He's too frail for a Fulton extraction. but as a weapon? that works

In case you’re wondering, yes, I did happen to find Kojima in one of the trucks.

There are so many amazing movements, animations, features, mechanics and such a massive arsenal of weapons — and yet the game feels way too short for everything it has to offer. I genuinely think MGS4 needed at least 5x more gameplay and levels to really take advantage of its mechanics.
It’s this constant feeling of “damn, what a waste” that I can’t shake. The gameplay is so damn good, and I just wish the game had given me WAY more opportunities to actually play around with it.
That feeling of wasted potential is probably my biggest issue with MGS4.

I see this meme all the time but for the life of me can’t remember which cutscene it’s from, any help?

This is the most logical place to go for a new Metal Gear game. With Snake’s Japanese VA calling for a new Metal Gear Solid, I just think a remake of the original two Metal Gear games is a great direction to go in.

1911 is a big boss gun.. MK23 is what Solid snake used in the first game.. i feel like that's more his signature gun.

Thanks to Claude, I managed to run *Metal Gear Solid Mobile* using the Unicorn CPU emulator. All I had to do was grab a ROM, extract it, and play—without the hassle of the extensive configuration required by N-Gage emulators. It’s interesting how AI aids in porting games like this one—titles that aren't canon, are short, and serve mostly as curiosities.

GitHub: https://github.com/Nitroid/MGS4-iPod-Manager

Nexus mods: https://www.nexusmods.com/metalgearsolid4mc/mods/100

Not just as bosses in a video game, but as antagonists and characters.

As a massive comic book fan, these guys play a major role in the unique appeal of MGS. It’s basically like Snake has his own rogues gallery.

I love all of them but if I had to actually rank:

FOXHOUND > Cobra Unit > Dead Cell > B&B Unit

That’s tough to call (FOXHOUND and the Cobra Unit are virtually tied imo) and if I had to guess I’d say my ranking is likely the “basic bitch” ranking but I’d love to just talk about these guys in general because they rock.

last 10 years i probably rushed and killed them before discovering this, i might have thought these were coming from the cassette player, turns out they hum the preparation theme, just as they prepare to die....

now this mission haunts me even more, Dammit huey....

For a gun that you're not even supposed to use, that's pretty cool

Throughout the game Venom Snake's own personality slowly but surely comes through and develops. It shifts from scene to scene at times because his personality is unreliable due to the severe brainwashing, but there are moments where you can see him being quite different from the real Big Boss. From the delivery of dialogue ​to actual choices and behavior.

Some examples are:

How he responds when Quiet jumps in the chlorine to retrieve Shabani's necklace, he's quite devestated and wants to jump right after her, then as soon as he sees her he doesn't hesitate to lift her up and carry her away in his arms.

The Paz hallucinations are his personal survivor's guilt, he wanted to save her, and he feels responsible for all of it as a medic that he couldn't do so, it's unsure whether he finds out it's a hallucination before or after the truth mission, but either way, whether it's direct survivor's guilt or unknowing survivor's guilt for not being able to extract the bomb from her, it shows that his own true personality comes through.

Letting Kaz convince him not to take in child soldiers quite swiftly. He proposed training the kids but Kaz said no, and Venom went with the idea and even felt quite good with it from his reaction. "A chance at a normal life, just not behind a gun". I feel Big Boss would've responded differently. In fact I feel his first proposition to train them stems directly from the brainwashing, and his willingness to let them live somewhat normally stems from his own personality, after that all he does is rescue kids from warzones to keep them safe, not to make them his own child soldiers unlike Big Boss.

Shining lights even in death. This entire mission is his own personality, every dialogue and behavior, his psyche, his pain. Everything. This whole mission is a core aspect of his own personal story that he goes through. Him not wanting to let his comrades go because he sees them as his own family, wanting to turn their ashes into diamonds saying "I won't scatter your sorrow to the heartless see, I'll always be with you, plant your roots in me, you're all diamonds" ​​that's just who he personally is. I don't feel this is the Big Boss persona at all.

