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When colonel tells you to turn off the game that scared the hell out of me as a kid. I actually did turn it off

"Actually, I am in really bad shape financially" The colonel is so relatable

The thing I find most disturbing, is that Raiden stopped responding to him. He just.... listened. Not even questioning it, just not saying a damn thing.

Raiden's being rude as hell, the Colonel trying to open up and talk about some personal shit and he's just getting iced out completely. You deserve better Colonel.

When he said to turn off the game, I told myself, "What the hell?" What really got me was when he turned into the skeleton for the first time and said: "Snake, you're all alone and surrounded by bad guys."

Raiden just stopped caring after a while.

"I need scissors...61." That never leaves my brain.

"Colonel, I just remembered something." "What?" "That I've never met you in person. Not once." That's when this shit started getting scary.

That long pause before the "Snake, you're all alone and surrounded by bad guys" not only that, the AI has this creepy looking face

"The graveyards are full of indispensable men." Talk about veiled threats.

I. N E E D S C I S S 0 R $

this is so effectively creepy, it shows kojimas skill as a writer. the entire game leading up to this reinforces the routine of the codec calls. the codec calls are integral to making MGS a videogame. they're kojima's way of telling you how to progress through the game and guiding you. without the codec calls you are completely alone in the game, without guidance. as soon as raiden says "i've never seen you in person", you realize that the only person on your side in the entire game is somehow not what he appears. but you have no idea where this is going. campbell's voice starts to be frequency shifted and distorted away from a human-sounding voice and he starts speaking nonsense, and this further reinforces that campbell isn't real, but you haven't put this together yet, you're just getting more and more creeped out. when he mentions rose and another guy you realize campbell has turned against you and is somehow trying to manipulate you. the silences in between the codec messages start becoming unnaturally long. and then "snake, you're all alone and surrounded by bad guys."

The background music gives me the chills.

Jesus Christ when his face changed the first time I almost shat myself, probably the scariest thing I've seen in a non horror game.

Please leave the message after the beep. BEEP.

I just learned that at 3:52 the Colonel was listing the names of train stations that the Konami employees would take to get to work.

Campbell.exe. has stopped working

I hear it's amazing when the famous purple stuffed worm in flap-jaw space with the tuning fork does a raw blink on Hara-kiri Rock. *I NEED SCISSORS! 61!*

You might call it crazy, but now I will never get a rash from a Clematis plant's juice.

Fun fact: The part where the Colonel tell Raiden to turn of the game console is supposed to be a callback to Metal Gear 1. Towards the end of that gameBig Boss will call you on the code and tell you that the mission is a failure and that you need to turn of your MSX2 immediately.

Breaking the 4th wall in the most amazing way possible.

"How should I put it, it was like they were... intimate. I'm sorry. Sorry to bring this up during the mission, but " Snake wasn't part of the simulation, but drama with your girlfriend was, 100%.

2:42 caught me off guard I was anticipating some sort of stinger but that simple camera change was so much more effective than a sudden noise or image could ever be

And this is why Kojima's making the new Silent Hill.

"I can't do much naked, especially in this temperature" "You won't be able to enter the Hanging Mode"

"Why not? This is a type of role playing game."

This was seriously my favorite part from mgs2. The game suddenly takes on a whole other level of creepy here. The soldiers in this room weren't even that bad, but oh god this was intense. It really felt like suddenly everything was just staged by the patriots Suddenly they were actually a force to be reckoned with, not like mgs4 where they're just sorta...talked about. And I cannot get enough of The Colonel's voice here

At the time I didn't have a memory card when I first played this. Had been playing the game for hours up to this point, and so when Colonel said "You have played the game for a long time. Don't you have anything else to do with your time?" I actually flipped my shit, turned off the console, and ran out of the room. Let's just say Colonel was right. I did waste my time due to having to restart the game all over xD. I was 12 at the time and actually thought some supernatural shit was happening. Oh 4th wall breaking Kojima, please never change!

I turned off my game when this happened,I was seriously spooked when this happened to me as a kid.

4:59 I NEED SCISSORS! 61!

[insert joke about Skull Face happening long before MGSV]

I could listen to this the whole day, the Colonel's voice along with static and the background track makes this so eerie and awesome. Goosebumps!

"you'll ruin your eyes playing so close to the tv" Lol

4:59 is aggressively terrifying. Do NOT give that man scissors.

The Colonel is the same voice as the grandpa from Ben 10 !!!

I liked how they programmed GW for a scenario where he would be caught eating and tell Raiden to call him back.

"Huh?" This captures the reaction of the player so well.

