Metal Gear Solid V: Deeper Than Hell

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

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[@theonlybilge]

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[@maulkiller10]

Did you know the psycho mantis actually like you actually take control of psychometrics as well in the beginning of the game you can tell cuz if you look very closely you can see a psycho mantis has a horn on his head like just like snake

[@Serphilith]

Hey man, I like these videos but the playlist is in reverse order and I'd like to share it to people that want to learn about MGS. Keep up the great videos!

[@isipindinossaurs6004]

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[@HopperGameDevelopment-x4r]

Whoever did the voice work for Master Miller needs more than a medal. They should be knighted or something. He has some of the most cheesiest lines ever, and yet, it always sounds epic.

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

Robin Atkin Downes. I believe he actually did some soldier voices in MGS3 as well.

[@lurkinlittlesquares6691]

Really sad to see him be a best bro in peace walker and ending up how he was in phantom pain and just so broken down and darker

[@XantusWolf]

@@YourFavoriteSon1 I just love his voice and acting. As Luxord in Kingdom Hearts or Riddler in batman telltale 2 *w *

[@Ihateyoutubeupdates]

He is medic from TF2 for me

[@elidasilva5558]

​@@YourFavoriteSon1Travis Touchdown himself

[@DamonVerial]

I played mgs5 in front of my ex-girlfriend, and I remember her saying, in response to actual gameplay (not cutscenes), "This is just like a movie." I'm sure that's what Kojima wants to hear.

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

That was the real goal all along

[@monlei1020]

MGS5 was more of a TV show, honestly

[@venweasel]

Somewhere, Kojima just shed a tear.

[@MacInTheBox]

​@@YourFavoriteSon1it was the real medals we geared along the way

[@RedHornSSS]

She probably meant all the spy shits you can do too

[@sergantanthony216]

A thing I don't see people talking about is that when Venom Snake punches the mirror the image of Diamon Dog on the door behind him changes to the skull of Outer Heaven

[@benfranklincatappleshark]

Whoa really?

[@Beeyo176]

There should've been a mission, after you get D-Dog, to go extract a veterinarian.

[@Yeshua_is-Cool]

That would have been nice

[@influxcomics]

Technically you do. You pick up Zoologists and DD is a wolf, not a dog. So it all works out in the end

[@savvygl]

He extracted a whole school of veterans

[@masterblaster831]

When big boss turned out to be all the friends I made on the way. That's when I knew it was a masterpiece

[@cobaingrohlnovo]

I’m big boss…and so are you

[@nickoftime5759]

@@cobaingrohlnovo no, he’s the two of us together.

[@DoktorDaytha]

What are we? Some kind of Outer Heaven?

[@Lionheart683]

We are all made of ash. We are Diamond Dogs.

[@everia_games]

​@@DoktorDaytha no we are diamond dogs

[@NekoHibaCosplay]

THREE AND AN HALF FUCKING HOURS? My God son, you're a diamond

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

You're all diamonds

[@redomagnus4762]

He’s your god-son?

[@NekoHibaCosplay]

@@redomagnus4762 forgot a comma, my bad

[@AngriestPeanut]

Reddit! Updoot this man! ☝️🤓

[@chillnagasden6190]

Painfully slowly recounting the plot of a game while pointlessly diverting to fucking *PT* for a few minutes and then adding pseudowank is not hard. It's quite easy.

[@2012lolwing]

My son a three hour video I get to enjoy while I work. Thank you

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

Thanks for watching!

[@evanrocco8192]

I was really shocked the first time I finished the true ending of MGSV and it turned out that Big Boss was KingCobra all along.

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

Bold move by Kojima

[@evanrocco8192]

@@YourFavoriteSon1 It makes sense in hindsight. They both love nicotine, deep lore, and rambling, barely comprehensible dialogues.

[@lordfizzz]

That's what's up

[@MoonBeamLaser]

TMDWU toobs

[@cutthr0atjake]

I realised we weren't playing as snake right at the start in the tutorial mission. This was partly because I'd played MGS2 when it first came out & I remembered Kojima's bait & switch with Raiden. However, it was mainly because I recognised Ishmael was voiced by Keifer Sutherland.

[@MetalAddict247]

This MGS series has been my favourite content I’ve seen on the platform thank you so much for your efforts man

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

Glad you've enjoyed the series! Probably been my favorite to cover so far.

[@CorruptNover]

Everyone's probably seen it but, imo, Steak Bentley's, "Metal Gear Solid 4 was a mistake" is an undying classic on KZbin. Sorry, @YourFavoriteSon1... Still love your retrospective!

