Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Zero Punctuation)
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This week, Zero Punctuation reviews Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
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_"The three leads are all Grim, Growly Men Growling Grimly"_
*Brilliant*.
That's not entirely fair. The main antagonist is also a grim, growly man growling grimly.
You the huniepop guy?
Don't forget that hamburger that kaz designed thinking it would solve world hunger
That's a good band name
Isn't that an Alliteration?
I started playing this game, and it is hands-down one of the funniest games I've ever played.
Not because there were jokes to be had, but because through all of the weirdness and crazy outlandishness (and there is a LOT of weirdness and crazy outlandishness) the characters play it 100% completely straight, totally serious.
So they're like Michael Caine in _The Muppet Christmas Carol_ except not intentionally so?
@@sasukesarutobi3862 oh no it’s completely intentional. Metal Gear has always been extremely campy
@@Stynkrat That's a very good point
I come from the future to tell you Metal Gear is turning into a coop zombie survival game.
+McDeathmask I have come from slightly further in the future to tell you that Raiden is now 95% Pachinko machine, which was surprisingly useful in his dance off against Hatsune Miku.
lnsflare1
...but can he defeat PaRappa the Rapper?
wolfpax181 No one can beat PaRappa the Rapper, you can only team up with a reformed Miku and Twitter Sonic to distract him enough that he falls into Dracula's gratuitously exposed cleavage.
Spoiler Alert: Dracula isn't a girl, he just really let himself go in the future.
lnsflare1
...moobs. I am thwarted!
wolfpax181, Yay!?
I think the game's prologue played it's best cards too early. I mean when your game opens with a giant whale devouring a helicopter and a man chasing you on a flaming winged unicorn, going straight into gritty growly grimdark REVENGE immediately afterwards. It kind of causes me to lose some interest. Still, besides that, pretty damn good game
+L Pendergast This game has the best first impression sequence I had ever seen in a game. I don't think any other game can beat the 'flop around the hospital floor while being chased by a man who is on fire led by a psychic toddler who may or may not be a ghost' opening sequence.
Unfortunately they do not put that crazy shite in ALL THE MISSIONS.
king tut Evil Within doesn't have 'riding shotgun on a horse while being chased by a fire unicorn ridden by giant man on fire who shoots burning buckshot from his palms' right after 'Watching a helicopter eaten by a giant whale that is on fire'.
+king tut That game was trash.
Or rather devolved into trash super fast.
Idk why they put psycho mantis in the beginning anyway. And they should've made him a boss later in the game.
+Jack Danger The game was apparently butchered by Konami after Kojima left, so.....
Yahtzee’s horrified expression from watching Konami cancel Silent Hills is too relatable
Which is additionally funny considering the minimalist character design
Peace Walker 2: Electric Boogaloo
+Radec Don't have a cow, for all your dreams.
+Radec I wish we got the final act of the story like in Peace Walker, but hey the game is pretty good at least.
I've noticed that anime translated into English also tends to have a disproportionate amount of people explaining something, and then going "in other words" and explain it again. I'm guessing that's something common in Japanese vernacular that doesn't translate well.
Hmm, that might explain the overal preference to subs over dubs some more.
Yep. The Japanese language / mindset can be inconsistent in that way. For example, someone _could_ say 「彼の名は蔵之助だ」と言った。But they'll most likely say something like, 「あ、その男の名前は、石川蔵之助です。彼はこの銀行の会長です」と言いました。The first sentence (roughly) would translate to "His name's Kuranosuke (it is)" he/she said. The latter would (also roughly) translate to "Oh, that man's name is Ishikawa Kuranosuke (it is). He's the company leader for this bank" he/she said (in a polite manner). Over-explaination is something that's mostly done partially to be polite, and partially in order to make sure that the listener has *all* of the information they could possibly ever need. It gets really fucking annoying when you're trying to learn the language, even though it comes from a good place.
I realize that in trying to explain why it seems over-explaination is rampant in Japanese, I've gone and over-explained my observation. Fuck, there's no escaping it.
It's a mixture of both, really.
Thank god someone else said it, I thought I was going crazy with how much I hated most anime dialogue but couldn’t put my finger on why
Crowley9 Well, it's something that's done in manga to explain bland fight scenes. A lot of anime is made to sell manga and often does this without transalting well. So no, it's bad writing.
By the way, "hayai" means "fast," but it's a lot more natural to say under one's breath than "he's fast." This goes for all adjectives. and verbs.
