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This will probably be a bit of a “controversial” review, since I more or less bury the MGO user community. I do it out of love for the franchise, though. I usually play MGO for an hour a day, sometimes more, and have done so for the past 2 years. It’s a bit addicting once you’ve invested so much into it. I wish I could say that MGO is a great game that represents what Metal Gear Solid is all about, but I can’t. You’ll have one good game with people in one room, then the room will fill with “hardcore gamer elite pros” (15yo boys) and they stink the room up with cheap tactics and general trash talk. Not EVERY good player is like this mind you, I’m only stereotyping. It’s just tiresome. When I first played the beta, people were cool. It was all fellow hardcore MGS fans like myself, so we all shared our love for the series in common since we pre-ordered the limited edition. Then MGS4 came out, they nerfed the weapons, and as time went on fewer and fewer respectable players came along. I actually wonder how many current players have even played the main game or others in the series. It just seems like they heard about “an uber sweet bro” game on PS3 called Metal Gear where “you like, shoot up bad guys dude.”

I’m harsh, I know I know. It feels great when you have a nice, even game with people. It DOES happen, just not as much as it did in the original MGO or earlier on in this game’s lifetime. This game has some creative modes that are very attractive, such as Team Sneaking and Sneaking Mission. My personal favorite is probably Base. I’m the guy meticulously setting traps, waiting for the number to flash so I can set it off and save the base from half across the map! I love Metal Gear Online, I just can’t stand all the rude kids and the crippling of game modes. Team Sneak’s goal is for the invisible team to capture the duck/frog and bring it back to the base. That’s the goal – it’s not TDM, so this “no rushing” fad is irritating, and only exists so people can level up by getting kills. I understand not going straight to the duck/frog as soon as the round starts, but after a little while…it’s your own teams fault if you can’t guard the damn things, right?

This was one of the harder VV’s to do so far. Why? Because I captured 4 hours of footage. 4 hours of an online game, without organization in regards to game modes, with no story to keep track of time, and with lots and lots of death. It’s easier to do something like Silent Hill since it’s a fairly short game, and if you know the game as well as I do, you look at one scene and know exactly how far along you are. It’s easy to organize footage.

I dunno. It’s definitely a mixed bag, MGO is. The bare bones versions IS free though, so if you have a copy of MGS4 and you want to stick to the new user rooms for awhile (watch out for alts – they’re crawling all over the place), I say give it a try. It’s a unique experience. If you want a fair game with an average player, hit me up – Delta Zero.

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What a fun little gem Night Stalker is. It’s rarely talked about today, and it’s a shame. This is the kind of simplistic fun video games used to have. I remember being young and getting excited to go to my Grandmother’s since she had an Intellivision. Her and I used to play all these games together. She had a really old tv in her kitchen where I played my games, and I had to go under the table with the huge plug to get to the outlet. I don’t know why, but I always fondly remember having to do that. Night Stalker has held up pretty well, I’d say. It’s fun to sneak around the maze while strategizing the best way to go about destroying the robots as efficiently as possible. I would love to see a modernization of this game with new robots. As I said in the review, you can play it via emulation on Intellivison Lives, which is on the original Xbox and Playstation 2. I believe there’s an Intellivision collection coming out for the DS, too.

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Silent Hill is one hell of a game to remember. I’ve personally been playing this game since I was in middle school, and it scared me then and still to this day isn’t something I enjoy thinking about playing late at night, haha. I can remember one time when I completed Silent Hill as a kid, it began to storm out really bad. I looked outside and saw nothing but fog and strange light (a tornado watch was in effect). The game really sticks with you long after you beat it. I think I’m up to 7 or 8 times now. It’s just a really well made storyline and atmosphere. Silent Hill proves that good art direction can stand the test of time even if the graphics are…less than gorgeous to look at. If anyone out there wants to give this one a try and doesn’t feel like shelling out $30+ for the physical PS1 game, it is on the U.S. Playstation Store for under $10. I used that footage for this review. A few weird audio glitches aside it works quite well, and as an added bonus if you have your PS1 memory cards and a game save, you can even work those into the downloaded game! That’s how I got footage of the unlockable katana and rock drill. Hope you all liked the review.

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