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Jumping the Shark: Metal Gear Solid 4

July 14, 2010 in Blog comments 5

New England Gamer takes a regular look at great games with not so great moments. It may not be the Fonz on water skis, but it still makes your eyes roll.

Video games are a medium filled with lousy stories, absurd scenarios and otherwise ridiculous plot points. That said, there are also some real gems out there. The sort that rise above the stupidity of their bretheren and prove that yes, gaming can be a real, honest-to-goodness medium for storytelling. Sadly, few can do this perfectly. Even in the best games there are those moments where you just have to sit back and wonder what they were thinking.

This week: Metal Gear Solid 4
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    ShadowGuard Jul 14, 10
    I agree, but the game was still so badass that Raiden defying realistic limitations is beside the point.
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      Red 9 Jul 14, 10
      Besides, MGS canon doesn't usually involve altogether realistic circumstances. None of the games were altogether planted in reality in terms of physics and realism.
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    Bale Fire Jul 14, 10
    Raiden probably did go a bit over the top, but his scenes were so cool I'm more than willing to forgive him for it.
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    stewie32887 Jul 14, 10
    I thought his scenes were cool too, but the thing with Arsenal Gear just made me cringe. Soooo stupid...

    I love Hideo Kojima, but ocassionally I wish his people would just throw a shoe at him while he edits his scripts. Maybe knock a bit of sense into him.
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      Daweii Jul 16, 10
      Why would anyone want to knock sense into Kojima?

      It is the fact he's so out there and full on that his stories still somehow make sense. His game series is so far entwined if it was a real life entity it would be a shirt, and yet the story still makes sense. Every character is well fleshed out, they all have well done back stories, all the technology is well imagined and the fiction of the world is so far fetched it actually works.

      With sense Kojima would have never even contemplated making a saga so complex and fundamentally insane 20 years ago. Metal Gear is not the franchise a sensible writer would write, but it is a very good franchise that despite the inane amount of plot twists, loose threads and new threads old completed threads create the story still works and for that the man is a genius.

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