Here Are Several Minutes of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Related Nonsense

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Future cars suck

Deadly force authorized! [gun to holster, brings out stun thing]

Man pick an accent and stick with it Raiden. This continues to bump me out, it looks like a bare bones Bayonetta with one gimmicky QTE thing to support it.

Needs more watermelon cutting.

Played the demo at Eurogamer last year and was massively impressed. And just try to remember this isn't an MGS game specifically.

@Branthog said:

@Tesla said:

@Branthog said:

@Tesla said:

@Branthog: You can boil down just about every video game in existence to a "thirteen year old boy's fantasy". If immature turns you off so much, maybe put the controller down and read more classic literature or watch a French film. Refined palates are rarely the target audience of game developers.

Anyway, this looks like fun. I like Platinum Games frantic action style and the crazy Metal Gear universe, so sign me up!

That's a totally fair point -- there's just something that's particularly more thirteen-year-old-boy-ish about a sword that cuts thousands of times a second for super awesome slo-mo violence or Gears of War roided dudes that look like they're a human Abrams Tank. It somehow makes it come across as a more hollow game when they make such a big deal out of 'OHMYGOD LOOK AT HOW MANY PIECES I CUT THIS DUDE INTO!". That's something that's awesome the first two times in a tech-demo and then becomes instantly dumb.

If it was a half hour of that with Raiden in a twenty hour MGS 5, then that'd be just about the perfect amount.

On the other hand, if the story is as fun as MGS4 and it has crazy long cinematics and other things going for it, there's still a chance I can look past that (and the sort of Bayonetta-ish combat-style which I just don't think I can do anymore) and trudge through.

I just... yeah.... the mechanics look more like a chore than anything else. :/

I definitely see your point that the mechanic could get old over the course of the entire game. I share that opinion with you actually.

But I also love the fact that bodies and the environment react to your sword. That is entirely new to me. As a guy who loves Battlefield and Red Faction partly because of the destructible environments, I look forward to playing something that allows me to do that kind of thing with a sword instead of high explosives.

I actually feel the same way about those games, too. At least, the Red Faction games. Like this slice and dice mechanic, they're all destructive elements that would be great pieces of a game -- but even in Red Faction, I feel you're left wanting something more (after awhile). That's common among all of gaming, though, I suppose. Too many games do one new or neat thing and that's their whole trick. And they lean on it through the whole game.

I don't deny that there aren't some that would find this single thing a blast in this game. And if this were in an arcade in 1992, I would be having a fucking awesome time. I just find myself really put off by it. Which is unfortunate (for me, primarily) as I'm ready for more MGS craziness of the style I got in MGS4.

This is first and foremost a Platinum Games action game set in the Metal Gear universe, think more like Bayonetta, Vanquish etc (though of course not exactly the same). If you don't want an extremely fast, action game then this won't be the game for you. I'm not saying that to be nasty, just that this isn't a traditional metal gear game but as a Metal Gear AND Platinum Games fan it's bliss for myself (and I'm sure some other Metal Gear fans). You need to go back into Metal Gears past for that. I'd recommend the original Metal Gear Solid PS1 digital download on PS3 and the Metal Gear Solid HD collection. 1 and 2 lead into 4 so that completes the main Solid Snake story and 3 is a prequel with Naked Snake. MGS1 is probably the most dated as its from the PS1 era but I still love that game to bits, I still consider it the best Metal Gear game of the lot.

There's also apparently a Metal Gear Rising Revengeance demo due next week so you could always try that then as well :)

This looks *really* stupid, and like a lot of fun.

I can dig it. Any Metal Gear is good Metal Gear to me. Be it Cold War Stealth, Cyborg Slash-em-up, Kojima or Platinum brand insanity. It's all welcome here.

@Branthog: As a die hard fan of MGS since the first Solid on Playstation, let me tell you that I am also way more excited about whatever the hell MGS5 is than Rising here. I'll check out Rising when it drops in price, but the next Metal Gear proper I will preorder and anticipate for months leading up to release.

So hey, no worries if Rising doesn't tickle your fancy. That Phantom Pain trailer is enough for me to know that the next Metal Gear will give us both more of what we like about Metal Gear.

Also, it's pretty cool that you're new to the series and like it as much as you say. That seems like a rare thing, even though MGS4 is top notch. Have you thought about dipping into the past games? It might be tough because they haven't aged particularly well, but you should at least give MGS3 a shot if you haven't already.

Raiden got a case of lead clawfoot.

Yeah...I think I'll come back when MGS 5 comes out.

Let me get this straight. In the future, when trying to apprehend someone that you have at gunpoint, Having the person tell you to arrest them allows the use of deadly force, but that DEADLY FORCE INVOLVES STUN BATONS. I fucking hate japanese video game writing sometimes.

Cyborg Ninjas drive cars too! They're just like us!

@Branthog said:

@Tesla said:

@Branthog: You can boil down just about every video game in existence to a "thirteen year old boy's fantasy". If immature turns you off so much, maybe put the controller down and read more classic literature or watch a French film. Refined palates are rarely the target audience of game developers.

Anyway, this looks like fun. I like Platinum Games frantic action style and the crazy Metal Gear universe, so sign me up!

That's a totally fair point -- there's just something that's particularly more thirteen-year-old-boy-ish about a sword that cuts thousands of times a second for super awesome slo-mo violence or Gears of War roided dudes that look like they're a human Abrams Tank. It somehow makes it come across as a more hollow game when they make such a big deal out of 'OHMYGOD LOOK AT HOW MANY PIECES I CUT THIS DUDE INTO!". That's something that's awesome the first two times in a tech-demo and then becomes instantly dumb.

