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[Glloyd]

Also 2 is great, maybe better than 3.

Wash your mouth out with soap, you have such a dirty mouth

This better not be about Raiden, because he's a great character and was before he was a cyberninja.

Raiden is such an annoying character. Even MGS1 Snake is more interesting than Raiden, at least he's too busy questioning what everything is to be as whiny and angsty as Raiden. The emo cyberninja thing was a minor improvement only because it was stupidly hilarious and we got the joy of seeing Raiden lose all his limbs.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I always liked Raiden. He's literally a videogame junkie sent on a special forces mission and is so very clearly over his head. Even so, he isn't a fucker and I don't consider him very whiny. The things he complains about are things any person would complain about, since the whole mission is messed up.

[Egan_BW]

Like "I don't know how to defuse a bomb" and "These people have literal superpowers".

[MetalSlimeHunt]

And "my CO starts out of character and degenerates from there, also he brought my girlfriend who is definitely not military on the mission".

[SOLDIER First]

And "my sword is a tool of justice, but this isn't my sword".

[hector13]

That's the fing, tho. He's not just anybody, he's meant to be super-secret-agent-awesomesauce sent on the mission 'cause no-one else can do it. Also

Spoiler: spoilerific (click to show/hide)

He was a child soldier. YTF is he complaining while he's on a mission? Snake doesn't know how to defuse bombs either, you didn't see him complaining... *grumble* *mutter*

Rose is also an intelligence analyst who worked on a military base so... kinda reasonable she would be there (outside of spoilers)

[SOLDIER First]

Being a child soldier literally excuses him for any complaining he does ever at all.

[EnigmaticHat]

I feel like Raiden's angst is the only thing grounding Revenge-ants.  Without our familiar angsty hero the game's story is just this weird writing mass of grey cybernetic limbs and Japanese steel.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Raiden is clearly deeply repressed about his time in the Small Boy Unit, such that he doesn't even remember Solidus. That's part of the whole deal in MGS4 and Revengance, that after everything that's happened he's finally just fucking done pretending to be sane and lets Jack the Ripper out.

[Cthulhu]

I feel like Raiden's angst is the only thing grounding Revenge-ants.  Without our familiar angsty hero the game's story is just this weird writing mass of grey cybernetic limbs and Japanese steel.

Rev-engines is the thing from Akira in video game form.

I haven't played the others, I thought his letting Jack out was just coming to terms with the fact that all that warrior poet justice shit is nonsense and killing murderers just increases the net amount of senseless violence in the world.

BUt he's a living weapon, so he can't exactly go become a jain or anything.  World's already on fire, may as well grab some gasoline.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

That's accurate for Revengance, while in MGS2 he's in hard denial about Jack and in MGS4 he is so well into the fucked bin that he doesn't bother with being a psycho-sadist outside the homoerotic Vamp fights and otherwise just sort of glazes over while turning people into salami.

[hector13]

So... New update, and a bit of an event going on.

If you don't already have a second FOB, they've reduced the price to purchase one (with MB coins) by 50%, which is pretty cool. This week also seems to have a bit of a bonus in terms of MB coin availability for daily rewards, I think there's 200-300 available total over the week ('til Sunday)

[sluissa]

I've been playing 5 more recently after taking a bit of a break. Still an amazing game, but none of the "scaling difficulty" features like soldiers using new equipment or tactics to counter your own really seems to have an effect anymore. Excepting where I know I'll have to take down a helicopter or something, I'm dropping into most missions and side quests (I've finished them all at this point, just replaying for side objectives or ratings, or to earn more money for the last few absurdly expensive development projects) with just the bare bones starting rifle and tranq pistol. I take along some boxes for fun and transport purposes, and C4 for any hard targets, but that's the extent of my prep. Everything else is aquire on site or rarely as a single airdrop if I come upon a really tricky situation. I even tend to leave behind buddies, or limit myself to D-Horse, although the buddies are still fun to play with and pretty vital to S ranking a lot of things.

Still don't like the multiplayer, but that's just me. I have enough fun goofing around with the NPC Soviets and PFC troops.

[Putnam]

Yeah, personally I really like to go out with just a rifle, tranq, C4 and cardboard box. That's really all you need to start out with unless you're doing something particularly weird. If I'm feeling like messing around a lot, I'll just put on the infinity bandana and bring out the stealth camo.

[hector13]

I go for the tranquilizer, tranq. rifle and one of the AMR rifles. I tend to favour the tranq. rifle, but I usually just head shot guys who aren't very good, with the rifle.

But that's just 'cause I'm re-doing missions to get S-ranks and all mission parameters, and don't really want to piss about too much.

I want to do a subsistence run of the game at some point though... I would rather enjoy that.

One thing I'm not sure about doing is collecting all the animals. Anyone done that yet?