Fancy some new gameplay footage fromMetal Gear Online? If that’s what you woke up hoping for this morning, then fret not, because we have you covered. This is a nice lengthy slice of sniper gameplay, showing how oddly subdued an onlineMetal Geargame is going to potentially be compared to the explosions and homophobic taunting we’ve come to commonly associate with multiplayer gaming. Notice the keyword though — potentially.In the right hands of the right players, this could be a thoughtful, strategic, more mature online gaming experience that we don’t see enough of in the action genre. In the more likely and numerous wrong hands of wrong players, however, one can expect to seeMetal Gear Onlineignore all the original core gameplay and devolve into a mindless run n’ gun fragfest. Kind of like what happened withGears of War. I have some moderate hope thatMetal Gear, of all games, can move away from the same old shotgun blasting garbage, but it’s not ultimately up to the developers, it’s up to the gamers how this finally plays online when they begin shaping the landscape ofMGOto the the style of the masses.And the masses are generally all pieces of trash.[TheGoldenDonut did a tip on the floor]
Fancy some new gameplay footage fromMetal Gear Online? If that’s what you woke up hoping for this morning, then fret not, because we have you covered. This is a nice lengthy slice of sniper gameplay, showing how oddly subdued an onlineMetal Geargame is going to potentially be compared to the explosions and homophobic taunting we’ve come to commonly associate with multiplayer gaming. Notice the keyword though — potentially.
In the right hands of the right players, this could be a thoughtful, strategic, more mature online gaming experience that we don’t see enough of in the action genre. In the more likely and numerous wrong hands of wrong players, however, one can expect to seeMetal Gear Onlineignore all the original core gameplay and devolve into a mindless run n’ gun fragfest. Kind of like what happened withGears of War. I have some moderate hope thatMetal Gear, of all games, can move away from the same old shotgun blasting garbage, but it’s not ultimately up to the developers, it’s up to the gamers how this finally plays online when they begin shaping the landscape ofMGOto the the style of the masses.
[TheGoldenDonut did a tip on the floor]
