You know what my favorite FF game was? METAL GEAR SOLID!
Speaking of which, I read on IGN that the creative director for Halo 4 quit, saying the whole thing had become a "crazy endeavor"
Do you know how incredibly bat-shit crazy you have to get a plotline for the guy who worked on Metal Gear Solid 4 to give up on it?
Yeah, things don't get more absurd than Metal Gear.
"OK, so you're a genetically crafted super spy that has to stop a nuclear tank in Alaska. The bad guy is your brother... your twin brother... your evil, twin brother... your evil, british twin brother. Also there is a man that used to be your best friend. But he is dead, because you killed him.... he is back now... to get revenge... as a ninja... a robot ninja."
You know what my favorite FF game was? METAL GEAR SOLID!
Speaking of which, I read on IGN that the creative director for Halo 4 quit, saying the whole thing had become a "crazy endeavor"
Do you know how incredibly bat-shit crazy you have to get a plotline for the guy who worked on Metal Gear Solid 4 to give up on it?
Yeah, things don't get more absurd than Metal Gear.
"OK, so you're a genetically crafted super spy that has to stop a nuclear tank in Alaska. The bad guy is your brother... your twin brother... your evil, twin brother... your evil, british twin brother. Also there is a man that used to be your best friend. But he is dead, because you killed him.... he is back now... to get revenge... as a ninja... a robot ninja."
And Metal Gear 4 is even crazier!
pfft, it's simple to understand:
SOLID SNAKE NOW SUFFERING FROM INEXPLICABLE ADVANCED AGING HAD TAKEN TO LIVING HIS LIFE IN SOLITUDE DURING A VISIT TO THE GRAVE OF BIG BOSS A HELICOPTER MADE A LANDING WITHIN THE CEMETARY FROM WHICH OTACON DISEMBARKED OTACON INFORMED SNAKE THAT ROY CAMPBELL WAS WAITING FOR HIM AND THAT CERTAIN TEST RESULTS REGARDING SNAKE'S CONDITION HAD TURNED OUT POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE FOR PROTEOME AND MRNA ANALYSES RESPECTIVELY SNAKE ESTIMATED THAT HE PROBABLY HAD A YEAR LEFT TO LIVE IN HIS CURRENT CONDITION AT BEST OTACON SUGGESTED THAT HE SEE ANOTHER DOCTOR BUT SNAKE DECLINED SAYING THAT IT WOULDN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE AS HE WAS NEVER A NORMAL PERSON TO BEGIN WITH AS WELL AS THE FACT THAT HE WAS INFECTED WITH FOXDIE CAMPBELL NOW WORKING IN THE UN'S SECURITY COUNCIL HAD FOUND LIQUID LURKING SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE EAST RETURNING TO THEIR BASE ON BOARD THE AIRCRAFT NOMAD CAMPBELL EXPLAINED THAT PRIVATE MILITARY COMPANIES WERE NOTHING LIKE THE MERCENARY GROUPS IN THE PAST MEANWHILE OTACON WAS WORKING ON THE METAL GEAR MK II WITH SUNNY TRYING TO SERVE HIM EGGS BUT OTACON WAS TOO BUSY TO EAT HURTING SUNNY'S FEELINGS SNAKE AND CAMPBELL THEN DISCUSSED ABOUT HOW THE PENTAGON'S NEW BATTLEFIELD SYSTEMS HAD ALLOWED THE USE OF PMCS AND HOW ARMSTECH (NOW KNOWN AS AT CORP) HAD SHIFTED FROM WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT TO SECURITY DEVELOPMENT TO (AS SNAKE PUTS IT) "MAKE A NICE CLEANER BATTLEFIELD" SUNNY UPON RETURNING TO THE KITCHEN NOTICED THAT THERE WAS A RECENTLY SMOKED CIGARETTE BUTT ON THE COUNTER AND AFTER STAMPING IT OUT SCOLDED SNAKE ABOUT SMOKING CAMPBELL ALSO EXPLAINED THE SITUATION OF THE PMCS AS WELL AS OUTER HEAVEN AND THE REVIVAL OF LIQUID SNAKE AS LIQUID OCELOT SNAKE HESITANT AT FIRST AGREED TO A SIMPLE MISSION: TO ASSASSINATE LIQUID AFTER CAMPBELL EXPLAINED THE SITUATION OF WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF LIQUID WASN'T STOPPED MENTIONING THAT THE EVENT WOULD BE A SEVERE VERSION OF IRON MOUNTAIN'S DELPHI TECHNIQUE AND THAT THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY WAS UNWILLING TO DO A THING DUE TO NOT WANTING