Forum - View topic

INTEREST: Metal Gear Solid: Rising Video Posted Before Spike's VGAs

I love Metal Gear; in fact, it's arguably my favorite video game franchise. And I love Platinum Games, simply because Bayonetta was an absolutely brilliant game. However, this trailer made me groan the entire time. While I'm all for changes in formula, this is such a radical departure from why I love MG, and on top of that, seems to be a rather generic hack-n-slash affair with one novel concept and an over-the-top 'tude.

It's going to take for this to impress me, because as it stands now, I'm despising the utter lack of consistency this game is putting on display. The aforementioned 'tude and creation of a funny novelty word (seriously, WTF is a "Revengence"?!) makes me fear for this game.

Apollo-kun wrote:

I love Metal Gear; in fact, it's arguably my favorite video game franchise. And I love Platinum Games, simply because Bayonetta was an absolutely brilliant game. However, this trailer made me groan the entire time. While I'm all for changes in formula, this is such a radical departure from why I love MG, and on top of that, seems to be a rather generic hack-n-slash affair with one novel concept and an over-the-top 'tude. It's going to take for this to impress me, because as it stands now, I'm despising the utter lack of consistency this game is putting on display. The aforementioned 'tude and creation of a funny novelty word (seriously, WTF is a "Revengence"?!) makes me fear for this game.

You should take in account that this is spin-off basically not an official sequel to the main series, this is still must buy for some die hard fans though, even it isn't same as the previous installments.

Revengeance and those sounded bit corny and over the top, but i don't expect to see them in game, this is mere trailer.

Rysis wrote:

Apollo-kun wrote: I love Metal Gear; in fact, it's arguably my favorite video game franchise. And I love Platinum Games, simply because Bayonetta was an absolutely brilliant game. However, this trailer made me groan the entire time. While I'm all for changes in formula, this is such a radical departure from why I love MG, and on top of that, seems to be a rather generic hack-n-slash affair with one novel concept and an over-the-top 'tude. It's going to take for this to impress me, because as it stands now, I'm despising the utter lack of consistency this game is putting on display. The aforementioned 'tude and creation of a funny novelty word (seriously, WTF is a "Revengence"?!) makes me fear for this game. You should take in account that this is spin-off basically not an official sequel to the main series, this is still must buy for some die hard fans though, even it isn't same as the previous installments. Revengeance and those sounded bit corny and over the top, but i don't expect to see them in game, this is mere trailer.

I just hope it's an actual spin-off. Up until now, they've been acting like this is a direct sequel. If it's a spin-off that isn't part of the main series, then that's cool. Metal Gear Acid is fine in my book because it doesn't really count as is just for fun. Dropping the Solid part of the title and saying another developer is making it definitely implies spin-off.

But if it really is a sequel, then I'm going to be pretty mad. I'm for changes to the formula, provided they don't go too far, and what I saw here was more akin to Bayonetta than Metal Gear. I loved Bayonetta, but it doesn't translate to Metal Gear.

Greed1914 wrote:

Rysis wrote: Apollo-kun wrote: I love Metal Gear; in fact, it's arguably my favorite video game franchise. And I love Platinum Games, simply because Bayonetta was an absolutely brilliant game. However, this trailer made me groan the entire time. While I'm all for changes in formula, this is such a radical departure from why I love MG, and on top of that, seems to be a rather generic hack-n-slash affair with one novel concept and an over-the-top 'tude. It's going to take for this to impress me, because as it stands now, I'm despising the utter lack of consistency this game is putting on display. The aforementioned 'tude and creation of a funny novelty word (seriously, WTF is a "Revengence"?!) makes me fear for this game. You should take in account that this is spin-off basically not an official sequel to the main series, this is still must buy for some die hard fans though, even it isn't same as the previous installments. Revengeance and those sounded bit corny and over the top, but i don't expect to see them in game, this is mere trailer. I just hope it's an actual spin-off. Up until now, they've been acting like this is a direct sequel. If it's a spin-off that isn't part of the main series, then that's cool. Metal Gear Acid is fine in my book because it doesn't really count as is just for fun. Dropping the Solid part of the title and saying another developer is making it definitely implies spin-off. But if it really is a sequel, then I'm going to be pretty mad. I'm for changes to the formula, provided they don't go too far, and what I saw here was more akin to Bayonetta than Metal Gear. I loved Bayonetta, but it doesn't translate to Metal Gear.

It takes place between MGS2 and MGS4, so wouldn't that make it a spin-off? As far as I've read, it will focus on Raiden's transformation into a cyborg, so I guess is canonical. As far as the gameplay goes, it looks like it will translate Raiden's cutscenes from MGS4 into gameplay.

This seemed really awesome until I saw the trailer. Who knows though, when I have a controller in my hand maybe it will all click better than watching someone else play it.

Right now it just looks like a slower and clunkier version of Bayonetta where your torture attacks are serious slicing business rather than goofy sadist sexy nonsense.

Edit: Ok, now it seems that the game takes place after MGS4, which introduces a slew of problems in my mind, but I won't bother people with those unless they want me to.