My reason for the PS3 is finally here

[bobcat]

http://au.ps3.ign.com/articles/877/877611p1.html

M G S 4

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Top score, kinda makes me wonder how this will rate with GTAIV. I wanna see why GTAIV got 10, and this got 9.9. I will find out once I finish both games :)

[Jonbo298]

Replayability is the reason GTA probably got that tiny extra nod. So much crap in a sandbox style game to do. If I had the money, I'd definitely get a PS3 but I have nothing. Plus, friend I'm moving in with in a month has a PS3 and will have MGS4 so I'll just 'use' his

[Renwood]

The two 90-minute cutscenes don't sound as bad now that I know I can pause them and that they are the exception and not the rule. I actually enjoyed the 45-minute codec call at the end of MGS2. Thought it explored some interesting ideas and wrapped together the story well. I don't know how people could have questions about the story, but then I watched my friend play it, and he skipped through 3/4 of the call because he got bored.

Then, he complained that the story was stupid and they didn't answer anything.

[Aladuf]

Wow, really? Two 90 minute cutscenes? That seems pretty fucking ridiculous. Why would you ever want to watch a cutscene that long, I mean sure you can pause it but good god. I want to play my game, not be playing and then get slapped with a god damn 90 minute movie in between. Whatever, I suppose they must be good since so many people are getting a boner over this game and already have one for the franchise.

Oh and at bobcat: The reason this is getting a 9.9 instead of a 10 is probably because IGN doesn't want to give another 10 so soon. 9.9 is a completely retarded score anyways.

[Renwood]

Metal Gear Solid isn't a series to be played strictly for the game. You can, and the gameplay is fun, but that's one piece.

Metal Gear Solid 2 was billed as an interactive movie. PR people try to hide that fact some times, and Kojima toned it down for MGS3 a bit (not much, but he made things simpler and easier to skip), but MGS2 had plenty of 10-15 minute breaks, the 45-minute closing, etc., etc. And if you like it, that isn't a problem. Like good movies, if you're enjoying yourself, it doesn't feel like 45 minutes or 90 minutes, or whatever. XenoSaga had hour long cutscenes left and right, and I gave up on the game because the story didn't interest me and it felt like an hour long cutscene.'

Nothing is good for everyone. For people who like it, it works. For people who don't, they usually just don't play it, and that's ace. The people who play it just to bitch about it confuse me. The people who bitch about it without playing it annoy me.

I'm glad they've gotten away from using the codec as the setting for the dialogue; the actual discussion was still interesting, but it was visually bland to see two talking heads and nothing else. With the amount of shit that needs to be explained/wrapped up, I'm surprised only two of these are 90 minutes. It's like explaining every Lost mystery at once in a three hour finale.

[Renwood]

Or, if you prefer;

Don't say another god damn word. Up until now, I've been polite. If you say anything else - word one - I will kill myself. And when my tainted spirit finds its destination, I will topple the master of that dark place. From my black throne, I will lash together a machine of bone and blood, and fueled by my hatred for you this fear engine will bore a hole between this world and that one.

When it begins, you will hear the sound of children screaming - as though from a great distance. A smoking orb of nothing will grow above your bed, and from it will emerge a thousand starving crows. As I slip through the widening maw in my new form, you will catch only a glimpse of my radiance before you are incinerated. Then as tears of bubbling pitch stream down my face, my dark work will begin. I will open one of my six mouths, and I will sing the song that ends the Earth.

[bobcat]

Oh and at bobcat: The reason this is getting a 9.9 instead of a 10 is probably because IGN doesn't want to give another 10 so soon. 9.9 is a completely retarded score anyways.

I agree 100%

[Perfect Stu]

I've loved watching the MGS cutscenes. I won't pick up and play this game for 15 minutes at a time anyways...I want to be sucked into the MGS world again.

[Renwood]

The MGS world doesn't want you. Burn in Hell.

[birdman]

I just hope I have enough sandwiches for the installation.

