Kojima, man
That’s the thing I hate about meme/ironic culture. Really emotionally stirring moments in media just get meme’ed into oblivion, and it’s a real shame. Less than ideal politics and optics aside, Quiet’s “breathing” through her skin is an awful scifi/anime reason to justify her skimpy outfit. I’m saying this as a dude who likes skimpy outfits on super hot women (within proper context), it’s just a poorly thought out character concept no matter how hot she is.
All that mentioned, MGSV has some well-earned and well executed emotional beats, both on an interactive media level and cinematic one. It’s just kinda lame they just get turned into meme fodder. It’s across all media too, irony poisoning is wack
Hey, he accidentally managed to do a genius postmodernism while knowing jack shit about it with MGS2. Land of contrasts
huge soviet military installations in the game and fultoning these highly trained soldiers
That’s not really the vibe I get from their depiction of the Soviets. Ignoring OKB Zero, which isn’t really Soviet, the biggest military installation there is a base with three concrete hangars, one of which is caved in. It’s not exactly Bagram Airfield over here.
And I’m not entirely sure how the soldiers skills work, but I’m pretty sure I find higher skill soldiers in Africa than Afghanistan.
I like that there is no question about Diamond Dogs being the good guys. Kaz and Ocelot constantly talk about intentionally aggravating the situations in Afghanistan and Zaire to make more money. No ideological commitment at all except for money and robot tech. In Peace Walker Big Boss helped make Nicaragua socialist, in V none of them seem to have ever cared about that and are more focused on revenge for getting their platform blown up.
They could have gone further with that and should have. Big Boss is a fucking monster by the time MG1 and 2 came around and they didn’t show it. I know it’s a different guy but that just adds to the issue. No one played the MSX games and MGS3 and 4 made Big Boss out to be more heroic than he should be seen as by most players. The story was done by 3 and 4 should have never happened but I liked Peace Walker as a game on its own but also showing a slow descent into the big boss of Zanzibar Land, MGSV should have been like Ground Zeroes the whole way through. If hinted at atrocities were followed through on and it was the real big boss doing it, it would make for a better game both in canon and as an allegory. Huey was fucking right to sell them out to the UN, a totally non aligned nuclear equipped PMC is Warhawk ancapistan and just no good for anyone. The game never stopped glorifying it. Also no meeting Gray Fox or anything with Sniper Wolf , instead he tied in Volgin and Psycho Mantis instead of people who actually met Big Boss during that time. It was a total waste of story potential, the gameplay was okay but got old really fast.
The trailers leading up to that game made it seem like it was gonna be Apocalypse Now! The game and far from delivered. MGS4 also seemed pretty cool before coming out but Kojima hadn’t fucked up yet until then. Peace Walker was pretty cool. The should have just soft rebooted the series after 3. Have a Solid Snake infiltrate an Outer Heaven and have a Big Boss and Metal Gear but go somewhere else with it
Kojima basically told us he’d do nothing of the sort when he sent Old Snake back to Shadow Moses.
I was having a blast right up until the end forced you to replay the extra extra extra long and boring opening sequence AGAIN, just as slowly and STILL with the fucking credits over it.
