WHAT A THRIIIILLL :CommiePOGGERS:
After last fall's grand Silent Hill revival reveal event, something similar happening with MGS wouldn't be a surprise, as MGS remake rumours have been going aroud for about as long the Silent Hill 2 remake ones have, and those turned out to be exactly on the money
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Kinda sad the Metal Gear Solid voice actor in question wasn't David Hayter :kitty-cri:
I disagree with your entire second sentence. So loving America makes the second sentence an oxymoron. Give me one example of Kojima being anti capitalist. Dude is a radlib at best.
Why do you disagree with my entire second sentence when the games gush about him and Fidel?
I think that there's not necessarily a strict contradiction between the proposition that Kojima is both a Radlib & also Anti-Imperialist/Anti-Capitalist; or at the very least, there would be little contradictory in him being a "Radlib" and liking Che & Fidel, who are by far the easiest Communists to find unobjectionable if you don't have strongly interrogated political opinions. However, does this also extend to sympathy for the DPRK, or China, for example? Admittedly high bars to clear for most people, but there are few who truly know the way, let alone walk it.
What I'm getting at is that I think his beliefs are more of a moralistic ideological soup than anything. Kojima can absolutely have based takes, and he is probably the best politically educated AAA Video Game Auteur out there. But that's both a really specific pool of reference, and one that has a generally low bar to it.
But then again all of this is coming from me, and I'm nothing if not a mélange of half-read theory piled on to a number of personal life grievances, so. I should probably not cast judgement is what I'm getting at. :shrug-outta-hecks:
At the very least he wasn't a lib about China as of 2022: https://twitter.com/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN/status/1513325176569888770).
He even recently recommended a Chinese movie from during the cultural revolution period, but I have no idea where you would find this movie: https://twitter.com/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN/status/1525322663878852608
Given that these tweets are well after all the uighur and hk propaganda I think they're notable.
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Yeah I saw that one and had a giggle. Lmao.
Kojima sees this shit in his feed all the time, keeps posting. He knows what's up.
Revisiting this post 10 months later...
That tweet is gone. Its disappearance makes me pretty suspicious.
Alright, well damn, I'll eat my hat then. :deng-cowboy:
I mean, he still might be like "China were good when Mao" with criticisms and issues with current China... I don't know. But that's still notably better than lib. I kinda think he wouldn't be recommending anything Chinese at all if he were like all libs and just totally bought into the anti-china propaganda though, we know he's political and that he's seen all that shit.
I mean, yeah, no you're right. It's weird that he ends up portraying the Soviets as bad guys in MGS V then, though. Maybe that's a publisher imposition, who knows. :shrug-outta-hecks:
I mean, I guess they're villains since they're enemies but they're just generic mooks that populate the Afganistan map. There is not a single Soviet character in the entire game. No motivations or characterisation to point to.
One of the reasons I dislike 5 is how its plot seems to just take place in its own weird anachronistic magical parasite bubble on two open world maps mostly disconnected from the 1980s setting its supposed to take place in
Snake Eater and Peace Walker took care to incorporate real world elements, events and organisations to immerse you in the time periods they took place in.
5 feels like a generic scifi military anime like 4
That's not mgs3
So? We're not talking about mgs3 we're talking about Kojima.
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I'm tired and replying to a lot of stuff. Anyways literally every boomers loves Che cause he died and the can say he was the good guy and Castro was an opportunist. Peace Walker and Ground Zeroes were based. But then mgs5 was cringe and he failed fucki g hard with that game. Big Boss was a shitty awful terrible person, so was solid and basically every single person in those games. They're all dirty black ops war criminals and he failed to express thst. Big Boss is a hero to the fans.
But... They don't say Castro was an opportunist? They call both of them heroes.
I don't think anyone would defend what he does with child soldiers or nukes. As for Snake, he quits the US military in disgust and turns against it with the explicit goal of ending the very concept of the nation state at the end of mgs3. Yeah they're shitty people that have done shitty things but 3 is a title that establishes snake's growth and turn against the US.
Check out the mgs reddit. They love big boss. He turned against the US government after 3 by starting a nuclear equipped pmc/an cap rogue state. Solid became okay but is still a war criminal.
They're redditors of course they love the protagonist of every game they play completely uncritically.
I agree he's still a war criminal. I don't think many would disagree.
The whole issue of people liking the protags comes from the aesthetics though, not from the acts on display.
Solid Snake had to be kidnapped and forced to go to Shadow Moses since he had already quit the military at that point and had no love for it.
In 2 he and Otacon are running an anti-Metal Gear activist group and have been going round the world sabotaging Metal Gear development programs. Pretty sure they mention they've been designated as terrorists
In the beginning of 2 Snake sneaks onto a tanker where the Marines are secretly transporting a secret prototype Metal Gear with the aims of leaking its existence to the public
Solid Snake is a pretty cool guy, a Tom Clancy or whatever game character would never be taken in that direction