So excited about this. Tonight!
― Matt D, Thursday, 12 June 2008 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Have finished the first section. So much of the game is cut-scenes, it's sort of more of a tv mini-series than a game, but the cut-scenes are usually pretty impressive. So far I don't mind that over half the time I'm playing I don't need to even hold the controller, but I do hear that the second half of the game becomes even more cut-scene heavy, which I guess does worry me a bit... mostly because I do like the actual game play so far. Sneaking works pretty good - shooting is fine & switching in and out of first person works well. The graphics are really nice.
― Jeff LeVine, Sunday, 15 June 2008 16:27 (fifteen years ago) link
lovin this so far. i can't tell if hideo kojima is the most brilliant man alive or just insane and drunk on his own power.
one of the mgs4 reviews i read said he has collected every pokemon in every pokemon game.
― adam, Sunday, 15 June 2008 18:43 (fifteen years ago) link
i can't tell if hideo kojima is the most brilliant man alive or just insane and drunk on his own power.
― Leee, Sunday, 15 June 2008 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― latebloomer, Sunday, 15 June 2008 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Mr Raif, Sunday, 15 June 2008 21:46 (fifteen years ago) link
how is tha vaunted non-linearness of it?
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 16 June 2008 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― JimD, Monday, 16 June 2008 18:08 (fifteen years ago) link
just beat this. wowee that ending was long. good though.
― Creeztophair, Thursday, 19 June 2008 03:32 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― latebloomer, Thursday, 19 June 2008 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link
i really want to play the game now.
-- Creeztophair, Thursday, 19 June 2008 03:32 (16 hours ago) Link
Was the last cut scene really 90 minutes??
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 19 June 2008 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link
people used to complain that the endings of video games were too short. now they be complaining shit is too long. god.
― cutty, Thursday, 19 June 2008 20:23 (fifteen years ago) link
a film length CONCLUDING cut scene strikes me as a bit excessive
but what do i know maybe its totes worth it
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 19 June 2008 20:24 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Creeztophair, Thursday, 19 June 2008 21:16 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 19 June 2008 21:20 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Creeztophair, Thursday, 19 June 2008 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Jeff LeVine, Sunday, 22 June 2008 07:50 (fifteen years ago) link
My guess would be that of the 9 hours of playing the so called game, there has been three hours max of gameplay
― Jeff LeVine, Sunday, 22 June 2008 07:53 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Matt D, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 16:33 (fifteen years ago) link
one of the producers said there will be a mgs5. most likely starring big boss again.
― Creeztophair, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:54 (fifteen years ago) link
i can't believe some of you people defend this shit! consistently! fuck you! FUCK YOU!!!!
― cankles, Monday, 30 June 2008 07:06 (fifteen years ago) link
oh no, my friend.
fuck u.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 30 June 2008 07:19 (fifteen years ago) link
"I can't believe people watch zombie movies! There's no way zombies could be real and the acting and plots are sooooo bad!"
― Will M., Monday, 30 June 2008 14:58 (fifteen years ago) link
HI DERE
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l351/raife489/SOUTHAMERICARESEARCHLAB1.jpg?
― Mr Raif, Monday, 7 July 2008 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l351/raife489/SOUTHAMERICARESEARCHLAB11.jpg?
― Mr Raif, Monday, 7 July 2008 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― adam, Monday, 7 July 2008 20:18 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Will M., Wednesday, 9 July 2008 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Jeff LeVine, Sunday, 19 October 2008 04:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Metal Gear Group Therapy
― Mr Raif, Saturday, 3 January 2009 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow it's too bad they all looked like they were having their teeth pulled. I don't blame them though.
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 4 January 2009 17:01 (fifteen years ago) link
"The constant poisoning is getting to be tiresome."
― HOOS GRAB IT INSTEENLY (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 4 January 2009 18:05 (fifteen years ago) link
pretty funny april fool, Kojima set this up with his GDC speechhttp://www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/movi...l/index_j.html
― zappi, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 08:14 (fifteen years ago) link
poised for some E3 xbox 360 MGS4 megatonz everyone?
― zinguist (cozwn), Saturday, 9 May 2009 22:37 (fourteen years ago) link
for realsies?
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Saturday, 9 May 2009 22:55 (fourteen years ago) link
that would be the sweetest.
― Love is a Battletoad (circa1916), Saturday, 9 May 2009 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
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/
― zinguist (cozwn), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 11:49 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^^I reckon tht might be GTA DLC on PS3 actually
― zinguist (cozwn), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link
what what what?
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 13:47 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― zinguist (cozwn), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 13:51 (fourteen years ago) link
might be nothing but we'll know in ten minutes
ah, barf, just fallout 3 dlc coming to ps3http://www.incgamers.com/News/16452/Fallout3DLCComingToPS3
― zinguist (cozwn), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 14:02 (fourteen years ago) link
BOOYA
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link
so happy about this!
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link
and so glad i didn't sell my fallout disc!
ah, barf, just fallout 3 dlc coming to ps3
oh yes yes
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link
yes yes yes!
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 14:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Remember to skip Operation Anchorage, y'all. It's not worth it. Pitt great though. Broken Steel too.
― JimD, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link
It would seem there is only five more hours before an MGS 5 announcement:
http://www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/next/
― Mr Raif, Thursday, 21 May 2009 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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).
― passed on the lead in "all i can do is crossups cuz ihave no skills" (jamescobo), Thursday, 21 May 2009 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link