Recent content by RedFox742

As a die-hard MGS fan who loves seeing newbies discover the series, I love this question. I've read so many responses to it in various places, and here's the critical thing: Where you start depends entirely on your degree of tolerance for outdated game styles, and how quickly you get...

If you like Japanese and artsy, don't mind some pretentiousness, have never been exposed and want a mindblowingly awesome and complex story spanning 25 years and 7-8 games, jump into the Metal Gear Solid mythos. You can get EVERY canonical game (except Portable Ops, which is a bit of an...

Give MGS4 this much: It promised to explain everything, and it did. You may not like the explanations, but at least it didn't pull a "Lost." I think the jump from MGS4's ending to MGR is a much more painful lurch in Raiden's character than the MGS2 to MGS4, because in MGS4 it's explained in...

I loved MGS4. But I think the reason is that I played all four MGS games back-to-back without replaying any of them before tackling MGS4. It seems to me like most of the people who hate MGS4 are those who spent years and years with theories and their own ideas of characters' post-MGS2 arcs and...

Dude, if you want a tranq kill for The Fear, just chuck a bunch of poisoned/rotten food around and wait for him to eat it all like a moron. Then drill him with one traq and you win. It's a must on any speed-run for the Spider camo. The Fury, I admit, I have only tranq-ed out on Hard, never...

Yeah, Sephiroth was a secret battle in both games and probably the hardest in each (save for some of the ridiculous stuff in the Japanese Final Mix, with Roxas and whatnot.) In which game he was more difficult is a matter of opinion, but I think the first, because he was cheaper. It took...

Dude, MGS2 is universally regarded as the WORST in the series. Play MGS3: Sustenance (the edition with the over-the-shoulder camera), I considered it the greatest game I've ever played.

Shadow of the Colossus. Look, I get what they were going for. There's a certain brilliant simplicity in just having two weapons, and making the game entirely boss fights. But it's not entirely boss fights. It's entirely 2/3 riding/running around with your sword held aloft like you're posing...

Sonata Arctica. Used to be my favorite band, through their first four albums. They used to do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy81-mzwQoE Now they do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG7Oxw8HqLU Went from being speedy and balls-out fun despite dark-romantic themes to...

Scar is probably the best Disney villain of all time, even though he doesn't actually get the best Disney villain song (that'd be Frollo, of course, with Hellfire being the only highlight in an otherwise forgettable film.) Best villain overall? I have to say that's a toss-up between Heath...

As per the Vietnam War, like with many things, it largely depends on the state you live in. I grew up in Massachusetts, a liberal bastion, so the tale we're taught is that warmongering presidents, fueled by an irrational fear of the domino theory, saw an opportunity in the Gulf of Tonkin...

I just hope that if you do this, he becomes a world class gymnast. His rivalry with teammate "Parallel Bars Smith" will be legendary.

Actually, the role of the French in our own revolution is emphasized quite heavily, at least in the liberal state (Massachusetts) where I grew up (it may be different in Kansas.) But I don't recall the U.S. having much to do with the Napoleonic Wars save for distracting the Brits for a little...

I'd always wondered this exact thing, and the answer seems to be "it just isn't taught." I'd say that seems absurd given that every American schoolchild learns the same story again and again every single year from about 3rd through 8th grade, but then again, I didn't know who Horatio Nelson...

YOU CAN'T HAVE HER SHE'S MINE. Actually, I have two copies, so even if one ever went missing, I could still relive that story again and again and again and... Yeah. If I've ever fallen in love with a game, it was MGS3.