LEFT ALIVE: The $60 Metal Gear Fanfiction

LEFT ALIVE™ is a god-awful survival action shooter that tells a thrilling story of crouching behind wooden crates from the perspective of three different protagonists during a yawn inducing invasion set in war-torn Novo Slava. The Front Mission franchise died for this.
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[@ZoombaPumba]

"That guy really wanted to be left alive but i think I finally left him for dead. Hopefully he doesnt come back for blood" genius

[@billwalton1091]

Straight bars

[@Glownyszef]

✍🔥

[@MrGrimm-gy1mu]

**Left 4 Dead level end theme plays**

[@schriefabraham165]

"That guy really wanted to be Left Alive (2019), but i think i finally Left (him) 4 Dead (2008). Hopefully he doesn't come Back 4 Blood (2021)"

[@DrundeFPS]

The Dead speaks

[@QuietCoyote]

Anyone who preordered this game: "That freaking hurts"

[@Starwarsgeek12]

Bro i was so excited when i heard this game was coming out, i preordered whatever the best version was.... I preordered No Mans Sky and I still think this was a bigger mistake on my part.

[@benito1620]

At this point if you preorder games you deserve to get shit.

[@MechaMaestro]

@@Starwarsgeek12 Well yeah, they fixed NMS. THey didn't fix this game.

[@bryanmilenia]

@@Starwarsgeek12 Well, at least NMS dev still trying to update and make their game better, unlike this....

[@Starwarsgeek12]

@@bryanmilenia oh for sure, but even at launch, I had more fun with NMS than this, the guards literally took 2-3 heatshots to kill, so stealth gameplay was basically impossible

[@fish_birb]

The product placements are so inextricably Square Enix that I have no words to describe it other than that.

[@NotOnLand]

At least you can turn them off

[@khinzaw77]

Squeenix is such a hilariously out of touch money grubbing company that it's incredible that they actually manage to make good games sometimes.

[@mattc7420]

Square Enix actually expects us to pay $70 for their games now 😂

[@alphaotakux]

It's okay when other games do it though right? You just dislike this game because le meme man review guy said so. Cuck.

[@Styner09]

I really miss when they didn't do that. I guess that's when they were just squaresoft.

[@bradlauk1419]

If someone told me that Oboe jokingly dubbed over the actual audio for this entire game, I'd believe it.

[@jujujameson]

Oboe jokingly dubbed over the audio for this entire game

[@elbow333]

@@jujujameson I believe it.

[@evagineer9165]

@@jujujameson I too, believe it

[@Xenobears]

@@jujujamesonthat explains everything! I’m especially impressed by how he snuck into Square Enix’s game development servers, replaced all of the audio files with his joke dub, and convinced them to never patch it back to the original dialogue that would reflect the complex and mature storytelling that the Front Mission series has been known for!

[@flippedoutkyrii]

I beat this last year with a trainer that increased my movement speed, it was literally the only reason I could stomach the insane distance the player character had to travel on foot in these gargantuan levels. Even with that enabled, it still took me 31 hours to complete. Also, Olga is wholesome and best character.

[@user-njyzcip]

Meow

[@lucianograff6512]

What's the story about

[@flippedoutkyrii]

@@lucianograff6512 Civillians, Military and Criminal Elements dealing with a Mech Invasion of their country and has all three slowly piecing together evidence of subterfuge and government conspiracies. It's a pretty interesting idea but it tried to do everything at once with a very small team and a noticeably low budget.

[@Howlingd0g]

Flippedoutkyrii... now there is a username I've not heard since my mid-00s deviantart days. The internet can be a surprisingly small place sometimes.

[@flippedoutkyrii]

@@Howlingd0g Name isn't ringing any bells, I knew a lot of people from those days who I haven't heard from in 10-15 years but I admit some have become rather blurry in hindsite. But yeah I hear ya, I keep running into old forum/chatroom friends in the weirdest places.

[@fietehermans9903]

It's also a Front Mission game, despite that is never clarified (presumably because they knew this was a stinker). I remember all the reviews being confused about the lore, because it was actually based on a franshise dating back to 1995

[@fstorm2]

I remember when this game was announced and it being set in the Front Mission universe I was excited until it got closer to launch and unfortunately I seen the writing on the wall with this.