TO HARM THE "WAR ECONOMY" THREE DAYS LATER SNAKE MADE IT TO THE CENTER OF THE MIDDLE EASTERN WAR ZONE IN THE BACK OF A TRUCK DISGUISED AS A MEMBER OF THE LOCAL MILITIA SUDDENLY HOWEVER THE BATTLE LULLED AND UNMANNED GEKKO DESCENDED ON THEM SLAUGHTERING A NUMBER OF THE MILITIAMEN SNAKE MANAGED TO ESCAPE DETECTION AND PROCEEDED FURTHER INTO THE CITY FURTHER ON SNAKE MET UP WITH THE METAL GEAR MK II INSIDE A RUINED BUILDING WHICH HANDED HIM A NEW DEVICE: THE SOLID EYE OUTSIDE BATTLE ENSUED BUT SNAKE MADE IT THROUGH TO THE MILITIA'S SAFEHOUSE BY ASSISTING THEM WITH THE BATTLE INSIDE THE HOUSE HE MET GUN LAUNDERER DREBIN 893 WHO OFFERED HIS SERVICES TO SNAKE AT A PRICE WHICH THEY DECIDED COULD BE PROVIDED THROUGH THE MK II DREBIN PROVIDED HIM WITH AN M4 CUSTOM FREE OF CHARGE AT FIRST THE GUN'S TRIGGER LOCKED ON HIM BUT DREBIN INJECTED HIM WITH MORE UP-TO-DATE NANOMACHINES WHICH HE STATED WOULD ALLOW SNAKE TO FIRE THE WEAPON MAKING HIS WAY THROUGH THE WAR-TORN MIDDLE EAST SNAKE EVENTUALLY MADE IT TO THE ADVENT PALACE WHERE HIS INFORMANTS PLANNED TO RENDEZVOUS WITH HIM HE WAS SURPRISED TO FIND MERYL SILVERBURGH WAITING FOR HIM WITH HER NEW CID UNIT RAT PATROL TEAM 01 WITH LIQUID IN A CAMP UP AHEAD MERYL EXPLAINED THE SOP (SONS OF THE PATRIOTS) SYSTEM TO SNAKE WHEN QUESTIONED SNAKE CLAIMED THAT HE WAS THERE MERELY TO ASSESS THE THREAT OF PMC ACTIVITIES ON THE UN'S REFUGEE PROGRAMSAFTER BEING AMBUSHED BY A UNIT OF FROGS WHICH RESULTED IN A FIERCE GUNFIGHT FROM THE TOP OF THE PALACE ALL THE WAY TO THE BASEMENT RAT PATROL AND SNAKE PARTED WAYS SNAKE HEADED NORTH TOWARDS THE ENEMY ENCAMPMENT WHERE LIQUID HAD BEEN STAYING BUT AFTER GETTING INVOLVED IN ANOTHER HEATED BATTLE HE WITNESSED AN ENTIRE MILITIA UNIT GET WIPED OUT THANKS TO THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST UNIT SHORTLY AFTERWARDS THE WHOLE UNIT QUICKLY DISPERSED LEAVING SNAKE TO OBSERVE THE AFTERMATH IN AWE MOVING FORWARD INTO THE PMC CAMP HE MADE HIS WAY CLOSER TO LIQUID BEFORE SPOTTING MERYL AND HER RAT PATROL NEARBY SHE CALLED HIM ON HIS CODEC AND ALTHOUGH ANGRY THAT HE WAS INDEED THERE TO KILL LIQUID AND NOT THREAT ASSESSMENT SHE HAD TO BEGRUDGINGLY LET HIM CONTINUE AS SHE FELT SHE WAS IN NO POSITION TO STOP HIM BEFORE SNAKE COULD ACT LIQUID QUIETLY COMMANDED INTO HIS RADIO "ACTIVATE IT" SUDDENLY ALL OF THE SOLDIERS IN THE AREA THE RAT PATROL TEAM INCLUDED (WITH THE EXCEPTION OF JOHNNY) FELL TO THE GROUND FOAMING AT THE MOUTH AND VIOLENTLY CONVULSING WITH MIXED FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS SUCH AS CRYING ANGER LAUGHING AND SCREAMING SNAKE WAS ALSO AFFECTED BUT NOT TO THE DEGREE OF THE OTHER SOLDIERS AFTER A MOMENT NAOMI HUNTER APPEARED IN FRONT OF SNAKE INJECTING HERSELF WITH A SYRINGE BEFORE DISAPPEARING ALTHOUGH NOT BEFORE TELLING SNAKE THAT IF HE DOESN'T WISH TO REMAIN A PRISONER TO FATE HE SHOULD GO AND FULFILL HIS DESTINY SNAKE WAS THEN CARRIED TO SAFETY BY JOHNNY THE ONLY UNAFFECTED SOLDIER IN THE AREA SINCE THE SOP SYSTEM FIT IN WITH THE PATRIOTS' PLANS OF GLOBAL INFORMATION CONTROL SNAKE AND CAMPBELL CONCLUDED THAT LIQUID'S INSURRECTION WAS AIMED AT DESTROYING IT REALIZING THAT THE SYSTEM MUST BE PROTRACTED IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY AND MODERN CIVILIZATION LIQUID'S AMBITIONS HAD TO BE THWARTED REACHING THE VICINITY OF LIQUID'S SOUTH AMERICAN BASE SNAKE WITNESSED CHAOS ERUPT IN A CLEARING BELOW HIS POSITION AS CAPTURED REBEL SOLDIERS WERE BEING LED AWAY BY PIEUVRE ARMEMENT FORCES LAUGHING OCTOPUS SUDDENLY EMERGED FROM THE SHADOWS AND PROCEEDED TO SLAUGHTER THEM HER FACIAL APPEARANCE RESEMBLING THAT OF SNAKE HIMSELF LEAVING ONE REBEL ALIVE SHE WARNED HIM TO REMEMBER HER FACE AS THE ONE WHO KILLED HIS COMRADES AND LET HIM ESCAPE VAMP