Forbes: Everyone’s afraid of Quiet. When she arrives on Mother Base in the early parts of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, soldiers glare at her unfamiliar face, suspecting the sniper who’d tried to kill their leader shouldn’t be trusted. And she is different, nearly naked in ripped nylons, a thong, bikini top, and burdened with a giant sniper rifle. In nearly every scene she’s in, the camera roams over her torso, breasts, and buttocks before its operator remembers she has a face.
As often happens with jarringly anatomical women in videogames, Quiet’s sexualization doesn’t seem to be acknowledged by anyone in the game world. She has no expressed libido, nor do any of the game’s bumblingly inelegant men. The closest thing to erotics come in the small gestures of homoerotic kink that appear between Big Boss and his conscripts. When you approach one from behind and put him in a chokehold for interrogation, he might thank you and ask to be choked harder.
In 2013, Hideo Kojima said he designed Quiet “as an antithesis to the [way] women characters appeared in the past fighting game who are excessively exposed.” He argued Quiet fits into the game’s larger theme about “misunderstanding, prejudice, hatred, conflict caused by the difference of language, race, custom, culture, and preference.” In the best light, Kojima has consciously chosen to make Quiet a symbol of sexuality, even as she doesn’t seem to have any of her own. All as a way of showing how superficial people’s response’s to hollow signifiers can be, jumping at the sight of potentially offensive material and using it as a sawhorse for negating both the work and the person who made it.
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The Metal Gear series has sold 60.2 million copies, as of September 2023.
Too bad it was a lazy release. They could've updated the visuals and everything. Missed opportunity.
...and yet, they couldn't give more respect and effort into the collection.
What a terrible company.
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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…
I liked the game but for me it felt somehow like a military simulator rather than a proper MGS.. i got bored of that
The author was in a coma for 9 years and didn't get to play the game when it released.
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.
Looks better than Starfield, Cyberpunk and most recent games out. Still fine.
The gameplay was great. It was the tacked on open world and repetitive missions that messed the game up.
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.
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
Eurgh... So what? Why is it suddenly considered normal to attempt to censor a game designers choice on the game that THEY make?
If it really bothers you go mod it or make your own F***ing game...
What an overly self indulgent prententious article. For goodness sake - games are not meant to be psycho-analysed to the point of absurdity. Take a break, and while you're at it spark one up and chill bro. You are taking this whole thing way, way waaay, too seriously. The article read like a doctorate on 'the male psychology of the female form' - which can all be summed up very simply...
Men generally find the female body sexually appealing. Kojima knows this and designed Quiet to reflect that. End of phycho-analysis. Did I pass?
Quiet is a badass