To all Walking Dead fans who hate Metal Gear games

Guess what? You just played and praised an interactive movie! Granted, The Walking Dead is a great game mind you, but how can you continue to down games like Metal Gear Solid when you just finished playing a 5 episode point and click adventure?

The big difference is that the walking dead has a great story, MGS comes off as a really poor soap opera!Duckyindiana

Lol?

What's this i don't even....

the problem with MGS4 was that its cutscenes (which aren't interactive) take up half of its 20-hour gameplay time. Some of the cutscene direction was just downright awful. a lot of scenes dragged a lot longer than it was suppose to be. 90% of the story was told through (mostly average to mediocre) dialogues, something that is probably the worst storytelling technique in a audio-visual medium. And story is awful for the most part. MGS4 is jokingly called interactive movie. The fact is, it's embarrassingly bad at being an interactive movie. MGS4 is freaking amazing when you skip all the cutscenes, however.funsohng

I don't know...I thought the game got kinda bad once you reached the third act.

I have nothing against MGS for being very cinematic.

I just hate stealth games.

WHAT, This is the most idiotic, most asinine, worst comparison in the history of video game posts I have ever seen in my life.

You are comparing a game with practically no gameplay, The Walking Dead with one of the most interactive, full of gameplay choices, boss battles, player options, absolute masterpiece in game design in MGS. They are not comparable in any way except that they both tell stories, well almost all games do that so there is no point in comparing the two.

dvader654

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WHAT, This is the most idiotic, most asinine, worst comparison in the history of video game posts I have ever seen in my life.

You are comparing a game with practically no gameplay, The Walking Dead with one of the most interactive, full of gameplay choices, boss battles, player options, absolute masterpiece in game design in MGS. They are not comparable in any way except that they both tell stories, well almost all games do that so there is no point in comparing the two.

MirkoS77

[QUOTE="MirkoS77"][QUOTE="dvader654"]

WHAT, This is the most idiotic, most asinine, worst comparison in the history of video game posts I have ever seen in my life.

You are comparing a game with practically no gameplay, The Walking Dead with one of the most interactive, full of gameplay choices, boss battles, player options, absolute masterpiece in game design in MGS. They are not comparable in any way except that they both tell stories, well almost all games do that so there is no point in comparing the two.

dvader654

The Walking Dead is an adventure game.

WHAT, This is the most idiotic, most asinine, worst comparison in the history of video game posts I have ever seen in my life.

You are comparing a game with practically no gameplay, The Walking Dead with one of the most interactive, full of gameplay choices, boss battles, player options, absolute masterpiece in game design in MGS. They are not comparable in any way except that they both tell stories, well almost all games do that so there is no point in comparing the two.

dvader654

Guess what? You just played and praised an interactive movie! Granted, The Walking Dead is a great game mind you, but how can you continue to down games like Metal Gear Solid when you just finished playing a 5 episode point and click adventure?

HipHopBeats

I feel as though the Metal Gear Solid series have a lot more interaction than the Walking Dead games anyway.

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WHAT, This is the most idiotic, most asinine, worst comparison in the history of video game posts I have ever seen in my life.

You are comparing a game with practically no gameplay, The Walking Dead with one of the most interactive, full of gameplay choices, boss battles, player options, absolute masterpiece in game design in MGS. They are not comparable in any way except that they both tell stories, well almost all games do that so there is no point in comparing the two.

Justin_G

Exactly. both games are good imo for different reasons. Most Metal Gear haters bash it for being 'cutscene lenghty' and not enough gameplay. As good as The Walking Dead is, it's basically making quick choices, walking around looking for key items and QTE pop ups with even less gameplay than Metal Gear.

Both games focus on watching a complex story unravel with no way for the player to alter the outcome. The Walking Dead gives the illusion of choice where you can keep a character alive a little longer, but in the end everything still plays out the same.

[QUOTE="MirkoS77"][QUOTE="dvader654"]

WHAT, This is the most idiotic, most asinine, worst comparison in the history of video game posts I have ever seen in my life.

You are comparing a game with practically no gameplay, The Walking Dead with one of the most interactive, full of gameplay choices, boss battles, player options, absolute masterpiece in game design in MGS. They are not comparable in any way except that they both tell stories, well almost all games do that so there is no point in comparing the two.

dvader654

I haven't played Episode V of the Walking Dead game yet, but I am going to go out on a limb and say that it isn't going to retcon its entire story arc and use nanomachines to try and explain everything.

Some of us were Metal Gear fans (big ones) until we played the narrative shltstorm that was MGS4. I have no issues with the series from a mechanical perspective, and two of the four canon titles are among my twenty games of all time (with Snake Eater) holding the top slot, so I can't say I hate the series, just what MGS4's story did to it.

The Walking Dead leaves you constantly engaged, and active; you have to make choices all the time, sometimes thinking on your feet. In MGS you can literally put the controller down and walk away and it wouldn't make a difference. Sure they are both quite passive experiences, but MGS is completely passive. Putting them together like that doesn't really make sense.

The short version is MGS has actual cutscenes where you have control completly taken from you. In comparison TWD has very few genuine cutscenes...or loads of really short ones depending on how you look at it.