TO SNAKE AND OTACON'S SURPRISE WAS ALSO PRESENT AND BOTH DEPARTED THE AREA BY STRYKER AFTER FAILING TO FIND SNAKE SNAKE THEN ADVANCED ONWARDS WITH OTACON ADMITTING TO HIM THAT HIS OCTOCAMO WAS BASED ON DESIGNS FROM DARPA THAT SUNNY HAD FOUND ON THE INTERNET AND THAT LAUGHING OCTOPUS MUST ALSO BE USING IT AFTER SNAKE MADE IT INTO THE HEART OF A BATTLEFIELD IN WHICH PMC AND REBEL FORCES WERE FIGHTING HE RECEIVED A CODEC CALL FROM CAMPBELL HE INTRODUCED SNAKE TO A FORMER MEMBER OF A COMBAT STRESS PLATOON WHOM HE RECOGNIZES AS ROSEMARY RAIDEN'S EX-FIANCÉ AND DATA ANALYST DURING THE BIG SHELL INCIDENT HE QUICKLY DEDUCED THAT ROSE WAS CAMPBELL'S NEW WIFE WHICH EXPLAINED WHY MERYL SILVERBURGH HAD SHOWED SUCH HOSTILITY TOWARDS HER FATHER UPON ADVANCING FURTHER SNAKE RECEIVED ANOTHER CODEC CALL THIS TIME FROM RAIDEN HIMSELF CLAIMING THAT HE WAS VERY CLOSE BY HE ALSO EXPLAINED THAT HE HAD RECENTLY BEEN SENT ON A MISSION FOR BIG MAMA TO RETRIEVE THE BODY OF BIG BOSS SNAKE THEN FOUND DREBIN YET AGAIN WHO EXPLAINED TO HIM ABOUT THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST UNIT AND REVEALED TO SNAKE THAT THE PATRIOTS WERE REALLY JUST A SYSTEM OF AIS SNAKE FOUND NAOMI IN A SECLUDED RESEARCH BUILDING BEHIND THE VISTA MANSION VIA AN UNDERGROUND PASSAGE NAOMI UPON SEEING SNAKE EXPLAINED THAT THERE WERE NO GUARDS PRESENT SINCE THEY KNEW SHE WAS POWERLESS HOWEVER BEFORE THEY WERE TO LEAVE NAOMI INSISTED SHE GIVE SNAKE A FULL MEDICAL EXAMINATION FOLLOWING THE TESTS SHE IDENTIFIED THE CAUSE OF SNAKE'S ACCELERATED AGING REVEALING THAT IT WAS INCURABLE; IT WAS SIMPLY THE WAY HE WAS DESIGNED AS A CLONE NAOMI ALSO DISCOVERED THAT THE FOXDIE VIRUS WHICH SHE HAD INJECTED INTO SNAKE ALMOST A DECADE AGO HAD SINCE MUTATED SINCE THERE WERE NO MORE TARGETS FOR IT TO ATTACK IT HAD BEEN CIRCULATING WITHIN HIS BODY SINCE THE RECEPTORS ON THE VIRUS HAD EVENTUALLY BROKEN DOWN AND IT WOULD ONLY BE A MATTER OF MONTHS BEFORE FOXDIE BECAME A THREAT TO OTHER PEOPLE NAOMI ESTIMATED THAT SNAKE HAD ONLY HALF A YEAR LEFT TO LIVE AS WELL AND HE ONLY HAD THREE MONTHS BEFORE THE FOXDIE BEGAN TO TARGET OTHER PEOPLE INDISCRIMINATELY SNAKE THEN ASKED WHAT WOULD HAPPEN SHOULD HE TAKE HIS OWN LIFE BEFORE THAT TIME TO WHICH SHE REPLIED THAT FOXDIE WOULD DIE WITH HIM SHE HAD ALSO DISCOVERED A NEW STRAIN OF FOXDIE IN SNAKE THAT HAD RECENTLY BEEN INJECTED INTO HIM WITH SNAKE IMMEDIATELY SUSPECTING THAT DREBIN 893 WAS RESPONSIBLE IN ADDITION NAOMI EXPLAINED TO SNAKE WHAT HAD ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN THE MIDDLE EAST WITH LIQUID ATTEMPTING TO DISABLE THE SOP SYSTEM INSIDE HIS PMC SOLDIERS THE SUDDEN FREEDOM HAD PROVED TOO MUCH FOR THEIR MINDS TO HANDLE AND THEY HAD BEEN DRIVEN MAD BY THEIR PREVIOUSLY SUPPRESSED EMOTIONS LIQUID HAD ORIGINALLY INTENDED TO REMOVE THE SYSTEM COMPLETELY BUT THE RESULTS OF THE MIDDLE EAST TEST FORCED HIM TO CHANGE HIS PLANS HE WAS NOW ATTEMPTING TO GAIN CONTROL OVER THE SYSTEM AND OVERTHROW THE PATRIOTS BUT HE WOULD NEED BIG BOSS'S DNA IN ORDER TO DO IT SUDDENLY SHE BEGAN TO EXPERIENCE A LOT OF PAIN BEFORE PIEUVRE ARMAMENT PMC TROOPS BURST INTO THE BUILDING AND GRABBED HER TELLING HER THAT SHE WAS NO LONGER SAFE THERE BEFORE SNAKE COULD GO AFTER HER HE WAS AMBUSHED BY A TEAM OF FROGS COMMANDED BY LAUGHING OCTOPUS WHOM HE WAS FORCED TO DEFEAT AFTERWARDS DREBIN CALLED SNAKE UPON PROCURING OCTOPUS'S FACECAMO WITH SNAKE ACCUSING HIM OF SETTING HIM UP AND PLACING FOXDIE IN HIS BODY ALTHOUGH DREBIN ADMITTED THAT HE WAS SPYING ON HIM HE DENIED ACTUALLY GIVING HIM THE VIRUS HE THEN BRIEFLY EXPLAINED LAUGHING OCTOPUS'S HISTORY SHEDDING SOME LIGHT ON HER POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER WHICH HAD FORCED HER TO BECOME A "BEAST OF WAR" WITH THE