I sorta want a Moby Dick video now.

😂😭😂😂 SAME

I feel bad for my AP English teacher from back in the day, because I loved the discussions we had in class about older books and such (though Moby Dick wasn’t one we were ever assigned or discussed) but be damned if I was willing to actually read those outdated English scriptures. I bet the discussions would have been even better then.

@Comrade Kabo aside from the Patrick Stewart Moby Dick movie, check out the more recent In the Heart of the Sea- its the story that apparently inspired Melville to actually write Moby Dick. Cool movie i enjoyed it.

Ultimate crossover.

I'm pretty sure in MGSV they address that V willingly signed up to become Boss' phantom knowing full well what that meant.

@@that_invisible_man3460 When? I've played the game a ton over the last few weeks & never saw anything to that effect. He's knocked out by an explosion & wakes up in a coma 9 years later. I don't recall seeing him conscious for anytime in between. He only seems to know about the boss' plan years later after listening to a tape. At least that is what the cut scene at the end of 'The Truth' seems to imply.

@@Onimusashi85 Maybe I just misunderstood Ocelot's line of "Don't forget that this is what he wanted" While he was explaining to Big Boss about what happened. In my mind I had listened to that and thought that there was a possible agreement set up as a precaution.

@@that_invisible_man3460 Well, it wouldn't be the first Metal Gear game to have some plot issues. Even Big Boss being Snake's father in the the 1st Metal Gear Solid was a retcon. There is nothing in the 8 bit games that even hints at such.

Wasn't Venom proud of "becoming" his mentor, like Big Boss didn't want that to happen but Zero ordered for the medic to pass trough the surgerys and etc ?, And when Boss reveals the truth to Venom, he acepts instead of getting angry for his identity stolen, the question for me is: was big Boss really a bad person at this point ? Because, from where I understand It wasn't his fault what happened to Venom

>Play said anti war war game >look inside >anti war

War… war never changes…

war itself is often the best anti war argument

›looks beyond the war ›sees greater good ›realises bad always happens, no matter what

​@@beerjam1147 yeah really lol. like All Quiet on the Western Front they put emphasis on things, definitely but in the end they were showing war. war just is the best anti war message

Chapter 3? I'm very confused. May you explaime that to me?

@@raphaelroy4543 Chapter 3 of this video not MGS: V Chapter 3

I still can't believe Kojima did that :(

He did tho

MGSV needs an update for Kojimas character wit the Shotgun developer perk.

S rank

@@luminescentcore +S

@@johnstealth5398 ++S

My main game design lecturer told us that her English lecturer once told her that videogames cannot be taking that serious

Nah man this is Preserved S++.

"What if I'm a spy" -- The spy.

Noooo ocelot would never betray anyone and play his own game

@@youfeelittoodontyou6921 he never played his own game after meeting big boss. Mans was loyal to big boss until the very end.

I really enjoy exploring the theory that Miller was the spy, if you look it up on youtube you'll get it.

@@wacky-physics7506 Like the Diamond Dogs marks on the containers in the mission 30

That's why I ALWAYS take the non-lethal approach whenever possible. Think there are only a handful of enemies you have to actually kill, most notably in the prolog. It went so far that I refused to kill enemies in vehicles of a convoy so I just captured them in their entirety xD Sadly you can't capture the attack Helicopters....

I like to remain the merciless killer, but whenever I feel bad about fighting an enemy, I usually leave him alive so he would spread the word of Big Boss and probably get send back home to his family due to trauma

I think the game emphasises this as well with the fact that, if you do go loud and just murder everyone, there is genuine panic and fear from the enemies coming through the radio chatter, desperately trying to stop the monster slaughtering batallions of enemy soldiers. It's pretty good actually, I really like that part about MGSV.

Even if you take the non lethal approach, youll end up recruiting that soldier, but then arent you condemning him into a worse life? A life of "proxy wars without end"? In the end all of them just wanna go home...

Sniper elite does something similar

MGRR: Break free from the memes(on the internet)

Individualism is wrong though

@@romanromanchuk7718 huh

@@vergil_6707 we shouldn't glorify individuals, but families and communities

@@romanromanchuk7718 why?

"engravings give you no tactical advantage whatsoever" "that's wario, he attacks by farting"

"Find something to believe in. And find it for yourself"

"Listen, don’t obsess over words too much, find the meaning behind the words, then decide" ??????????

"Were not tools of the government or anyone else ,fighting was the only thing I was ever good at"

@@christiantaylor1495 Solid Snake to Raiden, after defeating Solidus in MGS2

I was thinking the same. I hand-kidnapped these soldiers and they are my babies. My babies don't die for money.

ikr

That part of the game was the most disappointing for me. If those soldiers had been programmed in a way that would allow them to actually feel real pain and have individual consciousness it would've been a hoot! It's so much easier to be immersed when your decisions inflict actual suffering! It's just one of those normal, relatable things everyone thinks about.

Man, I even stop in time to time to look the deads in the list of losses

That was me, but I knew that the people on the platform were doomed, so I tried to kill them with headshots so it was quick

I'd say it'd take the script leaking to shut down the "MGSV is unfinished" myth once and for all, but that actually happened so I don't think anything will change what people believe.

