I just finished Metal Gear Solid 2

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Originally Posted by Josh

Push the start button.

yeah i found the game far more enjoyable once i started skipping all the cut scenes and codec conversations.

Fission mailed is still pretty great.

Fisson Mailed and TIME PARADOX are my two favorite things in Metal Gear. I love the crazy story, it just gets more insane with each installment. You want a serious boring stealth game play Splinter Cell.

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Originally Posted by animegirl

... boring... Splinter Cell.

Oh no, you did not just say that!

The MGS series is epic beyond belief. 1 has the best story, 3 had the best gameplay and 2 had the best cut scenes. Haters go away.

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Originally Posted by Nash

Oh no, you did not just say that!

SC's multi was the only redeeming part of it.

Let's read things Tim Rogers wrote about Metal Gear.

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Originally Posted by Tim Rogers

Metal Gear Solid 2 is a "dream."
Ico is an "empty room."
They are both postmodern masterpieces in their own right.

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Originally Posted by Tim Rogers

This is modern Japanese literature, people.

As Japanese game developers get the power to make games better than movies, you can bet about 25% of them are going to be like this.

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Originally Posted by Tim Rogers

If Jack is a videogame character, who are the "Patriots"? The players? What does this all have to do with Napster?

More importantly, if a videogame character had a bedroom, what would it look like?

What does Mario's bedroom look like?

What does Sonic the Hedgehog's bedroom look like?

For that matter, what does a real person’s bedroom need to look like?

Why have posters on your wall at all?

I found this train of thought especially profound.

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Originally Posted by Tim Rogers

Metal Gear Solid 2 is another level of postmodernity. Metal Gear Solid 2 is Yasuharu Konishi’s seven-minute remix of the one-minute "Son of Godzilla" march. For four minutes, we hear a Brazilian woman narrate a Godzilla movie in Portuguese, with ambient sounds in the background. For three minutes, we hear the Godzilla march, techno beats laid down in the background.

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Do you ever dream that you cry, and run away from Michelle Yeoh when she asks you to have sex with her?

Well, sometimes the postmodern shows us stuff we don’t want -- or aren't ready -- to see.

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Originally Posted by Tim Rogers

I lead a postmodern life. Playing Metal Gear Solid 2, to me, mirrors sleeping -- dreaming -- in an empty room.

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Originally Posted by Tim Rogers

After Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Hideo Kojima vowed to never do another Metal Gear game again. He passed Metal Gear Solid 3 off to a new generation of programmers, leaving them only with the keyword "jungle." That was his only advice -- set the game in a jungle. He chose the setting because the music composer Harry Gregson-Williams said he would only score another Metal Gear title if the story were set in a jungle. Perhaps he said that as a joke. Just as well, maybe he didn't. Maybe he was damned, dead serious -- maybe he had an artistic hunger to write music for a story that took place in a jungle? Can we deny him that? I'm no artist. I've written an unpublished book or two, though hell, even I can understand that a guy who writes music might seriously, honestly feel a pain in his gut when he realizes he hasn't composed music for a military story that takes place in a jungle. To wit: I really, awesomely want to write a Tolkien-style fantasy novel, something with a hundred thousand insignificant throwaway details, a simple good-versus-evil story, windy length, and ultimate moneymaking possibilities.

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Originally Posted by Tim Rogers

When I met Kojima at E3, he was a little out of it. By out of "it," I mean out of everything. He was tired, unshaven, and a little hung-over. He didn't seem to want to be there. He didn't seem to want to be anywhere. At the time, I was disappointed that my appointment time met me with a Kojima that was bored of answering the same questions from lookalike journalists over and over and over again. The reason for his boredom didn't matter -- he was bored. His pre-installed boredom disappointed me. How . . . postmodern -- a "gamer" disappointed that the producer of his favorite game is bored.

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I'm also in the minority that liked Twin Snakes crazy ass post-modern? cutscenes.

I told you StriderKyo was the funniest poster here.

And he's a bigger man than I, I never finished that garbage.

Stop it. I can't rep you again.

Really, I just want to rep Tim Rogers for making me giggle time and time again.