My favorite part of this game was spending 2 hours arranging kamikaze bears near a group of tanks and then setting off a bait bottle while disguised as a anime singer, and then sending my robot buddy in to kidnap the survivors with a balloon cannon.
I can't tell if any of this is real in game but it sounds legit and that's all I want
In case anyone is wondering how Kojima got the Fulton Recovery System wrong:
Instead of violently lifting a person/object into the air by itself, the balloon simply serves to hold up a line, kinda like the cord on a normal party balloon, which has a hook right beneath it which then snags onto a specially-equipped plane. That, in turn, then lifts a person/object violently into the air, from where they/it are/is pulled into the plane itself by the crew with a hook on a powered winch.
wasn't it somewhat more realistic in Peace Walker, no?
Just got this game on sale. Other than the non-skippable cutscenes, it has certainly proved worth the $5.99 I paid.
what are you talking about, the cutscenes are perfectly skippable
@@sipragupta5534 - Yeah…I eventually discovered that.
I just got it for 3.99€ 💀
*You're that ninja...*
Psycho mantis?
Metal Gear?
+Nate Richards Black Project?
Hornets?
+Nate Richards Nanomachines?
"I could barely tell the fuckers apart." Always has a great quote in his reviews. Keep up the good work.
Metal Gear Solid V: Kaz is Pissed the Fuck Off
Kazuhira Miller they played you like A DAMN FIDDLE
Metal Gear Solid V: It's all nanomachines, son
bobswolfie2001 parasites*
The Mad king and Shegorath combined cannot best Konami in the madness department.
+Hotsex spy Sheogorath has already prepared special places on New Sheoth for the arrival of the Konami crew. He'd be proud to have such dedicated followers
AbbiXIII He'd be proud of Ares, not Konami.
That konami part at the start was the best part
Having to call, then wait for the helicopter??? Yeah, You could do that...
OR just press pause and choose "return to ACC" which takes less than a second!
+Larry Bundy Jr Doing something convinient just ain't cool no more, old timer.
+Larry Bundy Jr kinda breaks the immersion or pacing though
+Larry Bundy Jr And if you do that, you won't get the animals you extracted with the cages!
Northern Starshine
Just Fulton them.
The cages. Can't fulton them cages.
I love this game. this game is awesome. I had lots of fun with this game. I love this video. This video is awesome. I had lots of fun with this video. And this video hits every nail on every respective head. Have a great day.
+Patrick Storey so what happened to the kids?
+Patrick Storey What he said.
+Patrick Storey Wait?! one can like a game and still stand it being objectively criticized? I simply can't believe that! All my time on the internet point to the contrary.
+Patrick Storey OH MY GOD! HE'S NOT HUMAN!
Autism Speaks
HIT THE LEVER
+Ze German Fox WRONG LEVEEEEEEEEEEER~~
*Pops back up sopping wet*
Why do we even HAVE that lever?!
+smashbrolink Don't 4get the crocodile you beat into submission as well.
+smashbrolink Okay, why do they even HAVE that lever?
+smashbrolink Please tell me that was a Murderboat reference
+Lincoln E It's a reference to The Emperor's new groove.
MGS V is the odd one out in the series where it's strength has now become gameplay over story, whereas the older games were story over gameplay (an odd story at that, and I'll never get over Kojima's brand of terrible pacing and wavering tone)
The dialogue is more "Phantom Menace" than it should be. Characters are flat, dialogue is stiff, and the best voice actor in the game (Keifer) barely says a fucking thing!
Don't get me wrong, the game is excellent for just the gameplay, but it's lacking the camp and charm of the older ones, but keeps the strange directing desicions (like Kojima's patented "overly dramatic unnecessary slow-mo")
"and the best voice actor in the game (Keifer) barely says a fucking thing!"
OK; this statement is wrong on many, many levels.
Been following the Chip/Ironicus LP of MGS5, and they brought up an interesting point. Kiefer Sutherland is a professional and successful actor, which means he's very, very expensive. That means that any complications with Venom Snake's lines would put a massive dent in the budget, which is why VS barely talks and is probably part of why the dialogue suffers. Hard to write powerful stuff with Venom Snake when every word you write for him costs a small fortune.
Maybe Hideo Kojima got rushed by Konami to put out another game
@@nannerdunlocke1231 This was Kojima's last game for Konami, and this game was in development for 6 years. That's not rushing.
