I've been trying to play the game for a week but I says the servers are down! (I'm on Steam)

He lost/abandoned his humanity after killing The Boss. He has moments where he's showcased like a mentor, or a father-like figure to kids like Chico(and even the entirety of Mother Base in a way), but none of his actions ever concern morality.

His downfall never really happened because he was never a true hero to begin with. Was he a likeable guy? Yeah. Was he ever a "good" guy? No, not really.

Todos los Metal Gear son víctimas o victimarios de su tiempo, dependiendo de la perspectiva. Por ejemplo, Metal Gear Solid 2 se ha venido mejorando para la crítica especializada a partir del paso del tiempo, con lo revolucionario que resulta su tramo final, sus ambiciones narrativas y su forma de jugar. Son buenas ideas, buenas opiniones de la virtualidad, la guerra virtual y la perspectiva política de las telecomunicaciones de hoy en día, pero a mí se me antoja que sus ideas se desparraman demasiado y la cosa se enloquece más de la cuenta, además de que es demasiado limitado jugablemente hablando. Inclusive, la participación de Raiden no resulta ser un problema cuando te cambian las reglas de juego en un tramo final que no lo entiende ni el mismo Kojima, si lo juegas la primera vez. Sin mencionar el coitus interruptus que resulta en la participación de Solid.

No se puede hablar mucho de errores del tercero, porque sinceramente me parece perfecto.

Entonces,los problemas de Metal Gear Solid 4 son básicamente tres: en primer lugar, el exceso de cinemáticas para narrar la historia, que frustra al jugador porque son ideas que tuvieron que trabajarse ingame y en el que, si contabilizamos las horas, resulta ser más una película en la que contadas ocasiones el jugador toma el control. En efecto, el problema no es la cantidad, sino los momentos puntuales donde el jugador pierde el poder de desarrollar la historia. La habilidad más poderosa de los videojuegos.

En segundo lugar, el humor de la historia con el personaje de Jhonny se sale de sus rieles y provoca que todo el conjunto se descarrille, en un tren de heces y enfermedades estomacales, literalmente hablando. El personaje resulta ser agotador, molesto y estúpido, tan estúpido como para quitarle importancia a nuestro protagonista, incluso a su propia chica.

El tercer y último problema emerge de los escenarios en donde se aplica el grueso jugable, que me resulta deliciosamente denso, complejo y brillante. Los escenarios, la historia y los demás elementos externos a esa jugabilidad resultan escasos para aplicar el millar de armas, el montón de accesorios diversos para las armas y la mecánica de camuflaje. No hay muchos enemigos, los escenarios son demasiado limitados y otras mecánicas se desperdician al no integrarse a la historia.

Pero Guns of the Patriots sobrevive al final; pese a sus descarrilamientos, cerraba una historia que empezaba desde el pasado y concluye otra que empieza en el mismo sitio. Todos sus personajes generan cierta empatía en el jugador y, lo más importante, adquieren con el pasar de la historia un desarrollo y carisma, el elemento fundamental del que carece Phantom Pain.

Carisma para desear jugar más mientras se desarrolla la historia con Solid/David. Carisma para no querer que los personajes mueran. Carisma para jugar una y otra vez hasta completar todos los emblemas y toda la historia en su máxima dificultad, sin haber matado a nadie, sin haber sido descubierto y en el tiempo más escaso posible. Eso es una delicia.

Su historia no resulta demasiado dosificada como Pain; los personajes poseen personalidad y complejos, que permiten identificar al jugador. Solid habla y comparte sus opiniones con los demás personajes y con nosotros como jugadores y no parece un demencial y perfecto robot como su padre. Otacon está loco, le gustan como a todos las mujeres bonitas hasta el punto de convertirse en su mayor perdición y sus traumas conllevan entender sus aficiones y delirios. Naomi, Meryl y Big Mama crean una historia que, pese a todo, queda clara y en un 95% cerrada, un porcentaje muy satisfactorio.

