Kojima has always been a terrible writer, but he just got tard wrangled with the first 3 games which is why 3 was actually a fairly good game story wise. This may be considered a hot take, but I’m glad he’s not involved with delta. No game needs his retard energy.
I was literally just going by MGS3 since I have no knowledge whatsoever of MGS4 aside from "nanomachines" and MGSV doesn't even get into anything resembling a plot until the second half where I quit it because fuck replaying the same missions again.
This reminds me of something I saw someone complain about on the previous page--that basically the prequel games all seem to just go over the same ground again and again. Big Boss doesn't like the modern world so he starts Outer Heaven and has a big think all over again about The Boss and her beliefs. It's like Batman and the constant questioning of his no-kill rule.
Everything that came after MGS3's perfect ending I consider to be Koji's unnecessary cumwank to keep the sequel ball rolling for Konami (whom he was VP of for a time). Everyone knew back then that Naked Snake's salute at the Boss' grave was the start of his downfall into war criminal Big Boss. Nothing more needed to be said. Nothing more needed to be seen.
Moreso than Delta, I would be hyped for potential MG1+2 remakes, because that shit is entirely uncharted territory to play with in 3D. We would also get to see both Gray Fox's downfall and Big Boss being an ACTUAL shit. I would love to see some flashbacks to "Green Snake's" training days in Foxhound, and if they'd keep the CQC.
I think it's quite the opposite for me: You never really see just WHY Big Boss makes Outer Heaven if you just play MGS3. Oh sure, you have the graveyard scene alright, but it would be jarring if you played the OG Metal Gear right after that. If you play the other games, however(Portable Ops, Peace Walker, Ground Zeroes + 5) you see exactly why and how he was able to form OH and ties into the older MSX games perfectly, with MGS5's true ending taking place during the very first MSX game. Don't get it twisted, however, MGS3 is one of the best games ever made and it's ending is still perfect, but I'm glad the other prequel games expand Big Boss' lore.
I really don't care, because 1) MGS3 is one of the best games ever made, like I said, and I know the new game will not be anywhere close to it's level of quality, and 2) because Konami simply doesn't have the skill and resources to re-make the entire franchise like Capcom is trying with Resident Evil. We might see similar backlash we've seen when nu-RE4 came out, depending on Delta's quality, but that's about it, nobody is going to replace MGS3 with the new game anytime soon(just like nu-RE4 was shortly forgotten by anyone that isn't a zoomer or a crapcom shill).
It just goes back to my argument on why people even were invested in the """""plot""""" of what came after. MPO was at least decent imo that felt like an actual sequel to Snake Eater. But PW was creepy anime bullshit and V.... well it's barely a game.
Funny how the whole A HIDEO KOJIMA GAME faggots that plaster all over Youtube comments are singing another tune about Konami because Delta looks fucking great lol. Spineless faggots.
It was literally like a community-wide fuck konami era... until people got a wiff of SH and MG remakes then suddenly all is forgiven daddy Konami! The arrogance of it comes from the fact that most of them never even played something like classic Silent Hill - but as soon as godking Kojima made a demo for a game that wasn't even in development it was "Silent Hill has returned baby!", then Koji got canned and it became "Silent Hill is over! Damn you Konami for killing Kojima's Silent Hill!" when in truth Silent Hill was getting bent over a barrel by westerners for a decade at that point... It was only after "Kojima's Silent Hill" was cancelled that any casuals decided to bitch and moan.
I recall a youtuber making a video about how annoying it was that people kept treating SH as if Kojima literally invented the franchise when he wasn't even involved in any of the games that actually got released.
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Silent Hill barely snailed on by for fucking years so this is entirely true. Silent Hills was never gonna be anything. It was developed only as a viral fucking teaser and nothing more.
It was finished. Kingdom of the Flies wasn't going to add anything and playing the same eight missions over and over was the intention of the gook auteur.
Only for the simple fact they should've fired him after MGS4.
You don't. Everything was his own fault. They gave this cocksucker 5 years to put out a game that only sold less than 6 million the last I checked. While so many other studios do two or three times that pretty easily. MGS is a dinosaur, and it doesn't help the game was entirely carried by his firing hype and not the game itself.
V has better moment to moment gameplay, where as older MGS games had better story and scenarios. It's hard to even compare them together, one is a sandbox game with painfully mediocre stealth where as the others are very tight sneaking simulators, with some impressive attention to detail. Fact is that actual combat is much more fun in V, incentivising the loud and violent playstyle over the no-alarms sneaky one.
Damn, that mission sucked.
nah V is a fucking frankestein of an open world-portable game sucking at both. gameplay wise the series peaked with 4. hell even in 4 that retard jap was assblasted over some mild criticism over the codec and scrapped a lot of it. the ip deserves to continue imo.
MGR did a much, much better job of whatever "subverting expectations" shit Kojima tries to pull simply by reversing the hero's journey. Where the hero rises above, Raiden fell. When the hero chooses to sacrifice something of his own, Raiden sacrificed someone else. When the hero must choose to be a better man, Raiden chose violence. And in the end, when the hero affirms his moral superiority over the villain and his aim, Raiden adopts the villain's aims as his own.
Even Raiden couldn't resist the memetic Armstrong magic.
Gameplay wise the series peaked with rising, unless spin-offs don’t count.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, of course, but the fact is that Metal Gear is a huge franchise that isn't just composed of the "main" games. It's more fair to compare V to the portable entries since this is what everything was leading up to, but I guess it's Kojima's own fault for sticking a 5 there. He was going to do the same with Peace Walker, but I guess that's reserved for console entries, despite their quality.
That's the problem with Metal Gear, as I already said: There is so many types of games in the franchise that it's not fair to really compare them together. Since the last act of MGS2 had Raiden use a sword, it's fitting that his second game has him doing nothing but chop, but I do agree the moment to moment gameplay is the best here and in MGS5. Makes sense, since these are the two most recent console titles that aren't remakes or remasters.
Nice to see another fan of MPO here.
