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A Bystander posted:Too bad that game's online is deader than the prime minister. It's always great fun to watch someone skilled at the game who isn't a pompous douchenozzle whose voice makes things unwatchable. It's why I like Accounting Nightmare's DMC videos so much. I watched that first video like three times and I'm probably going to buy this when I have money.
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I'm usually not very much into games like these (DMC, Bayonetta) but got this at launch because I love me some Metal Gear regardless of genre and had a complete blast. I've played through this countless times and it still manages to be tons of fun. The parry system is kind of ingenious and insanely satisfying to pull off, and being able to reduce enemies to tiny bits is so cathartic and satisfying. I've only done normal so far but I'm considering kicking it up a notch to hard once I get back to it. And despite having scoured nearly every inch of this game I'm sure I'll be learning tons of new stuff from this LP as is usually the case when Chip LPs a Metal Gear. Eagerly awaiting Ironicus' reactions as the game progresses; the RAY fight is up there when it comes to how nuts this game can be but there's a lot more craziness to come.
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May 21, 2013 16:49
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Lance Streetman posted:Blasphemy. That's not a gun, that's a camera. It even has a tripod at the bottom.
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May 21, 2013 16:55
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horriblePencilist posted:That's not a gun, that's a camera. It even has a tripod at the bottom. God drat it, I really hope this 5D movie fad is going to end soon.
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May 21, 2013 17:30
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So...is a Metal Gear Ray supposed to be a threat to Raiden? He singlehandedly destroyed 15 of those at once on his first mission. (How anyone can dislike MGS2 when you have to fight 15 Metal Gears in the same boss fight is beyond me).
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May 21, 2013 21:08
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Patter Song posted:So...is a Metal Gear Ray supposed to be a threat to Raiden? He singlehandedly destroyed 15 of those at once on his first mission. (How anyone can dislike MGS2 when you have to fight 15 Metal Gears in the same boss fight is beyond me). He gave up after a certain point whining about how he couldn't do it even if you played the rest of the fight perfectly. 
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May 21, 2013 21:15
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Patter Song posted:So...is a Metal Gear Ray supposed to be a threat to Raiden? He singlehandedly destroyed 15 of those at once on his first mission. (How anyone can dislike MGS2 when you have to fight 15 Metal Gears in the same boss fight is beyond me). Well, to be fair, those were mass-produced, and kinda lovely quality. The newer ones in MGS4/MGR are tougher, better equipped, and in this case have a loving plasma cannon. It's a threat to Raiden. That's why he murdered the gently caress out of it with awesome metal playing in the background.
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May 21, 2013 21:15
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Obviously Ray is not a threat to Raiden. It's playing the Worf role here, getting the poo poo kicked out of it so Raiden can look all badass, making it all the more shocking when he gets totally chumped by Sam. Even the lyrics to Ray's own boss music are all about how it's on the verge of extinction, out-evolved by advances in combat cyborg technology.
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May 21, 2013 21:23
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bman in 2288 posted:Well, to be fair, those were mass-produced, and kinda lovely quality. The newer ones in MGS4/MGR are tougher, better equipped, and in this case have a loving plasma cannon. It's a threat to Raiden. I don't think the weapons matter much if they can't hit him. 
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May 21, 2013 21:29
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Rays are just the tanks of the future. Did you see what Snake did to tanks in his day?
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May 21, 2013 21:32
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Runaway Bro posted:Rays are just the tanks of the future. Did you see what Snake did to tanks in his day? I think it'd be more accurate to compare them to Gekko.
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May 21, 2013 21:33
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:I think it'd be more accurate to compare them to Gekko. You might come to regret that comparison.
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May 21, 2013 21:38
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Well, I meant more along the lines of how Gekko were tough to normal people in MGS4, but cake for cyborgs like Raiden. I imagine that if Gekko are still around, Raiden could cut through them with more ease than RAY.
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May 21, 2013 21:41
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Three days, ten pages, one update, and it already feels like I've been waiting forever. This LP is going to be hell.
