MR contra An excellent reference to Of Mice and Men.

"What are you hiding behind your back?"

+MR contra stay away from curley's wife metal gear

Oh god I love that book.

Literally started reading this comment as he started saying it.

He cares

No, not really. Still looks horrid.

+Barack Osama Well it's only fair that Sony would buy you a present for making you pay for your internet-connection twice.

MrFalconfly when did they make you pay twice

Barack Osama Well I already pay my internet service provider for my internet access, so I'll be buggered if I'm going to pay Sony to play games on the bloody internet with my mates.

+MrFalconfly I think most people pay for it for the free games.

Awesome :)

How was the 48+ hours of no sleep? Or did you ration it out to six hours a day?

actually is being 2-4 hours a day and I'm not even fucking joking

Been there :D

woollerland Done that.

Sneezee Burgg 3 games for the price of one! And it also came with Episode 1 and episode 0 for some reason so actually it was 5 games for the price of one!

Zatchooze Naut Actually wasnt the orange box cheaper than full price?

***** pretty sure it was indeed cheaper than standard price.

Probably. I got it free with a graphics card.

PonzooonTheGreat It was 40 bucks.

You better not behave harphazardly with your puns

MirumExMachina TotalBiscuit is pretty trustworthy.

Zanmaru Nah he's got some pretty bad judgement sometimes.

Hi & Lo But he usually goes for the technical aspects of PC games, which is always nice to know before buying them.

MaddXav What I dislike about him is that he seems to think his judgement is the best one, and anyone who disagrees with him is wrong.

Hi & Lo You are kinda right, but I still haven't met a critic that doesn't think that way.

And I thought $60 for a 3 hour game was bad.

lol

The one I found was 5 minute 28 second long speedrun, it's pretty ridiculous.

Yes it is! Check angry Joe's review!

There are plenty of games with significantly longer campaigns with speedruns around the same time. I'm not speaking on the length of Metal Gear Ground Zeroes but using speedruns as an indicator for overall length is faulty.

Adrian Holloway I wasnt using speedruns as length, just a... Surprising little detail type thing.

Pinkie Pie And this game's supposed to be a sequel to IV? Huh.

He touched on it in his followup article.

My balls itch

Fuck that, it's anschluss time! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) =ε/̵͇̿̿/’̿’̿ ̿ ̿̿ ̿̿ ̿̿

Last555555555 Oh yes I hear the Synagogues there are great !

Last555555555 how about we demand Danzig as well ?

Because the earth won't be green soon

Thank you... i totally agree with you, and it's simple... because the average consumer is DUMB... yes... the average consumer is nothing more than a bitch following the footsteps of their favorite producer. Trust me, they could've put the price to 50 bucks ((full fucking price)) and people would've bought it because they're retarded

Dainn Greywall I bet you're a hardcore atheist counter-culture guy too.

SilverStarSong7 Why he didn't mention God once?

SilverStarSong7 He may be, but can you really say his general direction is wrong? Everyday I see people pay $2 more for a bag of cheetos than the store brand that is almost identical in all ways except packaging.

Yup; this is the problem with a series that has a story going 20 years;

Still doesn't make the hinted rape and vagina bomb any less disturbing

FlameBringer84 That really doesn't make it any less horrible and wrong. I mean, Spec Ops highlighted a lot of terrible things in war, made huge impacts, and I don't remember such things as slicing open a woman's chest to get a bomb out, implied rape, or implied bomb up the v

FlameBringer84 Terrible stuff happens in war, no doubt, but in this it is just gratuitous.

FlameBringer84 When did I say it was ok when it happened to guys? I said rape. Male and female rape is wrong. So I really don't see where you are finding the humor in this, I am taking this incredibly seriously. If it had been a raped male with a bomb up his ass I would be cringing just as hard as it I am over it currently. Plus it isn't like they are really condoning rape itself, just using it as an excuse to make the villain more evil

Noone, eh? Noone? NOONE!

dammit... no one... I'm so ashamed :c

Chocolate? CHOCOLATE! CHOCOLATEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

It does have solid gameplay, good visuals and soundtrack and arguably interesting premise for an interesting story.