It’s what is already told in this video. What’s the more interesting story? A: Phantom Pain was disappointing because it’s unfinished and Konami didn’t let Kojima finish it. *insert joke about Pachinkos* B: Phantom Pain was disappointing because you were expecting a more traditional Metal Gear game. And while we can argue that it’s not a perfect game, just because it conveys information and context in tapes or doesn’t conclude one of its weakest subplots, doesn’t mean it’s bad. Saying it’s Konami’s faults means you believe Kojima could not make a bad game. And yet he is human, and not all videogame creators have made astonishing masterpieces. Controversies sell and are easier to explain to people who aren’t into the main discussion. It’s up to people whether they want to go deeper and find the truth or be fine with whatever a KZfaqr tells you.

If Kojima is correct about what he says about himself and his art, that means I as a Gamer can't complain about the "woke part" that every Metal Gear game has but can be waved away by the action and weirdness!!

@@dwarf9938 not quite sure what your trying to say here? What's the "woke part" of metal gear?

@@oip6837 It was a joke, my dear friend. For many, the stance of "war is bad, actually" is considered "woke bullshit" and is not very popular among gaming communities, and in fact one of the most brushed aside points of the Metal Gear series. MGSV pretty much forces this into the player face non-stop without the constant codec/cutscene jesting the games are famous for, and this fact props up too much in criticism surrounding the game. But answering your question, none, Metal Gear has no "woke" parts, as woke is a made up word that means nothing.

I think you waiting for the other shoe to drop was the point brother. I felt the same way. But that's the whole point. The whole time something feels off. That's the literal PHANTOM PAIN. something you feel or expect that isn't there, like pain from a lost limb

I think that not showing everything going wrong honestly makes it more effective, at least in retrospect. Skullface isn't really meant to be sympathetic or make you ponder your actions (at least for my reading). He's moreso the catalyst to start the perpetual reaction of mercenary warfare that is Diamond Dogs. Huey being a bad guy and there actually being a spy doesn't lessen the impact of the pseudo police state. That's actually how a lot of police states start, or justify their own existence. And there's also the fact a lot of the base hated him from the moment he arrived. If you suspected him as well, you'll find the police state was perfectly justified. If you were kind of ignoring everyone's misgivings about him because he was doing useful things and seemed like a decent person, then you might have your beliefs shaken a bit, and be a bit more paranoid in the future. For your soldiers in quarantine, if you don't care about them then you've already started falling down the slope. If you do care about them, it's utterly gutting to have to gun down your own people, still loyal even in death, saluting you as you put them down. And it leaves the perpetual what-if lingering after that point. Because what if there was a cure that just hadn't been found, what if they were sent to some of the best research hospitals in the world to try to find one, possibly save more people from suffering the parasite. But instead you go in to a platform on fire to make sure no one but you walks out alive, because the infection can't risk spreading or it jeopardizes the mission. And a similar message for your soldiers sent on missions. Either you care about them and every loss hurts, or you don't and you're looking at them like numbers on a spreadsheet like the countries that didn't care about them in the first place. Either every loss wears down on you more and more, or you've already slid into the role that Big Boss reaches. And one more thing. All the missions saying you're helping the rebels or setting up humanitarian efforts and trying to keep the underdogs going? That's all prolonging the conflict in the region. And sure you might be doing it for minimal to no pay, but you're also looting as you do so, still making yourself a bit of profit while keeping future income streams open. To me it feels important that the game doesn't pull a Spec Ops: The Line and forcibly confront you with every single thing you did. It just gradually wears on you, either working away at your idealism and want to do good, or pushing you into embracing the exact same attitudes that the future antagonists did. One other note, leaving the specifics of the fall vague is probably better than trying to get a complete bridging of the gap, it's hard to land when you've got points plotted out on either side of that period.

Yeah I think Kojima satisfied with the state of the game doesn't mean there are no improvements to be made. Especially when Liquid and Psycho Mantis hijacked the Sahelantropus we expected an epic boss fight between Venom and Eli, but this is never realized. Without the episode 51 video we would've never know what happen to Liquid and Psycho Mantis between MGSV and MGS1. I do however think that the Eli boss fight, the island map and some extra missions on there are the only missing pieces of content we have, as Kojima put The Man Who Sold the World ending to the game, mainly completed the plot Metal Gear saga, so I can see why he say the game is in a completed state.

