Bruh I literally just went through this last night, my dad got pissed. Good game though.

I remember my disc being scratched and one of the last cutscenes just freezing the game. Only way to get past the freeze was to skip the cutscene. So I then went on KZfaq to watch the cutscene I missed. Oh boy was I not expecting a 25-30 minute cutscene waiting for me.

This game is why I am a night owl.

@@yekkub9425 lol you left it loud enough for your dad to hear?? Ughhh kids these days……rookies

i did that last night, at 4:50am "I'm gonna beat ocelot and go to sleep" went to bed at 6 am

***** they're so good. when the humor is so subtle and sparse it makes it all the better. i also love the idea of him going back over these parts in editing and chuckling to himself.

+Chaster Mief "rectifying"

ThePreciseClimber dammit i didn't even notice that. 2 puns in one.

The Marauder Kojima is the gaming industry's only true auteur. Some have come close, like Casey Hudson and the Mass Effect series, but no cigar.

The Marauder Kojima is the gaming industry's only true auteur. Some have come close, like Casey Hudson and the Mass Effect series, but no cigar.

Jack Daone Disagree. Fumito Ueda.

I forget: What games has Ueda made?

Jack Daone Shadow of the Colossus; ICO I think. Exceptional games

@gibbdude ...meaning?

@@filipeflower meaning, "we helped turn Zero into a hundred" is really fucking stupid

@gibbdude I mean yeah it should have cut alot of stuff. but it was just trying to answer all the question in the series as much as possible of what happened between Big boss vs Zero conflict as quickly as it can.

@@EvanSchatz I mean yeah it should have cut alot of stuff. but it was just trying to answer all the question in the series as much as possible of what happened between Big boss vs Zero conflict as quickly as it can.

Best moment ever. Dont care what critics say.

+Bjarki Þorleifsson that's really funny honestly.

+Alejandro Knoxville aww did he write too much for your liking? you poor baby

+Alejandro Knoxville The "big paragraph" is actually 4 lines of text on my screen. Also ewww reading...?

***** Well, at least I got my amusement out of this comment now, the reason should be apparent enough.

It's sad that Konami rushed out MGS1 the way they did, imagine how much better it would have been if it had another year of dev time. After it sold gangbusters, they never questioned him again until V. Which was similarly rushed out due to the fallout between Kojima and the suits. Now they're gonna make a zombie shooter with re-used assets from V to finally do what Kojima spent 20 years preventing, pumping out shit games with Metal Gear in the title. After 4 and 5, and even PT, it's clear to see that the first 3 games were so great because of a collaborative effort between Kojima and the people he was creating with. He needs that collaboration, who the fuck do you bounce ideas off of when it's just you dictating? The missing staff member of 4 and 5 just so happened to write all the codec scripting of 1, 2 and 3 as well as co-writing the plot, the scenarios, everything. It ain't Shyruo Murata or whatever either, that dude is still there and continued to help write 4 and 5. It's the dude who's name starts with a T. The guy was clearly the yin to Kojima's yang, or vice versa. If you need more convincing that this collaborative effort was key to the mastery of 1, 2 and 3 look no further than the "codec" use in 4, 5 and even Peacewalker.

penis music

@@tylerrose4416 What's that supposed to mean?

@@tylerrose4416 agreed, good point

Agreed. 3-5 are just annoying and lack much gameplay besides bosses. Shame the game didnt follow the structure of 1 and 2

Matt....has changed....

One day, Hatchet Girl. One day.

He would shred it to parts, it's probably best for everyone that he doesn't.

That's why he needs to review it. The wool needs to be pulled off of the eyes of all of the idiots who defend MGSV.

+lolusuck386 It'd probably just end up being him saying "Fuck Konami" on repeat for an hour

+shragenz COP U LATE

+cookieface80 m2f

+cookieface80 Vocal cord wolbachia parasites english mutation strain treatment gave the boss steel tits

+Krishna NS WOLBACHIA MALE TO FEMALE

This video came before V.

Right? I enjoy his reviews on all the MGS games so much, I've actually watched them all more then 3 times each. I wish he would do this with more games, his intelligence and eloquent use of the language is so interesting.

I can barely stand his voice, some good points tho, but who says that less guns are better in a videogame??

@@angelm.rodriguez8332 It can be a bad thing when they are too much like each other, effectively defeating the point of having multiple weapons. A small pool of weapons where each one is unique is better than a big pool of weapons where a lot of them are too similar to each other. That was his point and it's true.