If it was a half hour of that with Raiden in a twenty hour MGS 5, then that'd be just about the perfect amount.

On the other hand, if the story is as fun as MGS4 and it has crazy long cinematics and other things going for it, there's still a chance I can look past that (and the sort of Bayonetta-ish combat-style which I just don't think I can do anymore) and trudge through.

I just... yeah.... the mechanics look more like a chore than anything else. :/

I definitely see your point that the mechanic could get old over the course of the entire game. I share that opinion with you actually.

But I also love the fact that bodies and the environment react to your sword. That is entirely new to me. As a guy who loves Battlefield and Red Faction partly because of the destructible environments, I look forward to playing something that allows me to do that kind of thing with a sword instead of high explosives.

Just another typical day in Denver.

Huge Metal Gear fan and everything about this turns me off. Not for me.

Hope some other people enjoy it, though!

@mlarrabee said:

@JackSukeru said:

@mlarrabee said:

I'm learning all sorts of new wordcabularies.

EDIT: Why are the cyborgs bleeding?! Why would you put blood in a robot?!

You wouldn't but he's also not a robot, he's a cyborg, he's only half robot.

Which I freaking love by the way, even if his voice has become completely ridiculous, I'm really excited to see where they end up taking all of this.

OK. I literally just learned what "cyborg" means. More than twenty years of science-fiction movies, games, and books, and I've never believed "cyborg" to be anything more than a homonym for "android." "Cybernetic organism." It's all coming together...

That must be totally amazing.

Raiden in a car...seriously...OK I'm out. I'll try MGS again in another 5 years.

Thought of something. If Ryan was a cyborg (like Jack) he too would drive around in a car just to freak people out.

@Branthog: You're coming off as a total fun-nazi, which begs the question: Why are you playing video games at all?

As for the video, Revengeance continues to look totally rad. However, I would love to slap the person who told Quinton Flynn to impersonate the Bale-Batman voice. Bad idea.

Oh my. I didn't expect Jack to go in this direction. Interesting.

This game looks fantastic and I can't wait for it to come out. The demo is super fun, but it looks like there'll be way more enemy variety in the full game, and I'm excited to fight new enemies since the two enemy types in the demo are kind of chumps.

@kennyshat said:

I never got into Metal Gear, but this looks like a thing that Platinum Games definitely made which means I definitely want to play it. I wonder if I'll be able to understand any of the story stuff in it at all.

I don't think most of the people who have played the older Metal Gear games will be able to understand it.

I thought Xbox and PS3 weren't getting Bayonetta 2?

@Vonocourt said:

There's something amazingly dumb about cyborg Raiden driving around in a regular car.

I was just thinking the same thing...its hilarious!

HAHAHA CUTTING SOON HAHAHAHAHAH!

@JackSukeru said:

@mlarrabee said:

I'm learning all sorts of new wordcabularies.

EDIT: Why are the cyborgs bleeding?! Why would you put blood in a robot?!

You wouldn't but he's also not a robot, he's a cyborg, he's only half robot.

Which I freaking love by the way, even if his voice has become completely ridiculous, I'm really excited to see where they end up taking all of this.

OK. I literally just learned what "cyborg" means. More than twenty years of science-fiction movies, games, and books, and I've never believed "cyborg" to be anything more than a homonym for "android." "Cybernetic organism." It's all coming together...

@mlarrabee said:

I'm learning all sorts of new wordcabularies.

EDIT: Why are the cyborgs bleeding?! Why would you put blood in a robot?!

Crazy future blood and bleeding robots have been a Kojima thing for decades.

"comin' straight from the underground."

Why aren't those robot cops shooting you with all manner of future-guns while you swing your sword around?

@mlarrabee said:

I'm learning all sorts of new wordcabularies.

EDIT: Why are the cyborgs bleeding?! Why would you put blood in a robot?!

You wouldn't but he's also not a robot, he's a cyborg, he's only half robot.

Which I freaking love by the way, even if his voice has become completely ridiculous, I'm really excited to see where they end up taking all of this.

I never got into Metal Gear, but this looks like a thing that Platinum Games definitely made which means I definitely want to play it. I wonder if I'll be able to understand any of the story stuff in it at all.

@Branthog: You can boil down just about every video game in existence to a "thirteen year old boy's fantasy". If immature turns you off so much, maybe put the controller down and read more classic literature or watch a French film. Refined palates are rarely the target audience of game developers.

Anyway, this looks like fun. I like Platinum Games frantic action style and the crazy Metal Gear universe, so sign me up!

ja feel ja definitely feel

@Vonocourt said:

There's something amazingly dumb about cyborg Raiden driving around in a regular car.

Man, I can't really imagine Raiden doing anything normally without it looking silly. Paying bills? Watching a baseball game? You think he'd at least, like, wear a coat or something to cover all that up!

Don't look at his jaw. Don't look at his jaw. Don't look at his jaw. Don't look at his jaw. Don't look at his OH GOD I LOOKED AT IT AND HE NOTICED.

This game looks so good.

please be good

This game looks awesome! Preordered and getting a free steel book with art!!

So is this game written BY 10-year-olds, or just FOR them? What a bunch of hammy garbage.

Also, police officers, why did you put your guns away?

I feel dumber for watching this.

oh man i mean oh man!!!

Can't wait!

This trailer looks awesome and it cracks me the hell up.

There's something amazingly dumb about cyborg Raiden driving around in a regular car.

I much prefer when he talked like old Raiden for a little bit in the car but yeah that looks suitably ridiculous!