Out of all the horror games i've played. This. This right here was the most frightened and creeped out i've ever been in all of gaming. This was just so... wrong to me. The fourth wall was shattered over and over, the game demanded I turned it off. So many creepy and errie things were being said. I couldn't understand what was happening. Even knowing the truth after all these years hearing it all is just.. slightly unerving to this day.

Who needs creepypastas when you have the real world.

i like how after colonel tells the story of the UFO raiden just goes, "Huh?" as if his world is collapsing around him

No, the weirdest thing that happened to me was when the map turned into a picture of a women on a chair

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unkown." - Lovecraft, 1927. Kojima remains a master storyteller.

The story of him getting abducted by an orange light still creeps me out lol

Everyone's talking about Campbell telling Raiden to turn off the gaming console while I'm siting here wondering, "What was the colonel eating when Raiden called him?"

I could handle the garbled voice, and the music was creepy but I managed to deal with it to some degree, but when I saw that skull face I freaked the fuck out!

01:27 I always assumed that was a UFO story but what if its what actually happened to the 'real' Colonel, the Patriots abducted him and made an AI version and replaced him at some point

Oh, hey. Your girlfriend is cheating on you. K thanks bye.

The concept of MGS2 is genius. Pure genius... Kojima has done so much in the world of video games... Awesome..

After Raiden goes naked, everything goes mindfuck like heck. The name of Arsenal's area changed into random japan names, Colonel got corrupted, then start spawning all the twisted disturbing random things. While creepy and demented having such situation, I also laugh a lot by most of his crazy nonsense. One of the best is the easter eggs, simulation about UFO, talking about wolf and meryl, past life of a webworm, babbling about random alien purple pitchfork, and of course the BEEP!! Really got me laughing for real for some minutes, keep calling him on codex again and again.

Good old MGS2, a good game with a misunderstood plot.... I liked it so much!

When Campbell tells to shutdown the console, I thought like, my parents hacked into the system. I was just a little kid who thought parents could do anything

1:10 turn the game console off 1:51 you played for a long time 3:02 ingenious trick 4:19 really bad shape 4:32 Colonel gonna fight 4 u 4:49 I NEED SCISSORS! 61 5:23 womens bathroom 5:41 Netflix show idea 6:55 ZZ…zz 7:37 nom nom nom 7:56 Colonel is not home (BEEP)

Beep. That's all I came here for

I remember playing this part of the game at 3 or 4 in the morning, I was so tired but needed to play the game more because I was addicated. It was super quiet and creepy in my house to begin and I was trying to stay awake. Than this scene popped up and I thought I was losing my mind. My jaw dropped and Im like did really just hear that. My heart was beating fast and I was like why would a game say that I must be going crazy. I turned it off and played again in the morning and found out it was part of the game.

When I played this when I was 11, this part + the eerie music in the background scared tf outta me. I didn’t turn the console off but holy hell I was creeped tf out lol

1:31 - Uh... you saw a sunrise?

To play this mission, there are things that are required -Play in the dark at night -5 or more extra large diapers -New pair of pants, ready to be worn -Max Volume

I wonder if I'd ever get Alzheimer's disease in distant future and start randomly spouting these to the nurses. 61!

I think what helps this part is that all the shit started at about the same time. Raiden was forced to sneak through naked, he and Rosemary had relationship drama, his backstory came to light, you couldn't call anyone, and of course the False Colonel began falling apart.

7:49 Snake: Colonel! Snap out of it! Colonel! COLONEEEEEEEEEL!!

Imagine being a little kid in 2001 and playing this late at night. I wouldve been scared shitless.

Fun fact that alot of people dont probably realise or probably wouldnt even understand. at 3:15 when campbell starts talking about fortress galuade this in reference to metal gear ghost babel, a mgs game for the game boy colour that came out a year before mgs2 and was actually supposed to be an 'alternate sequel' to mgs1. Its very interesting that Kojima made such a nod to it as funnily enough Ghost babel actually teased Raidens existence with a piece of secret dialogue for completing all its VR training missions. Mentioning another VR solider who had been playing as through the events of galuade again called "jack". This was probably the only reference to raiden existing in the run up to MGS2s release might also hint, alongside the colonel AI's meltdown here that Galuade at least happened as a VR training scenario. Perhaps the Galuade mission did occur, but the possible outcome of Black Chamber rebelling never happened and as such that scenario just ended up as a shelved VR mission that they had raiden do alongside everything else he 'played' through. Pretty cool over all. Ghost babel was actually a really good game in terms of story, specially for a gameboy title.

