Nostalgia or could it be that the new games are just bad? No that could be it. No it has to be nostalgia AKA the easy way out argument choice. Coming from the peps who just want to lazily go "derp it's all crazy derp derp".
The argument is that you're surprised that something is crazy and off the wall in a goddamned MGS game
Actually no. My argument is that MGS has always been goofy and silly(though that dosen't make it stupid), so serious things like rape don't fit what has been a very over the top GI Joe/military fantasy series. My problem is MGS5 isn't seemingly trying to present itself as off the wall crazy like the previous games. It hasn't shown itself to have that goofyness. The series hasn't earned stuff like that.
For a forum that laughs at people who take stories in games too seriously, you're doing the same thing right now.
Yes I am, I don't actually follow the rest of the forum in that "video game stories are bad". Thats the MO for Oscar and the others, but I've clearly always taken stories in games seriously because I like them. I am taking the story seriously, because obviously I enjoy the narrative. All my posts in MGS threads make that annoyingly clear. So no I don't agree that the games have bad stories and have always been bad, because as far as I'm concerned they haven't.
Oh noooo gang rape and vagina bombs! in a series where a hand takes over someones mind, there's a mount rushmore of snakes, and Raiden went full DBZ in the last one.
Yes there's fun crazy like the later and just kind of wrong crazy as in the former.
Who the fuck cares?
I do clearly. MGS 1-3 where crazy, but they were'nt these stupid and confusing games people in retrospect like to to claim they are.