Lock S-foils in attack position!

How the hell would it have connected to MGS and not just Metal Gear? 🤨

The ending shows that the whole game exists to explain a “plot hole” that literally nobody cared about (how Big Boss survived his “death” in Metal Gear). The scrapped final mission, Mission 51, would have come before that and finished Eli’s plotline, setting him on the path to becoming Liquid Snake by the time of Metal Gear Solid.

And Ground Zeroes was always planned as a separate game to MGS5. They were supposed to release at the same time, but 5’s development got delayed.

I’m going off of what people said around the time of Kojima’s exit, which is that Konami were unhappy with how long V was taking and forced Kojima to release Ground Zeroes as a standalone. It seems I misinterpreted what that meant!

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Oh no, another rabbit hole.

Well, down I go!

You’re lucky you weren’t at the late game when that happened. I was sleep deprived when I got to the “shut the console off NOW” and “I need scissors! 61!” Codec calls. i was genuinely questioning my sanity a bit.

The ultimate crime of MGSV is that they cut the ending mission that directly tied it to Metal Gear Solid. Without it the game’s more a prequel to Metal Gear than the Solid series.

That and cutting Ground Zeroes out into its own game when it was originally supposed to be a chapter in V. It should have been retroactively included.

I would do terrible things for a remaster of Revengeance that adds in all the features they had to cut during development to get it to run on only 256 MB each of RAM and VRAM. The sword slicing in the released version is impressive, but the original prototype was nuts.

So the next day, I asked him, “So how is it?” He was shellshocked. “Snake died, man.” Excitement was gone. His day at school was ruined. I didn’t check in with him later, but presumably, a 7th grader couldn’t make heads or tails of the ending of that game, if he made it that far.

Sounds like you asked him right after he finished the Tanker chapter but before “Iroquois Pliskin” showed up on the Big Shell.

I didn’t play it myself until a few years later, and it was one of the most talked-about endings in all of video games, because it was so barely comprehensible, at best.

The ending was mangled due to 9/11 happening right before the game’s release and them rushing to recut and sanitize the finale, which had huge swaths of Manhattan being leveled by Metal Gear Arsenal ramming through it.

Presumably the original cut was more coherent, but I’m guessing nothing could have lessened the final mindfuck of “every leader of the Patriots has been dead for over a century”.

I wasn’t disagreeing, just expanding on your point. :)

I’d say a kick to the face but he’d probably enjoy that.

There are examples of lost metals in real life. Damascus/wootz steel (the actual historical metal, not the pattern welding technique often marketed as Damascus steel) was produced for multiple millennia and was prized for its ability to hold a sharp edge and resist shattering, before the technique to make it was lost in the early 1900s.

Modern material analysis has identified some of how and why it was so resilient and metallurgists have come up with reproductions that achieve most of its qualities, but the exact technique and circumstances behind it remain lost to time even though it only stopped being produced a mere century ago.

I second the request for a link if you can remember it. Raising stacks of lead from the seafloor sounds like an interesting (and expensive!) engineering challenge, especially if they aren’t bound together.

Note the subreddit the original image was posted in.

(The joke is that QT wrote and directed Pulp Fiction.)

Bad news is the same framework that fucked us is almost guaranteed to be actively working to do the same in whatever country you live in. So use us as an example and prevent this shit from happening to you early before it’s too fucking late

The people that fucked us have already fucked a bunch of other nations. The rise of right wing authoritarianism in Europe over the last few decades was aided by political operatives like Paul Manafort, who then directed that experience towards domestic politics.

And then there are the missionaries and evangelicals whose indoctrination programs pushed bigotry and intolerance in various African nations, leading to some of the harshest laws criminalizing LGTBQ in the world.

For a culture that’s constantly complaining about “globalism”, they sure spend a lot of time and money spreading their influence overseas.

So this is probably a dumb question, but why would “new” lead be any more radioactive than ancient ingots? Wouldn’t it be the same age (whenever the deposit was formed) and have decayed the same amount while still in the ground?

I’m more impressed by his ability to get players to like Raiden later on. He’s still a massive cringy dork in MGS4, but now he’s an edgy Gray Fox expy and that was apparently enough to change player’s minds about him. He’s gone from the most hated to one of the most popular characters in the entire series.

Kpjima later did something similar with Otacon using a completely different approach. Otacon was introduced as a coward and a naïve fool, and though he improved with every game, many players didn’t like him due to that poor first impression.

The prequels featured Otacon’s father, who all we knew about beforehand was that he committed suicide years before MGS1 because he found out Otacon was sleeping with his stepmother, and managed to make him a more hateable character than most of the actual villains. He has the exact same voice and appearance along with all the same personality flaws as his son, but those flaws were all turned up to eleven and he lacked any of Otacon’s virtues to counter them.

And his character spiraled downwards from there - it was basically Kojima rubbing into your face how much worse Otacon could have been and shining a spotlight on the importance of character development.

in a largely unjustified war

You’ve mentioned the importance to the Romans of having a legitimate (or at least legitimate-sounding) casus belli before. I’m guessing the sacking of Carthage got a pass due to their ancient enmity?

I’m guessing the most generous split they’ll offer is 70-30 (with the 70 going to them, naturally), but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s 90-10. Pretty much every publisher screws over user content creators and I don’t foresee Rockstar/Take Two being less greedy than the average.

Escape From Duckov is an excellent single player parody of Escape From Tarkov, one of the most famous extraction shooters. Duckov was one of my most enjoyed games last year.

Escape From Tarkov itself has the Single Player Tarkov mod which I hear is great, but I don’t own that game so can’t verify.