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Question. None of this is real, for you utter mongs that are going to reply saying how irritated you are at the change...

Metal Gear Solid 2 has just been pulled from shelves, after a review into the game. Hideo decides that the characters in the game are a bit "nasty", and puts in other cute characters instead.

Now, it's not based in the real world, it's based in "Fluffy Land", and the Metal Gear will destroy all plant life in the land.

You control a bunny, as the main character, the plot, apart from fitting in with those conditions, is pretty much the same, and the gameplay is exactly the same.

Instead of shooting and snapping peoples necks, you have to wave your bunny wand over them, and they fall asleep and become "good" animals. They then run back to their mothers and fathers.

All the characters are animals, and it's a very colourful game.

Do you still buy it?

AND Mr Thraves, the FMV is a moot point in all honesty. Take the demo for example, there's about 10 minutes of FMV there, and yet you can complete the actual gameplay section in about 60 seconds including the endboss. But that's only if you want to.

The way the game is designed, and others will back me up who've played the demo, you can spend literally hours just wondering about that one section discovering all the pickups, the passageways and alternate routes, the different ways of attacking the guards, playing with the gadgets, interracting with the scenery, collecting all the dog tags and so on.

So the FMV can be too short for some people, let alone too long. It's all a matter of how you play the game, and some won't enjoy it so much because they just want to rush through it and complete it quickly. Others, like me, are going to take a lot of time exploring.

Grix Thraves wrote:
> Never mind looking, it's playing. If the game plays exactly the
> same...

...But then I suppose it wouldn't, if it means so much to
> you...

*sniff...* Metal Gear Bunny is never to be...

And no, that wasn't
> the idea. :0)

Grix, even if it played the same, using the same controls to crouch, punch/punch/roundhousekick (replace with wavewand/wavewand/tap or something) and even if the storyline was parallel, you'd still have the problem of immersiveness.

I 'could' play Metal Gear Bunny with the nice woodland scenery and non lethal turn baddies into goodies technique, and even collect stars instead of ammo pickups, but I'd find it harder to get immersed into the game because the bunny is, well just a bunny. It wouldn't matter if it died a few times.

But Solid Snake is more immersive to me. If he dies, it's like 'Ow, that must have hurt', and you get more wrapped up in the story if it's more believeable. (I.E. based on real life events and could actually happen any day now). It just seems easier for me to imagine that I'm Solid Snake with a loaded SOCOM pistol rather than a bunny hopping around the woods with a magic wand.

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Grix Thraves wrote:
> RM18 wrote:

"As you're a notable n'all, what do you think of my post
> 'I've seen the future and its not nice...'"

I thought it was a story.
> Not entirely original, but still a story, so that's cool.

A story, please! Don't insult my integrity :-D lol

That's my answer too, Venombyte. F, M, V.

RM18 wrote:

"As you're a notable n'all, what do you think of my post 'I've seen the future and its not nice...'"

I thought it was a story. Not entirely original, but still a story, so that's cool.

Nope, I wouldn't buy it. But then, I'm not getting MGS2 either.

And only partly because I don't own a PS2. The other part is because it's too short and full of FMV.

Nice question though. I can see a variety of ways ro ridicule anyone who decides they wouldn't ;)

Never mind looking, it's playing. If the game plays exactly the same...

...But then I suppose it wouldn't, if it means so much to you...

*sniff...* Metal Gear Bunny is never to be...

And no, that wasn't the idea. :0)

And as well as that, Grix, if I want to look at a game and go "Awwwwwww" then obviously I'll buy Metal Gear Bunny.

But unfortunatley I prefer to look at a game and go "Cooooool", so MGS2 is my preferred choice for now.

Grix Thraves wrote:
> RM18 wrote:
"I was"

Don't worry, wasn't refering to just you,
> everyone I meant.

As you're a notable n'all, what do you think of my post 'I've seen the future and its not nice...'