The Metal Gear Game Everyone Forgot Exists

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1. What Comes After Metal Gear Solid Delta? - 0:00 - 2:16
2. Portable Ops Should Be the NEXT Remake - 2:17 - 4:35
3. Synopsis (NON-SPOILER) - 4:36 - 7:55
4. Innovating the Gameplay for the Better - 7:56 - 9:17
5. Portable Ops' BIGGEST Problem - 9:18 - 11:26
6. Classic Metal Gear Gameplay/Bosses/Levels - 11:27 - 13:39
7. A Familiar Yet Excellent Story - 13:40 - 16:18
8. SPOILERS START HERE - 16:19 - 16:32
9. One of the Better Metal Gear Villains - 16:33 - 18:26
10. The Villain's Philosophy - 18:27 - 20:40
11. (SPOILERS END HERE) Why Portable Ops Is Important to the Saga - 20:41 - 22:06
12. IS IT CANON? - 22:07 - 23:20
13. How to Handle a Portable Ops Remake - 23:21 - 23:51
14. Outro - 23:42 - 24:13
#metalgearsolid #metalgear

[@Itoldajokeonce]

If Portable Ops really is that small, there’s no reason it couldn’t be a “Chapter 1” to Peace Walker’s “Chapter 2” and put them in the same game.

[@phantombigboss8429]

nah

[@PalladinPoker]

PO, PW, and GZ-V are really a trilogy

[@alwayslast8900]

@@PalladinPokercontroversial but true

[@Antonhannel]

Heall no. It's not that small to be a chapter of PW. Plus PO should be more established as it's own game and of the main reason for that not even the story but just the gameplay wise

[@scapeagoat2520]

They need to remake the original Metal Gear 1 and 2

[@user-uy4mx4nw7m]

If they do so and bungle that with MGS1 that could serve as enough for a game.

[@Brandon_Powell]

I would love a Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2 remake with Kiefer Sutherland as Big Boss and David Hayter as Solid Snake.

[@BKopps]

here's to hoping one day that MG + MG2 Solid Snake get that treatment.

[@maxderrat]

Absolutely 110% agree with you. I just have zero faith that that will be what Konami chooses to do next.

[@jojosendmyregardsaquinodeo4056]

msx with fox engine....it feels aweosome to dream

[@groofay]

"But that's not realistic!" "...Have you played any Metal Gear game?"

[@NijiharaKaito0]

Or... "Nanomachines, son!"

[@Adjudicus]

Portable ops is way more realistic than peace walker

[@phantombigboss8429]

​​@@AdjudicusAnd Peace walker is a better game with better story and better gameplay and better characters and more fun. Portable Ops was a side story prototype.

[@Adjudicus]

@@phantombigboss8429 lmao no it's not, it turned big boss into a bumbling fool, had a really bad story that didn't fit with the series at all. Portable Ops was much closer to the mainline in terms of style and story

[@phantombigboss8429]

​@@AdjudicusI believe you're the bumbling fool that failed to understand Big Boss's character. you probably never played any of the Mgs games I bet Poop is your first game that is sad. 😂

[@jacek107ify]

As for what happened to Gene money.... Lets remember that MSF was not completely without equipment at the start. They had weapons and helicopters. Also they still had money. Just because Zadornov gave them better hideout doesnt mean they were without equipment and resources

[@goombah8771]

Plus you know he somehow transforms that tiny rundown offshore plant into a massive military nation in a few months with somehow no money at all. In V you have to spend a lot of gmp to expand mother base, but in PW other struts just spout out suddenly with no money loss. Maybe that's what the army's heaven money is going towards.

[@federicoricca2512]

It's also implied right at the end that the money went to fund Foxhound, so that would explain where most of the money went

[@clipsdelosmajes]

I never forget. Literally install and setup the PSP emulator purely and solely for Portable Ops.

[@dantesparda8524]

Fr, I bought and modded a new PSP just to play portable ops with good controls. And peace walker, but I play that on xbox (PPSSPP controls are okay but not great on phone, and I don't wanna carry a controller with me everywhere I go)

[@phantombigboss8429]

Thats a sad waste of time but okay. lmao

[@clipsdelosmajes]

@@phantombigboss8429??? Installing emulators is now sad?

[@dantesparda8524]

@@phantombigboss8429 your a real bastard, you know that?