@@BIadelores Anthem was in development for 6 years, but only 1 of those was actual development time. Not saying Koijima used up 5 years and had a only a year to make the thing, but at least 1 of those years was Koijima arguing with Konami management...
#FucKonami
+falloutghoul1
Curses, you beat me to it. Well played.
EDIT:
#FucKonami
+J0NES250
#FucKonami
You guys are missing out on a great game.
+86 THEMADHATTER Good thing there are better ones out there
Usoland, Descendant of Noland and Destroyer of Sugar I'm sure there are.
'm not sure if the blame for bad dialogue should be put squarely on Kojima's shoulders. The man is Japanese and doesn't speak English as far as I know. That sounds more like a thing that should be placed on the heads of the translator's/localizers.
Also, I wonder if hideo's name being fucking EVERYWHERE may be a result of him somehow knowing they were going to take his name off of the box? I wonder...
+rabbitmaskedman All I know is that I agree that the credits at the start and end of every mission are fucking stupid.
Also they spoil shit. You know what would be cool? If the Skulls or even Skull Face himself would be a surprise when they show up to fuck up my day! Instead I know it's coming because on the helicopter ride over the game goes *STARING SKULL FACE*. Gee thanks, why make it a true "oh shit!" moment when things hit the fan when I can be expecting something and prepare in advance?
+rabbitmaskedman What? That makes zero sense. The MGS script is written in Japanese then translated to English. Did the J script have more lines? No, Kojima was too busy burning 80 million dollars of Konami's money and spending five years playing ball in a cup until he had to pump out a script.
Holy fuck. Yahtzee fans are a salty bunch of twits, aren't they?
+rabbitmaskedman See, yahtzee makes fun reviews that talk bad, but are mostly for comedic effect, his fans however, take those words as real, and think they can be like him by talking shit about games. Difference is, pretty sure Yahtzee doesnt talk shit because he fully means it, and is mostly kidding, his fans, dont.
+Nanashi Your right, he talks shit about games because he mostly means it.
3:01
It was even in the fucking theme song!
All of this is nice, just saw this, and mad max on the escapist ...
But seriously though... Where's until dawn ? It's the kind of game that either, yathzee would love or hate, no in between.
There is so much to talk about ! All the clichés, the "interactive" gameplay, the story, the dialogues, the characters, ...
C'mon yathzee, we need a review of until dawn, for science purposes !
I swear, he can't handle all the hot on-top-of-our-dead-friend's-skeletons-sex.
I'm with you only because I want to watch him tear it into tiny unrecognizable shreds. x)
+Usoland, Descendant of Noland and Destroyer of Sugar Send that message DIRECTLY to Yahtzee, so he knows that Until Dawn is that freakin' amazing and can't wait a whole week and he puts out a review within 24 hours as a sort of bonus review. And rips the story, characters, and gameplay to shreds.
And There are bloody many QTEs.
+Mcs Woo (ZIGGSA) Those can be somewhat excused as they actually mean something and can greatly effect the way the game goes on. Too slow on a QTE can lead do a character's death, which, in this game, is a really big deal.
WHAT A LUST FOR REVENGEEEEE!!!
+TechnoTurtle WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!?
+TechnoTurtle *such a lust for revenge
+rockys201 Zero, I'm burning up!
+Sparse Dunes MAJOR I'M BUUURNING UUP!!!!
+TechnoTurtle THEY PLAYED US LIKE A DAMN FIDDLE !!
I've been loving the crap out of this game for the last 60 hours of gameplay, but regardless, every single point made here was fair.
Thanks for that, Boss. Boss! Lets develop something. Things are getting a little crowded around here Boss... Boss! Dispatch me on my next mission!
Oh my god that rip on Konami was glorious.
+SuperZez I keep rewatching the video just for that bit
When Yahtzee starts talking about the game, I thought he was joking but it's actually true
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Such a lust for revenge
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOO
This game should be title "Metal Gear Solid: Phantom fucking pain in the ass". I got 30 hours in before I said "fuck it!" and decided to chuck the goddamned thing out the nearest window for how uninspired, repetitive, and dull it ended up being. For every "holy shit this is amazing!" moment, there were dozens of "whyyyyyyyyyyyyy???" moments.
+Butterworthy What's that? CRITICISM?! The fanboys are moving in!
SuperLordGaming Dear god...I criticized the way the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter was being handled, it's my most disliked video ever, and one bastard got so angry and offended that he left over 100 comments in an hour, and I had to ban and report him for harassment.
