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Jun. 26th, 2007 @ 02:21 pm 
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I hate strategy games. I have a copy of Final Fantasy Tactics that's maybe seen 2 hours of gameplay total. Tedious. Boring. *yawn*
I hate card games. I tried playing Magic the Gathering. I had hundreds of cards thanks to a donation from a friend. I sold them all last year. I could not wrap my head around deck building to save my life.
So explain to me why I'm totally loving Metal Gear Ac!d, a combination of card gaming and strategy gaming? Seriously. I cannot stop playing it. It's replaced Puzzle Quest completely as my portable crack of choice. Seriously!
The game is far from perfect. Some of the card art uses completely jaggy jpgs, and some of the movie clips are so spastic as to be epileptic. The camera can be a right pain in the ass some times, not zooming in enough to see if that's a letter "E" above the door or a letter "F". And the story? Wow. Marionettes slaughtering people on a plane while Snake has an identity crisis and is being helped by a 14 year old psychic?
Yes.
Seriously!
Despite all this I can't stop playing. After Puzzle Quest's bastardfuckyoufuckyou cheating AI I like knowing that if something goes wrong it's completely my fault. I didn't judge the turn order right, I used the card as movement not an action. Not because some random number generator favored the computer 10 turns in a row. And perhaps I like having to think about my actions before I make them, because I know my choices dictate the outcome completely.
Metal Gear mindshare is certainly influencing my like of this game too. I've been playing Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence for my Mission Imporobable over at Gamers with Jobs. On a recent podcast, 1up.com's Shane Bettenhausen waxed poetic over Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. So much so I'm trying to find a copy of it (Substance version, natch). The KP Report, an excellent podcast by Ryan Payton, has been getting into the metaphorical aspects of the Metal Gear Solid series. Something I never thought to look for in a "sneak 'n' kill" game.
Perhaps that's the main reason I'm digging it; looking for metaphors. If games truely are arn't then shouldn't there be more to them than a simple story? Was Lord of the Flies about shipwrecked schoolkids, or was it a metaphor for the fragility of civilization?
Am I finding any of this so far? Not a chance, but that's not to say it's not in there. I'm not used to looking into my games for any deeper meaning. Hell, I thought The Catcher in the Rye was about an asshole, not some hidden discussion about childhood innocence and needing to grow up.
When Snake starts to question his identity, is Kojima (well in this case, Shinta Nojiri) saying that we never know who we truely are? That memories are just an amalgamation of what we think happened to us in the past? When Snake cries "No! Don't label me as Hans on the screen!" is he pulling an Animal Man on us?
I'm not sure I have the tools to figure that out. Maybe I'll have to play all the way through Metal Gear Ac!d2 to get the whole story. As I said before, I'm not used to thinking about the deeper meaning of, well, anything really. But it's been sitting at the back of my mind a lot.
Well sheeet. I start writing a post about how enjoyable Metal Gear Ac!d is to me, and I veer off the road into book smarts land. I don't even want to get into how I've been feeling about Halo lately. I Love Bees indeed.
Here. Go look at a pit bull being cute with some baby chicks.
Currently Playing: Metal Gear Ac!d (PSP), Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (PS2), Pac-Man CE (Xbox Live Arcade)
Currently Reading: Far to many Wiki'sCurrently Listening To: "New Jack" by J.U.S.T.I.C.E. |
Did you snag yourself a copy of Lumines? ;)
No, not yet, but it's on the list to get.
But even when I do I'm not sure I'll use it to downgrade my system to use custom software. I can't think of a single piece of homebrew software for the PSP that I'd find myself using.
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