[@roolaing]

I don’t think Kojima’s storytelling is cohesive, but it is intriguing. I want it to complete, and resolve, but it never does. It’s like jazz. Themes upon themes. Makes you think there is loads there, but you’re left with a feeling of smoke and mirrors and wizard of Oz. So convoluted, and utterly preposterous in its literal names and crazy characters. Yet, we love this absurd world he has built. Ridiculous and wonderful.

[@Rietto]

The man's a mad genius, for sure.

[@maskingtables]

That's only MGSV... The rest of the saga is very cohesive.

[@roolaing]

@@maskingtables that makes sense as he wanted to tie up the series earlier… but I would argue that the previous MGSs had crazy plot developments and characters that didn’t really go anywhere as well. As cool as they were! Death Stranding is mad as a box of frogs too ☺️

[@chipe420]

Smoke and mirrors… yeah it’s a game about espionage! It is designed to feel maddening. Have you ever tried to look into what intelligence agencies actually do? The fact that Kojima is able to SHOW us the smoke and mirrors rather than just TELL us, is god tier storytelling

[@rogerdalzell]

bit long of a post for you just personally not having a good time with metal gears story. its very cohesive, and very easy to follow lol

[@RipZoe]

i played this game start to finish like 5 times while I was serving in Germany then my friend (he was a huge metal gear fan) was like "you never played the others??" turned me onto the series so i played mgs1 and then 2, but when i got to 3 i was like "IM PLAYING VENOM SNAKE" the ending of MGSV TOTALLY flew over my head because i just never payed that much attention. Watching you talk about this games has only confirmed that these games have quite the dope story i still wish we could get Metal gear solid rising 2 :( PS: if you have not played Death Stranding i recommend it, I no lifed it on my last deployment and was not disappointed!! I super excited to see what game Kojima Productions makes next!

[@wheezer6695]

I'm extremely amazed at the real-life actions affecting gameplay, it being the extensive roads traveled and paved by players' footfalls.

[@skyace9386]

I know what I'm watching/listening to tomorrow at work.

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

Enjoy!

[@zomebody5529]

Every job should allow you to wear earpods

[@Black_Emmanius_Prime]

​@@zomebody5529 Nah, a lot of places are stupid and stuck in the last century.

[@Gringle9coolguy]

​@@Black_Emmanius_Prime real, was allowed to wear them for about a month and a half and then the "policies" changed, and then they questioned me about my productivity dropping and simply didn't believe me 💀, I wear them still for the most part I just take them out when I see a boss/managers but my productivity went back up a bit so they aren't on my ass about that anymore 😅

[@Mirvana]

28:22 Fun Fact: Because of technological leaps over the previous games/hardware, in the "Eliminate the Renegade Threats" mission, there's a tactic you could only do on the "next gen" versions of Ground Zeroes. The draw distance went out far enough that with a sniper rifle, you could actually see both targets at their starting locations from the hill near the helicopter drop point and take them out. On the older systems, one was too far aware to render and couldn't be shot.

[@AnalogFunktion]

“Here’s to You by Sacco e Vanzetti begins playing.” That threw me off. The song was composed by Ennio Morricone & Joan Baez for the Sacco e Vanzetti movie. Ennio really deserves a name credit being an influential genius from all his works most notably - his scores for the Clint Eastwood / Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns Dollars Trilogy. Ecstasy of Gold. Etc.

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

Thank you for pointing this out. Somehow this slipped by me because I meant to change this when recording. Too many details.

[@AnalogFunktion]

@@YourFavoriteSon1 totally understandable with the long form content.

[@GG_MYDAWG]

It threw me off too, thanks for telling 🙏

[@MaximusAP]

Great video but the chopper in GZ is called Morpho ☝️🤓

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

damn...you're right

[@dylanv.4970]

Pour one out for our boy Morpho 😢 lost during the explosion of the bomb in Paz

[@ashdonsimmons01]

rip morpho

[@wheezer6695]

​@@dylanv.4970Morpho's the man

[@cocoabeans5792]

This channel has become one of my absolute favourites over the last few months. Keep going, son.

[@datguyuno98]

Mission 43: Shining Lights, Even in Death lives in my mind as the greatest moment in all of Metal Gear and quite possibly one of the best moments in all of gaming

[@KotoCrash]

MGSV was already pushing the limit of the tech that should be available at the time, which was a shame after MGS3, but honestly Sahelanthropus takes the cake. Not just the idea that a giant robot (manned by one person too, that bothers me) exists in the 80s - but MG1-MGS4 had a good building of the tech over time. Big computer to Rex to Ray to all the stuff happening in 4. But now we're meant to believe there was a goddamn Gundam up and running years and years before the first title? The fact we also have no canon answer to what happened to it and Liquid is just icing on the cake. It's just a bridge too far.