[@snake1mi]

@@phantombigboss8429 Installing an emulator and playing your favorite rom with high res is sad and waste of time?

[@HUNK_TZ]

Maybe they could remake Peace Walker BUT add portable ops as flashback side missions (missions that you can get bonuses after playing them like snake tales)

[@aaronskuse2207]

I think a Halo MCC style of game would fit; a launcher that takes you to a menu, a list of games that can be updated over time with each remake getting added. It won’t matter how short some of the remakes are if the entire saga can be played within a single launcher. It would feel like a base game with larger titles getting supported with large expansions, not multiple small titles hodgepodged together.

[@shawnjackson3764]

They could also add all variations of MGO, and possibly add a new one.

[@mateusgreenwood1096]

You're the first person on youtube to not only remember portable ops but also to treat it with such appreciation.

[@phantombigboss8429]

game plays like ass is what I remember and dogshit story.

[@KahosSaint]

That's just not true. There are plenty videos about this game.

[@misterhoobomaster]

MGSV: TPP also confirms in a cassete tape that Portable Ops is canon. Ocelot talks about his big scene in Portable Ops with Big Boss.

[@noctsickversus9632]

More like an easter egg

[@misterhoobomaster]

@@noctsickversus9632 No it's not. It's literally a important lore detail.

[@noctsickversus9632]

@@misterhoobomaster what about the whole kojima is not anymore with konami and the game itself isn't whar should 've been stuff? You know the whole principle of a dead saga. Cause metal gear iS ENDED with mgs4. Mgs5 should not even exists. Kojima is just a money maker AFTER mgs4

[@misterhoobomaster]

@@noctsickversus9632 What does that have to do with anything I just said?

[@hattoripool1533]

@@noctsickversus9632that’s the stupidest thing I have ever heard. You Metal Gear fans love to make every excuse not to have Portable Ops as canon

[@saschaberger3212]

Remember: it's Konami. Don't fall for it again or there can't be any more excuses. Wait for the ratings, don't pre order. Be smart

[@maxderrat]

Preach.

[@Slavic_Snake]

but in order for raitings to exist, people must buy and play it

[@seansquiers6506]

​@@Slavic_SnakeAnd you don't have to be one of those people

[@jarrmann]

People with extra$70 that needs to be spent on something right away*

[@danielmisenhelter]

Not to mention all the KZbin channels that will get the game for free lol

[@doclouis4236]

The team behind the Metal Gear Solid 1 remake could just expand upon on the original gameplay by adding more content and bigger areas to explore, almost like Resident Evil 4 remake, except while maintaining the feel of the original without changing the cutscenes like how Twin Snakes made it more bombastic.

[@hunterhancock5221]

Peace Walker is my favorite. It has always been. it's just so replayable for me Love the boss fights, your own metal gear customization, and that you could play as someone you capture

[@saintfayde4438]

Damn, I thought this was gonna be about Acid

[@EJaDav]

Same lol

[@mikemcmullen5006]

I was expecting ghost babel. It's a pretty good game, except for that box maze. The game boy color was pretty limited though, so the prone button was the start button, something Ive never seen a game do before

[@erickpadron155]

Me too

[@grandmastercadillac9052]

@@mikemcmullen5006Ghost Babel is so underrated

[@robij3475]

@@mikemcmullen5006 ghost babel was probably one of the best games of the gameboy color, and a very good mgs game. It was my first mgs game, and made me fall in love with the series.

[@Bertaut]

What's going on with Portable Ops? In the last 12 months there's been major retrospectives from Christian Cryers, thevoicebox, Chole, Gaming Pastime, Keiv Reviews Things, and now Max Derrat!!! It's awesome to see the game getting such coverage; such an unfairly forgotten gem. Yeah, the controls on the PSP made it borderline unplayable, but playing it on an emulator now, it plays pretty much identical to MGS3: Subsistence, and it looks damn good too.

[@yukiutaware1064]

Speaking of forgotten... Metal Gear Acid 1 and 2

[@Alfrays]

I would love to play a remake of PO. The story could be tweaked a little, and expanded upon. I would add a hub in the middle of San Hieronimo, so that Snake and the other soldiers could actually feeroam the peninsula while completing main and side quests. I would add a creepy boss fight with Ursula in which the player should be forced to physically attack her to demage her, while she floats around, in a vertical arena, throwing stuff. I would put a countdown that forces the player to finish the story before the end of 1970, otherwise there is a cinematic game over(and after the game over, there would be a new game + with all the previous upgrades to speed up the new run). And then i would add a chapter covering the firsts official foxhound missions, where Snake saves Eva in Hanoi, and then splits from Cypher, escaping in south America. Playing as Foxhoud would allow to add an endless coop missions system similar to PO+.

