Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-93.186.150.138-20140325020658/@comment-149.12.15.1-20140331210216

50.186.50.212 wrote: 192.160.117.141 wrote: Also circumstantial, but Kojima mentioned that MGSV is going to attempt to tackle more "mature themes". Chico becoming a mute transsexual because of torture and rape is exactly the sort of hilariously edgy and tonedeaf move I'd expect from someone attempting to take on a mature subject with very little experience or sensitivity with the actual subject matter. Would be fairly in line with the position on the mature-EDGY continuum established by the vaginabomb featured in Ground Zeroes. This level of cynicism is pretty lopsided. Equating Chico becoming a transexual with the current events "because vaginabomb and mature-EDGY" completely disregards the fact that all of the tragic aspects of Ground Zeroes are based on real-life Cold War tactics and the reality of war in general. Camp Omega is essentially Guantanamo Bay and the treatment of its' prisoners are based on the Abu Ghraib scandals (whose prisoners were treated much worse than what we see here).

Body-cavity bombs are also a real thing. Smuggling is the primary tactic in the application of its use. As icky as it sounds, the womb is one of the most common places used in females when it comes to smuggling. I'd wager that the construction of Paz's situation in this case has more to with connecting the dots rather than trying to be as "hilariously edgy" as possible.

The gritty aspects of this game are pushing boundaries in terms of narratives for video games, but not quite as far as what's already been accomplished in films or novels. War in reality is still far more gruesome than what happened here. I really want them to continue with these "mature" themes in war. I mean in real life war is 100x more horrible than what we've seen and this is a step in the right direction to fully depict the monstrosities of war. And didnt find the Paz sequence funny but i found rather sad and not over the top but what a real life evil tactical war mastermind would come up with(some of the most clever but sadistic and cruel ways of killing someone i've seen recently. Its basically Joker level.) And unlike some people have said,that one annoying woman on IGN who doesnt completely know what she's talking about, i think the ending of GZ is good for a "prologue" game and what they were trying to achieve and even with that i dont think we've seen what fully happens at Mother Base anyway(just look at the GDC mgsv trailer). So in short i've gotten over the whole Paz death scene and im ready to slowly peel the skin of Skull Face with a blunt knife in TPP with the help of Ocelot "interrogating" him for info on Cipher.

But yeah, i hope they continue with these themes in TPP and make them even more horrible so it can show people how bad/terrible war can really be b/c remember in all the old mgs games when Snake(solid or Big Boss) will be saying "war is terrible" "the battlefield yadayadayada....." i hope in this one they'll really go all out with showing people how bad war and the people in it can get and show us that its not as romantic as other games and media present it as *cough*Call Of Duty*cough*.