It's the beret that makes him evil
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croikThe past three nights I've had dreams about Metal Gear. First it was just the little item boxes that appear in the bottom corners of the screen placed over my dream, so that I could switch weapons while fighting off the killers from Funny Games. Then Major Zero convinced me to sign up for a cosplay contest at the cost of my immortal soul. And last night, Old Snake and I were trying to get MGS4 cutscenes to play on my SNES. Clearly I'm suffering some kind of Snake overdose.
So here's some more MGS talk :D
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gefrierpunkt lent me his copy of Portable Ops, and last night I finally finished it. I'm really grateful because the game is really hard to find, and now I don't have to spend stupid amounts of money just to play it once. It was fun, but it just isn't the same playing MGS on a handheld.
My main beef with the game (other than the radar, which was as unhelpful as possible) was that the areas you had to fight in were so small, you couldn't work up the same Metal Gear feel as usual. With everything so closed together, if you ever get spotted, there's hardly ever any place to escape to--the enemies keep up pretty well, and in such an inclosed space it's hard to get anywhere without running into another guard. Plus, as long as you have a SURVEYOR in your spy team for each location, you pretty much know exactly where to go to finish any given mission. Up until the last few mission you can more or less just run from your truck to the objective. I ended up doing that a lot just because the camera and radar were just too limiting to be of any use for sneaking.
Plus I'm impatient :<
The boss fights were all pretty obnoxious as well, especially in a series known for fun boss fights. Each one was just you vs boss in an open area, waiting until they expose themselves so you can shoot them. And Metal Gear was very deceptive, since Cambell told me to use the TNT when there was a RPG right around the corner. Bastard.
But the real reason I played MPO was for the story, because I was hoping to see if it would fill in some of the holes in Big Boss' character. In that regard I was disappointed, because he was still pretty boring in Ops. I think about half his dialogue was him repeating other people's declarations in disbelief. "Metal Gear!?" "The Pentagon!?" "THE BOSS!?" The rest of it almost felt indifferent. "Oh yeah, you're that kid from Vietnam. Come chill with me." Even when Elisa first explained the Perfect Soldier process to him he didn't seem all that interested or concerned with them using someone like that. No outrage, no approval. He wasn't even that motivating of a speaker for his men, he just repeated what The Boss told him. And yet everyone is in love with him.
I think what it comes down to is that Big Boss was only able to attract all the soldiers he did because he's just really good at what he does. He didn't seem to have half the charisma or character or ambition that Gene did, but just because hewas "better" than Gene everyone thinks he's amazing. They did it in Snake Eater, too. After the Virtuous Mission Para-Medic called Big Boss "the best field agent she'd ever seen." Well at that point all he'd managed to do was "not die" in a mission that was horrible botched. Either Para-Medic has low standards or she just happened to sneak a peek at his cock while he was in a coma or something.
Even Zero looks up to Big Boss as some kind of God like figure of a perfect soldier, when again, all through Snake Eater Big Boss only fought people who were intentionally not trying to kill him (except for Volgin and peons). When you consider that Raiden survived his mission against two members of Dead Cell who couldn't die and somewhere between 5 to 20 Metal Gears (depending on the difficulty setting) it's hard for me to consider Big Boss that much better than the soldiers who come after him.
As much as I liked Gene in Ops, it seemed again like they were robbing Big Boss of any attempt at characterization by spoon-feeding him the idea and means for Outer Heaven. Pretty much the only difference between Gene's vision of a mercenary nation and Big Boss' was that Big Boss intended to be "nice" to his soldiers, where as Gene didn't actually give a shit about that. I thought that part of Gene's character was kind of sloppy, actually: if he was supposedly the perfect commander, he should have realized that having more soldiers is advantageous to him. From the point of view of logic and self interest there was no need for him to have his men kill each other, other than to just show off, maybe. Even if he didn't care about his men, they're still more valuable alive. I felt like that threw that in just to show how much "better" of a leader Big Boss was in that he cared whether his men lived or died.
But even if BB was "nice" to his men, that still doesn't change the fact that he ends up doing everything he claimed was insane about Gene's plans for Army's Heaven: he still ends up kidnapping a scientist to create a super nuclear Metal Gear for him. He watched Elisa sacrifice her life in the hopes that nuclear weapons would never be used, against anyone. And then he goes and makes a Metal Gear of his own?
BB has a lot of great backstory, but because of the way he acts in Snake Eater and Ops, it feels like some of it goes to waste. How do you go from a soldier trying to avoid nuclear war at all costs, to a mercenary king trying to build a military nation centered around a Metal Gear? THAT'S the story I wanted to see. But Kojima keeps teasing instead of giving it to me >:O
ANYWAY I'm tired of complaining about Big Boss. I feel like if I grabbed him and Ocelot and Eva and the rest and dug into my own fic about it, I would find a way to tie everything together in a way that would make me love him. I'm sure of it! >:I But I dunno if I have the energy XD;;; (or the time).
But it would definitely include Raikov, because him being in Ops made me very happy, and I like the idea that it might actually be canon he was there and not just a silly cameo. I'd ship Johnathon/Raikov if they hadn't KILLED HIM, FUCKERS. Now I'm just gonna have to throw Raikov on Big Boss and eat popcorn. Right after I play 4 again.
