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12/04/09
Had to adopt that ghetto swag and say it like that. Couldn't help it :|
This game is looking really good. PSP games are looking more and more slick. It still shocks me to this day how good games look on it.
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It's just that in co-op you always look like Snake, but everyone else is just a generic soldier wearing a balaclava.
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So this way, everyone gets to play as Snake while not messing with the idea that there is only 1 at this point (actually 3 as Solid & Liquid were cloned 2 years prior).
12/04/09
They obviously made a Metal Gear Time Machine that looks like a transforming DeLorean that went back in time to kill Naked Snake, but Snake was stealthy enough to steal it and go back in time 4x, making it possible for him to complete a once-impossible mission.
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After actually having a group called the La-Li-Lu-Lee-Lo, and now Four Naked Snakes, it seems like the sky's the limit.
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Don't get me wrong, I hope this is neat. I just was actually wondering if there is a limit to what MGS can get away with.
12/04/09
The reason for the La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo thing was to symbolize how much control they have. Just like in japanese where the sound L doesnt exist, as if someone had erased it from existence, so do the Patroits keep themselves from being detected, to the point that any government official will have nanomachines in them that make them say La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo instead of actually saying "The Patriots". Another form of control...
...Ok, yeah, it does sound ridiculous, but when you look at it as a whole, it's a cool analogy in a game that has ALOT of them.
12/04/09
Good explanation, I'm rusty on my MGS trivia. But yeah, it still does sound a bit ridiculous, especially considering that I had been waiting since part 2 to figure out what that was all about.
12/04/09
Phonetically, you have a i u e o, ha hi fu he ho, sa shi su se so, ta chi tsu te to, ra ri ru re ro and so on, but there is no la li lu le lo. Geddit?
12/04/09
It does kind of put The Christmas Story's Chinese restaurant scene in a whole new light.
12/04/09
I am curious though, since you seem to know your stuff, is Big Boss also a really clever, subversive take on Japanese culture or is it just a dumb name that embarrases me to mention if I have to explain the plot of this series to a normal human being?
12/04/09
And I actually didn't figure it out on my own. I actually had japanese classes a long time ago at the local japanese cultural centre and when the teacher was telling us about the language they brought up the missing la-li-lu-le-lo. It wasn't until MGS4 (years after my classes) that I noticed Meryl respond "La-li-lu-le-lo, what are you talking about?" to Old Snake mentioning the Patriots that it clicked as to what this La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo shit was.
12/04/09
Those nano-machines can give people the ability to heal from gunshots and what not (Vamp), so it isn't crazy to think that they can transmit signals to your brain to stop you from saying words that are programmed in that you shouldn't say.
Johnny can probably say "patriots", I don't think he has nano-machines, hence why he is a bad soldier and always getting an upset stomach at the sight of combat.
In a way no soldier is truly a soldier anymore, that's the point of MGS4. Snake is old, out-dated, but still authentic unlike what war has become.
The point of this is that I might not even be right about what I wrote here, but I am a big MGS fan. That doesn't mean I have to follow it word for word though. This is how it makes sense to me, so this is how I view the "patriots" situation.
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Doesn't explain though why he had the problem in MGS1.
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OH
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I am pretty interested in this new game system though. Kojima-san said something about there being a focus on friends, so I'll have to see just what that's all about.
12/04/09
but this isnt snake, its big boss
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Snake, Big Boss, Liquid, their stories are over as far as I'm concerned. I want to see more on Raiden's game.
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Metal Gear Solid 2 addresses what you just said directly, how people are shaped to be similar and different, The Patriots learned that simply cloning Big Boss wasn't enough, to really make someone into the "same person, more or less" They realized that to copy a person you must also provide them with experiences to shape their consciousness, skill, and decision making.
Solid Snake Simulation of course was really an experiment in Selection for Societal Sanity. A more general person shaping program.
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So you get the advantage of UMD with the exact same memory space as the PSPGo, the only advantage of the Go then being the size.
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*ahem* I'm really looking forward to this and can't wait to see what Kojima gets out of the PSP.
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In all seriousness, this is pretty cool. Hopefully North America won't be too far behind.
12/01/09
And can you believe the graphics in this game?
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After playing the Peace Walker demo, I did just that and discovered just how fun of a game Portable Ops was. try it.
Also, while Peace Walker looks great, I don't think you can say Portable Ops looks much worse.
12/01/09
Really? I actually liked the controls. I'm not really liking the way PW controls. The way you aim is soooo freaking slow because you use the face buttons to aim instead of the stick.
12/01/09
Not to mention the lac of crawling along the floor hiding under stuff and more.
The story looks really amazing so far but has for has the gameplay I'm not so sure.
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I don't really have a reason to own a PSP other than this game.
12/01/09
I know you've probably heard this a million times, but why not get a PSP 3000 and a 16GB memory stick? The best of both worlds!
Unless the smaller form is really needed.
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MH2U is a very good game. But it's hard like hell and would easily stress you out if you are not an action-game savvy.
12/01/09
On the topic of games; I'm fully aware of other great titles for the PSP but they just don't sell me on the system like this new MGS can. I played God of War and the other MGS on the PSP and neither really tickled my fancy beyond "that's neat". Actually, rather than all these action games, I'm more interested in the smaller pick up 'n play games like Prinny and all the other recent stuff.
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Fair enough. Then PSP Go get one!
/really lameness
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