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~~Leo656~~ · 01-17-2015, 05:38 AM

Since it's somehow been over five years I decided to Play Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes for the first time in a while. Gotta say, I didn't miss the camera or the controls as much as I thought. I'm just so used to being able to manipulate the camera in games now, I keep flicking the right stick expecting to actually be able to see the bad guys or actually scope my surroundings; no such luck. It's annoying to spend inordinate amounts of time staring at dots on the radar. I can't even imagine how I ever played the original so many times without having the First-Person View Mode, or at least the updated camera they started using with Snake Eater: Subsistence. I imagine I must have been constantly toggling the binoculars on and off like crazy. I don't miss the contrived back-tracking, either.

And I get that the game wants to "punish" you for fighting, but aiming while under fire in close quarters just suuuucks. Takes way too long to aim in First-Person with five guys constantly shooting at you, and it's pretty ridiculous that the "auto-aim" when not in FP still has machine gun bullets whizz harmlessly past someone who's literally inches in front of you. C'mon, game, at least give me a chance!

It's entirely more useful to just take on a bunch of heavily-armed mercs with just your fists rather than use your own weapons. I get that these games are Kojima's long-winded and heavy-handed "violence is bad, m'kay" preachings, but holy sh*t, sometimes I just want to shoot a guy in the face after he's done the same to me.

I still love the game, story-wise it's my favorite of the series so far, but it was harder to shake the rust off than I thought. The last "proper" one in the series I played was Subsistence, and I hear they've pretty much "fixed" all the camera and control issues in the games since then, so I'm looking forward to playing those, and of course the newest one coming out. Having played Rising to death recently, I think splitting the franchise into "classic" and "more action-based" series is a good idea. There wasn't a lot to Rising, but I will say that it's pretty pick-up-and-play, while the older games in the series... are Not That.

Debating jumping right to Guns of the Patriots, or waiting until I pick up the Legacy Collection and just do a run of all of them. Still haven't played Peace Walker and I'd really like to.

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01-17-2015, 05:38 AM	#11
~~Leo656~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: nWo Country Posts: 27,703	Since it's somehow been over five years I decided to Play Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes for the first time in a while. Gotta say, I didn't miss the camera or the controls as much as I thought. I'm just so used to being able to manipulate the camera in games now, I keep flicking the right stick expecting to actually be able to see the bad guys or actually scope my surroundings; no such luck. It's annoying to spend inordinate amounts of time staring at dots on the radar. I can't even imagine how I ever played the original so many times without having the First-Person View Mode, or at least the updated camera they started using with Snake Eater: Subsistence. I imagine I must have been constantly toggling the binoculars on and off like crazy. I don't miss the contrived back-tracking, either. And I get that the game wants to "punish" you for fighting, but aiming while under fire in close quarters just suuuucks. Takes way too long to aim in First-Person with five guys constantly shooting at you, and it's pretty ridiculous that the "auto-aim" when not in FP still has machine gun bullets whizz harmlessly past someone who's literally inches in front of you. C'mon, game, at least give me a chance! It's entirely more useful to just take on a bunch of heavily-armed mercs with just your fists rather than use your own weapons. I get that these games are Kojima's long-winded and heavy-handed "violence is bad, m'kay" preachings, but holy sh*t, sometimes I just want to shoot a guy in the face after he's done the same to me. I still love the game, story-wise it's my favorite of the series so far, but it was harder to shake the rust off than I thought. The last "proper" one in the series I played was Subsistence, and I hear they've pretty much "fixed" all the camera and control issues in the games since then, so I'm looking forward to playing those, and of course the newest one coming out. Having played Rising to death recently, I think splitting the franchise into "classic" and "more action-based" series is a good idea. There wasn't a lot to Rising, but I will say that it's pretty pick-up-and-play, while the older games in the series... are Not That. Debating jumping right to Guns of the Patriots, or waiting until I pick up the Legacy Collection and just do a run of all of them. Still haven't played Peace Walker and I'd really like to.