persona mobile]

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED






http://www.allgamesbeta.com/2013/11/metal-gear-solid-v-quiet.html
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[Dark Age Iron Savior]

Gotta be CG. No way Kojima is that thin.

[schroeder]

So much respect for the precision tears in the stockings.

[Iacus]

The actual human cosplayer looks more lifeless than the CGI.

I-is this the power of the next-gen?
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Guayaba 2600

[Guillotine]

Kojima was so much cooler when I wasn't able to read his thoughts daily. And when I was 14.

[Iacus]

[Brooks]

Piss tier

[shnozlak]

[parker]

That can't even be real, her name is AI HONEY it's a kojima trick, get an axe
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[Takashi]

[Iacus]

[Rei]

[shrugtheironteacup]

you will believe a woman can tan
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[Rei]

[shrugtheironteacup]

All of that seems more likely to happen than not to my tin ear.
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[Rei]

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

huh, never knew that. Guess that adds some context to some bits of manga I've read over the years.

I'm still holding out some hope that, in light of the game setting and trailer scenes, the biggest "taboo" theme will be child soldiers. I mean, I haven't looked at any of the recent media for the game, but I assume those haven't been shown, and a specific class of enemy seems like one of the few significant things Kojima could still keep under wraps and hope to shock people with. It might also have some real chance of evoking serious and meaningful reactions from the majority that will consume the product, as opposed to Bioshock Infinite or Spec Ops: The Line-style "you told us to nod and now we are nodding".

[Ni Go Zero Ichi]