[@phantombigboss8429]

A remake would be better than a shitty remaster of a bad game.

[@BayaRae]

I'd prefer they combine Portal Ops with Peace Walker since they're basically the same story and both a prelude to MGS5. (Plus neither is strong enough to be standalone stories.)

[@danielbeckman6742]

Like the tanker and plant missions of mgs2, or GZ and tpp in mgsv

[@BayaRae]

No, what I mean is combine the stories entirely in a remake. (As well as Ground Zeroes, now that I think about it.)

[@kami_97]

Like make a single game where PO is chapter one and PW chapter two or smth?

[@BayaRae]

No, combine the stories entirely. You can do the same with Metal Gear 1 and Metal Gear 2.

[@The4thSnake]

I assumed Big Boss used the money to help fund the Patriots. My idea for an MPO remake was always to have a large open map that expands each existing map into a large sections of the peninsula. You'd eventually move to capturing bases to accommodate more troops, with a risk of enemy inspections afterwards exposing them and forcing you to head over and help defend the base from the enemy assault. And support troops actually appear on the map. Maybe you're about to infiltrate the hospital, so you head to a nearby ridge where your support unit is stationed to retrieve some supplies. And once you're down there, if they have a sniper among them, they can provide cover like Quiet in MGSV.

[@Slychosis.]

Why is Ghost Babel not on these lists if Portable Ops is as far as semi canonicity. Would Ghost Babel be a possibility of a remake? Truly the MGS game time forgot

[@alexh2790]

Ghost Babel is trickier because it ignores even MG2 and also has Snake acting like it's the first time he's meeting Mei Ling. That game isn't even trying to be line with the main series.

[@ko873]

In game-story, Ghost Label is the "Shadow Moses VR" that Raiden did before being approved to do the mission of MGS2.

[@MegaSolidninja]

​@@ko873mental gymnastics

[@mikemcmullen5006]

Because its an alternative version of snake, it's like acid, neither of them are cannon and would confuse new fans that ∆ will bring in

[@alexh2790]

@ko873 I get what you're trying to say given the easter egg in the game, but clearly that's not the case. Unless Raiden is ignorant enough to belive Alaska is tropical 😋

[@SaltedMallows]

This video needed to happen, now talk about PeaceWalker again for the people in the back that claim they love MGS3 but never played Peacewalker.

[@phantombigboss8429]

Instead they played that awful game Poop.

[@GuyOnAChair]

2:20 Portable Ops is not canon, it was, keyword *was*. They still showed the Saga canon/timeline (Kojimas own timeline) on Konami's Metal Gear - Hotline which was TWO days ago as of this comments posting. Okamura, the star of the video was heavily involved in Portable Ops and yet it was not added there. I'm not saying Konami won't ever make Metal Gear Solid 7: Metal Gear and eventually add to or throw out Kojimas own timeline, but what I am saying is factually Portable Ops has not been canon for longer than it's ever been canon at this rate. Who knows, maybe one day they'll remake/reimagine it and it will be but it's not yet. It's frustrating to see a lack of research whenever POPS comes up and I say this as someone that has enjoyed their time with it and put 100's of hours into POPS and POPS+.

[@Idiotboxxx]

I wanna see a Peace Walker Remake that has a MGS5 style map, multiplayer, and the side op missions be realized, observed, and result in the open world simulation. bring the story w vo and mocap too

[@RhenishHelm]

I would say the Acid games are even less well remembered than Portable Ops. I don't need remakes of them, but I would like to see Konami port them to Steam. Also, regarding the PO plot, the "Ghost" twist was originally quite silly, but in the context of MGSV, where XOF was cleaning up after Snake during MGS3, it's more plausible that Skull Face captured him before the destruction of Grozny Grad.

[@igodreamer7096]

Justice for Portable Ops! ❤

[@MegaSolidninja]

💯💯💯

[@phantombigboss8429]

Poop the dumpster fire of a game.

[@KahosSaint]

​@@phantombigboss8429For real, I would rather play Survive.