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May 21, 2013 21:48
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:I imagine that if Gekko are still around, Raiden could cut through them with more ease than RAY. If Gekkos were upgraded like Ray was, they could still be a threat. I mean, they were always really agile.
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May 21, 2013 21:54
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randombattle posted:The reality is significantly less awesome... Basically it's the same as they explain in the game. A vibration is set through the blade at an ultrahigh frequency which makes it better able to cut through poo poo due largely to the decreased friction on the blade as it's cutting. They use ultrasonic blades for industrial cutting in things like food and carpet. Significantly less awesome?! Real-life hypersonic blades are beyond loving awesome.
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May 21, 2013 21:59
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ThatPazuzu posted:If Gekkos were upgraded like Ray was, they could still be a threat. I mean, they were always really agile. All of these have codec calls addressing them. It's pretty funny how like every ridiculous or strange thing has at least one codec call explaining why things are that way and for the most part they all make sense. I'm sure we will be hearing a lot of the important codec calls that talk about these things like ray and whatnot. Ray's theme Rules of Nature is actually the theme for all the large UGs.
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May 21, 2013 22:02
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slowbeef posted:Significantly less awesome?! The Subway Sandwich Artist Transformed
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May 21, 2013 22:11
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slowbeef posted:Significantly less awesome?! Hypersonic blades, for all your hardcore baguette-cutting needs. Compared to a normal knife, how bad would you cut yourself were you to touch your hand with that thing ?
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May 21, 2013 22:15
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Fathis Munk posted:Compared to a normal knife, how bad would you cut yourself were you to touch your hand with that thing ? The entire point of them is to cut as cleanly and easily as possible. You could probably do yourself some serious damage just because your expectations of cutting resistance weren't met.
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May 21, 2013 22:23
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goatface posted:The entire point of them is to cut as cleanly and easily as possible. You could probably do yourself some serious damage just because your expectations of cutting resistance weren't met. On the bright side, if it's anything like an obsidian scalpel the wound would heal with less scarring than one from a typical knife due to the nice clean cut.
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May 21, 2013 22:35
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Patter Song posted:So...is a Metal Gear Ray supposed to be a threat to Raiden? He singlehandedly destroyed 15 of those at once on his first mission. (How anyone can dislike MGS2 when you have to fight 15 Metal Gears in the same boss fight is beyond me). Well it wasn't really meant to defeat him, just slow him down.
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May 21, 2013 22:41
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You wonder why they didn't just send the Antonio Banderas samurai or the giant-scissors Texan after him. "Ha ha! We will fight later! This is just the prologue!"
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May 21, 2013 22:54
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RAY was actually the least dangerous thing they had available. They just knew that Raiden couldn't resist showing off, so they sent RAY after him knowing he'd waste like 10 minutes cutting off all its guns and jumping off missiles and running down clocktowers and poo poo while they took apart all the actual competent mercenaries they had.
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Spiritus Nox posted:Three days, ten pages, one update, and it already feels like I've been waiting forever. This LP is going to be hell. The next update'll be up on Friday. I'm gonna attempt to keep updates going weekly, but I'm attending Ironicus' wedding next month so there might be a break in the updates at some point. slowbeef posted:Significantly less awesome?! Speaking of the music linked in here, this is actually an older version of the RAY theme that isn't used in the game. The one used in game is "Rules of Nature". The other version is called "Locked and Loaded" and isn't used in the game anywhere, but still appears on the official soundtrack. It sounds similar but has different lyrics. You may also find some versions of songs from the game that have a less electronic sound to them. There are actually "Platinum" mixes as well as "Maniac Agenda" mixes. The songs were originally written to sound more standard metal, but were then sent to Maniac Agenda (a dubstep group, I believe) to add an electronic feel on top of the normal songs. There are also some other versions of the songs you can find floating around Youtube, these are older/incomplete versions of some of the songs that were hiding within the game's demo.
