CallingGestalt

Actually playing through the Metal Gear series and looking at how each game was releasing consistently around 3-4 years since 1998 makes Kojima being fired that much more insane.

Each game in this mega franchise was better than the last and was branching out into handhelds and character action...... but no, MGSV was just taking a wee bit too long and had to be rushed out the door.

WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME LAIN HAD YURI?! WHAT THE FUCK?!

What if everything was fucked forever?

Even if the UN inspection was real, the smoke screen could only last so long. What's the point of having a nuke if you have to keep it hidden forever until you need to use it as a deterrent/defense? And even when MSF was attacked, the world was ready to turn it's back on it.

What if everything was fucked forever?

Does Damien BAe know he's a person? Thinking back on key moments and the endings, and to a degree I'm not sure if he considers himself one or if he's just so sucked into the chase of achieving something that he forgets his own personhood in the process.

Ollie's ending where he's still trying to get her to get him off even after he's been beaten and turned into an obedient dog along with him constantly wishing to be someone else and feeling like he's not quite one thing or another just gives the vibe.

Got to the final boss of MGR before work, so I might as well give my thoughts on the story so far. It's... fine. Probably the most on the nose of "did you know the War on Terror was fucked up and bad" one of these games has been, but really I wish there was just more in the first place.

Got to the final boss of MGR before work, so I might as well give my thoughts on the story so far. It's... fine. Probably the most on the nose of "did you know the War on Terror was fucked up and bad" one of these games has been, but really I wish there was just more in the first place.

I similarly feel that Raiden's whole thing of embracing Jack the Ripper is fine in how it's more about him using his past for good parallelling how Desperado is trying to revamp the war economy from the past. It's about *how* people relate to the past once it's over.

Reading up that this game was formally reannounced to be by Platinum in late 2011 and then released in early 2013 explains a lot.