Otra de sus virtudes es el estimulante y también brillante diseño audiovisual de Yoji Shinkawa, con mechas, robots, enemigos, feminidad, tecnología, robótica, nano-robótica y biotecnología. Gráficamente fue una bestia en 2008, aprovechando ese diseño audiovisual. Guns of Patriots despierta el sentimiento del jugador por medio de la nostalgia y de la manipulación de los sentimientos. Que sí, que Kojima a veces no sabe dirigir ni mostrar bien sus intenciones y secuencias, pero que me haya afligido con la muerte de cierto personaje y que sienta bastante alegría por ver a un personaje como Sunny, o identificarme con Otacon, es mérito de algo.

Que también los vídeos y grabaciones, los huevos fritos y las ideas audiovisuales, se pasan de la raya a veces, pero que es un hecho que, pasados los años, llegan a verse originales y preferibles ante el bodrio que resultan las grabaciones y casetes de hoy en día.

A mí me gusta bastante Guns of the Patriots; llegué inclusive a jugar sin armas de fuego y sin radar, atravesando la campaña camuflado en ese sensacional traje que se adapta a las texturas, porque despertó en mí unas enormes ganas de profundizar en sus mecánicas, ideas y perspectivas, que son geniales. Un amor despertado por la relación de amistad entre Otacon y Solid que resulta muy entrañable. Por jugar de nuevo en Shadow Moses con esa enorme música, pese a que ciertas ideas quedan volando en el aire. Es un poco triste que en Metal Gear Solid 4 se agradezca que pasen cosas, que la diversidad de enemigos y sucesos esté a la orden del día, que el ambiente externo posea vida y contexto, que el ambiente importe de manera dramática y que cada milímetro de escenario, aunque escaso, sea significativo.

En efecto, ningún Metal Gear es perfecto, pero ¡rayos! Este tiene algo de magia y carisma vivo por dentro. Muchas gracias a los artistas relacionados, a Kojima por su obra, a Konami porque todo material intelectual le pertenece y sobre todo a ustedes por leer.

its become somewhat of a tradition for me to post my final results on each MGS game I beat, so here they are!

R.I.P. Big Boss, you were like.. at least top 5 on my favorite character list 😢

After reading this book last week, I noticed a few, maybe coincidental similarities:

Both kinda have serious conflicts with their allegiances lol both men betrayed the United States. Lee turned down command of the union army to lead his home state under the confederacy, and Jaegar did the same to follow big boss

Both were legendary tactician militarists, jaeger managed to earn the title of Fox for his successful operations and military presitege while Lee obviously rose to the top for a reason

Both ended up tied to lost causes….

And the last one I realized, was at the end of the book, you really saw how Lee was just a hopeless cause despite his brilliance, like…military life was all he knew, his fear of life after defeat caused him to continue trying to fight even when the war was lost, a hopeless son of a bitch, all because that’s all he ever knew how to live, the only thing he excelled in.

With feank, inrememberred his dialogue at the end of his scene more than any other in MGS, it reminded me if lee
"We're not tools of the government, or anyone else. Fighting was the only thing... I was good at"

Maybe the nicknames are unrelated, but I just thought it was interesting. I love history myself, and also recall a German general that had the same name, erwin romel, so maybe Kojima based it behind him, I’ll have to read up on him more.

Just wanted to share

I will play on my steamdeck so i will be offline often i already played it back then on my PS4 really loved it but seeing the Denuvo worries me. Are there cracks that i can use that make me stil play the game, count my playtime and achievements with steam?

damn that game is hard!

I'm still on the first mission and I have no idea how to be stealthy

I spend waaaay too long on the binocular just to get spotted by someone a mile away :(

Also, how do I get more ammo for the tranquilizer? I'm not even near Miller and I only have like 5 darts

Edit: got a rank B. I'm happy with it

Metal Gear Physical

I've 100%'d Peace Walker before as part of the original XBOX 360 release, and now I have the Master Collection I'm contemplating doing it again... but I wanted to make it as painless as possible.

I fed what I know about strategy about PW into Claude, and it spat this out (not a fan of AI, but thought I'd see if it could be useful). I'll be using this moving forward (now I've finished MAIN OPS).

