Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-179.197.35.147-20140929015719/@comment-1672596-20160217043635

177.249.110.34 wrote: yes people have overrated Kojima at this point sure TPP has probably the best gameplay at this point but the story is proof that Kojima is exactly as people like PythonSelkan have described him, a troll more obsessed with plot twists and useless stuff that doesn't give a shit about the canon.

he spent so much time trying to explain things like the cobra unit's powers instead of developing a good story for Big Boss, Miller looks like he is in charge in PW and TPP with Big Boss just being there hanging around not doing shit, then in TPP he sacrificed an entire hospital because he was scared of what the XOF would do to him, A man worthy of the title "Big Boss" would never do that. TPP made him look like a hypocryte and a coward. But then again the game was suposed to make him the villain... but thats not what the "men become demons" slogan meant  the game makes it look more like "men become pussies"

but of course the fanboys blame Konami for this because their lord and savior Kojima would never do something like that. just look at the articles saying that the game is incomplete in order to give you a true "phantom pain" feeling. Yeah, agreed. And regarding your comment about how Big Boss was depicted in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker regarding his being errand boy and pining for The Boss, in all honesty, and at the risk of opening another can of worms here, even THAT was nothing compared to Kojima's insistence on making both Big Boss and Miller Che Guevara fanboys. He lost me there, especially AFTER I discovered Che's true nature, and if anything seems to show that despite the glowing articles and even stuff like Snake Eater and other entries, Kojima's probably a very bad researcher (heck, I could find an article on the London Daily Worker regarding his views on the Cuban Missile Crisis and a video of his speech to the UN openly admitting his administration executes and will continue to execute people so long as the revolution is in session on the internet without even much effort, why couldn't he do the same rather than buying that biopic's claims of Che like some cheap car?). Miller's even worse, since unlike Big Boss, he never became a villain at all (and based on his characterization in Metal Gear 2, heck, even how Liquid portrayed him in Metal Gear Solid, there was no way Miller could have even come across as a Che fanboy), yet he seemed to be an even bigger Che fanboy than even Big Boss. Heck, I'd even argue that Miller was treated even WORSE than Big Boss, especially when literally his entire character was rewritten from scratch for no real reason other than just to force in a Peace theme in Peace Walker (not even Gray Fox as Null got that bad of treatment in terms of characterization in Portable Ops, and he had his speech to Snake retconned regarding why he was loyal to Big Boss).

To be honest, Kojima's just about as bad as George Lucas regarding needless retcons and plot twists, if not even worse (at least when George Lucas promised he'd show Anakin Skywalker's descent to the dark side in the prequel trilogy, he actually delivered on said promise even if it was badly done, unlike with Kojima and Big Boss's descent into villainy where Big Boss's descent into villainy was barely even covered thanks to Kojima insisting on making a cheap redo of the Metal Gear Solid 2 Raiden twist that didn't even serve any point to the narrative and the game's themes, unlike with Metal Gear Solid 2, where both Raiden and Snake developed and, heck, even served the meme theme perfectly.). I don't care if it's intended as a thank you to the players for sticking around for the entire series, it's still half-baked, and if anything its execution came across as giving the players the middle finger (especially when there's no real way to actually make the player avatars like themselves. Obviously, female players are excluded, so there's that to consider, and I heard certain races were also excluded as well.).

Even though I'm probably going to be retiring from this wiki, and most likely the series (though the latter may have to wait until next Valentine's Day just to get a certain cutscene that I missed earlier), after August or September (the whole Event FOB rewards thing threw a wrench in my plan to retire earlier), I'd still like to see how Metal Gear Solid VI is going to be handled by Konami (and let's hope they actually stick to continuity, like Rising and even Portable Ops did).

Konami may have been guilty for rushing the game out of the door and forcing us to do microtransactions, but the bad story and the needless twist was all on Kojima (and quite frankly, if you ask me, I was personally irritated with his wasting our time with a Chicken Cap announcement on the Kojima Station on Christmas 2014 and making it seem as though it were an actual important announcement, like I don't know, an actual release date). Seriously, Kojima had 5 whole years to make the game including the story, and THIS is the best he can give us? It would have been better off if he stopped at Peace Walker, heck, even Metal Gear Solid 4, since at least THAT was a good place to stop the saga, unlike MGSV which raised more questions than answers thanks to the bad writing and poor storytelling choice (most people won't even care about listening to tapes even for the story when they are trying to worry about avoiding the enemy, and even in one of the few places they CAN listen to them in peace, the ACC, the iDroid occasionally chimes in at the absolute worst possible moment during the briefing.). Heck, we never even got an answer as to how exactly they got out of that chopper despite being in the middle of the ocean (not to mention crashing into a chopper).