TGS: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Comments by Tom Bramwell

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Damn, they've definitely put a lot of work into the models if nothing else! Can't tell much about the texture quality, but it looks like the character textures are a very high res, but the world textures are artifactey. Could be to speed up the engine, could be the av encoding, could be that they just haven't put in the sharp textures yet, who knows? Still probably the most graphically impressive piece of in game footage i've ever seen, the production values are phenomenal.

Looks like the control system is getting an overhaul. The gameplay of mgs was always well balanced imo, so I have confidence in them. Story is still like some horrific tom clancy meets alice in wonderland fan fiction cross over though. Blech.

Just in, thread filled with vevy vevy angvy Xbots. MGS4 am hate :'(

Kryon wrote: Looks rather 'last gen'. Hopefully the graphics will be improved in the imminent 360 Substance version of the game.
Another wretched post from the site spaz.
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>>Press triangle up against that wall and you get to look like a council flat.

"We're after your help too -- you see here security footage of Solid Snake disguised as a school. He's been getting away with it for 12 years. Do you know him? Have you seen him? Please call."

"Yes, we must stop that man, he really is a shit."

Those saying bad textures are just bitter little muppets looking for hugs.

My first MGS game then. Looks ace.

">>Press triangle up against that wall and you get to look like a council flat.

"We're after your help too -- you see here security footage of Solid Snake disguised as a school. He's been getting away with it for 12 years. Do you know him? Have you seen him? Please call."

"Yes, we must stop that man, he really is a shit.""

Haha. Brass Eye FTW.

"texturelol"

+10

"over hyped shit"
"I don't get it"
"have been done, times and again"
"I'm so smart, I just play RPG's"
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I never really got into MGS, Beat Sons of liberty but that was about all I could take, apart for the fact that whoever is playing the new TGS trailers I seen is rubbish at the game, It looks good I suppose the qaulity of the videos I seen has not helped (gamevideos/gametrailers.com) but the enemy AI and the animation look excatly the same as they has always been (apart from the new moves of course), I can't help but feel slighty disappointed.

With all the 15min+ trailer making it look all kinds of awsome maybe I set my expectation for the gameplay a bit high but I reserve judgement till I see a trailer where someone knows what their doing in the game first.

Am I the only one who thinks that the trailers are slightly embarassing? I mean, MGS's characters and cutscenes have always been over the top, but now they really crossed the line IMO. And it looks like another half gameplay/half cutscenes game, and I don't like that.

BTW, stop comparing MGs to splinter cell, please. SC is a(n overrated) stealth game, MGS is a weird drama cutscenes extravanganza with tiny bits of gameplay stuck into it. As a stealth games maniac, I'm more interested in Assassin's creed right now.

Heck, it may be high-profile, but if anything, Splinter Cell's underrated; Double Agent was adequate at best, fucked at worst, and got press accordingly, but Chaos Theory seemingly slipped between the cracks, and it rocked.

Of course, if Montreal really do decide to turn Splinter Cell into Bumfights: Conviction, then MGS'll be the only game in town. Oh well, we'll see.

"Splinter cell is your typical hollywood film, big action with a plot you could write on the back of a stamp."

Ding Chavez is coming for you, bitch!

I wonder if this is going to be like the ever-so-slightly-interactive-fucking-pile-of-Jap-crap bullshit movie that the last one was?

I love the way Snake keeps a crocodile outfit and all sorts of other shit in his bum bag, and can fully turn around whilst crawling through a tiny tunnel. AGGGGHHH!! THIS GAME PISSES ME OFF!

And I loved MGS1 on my PS1. :-(

Streaming? Blu-Ray transfer rate? 256Mb RAM?

Paranoid Zombie wrote:
"Am I the only one who thinks that the trailers are slightly embarassing? I mean, MGS's characters and cutscenes have always been over the top, but now they really crossed the line IMO. And it looks like another half gameplay/half cutscenes game, and I don't like that."
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No, you're not the only one. I cannot see the attraction of these games at all. If 50% of this game is actual gameplay, you'll be extremely lucky - the previous games in the series had more cutscene than gameplay.

I played MGS on the PlayStation (and its remake on the Gamecube), but gave up halfway through MGS 2 because the story got too silly and the dialogue too hilariously awful (partly due to bad translation from the original Japanese). This looks even worse than those (can't comment on MGS 3).

In the latest trailer, I was particularly amused at how an arms dealer has to explain what he does to a seasoned assassin. I was even more amused at the way he called himself a "gun launderer". Then we have a woman in a business suit designed deliberately to show that she wasn't wearing a bra, later ripping her skirt presumably so she can run faster... please excuse me while I vomit... are we back in the 1980's or something?

It's all just a chauvinistic wet dream for teenage boys (or retarded 20-somethings) and I can't see the appeal at all.

7/10

A somewhat decent stealth affair, let down by a convoluted plot that drags on.

Cannot wait for this game :D

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i'm waiting for KOjima to announce that he turned down 3d stuff forever and using South park animation engine to render all the models.

even then it would be a great game .) not the best, maybe, but surely great

MGS4 and GOW2 the best games of 2008...