My main issue is while this video is great it missed the deeper issue that mgs5 succeeds to an extent with its major story beats but really falls flat with everything in between. The pacing is really terrible with it being the longest in the series yet giving the least story so after hours of doing main quests that feel like side quests you’d top caring about a lot of things to the point my rage toward skull face had practically faded as he makes so few appearances that he barely feels like a character until the very end but by then it’s too little too late. The tapes are especially horrendous due to the contrast of how well peacewalker utilized them to make you feel very attached to each character and make you understand them while in 5 they’re nearly all plot relevant exposition that just feels like a more lifeless version of a codec call. It’s a shame because ground zeroes is near perfect in its execution but the phantom pain really feel like it fails in most aspects of its story especially with some of the more poorly handled things like eli and mantis. Even on a gameplay level it’s heavily flawed in glaring ways that make it so that’s not even safe. The whole game just feels really odd where it’s so close to greatness but misses the mark entirely

@@mynameisinigomontoya8179 and hey maybe as a piece of art it works, but as a video game it feels like a total let down.

saw this exact comment 1 week before you posted this

I felt so horrible during the outbreak, and I unfortunately restarted the mission in case I accidentally shot someone that wasn’t infected. It sucked even more

@@notfontenot8540 you can see the future

@@SilentSnake1998 idk mustve been a glitch or sumthing because i watched this video and was like "yea thats true" and then I watched it again and the last time i saw the comment was before "1 month"

How is it even possible to get a 100% mission success

He sure loves smoking them burgers dou

bro i wanna try those chrmical burgers

nice burger kazuhira!

Mmm burger

We all do but they had to cater to non Metal Gear Solid fans and change a huge staple of the game

@@LargeInCharge77 No, this was a an intentional narrative design choice. The video quotes Kojima's 2015 tweet that sheds light on this decision: "V liberates Snake from the bonds of fate, and by passing the baton to the player - who was previously bound to Snake - they can bring the legend full circle. This parting of ways should not become some phantom pain, but an empty space that, by remaining unfilled, serves as motivation for the player to move forward." The mandatory codecs, narratively, were the bonds of fate, making Snake beholden to the fate others had chosen for him, and by extension, making players bound to Snake. The absence of the codecs, which leaves an empty space, "liberates" Snake and the player, so that it is the player who can bring his legend full circle, making him into the one who makes the calls, not the one for whom the calls are made. While he receives no mandatory codecs, a young soldier who does receive codecs hunts for Venom Snake in the Outer Heaven he helped found; MGSV, in true full circle fashion, shows us that the "Big Boss" Solid Snake kills in the original Metal Gear for the MSX was in fact Venom Snake. The serpent eats its tail. ;)

@@LargeInCharge77I don’t miss them. Was like trying to get sucked into a story in a 16 bit game when they couldn’t do cutscenes and instead just to pics talking text to each other. Then MGSV improved it with voiced text, then we moved onto basically interactive films and you expect the most cinematic series ever to still look and feel like and old game?

The codec calls cause issues with me as it took me away from the amazing gameplay from all the games

hey im back again. watching it again. i love this video so much.

I even showed this video to my friends who are game writers, we watched it together. I want to share it with anyone who's interested in analyzing art.

​@@aerin3277 me too

How? This video was awful

back again. i watched this with my dad. he loved it. this video made him realize that videogames are an art form.

One of the mgsv trailers ended with COMING 1984 haha

Me neither, but that's mostly because it's the year of my birth.

I guess it was supposed to allude to the Orwellian future of mgs4?

@@AgentAlfie the complete control over the world and economy that pmcs and the patriots have

@@AgentAlfie "Orwellian" isn't just about control. It's more about skewing the words and "truths" in the forms of of doublethink and doublespeak that hide the facts and information. Orwellian is more about propaganda and thought control that in the end leads to total control. It's not just about the sheer authoritarian state, just because something is controlling and authoritarian doesn't mean it's orwellian. (Last sentance sums up the whole comment)

Same here. Thats why I love this game and love Venom. He is what you made him. Mine and prolly yours, never became that warmonger lunatic, that many other saw in him (those players who prefered to shoot arround an use the easy route...its still a game, dont take that to srsly). The way he couldnt cope losing his souldiers, Quiet and couldnt get over Paz´s death...he is very humane. This game is about interpretation and my Venom didnt lost to Solid-Snake because he wasnt to strong enough, he lost because he was tired. The demon that was inside Boss, that thing that consumed him at the end of MGS3 (and was purged in MGS4), that thing was in Venom as well as every human beeing. And dont forget, Venom is a medic. He is there to save lives. He lost many of his closest friends and wasnt able to move on anymore...he was glad he could finally leave.

Some of the moments in Metal Gear solid V are some of Kojima Productions best work. In my opinion the narrative suffered because of what seemed to be a lot of information being hidden behind tapes. Would highly suggest for anyone to fill in the gaps with the tapes. Also listen to the truth tapes, helps the gravity of the cutscenes, and gameplay beats will hit harder because more of the game makes sense.

I feel the same way at the beginning i tried not to kill but after an hr i was like who cares there the bad guys but when i got to that mission killing the persons that i recruit people who admire boss they all were willing to give there life i felt brutal doing that killing them i recently played metal gear 3 and there the original boss that today's good could be tomorrows evil all this games have great story

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Same, never played it again :(

It would have been great if we got a few more maps even just a couple. That was my only issue personally with the game it was my 2 least favorite game settings desert and jungle lol. It’s still an amazing game and holds up today just fine. It’s funny I rmember having a convo with a friend about mgsv closer to when it came out and we were talking about how even just running and moving around in the game felt satisfying and wouldn’t be surprised if Kojima made a game based off that and he kind of did with death stranding. Just a very well polished satisfying game even if it seems sparse in some ways.

