I think analysis of the games really suffered due to how young the audience for it was. Like you have people reading MGS2 as predicting social media because the timeline of the internet is skewed for them to the point they aren't aware that Kojima was talking about existing BBS and forums in 2001. The entire context that the game was written by a well off Japanese dude who had access to all these emerging technologies during the height of the dot com bubble sort of got lost.
I think analysis of the games really suffered due to how young the audience for it was. Like you have people reading MGS2 as predicting social media because the timeline of the internet is skewed for them to the point they aren't aware that Kojima was talking about existing BBS and forums in 2001. The entire context that the game was written by a well off Japanese dude who had access to all these emerging technologies during the height of the dot com bubble sort of got lost.