If I stop reading Romeo and Juliet partway through does that prevent them from dying at the end? (and before anyone replies that this is a game - and thus an interactive medium - in a strictly linear story like SOTL your interactivity is as connected to the story as turning the pages of a book - I.e., the connection is minimal and superficial .
No but you might actually be able to move on with your life if you did that.
A WW1 Western Front FPS would be a trench raiding FPS. Lot of action involving stealth raids through No Man's Land into enemy trenches for sabotage, reconnaissance, kidnapping of enemy officers and to then melt back into their own lines. High stakes virile stuff with the crack of mace on skull in the moonlight. It's maybe not great for a narrative campaign but the idea can work.
Don't forget the minigame where the Union soldiers steal all of a plantation's supplies, burn it, rape the slave women, free the slaves and then forcedly conscript some of them to work in a camp until they die of cholera.
The more fart huffing artistic types love the idea that the consumers of their media are represented in it as the protagonists (another good example - YIIK), which is ridiculous considering most people just pick a game based on word of mouth or a cool trailer rather than read the box blurb. So you obviously play the game because you are a psychotic gamer who wants to kill brown people, who else play modern shooters?
Shows once again how uneducated the average YT slop producer is, Spec Ops plagiated Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now (which ripped off HoD originally) and the "Hurr, you were the bad guy all along, it's all in your mind" twist was done to death even before Fight Club reached cult-classic status. The gameplay is generic even by 3rd person cover shooter standards. I hate cover shooters with a passion and i forced myself to beat this game in an afternoon because /v/ was hyping up muh storytelling. I thought it was okay in that regard, just simply not original at all.
Kojimbo has never learned to deal with the fact that he will never become a Hollywood big shot (hopefully), his writing simply isn't that great. Hell, with how low the standards in film/show writing are these days and how he's been cozying up to popular people in the industry maybe he has a shot at becoming a real director after all. I won't deny i am not morbidly curious about how shitty a big budget Kojima film would turn out, would probably make money hand over fist just because of name recognition. He'd probably cast Mads for every role.
I love that even the translator for Metal Gear Solid 2 said Kojima isn't talented enough to get hired writing for a trashy daytime soap opera.
Udo Kier doing anything for a pay cheque the last 20 odd years
Excellent "game" trailer, Kojimbo. Magnificient even. Pat yourself on the back. Dis nigga, i swear... 
To be fair, there's hardly anything there to noticeUdo Kier doing anything for a pay cheque the last 20 odd years
Needless to say this shit completely passed me by.
It came out a year after PMMM aired, which did lead to several comparisons between the two (of which I was unfortunately one of them). I still think PMMM is one of the all time greatest anime, but like all great works, it inspired many imitators that failed to include the elements that made it more than just a "subversive grimdark story".
this line, if it's in the video, is such an amazing self-satire in an unintentional way to me of the copium that "legitimate" game critics try to say about X game. it's the "Ebert check out this one itll totally change your mind" type of thing
The only game I ever recall seeing along that line is some old flash game called Dark Cut 2 or something. That set of games was Surgeon Simulator before Surgeon Simulator, but took itself seriously (at least as much as a Newgrounds flash game could).
