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Metal Gear Solid 4 |OT| No Place to Hide, No Time for a Legend to FoxDie
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hirokazu said:I'm near the end of Act 2, I did that for the first bossbecause I read someone say here that you get a reward for defeating bosses with non-lethal weapons, and I actually did both the beast form and human form of Laughing Octopus that way. I assumed the extra face camo was the only reward. Where do I collect the statue?
I found the statues...
during their human form, i would look around the area and there were the statues. Couldn't see them during beast form.
nelsonroyale
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hl2 is hardly the high point of cinematic gaming experience...it has a good story, but its quite minimalistic....too minimalistic...the cutscenes didnt impress me all that much easier. While crysis story is nothing to write home about, it achieved the fusion better i thought...especially in that it felt far more cinematic than HL2
methos75 said:
Unbelievable how you infect every forum I try to go to *sighs*
Anyway, I'm still in Act 1, haven't had a lot of time to play this weekend. I played a bit of MGS yesterday and the startling differences since that game (I haven't played MGS3) really are welcome, to me anyway.
Attack You
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John_B said:
The clock doesn't tick during cutscenes? I was worried about missing out on flashback points while trying to do a speed run.
rollingstart
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zam said:
Yeah. The game does give you a good amount of non-lethal weapons. The pistol, the shotgun, and the sniper rifle.
rollingstart
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Absinthe said:
they should use the Body of Armor spot as the commercial: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/35134.html
biggkidd32
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Linkzg said:
Stun Grenades, too. Those things were such a lifesaver.
TheBranca18 said:
I was here first, your the infection you fungus and seriously, Sony has dropped the ball this gen and everyone knows it. They have no aggressive marketing, they refuse to go after exclusives, they are not keeping strong ties with their bigger past third Party cohorts like Square, they are not proactive in getting the word out on all the PS3 can do, really it is a miracle the PS3 is doing well at all considering how little Sony does to promote it.
Drebin Shop has 20% off on Sundays and Wednesdays so if you guys have saved up some points then it might be an idea to acquire some stuff today (though I guess you can bother with adjusting the clock later on if you're that type).
On a different note..
Act 5 spoiler
On a different note..
Act 5 spoiler
I think the Outer Haven section may have 50% off though obviously not always ideal depending on where your latest save is located.
Alright, I'm trying to tranq
and am completely lost.
Screaming Mantis
I knocked down both dolls. I absent mindedly used the Mantis doll and got her down to near zero health before noticing it depleted both her bars. Shooting her with the Sorrow doll obviously does nothing. What am I doing wrong?
Attack You
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Wollan said:
It was
50% off on Outer Haven
John_B said:
Yikes. Impressive time, then.
biggkidd32
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OatmealMu said:
Hit her with the mantis doll and shake the controller. You only need to tranq the human forms not the beast forms
Mr. Spinnington
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that's what i'm saying!Truant said:
dollartaco
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Cheech said:
If you believe that, then you're making the argument that games will replace movies as the best way to tell a story. I guess it's a matter of expectations, and that's disappointing to me. The MGS series is more an exception in gaming than an extension of common storytelling techniques.
Until a game proves otherwise, the only good stories in videogaming have been mostly passive experiences, whether through subtle suggestion in intervals like Bioshock, SotC/Ico, or Portal, or through hours of cut scenes like MGS4 or a FF game. Sometimes I'm looking for the immersion of the former, but I've never gotten a story with as many threads as the MGS series. It should be that way, because it's intentional.
AndresON777
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why the hell do i have to play mgs1 again in act 4? i mean i just got essentials a few months ago, i hate that game now...it was great back in the day, how long is that part? just untiil you beat ocelot or whatever?
biggkidd32
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What do you get for tranquilizing their beast forms?lunlunqq said:
firehawk12
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ChrisGoldstein said:
Naw, it's just
the first screen. I don't know if you can just "exit" by quiting the game using start though... I didn't try that.
AndresON777
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Costanza said:
LMAO thanks man i had just had a little bit to drink and stealth games are damn hard like that...LOL
Attack You
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ChrisGoldstein said:
Honestly, you probably could've finished that part in the time it took you to login and post this.
Also, KojiPro must really resent Twin Snakes or something to have used all the original MGS assets in the flashbacks.
Understandable why they used original MGS assets for the playable flashback in Act 4, though.
