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Monkeh, on 13 January 2012 - 03:10 AM, said:

Disgusting.

El Inspector, on 13 January 2012 - 04:05 AM, said:

But apparently it controls like ass, looks like ass, performs like ass, and plays like ass, because its a shitty rush port Konami probably farmed out to their janitors.

DrMatta, on 13 January 2012 - 04:08 AM, said:

Oh. This all makes sense then.

All this 3DS talk reminded me to put in an order for this.



Only cost me ~AU$53, which is less than what the game will retail here for anyway no doubt, and I get the stupid circle pad in the box. It's Zavvi though, so it wont arrive until next year. Plenty of time to clean up my backlog.

EatChildren, on 12 January 2012 - 07:28 PM, said:

Haha, why do you dislike MGS4 so much? Sure it was a bit too cutscene heavy, but I though the gameplay was great.

Because KojiPro built the best stealth system of the series and failed to capitalise on it. First two chapters were pretty great, and everything that follows tanks in the stealth department, either becoming waaay too cutscene/story heavy (Act III has hardly any gameplay, and what is there sucks arse), or devolves into pure action. On the story front it's, by far, the worst entry in the series, as Kojima goes out of his way to retcon events of the past and shoehorn in terrible melodramatic crap that's embarrassing even for this series' usual standard of writing.

It took a super cheesy yet fun universe and pissed all over it. It was like the Smash Bros. of Metal Gear, trying to appease the fans by cramming as much nostalgia and known characters into a single story as possible. Most of the game didn't make any sense, largely because the nanomachines are a deus ex machina plot device to a T; they do what the writers want whenever they want, abide to no particular rules or structure, and lack any consistency.

That and the ending in all its nonsense retconning madness was awful.

In my head Metal Gear Solid 4 never happened. It was a all a bad dream. Though I'm not surprised it sucked. KojiPro has proven to be nothing short of utterly incompetent, to the point where they need Platinum to bail them out.

/end rant

EatChildren, on 12 January 2012 - 08:03 PM, said:

Some valid points, I still liked it though, maybe because I haven't played MGS2 and 3, just the first and 4.

Also thought the revisit to Shadow Moses was pretty nice.

2 facts: MGS1 is the only good MGS game and Kojima is the most overrated guy in the industry.

Also, i got this today:

Monkeh, on 12 January 2012 - 12:32 PM, said:

Coming up on the helipad and The Best is Yet to Come playing was awesome and it became difficult to play with such a massive erection. Then I went flaccid for months after discovering the only enemies there were those retarded little robots.

I want them to remake MGS1 in the MGS4 engine. In fact, I want them to remake MGS1 in every new engine they make.

DyingTickles, on 12 January 2012 - 10:52 PM, said:

I agree on both points, those robots being the only enemies there was a big downer, but I still enjoyed just seeing Shadow Moses.

Why cant we all just agree that my opinion on everything is correct?

In other news;



YAY!

DrMatta, on 12 January 2012 - 04:50 PM, said:

Fuckin a!

EatChildren, on 13 January 2012 - 01:51 AM, said:

EatChildren, on 12 January 2012 - 07:10 PM, said:

I agree

EatChildren, on 12 January 2012 - 03:28 PM, said:

Supposedly the performance was significantly improved in the last few months.
I have a hard time imagining the controls being more awkward than they were in the original PS2 release.

Beresford TC-7520SE Caiman DAC



Edit: Probably going to buy a pair of Genelec 6010A speakers to go with that. Now my M-Audio AV40s and Sennheiser HD595 headphones will have to do.

Edit2: Also, this watch

Headphone upgrade, Sennheiser HD-600

Those to go with the new Dac/headphone amp. Will probably sell those HD595s, but the band is a bit cracked (which is one reason why I wanted new ones).

Edit: Except those are out of stock. Will have to think if I want to wait or not. Could alternatively buy a new pair of speakers.

Genelec speakers are extremely high quality, but tbh, they're usually better as professional speakers, as in, for a recording studio, as they tend to give a very exact sound quality, but are not really made to be used at home.