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West: Metal Gear 5's Quiet "looks like a naked little girl that needs to put her clothes on"

Metal Gear series' Meryl says that inclusion of sparsely-clothed mute female character "doesn't make sense" in Metal Gear universe, questions continuity with previous chapters.

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TongkatAli3871d ago

She is very erotic. I have no idea what she is talking about. You don't get it ? Maybe you should wait till the game comes out before you make your judgement's ? I know it sounds crazy.

Hufandpuf3871d ago

In that case no one should say anything about the game, negative or positive then.

Joe9133871d ago

Other than it looks bad ass. Really though I think what he is saying is Kojima and the art director said there is a good reason we just need to wait and see before we judge it.

cleft53870d ago

You know full well what Tong means by that statement. People are jumping up and down over this Quiet character, calling it sexist, etc. Yet we know nothing about the vision that Kojima has or if he even has one. But people are jumping to some very harsh conclusion without any context at all.

It's one thing to have a reasonable discussion about the character, it's another thing altogether to go around saying Kojima is sexist, the game is sexist, or that this is typical of Japanese developers. The complaints of this game have been down right prejudice and racist against the Japanese. So it's not wrong for Tong to say that people should wait for the game to release before they start behaving in such an irrational manner.

jc485733871d ago (Edited 3871d ago )

you really can't blame them with the exception of hypocrites like the Halo 4 guy who commented on the design. I think Kojima coming out to explain will simply make things even confusing. We will see what KP has to show at TGS or more down the road.

InTheLab3870d ago

Yet you've made up your mind that she's fine despite not playing the game?

TongkatAli3870d ago

I just said she was erotic when she said she wasn't. I didn't say she was "fine".

HammadTheBeast3870d ago

K...

How about we focus on getting MTV, TMZ, and the rest banned first before bitching about slight nudity in a game.

FFS. This world.

CrossingEden3868d ago

Um, chances are that she is able to see WAY more of the game then we can. -_-

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otakukidd3871d ago

Why do people forget sniper wolf. Its the same thing.

jc485733871d ago

Sniper Wolf was really a hottie and wasn't Meryl in the same game?

Number-Nine3871d ago (Edited 3871d ago )

one is completely stripped down to her bikini for the sole purpose of making her marketable, and the other one is dressed like she's dressed for battle with her shirt unzipped showing cleavage.

as ive said in other articles. kojima always made the female characters dressed a little edgy but it was done in a strong way. quiet's design is just was too over the top. her trashy design makes it hard to look at her seriously.

jc485733871d ago

over the top? Man, MGS is plenty over the top for me and Quiet might be only a small part of it.

KonsoruMasuta3871d ago

You have no knowledge of the real reason Kojima dressed Quiet the way he did so stop acting like it.

Lannister3871d ago

Exactly, Sniper Wolf is actually dressed more sexy and alluring because her outfit keeps you guessing and teases you with it's cleavage.

Quiet just looks silly IMO. I have a Yoji Shinkawa drawing of Sniper Wolf in full gear and it just screams sex. Waaayy more than any Quiet image I've seen to date.

camel_toad3870d ago

Women dress in so many different ways including provocatively so who's to say Quiet isn't that kind of woman? This whole thing is just ridiculous.

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Rai3871d ago (Edited 3871d ago )

really...I thought Sniper wolf actually wore clothes and her design looked closer to The Boss's white suit and Eva's brown one.

Tundra3871d ago

Sniper Wolf is far from "the same thing". While I have nothing against the placement of sexual themes for women in games, this "Quiet" seems out of place for the MGS series imo. Sniper Wolf is erotic and has a great design, Quiet looks like a $2 hooker.

problemchild843870d ago

What kind of world do we live in that $2 hookers no longer have a place?

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Hicken3871d ago

Does she know Quiet's character? No? Then she can shut the hell up with all the rest.

FunAndGun3871d ago

Yeah, I'm sure if it was an almost naked dude in a jock you would feel the same way.