@@okagron and even more so when it's meant to be a stealth game

+Redgrave192 The only cobra member explained through parasites was The End. You're imagining things.

***** Nope, listen to the tapes again. Code Talker mentions The End, The Fear, and The Pain, not by name of course, but he does talk about their abilities, making it clear their abilities also came from parasites.

Redgrave192 Hm. Wait which tape is it?

***** The very first one I believe, it's in the same one he talks about examining The End's remains.

Redgrave192 Ok I'll see if I can play the game today and listen to the tape again.

I'd like him to review the resident evil series :)

jackbrokeheart Hell yeah dude so much respect, so true. It's refreshing to hear this sort of thing from a MGS fan. We all have different opinions but what we all have in common is a passion for the series. My favorite is 3 and my least favorite is 4 but I totally respect that it's your favorite. And another thing all the fans have in common is that now we have MGS5 to look forward to and we all want a great game, even though we may have different hopes and expectations!! =D

im not even a MG fan yet [Im hoping on playing these games one day] but that really reminds me of the zelda community :p

I feel like 4 is the weaker game of the whole series, but its still really good on its own way, i love MG soo much!

It’s like being a Kanye fan

That’s true about 1-3 but 4 definitely had the least identity and cohesion. I suppose that’s what you find attractive about it? Who knows but the series certainly has about the most mystique of any.

instablaster...

@@jabariquinton3556 qq

In MGS2 Snake points out that he has the Infinite bandanna, which was given to him by Meryl In her ending, so it's definitely canon she survived at the time of MGS2

Kataquan Dat MGS logic.

Lol me too, i tripped out when i seen her back in MGS4, it was a wtf moment for me

+Kataquan Snake also has the stealth camo though. I think Meryls fate wasn't meant to be answered in two. Both clues are given to whether she lived or died so both endings could still be seen as canon, it just depended on how the player viewed MGS1. I always loved that in MGS2 and was a little gutted MGS4 did away with that

swoopmott To say nothing of Meryl's "romance" with Johnny.

+Roger Schooneveld Kojima clearly needs people to tell him no, just like George Lucas.

+Roger Schooneveld The script in MGS4 was a HUGE contributor, but I thought the presentation was the real dealbreaker. Everything's very fake, in a way that's distinguishable by any discerning mind from just being quirky Metal Gear Solid. It's all extremely plasticky and forced.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm that makes a lot of sense, helps to explain the poor story telling of MGSV

DaManHibiki ! While the absence of Tomokazu Fukushima shouldn't go unnoticed, I find the reason for the decline in the narrative more likely to be Hideo Kojima's simply been disinterested in the series for a long time. There are hints all over the place that 4 wasn't even supposed to happen, and V is just uninterested in itself. I wonder if there's some ambiguous meaning to the line "why are we still here".

Rick 'Rick Berman' McCallum oh boi, this makes me fear for Death Stranding

jeff peake I know that's what he meant to say. It just sounded like ''Fucks-die''.

Mixed Perspective He might still have a cameo in MGSV! ;)

