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citybeatnik
Mar 1, 2013

You Are All
WEIRDOS




Leal posted:

:siren: Flashback (Ground Zeroes) :siren:


I swore this flashback was a lot shorter...


Yes

What the gently caress happened with the rewind and the... everything.

I assume that's supposed to be the default reaction to it all, but man, I am just confused as all hell.

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Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
From what I can tell the ending of the original cutscene you get at the end of GZ (the one where Paz exploded) was a lie. You see the real one here (a guy shot a rocket at you) to explain why she's alive.

Why was there a lying cutscene? Snake's brain is damaged and Kojima likes loving with you.

Leal
Oct 2, 2009

RickVoid posted:

Is it too early to thank you for not pointing out the, er, noises, Paz makes when we carry her around?

Because Thank You.

Yeeeaaah... I figured the best way to handle it is to simply not mention it. This will be my philosophy for another event coming up soon.


citybeatnik posted:

What the gently caress happened with the rewind and the... everything.

I assume that's supposed to be the default reaction to it all, but man, I am just confused as all hell.


The rewind was me, I actually feel slightly impressed with myself being able to do that. Maybe its cause movie maker is really awful as an editor :unsmith:


Sindai posted:

Kojima likes loving with you.

Also this is a pretty good answer

Leal
Oct 2, 2009
Double posting but I feel this is relevant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPnTa1UJPEI

Philippe
Aug 9, 2013

(she/her)

I've gotta hand it to Kojima: He can direct one hell of an action scene.

JEBOman
Dec 27, 2009
"No time for anesthesia." Except that Snake has a gun full of them (and they work instantly when applied directly to the brain).

Vadoc
Dec 31, 2007

Guess who made waffles...


Don't forget that a swift kick wakes them up right away, or when a buddy shouts at them. It'll do nothing for shoving hands into those places.

kaosdrachen
Aug 15, 2011
I admit, I was kind of squicked at just *how* much they wanted Paz to suffer... And pre-flashback, the whole "And then she dies ANYWAY because there was a second bomb" really didn't sit well with me.

DeathChicken
Jul 9, 2012

Nonsense. I have not yet begun to defile myself.

Well now I just have the image of the medic bare handed operating on Paz while BB unloads the tranq gun from point blank. "Hurry! I'm going to run out of darts soon!"

Leal
Oct 2, 2009
:siren: Chapter 10 :siren:

D-Dog ... :(

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
Quiet is just weird. Why are mute characters always also dyslexic? If she'd want to communicate, there are plenty of ways to do that.

Well at least there is some woman representation on that base, I guess

Bruceski
Aug 21, 2007

The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

Is it possible to just shoot her and run around with Puppy all game?

Nekomimi-Maiden
Feb 27, 2011

I'm here to help you.
Rule number one, don't get me killed.
I have to say, although the reason for it is a bit weird, her particular reason for refusing to speak or write has its' own internal logic, though we won't find out the specifics for a while.

Also, yeah, those armored guards are so annoying. Anyone whose icon doesn't go stunned/sleeping teal in color when held up is gonna swipe at you, which messed me up for way too long until I started CQCing them if they didn't change color.

Nekomimi-Maiden fucked around with this message at 00:43 on Apr 14, 2016

Leal
Oct 2, 2009

Bruceski posted:

Is it possible to just shoot her and run around with Puppy all game?

Yeah, its possible to shoot and kill Quiet. Looking up online there is a lot of inconsistent answers to whether or not you can kill her then replay and unlock her, or if you kill her she's gone forever, or going back after sparing her then killing her would permanently kill her off, if you don't do another mission after killing her you can replay and spare her and keep her...

Sometimes I hate the internet, you have this highway of information and everyone can't give a single correct answer.


Air is lava! posted:

Well at least there is some woman representation on that base, I guess

We have the female prisoner that Snake totally didn't call a bombardment on top of from a side op :v:

RickVoid
Oct 21, 2010
We also got a female volunteer from the mission where we spared Quiet. Boss is an Equal Opportunity employer.

I have many emotions about Quiet, running the gamut from "I like that she's a confident, strong female character, as evidenced by the fact that she is absolutely there of her own free will and if she decided to leave there's not a drat thing they could do about it" to "Godfuckingdamnit Kojima, did you pack enough cheesecake in there" to "Of course she's a special snowflake who can turn invisible/immaterial and shares a super special deep understanding and connection with Boss, she's Kojima's Waifu".

Nice work with the Enya there, Leal, got a chuckle out of me.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

Leal posted:

We have the female prisoner that Snake totally didn't call a bombardment on top of from a side op :v:

Yeah. What I'm saying is that the ratio tends to be really uneven. The female volunteers are a special one time thing, usually all volunteers or enemies are male. It must be a terrible work environment for them.
I had fun playing as a woman from the combat team, but there are barely any around and most don't have stats which qualify them into the combat squad.
I guess it's kinda realistic since most soviet soldiers at the time where male. But there actually were quite a few female ones around.

It just feels weird. So far we've seen a lot of people. But when it comes to women we only saw a bunch of patients or nurses who got killed in the hospital, some special prisoners or volunteers, Paz and Quiet.

Philippe
Aug 9, 2013

(she/her)

When are you going to explain the thread title?

radintorov
Feb 18, 2011

Tasteful Dickpic posted:

When are you going to explain the thread title?
He needs to do a series of sidemissions first before he can show it off, and I don't think they are avaiable just yet.

Leal
Oct 2, 2009

radintorov posted:

He needs to do a series of sidemissions first before he can show it off, and I don't think they are avaiable just yet.

