BreezyLimbo
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........ok that could make sense.
But millers imagination sucks, naming every helicopter the same.
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........ok that could make sense.
But millers imagination sucks, naming every helicopter the same.
I always thought of callsigns as applying to the pilot -and- the chopper. A package deal.
I just had a game breaking bug or something happen to me earlier. I was replaying Mission 12 Hellbound for S ranks. I'm carrying Huey out of the base, trying to avoid getting spotted by the chopper, and expecting the Sahelanthropus cut scene. It never came up, the chopper spotted me, so I decided to reload the check point, and the game never loaded after that. It didn't even load after a restart after the title screen. I had to restore the game data to an older save from Sunday. I lost some progress. I'm on the PS4 btw. Anyone else with a similar issue? I backed up the "corrupted" game data, should I try to load it again?
LurkerPrime
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The phantom pain will make them stronger this time. (How he responds to everything)
Was it really the normal Pequod pilot, though? I assumed it was a redshirt after everything went down and Pequod still survived. I wasn't paying a whole lot of attention to that cutscene though, so maybe I missed something.
The helicopter carrying the support crew in mission 30 was named Queequeg, so it seems Pequod is just the name of Venom's ACC.
Queequeg is also a character from Moby Dick.
Was that the guy who comes down with fever and makes his own coffin?
ShockingAlberto
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*Venom and whoever else you send on missions that everyone still refers to as Big Boss
PedroPanache
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MGS: Skull Eater - SF has come too! The new canon has also come too!
ZERO: Skull Face, we need you to take of ones of the Cobra's.
SKULL FACE: Let me guess. He exploded all over the jungle, right? And I've got to pick up the bits? Sure, why not, I don't even care any more.
ZERO: No, no! We actually need you to kill one of them.
SKULL FACE: Wait! What! I actually to get to something outside of my convert janitor duties?
ZERO: It's the strangest thing, actually. The past two weeks Snake has been hiding in a shed. He won't answer his codec or respond. He's not dead, but there's definitely something up.
SKULL FACE: What do you want me to do?
ZERO Kill The End. The Cobra's elite sniper. I fear Snake won't come out of his hut until he's been dealt with.
SKULL FACE: YES!!!! AT LAST!!! OH! OH!! SOMETHING TO DO!!!
ZERO:: Yes, but I'm afraid this isn't strictly canon, Skull Face. The official record will state that Snake bested The End in an epic boss battle. The world will never know that Snake hid in a hut for two weeks and waited for The End to die. They'll never know that it was you, my elite soldier, that killed The End.
SKULL FACE: Oh for fucks sake! What's the point if it's not even canon? WHYY?
ZERO: Such a lust for canon! Now be a good soldier and kill The End.
ZERO: Skull Face, we need you to take of ones of the Cobra's.
SKULL FACE: Let me guess. He exploded all over the jungle, right? And I've got to pick up the bits? Sure, why not, I don't even care any more.
ZERO: No, no! We actually need you to kill one of them.
SKULL FACE: Wait! What! I actually to get to something outside of my convert janitor duties?
ZERO: It's the strangest thing, actually. The past two weeks Snake has been hiding in a shed. He won't answer his codec or respond. He's not dead, but there's definitely something up.
SKULL FACE: What do you want me to do?
ZERO Kill The End. The Cobra's elite sniper. I fear Snake won't come out of his hut until he's been dealt with.
SKULL FACE: YES!!!! AT LAST!!! OH! OH!! SOMETHING TO DO!!!
ZERO:: Yes, but I'm afraid this isn't strictly canon, Skull Face. The official record will state that Snake bested The End in an epic boss battle. The world will never know that Snake hid in a hut for two weeks and waited for The End to die. They'll never know that it was you, my elite soldier, that killed The End.
SKULL FACE: Oh for fucks sake! What's the point if it's not even canon? WHYY?
ZERO: Such a lust for canon! Now be a good soldier and kill The End.
DOCTOR: Your name is Ahab. Forget you past.
V SNAKE: But my name is Jack. I have memories of being Big Boss. What are you talking about?
DOCTOR: (Oh, I fucked it up. 9 years of planning and I screwed up. Why would they have the plastic surgeon be the one to tell him. First I try to tell him about his arm and he panics, I don't know how to do this shit, fuck man I hope someone chokes me to death. Ow, my neck. Wait, I'm dying. Yay, the sweet release of death).