[@igodreamer7096]

@@phantombigboss8429 You are a sad person. I hope you find love, someday.

[@BadassRaiden]

I remember at the time PO came out I didnt have the money for it, but I did when PO+ came out. I bought it thinking it was OP AND a new online multiplayer feature. Turns out it was ONLY an online multiplayer game, and I was none too impressed.

[@Ivotas]

While I wouldn't mind a Portable Ops remake, to me there's only one answer to what games need a remake the most: the two OG Metal Gear games. The events there are so pivotal to everything that's been happening in the series. I mean that's the games where Solid Snake actually fought Big Boss. IMO there is no higher rank match up in the entire series yet we are stuck with that dated encounter.There's a guy here on KZbin who's remaking the first game as an anime and he really manages quite well to a tense athmosphere worthy of the events. If you watch that and then watch what it actually refers to in the game, you cannot help but wish you got a remake from the ground up.

[@aureateseigneur5317]

Ooooor just remake Metal Gear 1&2. They need it more then any other game. It let's player be Solid Snake again, something they've been wanting for decades, and brings those two games up to par with the rest. Metal Gear 1&2.

[@GameBoyPL1991]

The problem with "is it canon or not" is that Konami just doesn't get to decide that without Kojima.

[@sebastiansanhueza9601]

The canon issue is just childish fandom. Does it fundamentally contradict the main games? No? It fits then. These questions have come about only because some fans take themselves to be some sort of Kojima purists and feel that they "owe" him to acknowledge or reject certain games. One of the many problems with this is that nobody could acknowledge any MG game after Kojima passes away.

[@Cookie.2118]

Portable Ops is Canon, I'm pretty sure Kojima made future metal gear games with Portable Ops story in mind and it heavily reference in the future games. That should make Portable Ops Canon but for some reason, Kojima says it isn't because he didn't make it? But he basically stolen a lot from it.

[@Pablojunior2006]

@@sebastiansanhueza9601portable ops does contradict peace walker

[@sebastiansanhueza9601]

@@Cookie.2118 Right! Besides this, it never quite made sense to me that Snake went from idealist rookie to leader of a rogue nation only because some slimy government dude was a pain in the ass throughout Peace Walker - after all, he still fights for America in the PW showdown. It makes so much more sense if he's betrayed by the White House first (MGS3), then by the FBI (PO), and finally by the CIA (PW). Pretty much the whole deep state tries to screw him over. That being the case, sure, bring on Outer Heaven.

[@sebastiansanhueza9601]

@@Pablojunior2006 How? And please mention a substantive way in which contradict each other, not something along the lines of: this character gaves this small detail that doesn't match with this other tiny thing this other charavmcter said in this other game. I'm talking about a MG1-MG2 type of contradiction (before MGSV solved that, that is).

[@mgsemers]

I keep rewatching your mgs2 documentary’s, it’s really good

[@maxderrat]

Ayyyy! Thanks mate!

[@TheNomade5]

Portable Ops has always been one of my favorite MGS games story wise! There's a lot of really powerful scenes that I remember to this day.

[@phantombigboss8429]

hmm I don't remember nothing important at all other than massive plot holes.

[@adamquenano8563]

They also need to make an MGS game focused on the war between Big boss and Zero that was mentioned from mgs4

[@theengineer9910]

thats what phantom pain should have been.

[@adamquenano8563]

@@theengineer9910 Yep. Now with Kojima gone i don’t know who else could do that storyline.

[@Pablojunior2006]

Maybe a game about snake and raiden going after the patriots between 2 and 4 could be nice too

[@theengineer9910]

@@Pablojunior2006 ya that could explain why raiden has to go into hiding

[@adamfrost8313]

​@@theengineer9910the Real MGS 5😢

[@Attivian]

If they keep the truck as the extraction method, then a different animation to carry should be used, like a fireman carry or an over the shoulder. Leaving one hand open for a pistol. Makes it faster. Keep the drag for other things but if you want to take them, then you do the alternate carry.

[@stephenlanuto5993]

Thank you, Max, for giving me the image of snake playing Operation while wearing oven mitts

[@DoubleO88]

Sokolov just needs to be a body double or a young decoy octopus at this point.

[@Twy87]

On the topic of a 'Game Everyone Forgot Exists', would you ever consider looking at the ending speech in 'Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs' (2013) in relation to 'most profound' moments in videogames?

