This video has unfortunately been age restricted by RUclips. I've written a community post and tweets detailing this further. I unfortunately may have to delete this video altogether should I not be able to resolve it. So I ask that you enjoy the video while you can, if you even see it in your feed. Thanks as ever for the support Important Update & Edit: As of this afternoon the age restriction has been lifted. A massive thanks to everyone for sending their support on the video, and a thanks to my contacts at RUclips as well for escalating the issue to resolve it. You should now be able to see the video on RUclips normally unless something terrible happens again, so I'd recommend watching sooner rather than later just in case! The Memes are again the DNA of the Soul
fun fact when senator Armstrong originally walks out he has a health bar of 100% but when he rips off his shirt it is then revealed that his true health is 200% meaning the first health bar isn't his health bar but actually his shirt's
Context for the Monsoon Speech: Basically Monsoon was like “You hide behind this facade of justice and defending the weak, but you’re actually a killer, just like us.” And Raiden was like “Hang on… Sam said something kinda similar… you’re right, I am, because I really love killing. But honestly I don’t need an excuse anymore, I can just kill because it’s fun! Lemme start now! With you!” And then Monsoon was like “You were supposed to have a mental breakdown oh god no-“ and then he died.
@@santiagobarreraruiz7280 The Smiling Friends fella, right? the guy who's in like a podium promoting nihilism and then starts crying when pointed at with a shotgun
I love this game because it genuinely has some interesting ideas and themes but it's the furthest thing from pretentious about it. It's not afraid to use the stupidest premise possible and never winks to the audience or acknowledges the absurdity. A man made of magnets chadsplains memes to a cyborg ninja going through a mental breakdown about how many hearts he's ripped from the chests of potentially innocent men and it's delivered with zero cynicism or ironic intent.
MGR just leans into it unambiguously and shamelessly, and that's a huge part of why it's so loved. And it's all scored to some of the most fire music ever made by the guy who composed music for fucking Toontown. This game does not give a *single* fuck.
I love that it's very clear that Kojima just wanted to make the sickest action movie possible as well and made it happen, no matter how nonsensical. As bonkers as it is, it never feels like anything was phoned in - it feels like a passion project.
1:24:55 I just realized why he stopped to laugh. Because Raiden finally succeeded in dodging something that could've grazed his chin. His chin finally went unscathed.
@@kaiserredpanda2101Well yeah, Raiden was insulting Armstrong with the suggestion that he played football at an Ivy League school (which wouldn’t be known for good football players, and would also be known for “elite” society members) and Armstrong retorts that he played at University of Texas, making it clear that his college of choice wasn’t the typical kind of institution for politicians to learn at, in order to show Raiden how he doesn’t think like a typical politician and just wants to burn the country down and restart it from the beginning instead of perpetuating its state and getting rich from the top of the pile.
Fun Fact: In japanese version of this game, every cyborg has white blood to show they are cyborgs/robots except Sam. The reason to emphasize that Sam is that GUY who barely has any enhancements except his red arm.
Who looks at white blood and thinks hmmm yes this is a good idea. Why not black or blue or green or literally any other color other than white or yellow or brown.
Platinum really went and took the quiet part of Kojima games and plugged it into a stadium amp, and added a complex physics engine to turn your enemies into ground meats.
It's worth noting that Sam is 98% human. the only non-human portion of his body is his right arm, which (spoilers) got cut off by Armstrong in the DLC. so ALL of Sam's reaction speed, his endurance, his skill and all of that- just him. no cyborg bits, no HUD, just raw human talent and spite.
the suit was there to keep his body in once piece, not to enhance his skills. it made sure he had enough oxygen/bloodflow to do the nonsense he was doing@@possibly_ben
It is a newer model of the exoskelet (something like Gray Fox's) it was actually made to enhance his reaction speed, power, and overall for him to be able to keep up with modern cyborgs@@garrettruggiero7071
@@garrettruggiero7071that man was literally beyond human. Having to get oxygen from a suit to keep himself alive because he's just that cracked is hilarious. XD
This man will not have the patience for Codecs when they show up there. Edit: Yakuza games and Shonen as a genre will probably confuse the heck out of RT then.
