blah blah blah Metal Gear blah blah blah

[luciazephyr]

See, he's the ex-President, and he has a robotic powersuit with tentacles, and he uses a team with a vampire and a fat guy on roller skates and a girl in a bathing suit with a railgun to take over an extra-enormous giant robot, but he gets betrayed by the Russian cowboy with a possessed ghost arm who's working(sort of) for a bunch of deranged AI things and it's all an experiment in the use of the medium as an active part in the story and a subversion of the entire idea of sequels, then the tentacley ex-President gets katana'd and dies in front of a statue and the bishounen meets up with his girlfriend who may or may not be a hallucination and there's a jazz song about how hugs are awesome. You know what? If you don't like this game, I don't like you.

-_dahne_'s totally accurate summary of Metal Gear Solid 2


So apparently MGS4 had so many cutscenes, some geeks got together and tried to make it into a movie with some editing. I'm watching part one now (each of the three parts is about two hours long), about halfway through. I am pissy that they cut out all the gay but left in the awkward het. That means the after-credits bit (and a lot of other parts) make no sense. Hell, SUNNY HASN'T EVEN SHOWN UP AND WE'VE ALREADY SAVED NAOMI. Where the fuck is the mission briefing?

Hint to fanboys: Your game is gay. Deal with it. Trying to un-gay it cripples the story. Ya rly.

:goes to bed now:

-Lucy

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[pinglederry.livejournal.com]

Hint to fanboys: Your game is gay. Deal with it. Trying to un-gay it cripples the story. Ya rly.

*snicker* I'm annoyed just on principle. Stupid homophobic pplz. OMG, you should get together with other fans of the gay in the game and make your own movie version. That'd be cool. :)

Also, I kinda wanna play the MGS series now, just based on the summary and the aforementioned gay.

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

I am really hoping I'm just generalizing about the fanboys being "ew, gay". I mean, there are already canon bisexual vampires (and if you talk to a certain character about Vamp, they will get pissy at you for being homophobic, not kidding) and everyone knows Ocelot did all that crazy shit he did because he totally loved Big Boss- nevermind that in game two, there's a good hour spent playing your main character completely naked. I don't get how you can ignore the gay in this series, even if actually really believe that Otacon and Snake are "just friends".

That summary doesn't even do MGS2 justice. She left out a lot of crazy.

Metal Gear Solid, like Twilight, means never having to say you're kidding.

[pinglederry.livejournal.com]

Male gamers are weird. When I run into a new one, I'm never sure if he'll be all open-minded and tolerant because he understands what it's like to be an outsider, or a close-minded macho bigot who's just into games because he likes blowing shit up and totally buys into all the video game gender stereotypes. I actually had a guy argue that all girls who are into gaming/porn/whatever are self-hating butch lesbians in denial. I didn't talk to him for very long.

Hopefully it's better than Twilight, though. Unless you're into Twilight, in which case I'll... stop talking now. *hides*

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

Hopefully it's better than Twilight, though. Unless you're into Twilight, in which case I'll... stop talking now. *hides*

I'm into Twilight as a comedy. The books are absolutely ridiculous. I get scared when people buy them for their young kids though. The "romance" is so unhealthy, it makes me balk.

[pinglederry.livejournal.com]

I get flack from Twilight fans because I haven't read the books, but I just can't. I tried. I opened the first one up to some random section, but had to put it down again in a couple of minutes. Same reason I can't stand Grey's Anatomy: it seems all the main female leads can do is whine and bitch and moan. I just want to smack them. Not a complimentary portrayal of women in the least. The fans don't seem to be much better, although the only two fans I know very well in real life are both pretty okay (my sister and my landlord's daughter). But my sister's 18 and mature, so she's an outlier (I hope) and the landlord's kid is 15. Since you seem to have a stronger stomach than I do for reading the books, what about the "romance" is so unhealthy? I could always use more ammunition.

Also, Twilight as comedy? Have you read The Most Popular Book in the Whole World (http://xlormp.livejournal.com/), starring xlormp? It's amazing. XD The writer is currently 18 chapters into the sequel, The Most Second Book in the Whole Series.

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

Since you seem to have a stronger stomach than I do for reading the books, what about the "romance" is so unhealthy?

Think about it. Bella meets Edward and suddenly he is her entire world. She has no passions or personal goals besides being with him. When they're separated in book two, she spends most of the book mourning and not caring if she dies. Even when Jacob (who, before Eclipse, was much better boyfriend material) was being ridiculously nice and patient with her moping, she was hung-up on her bipolar hot sparklevamp. And in Breaking Dawn.... the whole book was one long D: D: D:

If you can't stand to read the books, try cleolinda's summaries.

[firefly99.livejournal.com]

MGS4 has basically convinced me that Snake is utterly, unflinchingly, totally canonically in love with Otacon, even if the sentiment isn't necessarily echoed.

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

I am also unsure if the sentiment is returned... My instincts say it is, but I worry that's just my slash goggles covering it. Then again, I find it odd that after watching the whole game, I felt that Otacon was always more... warm towards Snake than he was to even Naomi.

(And I have an encyclopedia of thoughts about the Naomi Thing that I have to sort through because the whole thing just made no sense to me... I keep feeling like I missed an important cutscene or something.)

But yeah, Snake ♥ Otacon big time. It's kind of sweet, really. :3 And can I just say that the biggest tearjerker for me was the after-credits convo? Otacon following Snake, wanting to stay with him, Snake giving up smoking, and just the... inflection in Otacon's voice, the surprised and pleased, "Snake," after he says it....

GOD I CAN'T SHIP THEM ANY HARDER. :D :D :D


Long comment is fucking long, sorry. I just finished watching MGS4 last night and I have all these Thoughts.