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Thank you Tellespalla. Iside, those emblems are really cool, but are they really the ones?? The ones that appeared on the banners in the curves of PES stadiums for PS2??

Great Isis who remembered Siphon Filter... but I have to say that I still consider the first MGS superior... some bosses, the mathematical and geometric system for detecting guards and enemies (if you didn't hide at a certain exact moment, you were mostly screwed), the sober narrative and some truly moving scenes, in their little video game way (like Gray Fox/Ninja's final sacrifice to save Snake), the NIKITA MISSILES, Snake's torture, are still to be remembered (and above all) in light of the banalized and stereotyped clones that followed, like MGS4, for instance. For sure, the conversations with the Codec between Snake and the other characters were a bit exhausting even in the first Metal Gear though... I wouldn’t forget Splinter Cell, nonetheless.

SOTANAHT you are the king of rhetoric. Aside from the fact that I gladly let you have all the Anathema albums (they all suck, happy now?), you hardly countered anything in my review; you simply limited yourself to telling me that it's not how I say it is. The fact that the gameplay is 10 years old (not 12, I was mistaken earlier) is a matter of fact, it’s not up for debate. Moreover, the stealth mechanics were already implemented in the third installment, so zero innovation in MGS4.
On the cinematic side... I find it amusing because fans scream miracle especially for that, but if you handed the cut-scenes of MGS4 to a great director, he would spit in your eye because they are childish, pompous, theatrical, forced, long-winded, redundant, verbose... an MGS4 movie wouldn’t be any different from a Final Fantasy or Resident Evil movie: it would turn out to be crap for (guess what?) little kids. Finally: your first pompous and pseudo-lyrical comment deserved an appropriate response. Did you expect me to let someone who plays MGS4 while praising art with Anathema in the background put his feet in my face? Come on, buddy.

Skele, yes I understand, I wrote in the review "sporadic episodes" myself :-) ISIDE at this point I wouldn’t know... I consider the first Metal Gear a masterpiece (probably the only one in the saga), but I don’t know what you didn’t like. MGS4 might piss you off even more or it could align more with your gaming taste. Anyway, just to be safe, I would try Heavy Rain if I were you, despite its flaws.

Skeletron, I assure you that in the hardest game mode (the one you unlock only after completing the game at least once), I once witnessed two guards who, after spotting me and starting to shoot, suddenly stopped and began staring in the opposite direction like idiotic autistic individuals. Of course, I'll let you imagine what happened to those guards in the span of 2 seconds. As for online: between downloading and installation, it takes a whole day.

I’ll say it for the third time, this is not culture, it’s cultural industry (School of Frankfurt docet), massified and standardized. And the target audience, coincidentally, is the biminkia who can't get enough of Snake, aesthetically updated for the new generation of consoles. Snaaaaaaaaaaake!

S4DOLL, in the gaming field, you confirm that you are the only one who can speak here. Maybe it was a mistake to open the DeLudiche. SOTANAHT, I remind you, you were the one who praised the worst crap from Anathema and Katatonia, how could I forget... nothing, there are people who are simply born without mental categories suitable for developing a critical and historical sense united with a search for artistic logic that goes beyond fireworks. Unfortunately for you, SOTANAHT, you are worthy only of enjoying fireworks, probably in many fields, even in entertainment. Back in '90, I was playing on the NES, in '91 on the SNES. I've seen many games since then, and over time I've accumulated a critical sense that makes me laugh at MGS4, at Kojima today, at the cultural industry and in this case the gaming industry inclined to squeeze as much money as possible from the bimbiminkia who get excited about their favorite sagas, jerking off over them because they let themselves be fooled by overly complicated, (???) improbable, surreal, and adolescent plots, para-philosophical, fanta-political, and para-cinematic, descending into trash like in this case. Just put MGS4 in the hands of a director of average competence, and you'd laugh in their face, with those hyper-grotesque scenes when they're not pathetic. Not to mention the gameplay, which is at least 12 years old, with an increasingly clunky movement system, ridiculous ultra-flat maps where you're limited to moving from point A to point B without needing to use your brain at all, since afterwards you get an hour and a half cutscene... a real hour and a half. All seasoned with absurd self-references. As for you, I've given worthy motivations in the review, while I still don't see yours. Who knows what you'll come up with this time.

It's probably Kojima who should apologize to those who were simply expecting a game, rather than a fanservice nonsense to appease long-time fans. Cultural industry a go go.

And there you go! It’s me who talked about urine in relation to Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, and the Stones, not Easy (who I greet after a century, how many years since the DT review!). It was a strong expression, it's true, but The Modern Dance is truly a notch above even the early great works of the Zeppelin. The Stones though... are we still talking about them? In 2010....??

Now, reading quickly through the latest post by Primiballi, I remember that years ago he expressed exactly the same idea, namely that the '90s were musically stagnant, if not even pseudo-revolutionary (and he used the Oasis as a negative example back then as well). So I wonder, assuming you don't like it and you have the obvious freedom not to appreciate it, why do you continue to ignore the alternative rock scene of the early '90s (and I’m not referring to the grunge of Nirvana and Soundgarden), which combined originality with innovation, as if it had never existed?