Comments on: Metal Gear Solid 5 On PC. Woo?

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:49:22 +0000

this is not made by kojima, it will be made by americans, which will mean that it will suck. this isnt MGS5. and MGS5 is yet to come but i’m sure it will be PS3 exclusive and Snake will eventually be recloned again

By: Arash

Arash — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:52:39 +0000

Personally, I’ve never understood the level of hate directed at Raiden. Then again, I’ve probably seen more than my share of anime and I loathed Epic’s Beefy Dude Stereotypes ™.
I’d have happily paid for more MGS4 – playable levels or even more of the good old fashioned VR challenges; it was a lovely game with sadly not enough… ahem… game in there.

By: Abs

Abs — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:50:40 +0000

The 60s cold war setting for a Metal Gear game was perfect.
Although MGS4 is pretty epic, MGS3 remains my fav.
A PC port would be smashing (although very late). With the MP as well please!

By: Andre

Andre — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:40:58 +0000

They should port over the best one: MGS3.

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:55:30 +0000

@Bret

Thing is, no one is going to mistake Elite Bear Agents for american.

By: Funky Badger

Funky Badger — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:02:47 +0000

MGS3 was great – any game where you can win a boss fight by waiting for your enemy to die of old age gets a double thumbs up from me.

By: Bret

Bret — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:37:05 +0000

No, it should be more stereotypically British. Monocles, top hats, stiff upper lip, etc.

And cross cultural adaptations have worked fine. American Office: perfectly decent show. Stanford and Son: Also fine.

And if you hate Elite Beat Agents, well, you can just go into a hole and die.

By: Dominic White

Dominic White — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:09:28 +0000

Yeah, to anyone complaining about Japanese games being too Japanese, I’d just like to remind you of this:

http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/features/history/red-dwarf-usa/

That is what happens when you try to ‘reimagine’ something for a new audience. And let’s not even get into Japanese horror movies which Hollywood thought would be improved through the addition of Sarah Michelle Gellar.

It’s one thing to say that you don’t enjoy stuff, but another to demand that they recreate it to fit your personal preferences.

Maybe to reach out to a more Global (see ‘American’) audience, RPS should be less British?

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:51:12 +0000

“I’m tired of having to adjust the shape of my mind to fully appreciate the Japanese way of thinking, when if they’re selling products over here it should be them adjusting to ours.”

Don’t even get me started how much it doesn’t work that way. If you don’t like the japanese way of thinking *don’t but their games.*

Your path is a dangerous path, where Russian art is de-bleaked for the west, Britcoms are changed for an american audience, ect. ect.
The japanese have a culture different from your own, how you feel about that is *your* problem, not theirs.

By: Wooly

Wooly — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:21:44 +0000

“The bigger question is, why isn’t the audience clapping at all? (Assuming they weren’t under instructions not to.) Shock?”

I believe that would be horror.

By: Wisq

Wisq — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:44:59 +0000

To everyone pointing out there’s only one person clapping (I count three)… I strongly suspect that was just the presenter guy clapping at a guest appearance, like they tend to do.

The bigger question is, why isn’t the audience clapping at all? (Assuming they weren’t under instructions not to.) Shock?

Frankly, I thought MGS2 was decent, MGS3 was quite good, and I probably won’t ever play MGS4 unless it comes to PC or Wii. The PS2 was great, but I just don’t have any interest in today’s consoles.

By: Ergates

Ergates — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:20:00 +0000

@Bhazor “But he’s seriously trying to make Raiden into a character that isn’t hateful.”
Heres a suggestion then. Get someone else to write the plot. And all the dialogue.

MGS3 is clearly the best of the series. But largely because you can kill and eat pretty much everything you encounter. Then have conversations about what it tastes like.

Someone really should explain to Kojima the difference between “complex” and “incoherent”.