Comments on: Metal Gear needs better writing, not graphics

Metal Gear Solid Rising is promising better graphics than Metal Gear Solid 4. But is better graphics really what the Metal Gear series needs?

[progrob]

so you wont re-play it cuz theres too many cut scenes yet you also mention u can skip the cutscenes??

what are you ranting on about??

[roachbrain]

Once again Don is just a tool. He is probably one of these idiots that walk around with a tattoo of Halo 3 release date on his arm.

Spout all the haterizm you'd like Don but it doesn't change the fact that MGS series is one of the best series ever in gaming. You are obviously just trying to get hits on your amateur blog; sad but I guess it worked.

Whats next you're going to rant how FFVI was over rated?

[GenJones32]

Im sorry but the appeal of Metal Gear is and always has been its convoluted story. For those of us who have been playing Kojimas games for many years now, understand going in the story will be F'ed up the waazoo and you will have to sit there a long time just listening but its all apart of the great experience. They better not change a thing and that's why I am more excited about MGS: Peacewalker.

[mexgeo86]

CNET needs UNBIASED columnists. I can't believe you're trying to bash one of the best games from the current generation.

[bibliotechnician]

The PS3 warriors are at it again. It's like a religion to you guys. This writer just brought up an obvious point that most reviewers agreed with when the initial reviews came out (i.e., MGS4 has crappy, cringe-inducing, B-movie dialog that takes itself WAY too seriously and goes on for WAY too long) and you guys, predictably, freak out like he just made out with your mom. It's getting really pathetic, people. Listen, Microsoft and Sony couldn't give a rat's ass if you lived or died, you all are just numbers to them. So stop your fantasizing that Kojima and the CEO's of Sony sit back and go, "That CYBER-SNAKE and Jetless are really cool. Let's make an awesome game for them!" While MS cackles and rubs their hands together while devising a plot to RROD you to death.

One more thing: when someone types "coz ur 2 dumb" it says far more about your lack of intelligence than anything. Go learn to write ENGLISH, then make stupid, baseless, comments. OK?

And to the educated masses: is it just me or can you spot a PS3 fanboy a mile away? Bad grammar, poorly written responses, and always reduced to unoriginal name calling. It's why the PS3 lags behind the 360 software attach rate -- 13 year olds don't have jobs to buy new games. BTW, I own both systems and they both kick ass.

[Jawknee1]

typical response from a 360 fanboy. bash the author in question rather then debate the points.

[bibliotechnician]

Bash which author? The author of the article we?re commenting on, CYBER-SNAKE, Jetless, or you?

First of all, I loved MGS1. It should be in anyone's top 10 list for Best Videogames Ever. The stealth 3-D gameplay (a first), the atmosphere, the controls, all were absolutely stunning.

Then MGS2 came out. Or, more precisely, the demo where you played as Snake. Then the game ships and Raiden shows up, you watch codec upon codec, defeat silly bosses, listen to girlfriends whine, and it's all wrapped in a post-modern storyline that was the most pretentious pile of ******** that I've ever read/heard. Give me a space marine or classic greek hero, an objective, and some spot on controls, and I'll be in videogame heaven -- you can have your preachy sentimental soap opera. If i want to read good post-modern sci-fi, I'll read Gibson or Stephenson, not a badly translated bunch of "war is bad" gobeldygook.

Don't get me wrong, I want great storytelling in videogames and I want to feel emotions when I?m playing. But when the story gets in the way of the fun, that's when it grows tedious. Bioshock and Fallout 3 are great examples of this thinking. Those games let me choose how deeply i want to dive into the story-line, not go on and on for hours about the philosophy of the military industrial complex and ?genetics is bad? crap.

Oh, i almost forgot to address Jawknee1's "360 fanboy" comment (at least he didn't resort in calling me that tired moniker, X-bot) I own both systems. I think Uncharted 2's graphics are going to absolutely blow away anything the 360 will ever have, including both of the new Halos. I think Killzone 2 rocks and is probably the best shooter this generation. So I?m not a fanboy, I call them like I see them, like any reasonable gamer out there should. A good game is a good game, period. I'm not going to choose a company to support like I would an NFL team. That's ridiculous and childish. And really, really lame.

[Jawknee1]

well tool your going to get you wish cause Kojima isnt writing Rising. Which is why im less excited for it and more excited for Peace Walker. One he is writing.

Don, your "deeply concerned"? you need to get a life and maybe a girlfriend if a games focus on graphics over story "deeply concern" you. Does it keep you awake at night? take some Ambien.

[Prince2k3]

Dude it was supposed to be the last game for snake and he needed to close all lose ends and there was a lot. In my opinion the story was fantastic how he tied all the games in MGS4 and all of it made sense. MGS4 was the best game I've ever played with a good story since FFVII. No game right now compares to it in quality and game experience.

[MGS420]

metalgearsolid is hands down tha best series ive playd n i dnt agree because i like tha cutscences n tha graphics just as they r. can maybe take a little frm the cutscenes n throw it into the gameplay but other than that keep the graphics!! and plot little confusing but once u understand it it is a great plot since mgs