Burt Reynolds took it in the testicles.
I am sitting in a friend's house at the moment watching the Super Bowl with a couple of other people. I sat here at his computer for about forty-five minutes while he took a shower upstairs. I snuck in Solid Snake style. Not a person knew I was here.
One of the things I read while I was sitting was Tim's recap of Leisure Suit Larry. The game sucks. The gameplay is non-existant, the graphics are laughable, the music and sound effects consist of nothing more than fart sounds and cartoon boobs may just be the dumbest idea ever. We gave up on the game after playing it for far too long, far too long meaning any time at all.
But the game was screwed before we even stuck it in to begin with. Any game would have a hard time comparing to what was in Tim's Playstation 2 minutes before.
As of this date right now the last videogame I personaly spent money on was Metal Gear Solid 3. I used my lunch break from work to pick it up along with a strategy guide I thought doubled as the packaged in art book that one could find on a shelf now. I was wrong, that verison of the guide wouldn't come out for another week.
Some people are Final Fantasy fanboys. I know people who will buy any game Rockstar puts out simply because it will be edgy or whatever. Some people own every single home cart version of the King of Fighters series. I happen to be quite the Metal Gear fanboy.
Now this is my confession. To this day I have never beat Metal Gear Solid on the Playstation. I borrowed it from Tim awhile ago with the intention on beating it. I think I had just bought Ico around the same time though, and eventually I heard of The Twin Snakes coming out. I returned the game to Tim and bought The Twin Snakes the night I test drove an Impreza, seeing if it was something I might have wanted. The game sat on the shelf for a couple of weeks until I finally had a free night to sit down with it. Twenty-Six hours later, without having slept, I beat the game, on the easiest setting, while my eyes felt like they were on fire. And I was moved. I had played a game that moved me, and made me think. The game has a narrative that rivals any movie or book I had experienced before.
Four months earlier I was Christmas shopping for some friends. I had everyone a decent game picked out except for my friend Jeff whom had already bought and given me Ghost Recon on the X-box. I knew Jeff liked military stuff, and to a certain point stealthy games. I think now it was fate that I ended up buying him Metal Gear Solid Substance on the X-box.
Three weeks before I bought The Twin Snakes I traded in Solider of Fortune 2 to purchase Dead Man's Hand. Dead Man's Hand is a game that tries really hard to be at least decent but fails. I applaud Human Head Studios for their effort in trying to create an original game in a setting that is wicked underused. But the fact remains, that when you don't include shooting animations in your character models for the multiplayer, effort only goes so far.
Long story short, I tried to explain the storyline of MGS to Jeff but failed miserably, explained my zest for playing the sequel, and Jeff told me he would trade me Substance for Dead Man's Hand so he could use it for trade-in credit. I told him it was a deal. The next day I came home with a copy of Substance, stuck it in the X-box and 27 hours later I had to reach down, pick my brain up and place it back in my head.
Much has been said about Sons of Liberty's storyline and it's lead character Raiden. My two cents? I absolutely loved every single moment of the game, especially the last three hours. It is a game that done more than make me think. It made me feel something. It made me laugh. And it is a game that is seared into my memory. Others have written about it so much better than I could ever hope to. But me, Wes, I loved it more than I have ever loved a videogame before. (That article originaly was on Insert Credit but this computer failed to load it directly. Insert Credit is the best website out there for those who love videogame writing).
All of that though was until I had the chance to sit down, in a darkened room, with a two liter of Mountain Dew and a pack of cigarettes, and play Snake Eater. Snake Eater marked a few firsts for me and the Metal Gear series. The first time I didn't beat one in a single sitting. The first Metal Gear game I had played on the Playstation 2.
I have a bunch of games that I consider favorites. Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy VI, Silent Hill 2 and Grim Fandango for example. Those are all games I will eventually write about here. About how they have affected me in many different ways. But Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater is my favorite game of all time. It is a game I think about every single day since I finished it. It's a game I compare every single game too, including games I have already played. For me, its the new standard of genius.
This is all high praise and more so than that, one man's opinion. But I have also heard Tim call it the most near perfect video game of all time. And I have heard Will echo my thoughts of it being a new standard. And although I can't speak for them, the scene where the flowers turn red after the player is forced to shoot The Boss was stuck in my head from the moment we shut down the Playstaion 2 and turned on Leisure Suit Larry. And while we tried to get the young protagonist laid, or drunk, and while we grimaced at cartoon boobies, I was thinking of how games like Leisure Suit Larry are completely, 100%, unnecessary. And I mean that. While games like Snake Eater represent an elite class games that try to make expand the realm of interactive entertainment, stuff like Leisure Suit Larry are the lowest common denominator. It holds videogames back from being the artistic and even literary revolution they have the ability to become.
To finish.