I hear it's amazing when the famous purple stuffed worm in flap-jaw space with the tuning fork- does a raw blink on Hara-kiri Rock. I need scissors! 61! I remember almost dying from laughter when I heard him say that the first time.

Man, that purple stuffed worm in flap-jaw space doing a raw blink on Harakiri Rock really brought a tear to my eye.

That nigga also tells you to turn off the game That creeped me out as a kid and I got really scared that my game was possessed or some shit xD lmao

Colonel running on chatGPT

5:12 my parents when first time using video call

And then you do in fact turn your console off only to find the colonel is still talking..

*Colonel Campbell intensifies*

I like how Raiden just doesn’t react he just listens to the Colonel’s crazy random talks

Paul Eiding's performance was perfect in this game.

Colonel: “You got a PSG-1? You can use that against Sniper Wolf. Hurry up and save Meryl!” Me: “Meryl was never factored into the simulation, leave her out of this!”

this is pretty much the only game that is actually scary, all these jump scare monster horror games really dont do shit the breaking, no, complete shattering of the 4th wall was downright nightmare fuel, coupled with the fact that at this point in the game, most people were at this point when it was dark outside, and most people were relatively young, and the fact nothing like this has been done before or since. you feel helpless, you really dont know what the FUCK is happening, you have no weapons, no way to defend yourself, you're up against an entire hangar of elite genetically enhanced soldier who can kill you quicker than you can blink, and the one thing you thought you could turn to for answers, your codec, has gone absolutely haywire in the creepiest way possible. not going to lie, first time i played this when i was like 12 i actually restarted the game from scratch once i got locked in the tunnel and the video of the model appeared in the corner where the radar usually is, i legitimately thought i had shitfucked the game somehow. even to this day a moment like this hasnt been matched. and probably wont be for a very long time.

I love how Raiden just stops reacting during this segment of the game, as if he's already figured out what's happening. This part still gives me the spooks, music doesn't help, somehow I'm always at this part of the game at 2AM.

I know i'm late as hell, but i was recently playing the mgs collection and i almost shat my pants in this part, he just kept calling every 5 seconds saying a bunch of nonsense i was like " whaaaaat..."

"Snake... Remember what de gaule said......." That long pause used to creep me out 2:27

6:32. I didn't realize before but this the really quick glitch is Campbell from the mgs Gameboy color game

This scared the shit out of me at the time. Between these weird lines and campbell calling and telling me how long I've been playing, and that I should take a break... legit one of the coolest moments in gaming.

"You got a PSG-1? You can use that against Sniper Wolf." But Colonel, she's like my favorite KZfaqr bro...

7:55 That should be the real colonel's message after the beep thing.

This was genuinely unsettling the first time I played it. I had no idea what was going on and I seriously considered restarting my game because I thought something was wrong with it lol.

4:48 you clicked for this

This freaking terrified me I had to stop playing I thought my game was glitching or something.

Holy shit, at 2:50 i rushed for my TV to fucking disable it. Holy shit. It WAS SO GOD DAMN SCARY! Its like you know you are not playing horror game, but suddenly there is some shit like that. I was thinking all this time that the screamer is about to be all over the TV, haha

0:52 When the realization hits hard when your talking with online friends for years only to remember you barely know anything from them. This hits hard, and in game you're basically accustomed to the codec calls being your nearest friendly human communication.

All of Kojima's games were perfection. Too bad Konami turned against him like absolute morons. Sometimes I wish that MGO2 became an E-Sport of sorts and was still around.

As self-indulgent and pretentious as Kojima often is, this really got under my skin.

The first time i got to the crazy Campbell sequences, i was stoned out of my mind playing it. This stuff absolutely freaked me out. Brilliant.

As a kid I was FREAKED OUT by this. Literally couldn't play the game for a week.

This is more relevant now than ever.

7:35 When this happened, I started laughing like I lost my mind

I remember playing this section of the game, it was the cool freaking moment specially when me finishing the game, it was around 3am and tired, that brought a cool tripping vibe going through this level seeing the game freaking out.

7:35 this was my shit as a kid, along with the BEEP and you know, "I need scissors! 61!"

Hmm. The Patriots were listening in to Snake's mission when he went into Outer Heaven.

4:18, okay some of this was creepy but that was just hilarious

The eerie music in the background definitely worked well with this.

Of all the years I have been obsessed with MGS2, I have never seen most of these, so thanks...12 years later. LOL

As a kid this scared the shit out of me.

I've played this game countless times in the past ten years, but I've never seen the MGS1 colonel flashing between 7:37 and :40, amazing!