Metal Gear

[Broseph]

Pretty sure the big cope at the time was venom is gray fox/decoy octopus and chico is quiet

There was this extremely autistic theory making the rounds on the internet back then that Quiet was actually a trooned out Chico but it quickly got debunked by Stephanie Joosten herself when she said that Quiet was actually a real girl and not an axe wound.

 

[Lone Star]

I don't think I watched any of the trailers and just assumed the horn and robot arm were retcons. Didn't even cross my mind Kojima would do something as stupid as having a game where you play as a fake Big Boss, especially given this was his "turning point" into being a villain from the original Metal Gear.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

I remember being like "Clearly it's not Big Boss since he is missing an arm and has a horn on his head" and people just told me that like Big Boss never showed his bare arm and the horn could be removed and shit.

And like, I was willing to agree with that. Dumber shit has been introduced and removed with Metal Gear retcons, but the second we heard that Medics fucking voice I knew, and I guarantee everyone else knew too even if they didn't want to admit it.

 

[Burt Ryan]

What pisses me off of MGS V, despite the gameplay features inconsistencies (though this is a thing for the whole series, 3 has a cool healing feature, 4 has Octocamo, stress, etc. whereas 5 has none of that, and you could get badly hurt and press Y / Triangle to fix yourself up), is how great the first section is.

It's just a movie, not a lot of gameplay elements, but it's really well done. Then you go and save Kaz, and the gameplay loop begins and it gets stale after a few hours.

D-Dog with taser = OP

 

[TheArtilleryman]

I've seen a disturbing amount of people who were somehow surprised at Venom not being actual Big Boss recently and this has exposed how fucking retarded the average Metal Gear player is to me. Seriously, at no point did you ever see Jack with a giant fucking horn in his head with a robot arm. Yet somehow the revelation that Venom is the Medic is a twist to these actual retards?

And I'm not even talking people who played the games in chronological order which could maybe make it more understandable. These are people who started with MG1 and ended with MGV. Like how fucking stupid can you be?

I knew from the jump "that ain't Naked", yet these autistic faggots are all "OH WOWIE GOLLY GEE WHO COULDA SEEN IT COMIN".

Do any of you know anyone who was unironically surprised or have you seen anyone like this? I know it's not just me being unfortunate and coming across window lickers.

I admit its really obvious when you put it that way, but this is Metal Gear, anything could happen. Some silly plot point involving him getting more surgery, nanomachines fixing it or maybe Mantis plucks it out of his skull as a one time favour and then quotes a line of his from MGS1 before disappearing. Stranger things have happened in this batshit series, the obvious answer didn't even cross my mind as I was playing.

What I' trying to say is Kojima made me retarded.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

What I' trying to say is Kojima made me retarded.

It says a lot that, even though Roy Campbell yelling at Big Boss about time paradoxes is a reference completely lost on people outside Japan, most westerners just filed it under "kojima lol" and moved on without missing a step.

 

[huckbeine]

Me, along with some people, thought at first that it would be Solidus as Punished Snake, it kinda make sense, Solidus is in Africa in the 80s doing his own private army shit.

 

[Burt Ryan]

Me, along with some people, thought at first that it would be Solidus as Punished Snake, it kinda make sense, Solidus is in Africa in the 80s doing his own private army shit.

That whole "Big Boss goes by Saladin and trains Sniper Wolf" goes nowhere.

Imagine if instead of Quiet we got a younger Sniper Wolf, side by side with Psycho Mantis and Eli "Liquid".

But nope. More disconnected shit.

 

[Foltest]

The frankengun in MGSV was so awful.
So stupid.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

That whole "Big Boss goes by Saladin and trains Sniper Wolf" goes nowhere.

Imagine if instead of Quiet we got a younger Sniper Wolf, side by side with Psycho Mantis and Eli "Liquid".

But nope. More disconnected shit.

I'm going to say it

It would have been gay, and people would have complained about it being way too fanservicey like Metal Gear Solid 4.

It just so happens that would have been better than MGS V we got, but nobody would have known that.

Also, I always find it funny that Kojima chose to shoehorn in Psycho Mantis, one of the few from Foxhound who seemingly had no connection to Big Boss whatsoever.

 

[Lone MacReady II]

I don't think I watched any of the trailers and just assumed the horn and robot arm were retcons. Didn't even cross my mind Kojima would do something as stupid as having a game where you play as a fake Big Boss, especially given this was his "turning point" into being a villain from the original Metal Gear.

The dumb things were what got retcons, and all the info. which actually needed expanding upon got left in the wind. Calling koji's writing "discount tom clancy" is generous, like that interview Koji had Konami's lawyers try to censor from the internet. Ironic that.

 

[Ravana]

I would have liked more Solidus story. He got it the worst of any character. I’d probably prefer to just be dead over what he was in mgs4

 

[Friendly Primarina]

I would have liked more Solidus story. He got it the worst of any character. I’d probably prefer to just be dead over what he was in mgs4

Solidus did nothing wrong. Even in MGS4 Snake has to admit he had a point.

 

[Sweetie Kitty]

After finishing all of the main games my biggest take away is that Ocelot is an annoying clingy slut. He’s my favorite character by far.

 

[umami's milk]

After finishing all of the main games my biggest take away is that Ocelot is an annoying clingy slut. He’s my favorite character by far.

Overzealous homo right-hand-arm-man that dedicates his life to a straight man who is married to his fostermom ideology. If any of you have seen 3:10 to Yuma, he reminds me of Charlie Prince in a lot of ways.

 

[Burt Ryan]

Overzealous homo right-hand-arm-man that dedicates his life to a straight man who is married to his fostermom ideology. If any of you have seen 3:10 to Yuma, he reminds me of Charlie Prince in a lot of ways.

Reminder that he fell in love with the man when he disarmed him, knocked him out and gave him advice to use a revolver over a Makarov.

 

[Aunt Carol]

Reminder that he fell in love with the man when he disarmed him, knocked him out and gave him advice to use a revolver over a Makarov.

'Round these parts, we call that a "meet-cute."

 

[Wesker]

I was looking up "list of games considered greatest" on Wikipedia. MGS2 is there, MGSV is not there. As a gameplayfag, makes me ree that shitty MGS2 is on there over MGSV.

What did MGSV that it would deserve to be there? 60 hours of the same handful of missions? A mute protagonist? Lens flare? Dead open worlds?

 

[huckbeine]

What did MGSV that it would deserve to be there? 60 hours of the same handful of missions? A mute protagonist? Lens flare? Dead open worlds?

making the cardbox actually useful for the first time in MGS games

 

[umami's milk]

it was the medic the second Ground Zeroes released and his voice was just Keifers pitched down from what I remember seeing.

This still makes me laugh every time I hear it.