Indeed. Kojima is a very aware, sensitive, and intelligent man. We're talking about the guy who retired the Colonel Campbell character because his Japanese voice actor died. Kojima is absolutely not ignorant to the impact Hayter's voice had on his series in English-speaking countries, or to the fact that Hayter's voice is a major reason why Snake became a household name in gaming circles after Metal Gear Solid. Hayter is probably the second most recognizable voice actor in video game history, behind only Mario's Charles Martinet. It wouldn't make any sense at all for Kojima not to include Hayter in the final canonical game in the series as it closes the circle on the entire story by finishing up the events between Peace Walker and the original Metal Gear, and it would be outright disrespectful to Hayter to not allow him to be involved in the series he had a big hand in making so famous in other parts of the world due to his unique voice acting. The only logical reason they would possibly have to not use Hayter as Big Boss in MGSV is that Hayter will be appearing in the game as Solid Snake himself because they obviously can't have Hayter playing both Big Boss and Snake in the same game since they have virtually identical voices with only subtle differences. I'm calling it now: Snake will appear in MGSV, likely near the end of the game in a surprise cameo leading up to the events of Metal Gear original, voiced by Hayter. Not only does logic point to this for anyone who knows how sensitive, respectful, and aware Kojima is to social matters and to the pulse of his fans all over the world, but there is some evidence leading to this conclusion as well. First, it was never said that Hayter won't be in MGSV outright; all that was stated was that he would not be returning as Big Boss. Second, not long after that announcement Hayter made some vague tweets about his voice being tired with some winking emoticons, hinting that he was doing some voice work. Third, the announcement of Big Boss' new voice actor being Kiefer Sutherland was made right around the time of all the bizarre "Joakim Mogren" and "Moby Dick Studios" antics, with a lot of attention being drawn to the mo-cap Sutherland did for the character. This is highly unusual for a Metal Gear game, as in the past all mo-cap was done by Japanese actors. This all makes it highly suspect of being a purposeful coverup to distract people from the truth behind the scenes and to drum up controversy, which Kojima knows very well helps draw sales and media coverage since all attention, good or bad, is beneficial for marketing. Fourth, people point to Hayter specifically saying that he will not be in MGSV when pressed for questioning by fans and media sources, and it's important to keep in mind that Kojima has flat-out lied to the public about details in his games during pre-release press coverage in the past, especially with MGS2 and the Raiden bait-and-switch. As deeply connected with the Metal Gear series that Hayter has been for so long, it's not a stretch at all to think he could very well be in on it with Kojima and may be lying to the public in order to cover up the truth so the surprises in The Phantom Pain will be that much greater and unexpected when we play the game for ourselves. Kojima has been playing the public since MGS2, to make his messages sink in even more by treating us the same way the Patriots treat the population of the Metal Gear universe. He lies to us, feeds us false information, and drums up controversies to distract people from seeing through to the truth of things, all to teach us lessons about how to catch bullshit and how to find the hidden truth behind the circus act of the media. He's transcending the video game/real life gap by putting us through the same kinds of things the Patriots do in his games so his message may hit more close to home, sink in, and make more of an impact on the actual lives of his fans since he is making them not only play that experience in the games, but truly live it outside of the games, too. Consider this new controversy about Kojima and his team effectively becoming ghosts around Konami and all its various media outlets, with his name being wiped from everything it was once attached to. Kojima is practically the sole reason Konami is as successful as it is, and his Metal Gear series is the company's primary cash cow. Without his contributions, Konami wouldn't be half of what it is today, and they know that. Does anyone honestly believe Konami would wipe Kojima out unless this were all a part of Kojima's pre-release controversy buzz to get the game more attention and to fool the fans? Hell, look at all the theming we've seen in MGSV's press so far, and in Ground Zeroes itself. One of the game's taglines has been "Those who don't exist," correlating with Kojima suddenly "not existing" anymore. One of Ground Zeroes' missions involve the player erasing the logos of all the Metal Gear games Kojima made himself off of surfaces, also alluding to Kojima being "erased." This is likely a lot of foreshadowing of the theming and events to come in The Phantom Pain. Konami erasing Kojima would be as stupid, disrespectful, and uncalled for as Kojima erasing Hayter would be, and these two events feel like very similarly-themed marketing ploys to me, all to drum up more confusion and controversy around the game which give it more press coverage and make people more interested in it and news about it. Konami isn't going to get rid of Kojima any more than Kojima is going to get rid of Hayter. I believe Kojima is playing us like his own real-life game of Metal Gear, and he wants to leave a permanent mark upon the world when he launches his Metal Gear and drops the bomb on us that is The Phantom Pain. When we dropped nukes on Japan, they were brutal and unexpected. Not only were they dropped in revenge (which is one of the main themes of MGSV by Kojima's own word, along with race, and everyone knows racism had a lot to do with the politics of dropping those bombs, as evidenced by all the propaganda and racist cartoons in the U.S. against the Japanese at the time), but they were meant to end things, and this game is meant to finally end things for the series. Kojima's been fighting a war of his own since MGS2, trying to put an end to things. This game will end his war. It will be the nuke that he never wanted to drop (since he wanted to stop making Metal Gear games since MGS2 and after every game in the series since) but feels he's been backed into a corner with no other choice than to finish what he started. He's stated that this game will be much more controversial than any of his past work, and that it will tackle issues that may lose him his job if things don't go well, which tells me his message this time is going to be far more brutal and honest than it ever was in his games to this point. Sometimes you don't want to be brutal, but you get backed into a tight enough corner that you feel there's no other way out. MGSV will be Kojima's reluctant nuke that finally ends his war.

EBsessor Timeline-wise, I'm pretty sure that Phantom Pain will end around the time that the very first Metal Gear game takes place, right? So it shouldn't be impossible or far-fetched for Hayter's Snake to make a (brief?) appearance in the game, towards the end. Much along the same lines as Big Boss in MGS4, perhaps. That said though, Big Boss (and some of his clones) haven't always been voiced by David Hayter. With Metal Gear Solid 4 being one example, and Metal Gear Solid 2 (Solidus) being another. Anyway, I do agree. I'm pretty sure that Kojima isn't as heartless as to push Hayter aside like that, when Hayter means as much to the fans as he does. But only time will tell.