I recently finished the game, and I was very surprised seeing comments & videos from 7 years ago

I love death stranding. I love TPP, too. I don’t really understand all the criticism. The thing that bothers me most is actually Fulton recovery. It always makes me think “dammit, can I really fly in and wreck this place for fun? There might be an A++ dude in there.” It gives me FOMO, and ironically it causes me to miss out. I’m not saying there’s a better way to do it, just my personality doesn’t mesh well with compromising optimisation for fun.

If they fixed the indoor camera so it wasn't so awkward and you can actually see things when crouching I would love indoor levels

And also OD from Kojima

Play all of the other ones, they are a million times better than 5. Well 4 is kind of a shitshow, but a very interesting shit show.

@@LargeInCharge77 both 4 and 5 are great. 4 was a great sequel to 2 and had to wrap up a very convoluted story. I felt it accomplished that and had a very engaging story. 5 felt like a response to everyone complaining about 4 having too many cut scenes. "here ya go. 50 hours of gameplay and optional lore if you want it" I do wish they wrapped up the Eli story though.

⁠​⁠@@RugsterClapseh 4 and 5 both have great things about them but very fundamentally are worse than the original trio story wise by a large margin. On top that I wouldn’t even say 4 had particularly good gameplay so it feels like even more of a mess. Even peacewalker shows how terrible the tapes are in 5 by doing them so much better that by contrast it really makes them feel lacking in the phantom pain

@plugshirt1762 I've heard a lot of people share that opinion, too. It's funny because tons of people love mgo2 to this day and claim it's because of the game play. I personally loved the freedom of movement in 4 and 5. I also like 2 the least, which is probably a wildly unpopular opinion. It's still amazing, too, though. I appreciate this series changed things up just enough to have so many different takes.

Or the rights were cheaper and he was already over budget.

hey yo Lol that as well

@Christopher Marlowe PREACH

Hideo and team are extremely intelligent. That's why their games are so successful.

@Christopher Marlowe 😂 God, I love idiots.

Can't believe the game was made 5 years ago, graphics still hold up today

I think the game's themes are deep enough, Big Boss fall was already shown in Peace Walker, which can be considered as an actual MGS 5. The main issue with MGS V is just it's famous unfinished development, which affects not only story. For example, how can you even explain collecting an invisible zoo with invisible animals, thou the game engine can allow to have tiny animals like rats.

@@joshgroban5291 i played msg2 a week ago, hell its still that beautiful !

Check out Futurasound Productions for fantastic analytical essays on the entire series.

Python Selkan has multiple videos on what the actual meaning to what MGS 5 was trying to say.

Fuck yeah we did. And weren't completly wrong apparently...

You made him

@@hippyopium?

Part of the whole point of MGSV is that the player made the legend of Big Boss real by helping Venom Snake become a legendary soldier

It's a lot like farcry 2. Everyone should play that game as well.

It got perfect score in nearly every review?

You can't be a fan of something and think it's dumb ? That sir don't make sense it's a paradox.

@@dudepal7 I'm a fan of Metal Gear, I've played every main title, even Portable Ops / Portable Ops Plus / AC!D and AC!D 2. Heck I even 'played' the Documents of Metal Gear Solid 2 and the non-canon MGS2 Substance missions on Snake Tales so I feel like I can consider myself a fan. MGSV didn't feel satisfying to play like MGS 3 or 4 did. At first I was having fun when I began playing The Phantom Pain. I was amazed at an open world MGS with a new engine, smoother and better controls/mechanics, and even better graphics that outshined 4. I started wondering why every other fan hated MGSV but the longer I played the game it started becoming clear. The open world as wide and big as it is was pointless, it was mostly empty with guard posts in between areas. You can do side missions all over the map and capture rare animals in Africa, but even when you're shooting guard posts, killing everything you see the map still feels isolated and empty. You take down a guard post, and clear it. Nothing else happens to you, there aren't incoming waves of reinforcements, or even a helicopter go come in as air support. That sucks. Because of the open world design even the mission/level design suffers because of it, everything becomes smoothed within each other and there aren't that many unique areas anymore. I can tell you almost every level in MGS 1/2/3. There's the warhead storage room, the library where you fight Psycho Mantis in, the hangar, the elevator you fight the stealth camo soldiers in MGS1. In MGS2 there's the starboard, the lounge room, the engine room, the conference room where the marine commander makes his speech, the bottom area of the shell in the Raiden level where you have to escort emma across thin floating bridges while using a sniper, arsenal gear, the place where the hostages are held, etc,. In MGS3 you have Tselinoyarsk, the caves, Grozynj Grad, the mountains with the only vultures in the game, The End's sniping grounds, the sewers you use to escape Grozynj Grad, The Sorrow's river, and the flower fields at the end. What does MGSV have? Camp OKB Zero, That Russian lab Huey was in, Quiet's sniping area, that broken boat that Eli was in, and maybe that one place where Sahelanthropus was stored in. The atmosphere of the game is gone. It's all jumbled together to make things open world. The music stopped being less memorable for the sake of realism. As for the gameplay, codec calls were completely removed, replaced with intel briefings before and during the mission, nothing funny or interesting like with Sigint/Paramedic. They even removed the part where you can attack the enemy's walkie-talkie to break it. It was removed in MGS4 because everyone uses nanomachines but what's the excuse for not adding them back for TPP? Another thing that really annoyed me is the fact that I always have to bring my primary and secondary weapon with me, you can't unequip them to play missions OSP style for the truly hardcore fans. You just have to pretend you don't have an assault rifle and a handgun when doing a mission. You can do it maybe once or twice in subsistence missions, so why not give me an option to do it for every level where I have to find my own guns and equipment out in the field. Also boss fights, where were they? Yeah Quiet's counts but fighting the Man on Fire? Fighting Eli? That boring Sahelanthropus "battle" where you just spam rockets and grenades on the weak spots over and over without a strategy? The Skulls fights were disappointing too, none of them were challenging. Especially that one Metallic Archaea mission where you have to kill the Skulls. Let me tell you, using the tranquilizer gun on every skull member was the most boring part of the game. No more iconic rations, no stamina/psyche bar. No eating food in the wilderness either. No survival techniques, nothing. Camouflage was shrugged over. No more survival viewer and fixing your own wounds, the list goes on. They also cheaped out on Metal Gear Online 3 servers, making things P2P gives players laggy experiences and more exploiters. There are even glitched maps where you can go under the ground, it will never be patched. If you've never played any previous Metal Gear games you might not notice anything bad, but for the rest of us. We see the missed potential of this game. Honestly, I'd rather play Hitman Absolution or Splinter Cell Conviction than MGSV TPP.