Its not even applicable anymore :smith:

RickVoid posted:

Nice work with the Enya there, Leal, got a chuckle out of me.

It took me a while to actually find out what that song is. Googling "What is that sad song everyone uses for comedic purposes?" didn't help. I eventually had to listen to someone else's video then google the lyrics

Deadmeat5150
Nov 21, 2005

OLD MAN YELLS AT CLAN
Im stuck at mission 45. Holy crap is it hard.

koolkevz666
Aug 22, 2015
Getting Quiet was the best thing for me. Ever since I got her I have not used any other buddy in the game. Her ability to scout out the enemy locations is probably my favourite part of her, send her in to scout wait a little while and soon enough I can plan my moves. Also seeing a show I plain suck at stealth being awful at this whole "sneaking" thing when I am eventually discovered she serves as a great back up for dealing with the enemy, both in killing them and distracting them.

CzarChasm
Mar 14, 2009

I don't like it when you're watching me eat.
I have not played this before, so apologies if this is a stupid question, but Quiet is the assassin from the prologue, right? The one Ishmael sets on fire and knocks out of the window?

DeathChicken
Jul 9, 2012

Nonsense. I have not yet begun to defile myself.

Yes.

DeathChicken fucked around with this message at 15:08 on Apr 15, 2016

Leal
Oct 2, 2009
I've thought about it for a bit, about that being a spoiler and decided it shouldn't should be subjected to the no spoiler rules because of the extremely obvious hints.... But please, put those in spoiler tags because some people may not have caught on.

I know its obvious cause her face looks the same and we get a good look at our would be assassin, not to mention the humming. Still, some people may of not caught on

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
Well I'm glad they pointed it out because I never would have noticed.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
I'm pretty sure that Big Boss doesn't know this at this point point either. He's not exactly the most perceptive person. To be fair, he was under a lot of physical and mental stress at that time, so his memory might be hazy.

But there is no way that she wouldn't recognize him.

Dooky Dingo
Feb 17, 2011

Gym badge day is a VERY dangerous day!
Leal, are you going to show off some of the interesting easter eggs with Quiet?
Including the one where she improves the morale of every soldier on the base?

Leal
Oct 2, 2009

Dooky Dingo posted:

Leal, are you going to show off some of the interesting easter eggs with Quiet?
Including the one where she improves the morale of every soldier on the base?

Given Quiet's.... everything, I just want put it out there that anything shown about Quiet is for the LP and not in anyway related to the LPer's own interests.

Deadmeat5150
Nov 21, 2005

OLD MAN YELLS AT CLAN
The rain :stare:

Dooky Dingo
Feb 17, 2011

Gym badge day is a VERY dangerous day!

The shower is so much worse.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

I didn't figure it out until the game pointed to it itself. :downs:


And uh yeah, Quiet's optional content has some, very Kojima problems...

Vicissitude
Jan 26, 2004

You ever do the chicken dance at a wake? That really bothers people.
I only just found the LP but is there any chance to put subtitles on? The early videos aren't in English :(

Klaus88
Jan 23, 2011

Violence has its own economy, therefore be thoughtful and precise in your investment

I know exactly what this poster means. :froggonk:

My favorite's are her helicopter animations. "What are you doing, no stop that, stop what I can only describe as presenting yourself, I'm trying to micromanage here."

Klaus88 fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Apr 15, 2016

Deadmeat5150
Nov 21, 2005

OLD MAN YELLS AT CLAN
As soon as I was able to cover her all the way up I did.

Leal
Oct 2, 2009

Vicissitude posted:

I only just found the LP but is there any chance to put subtitles on? The early videos aren't in English :(

I'm not quite sure what you're talking about, are you talking about when non English speakers in game talk there is no subtitles? Thats actually a gameplay mechanic, Snake forgets how to speak every non English language cause of the shrapnel in his head

Nekomimi-Maiden
Feb 27, 2011

I'm here to help you.
Rule number one, don't get me killed.
Yeah, until you do the Side Op to Recruit a Translator for a given language, the game actively won't subtitle their speech, not even with [speaks Russian] or something.

Vicissitude
Jan 26, 2004

You ever do the chicken dance at a wake? That really bothers people.

Leal posted:

I'm not quite sure what you're talking about, are you talking about when non English speakers in game talk there is no subtitles? Thats actually a gameplay mechanic, Snake forgets how to speak every non English language cause of the shrapnel in his head

Ah, sorry. My bad. I only caught the first few moments of the video before I realized the time and had to leave for work. I am a dummy and I accept the rebuke :(

Leal
Oct 2, 2009
:siren: Chapter 11 :siren:

We finally meet the good doctor today

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
Huey is such a whiny nerd. "Nooo! Gimme back my leegs. :(" Does anyone actually like that dude?

By the way, this game is really annoying when it comes to escort missions. One other example is particularly awful.

cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Apr 20, 2016

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Philippe
Aug 9, 2013

(she/her)

He's an Otacon, that's for sure.
E: He even pisses himself in his introductory scene!

I actually really like Huey's characterization from what I've seen so far and in Peace Walker. His lack of legs was something that really bothered him and is probably the cause for him focusing on bipedal locomotion. It's not surprising that he's improved on his motorized wheelchair and given himself some actual legs. Just don't think too hard about how he goes to the bathroom.

As I recall, his "pull quote" in Peace Walker was "My father worked for the Manhattan Project. He only produced two things: the illusion of peace through nuclear deterrence... and me and my useless legs." He's got a bit of an obsession there...

Also, Ocelot, there's a third reason why the truth serum isn't working. Have a think and see if you can come up with something.

Philippe fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Apr 20, 2016

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