[@SteveSmith-rt7wx]

Much like “Man of Steel” being too embarrassed to call itself a Superman movie, “Left Alive” was too embarrassed… Says a lot when the last FM game was the Armored Core wannabe “Evolved”

[@ireggularegg9595]

@@SteveSmith-rt7wx Last FM game so far with some wishful thinking, theyre making a mobile game but of course thats a mobile game. Looks okay though, that and the remakes on switch

[@EGRJ]

@@SteveSmith-rt7wx "Man of Steel" was an indirect title like "The Dark Knight". In both cases, it's pretty obvious who the movie is about, especially since those are commonly used nicknames for their heroes.

[@gameguy301]

Front Mission was already dead after Front Mission Evolved, but this just took the coffin and poured concrete on top.

[@AFGuidesHD]

0:49 very relatable. If it's anything more than "press x to jump" I ain't reading it.

[@Nick-hm9rh]

He should play blood dragon

[@SmegmaMale66]

Why can't more games be like last of us? Fast, quick and easy explanation of controls while still having control of the character

[@LaCazaLP]

And 20h in to the game you find some really awesome mechanic you never used cause pfff who has time to read 2 pages of tutorial. Happens everytime lmao.

[@blueshit199]

@@SmegmaMale66 the last of us famously invented quick tutorial popups

[@karthikkumar6861]

@@SmegmaMale66 Weird example when tons of games had good tutorials before that.

[@rustyshackelford7025]

I think one of the funniest things about this game was they hyped this game up just to release it with more ads than the game itself got

[@asromeburns3588]

they have the audacity to feature some warcriminal child kidnapper in the game and not let you shoot him? the only thing worse would be giving you a game over for doing it.

[@HL3AlcAida]

Yeah biggest BS in Videogame History. The story is about war and invasion i thought why you shouldnt be abke to kill such scum.

[@KopperNeoman]

I can do worse. Give you the option to confront him, have that lead to you playing AS him in a boss fight against the hero, and then have him winning that fight be the CANON ending.

[@maninthemask6275]

Seems like real life do you know how many war crimes are gotten away with because of red tape?

[@Voidbleak]

@@KopperNeoman Hm... That sounds awfully familiar.

[@OlujaDoTokija]

@@Voidbleak Where is it from?

[@average_ms-dos_enjoyer]

The tragedy here is that some kind of "Final Fantasy / Metal Gear" style crossover game really could work, yet this is what they came up with instead.

[@Nachtness]

the tragedy is it was supposed to be front mission successor

[@Aereto]

People have forgotten Front Mission and the concept of Wanzers, even the developers themselves.

[@enriquejoseantequerasanche6180]

Check Front Mission (a franchise this is supposed to be an entry on) for the literal fusion of Final Fantasy Tactics and Metal Gear setting/writing. Sadly, the last real entry was on the PS2 and from then on they just make bastardizations like this one and Evolve(that is just another 3rd person shooter on a robot, with dumbed down mechanics)

[@Aereto]

@@enriquejoseantequerasanche6180 Meanwhile we have Dual Gear, a mech tactics have Front Mission and Valkyria Chronicles mixed together. But the development speed is notably slow, at which I continue to keep watch.

[@enriquejoseantequerasanche6180]

@@Aereto the only game I preordered, precisely to ensure they have cash to publish it

[@NexAngelus405]

Fun fact: if you look at the map of Ruthenia and Garmoniya in the opening cutscene, you'll see that the two countries are just present-day Ukraine split in half down the middle. Even better, Zaftra is basically a union of Slavic nations with Russia as it's largest and most influential member-state.

[@Necromediancer]

I mean Ruthenian is like an actual culture or something, roughly around Ukraine. Not sure about the other stuff though.

[@icarusgaming6269]

That guy didn't go to four years of obvious officer school just to be called "Mr Obvious"

[@R3volutionblu3s]

This is one of those games where even though it's awful I can see the potential it had.

[@L1LegoAnimations]

There's way too many movie, TV show and game franchises where they had excellent premises but just failed in every other way. Sword Art Online? Great idea with a great soundtrack and decent artists, but unfortunately the writing is abismal and the acting (in the dub anyway) is mediocre.

[@kyrusxi]

@@L1LegoAnimations the acting is great in the japanese audio, but that's basically a given in the anime industry. it's very rare to see an anime not have good voice acting even if literally everything else sucks

[@luichinplaystation610]

So it is a hidden gem 3:44

[@ssjaken]

Holy shit. That ending with the little girl was DARK

[@teslashark]

Because it's the baltics! Everything is hard there!

[@redfoxbennaton]

Yoji Shinkawa's art style is the only thing that makes it emotional.