[@maxderrat]

I think it will happen at some point. Just not sure when.

[@forresthunter1483]

A Max Derrat MGS video is just what the doctor ordered to fight an annoying bout of covid. And it’s about the underrated Portable Ops? You’re a gem of a man, Max.

[@RaidenTheRipper950]

Portable Ops MUST be the next remake. Email them if you have to.

[@jerichogm14]

Haven't watched your videos for a while, Max. You seem a lot livelier than your previous videos and I like it. The "Zeus' butthole" reference was hilarious. 😂 That took me a minute to remember where it was from, tho I knew it was Nick Cage. Didn't play Portable Ops but may check it out bec of the video. Keep up the great work!

[@sunbeames1847]

10:30 my argument would be to show a cutscene for the first person where snake is given GPS trackers and is explained placing those on the bodies allows his comrades to come pick them up.

[@DirtMaguirk]

I honestly want a game or series focusing on Gray Fox starting from the beginning...adoption of Naomi, the affair with Natasha/Gustava, the corruption during MG1/MG2, the genome expirements, MGS1.

[@element1111]

Always liked the simplistic ink-line comic style drawings that comprised Portable's cutscenes. Even made me try and get into concept art back in the day. Would be interesting to see what they could do with it in the modern day, that's for sure.

[@TheCh33ks]

Good stuff once again. Keiv Reviews Things put out his review for this game just a few days ago, so seeing Portable Ops see some coverage has been nice to see.

[@sundrynow766]

One thing I would add to these inconsistencies at 22:40 - 23:20, which is not exactly inconsistencies, but I genuinely dislike the Idea of Big Boss had been prophesied, that his sons will save the world. I could rant about it for long, but I try keep it short. It takes away the impact of Solid Snake's struggle with Genes, that he overcomes during the Shadow Moses. This plot point alone, is the ultimate reason of why I'm not considering Portable Ops being canon. If this game is going to be remade to be a 100% canon, remove this prophecy sh!t out of it. Oh, and don't revive Sokolov... Sorry for my imperfect English, since it's not my native language.

[@lexradu]

10:54 i believe there's a middle ground to be found here, and that is how you'd rescue POWs in Ground Zeroes, by carrying them on your back while still being able to run and shoot with your handgun. It could also serve as a "bridge" mechanic between MGS Delta (picking up the bodies also on your back, but just to hide them) and a possible Peace Walker Remake (making the fulton feel like an earned natural evolution mechanic, bringing this trilogy full circle back to Phantom Pain)

[@returningwhisper]

I think they should combine PW and PO into a single release and have them be completely remade in UE5.

[@phantombigboss8429]

Ew don't ruin PW.

[@matt2centerback]

>Unify Portable Ops and PO+ into a single game, with PO+'s soldier progression linked to the base game's >add cross-progression that lets you carry over PO/PO+ soldiers into Peace Walker >unrelated to Portable Ops but ADD PROPER CO-OP INTO MGSV, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. KONAMI, YOU DON'T EVEN NEED TO MAKE NEW ASSETS, JUST HAVE THE ENEMIES SCALE IN NUMBER/EQUIPMENT/BOTH ACCORDING TO THE DIFFICULTY OF THE MISSION CHOSEN AND THE PLAYER COUNT. AN INGAME JUSTIFICATION IS ALREADY BUILT-IN, YOU COULD LITERALLY JUST HAVE US PLAY AS THE MOTHER BASE SOLDIERS VENOM SNAKE DEPLOYS FROM HIS iDROID TO SABOTAGE SUPPLY LINES.

[@michaelmiller4105]

The reason there’s no Fulton system is because portable ops came out in 2006 and peace walker came 4 years later so Kojima hadn’t come up with the idea yet.

[@domuk7844]

The recruited soldiers keeping their uniforms made this better than the other recruit centric games

[@bluekashus2499]

As an oldhead MGS fan, I never forgot about this game, I just couldn't justify buying a handheld game system for just one game. Money was tight in those days and I spent most of my money purchasing the next Play Station or building a new PC.

[@gunbladelad7772]

Everyone REALLY forgets Metal Gear Solid Ghost Babel...

[@Kurotaisa]

Ah yes, MGS Portable Ops, the game where Snake kidnaps people and takes them into the back of an unmarked truck. Does *something* to them out of sight. And then they love him.

