Must be the James Bond vibe the first half of the act has, haha.

I wouldn't say "seriously messed up". As we've learned in Resident Evil VIII, Europe is just one big country :D Potato, Потато ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I thought it was France dude lol but it’s been a few years since I played

It's alright man we all make mistakes.👍 Um... also, sorry to point out another mistake, but you wrote (if) instead of (is) Prague. 😅

An honest mistake. 🤗

WHAT are Even on about M8. U Think we should Leave the world As Is 🤨.

@@wiredgamez9929 It’s a quote from Big Boss. I’m gonna assume you never played MGS4 or didn’t watch the whole video.

@@wiredgamez9929 Leaving the world the way that it is, meaning making it a conscious effort to leave this world just as it was when you first entered. Or in smooth terms, to live your best life.

@@wiredgamez9929 dumbass 🤣

That really doesn’t make sense. I get the sentiment, basically, to leave while causing as little harm as possible. Might as well tell someone to kill themselves though. It’s not a great message for a Human Being.

I was around 10 when this game came out and I grew up playing MGS a lot. Nothing, I mean nothing in gaming will ever come close to the chills i got in the final acts of this game. I vividly remember crying and wishing snake would pull through in the microwave scene lol. When you're a kid you think so many of these concepts are cool, but as you grow up you realise this shit is terrifying. Every time i come back to this series i love it more, especially with these analysis videos.

I think all it needed was a convenient explanation why they couldn't just send in that tiny metal gear drone in alone. It's never explicitly noted that you need a human presence or anything.

@@benedict6962 I think it was the fact that they didnt know what was beyond the microwave. They probably expected liquid to be there to stop them. You do bring up a good point though

MGS is my favorite series of games, I’ll fanboy tf out for anything MG. TLoU winter scene with the deer is the greatest gaming scene (to me). That cat and mouse game of dialogue was dope af. Microwave scene is dope also just my 2cents

Yeah, ok. The ass camera quicktime event. *sigh* I really hate this game.

GIVE WAR A CHANCE -SUNDOWNER

To be fair, Rising is in a realm of being and not being canon, so you can keep Raiden with his family or having him being a cooler cyborg ninja.

I watched it barely knowing what had happened in the series, and it still drove me to tears. Which is usually rather hard to do.

@@garr_inc bruh I highly recommend the mgs series. It’s is quite literally one of the greatest works of art in any medium. Kojima was legit a genius in his game dev back in the day

"...the world would be better without, snakes"..... -Big Boss-

The game is a bit of a mess though. Still, I don't think it's a mistake.

Good things can still come as a result of a mistake, just ask your parents I'm sure they'd agree.

Steak Bentley would like to have a word. Also, the people who threatened Hideo and his family if he didn't make MGS4 can suck a fat one.

Let me be perfectly clear - these games are worth making time for.

well play them

Play them your missing out

You should seriously play it dude my best mate always wanted me to play em.so I brought a PS3 an brought the legacy collection few months back was so good.managed to get the legacy collection sealed in perfect condition for 40$aus an the PS3 cost me like 70$ with few games an a controller get on it!

With the enthusiastic quick recommendations out if the way, I'll mention that although we all think you should check them out, the fact is that they are old games now, especially the first two, but also the rest. Obviously you can figure that out, I know. But I'll just say that for a gamer of today, the gameplay won't be difficult at all, minus like a handful of spots in the entire series, and the plot points will almost entirely be predictable, minus the Kojima wierdness. Also, you may recognize things despite having never experienced them since so many people have spread the word over the years (like knowing about Vader and Luke before seeing Empire Strikes Back) and because concepts that were fresh in these games have drifted into later games since many developers liked this series or its ideas. So if you ever try them, try to keep yourself in the 90's state of mind if you can while playing, and try not to let any modern day expectations or habits reduce your experience. :)

I'm... I'm not crying. Definitely not 😢

Everytime, I swear. The first game to ever make me bawl my eyes out because of the influence the series had on me.

Absolutely. I can’t even hear the music without welling up.

This is good. Isn't it?

foreign objects “victory over neptune”

Mine ps3 dusty too.

@@Gigachadsnake are you Old Snake the Rapper?

@@Ner0mancer no just old snake from mgs4

Last good console generation.

me too, waited to finish the whole franchise to start consuming content about it online, i couldn't protect myself from some spoilers but at least i can now watch this video

Well written.

That's more of a revolver technique. You're pretty good.

This is a great take

same

I listen on 0.75 speed to make it last longer 😩☺️

Same :D

its my personal favourite entry

The reason it's so divisive is because of the way everything is perfectly explained away. There are a lot of elements that are supposed to seem "cool" but can also come off as lame excuses, for example Para-medic being revealed as Dr. Clark, and let's not forget that everything is caused by nanomachines. You miraculously run into every single character that hasn't yet been confirmed dead, too. Oh, and suddenly Solid Snake can use CQC, he just never really used it because Big Boss taught him and he resented him. That having been said, I love this game and I don't feel like it was a disappointment like some do. I bought a PS3 back in '08 just to play this game. The only reason I know why some people feel the way they do about it is because I was also confused, so I did a lot of searching around to find the answer. Apparently some people can't (or don't like to) suspend their disbelief for stories like this. My only real criticism is that there just wasn't enough gameplay. I have no problems with long cutscenes, but I would have loved more things to do. In that sense, this game is like the opposite of MGSV. So many aspects of the game were well-developed but under-utilized. Why are there so many different weapons? You only really need to use like three or four of them, even on the hardest difficulty. Why was the CQC so advanced when you don't really ever have to use it? Anyway, that ends my rant. I love this game and probably played through it at least 10 times, I even got the Big Boss rank by beating it on the hardest difficulty with no kills or alerts (what a nightmare that was... Not to mention there were no KZfaq guides back in '08) TL;DR - People wanted fan service, and they got MGS4 which was nothing but. Then they complained that it was too much fan service, so we got MGSV which was basically no fan service at all except for a few small scenes. People don't know what they want.

