Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

i can't tell if hideo kojima is the most brilliant man alive or just insane and drunk on his own power.

So far I don't mind that over half the time I'm playing I don't need to even hold the controller

what?! i'm no hater of story and cut-scenes in games, but that's inexcusable.

There is no doubt it's an incredible game but even the most die hard MGS fan would have to admit some of the cutscenes are a bit much. I've never minded the cutscenes in Metal Gear games but if you're going to have long cutscenes then the balance with the gameplay needs to be right.

The opening was incredible, Otacon got mad at me for trying to take on the Gekko, lol. I did the hold up and crotch grab on one of the super female soldiers then she CQC'd my ass. The little Snatcher bot is awesome.

how is tha vaunted non-linearness of it?

Somebody tried sharing a load of MGS4 spoilers with me today, but I'm so unaware of the backstory that none of them even made sense to me.

just beat this.
wowee that ending was long. good though.

i spoiled the ending for myself, since there's no way i''ll get a chance to play this anytime soon.

liked the ending, it wraps everything up pretty nicely. in a metal gear sorta way.

i really want to play the game now.

just beat this.
wowee that ending was long. good though.

-- Creeztophair, Thursday, 19 June 2008 03:32 (16 hours ago) Link

Was the last cut scene really 90 minutes??

people used to complain that the endings of video games were too short. now they be complaining shit is too long. god.

a film length CONCLUDING cut scene strikes me as a bit excessive

but what do i know maybe its totes worth it

yeah, it was about 90 minutes. but really good.
i'd rather have a really long cutscene ending than "YOU WON, NOW PLAY AGAIN" or whatever.

getting to watch a cool movie as a reward doesn't seem entirely that bad of an idea to me, as long as there's no big surprise ha-ha-you-wanted-to-get-up-to-eat-or-pee-or-something and now you have to sit there for a number of seconds possibly in the four digits and your pause button has ceased to work

you can pause durring all cutscenes. also, if you get bored you can zoom in and out to make it look like snake is on mtv.

I'm about 9 hours into the "game" so far. Really surprised by how much of that has been looong cut-scenes and just how little gameplay there has been. The cut scenes are indeed some of the best I've ever seen, but it's just not right to turn on a game ready to play and instead end up watching fifty minutes of movies just to get to ten or twenty minutes of gameplay, then hit another huge endless wall of movie.

My guess would be that of the 9 hours of playing the so called game, there has been three hours max of gameplay

I don't want to go into details in fear of spoilers for some people I know who read this board, but, wow, possibly best wrap-up ending for the series and the character of Solid Snake possible, really exceeded my expectations.

one of the producers said there will be a mgs5. most likely starring big boss again.

i can't believe some of you people defend this shit! consistently! fuck you! FUCK YOU!!!!

oh no, my friend.

fuck u.

"I can't believe people watch zombie movies! There's no way zombies could be real and the acting and plots are sooooo bad!"

HI DERE

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you know i really like this game but sometimes, like right now, i feel like i cannot watch any more cutscene. god. there is a cutscene on right now. i have already gone to the bathroom, gotten something to eat, eaten it, gotten caught up on this thread, and drebin is still running his fucking mouth.

I am in Act 2 now (Matt D lent me his PS3 which is awes, I can play the one or two games and not think about PS3 again until 2018 when FFXIII comes out). Not sure how I feel about the game so far. I really miss the MGS1/2 puzzley corridor-filled gameplay vs. this new camouflage-y openish area stuff. Plus the cutscenes my god. Normally I am the least angry peson about cutscenes, but the thing that's really really killing me is CODECS WHERE IT DOESN'T EVEN SHOW A DUDE'S FACE ie. the 10-minute codec speech from Drebin. Seriously I know people were mad because the other games didn't explain enough but it feels like this one is trying to explain too much. Show me your crazy, kojima, don't just write me a book and get a voice actor to read it.

Tonight I realized I only ever played the online portion of this once (after getting very frustrated just with the rings you had to set up an account), so anyway, I thought I should give it a second chance. Put it in for about an hour - played some deathmatch, team deathmatch and a sneaking game. Unfortunately, first impressions remained accurate. MGO is terrible! Probably the worst multiplayer game I've ever tried. How could one create a shooting game, where the shooting is so awful is something I'll never understand.

Metal Gear Group Therapy

Wow it's too bad they all looked like they were having their teeth pulled. I don't blame them though.

"The constant poisoning is getting to be tiresome."

pretty funny april fool, Kojima set this up with his GDC speech
http://www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/movi...l/index_j.html

poised for some E3 xbox 360 MGS4 megatonz everyone?

for realsies?

that would be the sweetest.

all signs point to yes

wait & see wht this is http://www.vg247.com/2009/05/19/want-fanboy-action-be-watching-at-300pm-bst-today/

^^^^I reckon tht might be GTA DLC on PS3 actually

what what what?

check my link, they're saying they have big reveal today at 3pm which will upset fanboys

GTA DLC on ps3 would be megatonz and make fanboys shit

might be nothing but we'll know in ten minutes

ah, barf, just fallout 3 dlc coming to ps3
http://www.incgamers.com/News/16452/Fallout3DLCComingToPS3

BOOYA

so happy about this!

and so glad i didn't sell my fallout disc!

ah, barf, just fallout 3 dlc coming to ps3

oh yes yes

so happy about this!

yes yes yes!

Remember to skip Operation Anchorage, y'all. It's not worth it. Pitt great though. Broken Steel too.

It would seem there is only five more hours before an MGS 5 announcement:

http://www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/next/

someone checked out the source code - apparently there's a new countdown every week until E3. apparently the last one runs out during Microsoft's big address, so lots of ppl think MGS4 is going multiplat (which would be ridiculous due to the storage requirements, although I guess it could just have you install 20GB of it).

or they cd fkn edit the thing

so what's on the thing now is a gloomy landscape with rain, a big 5 in the background, and a clock, currently, counting down 100 hours and 30 minutes.

if I didn't know any better I'd almost think this whole promotion was a giant waste of time.