HELP OF SOME SCOUTING TIPS FROM RAIDEN SNAKE TRACKED NAOMI TO A HELIPAD WHERE SHE WAS BEING LOADED ONTO A HELICOPTER UNDER VAMP'S SUPERVISION SNAKE THEN SHOT VAMP IN THE HEAD WITH THE PIEUVRE ARMAMENT SOLDIERS ON THE GROUND RETURNING FIRE MEANWHILE THE SOLDIERS ABOARD THE HELICOPTER TOOK INJECTIONS TO LESSEN THE EFFECTS OF THE LOCKDOWN ON THE SOP SYSTEM WHICH WAS DUE TO COMMENCE AS PART OF LIQUID'S SECOND ATTEMPT TO GAIN ACCESS SHORTLY THEREAFTER THE SOLDIERS ON THE GROUND BEGAN TO SUFFER FROM THE SAME SEIZURES THAT HAD AFFLICTED THE PMCS IN THE MIDDLE EAST JUST AS NAOMI APPEARED LOST DREBIN MANAGED TO RESCUE HER AND SNAKE IN HIS STRYKER WITH DREBIN AT THE WHEEL AND SNAKE MANNING THE GUN TURRET ON TOP THE GROUP ESCAPED DREBIN'S STRYKER MADE IT TO A SMALL VILLAGE WHERE CIVILIANS WERE RUNNING FOR COVER FROM ATTACKING GEKKO UNABLE TO PROCEED THEY WERE AMBUSHED BY SEVERAL OF THEM HOWEVER RAIDEN REVEALING HIMSELF TO BE A CYBORG NINJA APPEARED AND ENGAGED THE GEKKO IN COMBAT BEFORE FIGHTING VAMP SNAKE AND NAOMI ESCAPED WITH THE METAL GEAR MK II ONTO OTACON'S HELICOPTER PICKING UP A HEAVILY INJURED RAIDEN AS THEY ESCAPED HE WAS ABLE TO DELIVER AN INSTRUCTION TO SNAKE BEFORE PASSING OUT ENTIRELY: "GO MEET -- BIG MAMA" ON BOARD THE NOMAD NAOMI HUNTER HELPED SUNNY WITH HER COOKING OF EGGS REALIZING THAT SHE USUALLY LEFT THE TOP ON SO SHE COULD DO HER SUNNY-SIDE-UP FORTUNE TELLING SUNNY THEN REVEALED THAT OLGA GURLUKOVICH WAS HER MOTHER WHEN NAOMI ASKED ABOUT HER PICTURE AFTER RECITING THE PERIODIC TABLE TOGETHER NAOMI GAVE HER BLUE ROSE TO SUNNY WHICH SHE HAD BEEN ADMIRING AND PLACED IT IN HER HAIR THEY ALSO SAVED THE EGGS FROM BURNING AFTERWARDS NAOMI IDENTIFIED LIQUID OCELOT'S LOCATION IN EASTERN EUROPE WHERE HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO PROCURE BIG BOSS'S CORPSE BIG BOSS'S GENETIC CODE AND BIOMETRIC DATA WOULD ALLOW HIM TO GAIN ACCESS TO THE SOP SYSTEM SINCE HIS EARLIER TESTS WITH BOTH LIQUID SNAKE'S AND SOLID SNAKE'S DNA HAD PROVED INSUFFICIENT NAOMI EXPLAINED TO SNAKE AND HAL EMMERICH THAT NEITHER CLONES' DNA HAD BEEN A 100% MATCH TO BIG BOSS DUE TO GENETIC MARKERS USED IN THE CLONING PROCESS AND THE ALTERED TERMINATOR GENES SHE REVEALED THAT IT WAS FOR THIS REASON THAT THE PATRIOTS HAD CREATED SOLIDUS SNAKE CONTRARY TO WHAT SNAKE AND HAL HAD ORIGINALLY THOUGHT BIG BOSS'S CELLS HAD BEEN KEPT ALIVE AND HIS BODY SUSTAINED AS A BIOMORT IN A LABMEANWHILE RAIDEN'S CONDITION HAD BECOME STEADILY WORSE SUNNY MANAGED TO SUCCESSFULLY HACK THE PATRIOTS' DATABASE VIA AT SECURITY AND LOCATE BIG BOSS'S BODY NAOMI REMEMBERING THE SUFFERING THAT HER BROTHER HAD ENDURED AS A CYBORG NINJA WAS ANGERED THAT SUCH PROJECTS STILL CONTINUED ON AND FELT SORRY FOR RAIDEN THEY WERE UNSURE IF RAIDEN WOULD LIVE THROUGH THE NIGHT WITH NAOMI CONCLUDING THAT HE NEEDED AN INFUSION OF ARTIFICIAL WHITE BLOOD BEFORE HE ENTERED AUTOTOXEMIA HOWEVER THEY DID NOT HAVE THE NECESSARY EQUIPMENT TO GIVE HIM THE PROPER DIALYSIS NEVERTHELESS RAIDEN MANAGED TO TELL THEM THAT THE EQUIPMENT COULD ALSO BE FOUND IN EASTERN EUROPE WITH WORLD-RENOWNED CYBERNETICIST DRAGO PETTROVICH MADNAR; THE SAME MAN WHO HAD SAVED HIS LIFE ONCE BEFORE OTACON THEN OFFERED TO CONTACT ROY CAMPBELL TO GET LANDING CLEARANCE DURING THE NIGHT NAOMI AND OTACON TALKED MORE ON THEIR COMMON BACKGROUNDS SINCE BOTH HAD DEVELOPED TECHNOLOGIES THAT HAD ULTIMATELY BEEN USED FOR DESTRUCTIVE ENDS OTACON ALSO TOLD NAOMI OF HIS LATE STEPSISTER EMMA EMMERICH WHO HAD BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR CREATING THE WORM CLUSTER THAT HAD INFECTED GW THOUGH OTACON WAS INITIALLY RELUCTANT THE TWO LATER SHARED A NIGHT OF PASSION WITHIN THE CABIN OF PHILANTHROPY'S HELICOPTERSNAKE HEADED TO EASTERN EUROPE TO FIND BIG MAMA