MGS2 because it's like Kojima and Shigesato Itoi's gay love child

Also is MG2 really that great or do people just have a big half-chub about it because it's this epic unplayed retro game

wrong

1 was released here, 2 was japan only until recently.

Well if you want to be semantic

Metal Gear 1 in the US was badly re-arranged and edited and is sort of the same game but is actually not nearly as good in comparison.

Also the US-only Metal Gear 2: Snake's Revenge is amazing.

Ah, VR Missions finally appeared! I just HAVE to change my vote to it because I'm a sucker for games like that.

just wanting something to be true doesn't make it so! there is no evidence for any of this.

Except countless magazine interviews with Kojima and other members of the staff.

MGS 2 confusing story FTW. So who/what the hell are The Patriots?

Except countless magazine interviews with Kojima and other members of the staff.

sources? i've never heard ANYTHING about MGS2 or 1 being a parody. it is a serious game man!

I have gone my entire life without playing a single Metal Gear title.

I normally wouldn't post in a topic like this in that situation, but it feels like such a feat is worth some kind of merit.

sources? i've never heard ANYTHING about MGS2 or 1 being a parody. it is a serious game man!

I don't know man the idea that the intent of MGS2 was to be as stupid and random as possible in an effort to point at that people take video game stories too seriously sometimes makes a lot more sense than the idea that the game was actually trying to tell a legitimately story full of so much intrigue and double-crossing that we just aren't brilliant enough to figure it out.

sources? i've never heard ANYTHING about MGS2 or 1 being a parody. it is a serious game man!

Edge magazine. They do an article/interview on the metal gear series like every few months. next-gen also go on about MGS regularly (I think the last BIG ONE was in early jan/December)

Also on a side note, do you really think they are serious games? A game where a boss can tell you've played castlevania, where there is CYBORG NINJAS and WALKING NUCLEAR MISSILE TANKS and where the plot twist at the end is "YES, MR PRESIDENT". Everything about MGS is so blatantly over the top to the point where it's effectively wearing a T-shirt saying "HEY THIS IS A JOKE" and it's wagging it's dick in your face.
The bosses were a very big part in the whole "Video games are gay" point. So let's just focus mainly on that for the time, how videogames would have cliche bosses who get progressively sillier as you go on is something Kojima frequently mentioned in the 90s about how games can't be realistic... So MGS had a slinging cowboy/sherrif (Ocelot) a psychic who could be defeated with a forth wall concept such as using controller two (Psycho mantis), a cliche bond/cold war sniper babe (Sniper wolf, with enough cleavage for two), a fucking CYBORG NINJA (Cyborg Ninja), Heavy Weapons guy, with totally inhuman strength (Vulcan Raven) and a fucking walking tank with a RAILGUN THAT FIRES NUCLEAR WARHEADS. That is of course leaving out the old action movie staples such as rooftop helicopter and jeep chase, but they seem more dud to me.

(It's all very ironic as the MGS series have proven themselves capable of being called art (Note: I don't even like the games personally, so this is hardely fanboy rant) yet Kojima constantly is an ass and makes the claims that videogames are a form that cannot be art)

i know they're ridiculous. i think that kojima just takes himself and his games a bit too seriously (VISITING WARZONES, MOTHERS BREAST).

and i still haven't seen anything from any of the creators that talks about how it is some epic parody that fooled us all!

You love Neon Genesis Evangelion and are talking to us about ridiculous?


huh im confused

no one is debating that mgs isn't ridiculous. i just think it's just that... ridiculous. kojima is known for taking extreme measures in making his games and is a pretty crazy dude.

new random analogy


Metal Gear Solid is the Titus Andronicus of videogames


Edit: I realize that it would seemingly be better to compage Tarantino's movies but he doesn't seem like he could make a good movie that /isn't/ that way and Kojima seems like he could

Edit:

I realize that it would seemingly be better to compage Tarantino's movies but he doesn't seem like he could make a good movie that /isn't/ that way and Kojima seems like he could

Edit: Strikethrough is the parentheses of the 21st century