+Butterworthy Wow, really? Fanboys are the worst.
Von Steiner Totally agreed. I get accused of being a Nintendo fanboy. I have a preference for them, but still criticize and critique them when necessary. I have seen real Nintendo fanboys, and they can be straight up delusional.
+Butterworthy WELL MAYBE YOU SHOULD CHANGE YOUR CHANNEL DESCRIPTION YOU IDIOT!
For everyone new to the channel; this means he enjoyed the game.
Oh, I just love it when he makes random noises. It sounds better than his speaking voice. That growling/gurgling at the end was just so adorable.
4:02 why does snake look like Peter Dinklage?
Those nanomachines came from the moon
Uploaded 5 minutes ago?!?!
I never come this early
+Daniel Plainview I know right? Now, where's my milkshake?
+Daniel Plainview THAT'S WHAT SHE...
Sorry. sorry.
+Daniel Plainview We believe you. This was a one-time thing. It's okay, it happens.
+Daniel Plainview PHRASING.
+Daniel Plainview I did... ;)
You can do "Return to ACC" for quickly returning to the chopper when you are done with a side op (or during a side op but it forfeits the progress).
Sad you cannot do this while you are on mother base though. You can from the chopper also hit a menu item that says "Go To Motherbase" to just go to motherbase instead of picking a mission in motherbase.
Good gameplay, dumb story.
So..basically like every other MGS game in the series, right? You get what you paid for, at least.
+Ristar85 lmao you obviously havent played the game
+Ristar85 How many hours have you played? I'm curious.
+Ristar85 The gameplay is great. The story is shit. And this is coming from someone who's only ever played Metal Gear Solid 4 before picking up TPP.
Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen what they tried to was the opposite of mgs 4 was because many people complained about the huge cutscenes. Apparently Konami doesn't know the word moderation so they took a completely backseat approach to the story in this one. I've played every metal gear and the gameplay is the best so far and can get very challenging since the game assimilates to your play style and how good you are, but the story is extremely lacking for the franchise. Plus the ending was totally rushed and some storylines, specifically the Eli and Quiet ones, seemed totally incomplete in my opinion. I give it a 8/10 just because it is so damn fun and time consuming, but the virtually emaciated story is a huuuuuuuuge con. There is actually speculation that an entire chapter and even area were in the works, but konami wanted Kojima gone so bad that they crapped on the project. The original idea was for it to be a game so fucking amazing you crapped your pants, but sadly it was not...
at all tbh...
Ristar85 the hell do you know?
this was the soviet army in the 1980s. plus its a video game.
VIIIDEEEOOOO GAAAMEEE
sure it was like that the first hour, but i was taking out outposts left and right, and now i get minimum of 7 people anywhere at once, i still get like 3 in those random groups in the middle of the map. and important places guarded by 10 people?! At no point did i see that, OKB zero for example has around 40 soldiers there all the time, that's if you dont raise an alarm btw. That doesn't even count on the helicopters that start to show up, the d walkers, mines in all the places you can sneak in, cameras, etc..
The fact that you're saying a game that adjusts the difficulty to how good you are is easy, that's absolutely laughable, cause obviously you either suck ass or haven't played anywhere near 10 hours.
Oh, my God! This was too funny! I had to rewind a couple of times to see what I missed because of my laughing!
the story in metal gear solid is like a Tom Clancy novel directed by David Lynch funneled through the consumerist and misogynist lens of Japanese popular culture in that yes the stark atonality and the endless dirge of exposition in the work is intentional as it creates a cognitive dissonance within the player leaving them confused and questioning the confines of reality. people really underestimate kojima as a storyteller precisely because they can't see what he's attempting to do. it plays just as much with brechtian alienation as it does with banal humor and action espionage movie tropes to create a unique narrative that isn't without its faults of course. but there's a method to kojimas madness. and that method lies within the legacy of post-modern and weird fiction as well as modernist movements like dada and surrealism. especially if you see kojima list his influences you start to see the context that arises from the seeming absurdities.
Kanashe his vocabulary ovewhelmed you?
I have to say this review was incredibly on point with the audio logs!