[@Ulrira]

Plenty of my high school days were spent playing Portable Ops/Ops+ pvp with my friends during lunch and online. Still remember getting used to how to hold the psp so you could strafe and aim in 1st person. Miss those days.

[@solid_salsa]

I mean I don't tend to the remember acid or ghost babel for the same reason PO is (rightfully) forgotten. All canon games that had been released were on the PS3 Legacy collection.

[@shayoko6]

give us Vol 2 of the collection! MGS4, portable ops, Acid and peace walker!

[@STARSVeteran]

If they take notes from MGSV’s map for missions, regarding the mission structures and layouts. they could remake Portable Ops with the same focus on missions and recruitment as the original Portable Ops, Peace Walker, and MGSV. The mission/chapter style worked for Resident Evil: Revelations, most of the ship was optionally explorable for most of the game, until the endgame chapters began.

[@cianoconnor6081]

Peace Walker was everything Portable Ops was supposed to be. Better gameplay, better missions, better base building, better story, and fills in the canon whether you count Portable Ops or not.

[@jerrywil7012]

When it comes to the segmented missions from the original, here's how they could be modernized: instead of always having to go back to the HQ menu to select the next mission, why not take a page out of Capcom's book from Resident Evil 4 remake? Turn the main individual story missions for one area into one giant level that you need to explore to progress to the next area, and have side missions as side objectives that can be completed at your own pace (like the blue medalion side quests). It would certainly help to make the game feel less repeditive and much more dynamic.

[@Grei_Undyne]

Considering both take place in the same region, POPs and Peace Walker can be combined so that POPs is the prologue and Peace Walker is the main game.

[@basty1man]

I loved Portable Ops when I played it back in the day on the PSP, it set the foundation for where the series went afterwards.

[@keinkanahem8286]

That was my first MGS game I've ever played! I finished story like 30 times, and was obsessed with it lol. Since then, I tried all kinds of MGS games, yet Portable Ops hits different, because it's my nostalgia.

[@ZakRas]

The plan of action to take after Delta's release is simple, but I've only seen people suggest the two extremes. 1. Remaking the entire series in chronological order, which is excessive and would be messy. 2. Jumping straight to Metal Gear Solid... which is too hasty and nostalgia-lusting a move that skips over the 2 more important games in the series that cannot be avoided anymore. Pretend it's 2005, you've finally beaten both Metal Gear & Metal Gear 2 on Disc 2 of Subsistence... having played MGS3 throughout the previous year. You understand WHY Big Boss went down that road. The HOW of unwittingly build an army for Zero in Costa Rica only for it to be destroyed by another man wanting revenge on Zero only for him to repurpose an escape-forever-into-anonymity body double plot by Zero to act as a decoy while he builds Outer Heaven... isn't necessary to understand Metal Gear 1 or 2. Delta should be followed by a duology remake of Metal Gear & Metal Gear 2 - written as direct sequel to Snake Eater, with any reference to the events of Peace Walker & The Phantom Pain relegated to collectible data-files and/or cassette tapes hidden throughout both games on all difficulties, which serve to fill in the blanks we hoped MGSV would've originally done. This helps keep the main story flow smoothly from Delta to MG1 to MG2 for newcomers to the series... while not disregarding the events of PW & TPP for veterean fans. Collect all 200% of these collectables and you can then unlock the True Ending to MG1 where instead of fighting just Big Boss... you fight TX-55 that was being piloted by Venom Snake and then have the one-on-one with him. One thing I've love to see in the reworked stories of MG1 & MG2 - is extreme focus on the theme of Choice, i.e. the choices that Big Boss made after MGS3 versus the choices that Solid Snake is making throughout MG1, MG2 and even MGS - a remake of that is what would then follow the duology remake.

[@BlackTiger001]

I remember having all my soldiers shot and killed. I was depressed after that. I think the best way to fix the recruitment issue isnt a straight soldier extracted screen. What you need is a failure rate. Give multiple options for extraction and corresponding chances of success. 100% Take your time and drag the soldier to the truck. Works every time. The risk of getting caught the old way still exist. 50-75% Drag them to prearranged locations then call for extraction. A soldier needs to infiltrate and extract so its never 100%. In fact it starts at 50% success rate but do things in mission like diable security measure such as cameras and personnel will increase the chances. 30-50% Much like 50-75% youre calling for an extraction and can increase thr success rate with in mission activities. Instead of dragging the soldier anywhere you put them in a box. With this system even the most tedious extraction becomes more of a choice. You really need this soldier? Are you willing to do what needs be done to get him? Would love to settle things with Null again. There was one change i would love to see. I want to see a base like mgs5 and an affected change due an increase presence. Show me something is improving when we get more men

[@maxderrat]

Oooh! That sounds like a good idea!!!