[@Scoopsdepoop]

You don't need it explained because obviously Liquid survived, Sahelanthropus never truly worked. It was puppeted by the 3rd child

[@strugglesnuggledslime7040]

I think Peace Walker was far worse in that respect.

[@wheezer6695]

Cipher (that being Zero) would most assuredly have censored as much as possible using any forces available to destroy evidence and melt the rest. In PW people believed the tech Huey dev'd were alien spacecraft. MGSV? Due to the censorship of the time under the USSR, and the strife in Africa against one faction and another, the Walker Gears and Sahelanthropus would've been lost to time through the pen and the sword.

[@Gringle9coolguy]

It all blew up when you destroy the base in Metal Gear, yes the literal first title in the series, and all of the tech was lost too

[@mediumchicago_pizza]

there’s deleted content that has u going to rescue liquid and destroy the big robot. if u look it up on youtube i think there’s a cutscene lol

[@johnecoapollo7]

A Diamond of a Son, one could say. Well done, my boy

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

you're all diamonds

[@ipfaffy]

Literally changed plans to be able to watch this today- I love your retrospectives and MGS is a great series-thanks for this!

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

I'm honored

[@StendhalSyndrm]

Sweet, now we only need this entire review saga in 1, +24 hours video Great work reviewing this series, great content and great channel.

[@RaptieFeathers]

Being able to play as a woman in the game-even though it was incongruous with the story beats-was freaking awesome. My Snake is a badass chick everywhere but the cutscenes and it makes the game extra special to me

[@getbuckposse]

Inclusion is the opposite of straight

[@raidenvakarian9362]

Ocelot: I gotta ask... And, uh, don't take this the wrong way, but... Have you always had breasts? Snake: ...................... Ocelot: I'm gonna pretend that's a yes.

[@cesarcarneiro1498]

If ur on pc i think theres a mod that allows to use another characters in cutscenes

[@ZERODIS0]

I guess this is a hot take idk but I think kiffer Sutherland is the best choice for big boss /venom. No hate on David, but kiffer’s rougher older voice just fits.

[@booradley6832]

David Hayter should have been the recording at the end from the REAL big boss. It would have made it all make perfect sense. He doesnt sound identical because he's not.

[@Gringle9coolguy]

​@@booradley6832that would have been beautiful and I feel alot of players would then understand the actual ending of the game

[@drunkensailor112]

There is no big boss in mgs v. You never see him or play him. That's why they went with sutherland.

[@ZERODIS0]

@ your wrong. He was big boss. If you don’t understand that, then you don’t understand big boss’s will in the phantom pain.

[@drunkensailor112]

@@ZERODIS0 no. The entire game you play as venom snake. Not the big boss. Did you even see the ending?

[@Kmiller5515]

Small correction at 20:11 the helicopter is actually called morpho, peaquad is the name of the chopper in phantom pain. Great video regardless though.

[@Link2edition]

even smaller correction: Pequod

[@BrickTree]

Absolutely awesome video. MGS:V holds a special place in my heart.

[@laparkagames9277]

I love Kojima anime (MGS, MGS2, MGS3, MGS4), but I absolutely love Kojima dark (MGSV, P.T)

[@aliasjones7252]

Death Stranding is both

[@MrFraynejames]

"Snake" lost his arm. Kojima loves to makes up think we're playing Snake.

[@MGASKELL]

This was my 2nd Metal Gear game, after Ground Zero. Will always have a special place in my heart.

[@Kn_nick]

This video was incredible as is every other video in your metal gear series, this is my favorite game of all time hands down and when I realized the connection to the original metal gear game I felt like a child again, putting all those pieces together and with this game filling the potholes just made Metal Gear Feel Complete to me

[@bebopblue]

I have played hours of MGSV on both PS3 and PS4 having platinum both. I revisited the game once again, because of the 9 years meme, now on PC. The gameplay was so fine tuned that I am instantly able to get use of the controls right away.

[@KBXband]

I think the big twist is the reason that they didn't want David hayter playing snake again. His voice is way too recognizable to be the... other guy on the helicopter... even if they pitch-shifted it.

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

I agree, I just think there are ways they still could've used him. Once the cat's out of the bag, just have him voice the final tape.

[@ThousandairesClub]

*the only thing missing from Phantom Pain is the ability to capture soldiers in one region and drop them off in an enemies region to watch them fight for their lives* 😂

[@Yeshua_is-Cool]

That would have been funny

[@gamerboy6787]

Thank you, son. Thank you. 3 and a half hrs. I can't even begin to imagine how long this video must have taken you. Or this entire MGS series. Thank you.