KonsoruMasuta3871d ago

No, he wouldn't. Nobody complained when Raiden was naked with nothing to cover his junk but his hands.

Or did people forget that?

Hicken3870d ago

I didn't complain about Voldo's codpiece all up in my face. I don't complain about Kratos, or Drake's dashing good looks and charm.

Oversexualized, hypersexualized dudes never meant anything to me in games. It was just a choice of character design. It MIGHT be relevant to the story, or it MIGHT just be cuz the creator's a freak.

But when it comes to Metal Gear, such things USUALLY have a story-centric reason. So why all this bitching and moaning? I mean, I KNOW why- cuz controversy is "good" news- but how are people.. how are GAMERS dumb enough to fall for this crap?

1OddWorld3870d ago

I wouldn't care either way. Its not up to anyone to decide how he creates his vision.

Haules3871d ago

Its just a freakin game! MGS allways had half naked girls. Thats nothing new....

So movies and games with gay/lez people is not a prob, but a half naked girl is?

jc485733871d ago

Conan was right about the naked girls.

LewisDenby3870d ago

Are you suggesting that games and movies featuring homosexual people *should* be a problem? :/

TheOneWhoIsTornApart3871d ago

I really loved the interview with West on Up At Noon and I think she is a great person and really down to earth but her opinion on Quiets revealing clothing is completely misguided. There is a logical explaination for her being dressed the way she is and I keep have to explain to people that it's because she gets tortured. Eva gets electrocuted by Volgin in MGS3 and her pantyhose burst into rips because of it and Quiet also gets electrocuted in the E3 trailer for MGSV and I guarantee she will not be dressed like that the entire game and I believe in the trailer is a the point where she escapes from whatever facility she was being held at. People need to stop overreacting over this.

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The Metal Gear series has sold 60.2 million copies

The Metal Gear series has sold 60.2 million copies, as of September 2023.

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Nyxus173d ago

Now we'll have to see how much the Master Collection will add to those numbers.

Number1TailzFan172d ago

Too bad it was a lazy release. They could've updated the visuals and everything. Missed opportunity.

Stanjara172d ago

...and yet, they couldn't give more respect and effort into the collection.
What a terrible company.

Minute Man 721172d ago (Edited 172d ago )

Are they counting every game?

Edit: they did

Nyxus172d ago

Yes, these are total lifetime sales of the entire series.

ApocalypseShadow172d ago

.... mostly with the help of PlayStation.

Michiel1989172d ago

Get that Sony tramp stamp while you're at it. No one asked

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CrimsonWing69188d ago

Yea I don’t get why they’re allowing old reviews to be posted here. Someone did one on Soul Reaver and I got so excited thinking there was some stealth release of an HD Remaster, but no… it’s just someone who had a slow day posted an old review…

Cacabunga188d ago

I liked the game but for me it felt somehow like a military simulator rather than a proper MGS.. i got bored of that

micdagoat19188d ago

I do wish they would remaster all the soul reavers

micdagoat19188d ago

it was done this morning though

goldwyncq188d ago

The author was in a coma for 9 years and didn't get to play the game when it released.

Chocoburger188d ago

This review arrived just in time for launch. Perfect timing!

RupeeHoarder188d ago

Amazing how bad this game looks already. We keep acting like this gen doesn't feel like an update but I think we're starting to see it.

YourMommySpoils188d ago

Looks better than Starfield, Cyberpunk and most recent games out. Still fine.

RupeeHoarder188d ago

It most certainly does not lol.

andy85188d ago

Have you player Cyberpunk since the first day? It's absolutely stunning now

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1nsomniac188d ago

One of the worst games ever made. Absolute overhyped trash!

Snowb420188d ago

The gameplay was great. It was the tacked on open world and repetitive missions that messed the game up.

Shane Kim188d ago

The game started really strong in that hospital, but after a couple of hours I wondered if it was even an mgs game I was playing.

KyRo188d ago

The hospital section was the only bit that felt like a MGS game.

MGS4 was the ending for me. I totally ignore the fact 5 exists. It didn't need to exist tbh

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