GamesCritics writes: "After about thirty years of being a mass medium, videogames have a few auteurs-people whose individual mark can be seen on a final product in spite of being created by a multi-person team. Undoubtedly, the big daddy of them all is Shigeru Miyamoto, who practically single-handedly saved the modern gaming industry from its downward swirl in the E.T.-laden toilet of the early 1980s. Some game makers insist that their moniker be in the title of the game, most recently Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa. Others, like Castlevania's Koji Igarashi, can make one or two masterpieces, but then fall from grace, struggling to recapture their one spark of genius. Metal Gear's Hideo Kojima is definitely an auteur, one whose fame and notoriety continue to rise the longer he continues to work."
The PlayStation 3 may not have been the strongest generation for Sony, but there were still some diamonds in the rough that deserve a revisit as PS5 remasters.
Even if they could just remaster and put on PSVR2, some would still look great as VR titles and could do a whole lot to bolster the headset w these exclusives! I'd imagine the investment of reworking these titles into VR would be way less than building new games from the ground up, and they could be amazing experiences, and VR often makes flat games feel fresh again. The Resistance and Killzone games are particularly what I want to see!!
The time is perfect for a resistance fall of man game campaign coop multiplayer
Resistance was ok but Warhawk and Starhawk was better and kept me coming back for almost a decade of fun and petty revenge on the loud mouth unskilled players 🤣
Edit I loved capture the flag dropping the pot on the flag carrier was extremely satisfying as well as transforming your plane in bot form and stumping them to death 😱
An article looking at the symbolic meaning behind the cigarettes in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.
Game creator Hideo Kojima is and probably will always be best-known for his creation and stewardship of the Metal Gear series at Konami, which since his departure has been more-or-less on permanent hiatus (don't mention Survive). In his almost three decades these games evolved to the point where they predicted certain problems of the information age (MGS 2), took aim at contemporary topics like Guantanamo Bay (MGS: Ground Zeroes), and ended on a profound sense of sadness about our species' inability to break the cycles of global conflict (MGS V).
It's not clear what sparked this reflection, but Kojima's been thinking about Metal Gear Solid 4, an entry that was (and unfortunately still remains) a PlayStation 3 exclusive. In that entry the player controls an aged Solid Snake in the year 2014, caught up in a civil war being fought between Private Military Companies (PMCs).
He was always ahead with this series. MSG1 taught me about the importance of passing on our genes into future generations but in a responsible way, for they are bound to what we experienced in our lifetime. Sons of liberty taught me about global control and simulation runs to test society in a grand scale, the importance and dangers of control of information. MGS3 taught me about patriotism and how that can blind you into doing things you never would have otherwise, all for the sake of politicians who only see you as another pawn in their grand scheme of things. MSG4 taught me war is inevitable and always orchestrated because it's great for the economy. Soon simulation systems will start dictating who goes to war and why, all run through proxies. Privatization of military company are already here. We already started to see how a small group of elites dictates everything that happens. Nothing is done, nothing happens without strings being pulled.
If it wasn't for the retconning of how FOXDIE works, including clunky scenes with Naomi and Liquid, MGS4 would be a perfect game. There are so many gameplay options. It felt like us PS3 owners got something truly unique and special.
He is a gaming god and has created this generations masterpiece. MGS4 is what makes me glad to be a gamer. I know there are plenty of titles out there that make this hobby fun but to be honest, none of them have put the grin on my face that MGS4 has. Thanks Hideo.
I just finished the Game last night and even though I have had almost no prior experience with MGS this game is without a doubt one of the very best I have ever played. ............
For someone who does not know the story I occasionally got lost during some of the early cut scenes . But by the end I was a total believer ..........This Game really got under my skin reducing me to tears on more than one occasion . ( RARE )
So ..........I have no Choice I will now Play MGS 1, 2 and 3 and then repeat 4 again .
David Stone says straight out........, it is a game for the Long time Fans and not for the masses . So I look forward to this entire experience.
I agree coompletely with the reviewer when he says "what could have been a game for the masses is an inside story or joke".
Not that I would want Kojima to compromise his vision, but this game isn't going to move the massive numbers they want because the plot is so insular...Yes, some people who just genuinely love good games will dig it but that number is going to be REALLY small.
As good of a game director Kojima is, I hope he never makes a film...I doubt his ego could handle the editing process...Which this guy sorely needs...He tends to repeat points again and again for dramatic effect and it's not neccessary...He has good stories to tell and is often brilliant at telling them, but he is a bit too self-indulgent at times....Which, as fans, we expect, accept, and some even love. Most non-fans will undoubtedly be turned off.
What is so complicated about the story? I mean yeah there are too many characters and its hard to keep track of all the snake clones, but really its not that complicated. Anybody who pays attention should be able to understand everything that happens in MGS4.
I just checked the score over at Metacritics.com and noticed that they put a score of 8/10 for GameCritics MGS4 review. I'd also checked the review on GameCritics.com and similar to N4G.com, there was no score given. So I'm curious to wonder if Metacritics.com are actually putting up false and misleading review to lower the score of certain games.