[@Bigboss12335]

As a metal gear fan , my opinion is portable ops is optional story meaning it can be both cannon or non cannon according to player choice

[@pedronied]

Portable Ops' theme is wonderful. Calling to the night. Love it.

[@PhilFromTheAbyss]

One little thing that I really liked about Gene was that his power was in his voice 🗣 Great video, Max! Would love to play this game again someday!

[@mateusgreenwood1096]

Portable ops was my first MGS game and i feel much nostalgia for it, i still remember the first time i heard Calling to the Night for the first time.

[@0oSOTARKo0]

Fireman’s carry from TPP, would be an easy fix for dragging. You’d still have to carry them to a truck but it would be faster and you could still use one handed weapons.

[@smoke0783]

according to konami youtube mg1&2 would be remade. it’d be pretty interesting to see those games remade bc they’re very important to the timeline. id want them to do that over mgs1 remake honestly

[@anthonyfernandez82]

What did they say about Metal Gear 1 and 2?

[@smoke0783]

@@anthonyfernandez82 that it would be on the list for a potential remake in the timeline. i think it makes the most sense to remake those games too more than mgs1 imo

[@videakias3000]

I downloaded portable ops on an emulator and the controls were so dogshit that it was unplayable. also there were some plot-holes about this game, so it better to treat it as non-canon.

[@spark556]

I thought you'd say Peace Walker

[@thefearofg0ds758]

I think people choose to ignore Portable Ops because despite it being a pretty good game because it does a fair bit of narrative damage to the lore. Needlessly retconning Gray Fox and then turning Outer Heaven, an integral part of Big Boss' character, from his dream that he devoted a large portion of his life to just an idea he stole from some guy named "Gene" and changed the name from......🤦🏿‍♂"Army's Heaven" to Outer Heaven. And a random psychic child thrown in good measure. Just a lot of really really....really stupid retcons for what otherwise was a pretty good story. I like the stuff with Python, Roy, and Cunningham was honestly a really cool villain.

[@nathangothan601]

I guess I’m in the minority. I absolutely despised the soldier extract/army building loop of peace walker and MGSV.

[@neophenom]

I am glad I got this game on my PS Vita. Being able to use a second stick is awesome. A really under appreciated title.

[@evilryutaropro]

What I want from the portable ops remake: a peace walker remake

[@phantombigboss8429]

That's gross.

[@SchmuckAmok]

Portable Ops is an excellent buffer title between MGS3 and Peace Walker, both in terms of gameplay and story. It’s a nice blend of both, where the leap from 3 to PW without PO can be jarring

[@pasalasaga]

• Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops • Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker • Metal Gear Solid • Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty • Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of The Patriots • Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain - Director's Cut (Kojima involved) • "Metal Gear" or "Metal Gear Solid 0: Outer Heaven" (Kojima Involved) I don't think most of this is necessary really.

[@juliosilva2301]

Portal Ops should be an expansion/DLC for MGS Delta. A short story to build up the story to come in Peace Walker.

[@LeekLP]

POPS remake should just be an expansion to Delta. They can use most of the existing assets, just ignore the base building and fultoning mechanics and just retell the events in pretty

[@tootyrnt5533]

MPO was so ahead of its time. I truly believe that without it we wouldn't have had the base building mechanic as well as the solider recruitment systems that came out in later games (plus the multiplayer was awesome).

[@jasonknowing]

Coop would be a good idea I think as everyone always wants and expects multiplayer in games, whether for the better or not.

[@nahCyzar0520]

I think what you are talking about at 1:32 would be a Reimagining as it would likely need to add new areas and/or story.