as much as i think mgs v tpp is the weakest in story, and lack some little answers like what happened to eli after he got away with sahelantropus, i thinks its a nice game

@@teamyordle23 i kinda do agree with you there, its kinda pointless to have a dead open world, like the missions are cool and the smooth mechanics, the game's good but i gotta acknowledge this game is not near as good as the other MGS games, stay safe now pal, carefull with the people that can't respect opinions

As if Kojima bashing your head in with the bat of symbolism is *subtle*

@@mr.kenway4554 the joke is that the head bashing is as subtle as the game gets, not that it's actually subtle. Kojima isn't known for subtly when referencing his inspirations.

No it’s not

My favorite of Big Boss.

Solid Snake: I'm gonna stop you right there

Pssh big boss is a selfish chump who can't handle the outcome of his own actions. All his philosophical quotes don't mean shit if your not willing to live by your words. A strong man doesn't need to read the future, he makes his own. -solid A man who actually Says what he means And means what he says. Tldr- I don't like big boss's character after mgs3 because he just makes bad calls, wreckless decisions and can't let go of the past. I guess that's the point of the story but still... Why people idolize him is something I just don't understand.

@@TheBestRoddy he's a legendary warrior, who wouldn't praise him. Exactly why characters in game and other soldiers praise him too. But how he slowly changes to a massive asshole is beyond me

@@TheBestRoddy well actually he does in mgs 4

#Facts

Looool true

@Joe Al I am considering doing the very same thing. Did you enjoy the book? Did you need to use sources like the internet to digest certain parts? What'd you say to a person like md who plans on reading the book?

Fucking saaaammmeee

I'm currently experiencing same thing cuts to irl situations playing out with terrifying similarities really drove it home for me

To be fair, it's a pretty tasty tail.

“I want some more!”

Indeed alot of bruh

@Plank Scale indeed!

@@curtishamilton5342 DIS-GUSTING

:D

Trying to stop you from watching the video

lol

Japanese militarization is more of a central topic in Peace Walker. Kaz's cassette tapes directly discusses Japanese constitution and JSDF.

It's also complete if you listen to the truth tapes, and realize that the man that sold the world is Zero. The entire events of Metal Gear solid 5 was zero getting his revenge on Skullface. Not BB and MSF The reason why the game seems incomplete is because the last parts are basically the Patriots pulling out of your operation and are meant to throw you off the dual narrative. The game completes when you kill skull. Episodes 2 and 3 are a peak behind the vale. Revealing that all the events that took place in Metal Gear solid 5, including the ground wars, where controlled by the opposing sides of the Patriots. And analog MGS4 of sorts where the players are real instead of AI. As you slowly unlock the tapes to learn this cipher. Would highly suggest this as well for fans that feel like diving into the lore. Listen to all the tapes to learn about what you didn't quite understand during the first go of the story. Then listen to the truth tapes with the intent of getting context of what each player and motivations roles are in Metal Gear solid V's events. replay the story with cutscenes and be blown away at how this changes the entire game from a story standpoint. And not only is it complete it is up to the normal Koji Pro standards.

haha obama

Is it a problem if after playing it i wanted more of it to play ,has it's message actually made me want more war stuff in games :D

In all honesty: I'm on the same page here. Back then I picked it up, played the game, thought it was ok and left it at that. Makes me feel shameful I couldn't see the bigger picture back then.

I was a bit agonized, but that's to expect of me, since I really, REALLY dislike the military

@@farinhaespacial2982 way to make it about you buddy

G I T R S

@@brianbadonde9251 yo mate they were both just sharing their experiences lol

GET IN THE ROBOT SHINJI, WE HAVE ISLANDS TO FREE FROM RUSSIA

same

Too bad it doesn’t make sense

@@bennittotheburrito9606huh

@@bennittotheburrito9606huh?