I've just finished the game, 16h 40m, Hawk rating (I've helped a lot the rebels but it seems the game gives the prize to the stealth approach).
I think it's really a spectacular game, it is really hard to turn back to the average game made of fillers, boring parts, poor design and back tracking after you have played MGS4.
The game certainly sets a new standard in terms of presentation and jaw dropping situations.
Gameplay is basically an evolution of the classic core MGS gameplay, we now have a full 3D camera, first person aiming, a new weapon system, maybe the game takes a bit longer to get into compared to MGS1&2 and it's not perfect, it could be better but it's really works great once you master all the aspects although it's good you can still make it through with a basic knowledge, probably it's the best they could really do without changing game completely. Graphics are also amazing, especially in cut scenes later in the game, they look like CG sequences and then you can zoom and move the camera, really incredible.
That being said the story is a bit confusing and not that much credible (but we knew that since MGS2 :lol ) there are a few things I haven't understood about the ending. I'll ask here:
On more thing, how do you unlock the Altair costume?
I think it's really a spectacular game, it is really hard to turn back to the average game made of fillers, boring parts, poor design and back tracking after you have played MGS4.
The game certainly sets a new standard in terms of presentation and jaw dropping situations.
Gameplay is basically an evolution of the classic core MGS gameplay, we now have a full 3D camera, first person aiming, a new weapon system, maybe the game takes a bit longer to get into compared to MGS1&2 and it's not perfect, it could be better but it's really works great once you master all the aspects although it's good you can still make it through with a basic knowledge, probably it's the best they could really do without changing game completely. Graphics are also amazing, especially in cut scenes later in the game, they look like CG sequences and then you can zoom and move the camera, really incredible.
That being said the story is a bit confusing and not that much credible (but we knew that since MGS2 :lol ) there are a few things I haven't understood about the ending. I'll ask here:
At the end of the game Big Boss says that Eva and Ocelot helped in reconstructing his body and their plan was to free him from the Patriots who put him on life support mistaking him for Solidus.
But in this case why EVA thought the body she was protecting was the one of Big Boss?She wasted her life trying to save that corpse.
And Ocelot? Did he know it? Did he use the datas extracted from the body to attack the IA system or the GW thing maded it not necessary?
About the new Foxdie, who injected it in Snake? Was it really Drebin under the orders of the Patriots to try to kill Liquid when they would met?
But in this case why EVA thought the body she was protecting was the one of Big Boss?She wasted her life trying to save that corpse.
And Ocelot? Did he know it? Did he use the datas extracted from the body to attack the IA system or the GW thing maded it not necessary?
About the new Foxdie, who injected it in Snake? Was it really Drebin under the orders of the Patriots to try to kill Liquid when they would met?
On more thing, how do you unlock the Altair costume?
biggkidd32
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lunlunqq said:
Thanks. Did not know.
I called it.
I said there would be backlash after the game's out. Someone said I didn't make sense and that backlash would only come from hardcore MGS players...
to all the haters. MGS is the way it is. If you don't like it, it is just NOT for you. MGS4 does the best within its genre...asking for it to be something to be different is just ridiculous. It is also silly to bring up Half Life and Bioshock because only certain type of stories would work in that type of storytelling. It's way too late for MGS4 to change its way of storytelling because of how complicated the story has gotten.
I said there would be backlash after the game's out. Someone said I didn't make sense and that backlash would only come from hardcore MGS players...
to all the haters. MGS is the way it is. If you don't like it, it is just NOT for you. MGS4 does the best within its genre...asking for it to be something to be different is just ridiculous. It is also silly to bring up Half Life and Bioshock because only certain type of stories would work in that type of storytelling. It's way too late for MGS4 to change its way of storytelling because of how complicated the story has gotten.
bloody pirate
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bigben85 said:
theres backlash for every AAA game thats released... its just the reality
It's not really that great a prediction -- I can't think of any games with a metacritic score higher than 90 that have not had some kind of backlash directed against them. If you factor in that it's a PS3 exclusive it's actually more tame than I expected (but this may just be the case here at GAF).bigben85 said:
I agree with your point regarding storytelling. We like it that way.
bloody pirate
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I bet trophy's will be added to this game here when the firmware is released.. a good title to start the achievement system
that could be what ryan was talking about
that could be what ryan was talking about
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