@@leithaziz2716 I feel like Yakuza would extra confuse him if he plays the ones that are Japanese only because then he'll also have to read all the subtitles to get what's going on
@@taco8951 "if he plays the ones that are Japanese only" which is 90% of the franchise, only Yakuza 7, 8 and Gaiden have English voiceover (and both Judgment games) - 3 games out of 10 (5 out of 12 when you count Judgment & Lost Judgment) there's also the recently remade Samurai Spin-off Like a Dragon: Ishin! which also has only Japanese voice acting
Daniel somehow both played incredibly and horribly. I watched the vods, and this man didn't realize how to stun Monsoon, fought Sundowner the Fungular Entertainment Way™️, and didn't hit Armstrong out of his healing correctly and somehow beat them all fairly easily. This guy is actually a psycho.
@@minecraftsteve5201 tbf his health is really bad i feel that he should have more defence until you break his shields so that way its harder to kill him The Fungular Entretainment way™
Senator Armstrong is unironically one of the greatest examples of a villain stealing the show and becoming iconic in the last hour of a game and with so little screentime. You can chew out hundred of memes from every cutscene he's in. And he's a legit great antagonist that challenges Raiden's ideals beyond the memes.
@@dhampir_days It was me Barry, I went on a detective investigation regarding the bike during the stream! (I just went to a wiki page on motorcycles in the Metal Gear series)
My favorite part of the stream was everyone talking about Raiden's eye makeup and heels and fancy nails, like for a stone cold killer he makes sure he goes into battle looking like a whole distraction for the girls and the gays
@@taylorcarpenter8290 honestly will never not find it funny how he was originally designed to be fanservice. anyway the things I would do to that man border on cartoonish. I'd probably get shredded by those nails but it'd be worth it.
I don't know if anyone's mentioned this or if someone explained it to Daniel, but in case you didn't know, the game isn't using the term "meme" in the modern internet usage. They're using the original defenition coined by Richard Dawkins in the 70's, essentially meaning "something that is imitated." So whenever the game mentions memes, it actually is refering to learned beliefs and behaviors. It just ends up being unintentionally hilarious because no one knows that defention and we just think theyre talking extremely seriously about the concept of dumb internet jokes.
I'm pretty sure RT is an English major, so he definitely knew about the original definition of meme. However, it's much funnier to assume they're talking about dumb internet jokes.
Funnily enough, the current use of meme is still correct. The game describes memes as "the DNA of the soul" (which is the iconic like everyone remembers) and also things handed down through a culture, rather than handed down through genetics. In a way, the internet jokes we have today are very much the DNA of our modern culture. Most people I know, at least, get their latest news by way of seeing a meme before they see the headline. They see a meme about a game, look into it and share it with others for better or for worse (both the meme itself and what it's referring to). TLDR: in a roundabout way, MGR is using the correct definition of meme as it pertains to its original definition AND it's modern connotation. Truly ahead of its time.
I really love that because Internet memes are basically like ideas that float around and also constitute cultural identity, Internet memes are the purest form of Richard Dawkins’s memes.
@@alextheonewarrior You hear about the police accountability department that just got its leadership directly from an officer "involved in the death" of a black man who was being arrested for legally possessing a knife? The charges were dropped, of course. I assume they'll be carrying on the good work of police accountability: Keeping the public and courts accountable to the police!
Fun fact: By memes, they mean memetics, which is the idea of sharing and using media to learn things. Funnier fact: It took RT 4 hours to realise the giant fucking "recovery" slot that was their since the start of the game.
@@lewatoaofair2522 technically, memes are used in the correct context, its how they got their name in the first place. It's just, the learning/message tends to be with humor added. Well...unless its one of those weirdos that make paragraphs and slap a photo to it and cry "are you not entertained?" and wonder why people say they can't meme...
no, they don't. they mean meme as the old definition. a meme is the base unit of culture, multiple memes compose a singular idea, tradition, or cultural action.
