Metal Gear Solid 5's Torture Scene is Non-Playable

[Berny Marcus]

I remember that torture scene in the Splinter cell Blacklist gameplay demo, man it wasn't pretty. And I fucking remember Peace Walker, uhg! Fuck you Dr. Strangelove.

I'm glad it's only a cutscene, not every game should have a torture scene I agree, but it's Kojima's creation and who are we to tell him what he cannot put in there?

 

[BoredRolePlayer]

I remember that torture scene in the Splinter cell Blacklist gameplay demo, man it wasn't pretty. And I fucking remember Peace Walker, uhg! Fuck you Dr. Strangelove.

I'm glad it's only a cutscene, not every game should have a torture scene I agree, but it's Kojima's creation and who are we to tell him what he cannot put in there?

I agree fuck you Dr. Strangelove. I just can't do that mission every again...at all man

 

[Baresark]

Meh, seems stupid. It's the hot button issue for the next month. Then can we go back to calling every game with an attractive girl misogynistic? Those are much more interesting debates. No normal person considers torture a good thing, and this isn't going to teach a generation of gamers that it's Ok to torture someone. I'm still a fan of the idea that if you don't like something, and it's not actually hurting anyone, you should just move the fuck along and pay it no mind. I do it all the time, it's actually pretty liberating.

 

[Epicspoon]

Nobody seems to remember the playable torture scene in CoD Black Ops. I for one ENJOYED putting glass in that guys mouth and punching him in the jaw.

 

[James Joseph Emerald]

I agree fuck you Dr. Strangelove. I just can't do that mission every again...at all man

Strange, I played through Peace Walker twice and I couldn't even recall that scene until I looked it up.

Goes to show how mundane it's become. That's the problem with having 'traditions': at first it's like "whoa, a cyborg ninja! Where did that come from?!" and "Oh geez, I'm being tortured!" but by the sixth time it would be more of a surprise if there wasn't a part where you get tortured.

 

[BoredRolePlayer]

I agree fuck you Dr. Strangelove. I just can't do that mission every again...at all man

Strange, I played through Peace Walker twice and I couldn't even recall that scene until I looked it up.

Goes to show how mundane it's become. That's the problem with having 'traditions': at first it's like "whoa, a cyborg ninja! Where did that come from?!" and "Oh geez, I'm being tortured!" but by the sixth time it would be more of a surprise if there wasn't a part where you get tortured.

I'm glad I played it on my PS3 instead of my PSP cause that scene would have made me chucked out my psp out the window.

 

[Zeren]

Considering that over 60% of any MGS game is cutscenes, this doesn't surprise me.

 

[Ariseishirou]

Pretttttty sure that if Spec Ops: The Line managed to make everything the player does/goes through in the game playable, we could have survived a playable torture scene.

 

[rbstewart7263]

They are only stating this because of the GTAV controversy and they are afraid that someone might not buy the game if they have anything remotely similar. Truth is they should of just had a compromise like MW2 did and make it optional.

You uh... you don't think that scene might have already been finished by this point? In fact, probably well before GTAV released? (I didn't even know it had a torture scene.)

I mean... if it's only a cutscene, chances are it's been done for a while now.

Kojima probably wants to convey this torture differently than he has in past games. Previously, the player character would writhe around and grunt as you mashed the Action Button?, which in my opinion mitigates the impact that actual torture carries.

it is a woman being tortured an not a man so the "torture porn" would have been thrown around and probably still will be thrown around.

 

[Strazdas]

What is the obsession with torture scenes in cut scenes nowadays. it seems we had this controversy like 5 times this year. Is gaming catching up with our culture finally and are able to shake off taboos? Now what we need is to stop the invincible children and no sex scenes (ME already working towards that i hear) taboos.

it is a woman being tortured so the "torture porn"

You just sold me the game.
I kid of course, but there will be people like this. After all, these torture porn horror movies are popular (and i like them).