Tag: metal gear solid 2
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What I’ve Been Doing 14 Nov 2011 [FB/IB/F/BT/GO]
Watched all of the 7 Minutes in Heaven clips that were out there. So funny! So awkward! So great! Movies Sorry, guys. No movies this week. TV The Walking Dead – Glenn remains the best thing about this show. Getting the rope around the fat zombie, hooking up with Maggie, and overall being funny and […]
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The Subtle Art of Deconstruction [FB/GO/BT]
Colonel: Raiden, turn the game console off right now. Raiden: What did you say? Colonel: The mission is a failure. Cut the power right now. Raiden: What’s wrong with you? Colonel: Don’t worry, it’s a game. It’s a game just like usual. Rosemary: You’ll ruin your eyes playing so close to the TV. Raiden: What […]
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5-10-15-20 [GO]
I got this idea from Kill Screen (who got this idea from Pitchfork) to talk about my gaming life in five year increments. Pitchfork does it with music and really it can be done with any media, but I’m doing games. AGE 5 (1991) One of my first video game memories is sitting in my […]
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August: Violence [Fukubukuro 2010]
It all started with Metal Gear Solid. Hideo Kojima is a pacifist. How do I know this having never spoken to him? It’s the only logical explanation behind Metal Gear Solid. Big whoop, I mean, the games themselves are about as overtly in support of pacifism and nuclear non-proliferation, but I’m not talking about the […]
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Best Video Games of the Decade [Game Overview]
You may notice some games that are missing from this list and are on every other list. Well, I didn’t play everything because I didn’t have the time or the money, so that accounts for some of the big misses like Pyschonauts or Resident Evil 4. Other games are deliberately omitted :cough: HALO :cough: This […]
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Game Overview: ABDN Reviews MGS4
Insert another credit, because it’s time for your weekly video game news and you’ve just hit the Game Overview screen. (SPOILER NOTE: Tim’s review, my review, and some of this post have MGS spoilers. Read at your own risk) I’ve taken a few excerpts from Tim Rogers’ brilliant review of Metal Gear Solid 4 and […]
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Embedded Reporter: Courage is Solid
Deep from the trenches, it’s time for your Monday video feature: Embedded Reporter. So in just three short days the world will see a simultaneous release of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots! Here’s an interesting bit of trivia: MGS2, MGS2: Substance, MG Portable Ops, MGS: The Twin Snakes and MGS3 were all […]
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Game Overview: MGS5?
Insert another credit, because it’s time for your weekly video game news and you’ve just hit the Game Overview screen. Metal Gear Solid 4 comes out in a few short weeks and it will be the end of an era. Twenty years of Metal Gear and we’ve finally hit the end of the series. :sigh: […]
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Sony: Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
SPOILER ALERT: This review may cover plot points that will spoil MGS3. “Whoever wins, the battle does not end. The loser is set free from the battlefield, while the winner must remain there. And the survivor will live out his life as the warrior until the day he dies.” -Big Boss to Solid Snake The […]
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Game Overview Special Tuesday Edition: Obsessive 100%
If any of you clicked over to Leigh’s post at Sexy Videogameland about obsessively completing games, then you already know where I’m about to go with this post. If you didn’t, here’s yet another link. Call it a personality disorder, but I have an obsessive need to unlock the full 100% potential for video games […]