Consumer of Souls Which sadly makes this whole ordeal more painful. If it were just a completely $#@! game that did this then we would all mock it and then completely forget about, but now it's like finding the worlds most talented midget. So many glimpses of something fantastic but then you find out that he/she is too short and can't do many things because of that height.....also he/she stole $40 from you when you weren't looking.

Obviously I mean "more" but unless I correct it, there will be a decade long flame war over the typo.

Christoph Brinkmann is it too late to point out there's an edit feature on youtube comments now...? delete too, mouse over your comment and poke the arrow at the right.

Actually, this wasn't the first time he talked about the games use of women. He's mentioned it a few times in the past.

I am specifically referring to this video, and this video only. Some previous poster was angry because Yahtzee called out MGS' s female character while completely ignoring the real issue, despite Yahtzee bringing it up manh many times in this video. The whole $40 for a demo thing is disgusting and I can only hope that Konami gets bit in the ass really hard and often for it so they never pull this anticonsumer BS on any future games they release.

Oh ok. Sorry.

I got it in the steam sale too and it only took like 2:30 to complete. I thought that it was great and I'd only played an hour of MGS 1 before that. Be even better if there was more of it.

eden01pd2010 i assume he means 2 hours 30 minutes

Ha ha. Obviously. The fastest speed run I think is 6 minutes

Garrett Gwinn I agree, I've been playing Metal Gear since 1999 and this one is the best feeling MGS games yet. I can't wait til September.

There have been people who have finished the mission in 5 minutes and I am being serious, if you are really good you can get Paz and Chico rescued in 5 min. So far I have managed to get my time down to 10 minutes, I was doing it on the PS3 though and then I bought the PS4 version as well (as I didn't have a PS4 at the time it was released, managed to get one a week later). I can't help it, I am a Metal Gear fanboy since I was 7 years old on the NES (yes I know it's a shitty port of the vastly superior MSX2 version, fuck off already) and I have to buy every Metal Gear game multiple times. Now I need to buy the 3DS version of MGS 3, I still need the MGS HD collection for the 360 (I got it on PS3), MGS V Ground Zeroes on Xbox 360 and Xbox One (even though I don't own nor want those consoles) Fuck, fuck I hate being a Metal Gear fanboy because it makes me do irrational things like buying the same game a billion times.

snake2006 To be fair, most people didn't get anywhere near 10 minutes on their first playthrough, unless they played it 'wrong' and 'run and gunned' the level. I mean, I managed to finish the entire of MGS2 in 28 minutes. I did MGS3 in about 50. I don't use either of those times when somebody asks me about how long the games were.

linkno1 >I managed to finish the entire of MGS2 in 28 minutes. The current speedrun record listed on the SDA page for completing the entire game is over an hour and a half, so either you mean you finished the tanker in 28 minutes, or you've beaten the speedrun record by over an hour.

Weston Parker I guess I beat the speedrun? I always played both the Tanker and Plant chapters together. This was years ago. I remember the time I did it in, not how I did it. I know full well I wouldn't be able to do it again though, I couldn't do it in less than 2 hours in the HD re-release.

linkno1 That is true. I managed to do it in a hour on my first playthrough of GZ but I was taking my time doing things looking around and just messing about. I can't help it. I am a Metal Gear fanboy, I have to buy it, I just have to it's a rule. Don't hate me.

It was never gone. Their Website had it.

halfhalo33 I don't watch videos on their website. I was referring to the uploads on KZfaq.

MuZe Cosmo You should. It gets videos 1 week early before YT does. Right now he finished off TES:O. The only diff btwn YT and their wb is that in their wb you have to watch in SD def.

It was never gone. Their Website had it.

halfhalo33 Not a lot of people watch it on the website. That I know of.

Joggy Uh, in your dreams. It got famous first on YT (2007 for 2 videos) then made a video about you can watch it at the Escapist, which many ppl migrated over to. Otherwise, he would never had gotten far. Don't go looking at the FB comments. Most ppl comment on the forum on the ep. Also, don't start talking out of your ass.

halfhalo33 OK

@@halfhalo33 damn, who hurt you so bad bro?

