Points at city hunter.
5 Likes
That’s selling the big pile of Kojima Ideas short that are in every game he is involved in that are also he’s a sleezeball that thinks sexual harassment is horny/funny.
5 Likes
yeah, i think the problem is that I like all of his ideas when disconnected from him. Or, I guess, I like all the movies he riffs off, so I think I should like his games. And I can usually laugh off misogyny as being a dumb guy thing, but he’s so serious and creepy about it.
edit- ah, yeah, basically what rudie said re horniness/sexual harassment
4 Likes
Kojima Ideas aren’t interesting, I’ve watched 80s/90s action movies before
9 Likes
I swear that the best adaptation of City Hunter was the unofficial Hong Kong one, Saviour of the Soul, which jettisoned all the unsavory aspects of the source material and did its own very weird operatic excess
4 Likes
this is innacurate imo i think 90% of the metal gear fans i know online or off are women obvs this is biased bc most of the ppl i know are women but theyre not like Guy Games imo not that i think essentializing this stuff is getting anyone anywhere. michael mann movies have a feminine charm about them!
15 Likes
These are issues with every game he’s made, maybe you aren’t groping anyone in Metal Gear but there’s plenty of questionable shit in the first 2 and the Beauties in MGS4 are some of the grossest shit I’ve ever seen, Death Stranding has cutscene after cutscene featuring women being tortured, I have a pretty strong stomach (cuz I’m a dude – I shed a tear last week as I sold yet another piece of my Kazuo Koike collection) but I can’t tolerate his stuff so at least I have that going for me, I think it’s maybe not great how when someone says “The stuff this guy does makes me uncomfortable?” other people have to chime in and go “yeah, but --” cuz that sure does seem to happen every single time
12 Likes
the president grabs raidens dick in mgs2 and is like “youre a man???” as like a comedy thing in the middle of a cutscene like cmon lol.
5 Likes
this week the new path of exile league started and i’ve been blasting thru it again, this time as a saboteur (POE’s expert in attacking with magical traps and remote mines) specializing in ice traps. i’ve never played a trapper before (my preference for builds has been for tanky mages that stay alive while pets or other indirect damage over time does the work for them) so it’s been fun trying something different. i have to constantly play at the edges of the screen and pay better attention to boss attack patterns to make sure they trigger my traps but it’s really rewarding to dodge a lunge only for the boss to get deleted by a pile of ice traps. also they’re pretty (for this visual toilet of a game, you take what you can get when you’re a Loot Pervert at my level) and it’s basically winter so why not blow everything apart with magic runes that look like snowflakes
for context, path of exile is a fast paced action rpg very much in the mould of diablo 2, originally developed in reaction to diablo 3’s design flaws, it takes a “more is more” approach to the “build a character to conquer infinitely more difficult and unfair bullshit” genre that’s most evident in the sprawling passive skill tree and the endgame where you’re constantly fighting screenfuls of monsters at a time, many of which can kill the shit out of you if you aren’t paying attention or multi-phase bosses overtly influenced by bullet hell shooters
every few months a new “league” (their version of a season) releases and folks roll new characters and play thru a new version of the game with new gameplay mechanics that are integrated with the core game if the devs are happy with how it goes. leagues usually shower you with good loot to encourage people to engage with them, and previous leagues have ranged from tower defense, weird farming automation, and heist minigames.
the current league is a roguelite-within-a-roguelike called the forbidden sanctum, where the devs drastically rework core game mechanics to experiment with a very Hades-esque loop of completing floors, acquiring boons & curses, and quick reflex dodging being your only defense as you work your way through each room of the sanctum. it’s a nice diversion from the “spreadsheet simulator/plow thru the hordes” duality of usual path of exile gameplay and i like plotting out which route i take thru the branching rooms to avoid completely breaking my character with curses
anyway i’m having fun so far, the build i went with feels like a great starting point for hopefully killing all the super hard bosses i can never quite reach before and i’m looking forward to posting a bunch about me dying to comically bad situations i put myself into, my true expertise in these kinds of games.
finally, some parting words of wisdom from global chat while i’m walking through the most insect butthole level in this game
13 Likes
The Random Game Names topic was actually saved from the Axe, and I did give you some poor pixel art the very next day to make up for it 
Also the funniest comedy moment in a game was the ending of 999; I am also 99.9% sure it wasn’t intended as comedy.
3 Likes
I’m sorry if I made anyone uncomfortable. The games are misogynistic and creepy! I am not saying they are not. I have in fact said they are any time I talk about them. I think there is big complex ideas in them as well, that are delivered with more grace than the groping and leering would imply. Everyone can skip posting something to shut me down for that last sentence.
I’m sorry.
7 Likes
I adore MGS2 and MGS3 and find them impossible to recommend
It’s always been there but it feels like it’s progressively worsening through his last five games. The last one I finished was 100%ing Ground Zeroes, a mistake, but “Quiet,” “Mama,” “Fragile” are you fucking kidding me
Rising only has three women with speaking roles but it’s so normal it puts the last fifteen years of Kojima misogyny in stark relief
He needs a co-writer again so bad but he’s too much of a name to get one now
9 Likes
until earlier this year, I would have said Kojima is the Kanye of gaming
8 Likes
who remembers BMX XXX
6 Likes
Another night in the endless night that is NFSU2’s Bayview City. I resolved to do 2 things this playthrough: Unlock the very ugly widebody kits and attempt to get one of my cars to the maximum visual rating. To unlock widebody kits, you have to win 11 “Outrun” style races, where you find a driver in the world, challenge them to a race, and try to outrun them. This is the core loop of Tokyo Extreme Racer, but instead of a healthbar that goes down with proximity, you have to reach a maximum distance from the other driver. This means that you can get to maybe 90% of the way to beating them, but never quite all the way, and as a result the situation becomes unwinnable.
Anyway after 11 or so races, the game gave me some very hideous examples. I didn’t choose this one but I thought it was pretty exemplary.
This did not bring my car up to 10 points like I thought it would. so I decided to use my endless wealth to find other ways to bring it up to standard. Like engine bay neon. This is a pretty good representation of a 2JZ engine bay.
And I can add the same neon to the trunk audio…layout. This is a major source of “style” points in the game and the points you get for each doo-dad are the same.
You can also do a “nitrous purge” and change the colors to the trans pride flag, that’s neat
And you can make the car hop up and down
I finally was able to capture some of the magazine covers your car gets on. Noticing a pattern…
I also got one where you can pose the car. The framing is typically pretty terrible, but you can see the sweet stereo in the back and the awful lamborghini doors
Anyway turns out the real way to get to 10 stars was…convert the whole thing to carbon fiber…UNFORTUNATELY you can’t put on stickers anymore. What a joke.
“West Coal Harbor” The game’s final area, has a really nice post industrial vibe to it. You race through what seems to be a warehouse and grain refinery on one side.
Ruining the Burger King brand here
8 minutes is a LONG time for a race. god
Alexander Wept, for there were no more waypoints to conquer
I am coming up on the end here. The final series of races I have left are mostly URL (Underground Racing League) races. They take place on closed off race tracks, but you do multiple ones in a round and get points, the one with the most points is the winner. These will be pretty grueling because they’ll all be at the airport racetrack. It feels like I’m grinding this game into submission and that has a weird sense of accomplishment to it.
16 Likes
every now and then one of their ads that had the text “YOU’LL BUST A GUT LAUGHING” spikes into my head like an intrusive thought. what a terrible sequence of words.
5 Likes
14 Likes