V SNAKE: But my name is Jack. I have memories of being Big Boss. What are you talking about?
DOCTOR: (Oh, I fucked it up. 9 years of planning and I screwed up. Why would they have the plastic surgeon be the one to tell him. First I try to tell him about his arm and he panics, I don't know how to do this shit, fuck man I hope someone chokes me to death. Ow, my neck. Wait, I'm dying. Yay, the sweet release of death).
lmao, now I am seeing Snake asleep while SKullface is in an epic battle against The End trying both to kill that guy and to prevent him from murdering the sleeping dumbass.
razzmahtazz
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Has anyone discussed how much of a pacing problem it would have been if the Ground Zeroes mission was included in TPP? An hour to complete GZ open world then an hour in the hospital very little interaction then boom full open world.
Yup, that's him.
Haha, this reminds me:
I was playing the prologue the other day, and it's kind of hilarious how the doctor does the whole "now try not to panic... but panic!" routine not once, but twice. First with the "It's been nine years," and then with "Look down at your arm." And each time Venom becomes a writhing mass of panic. It's like, jeez, Doc, find a better way to break it to him, lol.
ShockingAlberto
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WE WERE SUPPOSED TO GET DRINKS TOGETHER
Mike was lucky, he just got to die.
Nearly every other helicopter Leon has interacted with has resulted in a zombified pilot.
SuperStiltzkin
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Nah, Skull Face just finds the End's dead body from old age.
ShockingAlberto
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After a week of keeping the PS2 off, Skull Face just gets annoyed and poisons The End on his own.
I want to write a book and start it with that sentence.
The rest of the book could be about cake recipes, but I want to open a book with that line.
Doctor_Thomas
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RE4 should've ended with Leon in front of a gravestone, doing the MGS3 Boss salute.
Then the camera pans to the gravestone:
R.I.P.
CHOPPER MIKE
"He knew a good bar"
PedroPanache
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The legend of the Skull Eater mission continues as we get an answer to a question that has puzzled MGS3 players for a long, long time.
ZERO: Are you in position?
SKULL FACE: Yes, but I'm not sure what the purpose of this serves exactly.
ZERO: Press the Action Button to equip the Speakers and select the Snake Eater Cassette Tape in your inventory.
SKULL FACE: This makes no sense. No sense whatsoever!
ZERO: Press the R1 Button to equip your binoculars and tell me where Snake is.
SKULL FACE: Fine. Whatever. He's ascending a ladder. He's about halfway up.
ZERO: This is important. Press the Action Button to play the Cassette Tape.
SKULL FACE: Why am I standing at the bottom of a ridiculously long ladder playing some weird song about eating snakes? I'm not sure why this is vital to the mission.
ZERO: IT'S ABSOLUTELY VITAL! DO NOT TURN THAT CASSETTE OFF! IT'S A MISSION FAIL SITUATION AND TIME PARADOX IF YOU PRESS STOP!!
*stops tape
CAMPBELL: What are you doing? You've created a time paradox and, and, what's wrong with your faaaaccee?
ZERO: Are you in position?
SKULL FACE: Yes, but I'm not sure what the purpose of this serves exactly.
ZERO: Press the Action Button to equip the Speakers and select the Snake Eater Cassette Tape in your inventory.
SKULL FACE: This makes no sense. No sense whatsoever!
ZERO: Press the R1 Button to equip your binoculars and tell me where Snake is.
SKULL FACE: Fine. Whatever. He's ascending a ladder. He's about halfway up.
ZERO: This is important. Press the Action Button to play the Cassette Tape.
SKULL FACE: Why am I standing at the bottom of a ridiculously long ladder playing some weird song about eating snakes? I'm not sure why this is vital to the mission.
ZERO: IT'S ABSOLUTELY VITAL! DO NOT TURN THAT CASSETTE OFF! IT'S A MISSION FAIL SITUATION AND TIME PARADOX IF YOU PRESS STOP!!
*stops tape
CAMPBELL: What are you doing? You've created a time paradox and, and, what's wrong with your faaaaccee?
Unknown One
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These Skullface MGS3 fanfiction/pictures are hilarious.
that's because crashing through windows is inexplicably gameplay silent
PedroPanache
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Skull Face, after several hours of tracking Naked Snake, realises he hasn't saved his mission data. He's met with a little resistance.
