It is so easy for them to get absorbed in these war games. It’s all just virtual training, of course. The FPS games that these kids love are distributed for free by these companies. Today, anyone with a computer can get combat training. I’ll just leave a quote from the character Eva in 2008’s Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots underline everything here: thoughts underlined by literal quotes from the games themselves about reality and simulated environments, and where society might go once this technology is advanced enough to fool us. But the obvious novelty of sneaking through vents and corners, engaging in gunfights with genome soldiers, and gazing up at the towering Metal Gear Rex (it’s parked in the mod’s “museum” area) was always on my mind. The environments of the first MGS burned into my brain from playing it countless times as a young person. to move Metal Gear Solid with my own body in the first person, complete with the original graphic presentation largely intact. It felt surreal going through the opening cards of. Like Metal Gear Solid, Bonteworks also plays with themes of virtual reality and experiments performed by manipulators beyond your immediate understanding, so while the VR title offers a rich physical palette of game mechanics to romp around Metal Gear Solid‘s Shadow Moses Island, it is thematically resonating in it BonteworksYour own story also gives way to suspicion about what is happening in the environment around you.Īfter playing with this mod until very late last night, I will tell you that I still have chills from what I went through. Join Holydh’s “Metal Gear Solid Mod” for Bonteworksa VR game known for its quite advanced physics and a very Portallike narrative atmosphere woven into the campaign and overall presentation. ![]() Poison: Holydh / Stress level zero / Konami / Kotaku If there’s one series that wants to make you question reality, it’s this one Metal Gear Solid. MGSVBTW, then proceeded to make you question the concept of ‘identity’. ![]() When promoting Metal Gear Solid Vhe even went so far as to hire an actor to play a fake game developer who gave outlandish interviews representing a fictional game studio. Metal gear‘s celebrated director, Hideo Kojimais also known for often toys with player expectations. VR is also often mentioned in the actual stories, where the subject of discussion is its effects on one’s sense of reality. These cards provide a concentrated experience of: Metal Gear Solid‘s stealthy gameplay loop, challenging you with time trials in stylized visual representations of what it might look like “inside” a computer. What appeared to be a standard Hollywood-inspired spy thriller gave way to a twisting tale of truth, deception, genetics, advanced technology, and government conspiracies.Ĭoincidentally, VR is a staple of its world as well as gameplay, with Metal Gear Solid and the many sequels that allow players to train in simulated ‘VR’ environments that match what you experience in the main games. ![]() While the groundbreaking stealth gameplay stemmed from two previous 2D entries for the MSX 2 computer, Metal Gear Solid broadened the series’ stories and themes just as much. Games have never been the same since then Metal Gear Solid came to the original PlayStation in 1998.
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