[@plain_simple_garak]

I've always loved Portable Ops, it was my favorite game on the PSP, and I still have it on my Vita. It was very innovative at the time, including some fledgling online features where your PSP could find and trade soldiers with other players in IRL proximity if I recall correctly. I never got to test that out at the time because no one else I knew had the game, but I still remember thinking that was cool lol

[@Strider-Ragnarok]

I'll always defend Portable Ops 100%. People, fans and hard core fans really missed the point of how important this game is to the lore. This game was the missing link between MGS3 and MGS4. EDIT: I would like say that you're wrong by saying that Portable Ops isn't necessary to experience MGS. It clearly is and here is 3 main simple ones: 1) It was how FoxHound was created 2) It ends the Philosophers 3) It starts The Patriots.

[@phantombigboss8429]

What a strange hill to die on. lmao nostalgia is a hell of a drug.

[@Strider-Ragnarok]

@@phantombigboss8429 I provided my point of view with reasoning and facts about the game. You on the other hand, are regurgitating the same copy paste comment when someone have nothing to add to the conversation.

[@Vashkey]

Youre nuts if you think Portable Ops or even Peace Walker are getting remakes on the scale of MGS3. Thatd be like if Capcom decided to do a from the ground up remake of Resident Evil Revelations instead of Resident Evil 4. The whole point of this big ambitious remakea is to make bank on recognizable classics. Best you can hope for is an enhanced emulation in a Master Collection Vol 2

[@adamquenano8563]

Absolutely, I hope it appears in volume 2 of the collection similar to how Peace Walker was put on the ps3.

[@brandonperez8977]

Portable OPS deserves attention, Peace Walker uses some of it's features since Kojima mention that brought recruiting enemy soldiers idea for Portable OPS 23:02 got me off guard where you recorded that part of Campbell smiling while ranting

[@popatsot1]

PO was a great bridge to getting to Peace Walker. Including how BB met Grey Fox

[@phantombigboss8429]

Never happened that way.

[@popatsot1]

@@phantombigboss8429 Errr. Wasn't Null Grey Fox?

[@RazSofer-xh3qs]

Portable ops is the perfect bridge for Mgs 3 and peace walker of how and why Big Boss created MSF which is the foundation of his legacy

[@UnderTheSkin13]

They explained it. Sokolov used a fake death pill in his tooth just like snake before the 1.21 gigawatts did him in and revived later.

[@phantombigboss8429]

That's Non-canon.

[@st.anselmsfire3547]

Portable Ops, Peace Walker, and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake all suffer from being exclusives to weird platforms that no one played. It would be cool if they remade them all in chronological order, including the first game for the NES.

[@requiem-fractos]

Bro forgot about Johnny's ability to drag bodies faster

[@trogdorrules]

I think it would be awesome if they did a dual remake with Portable Ops/+ and Peace Walker, sort of like a Ground Zeroes/Phantom Pain situation, where you get bonuses based on your completion rate in PO that would roll over into PW

[@linusenglishtips7523]

This might be possible, Vol 2 has no files for Portable Ops, so by leaving it out they might want to cash in on redoing an unavailable and old game

[@SiliconSlyWolf]

The fulton system isn't realistic either. I think it was Yahtzee that said it was like Kojima went onto the wikipedia article and read the first paragraph (or so) and ran with it. The fulton system does NOT work how MGS portrays it. And I looked it up myself at the time, and that logic fits. Also, that's not even getting into a discussing how absurdly unrealistic the non-lethal systems in nearly if not all stealth games are. If you use tranquilizers, people would noticed and obviously become suspicious about a dart in their body. If you choke someone out, and they don't get back up in seconds, you've basically killed them. Also, if you do knock someone out without getting an alarm raised, it isn't basically lethal (such as a tranquilizer actually working as desired), but then don't lie down their body in a specific way to make sure they don't die choking on their own vomit, well, let's just say your solution to not having the fulton system is just as if not far more reasonable as anything else in the series. Also, the final nail in the coffin on discussions of not realistic being a stupid counter argument in MGS. Vamp. I rest my case.

[@kenalexbeyeler5282]

Reference - The Rock witch Kojima got the the idea for MGS from... :)

[@CNTconnoisseur]

The Fulton system is cool, but what if you also had the option to carry out a soldier? That would boost the soldier's loyalty and stats.

[@ismaill-0819]

Calling to the Night is one of the best MGS soundtrack 🤌

[@noselex3733]

I think they should combine these game doors into one remake Portable Ops & Peace Walker .

[@aled857]

Mgs 1 and 2 remake should be a package, remake both for one release, they are both small and would be good as a package

[@kwelan]

The story in portable ops should be told in a series of flashback style side ops in the peacewalker remake.