@moe050 @thejumbalia goddamn, you really like Raiden huh? You really took my words to heart huh? Daaaammnnn I didn't think anybody would even care about my comments but I'm glad I inspired you to speak up and ridicule me so directly. You must be insecure about something I said to lash out like this, but I'm not going to speculate about what it is even though I have agood idea. But seriously, defending Raiden?? Wow

I hate how politically correct everyone is being about this. Kojima just told everyone that this isn't his game, he had other things to do and he didn't want to do a game about Raiden. It's one thing to tell people that you let your younger staff create the game, but he also had to say that he definitely would have preferred a Grey Fox game. The name of the game was even changed from Solid to Rising as to make the clear distinction between a Kojima game and his younger staff.

This tell me that he knows 100% that his younger staff and anyone who likes Raiden are a bunch of soft idiots. MGS2 was one cry away fro being a romance game. Laura Croft & Samus Aran have more testosterone than Raiden, and just because the creators try to darken him up, that doesn't change the fact that he was apart of the single worst character change in gaming history. No one with half a brain likes him or wants to play with him. He's a heavily tainted character because he sucks and was only created to appeal to homoerotic Japanese kids, who like long haired dainty, starry eyed boy men as the hero. I think Kojima secretly wants this game to fall flat so that he can come in and save the day with his own great game, but I could never know that and I hate when internet idiots proclaim to know what someone is going to do just so that the present situation doesn't seem as bad. This game should have never been made. MGS is a good series and I'm always tempted to play it because of the compelling story, but Raiden should die. The only way this game'll be any good is if Raiden admits that he used to be a sensitive sissy but now he has changed.