Wow, this is one of the best posts i've read in here, you made sit back and think about my views of Solidus.
Yeah i'm not going to lie, i thought that.
I used to, but now, well, i don't know. I really shouldn't.
Sorry that i'm not making a bigger reply that your post deserves, i need to think a little.
Please don't think i'm being sarcastic, i'm being sincere.
Thanks, glad it was thought provoking and changed your outlook, I try to make my posts interesting. But sometimes this means people don't seem to read them since they're so long. Thanks again, even just for reading.
Yea Valkyri, your post deserves its own thread tbh lol.
I disagre about why Solidus told Raiden that he killed his parents, though. I think he said it actually to help Raiden get over his own moral dilemma between Solidus and GW so that he and Solidus could have a fair fight witout Raiden doubting his actions. I think Solidus felt he at least owed Raiden a fighting chance (he threw him his sword, after all) and said that to get Raiden's head "back in the game" if you will. At least thats how I interpreted it at the time.
Haha, I think a thread just for that might be overkill. Maybe if Solidus returns in V it will be time for more people to understand his characterizarion in MGS2. I'm not sure I'm the best authority for that though, I just like theorizing about the series and discussing its themesnand characters. I'm still thread shy, so I'd want to make my first perfect lol.
About your own point, that is something that I think motivated him to tell Raiden as well. I think its a combination of both factors, Solidus was very much like Liquid and BB for that, a final duel to settle things, and a feeling of wanting a "fair fight" with an enemy is often expressed in their actions. Not always though, as Liquid and Solidus both try to kill Solid and Raiden before having a more "fair" fight with them.
I also interpret that he is motivated to make the fight more "fair" by removing as much remorse from Jack as possible, but he doesn't just do this to make the fight easier for Jack. He also does it for himself, as he states himself, "we need to decide which monstrosity will have the privilege of survival". He wants to see if his genes and the memes that formed him are superior to the memes he put upon Jack.
In a way, both outcomes are victory, since even if Jack won, it would prove to Solidus that he surpassed the Patriots, if even in one way. A being of his design, his "child" would live on as living proof that he created a being better than himself.
I'd agree that he wanted to remove Jack's hesitation for a more fair fight. He did this not just to make Jack more happy to kill him, but also largely to test his creation against himself, to put his one original work to the test. And the joy of battle was its own reward, just as it is for all the Snakes, even if Solid denies it for his own good.
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Thank you all for reading my post, I'd recommend checking out the post it was originally an edit to as well, but you may have already done that. Getting my opinion out there and understood, and maybe changing someone's view is all I ever wanted, thanks again.
The game will be released three years to the date of Ground Zeroes' reveal!
Crazy, I remember the news still,
and what I imagined the video at the MGS anniverary event looked like when described by IGN, before footage from the event in PAX came out. I checked it out recently, and even though in some small ways it looks better than Ground Zeroes does now, I know that the game doesn't need graphics to standout, and it'll be fantastic looking and playing in a month.
If anyone was wondering about my opinions on the original graphics, I'd say that the MGSB absolutely has been upgraded graphically over time, just that some small things about the original GZ demo looked better to me. Notably, the first footage of TPP, back at the VGA's doesn't look nearly as good as the equivalent footage from nowadays looks.
Just some small things like a more slick and wet appearance to roads and other surfaces, subtle rain running down rocks, more naturalistic yellow lights and greater contrast between the shadow and light they cast, reflections on roads and wet rock, and rain drops on the ground just before BB gets up in the cutscene are the main things I notice are better. I don't know why that last part is even a thing, since rain drops are shown in gameplay all the time in GZ, it must have been a different implementation that was scrapped and never replaced in the cut scene.
I also wish GZ had less invisible walls, I remember the tech demonstration at GDC had Snake is some places he couldn't reach in the main game. I liked the layout of the early section a little bit better too but w/e.
What's cool is that pretty much all of this is solved in TPP, and what we've seen even matches the original image my imagination conjured when the reveal was described. Can't believe the early sites reported that Chico was Liquid, rofl.
i know this game is going to be amazing talking 9s/10s accross the board, tons of accolades etc.
but their is a slight, slither part of me 0.0000000001 percent of me that says "what if MGS V was next gen only"
how much will the game be limited being cross gen
The game looks pretty amazing graphically, and its 60fps. I can't see much room for the game to improve on that front except for better draw distances, but we're not really sure how much that's improved since GZ. And on PC it'll be glorious.
In terms of scope, nothing this generation has proven it couldn't be done in some way or another on last gen consoles, at least in my opinion. This game is gonna be huge, and there have been tons of huge games on the previous consoles. Don't be too worries about it not being "next gen enough". It's gameplay is a huge evolution of the Metal Gear formula, and its finest and final revision helmed by Hideo Kojima. It'll be a damn fine game, and it has proven it is the next generation of Metal Gear, and that is more than enough.
No "A Hideo Kojima Game", its useless.
I'm joking, oh my god! Haha, its actually awesome, and now I want a jewel case to put MGSV into. I still need to track down who will sell me the steel book for MGSV's European Day One Edition. Any takers, I'd pay $25? Haha.
You guys know what makes me so excited is the Game Informer interview with Hideo Kojima.
Full interview, for anyone curious.
Yup, exciting stuff. I also thought it was interesting to hear that Kojima had kids. Reminds me of the interview or something when Kojima talked about how he told his wife how impressed he was and happy that people loved MGS2 at E3, and she was all "that's nice honey". Kojima am cry.
Darn, I wanted to make this a quick reply, but I probably spent an hour on it while talking to my brother and stuff. Now its 1:00 PM... Another day to cross off the list awaits.
Edit:
does kojima have full say in what the storyline is going to be...i noticed their are a few co-writers for TPP..
can they override Kojima when it comes to a scene? can they say
"no we want Big Boss to do this" or does kojima have full say on everything?
I'm sure he is very open to suggestions, its why he hired the writers in the first place. But he's the director, so he chooses what's what. Only executive meddling can interfere. *fear of executive meddling intensifies*
It's not very likely to have been able to really change anything in V though, unless Konami was willing to get rid of stuff they already payed for (eg. not likely).
Edit 2:
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I just finished this monstrosity.
Literally spray painted everything and ghetto stenciled the MSF patch.
Ordered the see through plate from cybergadget.
Ready for this shit brotherrrrrrss (`Д´)7
Wow, that's impressive. I wish my PS4 wasn't just a dusty box I was afraid of dusting because of the possibility of micro scratches. Such flimsy plastic, why Sony? One reason why even if I had the money for the MGSV console I wouldn't ever play anything on it
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Seriously though, I wish they would hurry up with some decent matte hard drive plates. And $25,for what they have
are selling is too much.
I honestly couldn't tell that that was not a real picture or a scene from a movie at first glance. Wow, blown away.