I only played this game because it was made by Platinum, not for the Metal Gear Name. I would like to play MGS someday, what's the best way to play the first? Was Twin Snakes a remake of 1?
I'm really surprised you could find it boring though, stupid, sure, but boring? It's jam packed with crazy shit and fun. Maybe we should continue this in the MGR topic...
Anyway, yeah Sonic 06, when you take into account the size of the dev team, the budget and the day and age it was created, hands down worst atrocity ever created in video games. You want an example? 20 second loading screens for... TWO LINES OF TEXT.
Ya' see, there's the real problem; it's stupid. Metal Gear Solid may be melodramatic and border on high-brow at times, but we get great characters that are multi-dimensional, along with a healthy dose of social commentary and philosophy. The gameplay itself is diverse. There are several different ways to proceed in these games. You can be a blood-thirsty soldier of mayhem and mow down everybody in sight, or play it stealth-like and never take a single life. They have replay value up the ass. On top of that, with every entry of Metal Gear Solid, Hideo Kojima and his team raise the bar in graphics, sound and overall presentation....
Then we have Metal Gear Rising. Now I realise it's not a Hideo Kojima designed game and that it's not really cannon. That being said, I can't seperate the name and what that name means to me from Rising. I expect more from a game called Metal Gear than a fairly straight forward hack-and-slash with a terrible narrative that betrays it's source material, not to mention the dated look and feel. Then again, I didn't Bayonetta all that dazzling either, so maybe I just dislike Platinum. *shrugs*
Twin Snakes is a remake (think Resident Evil: GameCube) and it's okay, but I'm a purest. Stick with the PSone original. It's really the only way to truly appreciate the series and what they do with later installments, like Sons of Liberty, Snake Easter and Guns of the Patriots.
Sonic '06 has me intrigued....however, I'll wait until I've reviewed a good Sonic title before I even go near this thing.
As for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Emmett, I think it's awful. However, the format was still fresh and it was clearly a rush job. They only gave the guy five weeks to make a video game based on a popular film. I felt Slaughter Sport was more frustrating than the extra-terrestrial's romp in Atari-land.