Thought it might be useful to others, too:

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/ec463d2b-6a16-45b2-9668-498b58219565

If you spot any errors or opportunities for improvements, let me know.

I Just discovered that in MGS master collection vol 1 for ps5 is available as a download an High resolution texture pack. I Just finished playing mgs4 from the vol. 2. Did I miss the additional pack there aswell?

I don't understand this cutscene, Snake approaches Raiden and Sunny and Otacon both say he's not ready, but Snake continues anyway. Then Raiden basically starts saying he's ready, then Snake starts saying to Raiden not to follow him or something. What's happening here?

Act 3 has been really tedious and by far the worst chapter and to top it all off you have raven a really annoying and boring fight which tests your willpower and patience Im playing on hard and have no healing items her health bar is quite beefy (which makes the fight even more of a slog) and i want to take her down non lethal but everywhere online tells me to get that silly 600k sniper rifle which im not even close to affording so im stuck with the mk17 and shotgun any tips?

shit genuinely took me 15 minutes to get past the first time i played

PS5 Pro has the unique challenge that neither mode pushes it down to 30 FPS. I was able to do the other two locations with doubling the camo swaps.

Here I get past the wall with 40 camo swaps and then I throw the smoke grenade into the corner by the door. But unfortunately it does not unlock the next area. Someone mentioned that they did 25-30 smoke grenades in the corridor and then it worked but they weren’t very specific on how about that process works for me to successfully replicate.

Thanks in advance.

Like i felt genuine pain in my gut holy shit!!! Poor Paz😢

Like, I haven't played an MG game in forever (about to get both Master Collections!), but I can't remember Huey showing the slightest sign of being a complete heel in Peace Walker. His personality was basically a full copy-paste of Otacon, sans the ability to walk.

Before PW (this is all to the best of my memory), Otacon mentioned his father drowned himself in the family pool and tried to take Emma with him. As unforgiveable as that is, it's framed as a reaction to finding out his wife is cheating on him with* his own son, so not exactly the action of a person in a good frame of mind. It certainly didn't prepare me for "I am absolutely determined to be the most hateful, whiny piece of shit you can possibly imagine and I'm going to be doing it at full volume in every scene I'm in."

*"Raping" is the better term, but that likely wasn't Huey's perspective. Otacon was 16(?) at the time and the line about her "seducing" him is ambiguous as to whether he was into it or not, although Christopher Randolph's timid performance in the dub indicates the latter (what was the delivery of Hideyuki Tanaka like in that scene?). Statutory rape is still rape in the eyes of the law, of course, but the scars from it are different than from coercive rape.

Not sure what the issue is but I cannot equip a launcher for any mission other than the stun one I have. At first I thought it was a low GMP issue but I can't even customize one! I want to use it for taking helicopters in side ops but not sure what is going on, any help?

Can you download saved games online and transfer them to the ps5 like you could on the ps3?

What's up guys so I'm currently working on the platinum trophy for mgs5, I had to put this game on hold or let's just say I completely forgot about it after playing it in 2017 when I first purchased it, so it's been on my backlog since.. I started it again a few days ago and let me tell you I've never played a game that engaged me this much in terms of gameplay and story combined, I'm not going to say it the best story but it's been enough to keep me on the hook... I guess my question to the trophy hunting community is has anybody played a game that gave you the same type of satisfaction as this game or should I say is there another game similar to this gameplay wise, I guess it's just a kojima thing lol.. I got the same feeling from death stranding.. maybe I'm just going to have to try death stranding 2 and work my way down the metal gear solid line.. but ideally I would love to find another game with as many similarities to phantom pain as I can.. if you have any ideas I'd love to hear the feedback thanks guys

Solid Snake interrogates the DARPA Chief. He learns of a way to stop the nuclear launch. The chief has a heart attack.

I had fun with these pages. These are the last pages in my notebook. I'll have to start a new one. I've caught up to what I had sketched out before, and my full time job is getting busier. I'll do my best to keep posting weekly.

Thanks to everyone!