Great vid as always
Seriously? A mildly positive review of MGSV and only one quick mention of the dog? I am disappointed, Yahtzee D:
In general, I immensely enjoyed this entry in the series, and I have no regrets playing it. I had too much fun with the mother base building and the gameplay was phenomenal, never have I felt so tense and angry for getting caught in a MG game, because you had a form of radar in the other games and this one you don't. But in retrospect the story felt out of place at some points and the game could've had a much better story if they knew how to build one for an open world game. I feel like the story missions should've had a larger variety but still keep the whole army for hire theme as well. Also in terms as to why Kojimas name at the end of every mission was because he wanted the game to be more like a tv episodic series instead of the movie theme he ran for years. I honestly wanted more cinematics and story but I'm not going to bitch about a game I'm overly satisfied with and can't change no matter how much I complain and moan. I guess now I have to wait to read the replies.
The funny thing is, Hideo actually knows how the Fulton Recovery system works. It gets talked about in Peace Walker
And in MGS3.
The first review who finally says we cant tell the voice actors apart. For a majority of the game I thought Kaz was usually the guys instructing me before I knew it was Ocelot.
MGS was and still is one onf the greatest experiences ive had in gaming, and i fully accept i may just be old and jaded but MGS5 was just dire for me, the empty repetitive world made me question why it was even an open world game to begin with nvm how detrimental it was to what i at least view as an MGS game
legit it was great before it turned into a "select your mission from a list of largely rinse and repeat missions" experience, first MGS ive never even finished nvm played to death.
It's because Peacewalker was originally intended to be the fifth MGS game. Instead, they took most of the elements from it, for V. This includes the clunky 'mission' system, which belonged back on the PSP game, and not in a next game system game.
That must be the most positive review Yahtzee made, ever since Portal :O
This review was pretty damn on point. You covered every complaint I had. Even though I really enjoyed the game, the waiting for the helicopter to go anywhere was a huge pain in the ass.
*Such a lust for reviews!*
Don't be mean to me, I breathe through my skin.
Kojima has probably most likely been wanting to leave after he announced MGS4 is supposed to be the last MGS. They also kicked Kojima out because the costs for Phantom Pain were much higher than what they expected and allowed him.
+Sammy102093 Every Metal Gear Solid game since the first was "supposed" to be his last. He's said that like a billion times. x)
True but remember, it made Konami a lot of money and he most likely wanted to do other projects as well but Konami wouldn't let him.
+Sammy102093
$80 million and the game is still unfinished. What the hell did Kojima spend all the money at?
Afham Zaki Production costs like that are gonna be high, plus he kept delaying the game so that means that money also covered wages.
*****
Still, Konami gave him 5 years of development. I think it's a case of Kojima reaching way too high and Konami being Konami.
Your videos are the best! Not to long, but wildly entertaining! And a perfect time frame to eat my sandwich in
You are so right, I get that there are many different items/weapons to tackle enemies, but they do not require different strategies and do not affect gameplay much at all.
Just like any shooter there are a ton of weapons, but everytime all you have to do is isolate enemy and point and shoot. Though I will admit that some of the items add some variation to it such as the non lethal grenades.
THEY PLAYED US LIKE A DAMN FIDDLE
WE'VE BEEN DIDDLED AGAIN!
What about the absurd naming system
Oh poor savage turtle and bewildered mongoose, rest in peace
Nigel Thornberry: I'll do THIS, with my hands!
4:47
3:22 This game has about two dozen handguns available to use on missions but only one of them is the tranquilizer gun.
Does anybody else want to have Hideo Kojima have this exact personality? If for no other reason than your desire to meet this very strange guy in a straight jacket?
How do you know he doesn't?
I'd be happy if that was him, but considering he's gotten a job like, right after he got kicked out from Konami makes me think he's at least stable enough for conversation
And now Konami makes Metal Gear Survive.
I hope they fucking lose every single cent they have.
1:30 “I’m starting to think this sounds weird” … the Understatement of the Century, ladies and gentlemen !
nice intro about silent hills
sounds like someone hasnt heard the code talker/ miller Hamburger tapes
MGS V: the fulton pain
I love when my phone tells me you upload
You can go back to base from the start menu. Except for that I loved this.
a misbehaving clitoris.. that almost killed me
Don't watch these while crunching on an apple.
Why
+Adam Van Der Hoeven There's a story behind this and I must know it
+teryn cate If it's anything like what happened to a friend of mine, he probably laughed so hard chunks of apple came out his nose, fun day for all.
