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Hatter106 posted:It does make me a little sad to see that the thrill of extracting a POW over your shoulder has been replaced by a simple Fulton extraction. I know you technically don't have to use it, but... maybe you'll get a higher score extracting by hand...? I do like how they at least have snipers that will attempt to shoot down your Fulton balloons, but it's not like we won't just go out of our way to look for them now.
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timeandtide posted:English version of the Quiet cutscene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B94LZ1a-3To Ugh I still don't know how I feel about Kiefer. He keeps going between noticeably sounding like Kiefer Sutherland and being acceptable, but every time I watch him speak I never think "Oh hey it's Big Boss". And then he goes and pulls off a single great sounding line like at the of the Quiet cutscene and I get even more conflicted.
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Mr. Flunchy posted:Kojima's milporn boner vs his innate pacifism is one of the most interesting things about him imo. It really is. Just look at how MGS3 gives you so many different and creative ways to kill people...and then force you to confront their souls still suffering from the wounds you inflicted upon them after death. 
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Scalding Coffee posted:I thought Clint Eastwood was also dubbed over? He dubbed over himself for the English version IIRC, despite speaking in English for the shoot. I know they had to dub over Van Cleef's lines as well; in the extended edition Blu-Ray, they actually had to hire an impersonator to do his English lines, since the man was dead. Wallach and Eastwood came back for their own lines in the "new" scenes as well, I think. EDIT: Wait, no, I think it might have only been A Fistful of Dollars that Eastwood had to dub his lines in for the original English release. Raxivace fucked around with this message at 05:44 on Sep 26, 2014 |
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Comrade Flynn posted:Horrible confession time: I've never played a Metal Gear since the original on NES. Production order. Metal Gear > Metal Gear 2 > Metal Gear Solid > Metal Gear Solid 2 > Metal Gear Solid 3 > Metal Gear Solid 4 > Peace Walker > Rising > Ground Zeroes > The Phantom Pain You can also do Portable Ops in-between MGS3 and MGS4 if you have a PSP, or you could watch an LP or whatever. And honestly you can skip the two MSX games as they don't have much in the way of plot, but drat they're good games.
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The one I wonder the most about is Ishmael, especially after all that conspiracy stuff that it spawned in the way only Kojima games can inspire. Well Kojima games and paranoid delusions.
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Mantis42 posted:"Kaz, I understand now. Soldiers will never have a place to call their own on Earth. Outer space must become our Heaven. We're the Militares Sans Gravitas." That would make him more like Char than Che.
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I really hope we see more of Running Man in TPP. I just need to know how Big Boss thought hiring a guy who's gimmick is running around in a circle incessantly was a good idea.
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mr.capps posted:I want a scene where Running Man runs through poisonous really really fast to save Ocelot who then says "You are pretty good" and it just gets into Running Man's head "man I know running is my shtick, but maybe running in a room fulled of poisonous gas should be my thing" We also need to know why running is his shtick. What is Running Man running from? What could be so horrifying that you must literally spend your whole life in constant movement to get away from it? We need Werner Herzog to solve this mystery. Raxivace fucked around with this message at 06:51 on Oct 28, 2014 |
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I wonder how much they offered him. It would be hilarious if he demanded a paycheck equivalent to whatever Scrooge McDuck piles of money they're paying Kiefer.
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NikkolasKing posted:And even as trippy as MGS2 was the way we got it, there were intentions of making it even more ambiguous. Like calling it Metal Gear Solid III, never revealing the identity of the Cyborg Ninja, and so-on. Speaking of this, does anybody know if that proposal of MGS2 document still exists on the internet anywhere? EDIT: Thanks Chaos! 
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I like the codec conversations myself. Reminds me of old-school pulpy radio dramas.
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So is it just me or are the "Mark All Enemies" Trials in GZ a wee bit broken? I spent about two hours trying to find one last guy in the mission where you had to assassinate The Eye and The Finger, and I swear to god he was nowhere to be found on that damned island. Apparently a generic U.S. Marine is a greater master of stealth than Big Boss himself!
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TheMaestroso posted:My strategy for those missions involved tranqing or marking, and then headshot with a suppressed weapon. That way you don't have to go crazy finding the last guy among all of the patrolling soldiers you've already marked. Also, always avoid triggering patrol shifts, because that can mess up your mark count. Yeah, patrol shifts were throwing me off earlier. I was like "How the hell did my marked count go down? OH RIGHT...patrol shifts...KOJIMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" etc. I shall be tackling this again later after I have an afternoon nap! Nakar posted:Also don't trigger alerts, as in search phase alerts. Guards have predictable postings or patterns on a map and you can and should be able to do a marking run with near-perfect precision as long as you're going through the right parts of the map at the right times and not being seen or heard or taking out guards or cameras (unless you know they won't be discovered or you mark the guy who's going to check the camera out). Once a search order goes out everybody wanders around and good loving luck tracking them down at that point. I'll keep this all in mind. I sort of tried this before, but when I was found I just said "gently caress it" and killed everyone until reinforcements wouldn't be sent anymore. This lead to me running around an empty base just getting bored. Surlaw posted:I think that's a big part of what I hated about it, I would have rather had all of the weapons hidden away in missions instead. Or tied to special win conditions in boss battles if those battles weren't all crazy bad. All I need from MGS5 is good boss fights. TPP is going to have boss fights, right? 
