I dump out all of my thoughts regarding the last proper entry in the Metal Gear franchise. I wrote this post three years ago, only two years after the game had come out. That’s what we call “timely”!
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March 1, 2020 at 1:00 pm | Articles, Video Games | No comment
Tags: Big Boss, bitching about video games, Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, MGS, Venom Snake
My name is Big Boss. It’s night time and I’m skulking through a village in Afghanistan occupied by Soviet forces. At least, I think I’m Big Boss. I’ve just come out of a 9-year coma and there were some strange things that went on at the hospital when I woke…
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April 30, 2017 at 12:00 pm | Reviews, Video Games | No comment
Tags: Big Boss, game review, Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, MGS, Venom Snake
There’s a chap called Brant Steele who made a Hunger Games simulator1. You can play it at http://brantsteele.net/hungergames. I’ve seen a fair few runs of the simulator crop up on Tumblr (the one with Sonic the Hedgehog characters comes to mind) and I fancied a crack at it myself. I…
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January 21, 2017 at 12:00 am | Batman, Characters, Death Battle!, James Bond | No comment
Tags: 007, 1966 TV Batman, Ace Ventura, Adam West, Agent J, Batman, Captain Jack Sparrow, Commander Sam Vimes, Deadly Premonition, Dennis the Menace, Detective Francis York Morgan, detectives, Discworld, Discworld Noir, Gabe Logan, Inspector Clouseau, James Bond, Jim Carrey, Jim West, Lupin III, Max Payne, Men In Black, Metal Gear Solid, MGS, Philip Marlowe, Pirates of the Caribbean, Postman Pat, Solid Snake, Sonic the Hedgehog, Syphon Filter, Tails, The Mask, The Pink Panther, Thomas the Tank Engine, Toy Story, Wallace and Gromit, Wild Wild West, Will Smith, Woody
It’s been a while since we last rambled into a microphone, and since we last did that the video game community collectively shat itself inside-out via Twitter. This time we discuss #GamerGate (obligatory hashtag included) while firmly rooted to our fence, and if I see one more person write “you…
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September 20, 2014 at 10:58 am | Podcasts, The PAYNEful podSPLOSION, Vaguely Topical | No comment
Tags: Doctor Who, Duke Nukem, feminism, GamerGate, games journalism, Hellblazer, John Constantine, Mass Effect, Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, MGS, Uncharted, Uncharted 3 multiplayer
At the time of writing this, Metal Gear Solid 4 is just around the corner on the releases list. To commemorate the occasion and remind myself of the story, I thought that I would push my PS3 to its limits by playing an outdated game created back when high definition…
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April 22, 2008 at 10:55 pm | Reviews, Video Games | No comment
Tags: game review, Metal Gear Solid, MGS, Solid Snake, The Twin Snakes
