random thoughts and funny gaming humor

[luciazephyr]

So I was on SA in the MGS3 LP thread and was thinking about Teh Gay and why it's so prevalent in MGSverse. I have a theory.

I always thought [Ocelot's homosexuality and the gayness in the series in general] was a covert way for Kojima to make male gamers feel uncomfortable. I mean, MGS1 was a fairly straight-forward gamer, albeit a Deconstruction of American action movies. In MGS2, Kojima deliberately tried to fuck with gamers, so we meet Vamp and watch Snake and Otacon be completely married. There was huge backlash, which made Kojima >8( at gamers, so MGS3 was created, giving us gay subtext for Ocelot, EVA, Volgin, and the Raiden-expy, Raikov. MPO did the same for Big Boss, as I heard (I lack a PSP). Then came MGS4, which repeatedly kicked gamers in the balls in different sexual ways (lol, huge male rape subtext, aging fears, overt gamer-slamming, etc), so... I think it's all a ~*~conspiracy~*~ to make gamers uncomfortable while playing. Because Kojima loves his metagame.

Agree/Disagree/General thoughts?


Also, for my own reference because I may icon later:

Favorite Quotes from Freeman's Mind

1. "Now someone's stolen my helmet... Oh well. Probably won't need it."



2. "OH NO NO NO! THIS IS NOT GOOD! LET ME OUT OF HERE! OPEN THE DOOR! I HATE YOU! THIS IS A BAD EXPERIMENT! WE ARE BAD PEOPLE! WHY DID WE USHER FORTH THE GREEN APOCALYPSE?!"



3. "A failure of this magnitude is extremely improbable."
   "Well, that's why we have insurance."



4. "Is there any end to the numbers of problems I can solve by hitting things? I don't think there is! That's how I say Open Sesame. A crowbar to the face."



5. "Hey gunshots! Where there's a gun, there's fun!"



6. "Haha! Your death was not in vain. I'll shoot everyone in this building if I have to. Whelp, time to play God! Let's see people disrespect me now. They'll find out what happens when you mess with the Freeman."



7. Beating up headcrabs. "NO! No one cares about your opinions! You have no rights! You're illegal aliens!"



8. "Dammit, how come that catwalk doesn't have any supports? The other one did. I could use them to swing across like Tarzan. That'd be dope."



9. "Bugs can crawl on walls. I should've been a bug... Go Team Kafka."



10. "What's that say.... 'Work harder, not smarter'... Yeah, that's us all right. We stay the course with the stupid."



11. "Scheduled Chaos Theory? That makes about as much sense as Grounded Aviation. Or Deep-Sea Astronomy."



12. Screaming as he goes postal on some headcrabs. "Oh what the- OKAY CHILDREN, CLASS IS IN SESSION. EVERYBODY TAKE YOUR SEATS! I SAID EVERYONE TAKE YOUR SEATS! DEAN AND BILLY, THAT MEANS YOU TOO. TAKE YOUR SEATS!"



13. "I'm getting sick of these facehuggers trying to french me. It's not like I'm that hard up."



14. "How many of you fuckers are there? Do you want me to individually engrave your name on each of my bullets? Is my gun not personal enough for you? I'll kill every last one of you. All I need are bullets. WE HAVE A LOT OF BULLETS HERE! EARTH IS A MINERAL-RICH PLANET! I BET YOURS SUCKS!"



15. "Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Not as strong as methamphetamines, but you can keep your teeth."



16. "You have a ladder in elevator shaft. Why? To fix to fix the elevator. How do you get to ladder? You use the elevator. WHO THOUGHT THIS UP? JESUS CHRIST."



17. "Is that an MP5? Oh ho ho YES! Now I can solve 600 problems a minute!"



18. "Everything's on sale when you have a gun."

-Lucy

Comments

[canis-takahari.livejournal.com]

"Is there any end to the numbers of problems I can solve by hitting things? I don't think there is! That's how I say Open Sesame. A crowbar to the face."

sDFKSJDFLKSdfj HAHAHAHAHA YES

[crowbared.livejournal.com]

YOU WATCH FREEMAN'S MIND TOO? YOU ARE MY NEW HERO.

[thene]

If you're right then that makes the series even more homophobic than I thought. (Which is still less so than virtually all other videogames).

[firefly99.livejournal.com]

I agree with your theory about the gay in MGS, although I don't think it's as squicky as all that. Like athenemiranda mentioned, all of the gay relationships are the positive traits of the Depraved Bisexuals who have them. And from the subtext angle (see - Snake and Otacon), the relationships are usually positive and get happy endings (I REFUSE TO ACCEPT THAT SNAKE/OTACON IS UNINTENTIONAL, especially since he married off Weeaboo Hacker/Kickass Soldier, Quirky Mission Support Who Goes Off To Study Psychology/The Product Of A Plan To Make Him Exactly Like Snake, and based the two characters off a Weeaboo/Soldier pairing in Policenauts).

So I think while although it may initially be for squick, there's a definite positive emotional core. (Basically the same way Kojima also touched on subjects like male infertility and male sexual victimisation. There's a squick factor in including them at all which he exploits, but once you're over that you realise he means it quite genuinely.)

[gundamtsubasa.livejournal.com]

ZOMG Why have I never heard of Freeman's Mind before now? I just stayed up late so I could watch them all back to back. Freaking brilliant, I tells you.

Thank you for showing it to me.