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@indiana_jenkins:

Well it might just be trailer bait. For all we know that was 80% of there lines in the trailer.

@development:

Yeah, that and Alex face at around 43min. Alex was so great in this. I also loved how batshit Matt's segment was, in context of all it being a dream.

I really liked this years GOTY stuff. The best the site has ever produced if you ask me. I wanted to rewatch it all, so I made it a little easier for myself, and anybody else who wants to sit down and watch it as one long feature (44:17).

I just removed all the GOTY awards, all the gameplaying, and then about half of the Danny O'Dwyer stuff. Not that it wasn't funny. But with out all the breaks in between, having Danny present the segments every second minute, made the feature kind of janky.

I REALLY don't want to be stepping on anybodies toes. So if I'm somehow violating some copyright stuff, then please do tell. And if anybody from GB has a problem with the video, I will remove it immediately. I tried giving you as much credit as possible in the description, but if anything is missing, please say so.

Man I'm all kinds of hyped for 2015, like I haven't been since forever. Uncharted, MGS, and The witness are probarly my top picks. Man how crazy is it that my like top three developers all have games coming out next year.

This whole year was a disappointment. Disappointment of the year should have been "2014"

What's with the MGS hate, those games are basically already none interactive telltale games. Would love an MGS off shoot staring Otacon, made by TellTale and Kojima.

Also, the "Johnny the Prison guard" easter egg, that one is amazing. That said, I missed Johnny in both 2 and 3, which made the reveal at the end of 4 all the more amazing. But I don't know, did anybody here actually guess who Johnny was in 4, before the reveal?

@nodima:

I enjoyed it a lot. Well, I'm not going to rip it and put it on my iPod, but that's not who it was meant to be enjoyed anyway. I thought it gave us a great taste for something very different but cool. It succeeded in making me hyped for the next album to drop. Not that wasn't looking forward to it, but I didn't expect saxophones!

@billymaysrip:

>I don't really enjoy Swimming Pools, which I think is fantastically produced, but the lyrics are kinda lame.

You should really listen to the whole album. It's pretty concept heavy. About youth in Compton. Swimming Pools is one of the albums lighter, if not lightest songs. It's kind of made to be cheesy and lame. It's the party song of the track list, and meant to be enjoyed as such, before things go wrong.

I too have been playing through the series lately. (1-4, GZ, Rising, and PW) And it has become on of, if not my favorite series. So much, that I have already played through 1-4 multiple times over the last 4 months, both alone and with friends. I cannot get enough of MGS, or so I thought. Because PW was a miserable experience. Still is. Because I still haven't been able to get through the game.

I read your piece, in hopes that it might invoke something in me, that might make me go back. But I can't. The game is such a drag. And you seem to love that part of the game. Everything that made the other games special is drowned in uninteresting systems and menus, that I don't know how to navigate. True, MGS is no stranger to obscure systems and menus. But in the past games they have all felt kind of natural to me, and the more obscure stuff never seemed crucial. But having to mess with the motherbase and the mission briefing, just kills any excitement I might have for the next mission.

The reason I like the games. Is the level of detail and personalty every corner of the game has. I was watching MG Scanlon, and enjoying the game like most people probarly did. Drew got caught by Ocelot, he escaped. But the moment he was called up by Grey Fox, to drop the bomb in his inventor. That was the moment I fell in love with the series. The moment I knew I had to play the game myself. So I paused the video. Went to the PSN shop. Bought the game. And played it in one sitting.

Give me a pencil and I could draw every room from 1-3 pretty accurately. I love the tightly nit rooms, the memorable moments, the iconic boss fights, the ester eggs, the item placements, the enemy patterns, the shortcuts, the backtracking, the epic cutscenes. In short, I guess I like the level and gameplay design.

All that said, I'll agree that PW is the best playing of the games (GZ aside). And I appreciate how far the series has come form a game play perspective. But that stuff never really mattered to me. And so, what PW comes down to. Is a game that improves on aspects of the game I didn't care about, add a bunch of bullshit, and completely turns it backs on all the stuff I like

And I really really hope that V, borrows more form Snake eater, than Peach Walker. But at this point I'm not so sure.

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Forgot to mention. I was really sad that I didn't like the game. I really like Big Boss, and I was so fucking ready to see what happened to him after Snake eater. But then came motion comics, monster hunter mechanics, and base management.