>>724531809
The more I think about it, the more I realize Drebin is a microcosm of all of my issues with MGS4. Every single other Metal Gear game expanded the universe in some way, even if it was retarded parasites, but expanded nonetheless. MGS4 is the only one that I can think of that truly did not introduce anything new into the series. and the only new characters in the game were Drebin and Sunny. For fucks sake, the cast of Snake Eater had to become the Patriots, Naomi got tortured and mangled into a nanomachine expert when she was a biologist, and Rosemary got tortured and mangled into a psychiatrist when she was a data analyst.
Which brings me to Drebin. Kojimbo got so lazy when it came to introducing new characters and expanding the scope of Metal Gear in MGS4 that Drebin, a character that is part of the Drebin network, really shouldn't have had the plot relevance he did, and we should've gotten different Drebins at each chapter because it makes more sense for Snake to be dealing with the local Drebin of where he is.
But no, we can't even have this game's impressive collection of freaks monologue their life story to Snake at the end of each boss fight (which the Cobras have the same issue, by the way) because "lmao, the sexy women in skin-tight outfits have too much trauma to be comprehensible! Aren't they creepy, yet alluring?" so now Drebin has to fill that role too because who else is going to?
The more time goes on, the more I hate MGS4. At least Kojimbles seemed to remember why he made MGS2 impossible to follow up on and didn't bother with Snake and Raiden anymore after MGS4 and just made Big Boss stories until he got shit-canned.