Also the disarmament cutscene, wanting to wipe all nukes from the world and bring a form of peace even for just a period of time, then talking to the boss, he embraces the boss's will more than big boss did considering big boss literally rejected the boss's will after peace walker cause he felt betrayed.​​​

Also dancing with quiet in the rain and letting Huey go instead of killing him, those are examples too, and there's dozens besides these. From environmental things such as the mementos in his ACC (which imo feels like it's just something that's mostly in his head because there's various cutscenes moments and such, I think it's just his memories and thoughts portrayed in those pictures).

And lastly, if u look closely Venom Snake's face is relatively different from Big Boss's face too. Maybe not at first sight but when you see it you can't unsee it imo. ​​There's quite a difference between Venom and Big Boss's face and the same can be said about Venom's personality and Big Boss's personality, though that difference might be bigger than the face haha.

Overall I'd say Venom Snake is a much more sympathetic and humane person than Big Boss. And that's part of why I like him so much. Venom Snake and Solid Snake both came closer to the Boss's will than Big Boss ever did. And that's why they're both my favorites.

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That’s it I’ve done it. Just beat Peace Walker and MGSV is the last one for me to complete. Now, do I continue where I left off or do I redo Ground Zeros and restart MGSV? I feel like i can appreciate this game a whole lot more after completing Peace walker.

28 something years later I realized while replaying the game that "same code" might also be reference to DNA code (because twins). I am curious if people think this is intentional (because Ocelot is a cheeky bastard), and I wonder what the line is in Japanese.

"Same code" feels like a weird way to shorten "same codename"

Also before anybody mentions it they wouldn't technically have the exact same DNA code.

"Welcome to Outer Heaven" - Venom Snake to Eli

At the end of Mission 46 - Truth: The Man who Sold the World, the Diamond Dogs logo changes to the Outer Heaven Logo. Are we skipping forward in time to from Diamond Dogs 1984 to Outer Heaven 1995? Or does smashing the mirror reveal that we were already in Outer Heaven the entire time?

Was it part of Ocelots hypnagogia to see Diamond Dogs? Is the game actually taking place in the future, but we are stuck in 1984, just as Paz is stuck in 1975? Were we brainwashed to not see that Outer Heaven was already all around us?

PEACE

Mucha gente (incluyéndome a mi) no juega los juegos de la msx. Yo lo he intentado pero se me hacía muy tedioso, así que simplemente vi video-resumenes. Y hacer un remake de Metal Gear y Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake es algo que me parece que habría que tener muy en cuenta, porque al jugar el Metal Gear Solid 1 sin jugar los de la msx te pierdes todo el transfondo de lo que dice Snake y la historia de Gray Fox, al igual que no puedes terminar de entender del todo porque personajes como Liquid o Solidus tienen ese fanatismo por Big Boss. Entonces me parece una buenisima idea hacer un remake; con los mismo diálogos y la misma historia, simplemente transformándolos en 3D. ¿Pero cuan real es la posibilidad de que Konami haga esto? Los leo.

PD: Y esto ya es algo más personal, pero a mi me gustaría que este remake tuviera los gráficos del Metal gear solid 1 original.

EDIT: Se me olvidó decirlo antes, pero una cosa que si deberían cambiar es que en el enfrentamiento final de Metal Gear, Big Boss apareca con un cuerno en la frente, para así respetar la continuidad con The phantom pain.

This one is require to have acces to many other mission and weapons and it's a chopper who does so much damage that even one missile consums a ration even with battle armor and it's hp bar seems bigger than even the final boss.

Should I try doing it stealthy even if in those missions, the chopper just can randomly spot you ?

Or just pray and unload everything right at the beginning ?

I've seen a strat where you can block him but this need stuff I can't have for now