[@thefearofg0ds758]

3:07:27 While I do think the speculations of MGSV being unfinished have been greatly exaggerated, I do believe Kojima was forced to wrap things up quicker than he would have liked and thus didn't get to fully realize his vision. There are scenes in the trailer that aren't present in the final game and it's hinted that you were meant to return to the Black site at some point with Kojima mentioning something that "can only be possible in a video game" that he was really excited for everyone to see. And while I do believe the story itself IS fantastic(glad to see someone else who can see this) the tail end is a clear indication of Kojima having to rush to the end credits. Even the timeline thing at the end credits just seemed kind of thrown together as a last ditch effort to provide cohesion.

[@FisterNightly]

Sooooooo ready for the death stranding video already lol great video, son

[@thequestion2859]

I would love just a little animated movie or short depicting some of the things Venom did as Big Boss in the years between Phantom Pain and the original Metal Gear

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

Honestly most of Metal Gear would work really well in the anime format.

[@nickoftime5759]

“I won’t scatter your sorrow to the heartless sea. I will always be with you.” 😢 gets me every time.

[@fireflocs]

I disagree with the notion that the story we got in the final game was conclusive for Eli. Everything was wrapped up BUT him. And no, I don't mean his encounter with the parasites - I mean what happened to him between this game and MGS1. The last we see of Eli in MGSV, he is on Mother Base, in Venom Snake's custody. He clearly has a chip on his shoulder, but is somewhat cooperating with Diamond Dogs, albeit in a way that clearly is not going to last. The next time we see him, he's a FOXHOUND operative leading a rebellion against the US government (and the secret cabal that controls the world as a whole) in MGS1. No follow-up about his relationship with Venom or DD, no connecting tissue, not even him leaving the base. There is NOTHING in MGSV to connect that stage of Liquid's life with what his life has become in MGS1. By contrast, the cut mission, where he teams up with Psycho Mantis, leaves Diamond Dogs (and Venom Snake), and swears vengeance on the world at large? Yeah, that connects to the Liquid Snake we see in MGS1. And it does so in a way that is satisfying and emotionally resonant. Aside from that though, yeah, the game's ending is fine as is. It's just Eli that's left hanging.

[@Dominus4776]

I absolutely love Quiet as a character. The cutscene after you capture her and head back to MB is one of my favorites in all of gaming

[@Yeshua_is-Cool]

It is a nice one the cinematography in this game is great

[@emilianohermosilla3996]

The fact that you even reviewed mgs survive (which I had completely forgotten it existed 💀) is commendable, man. Great video!

[@SoundWaveSam]

" Sometimes coincidence creates stronger sentiments than purpose. " That's...very well said. I'm gonna remember that for a long time.

[@Joshm5396]

Awesome video man, hard to avoid just doing a plot recap for this game but you did a great job tying it all into the themes of the game and not just the call backs to the rest of the serious 10/10

[@thequestion2859]

I fucking love this game, im so happy the anniversary is getting everyone in the spirit of its celebration

[@The-Anti-Midas]

I just watched your Tony Hawk video the other day and now you upload a long MGSV video right after I finish my new playthrough? My new favorite KZbinr.

[@ghostwalkergaming5856]

This game is simply addicting. Although the story may be undercooked/unfinished it more than makes up for it with it's enthralling dynamic gameplay. The sheer number of ways you can approach missions is insane. 2 people can play the same mission and have 2 vastly differen't experiences. This is peak stealth gameplay.

[@Caindacu]

Incredible video! I've been waiting for this one for a while.

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

Hope you enjoyed it!

[@ryanmckm7368]

...what if Strangelove called for the inspection? Huey was just supporting the mother of his child? Blaming everyone but himself because he couldn't blame his partner?

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

That's possible. The game doesn't really give us a definitive answer, so really anything could be true.

[@wowie-ree131]

Shining Lights, Even in Death makes me wanna die every time, I have to speedrun it and constantly make jokes otherwise it tears me down, so good.

[@henrik1743]

Hell yeah finally!!! My favorite MGS. Took me a couple of tries and retries and sittings; but when it clicks... perfection. Its also insanely well optimized yet looks amazing. Fox engine is incredible

Ground Zeroes was the ambience apex - if you really go into the details, watch the tapes and so forth, you get enamored by the atmosphere of a Mother Base you didn't even see yet. It does outstanding work, if you put in the time, to make you care about the characters. I really got invested into the themes and it was my first ever MGS game.

