What's to say they can't do what they want? COD is extremely stupid and hyper-realistic in its portrayal of reality, Shogun 2 aims to create a historical backdrop for players to rewrite history with contextually accurate things. MGS is hyper-realistic with a mix of science fiction and fantasy; it's all pretty Japanese in its blend of elements - and it's capitalised on to build plot and characters, which is what gives the game so much character, separating it from something like Thief (which also mixes fantasy and steampunk/sci-fi) but in a medieval setting. That's the nature of fiction, if you don't dig what it's doing, 'scool.[QUOTE="skrat_01"][QUOTE="zeeshanhaider"]
If they are not trying to be ultra serious then make it a fantasy game, what's with historical events and military $hit.
zeeshanhaider
No matter how you spin MGS games are crap, both in gameplay and in storyline. Seriously nothing in MGS makes sense. Only the baddies have super human strength, not you and govt. always send you alone on a mission without anything. In one half the ENEMY is trying to kill you in the next half it's on your side, WTF is all this? Big Boss won't die no matter what, it will always reborn in the next game, I guess these kind of things are common to all Japanese games that's why I generally don't like Japanese games. All in all MGS doesn't make any sense and simply sucks.
Hm? If you're going to say they're crap, you're going to have to do better then state something bathed in your own subjectivity. Again, it's hyper-realism, and it's a game, the game contextualises its absurdity most of the time very well within its own fiction (which isn't to say it isn't horrible here and there - see MGS2 and 4); which is a testament to how well it's melodramatic cheesy writing works, and mechanically the games all play well, and are generally well designed. MGS makes sense in its own absurd way, and I'd never disagree that's it's outright dumb to the extreme at times (that's why I like no.3 the most it's the most grounded, which says something about a game where a man shoots bees at you), but you're going to have to judge the game for what it is - it isn't trying to be po-faced and non-absurd, it's trying to be ridiculous. And that's why the protagonist characters generally aren't absurd or ridiculous; because they're all one man against all odds and adversaries, heroic tales at the end of the day- it's fantasy fiction - it's like saying Clash of the Titans is silly because the Gods are fictionally OP compared to our hero-protagonist. Which is why MGS Revengence is a huge departure - it has a protagonist who defies that. But that's cool if you don't like it because of it, you're not wrong for disliking it, but that doesn't mean it's bad. MGS isn't bad, and I've got lots of bad things to say about MGS myself.
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