[@mexicanhalloween]

why are we here still left alive? just to suffer?

[@mitchboland9591]

No way! this game is such a hidden gem! My favorite game ever honestly. I'm so glad to see Oboe playing this :D

[@damiencouturee6240]

Is it actually any good? Not compared to anything, just on its own merit is it worth playing? Pretty sure I can play it for free, that's why I'm asking, but I never bothered downloading it cause I've never heard anything good about it lol

[@AgentHeroic]

@@damiencouturee6240 Rerez has a pretty good breakdown on why it's just bad

[@damiencouturee6240]

@@AgentHeroic I've never heard of Rerez, I'll check it out I love a good game breakdown. Thanks :)

[@pauliesstories6060]

And it's from BETHESDA?! BETHESDA made this?!

[@amanchoosesaslaveobeys6510]

@@pauliesstories6060 square enix not Bethesda

[@Whiteplane]

I knew this game was gonna be a wild ride when I noticed there was no head shot damage bonus on regular difficulty.

[@SuperShadowGuard]

Ah yeah, quality voice acting in this game through and through

[@negative6442]

They definately said lines that resembled dialogue

[@BrickBuster2552]

I always wanted a vido game voiced entirely by John Mulaney.

[@nyx2903]

Well.. the game had it's moments. I'm not sure where, or when but.. I'm sure it had.

[@marianoclerici3986]

One of the games ever made.

[@Mario_bland]

This is high on my “morbid curiosity” wishlist.

[@ethanisfancy]

When I have never heard of the game before, I KNOW I'm in for a good oboeshoes video

[@vcom741]

Yeah just a reminder that this takes place in Square's Front Mission series which is a tactical strategy mech game.

[@courtlandbudd7462]

The opening joke is pure gold.... And probably true tbh

[@JParma77]

0:54 Ofcourse they didn't die. They are clearly standing in water

[@MesaAufenhand]

Anyone who wanted more front mission game but instead being given this "That freaking hurts"

[@mastercat381]

*girl slits her own throat right in front of the main character* "Welp we're 2 for 2 on the good endings"

[@DarkFiber23]

9:20 "THE DEAD SPEAKS!"

[@seventyseven1977]

1:07 The voice acting is so bad, I thought it was you making jokes with exaggerated versions of the characters voices. Then I realised it was the voice acting and the voice and I laughed even harder. Thank you for playing all of these horrible games for out entertainment.

[@Black_Wolf_Videos]

As someone who has carried one of those "turrets from halo." You are ONE HUNDRED PERCENT correct.

[@tavogerard9691]

I've loved Front Mission forever and Dog Life/Dog Style is one of my favorite mangas, I was SO pissed that this game turned out this bad.

[@whiskeycorridor90]

DLDS is one of the edgiest pieces of media i've ever seen i my entire life.

[@brunettebird57]

the true prequel to left 4 dead 3

[@Pathfinder118]

*Front Mission* Fanfiction, there fixed it for you oboe :D

[@bigbernard7325]

I bought this for 10 bucks and it's been in my backlog. This vid convinced me to play it tonight

[@Slop_Dogg]

This game will be as forgotten as “I Am Alive” & “Remember Me” in a decade.

[@sentionaut6270]

i think oboeshoesgames is a sorely underrated youtuber. i haven’t viewed his streams, hopefully he gets the recognition he deserves on that platform. love ya’ oboe. i’ll never forget the time he got drunk on soy sauce and tried to ride bub’s concession stand to the moon… good times

[@2HeadedHero]

Blows my mind that this is supposed to be part of the Front Mission series

[@nogoodgreen3274]

Been waiting on this one. You could say you kept me waiting huh?

[@yenoham3265]

True story, I own this game and its sitting on my shelf with the plastic still on it. I Preordered it and then saw the reviews and never opened it lol. As always great stuff oboe

[@kribblton]

It has its upside, friend. Now you have a constant physical reminder around to never preorder games.

[@toporetti957]

NO PREORDERS!!!

[@thenegromancer4695]

You can preorder darktide thats bussin

[@ca_lcium]

Same here, except I don't know where my copy went after I moved. I know it's still in plastics, though💀

[@bigboysdotcom745]

@THE NEGROMANCER there's like 5 levels lmao, absolutely not. Nice try shilling, though

[@AbsoluteZeroGravity]

RIP Front Missions. Square Enix completely killed it with this game.

[@MrAsaqe]

There is a remake and mobile game set in the 2089 era so it's not a complete loss.