[@giovanegas5710]

Amazing video, I’ve waited for someone to make a breakdown as in depth and lovingly made for this game for years. Thank you!

[@sushrutpathy3171]

3 hours, long enough to enjoy a solid cigar to. Great job with the vid my guy.

[@TheLostVenom]

THREE. AND A HALF. I'm here and down for it. Good boy!

[@b.937]

Absolutely incredible video! I discovered the channel a few days ago, and I’m so delighted to be reintroduced to this world. MGS V is one of my favorite games of all time, and, man... it’s so odd that even after all these years, some of the tech used here can’t be found in other spy/war games even nowadays. Kojima and the team really cooked SO HARD in this game.

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

Really disappointed that the Fox Engine just got completely scrapped. It had so much potential, but its seems "In house" engines are just going by the wayside at this point.

[@sergantanthony216]

I just finished your reviews of the other games yesterday so this video came at a perfect time

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

Glad you like the series!

[@EmmaBonn96]

1:59:20 while these child soldiers probably aged up into some of the soldiers you fought in metal gear 2 Its interesting to see their connection to the children in Zanzibar land

[@mgxzazfbyjuchrisclarkvpz236]

One of the disappointments I had with Phantom Pain is that none of its bases were even close to being as good as Camp Omega, not just from a gameplay standpoint but even with it's related story. There were less cutscenes, audio recordings, documents etc. If Phantom Pain had just two bases like that, one in Afghanistan and the other in Africa, it would've made a huge difference.

[@ExtremeGameplays1]

You couldn't have dropped this at a better time. Finna have a field day with watching this now at 1AM.

[@Johann-BVB]

Just finished the MGS4 video, perfect Timing!🎉

[@thunderstorm86239]

MGSV is my favorite game of all time, not just because of the gameplay, the story is great too. A lot of people dont like it, and it's very controversial due to david hayter not voicing snake, the kojima-konami split, etc. Gameplay-wise, the combination of GZ and TPP really feel like the ultimate metal gear game. Controls are some of the best in *any* 3rd person shooter game both for console and pc. Story-wise though, TPP seems closer to MGS2, making the player part of the game's story: YOU are (the phantom of) big boss, YOU recruited an army of soldiers from the battlefield, and YOU disarmed every single nuke in the world. And thats why I love it. I've got damn near 500 hours in this game and I'm not afraid to put in 500 more.

[@virado255]

While I know it's only fan content, there was a comic that came out just after MGSV "Last Day in Outer Heaven" and it serves as a nice punctuation to the end of MG1 with the new context we have.

[@TheSSBBfan666]

thats a great tie in fan comic, think even Kojima loved it

[@vivsavagex]

ive been shouting my love for this game for 9 years now.. easily in my top 3 of all time if not my favorite of all time. my backlog of games is so long that i felt guilty starting a 3rd playthrough of a game this big but the heart wants what the heart wants and im having just as much fun as my original run.

[@MK93ish]

Thank you for those 3 hours, it got me through work today

[@Koifin3]

It’s very nice to see that in ground zeros you can actually see V shield BB at the end and that it’s not some random thing that happens without you knowing it for sure.

[@Miss._Jellyfish_]

I had just burnt out on listening to your Yakuza video series over and over again at work and I remembered this game exists, looked it up, and imagine my surprise when I saw you had just uploaded this. 😂

[@theazureknight9399]

Kingdom of the Flies not only clears up how Eli got rid of the parasites, it also ties up the massive loose end of what happened to giant nuclear walking death mobile that got stolen. This is still the 80s in universe, Metal Gear proliferation hadn't happened yet. A psychotic teenage clone of Big Boss along with a kid with magical powers have control over a fully functional Metal Gear, this obviously should have had massive repercussions in the plot, and without episode 51 it all just gets ignored by the timeline. I strongly disagree that it's unnecessary for the story of the game.

[@davidstinger1134]

I personally liked Venom's no nonsense attitude in the face of the endless awful attempts at humor that MGS (and Japanese media in general) try to shove everywhere. Not as bad as ironic Marvel humor but it was refreshing to finally play as someone who behaves like a soldier. Also appreciate things like letting you shoot Quiet since its actually the logical thing to do in such a situation. Shame you couldnt do the same with the child soldiers but I think that would have warranted an AO rating.