@@bennittotheburrito9606 If it makes no sense to you then you completely missed the point. Rewatch it and actually watch the video.

@@HZLTS he just needs to play the game instead of watching the cutscenes and forcing in his delusional “us bad police bad” agenda in to a game with entirely different messaging and theming

Actually pretty good thought

Hence the missions The Man Who Sold the World labelled TRUTH

That description makes me want to read it even more

What, you didn’t care for the whole chapter on the whiteness of white whales?

Plus many of this facts are incorrect. And it done for purpose

I've heard about people's favorite chapters of Moby Dick I find it so interesting how the book is really written like it's from someone out at sea. No thoughts, just whale.

Plebs read Moby Dick for the story and symbolism, patricians read Moby Dick for advice on how to cook whales and the history of scrimshaw.

Send some red pandas to celebrate

*RagnarRox, raising a hand to the sky while dressed as a cowboy* Let the legend come back to life!

What are you doing out of your channel, Mister! Need I remind you we are in the middle of a pandemic!

@@BobLogical ,

From Hells heart, I stab at thee

I thought you were dead!

Perfect

‘ what took you so long’ I clicked as soon as I saw your name... at work.. super excited to watch this!!

Oh yes!!! Good to have you back. Gonna devour this video hahah

YER ALIVE!

The closure with paz and the dissarmament scene were, for me at least, the ending of this story, and it felt so beautiful. But I still feel this phantom pain, that we lack something. It's a masterpiece, I agree, but I don't feel completed. Maybe I should move on from it

@@rodrigokuszek Yeah, I think that was one of the goals of the story. After all, it's called The Phantom Pain.

Try getting all tasks done

Well it's true and false. As someone who played all the metal gears when they launched not some band wagoner who came later I think mgs5 is a good game but agree it's the worst out the main series still. I also agree its unfinished but it was like 90 percent finished. People over exaggerate when they say it was 50 percent done. They just needed to keep the deleted parts in and add a little to it. They also needed to remove that dumb zombie mission. The mission belongs in the trash with metal gear survive. I'm not talking about the skulls I'm talking about that ship mission.

@@rodrigokuszek the worst part of the game is they didnt have good boss fights and too many filler missions. Get this guy no one care about and save him or kill this guy that has no real story. It's a good game but things like this were the problem. They built up skullface all the way from ground zeroes and then dont even give us a boss fight with him. I like the game but still all this is bs.

even so, Venom stayed loyal to Big Boss til the very end even went so far as to activate the self destruct sequence of Outer Heaven and determined to take Solid Snake down with him Venom truly is the most loyal soldier

Sounds like the modern military

@@Codex_0613 its not because of loyalty but because he *is* Big Boss. After the Medic's coming to term who he really was there really was no way to go but to hell.

@@DOT107 Venom could have bore hatred toward Big Boss and use his army and resources to hunt down and kill him. But he didn't, instead he even worked with Boss again. If that's not blind loyalty then idk what is.

Codex - Does not have to be blind. If you looked up to and always wanted to be cool like the boss - and you where literally made into the boss, even with all the pain and suffering... you may just be happy. A happy fool, but happy.

Also, my interpretation of Venom lines very well with this quote repeated throughout the game: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." As in that Venom's detour/"road" to warmongering is paved with his "good intention" of peace.

@@jacksonpb i think the song "sins of the father" sums up your points perfectly. it all makes sense.

The point of that could simply be a reminder that war never ends, only the methods at which it's waged. Disarming every nuke was never going to bring peace, it's merely a step in that direction. Either way Venom is still trying to eliminate the most dangerous evil that is currently present. It's also not war mongering in the same way that Skull Face wants, it's truly what Venom believes to be the best means to a peaceful end.

"Si vis pacem, para bellum" in order to achieve peace through the guise of Big Boss's phantom, Venom Snake's only real choice after ridding the world of nukes is continued deterrence. Not through nuclear arms, but through the stealing and dismantling of those arms. If Diamond Dogs stop, eventually some other terrorist group or PMC will spring up, which is exactly what Liquid does in MGS1. Miller and the crew understand waging war- it's all they know and their entire purpose for being. Venom understands it as well, and knows even if he destroys nuclear weapons, steals Sehilanthropus, and stops Skull Face, there will still be wars to fight. Human nature involves conflict. Conflict has a price. No matter how "peaceful" the world may be without nukes, you must still be prepared for war.

Best comment here so far. I get tired of having to explain these games with people.

It's already happening.

Death stranding is amazing. It’s not for everyone but it’s great for those who like slow paced passive nonviolent gameplay.

Also an antithesis to modern mainstream games and a small reminder of the golden age of video games.

Vaktaren : that’s a good thing right? Sorry I can’t tell what you mean by your comment.

@@catzor4795 I can't tell if that's sarcasm? The golden age of games were always violent to some degree of understanding. But I do appreciate an incredibly maticulous walking simulator that makes you feel sad that that is what you will do the most. This game about connecting bridges sure doesn't have many options for dialogue.

