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  • I'm thinking of getting either Mullet Gear Solid 2 or ICO after I finish FFX. I've heard that MGS2 has great gameplay to make up for it's idiotic story, but what are your thoughts on ICO?

  • Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
 #27004  by Torgo
 Tue Jan 01, 2002 7:00 pm
<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>I'm thinking of getting either Mullet Gear Solid 2 or ICO after I finish FFX. I've heard that MGS2 has great gameplay to make up for it's idiotic story, but what are your thoughts on ICO?</div>

 #27007  by Blotus
 Tue Jan 01, 2002 7:38 pm
<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>You should be able to beat ICO on a rental no problem. It's great, but it doesn't have any real replay value to speak of.</div>

 #27013  by Stephen
 Wed Jan 02, 2002 12:39 am
<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>No contest. Get Metal Gear. That is, unless you want a game that faithfully simulates the experience of baby-sitting the retarded.</div>
 #27016  by Andy
 Wed Jan 02, 2002 10:18 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>For all the hype that came with this game here is what I am most dissappointed with:

As far as I've played it cutscenes take up about 50% of the time you spend playing it.

In terms of graphical prowress, a lot of the stuff looks like it coulda been made in the dreamcast. Textures look too simple (Think Goldeneye)

Bodies dissappear. C'mon were talkin about a freakin one man commando here. The least you could do Konami was let us savor over the kills we had.

Control scheme is horrible. Horrible in a sense that most of the stuff is basic. Not much variety to your punch punch kick attack.

For what I heard about the AI in this game, it's still pretty stupid. They still come at you even though you popped 4 guys before him.

Lame missions.

Really annoying voice acting.

I've been playing FFX more (i think 14 hours and im fighting Seymour) no doubt I like it better than Most Shitty Game 2. I'm gonna see if I could exchange it for GTA3 or NBA2K2. Avoid it like the plague.</div>

 #27018  by G-man Joe
 Thu Jan 03, 2002 8:24 am
<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Please don't expect a lot of textures in this game, it's on a plant. You know, not much articles laying about, flat panels, long corridors. Gameplay was fun, skip the cut scenes. Get the game, enjoy.</div>

 #27029  by Andy
 Thu Jan 03, 2002 8:01 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Hey man, after shelling out 50 beans I'd expect a game where I can actually get to *play something* I'd have gotten a dvd if I wanted too see a movie</div>

 #27030  by Stephen
 Thu Jan 03, 2002 8:21 pm
<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>As opposed to FFX, which doesn't have any non-interactive cinemas to speak of.</div>

 #27036  by Ganath
 Fri Jan 04, 2002 3:55 am
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I'd say go with MGS2. Penny Arcade summed it up with "Pardon me, but I don't speak 'CRAZY BITCH'!" Heard Ico was interesting, but ultimately frustrating and had little replay value.</div>

 #27043  by Andy
 Fri Jan 04, 2002 1:05 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>FFX story keeps the cutscenes interesting...as opposed to the retarded shit that MGS2 has. Seriously though I dont know why you guys are dickriding all this Konami hype.</div>

 #27047  by Blotus
 Fri Jan 04, 2002 2:38 pm
<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>It's not too hard to beat at all, but it really doesn't have ANY replay value.</div>

 #27048  by Blotus
 Fri Jan 04, 2002 2:42 pm
<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Interesting choice of words... you think anybody who likes MGS2 likes it just because of the hype? It blows the first game out of the water when it comes to gameplay, and the cut scenes are easily skipped.</div>

 #27057  by Stephen
 Sat Jan 05, 2002 3:06 am
<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>What? No one's dickriding anything, ass. We like a game you don't like. You'll get over it.</div>