Hayter's never had anything to do with the clones. He's only ever been Big Boss and Snake himself. And the only time Big Boss was NOT voiced by Hayter was because both Snake and Big Boss had voice roles in the same game, and I already explained above that the only reason Big Boss wouldn't be voiced by Hayter in MGSV is if Snake appears in the same game voiced by Hayter, ala MGS4.

EBsessor I feel Kojima missed a trick to handle the Hayter situation in a much more plausible and 'fan-friendly' manner. Hayter should have been the voice of Big Boss in 'Ground Zeroes' and later replaced by Kiefer Sutherland in 'The Phantom Pain'. The change could be explained away by Big Boss's 9 year coma...

Nanomachines son!

@@Vkat696 if ... 'Victor Katilius' ... says so, it must be true!

Consistency? I think there's an awful lack of consistency in MGS4. Snake raising his gun at Big Boss is hardly difficult to understand and nothing to applaud. It's pretty obvious why he would raise his gun at Big Boss. If you want to talk about consistency then let's talk about Naomi in MGS4.

"hardly difficult to understand" How do you figure? What exactly is suspicious about another guy in a cemetery with you that would justify you raising your gun and attacking him? He tried to kill Big Boss because the last time he saw him was when they fought each other at the end of Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake. I don't see any other reason that would justify that reaction. What about Naomi?

fwwaller Well when that guy looks just like Big Boss, sounds like Big Boss, and carries The Patriot it's not hard for snake to figure out it's Big Boss. Any fan of the series knows that the last time Snake saw Big Boss was when he set him on fire at the end of Metal Gear 2. It's not special. Snake has even mentioned this in later games, specifically in MGS where he tells Naomi that he killed Big Boss. You make it sound like Big Boss was some obscure character. If you wanted to talk about that then why not talk about Dr. Madnar who was last seen trying to kill Snake....who's mentioned by Raiden with no reaction from Snake. Yay consistency. Naomi was a geneticist. She made FOXDIE. Yet in MGS4 we're suddenly supposed to buy that she's a super hacker nanomachine expert all the way back to MGS? No way. There is no explanation and this makes absolutely no sense. This is literally impossible and it's a significant retcon to her character.

Okay, I'll give you that, Snake's apathy towards Dr. Madnar being name dropped was strange. Foxdie was an artificially made virus designed to target nano machines. Why is it so far fetched to believe that in the 9 years between MGS1 and MGS4 she could've become way more educated on the nano machines? It's not literally impossible, at least not any more so than all of the insane crap that's happened in all the other Metal Gear games.

fwwaller No no no no. She was NEVER involved with nano machines. That's the point. FOXDIE targeted specific DNA and caused a heart attack in that person. Naomi explains this sometime in MGS. It's why Liquid is killed but Snake is fine. She was very explicitly a geneticist due to her not knowing who her parents were. She designed FOXDIE and even set it to target Snake. Her being a nanomachine expert was something completely new that was never part of her character. The nanomachines being involved is more MGS2 and 4. Metal Gear has always been strange but for at least games like MGS1 it tried to root it's characters in something consistent and real (a reason why they worked so well). Saying that Naomi was a geneticist and then was also a nanomachine expert all that time without any mention is what's impossible. It contradicts previous canon.

***** Guess you're right about that. Snake, Otacon and Campbell apparently enjoyed repeating the same thing over and over again during the briefings. Still, mgs4's cutscenes have their own kind of charme to me.

When the weapons dealer in MGS4 takes about 45 minutes to tell me he deals weapons while the merchant in RE4 sums up his purpose in a single line "I've got some good things on sale stranger!", I feel like Kojima might have gone a little over board with the cutscenes.

Aladelicous Because he wasn't just a gun dealer,he is part of the patriot (AI) system to rule the world. The Drebins were there to provide a made up loophole in their system and make people believe that they are revolting and fighting on their own free will while they are only adding to the war economy. People don't like to be controlled and will revolt so why not control and make use of that!! There are very little cutscenes that are useless or doesn't make sense to me but that is just me!! I love all the cutscene in MGS4 and I can't get myself to skip over them which prevented me from getting BigBoss ranking :P

To each his own but I'm saying that he is important to the plot unlike what most people thinks. I personally loved him and found him interesting and the length was not a problem for me :)

Anyway, mgs4's 70 minute long ending was wonderful.

