SPOILER: Spoiler Metal Gear Solid V (TPS) Spoiler Thread (Contains Spoilers, Thanos).

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FUCK Mission 45. What a complete pile of fucking shit. Oh, I know, let's throw an entire army of fucking tanks at you, not tell you about it beforehand so you come completely unprepared, have some of the tanks one hit fucking kill you and have Quiet do absolutely fuck all except die when she also gets hit by the tanks. What a terrible fucking mission. Fuck whoever designed and fuck whoever made it so that I can't quit and do another mission instead. Fuck this game right now.

Once you beat it you will se who did.
 
Can someone explain this? Venom wakes up and gets saved after the crash by Ocelot at around 4 in the morning? Yet the real BB and Ocelot are together while the sun is up at like... 6 in the morning? And the bridge is collapsed. Ocelot rode off on his horse after to go get Venom. So... how does any of this make sense?
 
Can someone explain this? Venom wakes up and gets saved after the crash by Ocelot at around 4 in the morning? Yet the real BB and Ocelot are together while the sun is up at like... 6 in the morning? And the bridge is collapsed. Ocelot rode off on his horse after to go get Venom. So... how does any of this make sense?

Metal Gear Solid 5 will explain this.
 
Can someone explain this? Venom wakes up and gets saved after the crash by Ocelot at around 4 in the morning? Yet the real BB and Ocelot are together while the sun is up at like... 6 in the morning? And the bridge is collapsed. Ocelot rode off on his horse after to go get Venom. So... how does any of this make sense?

Venom was out for a whole day.

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The other strange thing I noticed about the long car ride, was that as it entered the final loading screen (when you get to the power plant), you can see SF move close to Venom's head, and looks to be about to say something more, but it's cuts out because of the loading screen.

Wonder if there was going to be anything more added to his speech. Maybe that one time he visited a mask shop, and saw a particularly lovely mask, that he just had to have.
 
It hit me this morning as I was putting the pieces together from finishing last night, perhaps the choice to use a cover version of "The Man Who Sold The World" is an additional hint at the body double twist. It could very well just be that Kojima felt the dark synth iteration that Midge Ure performed was more thematically fitting than Bowie's original, but I feel like it was chosen intentionally. Diamond Dogs is very obviously a Bowie reference, so why is the version of a Bowie song we hear a replication and not the original? Could just as easily be a rights thing where Bowie didn't want in or was too expensive, so I won't bet the farm on that. But it was a thought I enjoyed either way.

I should have seen the twist coming a mile away, but it wasn't until Eli's DNA didn't match and the AI Pod not recognizing Snake did it click that something was that off. Chapter 2's awful lack of cohesion between plot points hurts the pacing quite a bit, and I feel like there's some connective tissue missing between where the rest of the game's plot resolves and the "awakening" of Venom as it is revealed to us in Episode 46. A shame that Konami and Kojima butted heads over production issues, at every turn there are hints of a greater desire for ambition that get cut down way too soon. If Kojima ever feels like burning some bridges, it'll be interesting to see just how much he had to take a hacksaw to in order to push the game out by September 1st.

MGS4 felt like a more appropriate sendoff with the countless bits of fanservice and references, but MGSV did give some nuggets of info that help build the greater whole. The tapes with Zero you get after completing Mission 46 give some frame of reference for what the hell he was doing and how his original plan ended up so twisted from what it may have been intended to be. The conversation between Ocelot and Miller where Miller hates the real Big Boss for abandoning him made his unnaturally dickish approach to everything click for me. He feels betrayed and will do whatever it takes to sabotage what BB wants to accomplish. In his anger, he could be taking a far more confrontational route in order to try and send Venom down the wrong path or fuck something up which would throw a wrench into BB's plan.