Tim mentioned how bad game night was originated with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olson's Crush Course. While the game is the perfect game for anyone's bad game night, it is a better game than Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude.
wes
One of the things I read while I was sitting was Tim's recap of Leisure Suit Larry. The game sucks. The gameplay is non-existant, the graphics are laughable, the music and sound effects consist of nothing more than fart sounds and cartoon boobs may just be the dumbest idea ever. We gave up on the game after playing it for far too long, far too long meaning any time at all.
But the game was screwed before we even stuck it in to begin with. Any game would have a hard time comparing to what was in Tim's Playstation 2 minutes before.
As of this date right now the last videogame I personaly spent money on was Metal Gear Solid 3. I used my lunch break from work to pick it up along with a strategy guide I thought doubled as the packaged in art book that one could find on a shelf now. I was wrong, that verison of the guide wouldn't come out for another week.
Some people are Final Fantasy fanboys. I know people who will buy any game Rockstar puts out simply because it will be edgy or whatever. Some people own every single home cart version of the King of Fighters series. I happen to be quite the Metal Gear fanboy.
Now this is my confession. To this day I have never beat Metal Gear Solid on the Playstation. I borrowed it from Tim awhile ago with the intention on beating it. I think I had just bought Ico around the same time though, and eventually I heard of The Twin Snakes coming out. I returned the game to Tim and bought The Twin Snakes the night I test drove an Impreza, seeing if it was something I might have wanted. The game sat on the shelf for a couple of weeks until I finally had a free night to sit down with it. Twenty-Six hours later, without having slept, I beat the game, on the easiest setting, while my eyes felt like they were on fire. And I was moved. I had played a game that moved me, and made me think. The game has a narrative that rivals any movie or book I had experienced before.
Four months earlier I was Christmas shopping for some friends. I had everyone a decent game picked out except for my friend Jeff whom had already bought and given me Ghost Recon on the X-box. I knew Jeff liked military stuff, and to a certain point stealthy games. I think now it was fate that I ended up buying him Metal Gear Solid Substance on the X-box.
Three weeks before I bought The Twin Snakes I traded in Solider of Fortune 2 to purchase Dead Man's Hand. Dead Man's Hand is a game that tries really hard to be at least decent but fails. I applaud Human Head Studios for their effort in trying to create an original game in a setting that is wicked underused. But the fact remains, that when you don't include shooting animations in your character models for the multiplayer, effort only goes so far.
Long story short, I tried to explain the storyline of MGS to Jeff but failed miserably, explained my zest for playing the sequel, and Jeff told me he would trade me Substance for Dead Man's Hand so he could use it for trade-in credit. I told him it was a deal. The next day I came home with a copy of Substance, stuck it in the X-box and 27 hours later I had to reach down, pick my brain up and place it back in my head.
Much has been said about Sons of Liberty's storyline and it's lead character Raiden. My two cents? I absolutely loved every single moment of the game, especially the last three hours. It is a game that done more than make me think. It made me feel something. It made me laugh. And it is a game that is seared into my memory. Others have written about it so much better than I could ever hope to. But me, Wes, I loved it more than I have ever loved a videogame before. (That article originaly was on Insert Credit but this computer failed to load it directly. Insert Credit is the best website out there for those who love videogame writing).
All of that though was until I had the chance to sit down, in a darkened room, with a two liter of Mountain Dew and a pack of cigarettes, and play Snake Eater. Snake Eater marked a few firsts for me and the Metal Gear series. The first time I didn't beat one in a single sitting. The first Metal Gear game I had played on the Playstation 2.
I have a bunch of games that I consider favorites. Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy VI, Silent Hill 2 and Grim Fandango for example. Those are all games I will eventually write about here. About how they have affected me in many different ways. But Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater is my favorite game of all time. It is a game I think about every single day since I finished it. It's a game I compare every single game too, including games I have already played. For me, its the new standard of genius.
This is all high praise and more so than that, one man's opinion. But I have also heard Tim call it the most near perfect video game of all time. And I have heard Will echo my thoughts of it being a new standard. And although I can't speak for them, the scene where the flowers turn red after the player is forced to shoot The Boss was stuck in my head from the moment we shut down the Playstaion 2 and turned on Leisure Suit Larry. And while we tried to get the young protagonist laid, or drunk, and while we grimaced at cartoon boobies, I was thinking of how games like Leisure Suit Larry are completely, 100%, unnecessary. And I mean that. While games like Snake Eater represent an elite class games that try to make expand the realm of interactive entertainment, stuff like Leisure Suit Larry are the lowest common denominator. It holds videogames back from being the artistic and even literary revolution they have the ability to become.
To finish.
Tim mentioned how bad game night was originated with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olson's Crush Course. While the game is the perfect game for anyone's bad game night, it is a better game than Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude.
wes
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