Not to long ago, I got a friend of mine to sit down and play through the entire Metal Gear Solid series. Back when I played it, I overlooked a lot of the dialogue because it was just crammed full of awesome, but watching him play it, you really catch a lot of the stupid shit some of these characters say.
Take Meryl, for example. In MGS, she claims that she's being firing a Desert Eagle since she was eight years old! I'm 20 years old, 6'0" and can lift about twice my body weight and *I* have a bit of trouble firing a .50 handgun, so how the fuck can an 8 year old handle this with ease?
"I've been firing a gun like this since I was eight years old. I'm more comfortable with it than I am with a bra."
Metal Gear Solid 2 had a lot of things that were complete bullshit, but I usually let is slide in favor of suspension of disbelief, but when they say things like Fatman built his first atomic bomb at the age of ten or that Raiden held his first assault rifle at the age of four, I start throwing shit at my screen
Metal Gear Solid 3 was a goddamn masterpiece. My only big complaints are: What the fuck does The Boss and Big Boss being irradiated have anything to do with the storyline AT ALL? Do the Japanese think radiation is fucking magic or something? Also, the game harps on about Big Boss being the co-developer of CQC. So technically, at this time, only Big Boss and The Boss should have mastered it, right? So why does Big Boss constantly get his ass handed to him by pretty much everyone in the game in hand-to-hand combat? I mean, even Ocelot, a rookie by any other name, managed to hold his own after "picking up a few new moves" overnight. WHAT THE FUCK?!
