>has the best final boss music of all time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGoLl88YA7U

Why can't Kojima fail?

clair obscures was better

To be honest, it took him how many games to perfect boss music?
"Yell dead cell" was peak
The volgin and solidus boss themes too

Looks like a new mod-sanctioned marketing-campaign thread spam just dropped. Sorting the catalog by creation date instead of recently bumped really reveals alot about the state of this place.

>>714607002 (OP)
>music

everything else is trash

>>714607002 (OP)
This is Troy Baker singing btw
dude absolutely killed it and Ludvig also

https://youtu.be/_bhEa2hF6Y4?list=RD_bhEa2hF6Y4

Higgs guitar duel > Liquid Ocelot fight

>>714607106
If that were true, you would've bothered spelling the game's name correctly.

I'm up to Chapter 6 and already knew who Tomorrows supposed to be. Neil's intro is the only cool thing from this game, tell me why I shouldn't just drop it? The writing and pacing of the game is just fucking atrocious

>>714607194
well you see, ludvig forssel didn't start making the music until mgsV

>>714607002 (OP)
I dunno. I prefer the kaiju bullshit of Clair Obscur.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XYh1K3pQjI

>>714607901
troy baker has like half the lines of dialogue in the entire game lmao
almost seems unfair

>>714609285
Kojima said that he regretted killing Liquid and that Higgs is basically his outlet for the idea of him being the antagonist of MGS2

>>714608106
What's this gay ass shit? it's like they know they are acting, it's all just a show for an audience. Is breaking the 4th wall all Kojima can do?

>>714609803
He has been doing this since the first MGS

>>714607002 (OP)
Sorry, wrong link. I meant to say Kobayashi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80XAJKqRU9k

final DS2 trailer for anyone still on the fence

https://youtu.be/EQdOSTt7YpY?t=105

>>714608106
I guess it makes sense in the context.

>>714610053
It does. Higgs has been plotting a rematch for thousands of years in the limbo.

>>714607002 (OP)
Why is every good movie and game composer named Ludvig?

Headless rider part was pretty fun

>>714609870
not him but I don't remember MG5 breaking the 4th wall

>>714610198
german name
all the best composers were german

>>714610192
Yes, that one I get. Why the guitar though?

>>714610459
Guns and swords got boring, besides, you can play music with them

>>714610010
if that trailer were any shorter I'd say it was cut by sony themselves.
I honestly prefer kojimas 15 minute trailers that spoil the whole game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL4ZxDWLwpM

>>714610459
Higgs is very eccentric and theatrical due to his insanity. So he made a railgun guitar his weapon of choice for his grand comeback. Naturally Sam gets one too.

>>714607002 (OP)
Sounds like something from the early 2010s. Absolute junk.

>>714607002 (OP)
>>714607106
Not even best final boss theme of 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbQuWLArxaM

>>714610762
I don't even think Higgs wanted to do the Last Stranding, he wanted Sam to kill him more than that.

>>714607002 (OP)
>It's another duel from MGS 4
Kojima really is out of ideas

Why isn't there any black people in this game?

>>714611242
this sounds like something 12 year olds would listen to in 2008 outside a hot topic in a dying mall

>>714612221
Higgs is genuinely in love with Sam in a fucked way. It's the Batman/Joker dynamic.

>>714607002 (OP)
>Poor man's MGR ost

Lmao, this is hot garbage. Fuck off with your shilling campaign Kojima.

>>714613453
There's some lines during the guitar fight where he says it outright. Honestly almost felt bad for him, going nuts after thousands of years of loneliness. No wonder he has some twisted fascination with Sam.

>>714614342
Being stranded as Sam in DS1 was already bad enough to make him want to blow his brains out. Resigning Higgs to thousands of years of the same thing is such a terrible fate even for a villain. No wonder he wanted to make Sam experience so much pain.

>>714609285
He's the only one kojima can afford

>>714607309
This, fucking bonkers how this is allowed to happen
This game is unironic ass, it's not even cringekino like Jack's game

>>714614926
>last minute pathologization of the vilain to try to explain the wacky homo bdsm scenes earlier on
eh i wasn't sold

>>714615410
>>714614926
He was already fucked up in DS1 without the isolation, unless I'm missing something. Amelie chose one psychopath to be her champion of death and Sam as the champion of life, it's that simple. Higgs powers come from Amelie (which he still has for plot purposes). You can see that he can no longer control the tar at the end of DS1 when it's revealed that Amelie is pulling all the strings

>>714615153
/v/ is pretty predictable. The game just came out so why wouldn't people talk about it.
And when is it allowed to be talked about? Next year?
I can already predict that when it gets released on the PC, all you poor faggots will pirate it and crawl back here to talk about it.