Orange Hat Sounds as painful as that "Snort a condom" challenge
+teryn cate Oh dear god, why is that a thing.....
he's totally right about the not being able to tell them apart thing. when I was doing the mission where you bring back quiet kaz and revolver ocelot started arguing and it was at that point that I realized I wasn't really sure who I was communicating with for the whole game.
In the options menu there's a "return to ACC", you automatically go to the helicopter if you press that. once you see that the game finished auto saving you can press it at any time without consequence
I guessing he will love this game, but still criticise the hell out of it. Don't go changing, sir.
You don't have to go back to the helicopter to enter another mission, you just need to mark the main ops or side ops location on the map and go there (as long as its in the same map, Afhganistan or Central Afrika). And since there are a lot of missions and side missions, I tend to go from one to the next that is closest in the map, and so forth. It's actually quite nice.
***** Retrieve something, or rescue a prisoner? Sure, just like it was in every Metal Gear game ever. What changes is the location and situation. Lots of variables.
It isn't lazy game design. This game offers complete freedom in the way you tackle missions and as a result every mission can feel different.
***** It looks like you didn't play the same game as I did, or just don't like stealth games.
This is the most deep in the series, or better yet, the best stealth game of all, in terms of gameplay. There as HUNDREADS of ways to complete the same mission. And if you think its easy, cut the hand holding: put on hard, disable markings and reflex mode and it becomes another game entirely...
+kabeltelevizio no, not at all
+kabeltelevizio no, not at all
I must say I am never disappointed with your reviews. Even when you bash on games I enjoy I always seem to agree with the points you make. Keep making me laugh, Yahtzee, you're a genius.
I mean hell the Fulton recovery system was even used in one of the Sean Conory bond films back in the day lol 😝
if Konami let Kojima finish this shit. reviews would be diffrent
50 quid says Yahtzee actually owns a realdoll.
Wait, other than how long the cable is, how different is MGSV's Fulton Recover System from the actual system that became Skyhook?
3:59 Now snake looks like he's actually Peter Dinklage in disguise!
Very funny video though, this series always makes me laugh :)
I hear that you don't have to worry about the story, MGV allows you to finally play a game
I hate how so many games now will make you wait to connect to the internet, even if there's no multiplayer! Just Cause 3 is the worst, they want to take an extra 5 minutes or so to connect to the internet so I can look at leaderboards, and since my PS4 sucks at connecting to the internet, it tries its hardest to connect! It's like its combing every inch of the bandwidth spectrum to find a little Wi-Fi bar to grab onto and lead it to full connection. The opening Bloodborne menu makes me happy because it asks one simple question, "Do you want to play online, or offline?" and it doesn't bring it up again, I'M the one who chooses whether or not to go online! So many of these games would be better, twice as good, if they didn't force me to go online and waste my time when I just want to play a game!
ps loved Dr. Mangele's torture hospital, there lobby was nice and quiet. A lot of good radio too.
I've been waiting for this
You know, it's not like the event's of the game make a ton of sense (basically, all the weirdness is because of baby decoy octopus for... reasons), but once you learn the whole story it's at least a coherent narrative within it's own world. I happen to have a pretty high opinion of the MGS series now, because on re-evaluation a lot of the crazy plot is actually the result of purposefully deconstructing expected tropes. A lot of MGS was about deconstructing the "action hero" and action genre; and both MGS4 and MGS5 have a huge subtext that involves examining sexualization and sexual assault in games. It's not always well done, but I have to give the series credit for being self-aware, and for consistently trying to be subversive.
See, there's your problem right there: one of your claims is false (she speaks several times in both Navajo and English, compared to none for D-Dog) and the other is purely subjective. Why does she seem shallow to you? She's an assassin crippled by fire who was intentionally infected with a deadly disease (the English strain) and then took a vow of silence to prevent the disease from spreading. That's one of the plainest examinations of rape, post-traumatic stress and sexually transmitted diseases I've seen in any game.
Furthermore, you don't find it significant that you are dismissing a female character simply because she doesn't speak very often? And you don't think that comparing her to a dog might be a little bigoted itself? I know that reading more than the intentionally misleading surface of this character requires someone to have an understanding of rape and sexual assault (plus some damn empathy) that most people just don't have, but seriously, what about this lacks depth to you? Did you skip all the cutscenes or something?
Edit: Also, Quiet isn't the only female character, there is also Strangelove and the Skull Snipers, but all of the female characters in the game (except the distaff base soldiers, which aren't characters) have been violated in some profound and personal way (murdered, brainwashed, etc.).
