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> unneccecary.
Awww cute!
*Rapes*
> WHAT ? Are you out of your mind ? In what way was The Twin Snakes
> better ? First of all it showed Snake as a character who has some
> kinds of "superior powers" that made him dodge bullets ,
> missiles, and unarm a bunch of soldiers carrying Famas rifles while
> he is unarmed. If he is bullet-Proof, missile-Proof, no one can sneak
> up behind him, then what's the point of making it a stealth game in
> the first place ? The game takes place as if you were inside The
> Matrix, the events in the original took place in a real setting. In
> The Twin Snakes everything was possible, which didn't make any sense
> becasue there used to be characters that died in the game. If snake
> can dodge bullets from a machine gun, dodge bullets from a sniper
> rifle, dodge missiles and even jump and shoot a "stinger
> missile" from mid air, which by the way has a projectile force
> that can knock you off your feet, and even dodge a large portion of
> the ceiling coming directly at him due to a volley shot that was made
> by gray fox who "Cut the ceiling" and threw at at snake,
> now snake can do all that but he can't simply push Meryl away from
> Sniper Wolf's laser sight ? It doesn't make sense at all. It is
> obvious that Meryl was shot not because Snake couldn't do anything
> about it, but because this is what happened in the original game. And
> apart from that, all the scenes were too farfetched. Can you tell me
> the difference between Gray Fox in The Twin Snakes and an Agent from
> The Matrix ? The part where he keeps dodging bullets from Metal Gear
> Rex was ripped directly from The Matrix. The entire scene was much
> much better in the original game. All the cutscenes were a much MUCH
> better in the original . They were artistic, they had this
> "Hideo Kojima" flavour in them. They were engulfed in
> mystrey, with only small bits of action just for the sake of the
> story to keep flowing, not for mere entertainment. And the
> voiceovers. Now the guy who made the voice of Gray Fox in The Twin
> Snakes was a complete ediot. The one in the original MGS1 had a
> deeper , and more touching voice. Also the voices of Vulcan Raven ,
> Phsycho Mantis and Mei Ling really really s*cked. The actors in the
> original game did a much better job. Also David Hayter didn't do it
> EXACTLY as he did it in the original, yes he did a good job, but it
> isn't perfect, unlike the original. And the music, now that was
> really really irritating. What happened to those epic themes during
> the boss fights ? Do you remember how enthusiastic did we feel every
> single time we fought the ninja in the original game ? What happened
> to that ? Isn't it enough that the wonderful phrases like "Make
> me feel it, make me feel alive again" or "Hurt me more ,
> more" Became so lame because of changing the actor ? No , it
> seems that it's not enough, they had to make it so boring and ugly by
> removing the music. Offcourse the same applies to the rest of the
> bosses and to the parts that used to be brilliant in the original. Do
> you remember the theme when it kept getting faster and faster during
> the escape scene ? It became so boring and pointless. All the boss
> fights play the same way, but they don't have the same excietment.
> They lost their glamour. In the original MGS1 they had, and they
> still have this "Magic Touch" , which is lacked completely
> in The Twin Snakes. Also the first person shooting ability was never
> meant to be in MGS1. Some bosses were supposed to be fought from a
> 3rd person prespective, that was the beauty of it, 1st person made
> them much easier, and it doesn't make the fights the way they were
> originally directed by Hideo Kojima. Do you remember the music during
> the scene where Sniper Wolf Dies ? What happened to that ? It became
> "emotionless". In the original game I felt that she was
> dying right infront of me no matter how many times I play the game,
> while in The Twin Snakes it seems as if the actress was holding a
> paper and reading from it the lines that she's supposed to say. There
> is no "Life" in it. It feels cold. It feels ugly. When we
> watched the cutscenes in the original MGS, it used to give us a
> feeling that snake was skillful, but yet he's human. When you point a
> gun at him, he surrenders. When you shoot him, he bleeds. He falls.
> He get's hurt . He's human. This is the kind of impression that was
> left in us, that's why when we first played the game we got worried
> about snake after the first Metal Gear Rex fight, and that's why the
> scene were Gray Fox saves him made such a great impact on us. It came
> as a complete surprise. It was done skillfully and beautifully. Snake
> was hopeless infront of the powerful REX. Gray Fox saved him, and
> gave him REX on a plate of gold. He really gave me the feeling that
> he fullfils what snake told Naomi: "Your brother fought with
> every ounce of strength left in him to save you, me and the whole
> world". While in The "Super Snakes" everything was
> possible. Throughout the whole game snake evaded everything that
> stood in his way, all he had to do is dodge this, dodge that, and
> there are no problems at all. You have no fears or worries. The final
> scene with fox was , firstly, un-surprising (Offcourse not because
> we've seen the original, but from snake's point of view, assuming
> that the events are happening for the first time), un-enthusiastic
> and un-exciting, because what Gray Fox did was based on things that
> also snake kept doing in the game. And secondly it was done awfully.
> Bullet time has been ripped off The Matrix by many games and movies ,
> so it wasn't original. And the whole scene took place slowly, unlike
> the original scene where Fox was Graceful, moved beautifully and
> quickly, and his body was upright and stretched for most of the time,
> and on top of all that it was much more touching. It had so many
> emotions. I used to feel sorry for fox every single time I watched
> it. His voice was deep, and he sounded suffering and in pain, unlike
> The F**ked up snakes were it seemed to be some cheap actor who just
> kept reading some lines , he couldn't make us beleive it. I never
> felt for 1 second in the original MGS1 that I was playing a video
> game. It was taken seriously. It was spectacular. Once upon a time
> there was a beautiful game called Metal Gear Solid , now some people
> decided to ruin it because they wanted to make some money. The Twin
> Snakes is a shame. It is a disgrace. Oh God, I wish they never made
> that game.
This probably could have been summed up in something that won't take until the end of time to read.