SKULL FACE: I'd like to save my mission data.
MEDIC: What mission data?
SKULL FACE: You know, my progress so far. My mission data.
MEDIC: Ha..you don't have any mission data. You're a glorified janitor combing the battlefield for the scattered remains of the Cobra Unit with a bin bag. Why on earth would I want to save any of that?
SKULL FACE: B.b.bu.but, I thought you'd save the data and then we could talk about movies afterwards. You know, like you do with Snake.
MEDIC: You wanna talk about movies? Sure, we can talk about movies. Hey, here's one; have you seen the movie Fiend Without a Face? It tells the story of these mysterious deaths at the hands of a mentally created invisible life-form that feeds on atomic power and then steals human brains and spinal columns to use as bodies in order to multiply its numbers. It's really cool and obscure. Also it was made entirely in England. Its Canadian setting was chosen because it would appeal to both American and British Commonwealth movie audiences. Who knows, maybe one day, somebody will attempt to remake it. So, have you seen it? The film called Fiend Without a Face?
SKULL FACE: ....
MEDIC: You still want to save, Skull Face?
SKULL FACE: No, not really.
SKULL FACE: I'd like to save my mission data.
MEDIC: What mission data?
SKULL FACE: You know, my progress so far. My mission data.
MEDIC: Ha..you don't have any mission data. You're a glorified janitor combing the battlefield for the scattered remains of the Cobra Unit with a bin bag. Why on earth would I want to save any of that?
SKULL FACE: B.b.bu.but, I thought you'd save the data and then we could talk about movies afterwards. You know, like you do with Snake.
MEDIC: You wanna talk about movies? Sure, we can talk about movies. Hey, here's one; have you seen the movie Fiend Without a Face? It tells the story of these mysterious deaths at the hands of a mentally created invisible life-form that feeds on atomic power and then steals human brains and spinal columns to use as bodies in order to multiply its numbers. It's really cool and obscure. Also it was made entirely in England. Its Canadian setting was chosen because it would appeal to both American and British Commonwealth movie audiences. Who knows, maybe one day, somebody will attempt to remake it. So, have you seen it? The film called Fiend Without a Face?
SKULL FACE: ....
MEDIC: You still want to save, Skull Face?
SKULL FACE: No, not really.
Amazing.
Not just the helicopter, he's got an impressive array of cardboard boxes as well. Though not having a room ingame doesn't seem that odd - don't you only ever see Quiet's? It's more of a problem with how the rest of the base is handled...
There's a king sized bed Ocelot hopes Snake comes home to every day, but he never does.
LurkerPrime
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Quiet has an exhibit.
Mother Base's design doesn't make much sense at all if you think about it. The animal platform being solitary gets me the most.
PedroPanache
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I wish I could draw, but I'm, crap. However, there's probably a really good 3 panel comic in my little bit about Skull Face playing the Snake Eater music at the bottom of the ladder. Panel 1: Snake climbing the ladder. Panel 2: Snake turns round on the ladder, looks down, strains of music come from below. Panel 3 : Skull Face at the bottom of the ladder with a ghetto blaster above his shoulders. Like John Cusack in Say Anything.
It's a shame Kojima has left. MGS Skull Eater will now never come to pass. The true missing link in the series.
NumberThree
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I had guards come see what's happening plenty of times when crashing through windows.
Your chopper can be shot down at any point in the game, from you calling it in at inopportune moments. You're charged a hefty fee of GMP for it. They just send a new chopper. So that might be a reason for not having your hypothesized scene -- also, the chopper pilot is hardly your "bro" in the narrative, he's not really a character, it's just through repetition of dialogue that he's personified.
More of a bro than Ocelot or Miller.
She's an artist. It's performance art, in-universe and out. You obviously don't get the deep, rich satirical subtext if you'd bring that up as a negative.
Remember that shot of the Twin Towers at the end of Mission 51?
Someone found the stock picture it was taken from. Guess who the Photographer is?
Lou Cypher
Someone found the stock picture it was taken from. Guess who the Photographer is?
Lou Cypher
PedroPanache
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Whilst following Snake, Skull Face loses his footing, trips and knocks himself out. A boss battle commences...