Also, Cambell was hot. No wonder he was a womanizer up into his 60s.
So here's some more MGS talk :D
gefrierpunkt lent me his copy of Portable Ops, and last night I finally finished it. I'm really grateful because the game is really hard to find, and now I don't have to spend stupid amounts of money just to play it once. It was fun, but it just isn't the same playing MGS on a handheld.My main beef with the game (other than the radar, which was as unhelpful as possible) was that the areas you had to fight in were so small, you couldn't work up the same Metal Gear feel as usual. With everything so closed together, if you ever get spotted, there's hardly ever any place to escape to--the enemies keep up pretty well, and in such an inclosed space it's hard to get anywhere without running into another guard. Plus, as long as you have a SURVEYOR in your spy team for each location, you pretty much know exactly where to go to finish any given mission. Up until the last few mission you can more or less just run from your truck to the objective. I ended up doing that a lot just because the camera and radar were just too limiting to be of any use for sneaking.
Plus I'm impatient :<
The boss fights were all pretty obnoxious as well, especially in a series known for fun boss fights. Each one was just you vs boss in an open area, waiting until they expose themselves so you can shoot them. And Metal Gear was very deceptive, since Cambell told me to use the TNT when there was a RPG right around the corner. Bastard.
But the real reason I played MPO was for the story, because I was hoping to see if it would fill in some of the holes in Big Boss' character. In that regard I was disappointed, because he was still pretty boring in Ops. I think about half his dialogue was him repeating other people's declarations in disbelief. "Metal Gear!?" "The Pentagon!?" "THE BOSS!?" The rest of it almost felt indifferent. "Oh yeah, you're that kid from Vietnam. Come chill with me." Even when Elisa first explained the Perfect Soldier process to him he didn't seem all that interested or concerned with them using someone like that. No outrage, no approval. He wasn't even that motivating of a speaker for his men, he just repeated what The Boss told him. And yet everyone is in love with him.
I think what it comes down to is that Big Boss was only able to attract all the soldiers he did because he's just really good at what he does. He didn't seem to have half the charisma or character or ambition that Gene did, but just because hewas "better" than Gene everyone thinks he's amazing. They did it in Snake Eater, too. After the Virtuous Mission Para-Medic called Big Boss "the best field agent she'd ever seen." Well at that point all he'd managed to do was "not die" in a mission that was horrible botched. Either Para-Medic has low standards or she just happened to sneak a peek at his cock while he was in a coma or something.
Even Zero looks up to Big Boss as some kind of God like figure of a perfect soldier, when again, all through Snake Eater Big Boss only fought people who were intentionally not trying to kill him (except for Volgin and peons). When you consider that Raiden survived his mission against two members of Dead Cell who couldn't die and somewhere between 5 to 20 Metal Gears (depending on the difficulty setting) it's hard for me to consider Big Boss that much better than the soldiers who come after him.
As much as I liked Gene in Ops, it seemed again like they were robbing Big Boss of any attempt at characterization by spoon-feeding him the idea and means for Outer Heaven. Pretty much the only difference between Gene's vision of a mercenary nation and Big Boss' was that Big Boss intended to be "nice" to his soldiers, where as Gene didn't actually give a shit about that. I thought that part of Gene's character was kind of sloppy, actually: if he was supposedly the perfect commander, he should have realized that having more soldiers is advantageous to him. From the point of view of logic and self interest there was no need for him to have his men kill each other, other than to just show off, maybe. Even if he didn't care about his men, they're still more valuable alive. I felt like that threw that in just to show how much "better" of a leader Big Boss was in that he cared whether his men lived or died.
But even if BB was "nice" to his men, that still doesn't change the fact that he ends up doing everything he claimed was insane about Gene's plans for Army's Heaven: he still ends up kidnapping a scientist to create a super nuclear Metal Gear for him. He watched Elisa sacrifice her life in the hopes that nuclear weapons would never be used, against anyone. And then he goes and makes a Metal Gear of his own?
BB has a lot of great backstory, but because of the way he acts in Snake Eater and Ops, it feels like some of it goes to waste. How do you go from a soldier trying to avoid nuclear war at all costs, to a mercenary king trying to build a military nation centered around a Metal Gear? THAT'S the story I wanted to see. But Kojima keeps teasing instead of giving it to me >:O
ANYWAY I'm tired of complaining about Big Boss. I feel like if I grabbed him and Ocelot and Eva and the rest and dug into my own fic about it, I would find a way to tie everything together in a way that would make me love him. I'm sure of it! >:I But I dunno if I have the energy XD;;; (or the time).
But it would definitely include Raikov, because him being in Ops made me very happy, and I like the idea that it might actually be canon he was there and not just a silly cameo. I'd ship Johnathon/Raikov if they hadn't KILLED HIM, FUCKERS. Now I'm just gonna have to throw Raikov on Big Boss and eat popcorn. Right after I play 4 again.
Also, Cambell was hot. No wonder he was a womanizer up into his 60s.
