03-08-2004, 05:36 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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Anyone excited about MGS Twin Snakes?
The game is coming out tomorrow. I love MGS so I'm probably gonna get it this week. I seen the trailer it looks awesome with many features from part 2. Anyone here getting the game?
One problem I seen in the trailer is that it looks like they used too much slow motion effects in the new cinemas. The overuse slow motion effect make the cutscenes look kinda.....lame. |
03-08-2004, 07:06 PM | #3 (permalink) |
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Oh yeah, can't wait to play this, it looks freakin awesome. Yay for Metal Gear Solid and Nintendo!
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03-08-2004, 09:07 PM | #6 (permalink) |
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I'll be passing. It's not getting great reviews, only "good" reviews (there's a difference I tell you!). I nailed it on the head when I predicted an 8.5 from IGN a couple of months ago.
Electronic Gaming Monthly gave it 8, 8.5, and 9. That's not quite enough for me to play, especially since the first one is still amazing. The flaws in it are the exact problems I had worries about when the trailer came out: the bullet-time stuff is cheesy as shit. Too much narration (more than the first!) and too little additions to gameplay are what's getting it those reviews according to the reviewers. In other words, if you haven't played it on the PS1, then buy this one. If you've played it on the PS1, it might be worth a rental. If you're a total Metal Gear freak, then buy it anyway! -Lasereth
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03-08-2004, 09:39 PM | #7 (permalink) |
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I'll be buying it anyways.
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03-09-2004, 12:49 AM | #9 (permalink) | |
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03-09-2004, 06:37 AM | #11 (permalink) | |
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he's not basing the game "entirely on a review." He's basing it on the comparison of his assumptions of the game and how they correlate to the reviews. He said he didn't want to play it if there was too much narration, bullet-time shit, and so on, and guess what, there was! I don't really feel like spending $50 on a game that is not as good as the first one. And this one isn't a sequel, just a remake. I'll get it on greatest hits probably. Now if it got 9.5, 10, 10 and stuff like that (similar to the first game), then I would buy it immediately. But by what the reviews say (and they are rarely dead wrong), the game is for people who never played the first one and want to immerse themselves into the MGS universe.
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03-09-2004, 02:52 PM | #13 (permalink) | |
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I've been buying videogames based on Electronic Gaming Monthly for 8 years. They haven't let me down once since I've been a subscriber. I trust them moreso than IGN, but I've rarely disagreed with IGN on reviews as well. If you can find a game review source that you trust and know, then it saves gamers a lot of time and money on shitty games. Keep in mind that I don't trust any reviewer out there; I trust the ones I'm used to and that have never failed me. That's one of the reasons I don't use www.metacritic.com . Some reviewers on there have given Final Fantasy 7 a 50 out of 100 saying it is the worst game of 1998. Do you really want to trust a critic like that? Nope! -Lasereth
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03-09-2004, 10:15 PM | #15 (permalink) | |
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03-10-2004, 07:13 AM | #18 (permalink) | |
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03-10-2004, 12:42 PM | #20 (permalink) |
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I'm just asking that cuz you said that you don't buy shitty game and buy videogames based on EGM for 8 years. EGM gave it 8, 8.5, and 9 and that is a pretty damn good score. so I was just wordering game do you play if you think that score is not good.
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03-10-2004, 05:38 PM | #21 (permalink) |
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I'm sure I'll rent it since I loved it for the original. However, I don't think I'll buy it unless its magic overcomes me.
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03-10-2004, 08:32 PM | #22 (permalink) | |
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The game is obviously good, just look at the good scores it's getting! I simply don't want to play through MGS again for newer graphics. I wanted Silicon Knights to design this remake so it'll seem refreshing to those who played the first one a lot, but it doesn't seem that it happened. -Lasereth
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03-11-2004, 06:17 PM | #24 (permalink) |
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Why does it really matter what EGM and IGN give a game? You sound as if they're reviews are the end all be all of any video game. They could give a game a 4.5 or something but if it's a fun game anyway, people are gonna play it. People who rely strictly on the reviews of these so called 'professionals' need to look past their reviews and give some games a chance regardless. Now that that is out of the way, on to the topic at hand, I just bought this game and love it already.
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03-11-2004, 08:39 PM | #25 (permalink) | |
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The only way to bypass this is to read someone else's review of a game. If they've never let me down, then what's the bad aspects of trusting them? Hey, if you have enough money to spend to find out if games suck or not, then be my guest. I spend my money on games that are quality, and it's led me to the fact that I haven't played a bad game in a really, really long time. -Lasereth
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03-13-2004, 11:10 AM | #26 (permalink) |
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Yes, you're right, we all can't spend $50 on every game. Oh yeah, that's what video stores are for, to rent them for cheap if you wish. I can see looking at reviews for flaws and the such but to base your opinion of a game solely on what other people tell you, that's putting too much trust in what other people say about something.
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