Best Metal Gear poll

amazing

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9m473uWalA

okay sure

AMAZING that they got the arms flapping animation it's like watching a dream.

I love all the self-referencing they do in Ground Zeroes to Kojima and his other stuff. The snatcher mission has some amazing remixed chiptune music cues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t60WHzQGm7w

That song "Creeping Silence", wow that is cool. Nice vibraphone samples in there!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNonpKKoh0A

I love how they mixed this, the kick drum is way up in front.

So yeah I've started to figure out this whole modding thing. Here I've swapped out birds for prisoners:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX6ScUwoExY&list=UUQ0yN_aOFfVZgHUeaUb2o_Q

I misread that description and thought it would be Hatoful Snakefriend

i jsut played thru mgs1 (up to disc 2 bc my friends got tired) with three people who had never played it, bc a friend insisted we play thme all together before he moves away. one HOLDS UP. i truly feel like i am one SPINAL FUNCTION away from going over the top about this game right now, so i'll reel it back, but goddamn i played it for WELL OVER AN HOUR and it was excellent.

bring it Will!!!

I bet you feel like some kind of legendary mercenary. MGS1 is still SOLID.

it's still my favorite, really wish they would do a port to a newer system.

Unreal. I expected it to feel dated and difficult to control, but goddamn if it didn't feel awesome. The onyl thing that is lacking, I guess, is that they didn't implement the somersault/roll until MGS2, I guess, so I had to stop myself from trying to press X just before getting to cover (and lying on the ground like a fuckin' lump every time). But once I got used to that, excellent.

The first SWolf fight is the only one I felt wasn't as good as I remembered. Felt kind of unfair at times. Virtually everything else is just as shiny and awesome as before. I really wish I'd had some other Konami game saves on the PS3 just to see that part of the game again too.

I always hated that Nikita missile part.

I am making a Ziggy Stardust texture mod for Big Boss stay tuned...

for some reason the one i remember the most is Vulcan Raven (had to look it up), sending remote-controlled missiles around through the boxes.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_GP2h-U8AEbD38.jpg

Time to get hyped

remember when we just announced things instead of announcing we were going to announce then

Well hopefully this isn't an announcement of another chicken hat or something.

September 1?

http://jogos.uol.com.br/videos/assistir.htm?video=metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain-04024E1B3168E4995326

Update: I started playing MGS2 (the hd re-texture from a couple years ago) last weekend with the same crew, two newbies and one who'd played it before.

It is insane. It still feels like a game that came out this year. And all of the themes are like ripped from the fucking headlines of now. WHY IS THIS GAME SO GREAT.

I might skip MGS3 during this series of marathons because we don't have a lot of weekends left before my buddy moves and I really want one of the guys to see MGS4. I know 3 is most people's fav but it's also SOOOO long iirc.

Also I don't think I realized in 1998 or whatever HOW MANY REFERENCES there are to MG1/MG2 in MGS!

there was some fan disappointment at the time due to the Raiden/Snake switcheroo, but i loved the hell out of MGS2 and its craziness. i'm thinking/hoping history has vindicated the game

and yeah, MG1/2/Solid/Sons are all reiterations of the same story, aren't they? m/l

I do definitely remember some blowback due to that, but honestly, the game wouldn't have worked if it were Snake. Like, the game ONLY works because it ISN'T snake. I remember by the time I finished it the first time, way back, I thought, "yeah... I'm okay with this being a new dude." Really excited to complete it again.

xp MGS1 and 2 are more or less, can't remember for MG1/MG2...

what about the alternative tradition where history has noticed these aren't really videogames /:

???

A fallout between Kojima Productions and its owning publisher, Konami, has led to senior staff at the studio being restricted access to corporate internet, emails, and phone, GameSpot understands.

Along with the restricted communications, key developers at the studio, such as Hideo Kojima, will now have limited opportunities to lend their appearance to promotions of the studio’s upcoming game, Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain.

Power struggles between Kojima Productions and Konami have convinced the publisher to make drastic changes, including amending the employee status of its Metal Gear team. Some senior staff at the studio, including Kojima, now essentially work as contractors, not permanent employees.

The extraordinary measures were revealed by a source within Konami, speaking to GameSpot on the condition of anonymity. The person explained that, once the Phantom Pain project is finished, in all likelihood the management at the studio will disband.

"After we finish MGSV, Mr. Kojima and upper management will leave Konami. They said their contract ends in December," the source claimed.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/kojima-expected-to-leave-konami-after-mgs5-inside-/1100-6426024/

RIP Konami?

Silver Gear Solid coming to an indie publisher near you in 2017

https://www.musterbrand.com/collections/metal-gear-solid/snake-leather-506

Pretty damn cool.

http://i.imgur.com/duxu7Uu.png

just needs a "!" above snake's head

not often am i pre-convinced that a game is gonna be my #1 for the year... but it's going to take some serious stumbles in this game's execution for me not to stick it at the top of my c+p ballot.

7. Buddy System (Crap on Command)

As you complete more missions with a Buddy, your relationship grows. For example, the Diamond Horse (called D-Horse) can defecate on command. It sounds silly (heck, it is silly) but you can use that manure to spin out enemies vehicles on the road.

call of duty did it first

Yeah this is def GOTY material, probably one of the best games of all time. Fox Engine looks great and plays AMAZING and the control is buttery smooth which is a long time coming for this series, which has always struggled with complicated and sometimes counter-intuitive controls.

It also seems very symbolic, sort of ending Konami's masterful career of console video games. The scene depicting the Mother Base raid when all hell breaks loose in "Ground Zeroes" is the stuff of really awesome big-budget action movie dreams, the kind hinted at in the box art for games like Contra and Metal Gear.

They finally have the technology to really make those crazy cutscenes come alive, the camera not even stopping between the cinematic pulp action and the player's control.

have to admit, i was wary of the cutscenes in ground zeroes after all i've heard about mgs4 but i didn't mind sitting through them at all cuz they looked amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RngF7QxzA7w

those horse turds are comically large

i just played through ground zeroes a couple times over this weekend, and guys, i think phantom pain might be the last great game ever

i MIGHT be being melodramatic, but seriously, with the amount they packed into that pre-game game and with the maelstrom of swan song-y pr and with how much i am playing thru 1-4 + peace walker this year (once each btw) i am geared up to just stick this whole medium on a boat and set it on fire after mgsvpp

i'm inspired by that, tempted to do the same, and I never played 3, 4 or Peace walker

3 is amazing play that before all the others. At least fight The End and make it to The Sorrow.

and then they release a trailer with a new order soundtrack

PHANTOM PAIN, STOP READING MY MIND

when you say play 3 before all the others, you mean before 4 & PW, right? surely not before MGS1...

3 is first chronologically ;)

If you've never played any of them I don't know which one I'd recommend I guess Ground Zeroes cos the control is best. I played the first NES one in the 80s but did not get far. Got hooked with MGS1 though.

working through them i have determined that there isn't a single game in the main series that has poor controls. Ground Zeroes possibly the worst to start with though because it's definitely the least representative of the "experience" of the other games (hyper-authored, rife with gonzo politics, etc.) plus if you haven't played 1 how are you supposed to enjoy the secret bonus mission Deja Vu?!

The end theme music for MGS1 is beautiful.

The death screen in MGS too.

damn

http://me.ign.com/en/metal-gear-solid-5/108073/video/metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain-e3-gameplay-de