[@korrag4]

@@MrAsaqe three remakes actually, they're doing the first three games. Really hoping they do well enough to show Square that there's interest in the franchise and it doesn't just bomb thanks to this stinker

[@damiencouturee6240]

Oboe oboe, hear me out. In your game, you need to have a sledgehammer THAT YOU LOAD SHOTGUN SHELLS INTO!!.

[@DeutscherDummer]

Killing Floor 2 has that

[@princesilenceteddy3114]

So the game is basically Metal Gear fanfiction that gets the art made by the man who made an entire official Metal Gear Character design and Art Director. Also, it's officially set in Front Mission universe.

[@BJWeNeedUDefendingUsWithZeMG42]

Left Alive? It probably shouldn't have.

[@comixproviderftw_02]

Halfway I thought you were doing the voices for the characters lol.

[@DeutscherDummer]

This game has always been one of my favourites, love the child suicide!

[@4T3hM4kr0n]

"love the child suicide!" ^ This is why you're always picked on at school

[@Jolis_Parsec]

Shane and Adam on Rerez found out the hard way what happens when you pick the wrong dialogue option during that particular scene, and neither one of them were able to speak for a couple of seconds due to how unexpected it apparently was to them. 😏

[@PosthumanHeresy]

Hottest scene in gaming!

[@remyrichardson8614]

@@PosthumanHeresyI would be surprised but with that pfp I understand

[@mattheath3963]

Now I have some quality entertainment with my lunch 😏

[@BugsyFoga]

I can’t believe it isn’t metal gear !!!

[@gunnerroo6514]

🤣 that was hilarious bro! "Aww I can't oof him??" *proceeds to lead the npc to an enemy instead.

[@CysmaWinheim]

Is your channel name a Homestar Runner reference? God, that takes me back...

[@NotOnLand]

The "dialogue options" in this game are so pointless. The only thing preventing the orphan from committing sudoku is _one_ option, and regardless of the outcome she's gone from the game after that.

[@ClaymoreClay101]

"Mom, can we get Metal Gear Solid?" "Honey, we already have Metal Gear Solid at home." The Metal Gear Solid at home...

[@rjjames1518]

I barely played the first 5 minutes of this game before I realized there was no way I was going to finish it

[@AgentHeroic]

I don't get how its so hard for Square to get that we want less of this and more ACTUAL Front Mission Trpgs

[@Starwarsgeek12]

given that Super Robot Wars kind of had a PS4/PC renaissance, and came out with 4 more modern games that I think did...pretty well? I am amazed that Squeenix doesnt fucking make another Front Mission. TRPGs are still popular.

[@anFerzy]

@@Starwarsgeek12 Front Mission 1st is coming out soon

[@gamertrub]

All I know about this game is: WANZERS

[@jakelibbey4631]

good afteernoon oboemangame

[@jacksonbowns1087]

I can't believe this is a Front Mission game.

[@spaghettijoe7803]

I honestly thought a lot of the voice acting was you dubbing over as a joke

[@liamwayne6703]

6:00 - It's called snow. The thing that's all around you, even in that same shot. Can't tell if you're trying too hard or not enough.

[@marcusgarcia06]

That Tungsten Arm O’Doyle meme was unexpected but greatly appreciated

[@Tito-co5kg]

The Netflix dub Shinji VA caught me off guard lmao

[@forgottencameras]

goddammit why do they have to do my favorite squeenix franchise like this

[@halochives60]

This is a front mission game I never knew that until I hooked up the front mission series for nostalgia

[@sainsburyshopper]

They made a game in the franchise about giant stompy robots, during a time when we had very few games about giant stompy robots, and didn’t make it about giant stompy robots. I just want to play as a giant stompy robot godammit. Is that too much to ask?

[@OaksCU1]

Are you gonna make a Very Accurate Story Recap for New Tales From the Borderlands?

[@oboeshoesgames]

no, if I watch a single second more of that game I am going to have a stroke. I did a full playthrough on oboeshoestwos if you have 7 hours to waste and hate yourself.

[@GamerGuy249]

@@oboeshoesgames that good, was it?

[@OaksCU1]

@@oboeshoesgames Sounds tempting to hear the game getting roasted, but I also had the bad idea of playing it and I could not go through that whole thing again.

[@iztasticbachman9578]

@@oboeshoesgames how about BL3 then?

[@komemiute]

I was laughing the whole time. 😂 Absolutely brilliant!

