Massive Game Progress

[crankyoldman]

I decided that I was gonna finish at least one game this weekend. I did! And I'm getting really close (well in RPG terms... it could be another 8 hours) in the other one.

Spoilers all over this.



So let me go on record and say that boss fight was stupidly hard, and I have been working on it on and off all week. All week. WHAT IS THIS. AND TWO PARTS? Fuck you Liquid. I don't care if you get interesting later, you're an asshole and I hated your boss fight a lot. DIE A BAJILLION TIMES. Since there is no actual levelling in that game and bah. I came to appreciate the sneaking, but the boss fights were kind of ridiculous for the most part. MGS2, you better have fixed this.

Final gameplay time: 27 hours. Yeah, I'm really good at this, clearly.

PLOT THOUGHTS. omg Fox. omg. I would say that the stupidly hard boss fight was worth that, but I really cannot express how much I hated that gameplay. But it was a really emotional sequence and omg Naomi and yeah. Well done on that. REALLY fucking well done there. And all the stuff about FoxDie. Just. All the things.

However...

What the hell was that ending sequence. Voiceover Naomi? Sappy romance ending? Um, was this from the same game?

Don't get me wrong. I REALLY ADORE MERYL. A lot! She was totes adorbs and I even liked the slightly cliched "rookie trying to prove herself" type of attitude because it was done lovingly. I missed her while she was being all captured and stuff.

However, that girl at the end... I dunno, it just seemed like they had replaced her with a femmebot? Same with Snake a bit actually. It was so pastede on yay. Like they had to satisfy some fanboys with OH AND HE GETS THE GIRL THE END.

I was mostly confused, and a little annoyed because the emotional payoffs I was looking for didn't happen. And it's not like I don't want Snake or Meryl to be happy! I actually really do. I just don't think that was their kind of happy ending? Yes war is hell and nukes are bad, but Meryl really wanted to be a soldier. So let her be one! And Snake wants to stop being a tool and other more complicated things. He can do that in a great number of other ways!

So, in conclusion, I clearly need to play the other games in this series, if only to get over that ending. XD

I also have all the fanfic ideas. We'll see what pops up.

Despite my bitching, I liked the game. Really!


















....omg Teepo.

D:

Forever D:

Comments

[thene]

Fox and Naomi are my favourite characters so I would very much love to see more fic of them. They don't get nearly as much play as they deserve. ;_; I now can't help but wonder what you'd think of the other possible ending to MGS1... Eh, I'm sure you could find it on Youtube if you didn't want to play again.

[crankyoldman]

Yes, I am totes youtubing that. XD ONCE WAS ENOUGH for now.

I'm really surprised they don't get a lot of play. I mean, HUGELY DRAMATIC SHIT happened because of/with them. Fanfic goldmine. Also, I really want to make Naomi/Meryl happen. Um.

[thene]

I think a lot depends on what got people interested in joining the fandom; Metal Gear fandom is kinda like four or so different fandoms all overlapping in the same general space, and most people care primarily about either MGS2 or MGS3, ie. not where all the Hunter family drama happens. Plus, hey, it's fandom; drama only matters if it could potentially lead to two prettyboys making out. Anyway I would COMPLETELY LOVE to see some plumbing of that fanfic goldmine.

afaik I am the only person to have written Naomi/Meryl and it was on the kink meme, um. (leans a little tiny bit on MGS2 and MGS4 but not in a spoilery way).

[crankyoldman]

Well I got into it because Fly basically wanted me to. XD So I guess that's unusual.

And my definition of "prettyboy" has always been skewed. XD Like, as far as pure visual attractiveness goes, Ocelot wins that award for me. Especially after he loses his hand.

Yessss, femmeslash in the kinkmeme.... I love all queerness. <3

[crankyoldman]

Also that ficlet was brill.

[hamimi_fk]

*head scratch* I never got the happy ending where Meryl survives. No matter how many times I played MGS, I could never 'beat' the torture scene (I blame crappy controllers) so I always got the sad ending. But I have looked up a bit of what I missed and everything about Meryl later on in the game just doesn't feel right. Perhaps Kojima was trying to go for how the reality of fighting ended up screwing with Meryl's psyche? I mean, she is pretty young (based on some math I did once for a fic, she's like 17/18 in MGS - unless I screwed up my calculations), which would explain her withdrawal later on. Maybe?

I dunno. I'm not much keen on Meryl/Snake anyway. And Naomi was... I dunno. I felt for her, but at the same time, she annoyed me. =\ Does that make me bad?

Haha, but yes, the final battle with Liquid is ridiculously hard. I only beat it twice (or three times? I use to play MGS A LOT when I was younger) and it sucks. MGS2 is a bit more manageable. Though MGS3 is my absolute fave in terms of both story and fighting bosses.

[crankyoldman]

Well I think you're being kind; I really think that Kojima from the start didn't know what to do with Meryl. This happens a lot with game developer types that I've dealt with; once a female gets put into Love Interest Role, any and all characterization she had previously tends to go out the window. It does ping me out a lot when I see it, but I've gotten so used to it that it doesn't surprise me. I doubt it was even that intentional, it's just one of those ingrained biases.

And it doesn't make you bad not to be into Naomi, she just happened to hit a lot of my buttons, especially later on. Also considering that her "brother" is Fox... makes sense to me. Different strokes for different folks. ^^

[auronlu]

TEEPO!

Over ten years ago I wrapped my girlfriend's Christmas present, a nice fluffy blanket, in a life-sized Teepo using layers of tissue paper. I drew the face on with sharpie I included the red flappy feet and tissue paper red flowers. I have a photo somewhere -- non-digital, which shows how OLD this game is.


I am so very much Momo.

[crankyoldman]

Momo is my favorite. I'm gonna cosplay her someday, because LADY ENGINEER LIKE ME.

[auronlu]

Momo cosplay would rock.

(I'm not an engineer, just a scholar and a bookworm and a long-haired tomboy. But my father did, in fact, build rockets!)