This is a serious story that contains child soldiers and very dark topics, at least this is a creative statement, an not just a thing to show a character has vulnerability *cough* Tomb Raider *cough*

Uh no, it's unnecessary and just in there for shock value, literally no different than Tomb Raider. It doesn't add anything or change the narrative at all if you listen to audio log and it's there purely to make people shocked. The Last Of Us did a scene like that properly, don't act like MGS didn't handle it any better than Tomb Raider.

scourge ks You have to be a REALLY good writer to pull something like that off, and MGS has always been very badly written.

When you are Kojima you can get away with that shit. Hes actually the most important piece in the gear series, but also dangerously becoming the cause for his downfall. I never was a big fan of the narrative as i cant stand those unnecessary long and pedantic walls of text he forced in his games (more and more with every release), i actually enjoyed metal gear 2 and a bit of ac!d but just for the mechanics.

Dasgath yeah same. Kojima is actually very good at writing characters, but not so much the actual plot.

And still as loud as ever... I mean I don't mind it being back but its annoyingly loud, which was the reason people wanted it off in the first place.

I am strangely both creeped out and intrigued.

Yahtzee is actually British. He moved to Australia

Chance F. Collins Well you could call a Russian who moves to America American because that's where they live right? What matters is where they are now. We're all people.

That got to deep 2 fast.

GregTheMecha I agree.

bigphil2695 Is there any difference between those 2 alternatives?

+Z!r0 h4ze Snake is sometimes called Big Boss though, don't see why they would be mad.

nuh

+NotMoreZombies Freaking everybody is called Snake in MGS. Even Raiden was called Snake a few times at the beginning of the second game for seemingly no reason.

You see, first there was naked snake, who was also called big boss at the end of mgs 3, then there was a clone, he was called snake, from mgs 1, that's why people can't recognize them, they look exetremly similar

+Z!r0 h4ze But fanboys know enough about the context and backstory that this Snake "sometimes being called Big Boss" doesn't bug them... because it's true. Virtually everybody in the series who isn't a personal contact refers to him as Big Boss and people like Paz, Kaz, Chico, Huey, etc. all call him Snake.

I can't, the temptation is too high. I am feeling withdrawal already...... FUCK *Goes to buy another copy,sorry I am weak*

My realization that I'm too trusting of sequels and that I should stop buying sequels on release was when I bought Final Fantasy XIII... ...I've never been able to walk down a corridor since...

I don't: I'm broke.

So does every Game developer who makes good games get a pass if they start following suit?

xKingx16 I sure as hell hope not, us gamers are the regulators of the gaming industry, we set the standards of what is acceptable.

PurpleStorm8 1. Huge fan of the MGS series, and pretty much everything Kojima's done. 2. This doesn't get a free pass, not in my book anyway. Maybe in a couple of years I'll find this demo in a bin for a couple of dollars, or for a buy-one get-one free deal at Gamestop. I just hope enough people -Didn't- buy it, to suggest Kojima shouldn't pull this stunt again.

Blivia Yea. I would hate see this be a repeating thing. It almost looks like he was using his fanbase in a bad way. but you have those that defend it, which is a potential problem.

xKingx16 Hey, if it were $5, or even $10 I'd defend it. lol, That would be cheap enough to justify the lack of content. I mean real budget went into it, they have the right to make something back from it, but I feel like they would make far more if they gave it away for free. Then everyone would be excited for MGS Phantom Pain. Now they're just left with a bad taste in their mouth, wondering if they want to trust Kojima now. As far as I'm aware he hasn't ever wronged us before (In my opinion, the whole Raiden thing might've dicked some people over, but I didn't at all mind.) and we don't know if he'll do it again. And lets hope not, he's still making good games.

Absolutely. Couldn't agree more. I am a HUGE Metal Gear fan. Like... HUGE. But all those fucking corporate cocksucking sheep spread pure bullshit. They are an evil businessman's wet dream.

