mspencer82 said:
TerraMGP said:
And the lightsaber violates many basic principals of magnetism and partical physics. You don't seem to understand that it CANNOT work. The light saber as defined from star wars ins IMPOSSIBLE because it violates the laws of physics just as much as metal gear violates the laws of genetics. That is my whole point. Even if you could, somehow, construct a lightsaber it would work nothing like the movies and rip apart anything around it from the magnetic field needed to hold the blade in place. It is fiction, it does not work with real physics. See?
Star War science may have been unbelievably stupid, but we can always say that it makes sense in a weird way because it's a galaxy far away. The Star Wars universe operates differently than ours, they could have talking gerbils who command the forces of nature and Star Wars fans would consider it canon.
But you see, Metal Gear takes place on Earth in the 20th and 21st century. Among other things it gets incorrect, it totally ignores the fundamental rules of genetics. When your story takes place on Earth in present day you can't futz that much with scientific fact and have it be considered good writing.
(please note that i have not read your previous arguments, so i gathered what i could. Please correct me if i'm wrong)
Wow, that is extremely retarted IMHO. So the MGS series is automatically irrelivant and the plot is poorly written because it takes place on Earth in an alternate 20th and 21st century and has impossible technologies and genetics because it is in an ALTERNATE Earth. But Star Wars is completely relevant and can be believed because it doesn't take place in our galaxy, and even though the physics are completely impossible (faster than light travel, light sabers, ray guns) it is apparantly better story writing than MGS (not saying SW has bad writing, they are both equal)? Personally, i had no idea what the hell was going on in the SW episodes i watched in the order of release.
Hate to break it to ya, but Video Games do this sort of alternate reality all the time. Infact, any game that is set in the future is automatically an Alternate REality game because we don't know if that certain thing could ever happen. You see this kind of thing in WWII games where the situation is "What if Germany invaded the US?" and other stuff.
just wanted to squeez that in.
Now on the topic of the review, and after reading some comments, it was a spot on review. However, the gameplay changes DRAMATICALLY when you play it on harder difficulties. Drebin Points are multiplied by decimals giving you less DP, you can only carry a significantly less amount of rations and items, you get hurt more, enemies search for you even harder, one suspicious movement and they'll be all over your ass.
I personally don't know why people think the story is so confusing. Granted, i've never played a MGS game before #4 but even then i still read a small plot synopsis and read some character backgrounds and i loved the story.
And, comeon, PMC is a freakin' Private Military Corporation! It's used in real life, not like the La Li Le Lo Lu (or whatever) If you put on subtitles they tell you what some of hte Acronyms are.
I really hope Yahtzee does a mailbag showdown like before, it would really be awesome.
But other than those points, i really liked the review. I may not agree with what Yahtzee says, but i still enjoy them every Wednsay.