Still waiting

@@coffeedude yup

@@ZeroHxC07damn, he actually responded after 9 years

@@MadIvano Still alive and kicking

mgs2 was a VR mission ...all fake

He was not explained with nanos, only his immortality was

jeff peake With all the studies saying that cancer could have a whole psychological aspect to it... Jokes aside, it's like you have no idea of how long this probably took him. Dude deserves a comment, might as well make his day with a good one.

amen

dream away

nah

But what is that fan service worth if its called Metal Gear Solid 4, and works to the detriment of the actualy game? This wasnt a spinoff, after all, but a missed opportunity to create an appropriate ending to Snakes' story.

No way. If anything needs a rewrite, it's this game. MGS1 and 2 were perfect because they were the games Kojima WANTED to make. He didn't want to make this game, he only did it because he was fearing for his life from all the death threats he was being sent by his "fans." That's why this one came out forced, empty, and contrived, because he was only doing what he thought would appease the people who were wishing him dead if he didn't.

I get it man, but I think the ending to this game finishes off the series in a more satisfying way than MGS2 did. I love MGS2, but a lot of people don't, and I can kind of see their point. As far as remakes go I was talking about the original 2d metal gear games. I think the idea of big boss as a reclusive dictator deserves a better story, but it would have to deal with a lot of sequel baggage, which is a large part of what sunk MGS4.

Oh absolutely, MG1 and 2 have the potential for phenomenal remakes, but only if they're handled right.

+EBsessed now it will never happen, how do you feel now?

pepecheng You don't know that. Kojima already said long ago that he'd never remake any of his games, so we've always known that if MG 1 and 2 remakes happened he wouldn't be involved. Konami could still make them on their own, or the series could get bought by another company and they could make them. It's the future, anything can happen.

"Watch overly melodramatic cut scenes and walk around a lot in between" simulator.

updownleft8 i know its late but who is big mama?

The interviewer of David Hayter in the cut scene is lee meriwether. Voice actress of Big Mama in MGS4 and also Catwoman in 1960s Batman tv series.

Big Mama is Eva from MGS3

+Arsch Dee What makes you so sure?

+BareBandSubscription It goes back in time and over explains stuff that doesn't need explanation (like the Cobra Units powers), and it doesn't sufficiently connect to the larger series canon in meaningful ways outside of a novel end twist , which is ultimately more of a cute little reference to the player than anything dramatic like in MGS2/3.

Christian Hansen You mean the twist that exposes Big Boss as a despicable hypocrite and totally brings his character full circle? I mean, the story of TPP isn't great (or terribly present) by any means, but that twist is _so_ much smarter than people give it credit for, and not even in the cute player-referencing way, but in a character way. In fact, that twist is so good, it almost justifies the existence of games set between MGS3 and MG1, which still stand as largely unnecessary. I think if he were to "trash" the game for any reason, it'd be the fact it's both a) incomplete, and b) stuffed with filler to appear like a much larger game than it is.

+BareBandSubscription Fair point.

+Arsch Dee If Matthew actually does it.

Also just tossing it out there....my ideal game would combine the freedom to climb from Assassins Creed, being able to jump and propel off walls like a 3D mario, and a stealth component like MGS4.

Mi Ken Try mark of the ninja.

Tommy Allbright Thanks, that slipped my radar

I find it really funny that one of your typos was "how elite of a solider Snake is". It's brilliant.

Yes....completely intentional....

+George Moose I only vaguely remember that tape; did it include The Sorrow, who is a ghost? Or The Fury, who is fire, one of the Parasites' marked weaknesses?

***** The Fury might seem to have only some gadgets at first, but what about his death, where his spirit flew around as a flaming head? I agree that ghosts and supernatural abilities are a natural thing in the mg universe. My whole problem is with MGS4 and V feeling the need to demystify all of it with nanomachines and parasytes.

+TheKnightguard1 He was a wendigo of course, haven't you played Until Dawn?

+TheKnightguard1 NANOMACHINES and PARASYTES are the MGS universe version of midichlorians. It's a pointless explanation for something that never needed explaining.

***** To be technical, midiclhlorians are a little worse. At least nanomachines were introduced to explain something. Midichlorians, intermediaries between humans and the force, aren't even attached to a question that somebody was asking.

***** I always kind of wondered why there wasn't a sort of 9/11 tribute included at the end of MGS2. The game took place in New York, and was released just 3 months after the attacks.

Also "He's a character that should have been cut, and this is a scene that should have been cut and Kojima slapped across the face for even thinking about it"