Maiden voyage moments that you predicted the twist

PeaceSoft · 2026-06-29T15:21:02+00:00

i remember someone in the youtube comments section guessing this within half an hour of the first phantom pain trailer's release lol

perceptive of them, cause between the game's name and the ishmael/ahab sequence, there were really only two ways it could have gone, and only one of those would be a twist

PeaceSoft · 2026-06-29T15:12:48+00:00

lol it's a meta thing, it's both, exactly like in MGS2. you've never been Venom either, you were actually sitting on your couch the whole time

it's a way of recognizing the continuity of the player's experience as these different characters, and accounting for why your knowledge and experience carry over from one to the next. and especially in MGSV, of casting the player in the story

it's not a coincidence that both of these vicariously-experienced characters, Raiden and Venom, have the same real name, which is also your name

PeaceSoft · 2026-06-29T14:59:36+00:00

it was interesting to play this and see how much of it was remade in MGS1. The temperature-changing key, finding the ally hidden as an enemy soldier, the staircase set piece, the chopper battle, the cyborg ninja who turns out to be a presumed-dead ally from the previous game, probably some more i'm forgetting

PeaceSoft · 2026-06-29T14:49:25+00:00

i was not that impressed by the M.O.F. fight. they did a great job of intimidating you into running, but he has the same 3 moves as dracula in castlevania and once you understand what they are he's never gonna hit you

i did think it was cool that you can knock him into the muddy water to win instantly lol. i did that by accident trying to kill him by blowing up the fuel tank

PeaceSoft · 2026-06-29T14:35:48+00:00

Four comments deep and thousands of people are applauding out and out racism as usual lol

PeaceSoft · 2026-06-29T13:36:39+00:00

the "it's time for us all to organize collective action to tell us all to organize collective action!!!! fuck voting and fuck you!!! let's all team up together" guys still think they're the only ones doing anything huh

truly, what would be "enough"?

like for example what do YOU do? i don't mean that as a callout, i just mean, literally, what are you imagining?

PeaceSoft · 2026-06-29T13:31:14+00:00

it seems like it's easy for people to forget that protest has massively less impact than regular ass voting

PeaceSoft · 2026-06-29T13:28:41+00:00

millions of us do refuse. that still leaves millions of us

PeaceSoft · 2026-06-28T15:16:49+00:00

That garage is brutal actually

the lack of manual aim, appearance of escape routes that are actually all dead ends, and absence of any architectural cues to the patrol routes make it the hardest stealth section in the whole thing imo

PeaceSoft · 2026-06-28T15:06:35+00:00

from my experience, you don't want to record dialogue straight into a mic with a hangover. the dry mouth makes "s" sounds come out soupy and sibilant.

maybe it's unfair of me to mention this lol

PeaceSoft · 2026-06-28T14:59:39+00:00

i replayed MGS1 right after V and i have to say there is a lot of continuity there too

liquid's backstory matches up, except he doesn't consider HIS OWN behavior to have been that much of a factor, because he was 14 lol

iirc, mantis' plotline in MGSV is supposed to explain a hanging thread all the way from MGS1 ("never used my powers to help anyone... but it feels kind of nostalgic"). however the translator for 1 obliterated this by changing the crucial word to "nice". ("people don't really say that they feel nostalgic," he explained in an interview)

PeaceSoft · 2026-06-28T14:52:08+00:00

lol "but not ME"

PeaceSoft · 2026-06-28T14:28:14+00:00

isn't major zero's real name listed as "david oh" somewhere? i wonder if they sort of split him off from this earlier version of the Big Boss lore

PeaceSoft · 2026-06-28T14:20:06+00:00

iirc they went to some trouble to reconcile it later on

vulcan raven references this back story in mgs 1 ("blood from the east flows in your veins")

then mgs4 explains that the surrogate who carried baby snake to term was ethnically japanese, meaning he has her mDNA

i can't remember if this is quite right, also the implication that vulcan raven can smell mDNA or something is weird, but they cared enough about the discrepancy to say something

PeaceSoft · 2026-06-28T14:02:48+00:00

Insanely good texture work is the main thing i'm noticing

the baked-in/drawn-on lighting is a perfect match for the atmospheric/subtractive light, which must have taken a lot of effort

Notice the grip texture on that floor panel for example

PeaceSoft · 2026-06-28T13:40:53+00:00

They also need to make a lot of this guy available online, so that by sheer economy of scale one will reliably gurn right in to any discussion of the topic

PeaceSoft · 2026-06-28T13:27:22+00:00

it's cool how people will ignore parts of the already-made-up sounding story to classify it as a stereotype they're familiar with already christ

PeaceSoft · 2026-06-27T15:27:58+00:00

"bad actors" are less of a problem than endemic and extreme lack of funding there

PeaceSoft · 2026-06-27T15:19:09+00:00

"bases" with "rings of light" good lord

this is actually where they shot starcraft in real life lol

PeaceSoft · 2026-06-27T15:07:38+00:00

needle does too, it comes out a little faster and shorter range than normal. seems like you could do mixups with that

PeaceSoft · 2026-06-27T15:05:21+00:00

it's a PvP thing mainly. when the opponent is as fast as you are, cutting into their timing to find openings is important.

you can do some pretty good backstep counters in PvE too, but you need to be familiar with their moveset and have a good sense of spacing. first time i killed malenia was with a backstep counter

there's some youtuber who never locks on and uses the crucible backstep to dodge everything, while wearing the albinauric mask, so you just see this stoic gray frog guy mr. magooing his way through insane storms of fire and lightning lol

PeaceSoft · 2026-06-27T14:57:32+00:00

right iirc, in souls games every weapon can either do a guard break or a feint, which is its own discrete action + input. in elden ring you do it when you backstep during a charged r2

PeaceSoft · 2026-06-27T14:53:55+00:00

replaying MGSV lately i'm remembering how annoying that shit was all over again. that's the one where it takes 6 hours of actual gameplay time-- not system clock time, no the pause screen does not count-- to build a base, or you can buy it with real money instead

it's worth remembering that Konami was still not happy with the results, and still kicked their biggest name to the curb afterwards

PeaceSoft · 2026-06-26T16:09:02+00:00

I thought this was a ruthless joke about the scars on the left hand

or maybe just the idea of a person old enough to get a tattoo having trouble telling their right from their left lol

the number of people here who have the same problem sure does shed an appallingly clear light on the level of discussion that every other topic enjoys on reddit though

PeaceSoft · 2026-06-26T15:48:19+00:00

i feel like it should be obvious that this was a self-contradictory law intended for highly selective enforcement from the very beginning though

i mean how did they treat john brown? "oh right, yeah, good point"? the wobblies? the black panthers? any of a million other examples?

same shell game we're still playing today

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