10 Video Games You Constantly Have To Defend Hating

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty is often held up as one of the most ahead-of-its-time games ever made - one of the earliest postmodern video games which passed comment on itself, the player, and also proved impressively prescient with regard to contemporary society.

But complain about the fact that you got bait-and-switched by Hideo Kojima and you'll be fighting an uphill struggle to convince fans that you're not a dunderheaded philistine who lacked the mental wherewithal needed to parse the game's deep intellectual well.

Though MGS2's gameplay gets a lot right, slyly switching out Solid Snake for Raiden after the game's prologue was a dirty trick that still leaves a sour taste in the mouths of many players.

In many respects it feels like the ultimate Hideo Kojima game - as infuriating as it is sometimes brilliant, unintentionally hilarious, and existing in spite of what the player might actually want from it.

MGS2's esteem has really only grown with fans and critics over the last two decades, and so if you're still bitter that Kojima lied about the game's protagonist, apparently this makes you petty and entitled.

Ridiculous for someone to actually want to play the game the marketing sold to them, eh?