You are right, and the player can see the MSX2 computer in the same room (the original platform for Metal Gear 1). Even with the cut content the franchise came full circle with Metal Gear Solid V.

Omg thank you soooo much

And then it was literally... Smoke and mirrors.

Msx

"When venom realizes his a phantom" He is a phantom?

True!!!

To be fair, Kaz went behind the Boss's back with Cypher as revealed at the end of Peace Walker. Snake probably felt betrayed enough by Kaz that he considered him out of his inner circle. Perhaps it was a case of each other burning the other, except Kaz thought the Boss would overlook what he did?

@@re9498 true, but Big Boss Became a Piece of shit to leave him like that after almost dying and losing everything

@@savage_aly8752 Which Kaz bears no small amount of blame. He misled the Boss to work with Cypher and he didn't care that it furthered Cypher's plan, contributing to the situation we see in Ground Zeroes where XOF attacks because of MSF's importance to Cypher's plan.

@@re9498 true, but BB was a really shitty person in the end. why couldn't the finish the job? the world wanted his head and venom was the body double and he never died until 1995, so why did boss leave? he could've created outer heaven again with boss

Forgot the /S

@@braydoxastora5584 explain?

@@LazyJesse i assume he is being sarcastic

You gotta play MGS1, 2 and 3 bro

@@RickGrimes807 never got to play 1&2 but played 3. However, I’ve seen walkthroughs on 1&2.

@@OKLAMA- You can use a ps1 emulator to play MGS1. I’m doing it right now. Only issue is that old cutscenes freeze over new ones, but I was able to fix that after checking a forum for instructions.

@@RickGrimes807 lol it took me 5 years to beat mgsv tpp

Find a job dammit

If you like Zelda, theres also one about Link.

beautifully said 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Read "A History of Warfare" By John Keegan for what I'd regard as a successful counter-argument to the notion that war is simply a continuation of politics.

People are brain dead, so the war never ends... People love to feel powerful and better, than the others.

@@emulation2369 honestly i think most people with 12 functioning brain cells just want to be left the fuck alone to run their life. Good luck getting the government to do THAT though

@@umngyr Mediocre people win a popularity contest, become self righteous and entitled to your every move in life.

You're right, but for whatever reason, most gamers just look for entertainment.

Also known as an escape from New York ripoff.

are you like john wick irl

Yeah. As an american, the part of a company understanding politics is honestly why i think that politics needs to be run by smart people, not the people in it now. So i funny agree with how deeply concerning it is when you think about how areas of normal people in society can understand things more then the heads of state currently in office. Sadly it'll take more war and apocalypse in order for the status quo to be damaged/destroyed just enough for systems to change as the masses who feel the pain of future conflicts of the system, would want an actual person to run things right and properly. The banning of weapon companies, the need for no war (though that'll take someone with the wisdom of endless millennia's to be in charge of, effectively someone who is immoral, like a physical god), among with many other things that this species that we live as suffers from.

1. "Remilitarization" didn't happen in Russia, they were already militarized when they attacked Ukraine. Stop with this non-sense. 2. Senator Armstrong isn't wrong, but you are missing the point of a "defensive force" in Japan and the japanese being afraid that, say someone like China who have the biggest population on this planet, could invade them. I mean I'm sure if someone attacked you with a knife you'd just let it happen, you are the biggest pacifist of them all here I'm sure, but some people don't like that and think it's bad. Question is though: Shouldn't all countries, like Japan was, be forced to drop their armaments then? Why this unequal picking of who gets to have a military and who doesn't? Who will ENFORCE demilitarization, when all are disarmed? Do you, by any chance, understand less about politics than the average midwit politician?

@@revisit8480 If you would be wise enought to bother checking date of the comment, you would know, first, that the comment was made before invasion into the Ukraine. Second, if you would be wise enough to actually read the comment, you would understand, that the point of comparison was about "wars working wonders for the economy of a country". There are, and were, in russian social networks and federal TV, people who would openly and blatantly said so and among those lines.

3), You are a total Boomer and a Bugman

@@ezergilechimekazikura6855 1 correction. Wise not vise

Watch out venom, a pooooiiisonous snake

u must

Exactly, It's the only "numbered" game with a roman numeral... or is it? Nope, it's not. It's not a Roman 5, it's the actual letter V.

V has come to

Why it was intended to be called "vee"?

@@czarkowskipawelyt I low key think for venom. Not sure if that’s what it is lol

@@czarkowskipawelyt In the book 1984 the logo for a group that’s similar to mgs’s patriots is a V with a robot arm shaking the hand of a human. The robot arm is reminiscent of venom snakes prosthetic and their in the shape of a V.

This. I genuinely love this video and the thought provocation it offers

This video was much better than actually playing the game. The cut scenes were so few and far between that it really hurt the experience for me. I guess I’ll play through it again

@@ChrisRobba Poor you having to play in a sandbox of near perfect action stealth gameplay with an endless array of options, weapons and gadgets at your disposal to reach to your coveted cut scenes ;)

@@SatanicBoomBoomHead lol I love all the metal gears and this one is a masterpiece but still was wishing for more. Watching KZfaq videos about the lore has honestly been more enjoyable than the game itself though. I’m not in it for the gameplay as much as the story, on the other hand I felt the opposite about mgs4 with too much cutscenes and not enough gameplay but I think that’s how most fans felt

@@SatanicBoomBoomHead yet you neglect the fact that missions, gameplay are horribly repetitive and copy paste, and mostly mean nothing. Less is more....