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You guys have any tips on S-Ranking Eliminate the Renegade Threat? I've tried several different video guides at this point, and none seem to be getting me past an A-Rank. I have Reflex turned off, but there always seems to be some random marine that that is someplace he shouldn't be that finds me, or sniper headshots don't immediately kill Glaz or Palitz, or some random guy gains superpowers and spots me from what feels like an unusually far distance etc. Dammit, I got the MGS2 Platinum, I should be able to do this.
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Nakar posted:Or just say gently caress it, CQC the guy walking up the hill as you dash over to the jeep guys, CQC flip them and steal their jeep while the alarms blare, drive it over to the bald guy's jeep and CQC him, then jack his jeep after putting him in it and drive it to the bridge and intercept the other guy as he's driving away. Then drive out. One alarm, no kills, double extraction in under 2 minutes, S rank guaranteed. This sounds interesting, but I'm not exactly sure how it is supposed to play out- where exactly will the "bald guy" be? Where will the other guy be driving from, and how do I get him out of his vehicle easily? Do I get out and tranq him?
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I appreciate all the help everyone. Terminally Bored posted:Check out some speedrun videos, like this one for example: This ultimately did it for me, since I could never get a hang of the driving controls. I had to modify it slightly though, because for whatever reason Glaz would not spawn if I tried to snipe him after throwing a smoke grenade and killing Palitz (Must be PS3 limitations). Instead I had to throw the smoke grenade, quickly mark Glaz, then kill him, then snipe Palitz while he was still in that general area. I ended up with an S-Rank with a time of 2:45.9992, no Alerts, and the bonus from No Retries and No Relfex, and a total score of 52870. I love Ground Zeroes. I may have been a little salty earlier, but I love the high of satisfaction from doing well in it. Can't wait for TPP! Now I just have to get the last few S-Ranks I don't have, and unlock the rest of the Trials... Raxivace fucked around with this message at 03:04 on Mar 4, 2015 |
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Upmarket Mango posted:What are some badass, era-appropriate songs that'd be great in the chopper? I like using the theme from The Long Goodbye myself, even if I don't really care for the film that much. It kind of fit. At one point I had The Beatles' "Don't Let Me Down" on my chopper because of how terrible of a pun that becomes. It also kind of fit.
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I'm curious about how the "Snake we need to kidnap a god damned translator to understand what the gently caress people are saying" mechanic is supposed to work , personally. It sounds fun, and seems like the kind of the thing I don't see in video games very often. http://www.metalgearinformer.com/?p=16708
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In MGSV you play as Venom Snake. This means that Zero is actually British Spider-Man.
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Rose exists narratively to trick Raiden (And therefore the player) into embracing the fantasy of being an action hero instead of wanting to deal with real life problems, and therefore playing into the S3 Plan. If you reject Rose, you accept the will of the Patriots. Raxivace fucked around with this message at 01:06 on Jan 22, 2015 |
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MeatwadIsGod posted:To be fair, the Rose who is constantly prattling on about your anniversary and the lack of posters in your room or whatever-the-gently caress while you're trying to rescue the President and prevent nuclear war isn't the real Rose. She's just a simulation created by the Patriots to help manipulate Raiden. Though we could probably infer the real Rose is at least somewhat similar in order to be a convincing simulation. No, it is the real Rose that talks about the posters, being a Patriots agent etc. The Rose AI doesn't come into play until the Arsenal stuff starts happening IIRC.
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MeatwadIsGod posted:I figured it was meant to be Patriot AI since Raiden has that conversation with the Colonel where he says "I've never seen you in person before," implying Colonel was Patriot AI the whole time (and therefore Rose could be as well). I could be wrong, but that would make Rose randomly showing up at the end of the game in Manhattan make more sense. The Colonel is definitely an AI the whole time, and while I think you're meant to question if Rose has been one the whole time as well (The "You have to beLIEve me!" line is so trollish lmao), I think it ultimately doesn't pan out, and explains less than Rosemary being switched out for an AI does. Like if they have an AI that can actually emote, then why doesn't The Colonel AI resemble Campbell at all? Their manner of speaking and their ability to express emotion is nothing alike. Haha, do we really need to be spoiler tagging a game that is coming up on being 13 years old?
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MeatwadIsGod posted:I try as much as possible to abide by the Stan Lee principle - every game is someone's first. Even though the game is old, there are tons of younger people who maybe didn't play it at the time or people who are only getting interested in the series now because of Ground Zeroes or Phantom Pain. That's fair. I guess the way the franchise is now too you could have people that have only really played the Big Boss games so far.