[@ChronicNOTAG]

IT CAME OUT THREE YEARS AGO????? I... I didn't even know it had come out.

[@RenegadePandaZ]

The only people Left Alive were the people who didn't play this game...wait, I own this ga-

[@spartanairsoft1798]

dude that bad guy is the callisto protocol

[@giguyjoe]

You know Oboe's talking about the World of Tanks and Half Life 2 ads but after seeing all of this, I just want to play a Front Missions game again. Maybe Gun Hazard in particular.

[@blueshit199]

I'm not gonna lie, I would love to play this game, it has robots, mechs, stealth and dialogue options, just like Deus Ex!

[@slyapbg]

Me, too. Also it's set in Front Mission's universe, that's cool.

[@bryanyodapc5608]

Are you gonna make a borderlands 3 and tiny Tina’s wonderland story recap? I see story recaps but worry if they are accurate so I look for you

[@visassess8607]

Didn't even know this game existed

[@noahgamingclan1058]

you should do hundred fires next

[@haroldthaf]

We all know that Half Life invented crowbars... That guy is a genius.

[@thedoctorss69]

"say that again I swear to god" honeslty that voice acting is...not okay

[@Hepheat75]

This game hurts so much.

[@HUARASTACA]

This game feels like the guards of the metal gear series are the protagonists

[@bsherman8236]

Never heard of this until now

[@mrmc101]

i never had any hope for this game when i saw it

[@eW91dHViZSBpcyBjZW5zb3JzaGlw]

*"caution the enemy is approching"*

[@MGrey-qb5xz]

i despise intrusive crafting mechanics plaguing so many games now, like jeez i don't care how much bat piss i need to make a ultra rare molotov cocktail just give me a bloody pick up and eff off

[@nobodyinparticular9640]

Agreed, miss when you could just... Find or buy the stuff you wanted/needed and not had to find like 10.000 things, some that probably take ages due to being rare or hard to get, just to craft say a shitty sword that breaks down in 10 swings or what

[@DCGMatthew1]

True, but what is worse? Left Alive or Metal Gear Survive? Probably Survive after thinking about how horrible Left Alive...

[@michaelgreene7518]

The tungsten arm o doyle twitter reference lmao

[@TalesDelma]

Kid in cutscene: "cuts throat and you see blood" CENSOR THE GUNSHOT FADE TO BLACK QUICK!!

[@inovade]

somehow i have most of this guy games on my steam lol and i dont even remember when did i even buy them

[@ferdinand12390]

this is certainly one of the games ever made

[@quironmiranda2591]

Funny I actually know the actress who voiced Koshka the AI this game and is the only reason I have even heard of this game

[@paladinnine859]

Hey. Looks like we’re all runnin’ on fumes, huh?

[@calrbra120]

I saw that name change

[@bigtonybruiser]

We have metal gear at home

[@burgersbeansandchips]

When is your Trombone Champ video coming out?

[@KingLich451]

this is like hunt down solid snake

[@nafereuskortex9055]

You like baseball You like Jazz?

[@EpicLebaneseNerd]

SPYFICTION is a game i miss so much.

[@MBMM38]

My library had this game and I put a hold on it since someone had it checked out when I found it in the database. I waited and waited, and it was never returned. When I went back and checked, it got purged from the library's collection. I can only assume the person who checked it out prior decided to help the next person in line and just destroyed it.

[@applecrumpies224]

That's hilarious and I'm trying to imagine the state of the game for them to remove it from the selection. Also, since when did libraries start allowing patrons to take out games? That is awesome from middles school up until about age 16 I went to the library. We would take out movies but not to often because it was hard to remember to return books or movies. It seems you didn't miss out though.

[@Lemmy12345678]

4 DOUBLE ads in under 4 minutes. Now that's fluent watching...

[@user-njyzcip]

The Rerez video on this pile is funny too, captain baseball is the guy's name

[@jgn]

have you played the third birthday? it has the same effect on parasite eve that this game has on front mission

[@nobodyinparticular9640]

A vein popped when I read that name I hadn't in ages, ugh They did parasite eve so damn dirty... Uh, PE, Front Mission, Chocobo Racing and more... Effing Squeenix's just fucking ruining all of their series

[@AsexualSkeleton]

This new minecraft mod looks great!

[@darinherrick9224]

Hidden Gem. Buggy as heck but still pretty fun.

[@mattcubed9658]

The hidden gem is the fact that it's so bad that no one's played it

[@aquaplush7531]

It’s only 11 minutes… I can put off sleep for a while, right?