Pretty sure Dan doesn't like any band past the 70s. So yeah, great rolemodel you got there.
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Sleeping Lesson
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I like The XX a lot. They utilize sonic ranges like sub-bass that most artists don't even touch in their music. I haven't heard an album past their self-titled one, though.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Are you not ashamed of your words and deeds?
God, God that whole thing infuriates me. Kojima gets held up as this incredible storyteller when he expected people to feel bad about calling Quiet's design misogynist because she actually breathes through her tits.
Fucking shit.
I don't see how her design is misogynist. It's very sexual but she's still shown as one of the strongest people in the game
Piston Hyundai
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MGS2 is kind of amazing though
BreezyLimbo
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yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
It might be the most disappointing game I've ever played
Yes, that shower scene was really necessary to establish her as a strong character.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
How many Marios did MGSV let you make?
The exact right amount.
Mario in that engine
Glitchesarecool
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MGSV is the best playing game of 2015, that's as much as I will give it.
Maiden Voyage
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We didn't "turn our financial lives around". We live very comfortably and have been for the past 3 years we've been together. We don't struggle month to month. We have an emergency fund and are now debt-free. We are celebrating that we paid off our student loans after 3 years of $3,100/month payments by spoiling ourselves. I know not everyone is in our situation and it's definitely an extravagant set of purchases but it is not a detrimental purchase for us.
We bought both because I wanted the Vive and the wife (and I, despite my disdain for Palmer) fell in love with the Oculus Touch controllers. She will likely use the Oculus and me the Vive. Our hope is that we will be able to play games together. With how small the house we rent is, it may not be possible until we buy a house in the coming years.
For sure. I haven't bought any games yet--I've been too wrapped up in Lucky's Tale and Farlands so far. I have a few games on Steam that are VR compatible that I will be doing with the Vive to start. Send me a PM with your username on both and I will friend you.
That's a lot you gave it
No, but a history of poorly handling female characters with an emphasis on over-sexualization and porn-esque camera shots whenever a lady is on screen does.
And MGSV didn't even play that well. It controlled well, but everything else about the gameplay fell so flat. Maybe the most disappointed I've ever been in a video game, and I pre-ordered Thi4f.
Glitchesarecool
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Well I put a lot of other games above it in terms of "I enjoyed my time with this game."
ratcliffja
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Thank you. It's also my favorite MGS game.
I don't know what you were expecting? Ground Zeroes came out about a year and a half before TPP and showed you what you were going to get, on this front. The countless thirty minute+ gameplay demos that were popping up months before release should have told you what to expect as well.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
MGS V is 50% game and 50% busywork.
Ground Zeroes was dense and focused, MGS V wasn't. It also didn't feature F2P-esque waiting times and tons of randomly generated side missions.
Ground Zeroes was dense and focused, MGS V wasn't. It also didn't feature F2P-esque waiting times and tons of randomly generated side missions.
Glitchesarecool
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I guess my impression of MGSV might be slightly skewed because I used Cheat Engine to get rid of the timer bullshit.
Ground Zeroes had good level design, not a boring empty open world that repeated the same three mission types for 50 hours. Ground Zeroes didn't immediately take all the tension out of the stealth by emphasizing fultons to populate your shitty base. Ground Zeroes didn't run out of steam halfway through and make you repeat shit to pad out the rest of the cutscenes.
I'd go as far as to say I had more fun with GZ than I ever did with MGSV.
Yeah, I agree
Even taking the side missions into account, Ground Zeroes is a better designed level than anything MGSV has to offer. A lot more interesting and a lot more going on.
She's effectively a Venom's pet in the game and her design was fueled by a desire for T&A I can't fathom how it isn't misogynistic.
Nothing about her character is strong, she's a servile character that the game puts on the level of a horse.
Like Eva isn't a particularly interesting or well written character, she's a big standard femme fatale and is problematic in her own right, but she still had actual agency in the story.
Also Quiet is the only real woman character in MGSV, there isn't even a counter point to her, she's it. The time woman enemies are introduced the camera zooms in for a tracking shit on their breasts. Woman are glorified objects in the MGSV universe.
She's a well written character. But the shower scene, the scene where you find her sunbathing, all of the helicopter shots where the better your relationship gets, the more tits and ass poses she shoves in your face, just cheapen everything. You don't even need to leave the series to find an actual good female character, look at The Boss. Or even if you need to have your female lead be sexualized, Eva is ten times the character Quiet is
Gozer the Gozerian
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God I would kill for a MGSV with the same gameplay mechanics but with the open world condensed down to several areas similar to ground zeroes in complexity and scope
Glitchesarecool
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not in the slightest
Yeah the suggestion Quiet is somehow this well written character that unfortunately had a bad design is laughable.
The fucking abomination that is Quiet (and the B&B in MGS4 as a marginally less shitty prequel to her) aside, Kojima isn't that great of a writer, he's actually a pretty bad writer all told, but his melding of Hollywood excess (ie all the shit Dan likes), anime tropes, weird sociological/geopolitical commentary, 4th wall breaking and off the wall gameplay mechanics has always been a unique enough combination especially in the AAA space.
It really is amazing that he has gotten away with making the games he has.
It really is amazing that he has gotten away with making the games he has.
agree with this
Calling Quiet the best character in MGSV is like calling Leonard Nimoy's character in Transformers: Dark of the Moon the best character in the movie.
It's true, but it does not exist in a fucking vacuum.
Quiet's twists can be undersold by any number of logical reasons. She makes no sense. She's meant to be a "badass" (can Dan retire this word, please?) and little else, and what she is is undercut by the tasteless way she's shown in the game.
Edit: Like, let's define the term badass as it relates to Quiet: stern, talks little (if at all), kills a bunch of people efficiently. Oooh, such good characterization.
It's true, but it does not exist in a fucking vacuum.
Quiet's twists can be undersold by any number of logical reasons. She makes no sense. She's meant to be a "badass" (can Dan retire this word, please?) and little else, and what she is is undercut by the tasteless way she's shown in the game.
Edit: Like, let's define the term badass as it relates to Quiet: stern, talks little (if at all), kills a bunch of people efficiently. Oooh, such good characterization.
SatelliteOfLove
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Does YOUR music talk about women, beer, and partying? I thought not.
Isn't that all music?
Jeff has the worst taste in music of the main crew, and Rorie is secretly number one.
Cozmogramma
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Rorie is always number one.
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