The MIA Mission 51 would have provided some extra context for Eli's hatred of Boss and why he would go to such lengths to fuck with his legacy in MGS. Liquid decides to chase down Solid because Liquid, Eli, wanted to be the one to snuff the life out of Boss. Little does he realize that the Boss he chased that whole time was a fraud, almost makes his entire arc tragic. He went to hunt down and kill his brother, whom he assumed killed the father that he wanted to murder, and lost it all while his real father just sat in the background and smoked cigars. Big Boss' dismissal of Eli was particularly harsh, "I have nothing to say to him." Solid got it all, even an apology from the tree he fell from.

There's still a few holes that leave a lot to be desired as far as exposition and explanations go, but I think I'm alright with how MGSV played out. I just wish we could have gotten Kojima's original, ambitious title, rather than the cut down version we have now.
 
Oh man 'such a lust for revengeee' and whooooooo?!' had me cracking up. James horan hamming it up to 11.

Love skullfacey and yer unexplained lone ranger mask. I wish we had more of him.

Yeah Skullface is great. James Horan has a career for life even if he never works again, just by getting paid to say "WHOOOOOOOOOO?!" at conventions.
 
So has everyone cried about the silly 9/11 thing being a whole bunch of nothing yet? I'm interested in that fallout.

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There is still another 5 hours to go.

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V has come to.
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I don't know what to believe really...
 
Wait, did I miss something? When Venom is listening to the cassette tape of Big Boss revealing his true identity, that actually takes place many years later, closer to MG1? So Venom goes on believing he's Big Boss for YEARS?
 
I enjoyed the tapes at the final end, almost made up for code talker droning on about how two female vocal cord parasites cannot copulate and they cannot lay eggs


The pics of three guide showed missions up to 51 didn't it? Is that the case in the real guide? I've not been keeping up with this.
 
It was completely ridiculous. Plus his plan was idiotic. First they say he wants to eradicate everything BUT English, then he explains to you IN English how he actually wants to get rid of ONLY English because (despite his perfect American accent) he cane from some small village where he was forced to speak all different languages and that made him hate.... English.

Even by MGS standards that shit makes NO sense at all. And having it explained in a car ride where you're crammed so close to him that your knees are bumping is borderline comical.

He's been researching the parasites on people for a very long time and says in a tape with codetalker that he's likely filled with every strain, and unable to speak any language but English anymore. Fixating on English isn't just a "I hate English lol" thing, it's basically just where all his trauma and loathing ended up at because the means to eradicate languages presented itself and he'd spent so long working on something revolving around language. Everything he resented about working for Zero with his one-world plans just amplified it. Even the last conversation tape between Zero and Skullface, he says that he doesn't want to forget his pain in a perfect world where no one sees differences, he wants to wear it... and misery loves company.
 
It's explained in the tapes about Mantis. He was a russian project that had little personality and reacted to people with negative strong emptions. Hewent loose when he was on a plane and the plane was close to Volgins corps. The boy reacted to the hatred, revieved him (in a way) and both went straight on to Big Bosses location. Skullface just recognized that and followed them with XOF. At the point of the hospital Mantis wasn't on Skullfaces side. After BB managed to flee, Skulflace approached Mantis and Mantis recognized his anger and lust for revenge and followed him since then, taking Volgin with as a puppet. But everything changed when Eli was close. He had anger and as a child he had a closer connection to Mantis and Mantis left his old "masters", Volgin and Skullface for Eli. That's why Skullface is wondering who is more angry and vengeful than him.

Not only is this fucking stupid, it was poorly communicated.
 
Maybe I'm oblivious, but the biggest hint for me that you weren't big boss was the wandering soldiers mission, how they recognized you as big boss in the box but not by your face
 
Not only is this fucking stupid, it was poorly communicated.

It's explained in a couple tapes, in pretty plain terms.

Maybe I'm oblivious, but the biggest hint for me that you weren't big boss was the wandering soldiers mission, how they recognized you as big boss in the box but not by your face

Wow, I never used the box on any of them. That's cool. I pretty much suspected I was a body double during the intro as soon as he said "you're talking to yourself"after the create-a-character, Raiden 2.0 thing like a lot of people... but the game did a good job of putting it out of my mind and writing it off until I finally got confirmation at the end.
 
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