SKULL FACE: Are you one of The Cobras?
THE SORROW: This world is one of sadness. Battle brings death. Death brings sorrow. The living may not hear them. Their voices may fall upon deaf ears. But make no mistake - the dead... are not silent.
SKULL FACE: YES!!! BOSS BATTLE!!
THE SORROW: Sad...So Sad. A host of sorrows and you....are NOT one of them.
SKULL FACE: Let battle comme....Wait...What?
THE SORROW: I'm afraid you can't participate in this boss battle.
SKULL FACE: No, no, no. I've been looking forward to this all day. Why? This can't be real.
THE SORROW: You haven't killed anyone on this mission.
SKULL FACE: Ermm...Wrong! I've killed... killed...ermm..I killed..THE END!! YES! I killed The End. We had an epic sniper duel. Completely epic. Just the most epic thing you could imagine. Across THREE screens. It lasted an hour. I couldn't save. It was amazing. Totally epic!
THE SORROW: That's what you told the Major, but the dead know different. He was already dead when you got there. Consumed by the forest before you could even raise your fork. That's right. You don't even have a sniper rifle. You have a bin bag and a fork.
SKULL FACE: But, we did, I swear. C'mon! three screens! Epic battle! You've got to believe me.
THE SORROW: The dead.... They can't be deceived. I feel your sorrow. You hypnotised yourself into believing you killed The End. But you didn't and that is the real truth. That is your sorrow.
SKULL FACE: No. No. No. We..we...thought for hours across three scre....SHIT! He was totally dead when I got there, wasn't he?
THE SORROW: Yes.
SKULL FACE: So, is there any point to this boss battle then?
THE SORROW: No.
SKULL FACE: .....
THE SORROW: Yeaaahh, so this is kind of awkward. You should probably take that revival pill. Like right now.
SKULL FACE: .....
THE SORROW: Don't feel bad. At least I'm already dead. So no clean up, right?
SKULL FACE: ...
THE SORROW: Take the pill, Skull Face.
SKULL FACE: Are you one of The Cobras?
THE SORROW: This world is one of sadness. Battle brings death. Death brings sorrow. The living may not hear them. Their voices may fall upon deaf ears. But make no mistake - the dead... are not silent.
SKULL FACE: YES!!! BOSS BATTLE!!
THE SORROW: Sad...So Sad. A host of sorrows and you....are NOT one of them.
SKULL FACE: Let battle comme....Wait...What?
THE SORROW: I'm afraid you can't participate in this boss battle.
SKULL FACE: No, no, no. I've been looking forward to this all day. Why? This can't be real.
THE SORROW: You haven't killed anyone on this mission.
SKULL FACE: Ermm...Wrong! I've killed... killed...ermm..I killed..THE END!! YES! I killed The End. We had an epic sniper duel. Completely epic. Just the most epic thing you could imagine. Across THREE screens. It lasted an hour. I couldn't save. It was amazing. Totally epic!
THE SORROW: That's what you told the Major, but the dead know different. He was already dead when you got there. Consumed by the forest before you could even raise your fork. That's right. You don't even have a sniper rifle. You have a bin bag and a fork.
SKULL FACE: But, we did, I swear. C'mon! three screens! Epic battle! You've got to believe me.
THE SORROW: The dead.... They can't be deceived. I feel your sorrow. You hypnotised yourself into believing you killed The End. But you didn't and that is the real truth. That is your sorrow.
SKULL FACE: No. No. No. We..we...thought for hours across three scre....SHIT! He was totally dead when I got there, wasn't he?
THE SORROW: Yes.
SKULL FACE: So, is there any point to this boss battle then?
THE SORROW: No.
SKULL FACE: .....
THE SORROW: Yeaaahh, so this is kind of awkward. You should probably take that revival pill. Like right now.
SKULL FACE: .....
THE SORROW: Don't feel bad. At least I'm already dead. So no clean up, right?
SKULL FACE: ...
THE SORROW: Take the pill, Skull Face.
Youtube?
SJRB
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Scroll speed bothered me too. There's so much information thrown at you which you have to process it's pretty hard to keep track. I was disappointed that none of it was included in the strategy guide, seems like a no-brainer considering how much pages it spends on explaining the series.
That said, there are plenty of videos on Youtube showing the ending and whatnot.
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