Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-204.111.35.233-20150307163421/@comment-27125019-20151106145044

Couldn't have killed Huey, he has to drown himself in a pool later, due to Otacon's phallus of doom (TIME PARADOX!). But I agree more branching paths would have been better.

I think of the South Park writers when I think about the silent protagonist thing, they always got angry when the options to respond to something in games wasn't what they liked. Examples are statements like "I bet this key goes to the green door!" never is something that is said inside most people's heads, therefore when the character does this, they don't think like most people, and a disconnect is created. Therefore in RPG games, a silent protagonist is better suited than one that was voiced.

HOWEVER, in MGS we like the character and dialogue of the various Snake's and Bosses. The philosophic banter mixed up with action cliche's is what we signed up for to this point. Ironically enough in a game about linguistics and speech, MGS has lost it's voice.