The series has often been totally over the top and ridiculous but it's always been tempered and balanced with more reasonable stuff. So you might have The Pain...The Pain...THE PAIINNN, but then there's Boss' monologue. You might have "THROUGH THIS ARM!" but then you have Olga's little dilemma. You have Volgin grabbing Snake's crotch and then you have the fairly stark scene in the torture room where Snake has his eye shot out. In MGS4 you have...whatever the hell Raiden has become but then you have his more human issues, the collapse of his marriage to Rose, etc.
People saying "lol how can you hate this for being over the top, it's MGS" are missing the point. Bayonetta was ridiculous. All the time. It basically never stopped being ridiculous at any point. And partly as a result of that, the fun-if-flawed gameplay was lost in the fact that everything else about the game was fairly poor.
I'm not going to sit here and say MGS' dialogue and story has always been some bastion of sanity, but it's always had some kind of human issue anchoring it somewhere. This doesn't.
Will probably be the first Metal Gear game since Ac!d 2 that I don't buy immediately.
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