THE LEADER OF THE PARADISE LOST ARMY KNOWING THAT HE WOULD BE SHOT ON SIGHT IF SEEN IN PUBLIC BY THE OCCUPYING PMC FORCES SNAKE USED LAUGHING OCTOPUS'S FACECAMO TO MAKE HIMSELF APPEAR YOUNGER AS WELL AS DRESSING IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES HOWEVER UPON REFUSING TO PASS THROUGH AN ID CHECKPOINT WHICH WOULD HAVE BLOWN HIS COVER HE WAS TAKEN ASIDE BY MERYL SILVERBURGH THERE WITH RAT PATROL TEAM 01 AFTER ARGUING ABOUT THEIR RESPECTIVE MOTIVES THE TWO PARTED ON A SOLEMN NOTE SNAKE AND OTACON DECIDED THAT THE BEST WAY TO PARA-MEDIC (DR CLARK) AND RUSSIAN TRIPLE SPY OCELOT THE ORGANIZATION HAD EVENTUALLY SPLIT INTO TWO FACTIONS IN DISAGREEMENT OVER THE INTERPRETATION OF A UNIFIED WORLD AS ENVISIONED BY THEIR IDOL THE BOSS BIG BOSS VAMP NOW HAVING MORTAL WOUNDS FOR THE FIRST TIME WAS EUTHANIZED BY NAOMI BY A FULL DOSE OF NANO-SUPPRESSANT VAMP DEFEATED NAOMI APOLOGIZED TO SNAKE AND OTACON BEFORE REVEALING THAT SHE HAD CANCER AND OVERWHELMED BY GUILT INJECTED HERSELF WITH THE SYRINGE EFFECTIVELY COMMITTING SUICIDE THEY MOURNED FOR THEIR LOSS ACCEPTING THAT THEY WOULD NEVER KNOW WHERE NAOMI'S TRUE ALLEGIANCE LIED WITH MORE SUICIDE GEKKO ON THE WAY OTACON USED THE MK III TO REACTIVATE REX WITH RAIDEN HANGING ON SNAKE USED IT TO ESCAPE FROM THE COLLAPSING BASE UPON EMERGING RAIDEN WAS CRUSHED BY FALLING RUBBLE AND SNAKE WAS CONFRONTED BY METAL GEAR RAY BEING PILOTED BY MACHINE CANNONS OTACON ALSO ACTIVATED A PROGRAM SECRETLY INSTALLED ON BOARD REX WHILE IT WAS STILL IN DEVELOPMENT WHICH UTILIZED ITS HULL AS A WEAPON IN ITSELF DRASTICALLY INCREASING ITS CHANCES AGAINST RAY ALTHOUGH IT COULD ONLY BE ACTIVATED IN CERTAIN SITUATIONS THOUGH RAY HAD BEEN SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO DESTROY REX AND ITS MANY VARIANTS SNAKE WAS STILL ABLE TO DEFEAT THE MORE ADVANCED METAL GEAR MODEL LIQUID OCELOT HOWEVER SURVIVED RAY'S DESTRUCTION AND AFTER TRYING TO FAKE SNAKE OUT WITH ACTING AS THOUGH HE IS DYING FROM FOXDIE ESCAPED WITH SNAKE AT TOW (ALTHOUGH SNAKE ALSO HAD TROUBLE CATCHING UP TO HIM AS HE HAD APPARENTLY BROKEN HIS ARM AND LEG AS A RESULT OF THE HARD LANDING FROM GETTING OFF OF THE DEACTIVATED REX'S COCKPIT) SNAKE ATTEMPTED TO CHASE HIM DOWN UNTIL HE NOTICED A FIGURE EMERGING FROM THE OCEAN MOMENTS LATER LIQUID OCELOT THEN EXPLAINED AT THE HELM OF HIS OWN ARSENAL GEAR OUTER HAVEN WHAT HE INTENDS TO DO WITH REX'S RAILGUN: WITH REX'S RAIL GUN HE INTENDS TO LAUNCH A NUCLEAR WEAPON AT JD WHERE HE WILL RESET THE PATRIOTS TO BE UNDER HIS CONTROL VIA GW WHERE EVERYTHING ENDS AND EVERYTHING BEGINS OUTER HAVEN WITH REX'S RAIL GUN NOW CONNECTED TO IT RAMMED ITSELF INTO THE PORT ALMOST KILLING A WEAK SNAKE LUCKILY RAIDEN HAVING CUT OFF HIS OWN ARM TO BREAK FREE MANAGED TO STOP IT MOVING AND WAS SEEMINGLY CRUSHED IN THE PROCESS OUTER HAVEN ONLY RETREATED WHEN THE USS MISSOURI NOW CAPTAINED BY MEI LING ARRIVED AT THE PORT AND OPENED FIRE ON THE ARSENAL GEAR SNAKE WAS CARRIED BACK ONBOARD THE MISSOURI WITH OUTER HEAVEN LEADER LIQUID OCELOT IN POSSESSION OF METAL GEAR REX'S RAIL GUN HE HAD THE MEANS TO DESTROY THE PATRIOTS' CORE AI JD WITH A NUCLEAR STRIKE ON BOARD THE ARSENAL GEAR-CLASS WARSHIP OUTER HAVEN LIQUID HEADED OUT INTO THE BERING SEA 494 NAUTICAL MILES FROM THE BERING STRAIT IN ORDER TO STRIKE THE US MILITARY SATELLITE HOUSING JD WITH THE SATELLITE ORBITING AT 10 KILOMETERS PER SECOND AND THE NUKE'S DAMAGE RADIUS OF 300 METERS JD WAS TO BE ATTACKED AS IT REACHED ITS PERIGEE IN ORDER TO CONDUCT AN ACCURATE LAUNCHBRIEFING US MILITARY PERSONNEL ON BOARD THE USS MISSOURI NAVY CAPTAIN MEI LING INTENDED TO ATTACK THE SUBMERSIBLE HAVEN WHEN IT SURFACED TO MAKE ITS NUCLEAR STRIKE THOUGH TRAILING BEHIND THE TECHNOLOGICALLY SUPERIOR WARSHIP THE