maybe it is gameplay footage in the same vein as one of those uncharted games or like that one game starring ellen page. those games that're basically like interactive movies mostly. press A to throw bedpan at guard and watch Snake run down hallway.

Agreed with Barack 110%

thanks for the EMBRACE THE STATUS QUO speech though. been a real long time since i've had to endure it. unfortunately i must request that you never speak to me again.

haha oh man dont be pathetic. i put out a different opinion and it was just something i was thinking about. you can disagree but dont post stupid stuff like NEVERTALKTOMEAGAIN

all im saying is you guys often seem so shocked and REVOLTED. whilst aren't we kinda used to this type of thing by now? its like watching the trailer for transformers and being disgusted that its not an authentic remake of the 80s japanese style

i don't get how people are still interested in mgs. or how some people are borderline obsessed with it, thinking it's the best thing in gaming. mgs1 and 2 were good, i think jungle setting didn't work with mgs gameplay at all and mgs3 was ridiculously short and even somewhat boring to play. and at that point i hope no one took the story too seriously anymore.

despite not really liking mgs3, i was still anticipating mgs4 but after playing it, i will never make the mistake of honestly believing they'll release a good metal gear game again. like someone said, mgs4 had good gameplay (or rather, it could have had good gameplay) but even that was completely ruined by the absolutely horrible pacing it had. take a game like uncharted which is basically an interactive movie and remove all the interactive parts which make it work and replace them with two minutes of gameplay followed by ten to thirty minutes of cutscenes. and that's thirty minutes of watching the most convoluted and ridiculous story in the history of gaming. and the story aside, you never get to play enough to actually get into the game, and that's a huge problem here! i'm actually often one of those people who'll tell you that gameplay (at least in the traditional sense) isn't necessarily all that important in games because games can have much more going on for them but mgs4 seriously does it all wrong. i'm dead serious when i say that i don't know a single other game with such serious issues with pacing or any other game which suffers so much because of it. that and it was such a stupid move to make it completely linear. maybe if it was done well i wouldn't have minded but it wasn't, it really wasn't. i'm usually fairly easy to entertain and i'm not nearly as critical as a lot of people here are but i'm never going to get what people see in mgs4. it's not a completely awful game but it's only saved by high production values and the short fun parts of gameplay it has but that's it.

and let's not even get started with metal gear rising. ground zeroes actually looks that it could be good but after mgs4, i'm not really expecting much. and even in the trailer it was ridiculous that first you spend 10 minutes to sneak into some facility and then you just... CALL A HELICOPTER TO PICK YOU UP. and i think it was in middle of the mission too. you can call helicopter anywhere, anytime. the fuck? and yeah, i saw the trailer for phantom pain and it actually looked interesting but we have no idea what the final game is going to be like (probably nothing like the trailer) so it's pointless to even guess at this point.

on behalf of the furious malcontents of the salt world community forums, i hereby apologize if our bad attitudes have interfered with your kojima boner. we promise to never do it again.

haha ive said frequently that metal gear solid is ridiculous. i like it, but i definitely don't have a kojima boner. i have no gaming boners because im no longer 13. everything said about mgs4 making the storyline more and more retarded is definitely true, and they are certainly milking the series dry. however, im not surprised or overly disgusted. hopefully one day there will be a change where people can make cool and creative mainstream games but unfortunately that's not true for now except for rare cases


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mgs2 was ridiculous as well but i did think it was pretty neat how they mess with you a little and tell you that you are playing a video game and to turn off the console. does anyone know any other titles that do this?

Its probably another prequel like 3. I don't like prequels.

If it isn't a prequel, it will either follow a character other than snake (since he has barely any life left to live) or he is saved from his rapid aging from some sort of technology/operation or something. In fact I was confused why they did not try and copy vamps cell regeneration or whatever he had. Since he literally had something that kept him youthful and nigh invincible and it was a technology, meaning it could've been reproduced.

I guess its similar to Iron man. Who wont share the near infinite supply of energy with the world just because.