The MGS4 Thread.

[Brian SD]

Beat the game on Big Boss Hard at 22:26, 250 or so kills, TONS of alerts... Got bear ranking as the highest and a handful of other ones. My first ten hours were two days worth, Korea is about 14 hours ahead of the USA.

 

[dusty]

The person who designed the sound in this game should be given like eight raises. The person who decided that you can only save at checkpoints, thus deleting all gun customizations during a stage where the player is killed, should be fired.

Originally Posted by Brian SD

Boss question.
Answer: I killed the **** out of her, and I got the Octocamo mask but not the face mask.

 

[dusty]

Ok I just finished Act 2, and the final stage was one of the most poorly designed game sequences I've ever played. Perfect example of Kojima preferring cinematics over good gameplay. Spoiler: You are completely fucked in this stage if you don't play it exactly by the script (of which you have no prior knowledge). It took me over an hour to beat that 45-second stage because I didn't know you had to use that completely useless-ass roll to get by the final Gecko. Things I tried: 1) Hopping over the tiny roadblock beside him (nope! context jump wasn't programmed for that piece of scenery!), 2) Shooting him with a rocket (nope! He's got some Star Trek deflector shield that the other Geckos don't have!), 3) Finding another way around him (of course not). No, what you have to use is that awful roll that would get you one-hit-killed if you tried it on any of the other Geckos. I think I would have honestly preferred a QTE.

 

[whnay.]

Into act 3 now, the game is badass.

 

[Brian SD]

Dusty, I guess I didn't encounter that part at all. I don't remember anything like that. Some of the Gekkos have projectile deflecting (technology that came from MGS2), but you can still shoot out their legs with a rifle or machine gun.

The person who designed the sound in this game should be given like eight raises. The person who decided that you can only save at checkpoints, thus deleting all gun customizations during a stage where the player is killed, should be fired.

God, I hate that. Especially with bosses, where I'm dying a whole lot.

 

[dusty]

Well it's pretty clear that you can't shoot this specific Gekko because it would cause a continuity error with the cutscenes. You can't hit the legs either. Sloppy.

 

[dusty]

Oh wow, Act 4...

 

[whnay.]

Originally Posted by dusty

Oh wow, Act 4...

Oh wow...good or bad?

 

[dusty]

Good

 

[Brian SD]

I'm enjoying this even more on my second play through. I got up to the motorcycle chase on Extreme with no healing items/no alerts/no kills, but gave up. I've started a new playthrough on Naked Normal, going to get the Assassin Ranking, Hound Ranking and the Solar Gun, then I'm going to go for the Big Boss ranking again.

 

[dusty]

That's a small spoiler on the gun comment.