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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is literally one of the best games I've ever played and it's entire basis is politics.
Armstrong was screaming Make America Great Again about three years too early.
I’ve always wanted to play it, but I never have. Same for all of the metal gear games, lol.
If only I could play them on PS5 :(
Rising is very very different to any other MGS game. Fair warning. I recommend every MGS game wholeheartedly, but don't play Rising and then pick up Snake Eater or MGSV expecting it to be more of the same.
Thanks for the heads-up
I mean for example in mainline Metal Gear Solid, Raiden is hated by absolutely everyone to such an extent that they made his MGS3 counterpart gay as a horribly aged joke (It was the early to mid 2000's, people accepted "the gays" enough to actually acknowledge our existence, but not enough for homophobia to not be so incredibly normalized that someone being implied to be inferior for loving cock was a normal punchline)
Metal Gear Rising Raiden, is however, fucking awesome.
It's the only one I've played, I'm waiting for the Metal Gear collection to go on sale on Steam
Same
I guarantee you that’s where Turnip’s team got the slogan. Some unpaid internet played the game and mentioned it as Orange was walking by.
I mean the slogan came from Reagan and predates the game.
It was a Reagan campaign, and people like Roger Stone and Steve Pieczenick were involved. Listening to him on Knowledge Fight covering Infowars, they aren't in touch enough to know video game references, unfortunately, since that would have been hilarious.
It originated from Reagan who took it from Thatcher, with Reagan not getting the "Make Britan Great Again" pun works because Great Britain is the name of the English portion of the UK
Great Brittain is the big island that England, Scotland and Wales lie on, but yes it's dumb that Reagan just lost the pun
That's so funny to think about lol
Yeeah, by the time Trump used it, it was a cliché slogan for cinematic hard-right-wing movements and political parties in America. I think the one in The Purge is Keeping America Great
So it was a clue during the campaign that Trump was meaning to do a literal fascism.
And is another fucking case where people who played it rooted for the villain, and missed the point.
I yearn for the day where I meet someone who tries to justify the actions of possibly the single most cartoonishly evil villain in entertainment history.
Maybe second only to the original Thanos, who wiped out half of all life in the universe not to bring balance, but because he was horny.
It's sad that Comic Thanos had a motivation that actually made more sense than "Somehow killing everyone will create utopia, even though I literally don't give a shit, have plenty of evidence this doesn't work, and ultimately just wanna fuck off and live in a cabin somewhere."
The Metal Gear franchise is political from the beginning. No one really batted an eye because everyone can get behind the "screw the government", "fuck Illuminati", "fuck corporations" and at the first game everyone cheers on killing a duciplitous warlord.