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    Sony lost over $3 billion on PS3 pricing

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    Bluray won a meaningless war against HDDVD.

    HDDVD was never the true enemy. Most people predicted its demise before the war even began.

    Bluray will never, EVER win the war against standard DVDs. Now that they have been adopted, people are not simply going to abandon them to another new format that pretty much also demands the purchase of a brand new, very expensive television set as well as sound system just so they can spend even MORE money rebuilding the collection that they already started on DVD.

    No, it is much too early for a new format.

    That's what everyone said about DVDs when they came out. Oh tapes are too widespread by now, DVDs are too expensive and will never catch on. Give them a few more years for HD to spread and it'll soon replace DVD.

    BGC & Zircon on the radio

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    that post is worse than my usual caliber

    anyways i go to guitar center sometimes so ill listen for it

    At least I try punctuation from time to time. It's a fun fact to know, I didn't really think of anything else of say, I don't actually live near a Guitar Center nor have I ever seen one.

    Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

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    SPOILERS ABOUT THE ENDING

    I personally thought the ending felt lacking and tacked on. Kojima himself mentioned he wrote the games as they were made (proven by his retcon which changed Dr.Clark from a "he" to a "she") so he had the need to tie everything up here. Clearly, once he reached the end, he saw that the only way he could do that was by outright explaining everything to the player, something that could only be done with Big Boss, so he had to bring him back.

    His sudden appearance makes little sense, even in the MGS world, and then he goes on to deliver a trademark MGS rambling speech. If that wasn't enough, Kojima then decided to use his favorite nonsensical plot point, FOXDIE. Oh fuck Big Boss caught it! He's gonna die. Wait, he's talking first. Talking. Talking. Oh he fell. He got up. He fell again. He's saluting. He's smoking a cigar. He's dying. He's dead. The stretching on of the scene sapped a lot of the underlying emotion. It just made little sense. Killing off Snake would've been better, that's the death the man created to be a soldier deserved. Not withering away for three months at home with Otacon as his housemaid.

    The whole second half of the game felt pretty contrived and weird, mostly thanks to Kojima's struggle to wrap up all the plot points. It took away from the game. The (little) gameplay itself was spot on, and the Liquid Ocelot fight was perfect, but still... It didn't feel like the ending was deserving of the series grandeur.

    MGS2 is still the best one, in my opinion.

    SPOILERS

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