Ground Zeroes made Chico and Paz a lot more likable, gameplay is great, and it really shows off what the Fox Engine is capable of, but I can't help feel that there were some features purposely omitted which really sucks considering the price of the game.
Personally I love Kiefer as Big Boss, he has that gravely, strong military authoritative voice I think Big Boss needs, but he also sounds normal enough to nail the dramatic scenes.Thankfully I never got into 24, so I don't hear Jack Bauer when he's talking, but if I did watch that show I would probably not like his voice as much either. It would be like James Gandolfini voicing Big Boss, I love him, but I would only hear Tony Soprano every time he would speak.
Im also glad the series seems to be stepping away from the animeish tone the previous games had to a more mature tone, feels like the series is aging with me.
I agree with everything you said
Kiefer definitely kills it as BB, I love his voice.
Yes!
It does feel that way, but to be fair the anime-ish stuff was minimal in all the games, even TPP seems to have a normal amount, it's just PW the one that's so discrepant in that regard compared to the rest of the games.
I think there was always animeish stuff, the behaviour of the charactes, the things they say etc. MGS1 was subtle but the rest of the games had heavy anime stuff (especially in MGS2 and 3) small details in the artistic design are very japanese like for example the effect the chaff grenades have looks just like petals falling, you won't see something like that in a western game.
I always liked anime, now that I think about it I don't find many big differences between the animes I've seen and Metal Gear, someone could make a great anime with this series:
If that was a real anime I would totally watch it ^^^
At first, people were complaining that GZ was too dark, and let's be honest, it's really no darker than previous MGS games, the difference is that previous MGS games had darker undertones and things around the story & characters, while in GZ they are actually tones, not undertones, but it's really not touching on any new topics in that regard.
In TPP he said he added the humor because the game is too big, and the same serious tone all along would make the experience boring, which was a smart move, there's no reason why TPP can't swing from one side of the tone spectrum to the other, in fact, without the lightening of the tone and the constant seriousness the impactful moments would lose all traction.
It's not like some nonsense is gonna happen in a serious situation, c'mon, in MGS1 when you're waiting for your next
torture session, there's a
rotting corpse right next to you, how do you escape? With fake ketchup blood of course
The BIG difference is that most of that **** is on tapes. Which makes sense if Kojima wanted to save time, people like to say thats poor story telling and its not that they are wrong... people prefer to see the story unfold
"show, don't tell"
GZ tells most of its story (but I believe that was just to save time and focus on TPP) the thing is, a growing trend among those with a negative view of the plot is criticizing the method of narrative in Ground Zeroes on the basis of its content. This is then used to argue that the player is "rewarded" with the actions depicted within the unlocked narrative
I guess anyone who gets far enough in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty will be "rewarded" with an attack on New York City eerily similar to the attack on the World Trade Center. Of course, these are not rewards but rather the development of plot.
You could say Chico's Tape 4 is a reward as it must be unlocked. True, it must be unlocked, much like how all video game storytelling is "unlocked" by completing the game through interaction, or the post-credits scene of several films are, in a way, "unlocked" after watching through the credits.
To call the specific depiction of sexual assault a "reward" though completely ignores how non-linear video games provide their narrative. The tapes simply expand on the narrative in a non-linear form that is only possible in video games
BTW have you guys seen what people is doing with GZ?
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