I cannot get over the fact that, despite primarily not being made by Kojima (it was programmed by Platinum, the devs behind Bayonetta, working off an original concept given to them by Kojima Productions), this somehow manages to be the most Kojima game ever made.
@@leithaziz2716 Oversee in a technical sense, but had minimal oversight ability, from my understanding of things. Elsewise we'd have seen more of this in 5, death stranding, and such if this had been his brainchild. Not full-blown, but elements -- and there are effectively little to none. Pattern recognition points to it not being a Kojima decision, then.
@@Thiccubus The final boss in MGSV isn't exactly "reserved" is all I'll say without spoilers. So take that how you will. But yes, Platinum games are known for being bombastic action games. Some of the team are Ex Capcom employees who worked on Itsuno's Devil May Cry series. And you can see the inspiration here.
@@leithaziz2716 No, not *exactly* but certainly not to this level -- nor would I, personally, categorize it as being in the same ballpark. I feel like Kojima is very... *particular* in his visions. I point to the many stories of his apparent... not method-acting, but I guess method-designing? Method-directing? Eccentricities. And I feel that in that sense, either Platinum somehow limited Kojima's oversight abilities, or Kojima gave them carte blanche to do whatever and didn't micromanage it at all. One of those two -- but it went wild and doesn't have the... I say this both literally and ironically, because Kojima is a living oxymoron like that, "Reserved Chaos" that his other games do. But yeah, you can see large DMC, some Bayonetta, and a smattering few of Godhand elements in Revengence for sure -- and it's beautiful.
@@Thiccubusi mean, are we gonna ignore the giant burning space whale, and the zombie/ghost Volgin permanently on fire, that get defeated by getting sprayed with a plastic water pistol on MGS5, or the *everything* of MGS4? Hell, most of MGS2 as well, with the inmortal spanish vampire, the 4th wall breaking simulations and the enemy who can quite literally harness the power of the concept of luck. The MGS series has been a bombastic over the top thing since pretty much the beginning. MGR is pretty much in line with the rest of the series, vision wise. The major difference is that in this one they just dropped any pretensions of seriousness and just had fun with it.
You know, for years people have been wondering what flavor the blue Gatorade is actually supposed to be. Thank you Metal Gear Rising and Mr. Rumble Tumble for showing us that it was actually human spine this whole time!
@@__TK___ Max0r Quotes never get old When you rip OUT his SPINE and be lookin at his ELECTROLYTES like BULLESEYE not a Max0r quote but it's famous enough right?
I kept trying to say it out loud after Raiden said his sword was a tool of justice during his first encounter with Sam. But I couldn't say it seriously without bursting out into laughter.
52:26 So fun fact: the word meme has actually been around way longer than we realise. It's a term that basically means an idea or concept that gets spread from person to person. While we have come to ascociate it with jokes on the internet, it technically is accurate to what they are doing in the game.
A common example of a meme in the traditional sense is the idea of standing in a queue. Were it not for that shared concept, any process that involved multiple people having to wait for something would result in the physically strongest people bullying their way to the front. Since the meme of the "queue" has achieved widespread adoption, those processes are handled in a much more civilised fashion (most of the time at least).
50:16 Love RT unintentionally becoming Jack The Ripper 5 minutes before he finds out about the Jack The Ripper persona is accidental comedy at its finest
When you awaken a persona long dead that you thought you were over because you traumatized yourself into thinking you were not a child soldier and then felt like you had to fight for righteous causes because “you were trapped in fighting”, and then you overcome that hurdle, no Raiden, you did not halt his memes. In fact, it was more like the memes were resonating.
