LogFAQs > #896204255

Snake is meant to have a 180 IQ? Riiiight, Kojima.

I agree with you that a bit too much of Snake's dialogue is "huh?", "what the hell?", or simply repeating lines back to someone, but at this point it's become one of those charming points about him so I mostly forgive it. The hero worship thing I can understand you not liking, but personally I really like how it ties into the overarching story. The MGS world deifies all of their big heroes - The Boss, Big Boss, and Solid Snake all get tons of hype from basically everyone, especially Big Boss who is the major comparison point for everyone else in the series. I think it works because you see the different ways that they react to the hero worship. The Boss ignores it. Big Boss accepts it and manipulates it to his own ends (as seen in what he does in MGS5). Solid Snake openly rejects it. It plays into their characters pretty well.

SoA isn't totally dated by this point but it definitely feels like an old kind of JRPG. Xenoblade isn't dated and actually does some things better than open-world games like it that come out currently. Both are playable on the Dolphin with patches (I think SoA actually has a random encounter mod by now and Xenoblade definitely has an HD patch). Wouldn't rely on any rereleases as apparently people in SEGA have been trying to get something SoA-related made for a while but it never gets off the ground.
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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.