Just finished playing through...wow
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 3:17 am
Let me start off by saying thankyou for the patch, thanks to you guys I have finally managed to play a game I've been waiting over a decade for.
The game is amazing, the story was deep and compeling and reminded me of when I first sat down to play snatcher on the sega-cd as a child in the early nineties.
It really was a nostalgic timewarp of a game back to the era when games revolved around story rather than fancy graphics, as amazing technologically as some games are now, they always seem to neglect the story which to me has always been the key part of games, the reason to keep playing.
Much has been said around the internet and on reviews (eurogamer for example) that the game is sullied somewhat by the fact that if you wish you can sexually harrass and grope up the female charactors of the game, I would like to defend Kojima a bit here.
Let's not forget that this game was made in early nineties Japan which despite it's technological boom was a country still very much emerging from the dark ages, at the time you could buy school girls underwear from vending machinesm, as f*cked up as that sounds, if the game was made today it would be unlikely that you could grope women.
So let's not judge this by our modern day western sensibilities, let's not also forget that in titles like GTA4 you can murder people in cold blood if you choose.
I've never really got into metal gear solid, the first one was ok, and had a decent story but they rapidly went downhill from there, I wish Kojima would get back to making games like this, the only thing simaler around these days is the pheonix wright series on the DS but in no way comparable to snatcher and policenauts.
The game is amazing, the story was deep and compeling and reminded me of when I first sat down to play snatcher on the sega-cd as a child in the early nineties.
It really was a nostalgic timewarp of a game back to the era when games revolved around story rather than fancy graphics, as amazing technologically as some games are now, they always seem to neglect the story which to me has always been the key part of games, the reason to keep playing.
Much has been said around the internet and on reviews (eurogamer for example) that the game is sullied somewhat by the fact that if you wish you can sexually harrass and grope up the female charactors of the game, I would like to defend Kojima a bit here.
Let's not forget that this game was made in early nineties Japan which despite it's technological boom was a country still very much emerging from the dark ages, at the time you could buy school girls underwear from vending machinesm, as f*cked up as that sounds, if the game was made today it would be unlikely that you could grope women.
So let's not judge this by our modern day western sensibilities, let's not also forget that in titles like GTA4 you can murder people in cold blood if you choose.
I've never really got into metal gear solid, the first one was ok, and had a decent story but they rapidly went downhill from there, I wish Kojima would get back to making games like this, the only thing simaler around these days is the pheonix wright series on the DS but in no way comparable to snatcher and policenauts.