So her old unit, the Cobras, had their hands clean? Sounds like you have some problems with idolizing false legends.

0 people consider her a villain

she is a villian, she sided with the terrorists and fucked up big boss.

Did you edit your entire comment because none of these replies make any sense.

They are idiots who dont know the story. She died and wanted big boss to kill her. She wanted that instead of nuclear war. Dont try explaining the story to idiots who didnt come into the series until phantom pain. They are most likely fortnite players

You have to do the self reflection to unpack a games themes ( which is the point. To enrich the individuals life and transform them. This is the point of art. Its for metaphysical evolution of your personal being and to engender you towards the next step in your souls metamorphosis. Philosophy and art exists for this purpose.

Art isnt just created by the creators, the viewers also have a hand in molding the perception of the show.

@@Linxthisisaurl1 "Anything that moves you is art." -Loud Transformers man

this is a black hole of pretension lmao

@@nurkadurka What exactly is pretensions about it. Dont use big words you dont understand.

Venom isn't the bad guy though. He was a set-up

Same, the pain I felt when I found out that Venom Snake was the antagonist of the first game was immense

@@kiloklavdi1185 you can be set up to be the bad guy and still be a bad guy.

Tbf most of the games Big Boss is in, he isn't an antagonist. Though I guess you can say the same isn't true of Venom Snake. Either way this series tends to be very muddy with who the good and bad guys are. Ocelot is an antagonist in almost every game but it turns out he was actually the "good" guy for the most part.

what does venom do to make him a bad guy?

True

The gameplay is so awesome that I really didn't understand the criticism.

A lot of the "complex" meta narrative in this seems cherry picked and just an interpretation. I don't think this was the true intention or meaning behind the whole thing. I also think the ultimate "meaning" he gathers from MGSV is a bit corny and has already been done a million times before. I could interpret a deeper meaning to any story and try to argue that it's misunderstood.

That's a good point, and I strongly agree. If there is a case to be made that the game is unfinished or damaged by Konami's meddling, it's down to the mandate that GZ and TPP were split into two releases. Thank you for watching, and for leaving a thoughtful comment.

This revenge aspect is also, in my opinion, way more impactful if you play Peace Walker before the other two. I spent a lot of time on it, in the same way that i played MGSV : getting Mother Base to the top, unlocking all the weapons, and so on. Watching it burn to the bottom of the sea in GZ was heart breaking. It way be interesting to say that, while playing PP, i never felt the same gaming pleasure when building the new Mother Base as I did in PW. I was quite young at the time, and first games are always more impactful, but it could show that, aside from the pure revenge theme, building a new mother base is just not the same as the first time. Yes, PP may have more upgrades, teams options, etc, but it feels a bit empty, barely alive, even when you take a walk around. Like revenge, you will never be fully satisfied. Maybe it is also a way to tell us to move on.

@@MichaelSaba That could be (re: unfinished), but I want to be clear that I wasn't trying to point that out. The question for me while playing PP standalone was not, "how far will I go to have revenge" but rather "how willing am I to take on the pain of another?" How much do I accept that a crime happened and take the game at its word? So instead of experiencing a phantom pain in a limb you lost, you experience phantom pain in a limb you never had. It's Phantom phantom pain, and this was confirmed to me in the medic reveal at the end

No so sure. I played MGS:GZ for hours goin through the different scenarios as TPP neared. The tapes in GZ are amazing, but knowing everything there is to know in GZ doesn't help with the final revile in V. I think the ending tapes in TPP are a cipher. And the game lies to your face constantly with different tactics. I was very confused at the end of TPP with my 1st play though. My second play through after understanding everyone's motivations from the "truth" tapes, was amazing. A lot of what seems like nonsense has a very MGS under pinning. A dual narrative. The story also completes when this dual narrative.

Someone told me GZ and PP are two separate games but I was sure that GZ was a pre-prologue to set up the coma Awakening. Just Konami wanted to recoup some of the high development cost therefore released it as a separate game. Demo of sorts.

E3

I was expecting the same old analysis that we've gotten for 5 years now but dam I couldn't be more wrong on so pumped I found his channel

@Michael Saba So~ you gonna answer that question ot what? I've been using Patreon to support creators, but now I'm wondering if Premium would be at least as noticable to y'all.

Dont lie to us, you like him because he's just sexy ))

Questioning Especialy directly through patreon is always the most effective way to support a KZfaqr in terms of money, next to buying merch (if that's something they do) Vague comments from Linus from LTT on his podcast imply that viewers with premium do have a certain level of elevation and worth to them, I think he specifically mentioned that in relation to helping videos getting pushed more frequently to other viewers in the recommended videos tab or something like that So there's definitely worth to being a premium user, but it doesn't carry as much direct monetary value as a patreon member- especially when you consider that videos get demonitised more often than not and music copyright stripping all the money from monetisation away from the uploader and to corporations