Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6747658-20130625170430/@comment-1672596-20130625190608

Bluerock wrote: Ugh, an MGS1 remake with all the convoluted Patriot backstory crammed in? No thanks. MGS1's story worked fine without all that baggage, and was fine the way it was. Update the graphics and gameplay sure, but leave the writing. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Weedle McHairybug wrote: I honestly didn't see how TTS was even that bad. It's not like Snake didn't pull similar stunts in MGS1 or MGS2 (his dodging a tank shell with little time, as well as his dodging a spetsnaz ballistic knife round with little time certainly was similar to TTS). There's a difference between narrowly avoiding a gunshot/tank shell after anticipating them, and backflip-surfing on a missile. You can argue realism all you want, but TTS cutscenes were OTT. Besides, that's only one of many criticisms.

Weedle McHairybug wrote: I often feel that MPW was basically the Metal Gear equivalent of Return of the Jedi, and not in a good way (basically, in Return of the Jedi, George Lucas basically made some of the heroic characters, the Ewoks, beatified versions of the Vietcong, who were terrible individuals to say the very least. Kojima seemed to do something similar: By making Che Guevara almost like a Big Good when he was more like a monster. Ewoks used guerrilla tactics to take down a technologically superior foe; that was the idea from Vietnam that Lucas used in ROTJ. Che Guevara is regarded by many as the ultimate guerrilla soldier, admired by the militant guerrilla group MSF. Big Boss became a "monster" too. It's really not that difficult to understand. Okay. There probably wouldn't have been much to fix besides possibly Miller's name, anyways.

As far as the Ewoks bit, the American Revolutionists also utilized a lot of guerilla tactics to take down the British Empire (which had been superior during the Revolutionary War), and heck, the French resistance also engaged in some rag-tag hits on the Nazis during World War II when they occupied France, so there were plenty of places Lucas could cite guerilla warfare besides the Vietcong. Heck, many of our history courses actually mentioned some of the guerilla warfare we engaged in against the British and Hessians, so its not like he wouldn't have at least heard of them in his history courses, even back in the 1960s (and I verified with an aunt of mine who lived during the 1960s about whether the schools taught about the revolution using Guerilla Warfare, which she confirmed that they did).

And I get that Che was considered the ultimate guerilla soldier, at least in media, and that Big Boss technically became a monster, but that still doesn't explain Kaz's fanboyish reactions for the guy, considering how he turned out nothing like Big Boss (then again, he probably went worse if TPP is anything to go by). Besides, he and Big Boss could, at least in private discussions, talk about how the Minutemen underwent a lot of guerilla warfare during the American Revolutionary War. Would have also added as a bonus/foreshadowing regarding Solidus' love of George Washington, especially seeing how MGS2 strongly implied that he had modelled virtually all of his actions, personality, and appearances off that of Big Boss.