[Awards] Game of the Year 2021
Old Games I Played This Year: Metal Gear Solid 4: The Guns of the Patriots . I replayed this because I bought the limited edition off of eBay. If you don't know, it comes in a really nice matte finish box with a metal plate featuring Yoji Shinkawa artwork that has a little part that slides off and reveals the cases inside. It comes with the game and a special behind the scenes blu-ray which I have not yet watched. MGS4 isn't as bad as you might remember it if you hate it, and not as good as you might remember it if you love it. I mean from my point of view at least we're talking about subjective shit here. Like, I'm not gonna go over all the criticisms because many, many people have done so. I think it's a stupid, ass-pull story which either overexplains things that didn't need to be explained or completely retcons things which should have stayed where they were. It's too brown, the cutscenes are too long, it's long winded, pretentious, and in desperate