MISSOURI WOULD BE ABLE TO CATCH UP TO HAVEN WHILE IT MADE ITS LAUNCH PREPARATIONS HOWEVER THE CREW WOULD HAVE TO RELY ON THEIR EYES TO LOCATE IT AS THE MISSOURI HAD BEEN STRIPPED OF MOST OF HER EQUIPMENT AND ALSO LACKED ANY ELECTRONIC WARFARE CAPABILITIES SINCE A DIRECT ATTACK WOULD BE USELESS THANKS TO LIQUID'S CONTROL OF THE SOP SYSTEM A STRIKE TEAM WOULD INFILTRATE HAVEN DURING THE ASSAULT AND UPLOAD A WORM CLUSTER INTO THE SHIP'S AI GW SOLID SNAKE VOLUNTEERED FOR THE MISSION MAKING NO SECRET OF HIS DISREGARD FOR HIS OWN LIFE ALONG WITH MERYL SILVERBURGH AND JOHNNY SASAKI HAVING RECEIVED INTELLIGENCE FROM NAOMI HUNTER THE STRIKE TEAM PLANNED TO CATAPULT ABOARD THE VESSEL AFTER IT OPENED ITS TOP COVER TO FIRE THE BRIDGE-MOUNTED RAIL GUN THEY WOULD THEN PENETRATE GW'S PHYSICAL SERVER ROOM AND UPLOAD THE WORM CLUSTER WHICH HAD BEEN CREATED BY NAOMI AND SUNNY THE WORM WOULD BOTH PREVENT THE NUCLEAR LAUNCH AND WIPE GW'S PROGRAMMING SINCE IT WOULD NEED TO STAY INTEGRATED WITHIN THE PATRIOTS' NETWORK IN ORDER TO ASSUME JD'S FUNCTIONS AFTER ITS DESTRUCTION GW COULD NOT BE DEACTIVATED TO PREVENT THE WORM'S UPLOAD HOWEVER THE SERVER ROOM WOULD BE HEAVILY DEFENDED BY LIQUID'S TROOPS ALONG WITH MICROWAVE DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS MEANWHILE GUN LAUNDERER DREBIN 893 PROVIDED HIS SERVICES TO THE MISSOURI'S MILITARY PERSONNEL ISSUING THEM WITH "NAKED" WEAPONS ALONG WITH CATAPULTS THAT THE STRIKE TEAM WOULD BE USING AS THE MISSOURI CLOSED THE DISTANCE TO OUTER HAVEN SNAKE (CARRYING OTACON'S MKIII) MERYL AND JOHNNY PREPARED TO BOARD THE ENEMY SHIP COMMENCING FIRE TO DEFEND AGAINST HAVEN'S MISSILE BARRAGE AND DEPLOYED METAL GEAR RAY UNITS THE MISSOURI COLLIDED INTO THE OTHER VESSEL PLOWING ALONG ITS SIDE THE STRIKE TEAM THEN ACTIVATED THEIR CATAPULTS AND ASCENDED UPWARDS ONTO HAVEN THOUGH JOHNNY HIT THE SIDE OF THE SHIP AND FELL INTO THE OCEAN MERYL LANDED IN A DIFFERENT AREA OF THE SHIP THAN PLANNED INJURING HER ANKLE WHILE SNAKE'S SUCCESSFUL JUMP FORCED HIM TO CONTINUE THE INFILTRATION ALONE AVOIDING THE DENSE FORCE OF GEKKO AND HAVEN TROOPERS DEPLOYED ON DECK SNAKE MADE IT TO AN ELEVATOR ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE SHIP AND DESCENDED INTO THE HEART OF HAVEN ENTERING A LARGE COMPUTER CONTROL ROOM HE WAS FORCED TO TAKE ON A WAVE OF HAVEN TROOPERS WHICH HE ULTIMATELY DEFEATED SNAKE WAS THEN CONFRONTED BY THE LEADER OF THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST UNIT SCREAMING MANTIS SNAKE WAS ABLE TO OVERCOME HER APPARENT PSYCHIC ABILITIES BY SUPPRESSING HIS NANOMACHINES AND THEN STOLE MANTIS' MIND CONTROL PUPPET ALLOWING HIM TO DEFEAT HER SHORTLY AFTERWARDS THE GHOST OF PSYCHO MANTIS APPEARED IN HER PLACE AND AFTER MAKING SEVERAL PSYCHIC PREDICTIONS REVEALED HIMSELF TO BE THE ONE CONTROLLING ALL OF THE BB MEMBERS THROUGH THE BODY OF SCREAMING MANTIS ALTHOUGH HE PREPARED TO ATTACK ANOTHER SPIRIT THAT OF THE SORROW APPEARED AND BANISHED MANTIS FOREVER THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST UNIT WAS DEFEATED BUT SNAKE'S MISSION WAS FAR FROM OVER CONTINUING TOWARDS GW'S SERVER ROOM MERYL AND JOHNNY APPEARED IN TIME TO SAVE SNAKE FROM ANOTHER WAVE OF HAVEN HIS SON THAT HE WAS NOT THERE TO FIGHT TELLING SNAKE THAT IT WAS "TIME TO PUT ASIDE THE GUN AND LIVE" HE TOOK SNAKE'S GUN FROM HIS HAND UNLOADED IT AND DROPPED IT ON THE GROUND HE PROCEEDED TO EXPLAIN THAT HIS BODY HAD BEEN REASSEMBLED (USING PIECES OF LIQUID SNAKE AND SOLIDUS SNAKE) BY EVA AND RAIDEN RATHER THAN SIMPLY KEPT ALIVE ON A MACHINE AND THAT THE BODY IN EVA'S VAN THAT WAS BURNT TO ASHES BY LIQUID OCELOT IN EASTERN EUROPE WAS IN FACT THE BODY OF SOLIDUS OCELOT WAS ABLE TO USE THE GENETIC CODE FROM THIS BODY TO ACCESS THE SOP SYSTEM BECAUSE