Originally posted by Ridley_Prime
Some of you should have no right to even an opinion of what the greatest game storylines are. 😐
I know, when you put up a game title as greatest storyline it has to be able to stand up to criticism. An example LoZ is a fun series and I'm a fan of the franchise but there isn't an LoZ game in existence that qualifies for greatest storyline.
MGS doesn't qualify either, way too artificial a story although I was a big fan of MGS 1 as a kid.
Originally posted by Welt
Out of curiosity what does this mean? 😂
Takes itself seriously and yet lacks the self consciousness to recognize that most if not all the dramatic input is pure cheezeball. *Snake puts a gun to his mouth* [cue in dramatic music], pure cheese.
It's those kind of disjointed moments, put in to add drama to the story, that make it artificial. A more honest take on these stories would probably reduce the cutscenes by half.
It's a problem you find in a lot of anime too.
Originally posted by Allankles
Takes itself seriously and yet lacks the self consciousness to recognize that most if not all the dramatic input is pure cheezeball. *Snake puts a gun to his mouth* [cue in dramatic music], pure cheese.It's those kind of disjointed moments, put in to add drama to the story, that make it artificial. A more honest take on these stories would probably reduce the cutscenes by half.
It's a problem you find in a lot of anime too.
You can say that again.
Originally posted by AllanklesThats in a lot of different mediums not just anime...
Takes itself seriously and yet lacks the self consciousness to recognize that most if not all the dramatic input is pure cheezeball. *Snake puts a gun to his mouth* [cue in dramatic music], pure cheese.It's those kind of disjointed moments, put in to add drama to the story, that make it artificial. A more honest take on these stories would probably reduce the cutscenes by half.
It's a problem you find in a lot of anime too.
Well that's more a matter of stylistic preference rather than an objective measure of its merit. The fact of the matter is that MGS is, by any standard, a remarkably deep and complex tale that is among the most differentiated stories you can find, anywhere. The differentiating factor alone makes it far more worthy of being in considerating for the greatest video game storyline of all time simply because it sets it so far apart from the other storylines out there. There really aren't many writers at all, whether they're working on videogames, movies, tv shows, books etc. that can even come close to Hideo Kojima in telling such an imaginative, ambitious storyline.