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Chip Cheezum posted:Speaking of the music linked in here, this is actually an older version of the RAY theme that isn't used in the game. The one used in game is "Rules of Nature". The other version is called "Locked and Loaded" and isn't used in the game anywhere, but still appears on the official soundtrack. It sounds similar but has different lyrics. It is? I have the vocal album because I'm a dork but all it has is the Rules of Nature version.
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I think Chip is confusing Locked and Loaded with Hot Wind Blowing. Locked and Loaded is basically the exact same song as Rules of Nature with different lyrics that was changed for some reason during development. (Probably because Raiden doesn't use any guns) Hot Wind Blowing is on the soundtrack but isn't featured in the game. It's the boss music for a member of the Winds of Destruction seen in DLC2.
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May 22, 2013 00:08
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Kaboom Dragoon posted:I thought we agreed it was a tossup between "ZUGZWANG" and "BITCH-BOOM"?  The ultra-sonic blade idea has been around for a long time. They are cool, but never buy a cheap one. You'll have the world's most dangerous vibrator.
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The versions of most of the songs they use in the game are carefully mixed up some so that the 'good' parts come in when the battle kicks up. Searching for OST stuff on Youtube might get you a couple different versions of the same song but one is missing a verse or whatever and is probably the one used in-game.
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Kaboom Dragoon posted:I thought we agreed it was a tossup between "ZUGZWANG" and "BITCH-BOOM"? I'm a fan of a lot of the sound effects that appeared in adventures involving Marvel's Hercules like CRAKKAJAMMA and KRAKKINAJAA.  One of my favourites is N-TU-DASUNNN!  Or NURP. Cooked Auto fucked around with this message at 00:51 on May 22, 2013 |
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May 22, 2013 00:48
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Cooked Auto posted:Or NURP. And the text is purple, too. It's perfect.
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May 22, 2013 00:55
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I dunno, I'm a fan of SICKNASTY myself.
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May 22, 2013 01:03
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Incredible Hercules is perfect, thus it contains all the best SFX.
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slowbeef posted:Significantly less awesome?! This is why nobody goes to Subway with Boris. "Yes. YES. Split it wide open! But no olives, please!"
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Tupperwarez posted:This is why nobody goes to Subway with Boris. "Yes. YES. Split it wide open! But no olives, please!" Sitting across the table from Raiden, who is feverishly inhaling a gigantic meatball sub: "FINISH THAT BASTARD OFF"
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Monkey Fracas posted:Sitting across the table from Raiden, who is feverishly inhaling a gigantic meatball sub: Or when they're out back smoking weed: "Raiden! Use Blaze Mode to smoke this HEMP missile!"
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kalonZombie posted:I dunno, I'm a fan of SICKNASTY myself. Also, about on par with the ridiculousness of the Metal Gear universe!
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Patter Song posted:So...is a Metal Gear Ray supposed to be a threat to Raiden? He singlehandedly destroyed 15 of those at once on his first mission. (How anyone can dislike MGS2 when you have to fight 15 Metal Gears in the same boss fight is beyond me). E: vvv Fair point, but later on in MGS4, it couldn't even take out a ship because it was too busy posing before it got killed by the plot. Why does the metal gear with the best design have to be the most useless one in the series. 
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TheEggsBenedict posted:Don't forget that in MGS4, it lost to a battered version of a metal gear it was designed to beat. MG Ray might as well be the MGS equivalent of a koopa in the next MGS game. To be fair, Rex had an unfair advantage since the makers of Ray expected Rex to shoot at it with missiles and things, not it saying "gently caress it" and start literally kicking it's rear end. The GIG fucked around with this message at 02:20 on May 22, 2013 |
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The GIG posted:To be fair, Rex had an unfair advantage since the makers of Ray expected Rex to shoot at it with missiles and things, not it saying "gently caress it" and start literally kicking it's rear end. Also, it was the prototype of Metal Gear REX. Prototypes of giant robots are always way more powerful.
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