[Fox 6]

The MGS world doesn't want you. Burn in Hell.

Comments like this make you a valuable member of GT my good sir.

[flunkie44]

A 9.9 is as good as a score as MGS4 was going to get. There's no way that IGN would ever allow two games to get back-to-back tens. It's a shame that the 10 had to be wasted on GTA IV. :(

[GameMaster]

The MGS world doesn't want you. Burn in Hell.

I'm not laughing at Perfect Stu. I just thought that was funny. If you had been here during the +rep days, I would've made you a King.

[Renwood]

I just hope I have enough sandwiches for the installation.
I'm not saying you can't think for yourself but

[Dyne]

Goddamnit I want We Love Golf and this, right now. :(

[birdman]

I'm not saying you can't think for yourself but

The installation doesn't seriously bother me that much. I'm gonna get MGS4 and enjoy it's interactive movie feel like I always have with the Metal Gear games.

[Angrist]

I think they should turn it around. I don't want to see movies in my games, they should make a movie of how I play games!

[Renwood]

The installation doesn't seriously bother me that much. I'm gonna get MGS4 and enjoy it's interactive movie feel like I always have with the Metal Gear games.
sandwiches gaf sandwiches gaf sandwiches gaf

sandwiches gt?

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lolz: :lolz: :lolz: :lolz:

[GameMaster]

So Konami doesn't want reviewers to mention the 90 minute cutscenes, the grotesque install size, and other items if they want to review MGSIV?

EGM said, "Screw that! We got journalistic integrity over here. Keep your damn MSGIV." Well done EGM.

http://kotaku.com/5012146/egm-refuse-to-review-mgs4-because-konami-imposed-limitations

Hell yeah!

[bobcat]

http://kotaku.com/5012146/egm-refuse-to-review-mgs4-because-konami-imposed-limitations

Hell yeah!

sounds kinda corrupt to me, good on EGM! This makes me lose a lot of respect for IGN.....and anybody else who doesn't mention factors that will heavily influence the game and that should be mentioned in a review!

[Dylflon]

I want

[Renwood]

I do not and have not respected IGN in a long, long time.

But I don't respect EGM either. Enthusiast press is enthusiast press.

[magus113]

My boss at work thinks that Splinter Cell is what Metal Gear Solid should have been.

I personally don't see how that works since I spent a lot of my time in Splinter Cell restarting because one person saw me and all I had was a clip in a shitty handgun to waste on one person that was following me.

MGS has always been (to me) what it's advertised as. Tactical Espionage Action.

The action doesn't necessarily have to come from playing the game itself alone, because the action in most of the cutscenes have been superb since day 1 with Metal Gear Solid, and reinforced with the newer cutscenes in MGS:Twin Snakes.

The espionage element is good, and frustrating, as it should be, but not overbearing.

[Angrist]

The only espionage gameplay I could stomach was in Golden Eye. Oh and I guess in Crysis.

[magus113]

The only espionage gameplay I could stomach was in Golden Eye. Oh and I guess in Crysis.

Technically those really aren't espionage. I can understand why you consider them as such though. I learned that all FPS games aren't run and gun when I played F.E.A.R.

I can safely say after dedicating about 7 hours into it already that this game is definitely a step far away from your standard MGS tactical espionage.

You'd have to play it to understand. Ask BLue and Raged.

[TheGame]

Well I'm personally glad Konami made all those rules. I went over a friend's house and he was a few hours into the game, and I had to leave immediately. I don't even want to say what I saw in 5 minutes of being there cause its such a huge spoiler in itself. I was thinking "how the hell did such a HUGE AWESOME fact get kept out of every review I had seen?"

I'm actually more a fan of MGS's story than I am of the gameplay. (Considering I absolutly love the gameplay, that's saying a lot.) So long CS are fine by me. And I love being able to read reviews being left in the dark about the game. I spproached MGS2 without reading any reviews, MGS3 with reading minimal ones. MGS1 without any.. and I think not knowing made them so much better.