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Breaking: Metal Gear game may be a little goofy, game ruined forever
- Thread starter Sn4ke_911
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Kojima said so. MGSV will be the most mature Metal Gear game yet. Previously it was planned to not implement any "goofy shit" like the cardboard box in the game. That's the reason why there is no cardboard box in Ground Zeroes.
But then Kojima felt it would be good to get that stuff in the game to lighten the mood since the story will be very dark.
WickedLaharl
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samuraidino
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I'm sorry,but that character is wearing a gasmask. it has retroactively ruined psycho mantis for me.,
I thought so too, but then they deliberately showed a horse crapping in the middle of the street during a live gameplay showcase. Then the fulton cows. Then the box tactics. So that line of thinking went out the window.
Jesus Christ what are they doing? please don't turn the new MGO into Team Fortress.
I don't want Big Boss or some random soldier running around with goofy shit like that.
I mean the Rex helmet is ok in my book because it's Metal Gear related but imo everything else that isn't MGS-ish needs to stay out of this game.
Fingers crossed for a Kojima mask.
We must defend the sanctity of this sacred franchise.
Bluekaveli
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Oh Gawd
badcrumble
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'maturity' and 'darkness' are extremely dumb and when you grow up you will realize this
EmCeeGramr
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MGSV has a woman in a bikini top and torn stockings named "Quiet" because she doesn't talk and she has magic superhuman powers and invisibility, and a dog with an eyepatch.
Big Boss gets a piece of shrapnel in his head that's shaped like a devil horn because "he's a demon."
badcrumble
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the only possible thing worse than this game having a Country Hat would be if it had a Rap Hat
And how about you realize that an online mode probably won't try and be as serious as the main game. What kind of logic leap has you think because they're adding goofy elements to the main story that they won't be in MGO?
Grimdark as fuck
Stone Ocean
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Who cares about what Kojima said
Look at what the game is
Look at what the game is
Those things are what make that franchise relevant..?
This is like watching a comedy movie and complaining there's not enough serious action.
MGS3 has a fairly serious story with a dark ending that's hard to shake. It is still a game that requires you progress by defeating a man who can use bees to grab a Tommy gun, a sniper that can photosynthesize, and a principle antagonist, capable of discharging enough electricity in his body to explode an entire ammo magazine, that can be disabled by exploiting his fear of frogs.
so edgy.
samuraidino
Member
But its still a Metal Gear game....
Just because Its more mature than its predeccessors doesn't automaitcally mean it's going to remove the goofier aspects of the series that makes Metal gear Metal Gear.
I think you're the one going "bu bu but" here.
ShadowKingpin
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Mad over hats? Haha, k brah.
PeakPointMatrix
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HP_Wuvcraft
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You do realize that Metal Gear Solid was always a parody series, right?
It was never meant to be taken seriously.
Ever.
In fact, I'm pretty sure the reason Kojima keeps ramping up the ridiculousness is because the fans continue to act like whatever the fuck he makes is Dark Knight levels of serious.
I mean, do you also fuckin' defend Quiet?
WickedLaharl
Member
bu bu but kojima-san originally intended it to be super serious and we all know intent is what matters most
How about a plastic mask?
Damn, thats creepy.
MrMatt555
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For what it's worth, OP.
I understand where you are coming from. I remember that quote from Kojima vividly. It stuck out to me because I remember thinking, "But it's because the game can tell such a complex narrative with sprinkles of humor and goofiness that makes the series so unique." I think Kojima realized that and opted to go back sort of to the roots of mgs and throw the goofiness back in ala Chicken hat, Cardboard box, deployable decoy. If you're dissappointed I get that, but at the same time, you have to have known by now goofiness was never realy going to 100% go away. After all, it's part of the franchise's DNA.
SarcasticD
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Weird being mad over something so...optional.
CrowDieSlow
Banned
Being just a bit dramatic over something so small.
don't be dumb
it's OBVIOUS that the bikini top is symbolic and her exposed navel represents the hole in the barren field of Big Boss' soul
the torn stockings on her legs represent how torn she is to keep running from her past
her name Quiet represents her stifled emotions, and her magic superpowers and invisibility symbolize how she is empowered only by the meaningless nihilism that has rendered her numb to the horrors of war
the dog with the eyepatch represents how war closes minds and causes people to see in black and white, because dogs see in black and white according to Rugrats
duh
I'm beginning to think MGSGAF should seriously consider not venturing out to Gaming anymore, if just for their incapability at posting anything not so obviously stupid or crazy to the common human being which won't backfire so heavily on them that will get closed in less than a day, at best. MGS as a series, as polarizing as it is, has the potential to generate very interesting debates. Instead we just get shit like this, head transplants, and Swedish shirts and Kojima "it's all PR" shenanigans when he's fooled people once a long time ago, and then messed around with the OBVIOUS Moby Dick Studios stuff.
MrMatt555
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You mean a do-rag?
Kojima says many things - such as "this the last metal gear" and I'm also assuming - "this is the most serious metal gear ever" - yet there are countless pointless shout outs to his other games, ridiculous props and conversations, that serve no purpose other than the typical "humour" or "lightening the mood" of metal gear games.
None of this would surprise me - there is already Horse poop that can crash cars
HappehLemons
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Metal gear is a goof fest and has never been a serious game. I have a feeling that you want this game to not be a metal gear game.
PeakPointMatrix
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There could be a tap dancing clown that shat rainbows, and MGSV would still be the most mature game yet. It's not a hard thing to accomplish in this series.
