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Eagle Inchworm Lobster Hyena Pig Jaguar
Tuesday / 06.24.08 / 11:50PM / Joe / comments: 3

Finished Metal Gear Solid 4 last night at 3am. Which, of course, means that I last touched the controller probably around 1:30am, hyuk hyuk.

Seriously, it was awesome. I love those characters, I love that world. I will absolutely play through it again. The ending was great. Was it gaming's Citizen Kane? No. I don't even know what that means, or why we have to torture ourselves with that kind of talk. But it was harrowing and engaging and fitting and I cried several times. In 90 minutes, there's plenty of time to cry.

Anyway, here's the usual end-of-game ranking recap:

95 alert phases shows how bad I am at tripping alarms. 153 kills is low, I would imagine. I stopped killing about halfway through and switched to the tranquilizer gun for just about everything (except the Gekkos).

My rank was determined to be Eagle, which means 150 head shots (I assume head tranqs count... I always aim for the head when putting guys to sleep.)

The other animal emblems I unlocked give a perfectly accurate account of how I play Metal Gear.

Inchworm: crawl for an hour. Yep, I crawl around a lot. I always hide in ducts, waiting for enemies to pass by.

Lobster: crouch for 2.5 hours. Yep again. Because I'm paranoid about making noise that the baddies can hear, I'm in crouch mode almost all the time. Although I alert dudes anyway, as proven above.

Hyena: pick up 400 weapons/items. Oh, absolutely. How can you not run around picking up every dropped weapon or hidden item?

Pig: use 40 healing items. Sure, lots of rations get used. In a thick battle, I have to click off the Solid Eye and put the item default on rations just so I won't die.

Jaguar: a weird gestalt ranking... Alert Phases: over 75 / Kills: under 250 / Continues: under 25. It means I ticked the enemy off, but then didn't kill them (I tranq'ed them) and didn't die overly often.

So I'm largely a clumsy coward who collects stuff, but wicked on the headshots. Sounds about right.

 

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Author Profile Page The Tony / 06.25.08 / 08:44AM /

I'd ask you to record and upload the ending, but it might crash not just your site...but THE WHOLE INTERNET AS WE KNOW IT.

Because it's THAT LONG.

KA-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!


Author Profile Page Joe / 06.25.08 / 09:54AM /

Just learned that I was only 5 alerts away from getting a Cow emblem as well. Damn.


Author Profile Page HotBarlo / 06.25.08 / 11:20PM /

Hahah, crawling for an hour? That's awesome.

I'm already on my second playthrough, and this time I am doing A LOT of killing. Wich is great. Every now and then, when you hit some guy, Liquids voice appears on Snake telling him "you enjoy all the killing, don't you?", and then Snakes puke. I love it!


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