Oh gosh, your superficial observations and refusal to look beneath the surface have completely defeated me. How could I be so foolish as to think that there could be more than a literal interpretation of the game?
I mean, I was really hoping for more than the "Netflix Reviews" version of this argument, but the truth is that you are exactly the type of person that this game was written to mock by taking everything at face value. Everyone is entitled to their opinion; that doesn't make it valid or correct, and you're plain wrong here.
Look, if I had to take time out of my day to explain every little thing to every little mind on the internet I'd have no time left for stuff I actually want to do. So yeah, I'm not arguing with you. That would be a waste of effort, and you can go be wrong in your own time and place.
In other words, it's time for you to move on. Unless you want to explain why you think that statement was a self-contradiction, that would probably be amusing enough to keep me interested.
Yeah, dude, you win by default. Never seen that card get played on the internet before. Here's your medal: it has an engraving on the back that says "Master Debater on CZcams." Wear it with pride.
ARGUING with you is a waste of time, but MOCKING you is very entertaining indeed. I can keep coming back for that as long as you want.
Rather, I don't think you understand what mocking means, but since you seem incapable or unwilling to read subtext I'm not surprised that you're confused. Quite a lot of mockery is done in such a way that the one being mocked is not entirely aware of it, or has difficulty comprehending it. On the other hand, I'm not exactly being subtle here.
What's your stake in all this, anyway? You already "won" the "argument" by default and got your medal, but you still won't shut up, so I have to guess that there's something else you're looking for... maybe you just want to have the last word.
I spent 45 minutes customizing my character just for the game to be like ,... actually no time for that reconstructive surgery thing we were talking about, we'll just leave you looking the same.
One of my favorites so far.
I was waiting for this
I wonder if they made a silent hill pachinko machine.
They did.
_Marluxia
I can't decide if that's more funny or sad.
Look it up, and don't forget to HIT THE LEVER.
Oh, here's the video ID: _ht4dbyPIcM (the underscore at the start is necessary)
I'd link it, but youtube tends to spam-filter those.
It wouldn't be a Hideo Kojima game if they didn't tell you that it was at least a hundred times.
Who is the genius that makes these?!?!?! These are the best game reviews on youtube!
4:09 Now I'm imagining singing a version of the Doctor Who theme using the word "rigamarole" over and over.
Beginning of video "50 bucks on Kojima turning into a whale"
Present Day: Death Stranding reveal has whales in it
O_o
Mad Max please
+Waqas Ali Imam its now on the escapist page
+otakuman23 WOO HOO!!
+otakuman23 Thanks mate
+007kingifrit Yahtzee can't take all those stereotype teenagers having sex on top of their dead friend's skeletons.
+Usoland, Descendant of Noland and Destroyer of Sugar Wow
Best one in a while! :D And I haven't even played the damn thing
"Hammering down the button like a misbehaving clitoris"
I lold so hard
The Phantom Punctuation
such a lust for criticism
2:07 omg I'm not the only one who thought that when I saw it.
"ballooons!!!" had me fucking dead
So wait, if this game is alright, and not perfect, like all the reviews say
then does that mean that
GASP
the reviews were all BOUGHT OUT LIES?????!?!?!?!?1/1/1//1//11//11/11/
I think I know the reason.....NANOMACHINES SON!!
You have to fight your own wars.
Or something.
They played us like A DAMN FIDDLE
+Calvin Infinity I never read a review that said the game was perfect, you gotta source, bub?
+Calvin Infinity Well if you are referring to Yahtzee's review he is ALWAYS supposed to pick apart the games no matter how good it may or not be (refer to his Last of Us review). Yeah the game isn't perfect but the score I believe comes down to how 'fun' the game can be. Do lots of people find it fun? Yes. Do I find it fun? HELL yes. Does Yahtzee? Probably from what I gathered here but he's trying to make sure that these 'perfect game's aren't actually perfect on either technical or fun levels. That being said, he was much more positive about this game than most games so basically on mainstream reviewing terms this game IS good (
Wait a second so you actually turn all the enemies to your side by knocking them out then shooting them into the air on a balloon? Seriously?
Well yes, and you can also beat up your own soldiers to boost morale. :D
It also works on bears, Tanks and horses.
"The three leads are all grim growly men growling grimly." Brilliant!
In the games defense about he Fulton recovery system, you DO hear the airplane zooming past after every recovery.