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xXx: State of the Union said:
Also I think my problem is more with Kojima fanboys than the plot/story/dialogue itself. The shit's fun, I just wish his fanboys wouldn't act like such retards regarding it as high art.
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MGS is the only thing I can think of i'm a fan of while feeling ashamed because of the fanbase. It makes me feel like i'm a Sonic fan or maybe Rick and Morty would be a better equivalent with the twinge of intelligent superiority added in. I just want to enjoy my dumb, government espionage, mech, supernatural, japanese bullshit game. You don't have to try to explain how the game with the cola addicted monkey or the expert bomb maker on roller skates is modern day art.
 
JamFlowMan said:
You don't have to try to explain how the game with the cola addicted monkey or the expert bomb maker on roller skates is modern day art.
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He's a really good salesman, but he hasn't been cool since the 90's so he desperately tries to be more.

Maybe it's all just a novel way of doing PR/generating hype and he loves the smell of his own farts. But it does seem notably different. The same unwavering optimism that allowed Cortes to conquer the Aztecs; you need a religion to generate that kind of motivation. Kojima has created his own.
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Neurotypical Mantis said:
i could have sworn vamp's real name was revealed at some point and it was alejandro. am i completely insane?? where the fuck did i get this from
neurotypical no more. schizo mantis arc
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Never heard that before, so I can't help you. He's Romanian, so it seems unlikely.

You fell asleep reading fanfic, maybe?
 
Aunt Carol said:
Never heard that before, so I can't help you. He's Romanian, so it seems unlikely.

You fell asleep reading fanfic, maybe?
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i avoid all fan content from any ip with a ten foot pole so i think i'm just insane
edit: just realized my allegory makes absolutely no sense i think the latter has been proven by itself
 
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ProblematicUser420 said:
Did you ever read the novelizations?

I never read the MGS2 one but I remember the MGS1 made some shit up.
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nope. i skimmed over the wiki page on him and it says nothing about a real name
i think my brain is just correlating the name 'alejandro' with sexy vaguely brown man and years of lady gaga
 
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I just discovered there was a novelization of Metal Gear for the NES by stumbling on some shitty article from a dipshit who is seriously upset that a elementary school level Scholastic adaptation of Metal Gear had the audacity to follow the manual of the game. (he seems to be oblivious to the fact that Metal Gear on NES and Snakes Revenge are actually different games as well, some fanboy he is)

It's kind of weird how he talks about how fucking awful the book is while pointing out how most of it's dumb ideas ended up being ideas that Kojima used in his "masterpieces"

Archive if anyone needs more autism in their life
 
ProblematicUser420 said:
Why must people infantilize game psychopaths?
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Dunno!
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I stand behind the humor of whacking a industrial-goth murderer with a broom while he tries to do the creepy Sadako thing.

edit: here's the infamous one where he calls him Man-Chan:
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Oh! !! Man-chan? !! "Are you PlayArts too?"
 
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verissimus said:
How is that a retcon in MGS? It was never stated that wasn't the case prior to that.
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I mean...you literally play as Snake during Metal Gear 2 and Big Boss never tells you he is your father. So in the very strictest sense Big Boss telling Snake he was his father during the operation is a retcon.
 
Aunt Carol said:
That's probably wise, but you do miss some fun stuff:
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this is good but the pure energy i get from this, tumblr and fandoms just makes me rot. i'm not an in-character purist but come on. mantis has never had genuine fun in his life, i don't think he knows how
also why did they draw liquid teetering on the edge of having a gunt

vamp schizo update: he was apparently partially inspired by some guy who's a spanish flamenco dancer as well
 
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xXx: State of the Union said:
To be fair, I actually started the series with MGS unlike most of Kojimas fanboys so the only retcon I had to deal with was Big Boss being Snakes dad (which I didn't even know about)

Also I think my problem is more with Kojima fanboys than the plot/story/dialogue itself. The shit's fun, I just wish his fanboys wouldn't act like such retards regarding it as high art.
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The series never was some well written masterpiece, at any point. The only time the series ever said something was social commentary in MGS2. But that gets overlooked because everyone hates Raiden in that. Even still, I maintain it's the peak of the series in terms of just how much of a jump it was over the previous game and the series highest sales it ever saw.

Kojima is a textbook plagiarist and hack. I like how the localizer for MGS2 called him out for that. Bargain bin Tom Clancy.

Anything the guy did that didn't have Fukushima as a co writer was a piece of shit. MGS4 onwards is completely unwatchable. He left somewhere early in the development of MGS4 and it's completely unexplained. I'm not saying he was the real brains behind the series, but it's telling there was a giant shift in how awful the story is presented when he left. I believe he was entirely responsible for Ghost Babel, the GBC game.

Death Stranding has gotta be the worst AAA title I've ever played. It was purely designed to make the player suffer of boredom and monotony. I'll admit the game felt like a game when the second map unlocks and there's more places to discover, but it's the biggest slog I've ever experienced. The """"""story"""""" is so far up it's own ass, and there's like 3-4 exposition scenes that try to explain plot to the player, and each time, I blankly stare at the TV and not absorb any of the information because it's below fanfic level.

I like how he got his jew lawyers to remove rightly negative reviews. He blamed US players for it's poor sales because we "prefer FPS." Even though Americans are solely responsible for his career taking off. Sony had to have lost maybe a hundred million on that game between the budget probably going over and marketing. Him never working on Metal Gear again is a blessing. The faggot wanted to do a prequel in WWII as the Boss. He already ruined Big Boss enough with redundant sequel after redundant sequel.
 
Wesker said:
The series never was some well written masterpiece, at any point. The only time the series ever said something was social commentary in MGS2.
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What? The Boss spergs on for what feels like hours about "muh no borders, muh no eternal enemy." The other characters think this is so deep that they spend every game after worshiping her memory.

Let's not forget that every game has a character literally explain the message to the player at the end, usually over some stock footage. You know, just on the off-chance the player doesn't get it.
 
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