I really cannot be bothered with the series anymore. All the comments are "it's not Metal Gear without Kojima." Why do people continue to pretend that he's the top tier of gaming devs?
Strangely and out of no where I decided to boot up MGS1 and start a new game. I've been sketching it a lot lately (don't know why) and got past Ocelot. I forgot how unforgiving the game is when you get spotted and just how easily you get an alert. I don't know how many times I accidentally bump a soldier when I'm trying to grab him to snap his neck.
I really miss this Kojima. He died a decade ago. Imagine what MGS4 could of been with Fukishima as co writer. MGS4 is better now than it was then, but it still has issues. If you could get rid of the Meryl/Johnny bull shit, not make Snake this defeated man, make it actually be Liquid instead of some bullshit MacGuffin... I think it could of been equal to the trilogy.
I've played MGS1-3 a gazillion times and I never get tired of it. I have all 3 games in my pocket thanks to the Vita and you can't ask anything more than that. MGS1, 2, 3. In. Your. Pocket.
It really is the best game "trilogy" of all time since each title compliments each other and they all have something relevant to say, unlike the newer games. In my mind, it ended at 3 and MPO and Rising were really darn good spin offs. And yes, I'll fight anyone who discredits Fukishima since he WAS the guy who wrote the dialogue and kept Kojima's avant garde narcissism in check.
As for the MGS1 gameplay, you'll need to stand still within a foot away from a soldier, let go of the analog stick and then only do a chokehold otherwise there's a risk of messing it up.
Shoot, you might be right. I didn't realized that MGS2 might be the biggest step up in gaming. It's literally the T2 of gaming.
Fukushima vanished off the face of the Earth during the making of MGS4, and no one knows why. I know it's fucking ridiculous, but Kojima did indeed got death threats from the Yakuza for not wanting to make MGS4 and it would be some really crazy shit if they got to Fukushima, because a) there's a lot of jokes of that online and b) how do you explain a writer who just vanished inexplicably?
Again, just unsubstantiated rumors and I wished someone would get to the bottom of this. Bottom of the lake even.
Also, there are plenty of Fukushima discussions online and here's an article I really liked about how MGS changed drastically after he left:
https://medium.com/@sleepingfoggy6/...appened-to-mgs-after-snake-eater-1c3c851dff45
I don't get what Kojima was trying to convey with MGSV thematically, either because I'm stupid or the ideas were incredibly half baked, regardless of if the game was "finished" or not (probably both frankly!) The only defense I could bring to the story is that maybe, juuussst maybe is that this is the reverse-MGS2 with the same intention. MGS2 was deliberately designed to elicit a negative response from the player and part of the plan was for the player to eventually "get the joke". It's evident a lot of people didn't though.
Then there's the opening line of MGSV "There are no facts, only interpretations" which in my mind could be that the narrative in this game shouldn't be taken at face value but rather as an analogy and reaffirmation of Kojima's weariness of working on the franchise for so long (28 years as of MGSV's release) and all he wanted was a way out and to do that, he would write a story that would please his slaves, erm fans but fall apart under scrutiny.