>kid kicked the bucket huh?
>so now what... you're just... lugging that coffin around?
>sorry, "pod"
>going on a walkabout?

jesus higgs...

>>714615410
His character is pretty straightforward in his mental decline throughout the two games, I thought. Right from the get-go he's obsessed with Sam and pretty fucked in the head.

>>714616046
I still think that Kojima did other villains better. Even the president had a fucking point.
Liquid had a point, Solidus, Volgin, Liquid Ocelot, Senator Armstrong, Skull Face (even if he is legitimately retarded).
And I'm not even mentioning the other villains.
Higgs is very very simple in comparison, even if he has a pretty good mocap and voice actor behind it.

>>714607002 (OP)
the last boss of expedition 33 had a more climactic electric guitar part
https://youtu.be/iXk35ubUgY8?si=EVuS3vG-mJWh2TAS&t=738

>>714615647
He had a real moment of clarity in his last journal entry. If they went back for him there and tried to help him maybe he would reform. Leaving him there fucked him up for good.

https://youtu.be/ftjmkdJglp8?list=RDftjmkdJglp8

>>714608106
is this shit real. lmfao. thank god i didnt spend money on this

>>714616593
It's a matter of opinion, Van Halen(DS2) vs Carlos Santana (Exp 33).

>>714616792
It's a retcon though? I remember him going back to his shelter, the pizza dude. That was supposed to be a post-ending thing, that he reformed and just chilled.

>>714616972
He never went back, the last journal is from the beach.

>>714614926
>icouldntfukintakeit

>>714607002 (OP)
you sóygolems need to stop pretending this "series" of "games" by forever-inferiority-complex-having-please-say-video-games-are-art-coping cuckjima have any value

>>714607002 (OP)
no spoilers, but hows the game. Does it have more indoor areas? And is there an actual olit in the game this time, because the first one drops the olot for most of the game onlu to pick it back up at the very end

>>714617619
It's still the same underlying gameplay loop as DS1, but gameplay wise its really just an improvement in basically every way you could imagine, better combat, better stealth, just more stuff.

Only real big issue with it imo is really just that its way too damn easy and you really have to handicap yourself to see all the insanely cool mechanics and systems in the game

>>714616540
Higgs is definitely more complex than Volgin , Liquid and Armstrong. Remember that he wasn't always like this. He was a legendary porter like Sam. From his point of view humans deserve to go extinct. He used to be part of an organization that saved BBs from the facilities. Then slowly became mad due to his increasing DOOMs and manipulation from Amele.

A prequel game about his fall could be on the same level as MGS3.

>>714617798
does it have more indoor stuff. The first one really only had one indoor area. Also is the story better paced, you barely get story in large chunks of ds1.

>>714617798
DS1 directors cut had the same issue, not to say base DS1 was super hard, but you at least felt like you were fighting the world.

>preppers no longer give you a star sticker for your suit when you get a 5 star rating
lame

>>714617884
Just feel like there's no difference between suicide and suicide by killing all life. He's like Kuja from FF9, he doesn't want to die and let other people live after him.
And no, he's not more complex than Liquid and Armstrong.
Liquid is a mix of daddy issues, inferiority complex, grandiose ideals. Armstrong wants to change the political landscape and turn humanity into a more self sufficient society.

>>714619785
Well for one Last Stranding is not just a suicide, it resets everything into a natural order. People shouldn't be stranded on the beaches or turn into nukes. The world is still just as fucked up at the end of DS2.

And going by the Liquid comparison you can find all sorts of traits in Higgs just like that. His uncle beat him and forced him to stay inside a bunker, until Higgs snapped and killed him to escape, which lead him to discovering his DOOMs. He definitely feels inferior to Sam and ashamed about his face too, that's why he wears a mask. And he had plenty of grandiose ideals from making the world a better place to bringing about the Last Stranding.

>>714607002 (OP)
bump