[@Loli-Knight]

Not finishing things with Eli, kid-Mantis, and the Metal Gear was an absolute SIN. Sure, the rest of the main story was wrapped up, but that particular Metal Gear is a doomsday weapon with how advanced it is so long as kid-Mantis is around to help pilot it. It existing literally changes the future since nothing could stand up to such a beast outside of nukes (and even those might not work since kid-Mantis could just psychically disabled them as they're launched at them). So it not being taken care of kind of screws with the timeline from a power balance/technological point of view. Having that final fight with Eli would also help explain his absolutely seething rage he has against Big Boss later in the series (because what we see of him interacting with us in 5 REALLY isn't enough to explain his hate). I don't think there's a SINGLE player on the planet, even among those who think the game is perfect, who didn't reach the end of the game and go "wait, what about Eli and the Metal Gear"? It's such an obvious missing element.

[@viper1724]

Sins of the Father... Kojima is the Father of the MGS series. Not finishing Eli's story could be one of his sins. Was it intended? 🤔

[@wheezer6695]

Me admittedly, I was on the YongYea hate train back in the day if any of you remember, on Konami, on this game all of it. I liked the game back then gameplay wise, aesthetics, being able to visit mother base and track your animal conservation progression, and being able to see the faces you "recruited" from the battlefield. Up until some years back I believed it didn't have any story but with the extended and constant assistance of Futurasound Productions and I think PsychoSelkan I realized that MGSV is legitimately the deepest game I've ever played... something as simple as Cipher being of multiple meanings but uttered as if you're supposed to understand who it truly means when said.

[@ovechkkin8]

Such a good game, thanks son

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

Hope you enjoy the video!

[@HadesWTF]

As someone who kept saying "You should do Metal Gear Solid" like 3 years ago, I feel a sense of false pride. I'll shut up now, do videos on whatever you want.

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

I remember that! I always wanted to do videos on the series, just waited for the right time.

[@christopheraustin5915]

A bit of pop culture history crossover that I think about a bunch is how modern toys as we know it are the way they are because of the invasion of Afghanistan featured in MGS5; oil prices rose due to scarsity at the time, and this meant less petroleum for making plastic toys. As a consequence, Hasbro relaunched GI Joe as a smaller 6-inch figure, with an emphasis on larger, more expensive vehicles you could put the figures in. Japan licensed these smaller toy designs and created various toylines like Henshin Robo and Microchange. The accessory vehicles in Microchange could transform into pilotable robots. Hasbro would eventually import these toys to make Transformers. Now for the interesting part: The inciting event for the Transformers storyline is that two warring factions made a foreign land their battlefield as it held the natural resources necessary for facilitating their war. Sound familiar? A lot of media over the years has leaned into the parallels between the imperialistic premise of Transformers and the Russian invasion of Afghanistan. The IDW comic series that ran from 2005 to 2018 is most notable b/c the latter half of the series had the war end and the characters, many of whom were brought online during the war, had to reckon with who they were as people when the conflict that defined their entire existence was over. This is made complicated by the fact their home planet (which is established as necessary for their means of reproduction) is nearly uninhabitable and lacks infrastructure, most of the galaxy has a shoot-on-sight policy thanks to the fact the war ran for longer than most civilizations alive today have existed, and most of the cybertronian population **literally have guns for hands*. Really good read; I hope Hasbro gets their stuff in order because it's getting harder and harder to find those comics.

[@protoaltus]

If Rising, Sekiro and Doom were my favourites, this damn masterpiece is one I want to be immersed in. 100+ hours in yet it feels like I have not even scratched its infancy. Speaks volumes of the work put in, especially felt now cause I'm afraid... its been nine years.

[@Smitty_Werbenjagermanjensen111]

Im thankful i still have PT on my ps4.

[@Cosmicshambler]

When was the last time you actually played it

[@Smitty_Werbenjagermanjensen111]

@@Cosmicshambler over a year 😂. It feels special and I liked introducing my brother and friend to what could’ve been and seeing their reactions 😂.

[@Cosmicshambler]

@@Smitty_Werbenjagermanjensen111 unless its jailbroken you might screwed cause i heard that firmware updates under konamis request made the game unplayable even if its installed

[@davegibbon]

This video is 210 minutes of perfection

[@RoweGames-w8t]

On my way to work and just got a new video to listen too, thanks son

[@User71956]

I’ve really taken a liking to D-Walker as a buddy recently since it’s essentially a “all in one” type of buddy. Search mode does d-dogs job. The basilisk launcher turns ALL tank missions into a breeze. You can fit a rocket launcher so you don’t have to constantly call in a missile launcher to take out helicopters. I use the basilisk launcher in Afghanistan and the rocket launcher in Africa, and to top it off its driving mode takes care of my transportation needs. It’s the perfect all-in-one buddy. Although, I do like to have quiet clear out guard posts while I’m driving to my next mission and listening to the story cassette tapes. She “plays the game for me” and I’m parked just outside of guard posts taking the story in lol

[@pelosarch]

Another good job Son, glad to see you're good and keeping keeping on. Keep up the great work!

