Next week will be Revenge, so while not light, it’ll definitely be cathartic. Read more
C.A. Pinkham
Ubertrout
Yeah, Kinja was doing this with everything I was copying over from my google docs yesterday. I had thought I got them all, but I missed that one. Ugh. Kinja gonna kinj. Read more
But here’s the key question: does anyone, at any point, say, “METAL GEAR?!” Read more
This is my life. Read more
PISTOLS AT DAWN, SIR, PISTOLS AT DAWN Read more
There are five full MGS games (soon to be six); Ground Zeroes doesn’t count because prologues are not full games, and this number goes up depending on whether you count Revengeance (you probably shouldn’t since Kojima didn’t make it, but whatevs, I played it briefly anyway). “A few” would constitute 3 out of 5 games. Read more
This is fair, and let’s be honest: they’re all badly-written. Maybe MGS1 might rank as an exception (at least by series standards), but 2 isn’t any worse than 4. The funny thing is, despite my disparaging comments all over this post, I do have fun playing the games (well, except 3). I just get annoyed by the Cult of… Read more
You honestly might’ve just been able to shorten this to: Read more
If you really believe MGS is the greatest game series ever, I feel like you shouldn’t be allowed near forks. Read more
best video game story of all time (MGS) Read more
What, you don’t think Elucidated Walrus is a brilliant character name?! HOW DARE YOU CRITICIZE THE GREAT AND MIGHTY KOJIMA Read more
I don’t feel like this is true of all video games—I’ve definitely explained the story of some of them to people who don’t play them and been understood. I’ve explained Fallout: New Vegas to my fiancee and she didn’t have an issue, and that requires quite a bit of background explanation. Read more
I keep reading the responses to you and saying, “oh, you sweet summer child.” The only response I have here is you must’ve been INCREDIBLY lucky in your customer service work experiences. Read more
I’d probably be less annoyed by it if Snake didn’t feel the need to repeat the last word of every sentence spoken to him as a confused exclamation. Read more
Yes, he’s a jerk because he didn’t like the thing you liked. You are good at what words mean. Read more
I’ve always felt MGS3 was the dumbest, worst game in the series. It just gets stupider the further away from it I get. Granted, I didn’t play MGS4 (because I thought 3 was so bafflingly dumb), so maybe that’s even worse. Read more
And yet this is STILL arguably the greatest sequence of games ever made. Read more
I know you’re going to have (and you already do have) people jumping on you, but you’re pretty much spot on. Hideo Kojima is terrible at making games (he seems to have forgotten the actual “game” component) and is almost as bad at telling stories. Weirdly, I still enjoy some of the MGS games, but yeah, anyone who… Read more
MGS1: NANOMACHINES! Read more
I’m going to go ahead and assume you’ve never worked a customer service job before. Read more