I love the franchise. My favourite is MGS1 for the PS1 and Twin Snakes for the Gamecube, mainly just for their story. For each sequals, the gameplay improves, but not the story. I think MGS4 strayed away from the fundamentals of the previous game a little bit, just to generalize. I just hate it, the story and even the gameplay to some extent. It has ruined my memories of MGS1.
Two aspects that pissed me, some missing gameplay elements and one very important signature gameplay of the series is missing. Gameplay aspects piss fess is fairly short compare to the other obvious other one already, the stupid storyline.
Gameplay: There's no metal gear fight. Hopping in Metal Gear Rex and have a mech battle does not count. The SIGNATURE of every Metal Gear game should have a metal gear boss battle on 'FOOT'. Very disappointed.
Boss battle is crap compare to previous bosses from previous games. Even Vulcan Raven from MGS1 is ......something, cant even compare to MGS4 bosses. The Octopus just hides......just bad, just lame, there's no fear for your life kinda feeling.......turns to a ball....what you do??? hop on the bed....just crazy. The Raven, just target shooting practice......no thinking involve like all previous boss battles. Gun battles with Ocelot or Olga is.....just doesnt compare. Raging Raven....what a terrible boss. Crying wolf, Sniper Wolf was much better coz she shoots fast, so you had to be faster. This girl just hides again in the late stage of the boss fight again, so you just find her then snipe her. So lame. No fear for your life. Atleast Sniper Wolf was constantly hunting you. You were her prey, remember? Mantis.....it wasnt really hard to shoot the dolls down with the amount of bullets you have, plus you have more range of control compare to MGS1 with Psycho Mantis, but atleast there were tons of obstacles he kept throwing at you and he kept spinning. The girls just side steps, very easy to hit.
And there wasnt enough corridor stealth just to have a little homage to MGS1 and 2. You put on your camo, stick to a trash bin, you have the same colour as the bin, ya?? But you're sticking out, with the silhouette of a crouching man, a guy stand in front an he couldnt pick that up?? The tag was no where to hide, hah? Coz you have the camo, lie on the ground on roll your azz to your destination, you can literally do that for the entire game. Makes you miss the corridor action dont you, with the guards coming and everything. Cant hide in the corridor. Maybe not even with the camo.
Alright, the story. It's crap. Mei Ling said a proverb just before you go board Liquids' sub. Remember that? Becoz some1 bickers about what was said or what else there is to say becoz they thin they lost, ya? Then Mei Ling said a proverb, saying that the words of dying man should be listen to, ya? Then Snake said, Any1 got a smoke? I woulda say, so you're saying we're all going to die, huh? Some proverbs. Anyway....just skipped to the end for now. Naomi did exactly what Liquid wanted, Liquid also wanted the system to be destroyed. Not to control it. When that first hit me, I was like, This is so effing pointless, Liquid!!!!! And the dialoque is like everybody talking in yin yang. Especially the bosses dialoque. During the mission's briefing, everybody would be like, Col: yin system yin patriot, Snake: yang uhhh Im old but Im not dead...yet. I dont remember the dialoque and I couldnt give a good example, sorry, but seriously, just go back and compare the dialoque to MGS1. Snake even sound better in MGS1. Story was much simple and all they talk was mission objective. Go rescue DARPA chief. HE over there. Snake, you have to find a way to sneak in....Im like, "Got it' I see a ventilation shaft on the second flour, Good job snake. I go, tyvm, you were no help. The dialoque in MGS4 is very over dramatic, just irratating. Seriously, go compare the two, they are on different wavelength, and MGS4 is just too much explaining and over dramatize hollywood dialoque. I couldnt give an example coz I dont remember the lines, but in MGS4, they kept explaining the system and the patriots and just flat cheessy hollywood wannabe dialoques, couldnt give the mission objectives like in MGS1 'real time' updating your progress on your sneaking mission, which isnt the cas for MGS4 but still, dialoque just is crap becoz the story is crap as well, coz the whole point, Liquid was just being an azz and being pointless. He would go CQC Snake's azz, control the system, blow everything up, on his boat, motor away, and looking a bit sad and regret. Thats not how an antagonist should look like. Its over dramatisize and over hollywood. The fight scenes between Raiden, god I hate him, and Vamp wasnt entertaining, and the split screen serves no purpose. Seriously, the action sequence just is crap. Raiden is twirling and twirling so Vamp does the macarina and twirl as well, well if Raiden is doing the capoeira, and the strike zone is just above shoulder, you can just step back or duck, but everybody just twirls and twirls like they are gay or something. Raiden stopping the boat ala Frank Jaeger is crap. Cant stop a thing that huge. Stab you feet to the concrete doesnt help coz the concrete itself would break up. Physics, people. Cyborg Ninja stopping a Metal Gear is acceptable. What Raiden did just....insults me, damnit. The story pales in comparison to the first. The story was bad starting with MGS2, when Raiden took Snakes spot. MGS3 story was good, very much like the first but I dont like The Boss character. As for Naomi, got rescued, jump ships, then went back to Liquid, got Solidus, to Shadow Moses, then dies. Her whole character was in the dark like you dont know what really going on until the end but the cut scenes makes its as like we're suppose to ahhh I see in the early part. Her part was just clueless to me for the majority and the acting was filling me in step by step??? I was already questioning when she tried to give that USB to Otacon the jumped ship. The whole time, clueless. I go, wahhh??? But Snake and Otacon would be like, hmmmm Liquid got control of the system. They dont even care about Naomi. She was just a DNA expert in MGS1 that wanted to kill Snake for revenge then changed her mind, but now, she's acting like a b**ch and you dont even know why. In MGS1, you would talk to Naomi at some point about Grey Fox, and Naomi would get mad at you, you can feel the hatred and condescending in her words, but in MGS4, its just a whole different vibe, everybody goes so sad coz Snake is gonna die and 10 20 minutes of explaining sheet. Just bad. Just bad. Pointless merry go round in the end with Liquid's plan not to control but destroy the system. So Snake did Liquid a favour again, ala MGS1, just not exactly ala OMG such an awesome twist MGS1. At this point, I cant even feeling Liquids anger over his supposedly inferiority genes compare to Snake anymore and he's like lets just fight coz we had to fight anyway, and put me outta my misery, no one gonna arrest my azz, Snake gonna beat my old azz then die happy. That's just lame. The motives and everything. I hate it.
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