[@meursault7030]

This channel has criminally low engagement for the standard of quality it represents. You're on your way to the top, son.

[@onatgz]

dear mr. son, thx for the series. i haven't watched the 4th one because i haven't had the chance to play mgs4. i've managed to avoid most spoilers, i think (hope). i do own the game though, maybe i'll rent a ps3 for a weekend or something. anyways, it's good to see that kojima tried something striking even with the 5th game (the open world gameplay being not braindead and the part with child soldiers are the first two things that come to mind). still, i do think that kojima didn't have the chance to make the game he wanted with this one. i believe most players feel the "phantom pain" of what could've been, that's why most people think the game is a letdown. i don't mean it in a sense that the game is incomplete or something. it's just that, it feels barren and disjointed sometimes. and players actually feeling the phantom pain of that is so meta and genius that i'm almost convinced that it's intentional. it honestly comes into and out of my headcanon consantly. althoug it could be a convenient coping mechanism as well, i guess. anyways. best regards,

[@Calmind92]

I hope Konami regularly changed the sheets, because they really shit the bed often.

[@rudySTi]

Almost past the halfway point. Great video. Back when I played it I thought the game would have a complete 100 missions wrapping up all the stories ( or expanding on them more ) and making it the greatest game of all time, what it ended up being is still an absolute gem Update: Finished the video. Another piece of great work. Proud of you son!

[@Queen_Coda]

Great video and congrats on the sponsor, son. Mommas proud of you

[@ijustfelldown]

The mission to save Mother Base from the enemy captain just makes *that* mission much more personal.

[@raidenvakarian9362]

I respect your opinion that the story is a masterpiece, but I still don't agree with it at all. I think that the IDEAS the game is trying to convey are truly great, but the way it goes about doing so just doesn't work for me at all. It's hard to get invested in, say, Skull Face giving a big speech about destroying lingua franca while Snake is just awkwardly staring at him. It's hard to find it in me to care about Quiet's feelings for Snake when she developed those feelings in basically 1 cutscene. And worst of all, I hate the idea that the last Metal Gear game was spent not on showing Big Boss' descent into villainy, not on bridging the gap between Peace Walker and MG1, but on entirely unrelated stuff that ultimately doesn't matter in the grand scheme of the franchise. You could say that this is intentional so that we would feel the "phantom pain" of the far more interesting and better told story we could have gotten, but personally, I'd say it was simply bad. Maybe because of Kojima's bad decisions, maybe because of Konami pulling the plug early, maybe both. Either way, I don't think MGS5 has a good story at all, but merely a shadow of one, a phantom.

[@Timebomb_19]

I completely agree and skull face as a villain is the perfect example of the quality of this game’s story: groundbreaking in concept, meh in execution.

[@Scoopsdepoop]

THEY LITERALLY CONNECT Peace Walker to MG1.

[@davidstinger1134]

Big Boss wasnt a villain, just a cynical warmonger which he already was at the end of PW. I swear almost no MGS fan has played MG1 and 2.

[@juli123gameking]

Totally correct. I don't understand how players can like this story, when Big Boss' final descent is never explained ... this is so weird to me. It's the only relevant point that needs to be explained and it just isn't.

[@nickoftime5759]

I keep hoping someday I’ll turn on my PS4 and get a 10GB update for MGSV…. 🤞🏻

[@cesarcarneiro1498]

That would be the dream

[@AnAverageGoblin]

I fucking LOVE MGSV. its overrhated by fanboys that hate new things. its Raiden all over again, except now we don't have a future title that makes people get over being wrong.

[@AnAverageGoblin]

@@Fami_Salami Not really. it doesn't exist. manufactured.

[@AnAverageGoblin]

@@Fami_Salami Yeah that is weird.

[@rtyuik7]

3:15:33 - "...but lets hammer Down In On those..." whoa, thats a lot of consecutive prepositions...

[@diddyknux]

"Through Snake's eyes." Eye. :P Fantastic analysis video, seriously though. I also watched your Death Stranding video. You do good stuff here.

[@Veowolf5847]

Great video just want to point out that Paz is revealed to be 34yrs old during Peace Walker in one of her cassette tapes

[@goatzillalachevre2356]

Ten seconds in, and I'm already reminded why you're my favorite son

[@YourFavoriteSon1]

Hope you enjoy the video!