SOLIDUS UNLIKE LIQUID SNAKE OR SOLID SNAKE WAS A PERFECT CLONE OF BIG BOSSBIG BOSS THEN EXPLAINED TO SNAKE HOW OCELOT IN ORDER TO FOOL THE SYSTEM USED A COMBINATION OF NANOMACHINES AND PSYCHOTHERAPY TO TURN HIMSELF INTO "LIQUID'S MENTAL DOPPELGANGER" AS WELL AS FULLY EXPLAINING THE HISTORY OF THE PATRIOTS FROM HIS POINT OF VIEW ONCE THE VIRUS OPENED THE GATEWAY FROM GW TO THE PATRIOTS BIG BOSS WAS ABLE TO FINALLY DETERMINE THE LOCATION OF ZERO HE THEN SHOWED SNAKE AN ELDERLY WHEELCHAIR-BOUND ZERO ON A LIFE SUPPORT MACHINE HE MENTIONED THE NAMES OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE PATRIOTS THAT HAVE PASSED ON AND CLAIMED THAT THE PATRIOTS WOULD NOT BE COMPLETELY DESTROYED UNTIL HE "TAKES EVERYTHING BACK TO ZERO" AND "REDUCES ZERO BACK TO NOTHING" WITH THAT BIG BOSS PULLED THE PLUG FROM ZERO'S AIR SUPPLY KILLING HIM WITH ZERO DEAD BIG BOSS WAS THE LAST PATRIOT WHEN SNAKE ASKED IF HE WOULD BE "GOING BACK TO ZERO AS WELL" BIG BOSS REPLIED THAT HE WOULD THE FOXDIE VIRUS INJECTED INTO SNAKE BY DREBIN THAT KILLED OCELOT AND EVA WAS ALSO SET TO KILL BIG BOSS AND HE WAS ALREADY STARTING TO FEEL THE EFFECTS BIG BOSS EXPLAINED THAT THIS FOXDIE VIRUS ALSO REPLACED THE ORIGINAL MUTATED STRAIN THAT SNAKE WAS INJECTED WITH BY NAOMI HUNTER AND THEREFORE THERE WAS NO THREAT OF HIM BECOMING A BIOLOGICAL WEAPON; THOUGH THE NEW FOXDIE WOULD EVENTUALLY MUTATE AS WELL THAT WOULD ONLY BE IF SNAKE MANAGED TO LIVE THAT LONG SNAKE HELPED HIS PAINED FATHER OVER TO THE BOSS'S GRAVE WHERE HE SALUTED HER AS HE HAD DONE FIFTY YEARS EARLIER AND SADLY STATED THAT HE HAD BEEN DEAD SINCE THE DAY HE KILLED HER BIG BOSS ALSO UNDERSTOOD THE ORIGINAL MEANING BEHIND THE BOSS'S LAST WILL: THAT IT WAS NOT ABOUT CHANGING AND REUNITING THE WORLD AS ONE BUT RATHER LEAVING THE WORLD AS IT IS SHARING ONE LAST SMOKE WITH HIS SON BIG BOSS AS A LAST REQUEST ASKED SNAKE TO SPEND THE REMAINDER OF HIS LIFE PEACEFULLY AND NOT WASTE IT FIGHTING AND THE TWO FINALLY MADE PEACE IN HIS LAST WORDS BIG BOSS SIMPLY SAID "THIS IS GOOD ISN'T IT?" AND SECONDS LATER THE GREATEST SOLDIER OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY PASSED AWAY AT THE GRAVE OF THE WOMAN WHOSE IDEALS HAD STARTED IT ALL AND WHOSE LIFE AND DEATH HAD SHAPED HIM INTO THE PERSON THAT HE WAS SOMETIME LATER OTACON CAUGHT UP WITH SNAKE AND ASKED HIM WHERE HE WAS GOING SNAKE WHO HAD DECIDED TO QUIT SMOKING RESPONDED THAT "THERE'S ONE THING [HE] STILL NEEDS TO DO" THAT WAS TO "SEE THIS AGE OFF AND SEE WHAT THE FUTURE BRINGS" OTACON INSISTED THAT HE AND SUNNY ACCOMPANY HIM TO DOCUMENT THE FINAL DAYS OF HIS HERO AND FRIEND AND AFTER SOME PERSUASION SNAKE AGREEDLATER SUNNY WAS COOKING EGGS IN THE NOMAD FINALLY MAKING THEM PERFECTLY PROUDLY SHE EXCLAIMED:SORTA LOOKS LIKE THE SUN IT'S RISING AGAIN
Hey guys, do you know of any video games with "challenge towers?" As in, a mode where you compete against increasingly difficult enemies? Kind of like the one in Mortal Kombat 9. Any other games like that?
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LIQUID HAS VAMP THROW THE BIOMORT ABOARD RAT PATROL'S BOAT WHICH LANDED IN FLAMES BIG MAMA STILL BADLY INJURED LEAPED INTO THE FIRE IN A FUTILE ATTEMPT TO RETRIEVE THE BODY OF "BIG BOSS" WHILE SNAKE ATTEMPTED TO PULL HER AWAY LIQUID THEN SHOT THE BIOMORT IN THE HEAD ENSURING ITS DESTRUCTION TRIGGERING A FIERY EXPLOSION THAT CAUGHT SNAKE BADLY BURNING THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS FACE OTACON OPERATING FROM THE NOMAD MANAGED TO STOW THE METAL GEAR MK II AWAY ON LIQUID'S BOAT MEANWHILE JOHNNY SASAKI WAS ABLE TO SAVE MERYL FROM DROWNING AND THE TWO EMBRACED IN A PASSIONATE KISS
Watched Tangled last night because it popped up on Netflix and I had heard good things.