It's the best mgs game by far

The answer is yes

Art is interpreted in multiple ways. The only thing that controls it is money or the lack there of. Hence, Konami hasn’t pulled the trigger on a new one since MG Shurvive. 😂 yes, I’ve seen it and it’s glorious. A parody but still hilarious. Anyway, I think it’s safe to say-in the end-buy what you enjoy and forget the rest. ✌️

I thought you were Bill Williamson

i recognized my mother city right away!

Yeah no mistake its Prague. The architecture is distinct

Seriously. Among all of Konami's atrocities, this is easily one of the most frustrating

@@HyperDefective not even close. It's not their fault you sold your ps3 lmfao

@@HugoStiglitz88 Konami shill detected

hard emphasis on *need*

It’s on PS Plus/Now

The philosophers can suck a shotgun.

I, too, am grateful. I love Max's content.

@@Kyle_00 Certainly his content is one of the best on KZfaq, if not the best. Also, the best community. :)

Is that version actually good? Or is it crap like Soul Reaver 1 and 2?

Id bet on it being on the latter then the former, i know that bad ports get good overhaul mods, mgs2 pc has a pretty good one

@@maxderrat You play as both Kain and Raziel in different episodes and get to explore more of the LOK Universe. I'ts nothing "groundbreaking new" to the Series but I enjoyed it for what it is. Of course in the story they talk about some philosophical views I don't want to spoil. I thought I'd bring it up so you can check it out yourself and have your own take on it maybe.

@@maxderrat defiance is the only lok game thats good to play on pc. everything else, only on og hardware.

@@maxderrat max what's wrong with soul reaver 1 and 2

How can you tell? It's not showing for me. 🤨

Kept us waiting huh?

Yeah 😔

i like the absurdness, its not just another run of the mill military shooter

@@lekuba7679 I'll be honest, when I was a kid I loved the overall seriousness of the first game. Granted I only played the demo at the time. But as I grew older I actually played through GH MGS1 + 2. The stories completely flew over my head and I really just wanted to fight people and be a badass. They we're still those awesome action games to me. Somewhere along the way I lost touch with the series. I never bothered to play 3 or 4 and by the time I checked back in on the series The Phantom pain was out. So I played a bit of it and it just threw me off. It was cool but so over the top and goofy to me. I always think that to myself "I thought this was some cool tactical espionage game!?". So I eventually just stopped caring about the series altogether. It was only until I found Max's channel and his retrospectives did I truly understand what I was missing. This series has SO MUCH DEPTH it on top of all the absurdity. I had no idea I would get this into the series. Learning about the timeline to this game was such a joy. I never knew you were playing Big boss in MGS3. Seeing how his story plays out just gives his character so much more exposition as opposed to just evil guy. Or learning about all these themes in the games and how they develop the narrative. Hell even the characters are well done. They each feel relatable in a sense and not just some generic tropes thrown together. You said it perfectly when you mentioned it's not like a typical military shooter game. It's straight up something else. It's a game made from passion. This dude wanted to tell a story and he wanted to tell it his way, regardless of what everyone else says. I sincerely hope more people watch these retrospectives, they completely changed my perspective of the series. Well Fu***ng done Max!! 💎

@@TitansTracks Well f***ing done indeed. 👏👏👏

Give me a link and will check it out later

I will too. 🙂👍

@@tyleredwards9479 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bpeEed15mqqZemQ.html There it is

Awesome retrospective

Don't be sorry. I'm sure Max would like what you wrote. I know I did.👍

I think people argue about not enough gameplay and less of the cutscenes but all and all I love the series so much but after peace walker I stopped playing the series until Phantom Pain. I rather see the series transition from Snake to Raiden. Of course mgr should be the main series but we would never get to see Rising again as long as Konami owns the right to the metal gear franchise.

@@TimmiiGamingChannel Eh, I personally would careless about MGR because to me that game was more like a spoof of the series rather than being a geniune part of the canon. That aside, MGS4 does have plenty of gameplay styles and toys to experiment with...which is why I think the game is made to be short, it's meant to have more reply value with more things you unlock and it's easier to get the titles at the end of each playthrough.

It's left deliberately ambiguous. I've been searching for the answer for years and there's really no definitive answer as each game gives a different answer. Some say possession happened in mgs2 and others say he he was faking it all along and mgs4 retconned mgs2. I'm in the faking it all along to deceive the patriots camp. Why liquids arm specifically? Any arm would do especially with the kind of genetic technology existing in mgs.

never finished? where did you stop? just curious

@@lekuba7679 I was playing the second game but barely got anywhere. I was playing as snake

@@leaflizard8485 sadly, the second game got a lot of changes and cut content because of 9/11, but the world resembled a metroidvania, meaning it was made to be backtracked through, and you quit during the prologue, its okay, i got stuck too, even had to look up a playthrough, just for the begining though, the rest of the game just clicked

My dad only had the second one

@@leaflizard8485 ok

"WOO!"👍

You're absolutely right, it's "Eastern Europe", and I'm pretty sure Prague was the reference frame for the devs

Happy birthday Andrew. 🥳

@@dlbyrd-gasca2730 thanks buddy!