[@thegrayone5666]

Small correction. But didnt the 6th gen launch at almost 50 dollars? On fifth gen ground zeroes was 30, but 40 on ps4/xb1 when it had first come out. That was a big part of where peope questioned the value of what was basicslly a demo. I dont believe i saw what it did in MGS5 but that was back on ps3. It may have been a matter of i had forgotten. But i do remember there was supposed to be something you got out of it. Depending on whst it was thst was promised, it really was a paid demo. Something that prior really never had happened before, and as such, people had some reservations.

[@RileyScarletSpiderGirl]

MGSV was my first and favourite MGS gane it's super special to me and I'll always love it.

[@neofromthewarnerbrothersic145]

Ah, to go back to the days of Ground Zeroes... When MGSV was still just a world of untold possibilities. I loved GZ, replayed all the different missions and tried to find/do everything. I was so unbelievably hyped for MGSV. I grew up with MGS, I loved how each entry took chances and did something different. MGSV was _mostly_ everything I wanted in terms of gameplay, and the story was fine... but almost felt like a different universe from the rest of the series. All in all it was a great game and I loved playing it, had a lot of fun with MGO for awhile... but it wasn't quite the finale I hoped it would be. MGS4 is still the finale, MGSV is just extra.

[@davidstinger1134]

How the hell would MGSV ever be a finale when it's a prequel? The story's finale was always MGS4.

[@neofromthewarnerbrothersic145]

@@davidstinger1134 yeah lol finale is the wrong word for the story. I meant it as the final MGS game we were getting. "Send-off" would have been a better word choice. Also I think people were hoping some story threads would be cleaned up with MGSV, and some blanks would be filled in like a finale would do. And it kinda did, but I couldn't get into the story or characters of MGSV at all. It just felt like too much of an alternate universe from the rest of the series.

[@IvanBeTerrible]

Ive attempted to play this game 2 times already and could not for the life of me get into it. But! I have had a strong inkling to try again lol

[@MartynJamieson9]

I have recently just started to replay this game and realised just how good it is I don't think I fully appreciated it at the time I bought it back in 2015 it was but when it was about to release I didn't realise it would be the last ever Hideo Kojima helmed mgs game so it's his swan song to the series. I believe this game has unbelievably good production values and outstanding graphics and sound design to this day and the best controls of the series I also do like the Venom Snake/Medic twist as it makes absolute sense why the voice change was made as much as I wasn't happy about it at the time (as to me Hayter Is Snake) when I first played But now makes sense as its not the real Big Boss. To me the more confusing voice change and character of mgsv is Ocelot he doesn't even seem like the same character we have all come to know I get his voice changed before in MGS3 but I didn't mind that as much for some reason I just didn't take to Troy Bakers version of the character normally he is damn good at any character he voices but here in the Phantom Pain it just sounds like Troy is speaking in his normal voice and doesn't really try to sound like a Ocelot or he might occasionally might shout a bit or raise his voice but it jus doesn't suit the character and Ocelot just I don't know feels very off in general in it in MGSV I understand that the character has more faces than a town hall clock as he's usually triple crossing everybody's he is working for so you can't really trust a thing he says or does. I am guessing this was done intentionally by Kojima and he's definitely supposed to feel off and out of place I have a theory that Medic/King Cobra would have spent so much time on motherbase that period of time he would know exactly how everyone he knows sounds despite being in a coma for 9 years he still would remember how Paz, Kaz, Huey, etc sounds but for Ocelot am guessing he doesn't know him and the medic is just audibly putting a generic voice to him and imagining how he sounds kind of like how AI Campbell in MGS2 2 is in part Raidens own creation cobbled together from his own experience and expectations. Maybe it's a Similar situation with Venom he's just imagining how he perceives Ocelot to sound. I could be wrong entirely but I think it makes sense thinking of it that way

[@MartynJamieson9]

Also I didn't realise until recently that Kojima and Hayter didn't get along so much so Kojima had wanted rid of Hayter so much that he actually made him audition for the role in Mgs3. I don't understand why as Hayter is the main reason most of us became the fans of the Snake character we are today . Unless Kojima never intended Snake to be defined by a single vocal performance. That said am glad Koiija allowed him to voice Snake in mgs4 one last time although he is back for delta which is great news :)

[@francescopayan1372]

just in time for my drive back to Houston 😮thank you bro

[@abenjico]

I used to fall asleep to your fable videos when I was really ill Thank you for another three hours son

[@eeebee6166]

My biggest gripe with the game is the weapon development. To get the stuff at the end is practically impossible and far too tedious to realistically do for the vast majority. You have to farm player bases over and over for the top tier soldiers to have a shot and it gets very boring very fast. Not to mention the online is dead at this point