It was entertaining enough, I just wish that A) somebody had warned me it was a musical, because I always find musical numbers mildly annoying and there were fewer instances of...for lack of a better description...'smugface', like everyone is just a little too hip and cool to totally buy into the proceedings.
I'm sure that if one old man in a rubber catsuit didn't get me there, two old men kissing wouldn't get me much farther.
Now I'm stuck with the image of two old men hitting each other with their old balls so I'm just not going to have another sexy thought for the rest of the week.
Hey guys, do you know of any video games with "challenge towers?" As in, a mode where you compete against increasingly difficult enemies? Kind of like the one in Mortal Kombat 9. Any other games like that?
Soul calibur 4 has "Descend" in tower of souls mode. As far as I know it keeps getting more and more difficult (Pretty sure the enemies stop getting harder after 30 floors though).
I'm sure that if one old man in a rubber catsuit didn't get me there, two old men kissing wouldn't get me much farther.
Now I'm stuck with the image of two old men hitting each other with their old balls so I'm just not going to have another sexy thought for the rest of the week.
mm
thankyou for reminding me of that liev schreiber photo
and hes only 43!!!
Sup sup. Anyone have any experience burning DVDRs? I have this 4.2gb mkv file and I'd like to see in on the big screen. Ya herd? What software is recommended? Anything free?
<edit> Also, the movie is Redline. Has anyone seen that? The art and animation is akin to Dead Leaves, but more controlled. So good.
Hey guys, do you know of any video games with "challenge towers?" As in, a mode where you compete against increasingly difficult enemies? Kind of like the one in Mortal Kombat 9. Any other games like that?
Soul calibur 4 has "Descend" in tower of souls mode. As far as I know it keeps getting more and more difficult (Pretty sure the enemies stop getting harder after 30 floors though).
Cool, thanks! I thought of Batman Arkham Asylum too. Any others?
Twilight princess and Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door have those.
Also I agree with FF8 being underrated, the junction system was brilliant. Although the only FF I've actually finished is 9, which seems to be not so much underrated as just forgotten.
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While I adore traditional Japanese culture, I despise almost everything about Japanese pop culture, this extends but is not limited to Japanese games...though the Resident Evil series hit some high points in a "This horror movie is so terrible it's funny" kind of way.
I called them this afternoon and they have one in stock.
I ride a Specialized. Have no complaints from them, good bike.
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I don't understand the riding of bikes, death lurks around every corner.
Though I'm certain the paranoia of being run down would kill me before the 90 year old hyundai driving woman on the verge of blindness did.
Watched Tangled last night because it popped up on Netflix and I had heard good things.
It was entertaining enough, I just wish that A) somebody had warned me it was a musical, because I always find musical numbers mildly annoying and there were fewer instances of...for lack of a better description...'smugface', like everyone is just a little too hip and cool to totally buy into the proceedings.
Welcome to Dreamworks.
....also Pixar, apparently.
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Menus saved my life!
They gave me food and drink when banging loudly on the storefront did not!
now there was a game that I hated
Yeah, things don't get more absurd than Metal Gear.
"OK, so you're a genetically crafted super spy that has to stop a nuclear tank in Alaska. The bad guy is your brother... your twin brother... your evil, twin brother... your evil, british twin brother. Also there is a man that used to be your best friend. But he is dead, because you killed him.... he is back now... to get revenge... as a ninja... a robot ninja."
And Metal Gear 4 is even crazier!
FF13 may possibly be the biggest single contributor to my eventual GameFly subscription.
pfft, it's simple to understand:
and there was no mention of the kiss
that is an inaccurate summary
aaahahahahaha
edit: er, at that video Grif posted and Fug said was horrifying
what
you chose incorrectly
1: :^:
2: N/A
3: N/A
4: :^:
5: :v: :v: :v:
6: :^: :^: :^:!!!
7: :^: :^:
8: :^:
9: :^: :^: :^:
10: :v: :^:
don't care from that point forward
addendum: Fuck you, Nomura
It was entertaining enough, I just wish that A) somebody had warned me it was a musical, because I always find musical numbers mildly annoying and
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I'm sure that if one old man in a rubber catsuit didn't get me there, two old men kissing wouldn't get me much farther.
Now I'm stuck with the image of two old men hitting each other with their old balls so I'm just not going to have another sexy thought for the rest of the week.
Soul calibur 4 has "Descend" in tower of souls mode. As far as I know it keeps getting more and more difficult (Pretty sure the enemies stop getting harder after 30 floors though).
mm
thankyou for reminding me of that liev schreiber photo
and hes only 43!!!
Yeah I'd hit it
8->
<edit> Also, the movie is Redline. Has anyone seen that? The art and animation is akin to Dead Leaves, but more controlled. So good.
Cool, thanks! I thought of Batman Arkham Asylum too. Any others?
Also I agree with FF8 being underrated, the junction system was brilliant. Although the only FF I've actually finished is 9, which seems to be not so much underrated as just forgotten.
http://www.cannondale.com/bikes/recreation-urban/urban/bad-boy/2011-bad-boy-solo-r-deore
I called them this afternoon and they have one in stock.
I ride a Specialized. Have no complaints from them, good bike.
Though I'm certain the paranoia of being run down would kill me before the 90 year old hyundai driving woman on the verge of blindness did.
Welcome to Dreamworks.
....also Pixar, apparently.
(It was an attempt to recapture their 90s animated success, which is why it had the songs and the two animal mascots and all that.)
Damn, it was?........silly me
Though Pixar and Disney are now some weird homogenous goop
and that movie seemed very...Dreamworks to me
I'm going to try and save face and turn this around
too many smug-face movies for me to handle, brain malfunctioned
it was bound to happen