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Snake Eater gets all the love, but I quite like Way to Fall as well.
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:I don't think there's been a bad main theme to an MGS game yet, vocal or otherwise. Way to Fall, Calling to the Night, The Best Is Yet To Come, they're all great. But if I had to pick one to rank lower than the others, I'd probably drop Can't Say Goodbye to Yesterday. I really like Can't Say Goodbye to Yesterday myself. The sad tone really gets to me for whatever reason, so every now and then I boot it up on my iPhone. Weirdly enough Here's To You is probably my least favorite song, which is strange since I usually love Ennio Morricone's work.
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Oh my god guys, September 1st can't come soon enough. I'm super loving excited! New MGS game in six months oh my god. OH MY GOD. This has been such a wild ride. Raxivace fucked around with this message at 14:21 on Mar 12, 2015 |
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Mr. Flunchy posted:I'm pretty sure I first saw every Metal Gear ending at 4 or 5am due to underestimating how much longer was left. It all makes more sense at that time of night anyway. I really wish I was into the franchise when MGS2 first came out and did this. It must have been magical.
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I've always thought that MGS3's ending was a perfect ending to the franchise as a whole and that subsequently MGS4 and Peace Walker didn't really introduce a whole lot of new interesting aspects, but dammit Ground Zeroes and the TPP trailers reeled me back in.
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Fargin Icehole posted:Metal Gear Solid 4 ran under the assumption that you played everything up until that point, especially 3, because you figure out that Big Boss really was a guy that saved the world at least once. I guess 3 was a first hand, yet romanticized as gently caress look at the declassified files of Snake Eater, which is why the start of the game is Solid Snake saluting to his own father he killed a couple of years back. For all of Portable Ops' flaws, it sort of tried to set up Zero as the villain ("The man with the same codename as Null"), but obviously it wasn't particularly successful since the set up was relegated to that single line I just quoted. And even if it was successful, it was still a PSP game relatively few people played.
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Strong Sauce posted:The only reason Peace Walker got made was because Portable Ops did so well. Acid 2 was a ton of fun, and I liked how crazy the story was in Acid 1. Also love how Solid Snake is actually killed in this continuity.
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Funky Valentine posted:Big Boss accomplishes this via inventing the war economy. One of the cool things about this was how you see the nightmarish logical conclusion of the war economy in MGS4 first, and only after that does Peace Walker take you all the way back to its genesis to see how hey maybe the idea made some amount of sense for MSF at the time but it will ultimately only spiral out of control.
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Peace Walker is the worst mainline MGS game. 
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Console Role Player posted:Nah, that honor goes to MGS4. Nah dude. MGS4 sure is flawed (Acts 3 and 4 mainly), but Acts 1 and 2 are way better than anything in PW, and MGS4 has significantly better better bosses throughout the entire game.
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gfanikf posted:You know some of us suck at stealth. You enjoy all the killing, that's why.
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Contra Calculus posted:So quick question about Ground Zeroes: is there a way to S-rank it without being an insane speedrunner? The main Ground Zeroes mission is fairly lenient. You can do it in something like 45 minutes and still get an S-Rank. Just make sure to save the prisoners in the camp where Chico is held, try not to be too heavy on alerts, move relatively quickly etc. I did all this on Hard Mode and got the S-Rank fairly easily. EDIT: Dammit. Beaten.
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Console Role Player posted:Don't forget about the "hidden" POW that tried to escape before getting caught. He's in one of the camps near where you start. Eh, is the bonus for going and back and saving him really worth the potential alerts?
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Haha, wow. I did a run of that mission specifically to save that guy, and I must have screwed it up because I got an alert almost immediately after getting him in my FOV.
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Vic Boss posted:You have the option to save a human POW from execution (in a video game). Not sure what your point is here, unless its just an attempt at a joke.
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Just started playing through Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance for the first real time (Not counting the demo I played a few years back), and am now finished with Chapter 1. The action mechanics feel pretty natural, especially once I got a hang of parrying, though I never quite feel like I have any idea of how much damage I am doing to enemies at any give time. Bosses are an exception with their fairly obvious HP bars, and are generally more fun than fighting Gekkos and the like. I'm not too big on the quick time events in boss battles though. A cutscene will start and I'll think I can put the controller down finally but nope I have to mash triangle now that a prompt has appeared on screen. I guess I know to look out for them now, at least. Not quite sure how I feel about the story or its presentation- part of me loves the whole Dragon Ball Z meets Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots meets Yojimbo thing it has going, while the other part of me doesn't like the idea of Raiden being the main character at all, especially because I wasn't a fan of his "badass" reinterpretation in MGS4. Perhaps there will be a reveal later on in the story to show that all this "samurai honor" stuff is just a facade though. It's a fun game, but it just doesn't quite click right with the rest of the franchise for me, at least so far.
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