Dumb weebs just show how full of shit they are "LoL, your non-MGS casul shit games suck, JapanMasterRace/ Western shitty games 10/10 bullshit, fucking sheeples" But face them with truth about their favorite, and "Fuck you, you call this a review? This is 10/10 How dare you not agree, you can't play it/didn't play it at all"

Paying $40 for a next gen demo is exactly why i think the video game industry, at least the mainstream gaming industry (Steam is always going to be around) is heading towards a crash. Like two trains hitting each other a mach 3 kinda crash

TrueFriends HelpMoveBodies yet looks for allintents and purposes like a teenager. Then again, "Japan".

LeonGun8 Have you *seen* the ages of people who are often cast as teenagers in movies and shows? They'll be 28 and be cast as a 14 year old and pass as it. The "Japan" excuse can be used in response to, say, porn mags, but not Paz looking young.

wilddog73 Yes.

You're not too bright.

YouSoSpice You're rude.

Fuck the 5 hours of extra content with all the bonus missions right?

YouSoSpice Dude shut up, it's not her fault as - hole Konami is forcing kojima to tasking his kojima productions to be a gold magnet.

YouSoSpice Sorry, what I meant is asshole konami is tasking Kojima to turn MGS into a Gold Magnet. It's not her fault that they are being extremely greedy.

Well worth it that way! :)

i did too! ^__^ but i did rent it off redbox for 1.50$ once. i dont regret that decesion one bit :p

But kojima also said that raiden was created to get girls into the series

Both.

Please just give me an answer

MasterShadic2 Officially, this is considered a full entry in the MGS franchise, but due to it's short length, it has been criticized as a "paid demo".

Okay, thank you. Got it. Sorry.

So are there any other levels or...?

lets see... "free" healthcare, a massive entitlement society, and unions that can make demands for anything and they will get it? Sounds about right... not at 50%, but maybe at 15%... the rest likely comes from tariffs and a slight increase in price from a dollar to euro conversion...

The next episode on me : www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/9083-The-Elder-Scrolls-Online-We-Can-MMO-Too?

ShadY Knight You're so generous.

when it comes ill get the next episode, ill put it on my tab

For you my good friend www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/9120-South-Park-The-Stick-of-Truth-Yes-There-Really-Were-Crying-Koalas

Alex Lewis Woo, already watched it but thanks anyway! :)

You are a hero.

aka Yahtzee is drunk mode

Uuuuuh... Who cares?

WhySoJackorie I just noticed that.;

WhySoJackorie It's a Fallout weapon used in a review of a Metal Gear game, mate. A lot of people will notice and probably care.

Edward Boone I noticed a seriously didn't. ;)

WhySoJackorie Well, either you don't like Fallout or Metal Gear, or you lack the humor to make a joke about a gun from one game showing up in another. If it is the latter, allow me to make the joke. Ron Perlman: War...war never changes. David Hayter: War has changed. Me: So which is it?

Except they kind of did... you paid Gamestop for a copy of the game for which they paid the original owner. The original owner is therefore likely to buy these $40, 5 minute games again as he can get some of this money back... and Gamestop will support him next time as you paid them to do it. The only way to prevent Konami from doing it again & to therefore feel smug about not paying them is either to not buy the demo at all, or hack into their systems & download it from there leaving a message saying "IOU dickwads".

Danté Solablood That was really overreaching.

bigstabby You're possibly right and I respect that, but it's my opinion. While it's true second-hand sales do not directly put money into the hands of the developers, it does make buying over-priced demos such as this an easier choice for the fools that buy them the first time around.

Danté Solablood Yeah, I essentially just piggy-back on the dimwits.lol I usually always like to support the game industry, but not here. I'm a huge MGS fan, but at the same time I don't want to get shafted. The only way to play the game and not make the industry think this is a wise move to replicate in the future is to buy used. It kind of bums me out that it sold so well. I just hope no one else tries this ever again.

Yeah, it messed me up, and kinda still does. I think Keifer is doing a great job, no problems with the performance, but like when Kevin Conroy doesn't do Batman since it just feels weird.

because you hate it and want to see it publicly curb stomped?

EnterTheFenix Well, I think I'm going to like it, just not as much because I had to wait an extra 6 months.

Blahsheep if ME3 took another 3 months it would have been much better...

vyor2 I don't know, I really enjoyed ME3, as in favorite game ever enjoyed it.

dethbreth8 the ending?