If Borderlands let you swap the aesthetic look for a gun with another of the same type but keeping all the stats of the original gun, I would be so happy. I don’t care if the revolver only has 5 chambers when you reload but somehow holds six rounds. Call it holograms or some shit.

Yeah, I also feel like MGS does it to stay in line with Hollywood. The series has always been styled after cinema in various ways, and I think that’s just another example. It certainly helps that it caters to the stealth mechanics, as you’ve pointed out.

That custom 1911 from MGS3 (and Snake’s reaction) really triggered my love affair with using custom models in Counter-Strike 1.6 in order to have 1911 model replacements for various guns (usually the USP). I wasn’t the only one, because there were various efforts within the modding community to replicate the look and…

For the longest time, the ringtone for my text messages was Mr. Torgue yellasking “EXPLOSIONS?!?” Always made me chuckle.

I WAS TOO BUSY SUPLEXING A SHARK WEARING A BOLO TIE!
YOU MAY ASK: “WHO’S WEARING THE TIE, YOU OR THE SHARK?”
ANSWER: YES!

The biggest downfall of Borderlands was that it made you throw away guns you liked for more powerful ones that didn’t necessarily share the same qualities. If only there was customization.

NO THERE’S ONLY ONE THING THAT MAKES FOR A GREAT GUN, AND THAT THING IS EXPLOSIONS!!!!

Black for sure. Glad to see somebody acknowledging it. It’s weird, there was so much hype leading up to its release, and it enjoyed a good stay in the spotlight following its launch...but then EA suddenly started acting like this game never existed.

I *think* you can only do it with cargo containers. But I may be wrong. Haven’t gotten that far in the game yet, but I believe I read something about it.

That’s the best part about Metal Gear, no way is wrong. If it works, it works. I like it that Kojima took his time to make alternative ways to do things.

Wait wait wait. You can hang on to the stuff you fulton?? What happens to you?

I tranq’d a bear and put it in a room in the base I was supposed to be infiltrating. Most hilarious thing I have ever done. Then, during the chaos I set C4 on all the comms equipment I was supposed to be blowing up, fultoned a cargo container, hopped on the container and blew the C4 as I rode off into the sunset. I…

This is “kind of” how you are supposed to play these games. Thats why every metal gear is packed full of game mechanics (that no one ever uses). There are so many ways to dick with enemies, specially in MGS4. You can tranq an enemy, then put sleeping gas mines around, so when someone comes up to wake em up they fall…

I was faced with a problem. I had a weird idea. I tried it, and it worked perfectly. There may be no more satisfying feeling in video games.

i keep seeing these wonderful vistas y’all post and wonder why i haven’t seen any in my 80+ hour unfinished play through, then i realize i still haven’t left Velen :3

Only sold 6 million? Square Enix would probably call that a failure.

As you often say: “this fucking video game.”

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