So fun fact, the Gekkos make cow sounds because humans relax when they think of nature, therefore you have a giant machine using psychological warfare on normal soldiers Edit:took me 15 hours to notice spelling mistake
it's very funny that Dan played through half the game without realizing he could heal, and then the other half not equipping the heals so they automatically get used
29:42 I love RT saying that the parry isn´t working on thie enemy, while never having used it correctly so far. Still impressive how far he got without using it properly
@@DragDenDFO Same. I somehow almost killed monsoon without parrying. I didnt realise how i got him out of his invincibility phase the first few times so i died near the end. I have no idea how i was able to reach him on hardest difficulty without parrying
@@ПавелУшкин-п7р you did revengeance difficulty and beat him without parrying???? are you certain? there is 5 difficulty settings, 3 of which are initially available
Ten years later, and I'm pretty sure that Senator Armstrong unironically would be supported in the polls for the presidency, since cartoonishly evil doesn't seem to disqualify you from that kind of thing anymore.
especially considering everyone's media literacy descended into hell the moment he started talking. RT himself even said "are we forgetting about the children's brains??" and Raiden calls him batshit insane lmao sidenote, I don't know why people think Raiden is taking after Armstrong, when it's very explicit he's carrying on Sam's legacy, only unlike Sam he's motivated by his own desire to do good and is using his own bloodlust to achieve that goal. he's sadistic but he's not violent without reason. Armstrong was just a massive hypocrite, Raiden even calls him out and just because Armstrong got the last word doesn't make Raiden's point wrong. he was trying to do what he did to Sam; make him doubt his own morals by pulling the "we're not so different" card, only Raiden saw through that bullshit
@@dhampir_days I mean I don't think it is that simple, it's pretty clear that Armstrong is portrayed as unflinchingly sincere. Armstrong is also motivated by a desire to do what he sees as good, the entire comparison he makes in regard to Raiden isn't the same as Monsoon. Monsoon is "Jack we're the same because we both enjoy killing", Armstrong is "Jack we're both the same because we believe in our goals beyond the point of not compromising other ideals". Like yes obviously Armstrong has an ideal for the world that we find to be unpalpable, but he's not doing what he does out of simple motives like greed or pettiness. He's also not hypocritical because from his perspective the goal is more important than the means of achieving it - which go figure is exactly Raiden's take on murder etc. That's why he and Armstrong are similar. Their difference is in the degree of how far they have been made to go/chosen to go to achieve their goals, and in what their vision of an ideal world is. I also would be remiss to not point out that a whoooooooooole lotta current-day governments do all sorts of warcrimes on a regular basis so while I personally don't think children brain jar is an acceptable cost of having government, I also cannot confidently say how much worse it is than drone striking civillians. I do get the whole getting pissed at seeing people go "Wow Armstrong has a point actually guys" but I think there's more to it than "Armstrong is wrong in every way". My takeaway is something more to the degree of "Armstrong is admirable in having self-consistent ideals that he strives to enact unto the world, but those ideals are also morally unacceptable to me". One of the most pathetic aspects of real-life Armstrong-alike politicians is that they say the things they do without an ounce of consistency or principal. The fact that he has principals and consistency is specifically why he's an appealing antagonist in my eyes.
You forget that he failed the first QTE in the metal gear ray fight for no discernible reason. Literally show the glowing buttons that he was supposed to press on the controller for a decent amount of time, “huh? What was i supposed to do there?”
The fact he didn't realize that he had slash the enemies up in zandatsu until the helicopter fight killed me. I thought he was just being merciful with Blade wolf.
Just kojima in general. Death Stranding has moments like that. A memorable one being a character going in depth about how population diversity is important and that's why you're carry frozen sperm.
The low health beeping when Raiden is at like 10% HP sounds exactly like the beeping indicator my fridge makes when the door is left open for too long. It's the exact same pitch, speed, and everything. Everytime RT is losing a fight, I just wanna check to make sure the fridge door is closed all the way before the milk spoils.
As a security guard i can confirm that this is pretty accurate to my experience, its very annoying how often my left hand gets cut off, especially as i am a lefty. And dont get me started on how many times some psychos come in and just chopped me up into bits, im not even armed.
I now see why the tutorial vr missions are essential. Dan not understanding Zandatsu, lock on, or the ability to block made this game way harder than it needed to be. MGR is an easy game when you understand the 3 basic mechanics of attack, block, and heal.
I tend to categorise Metal Gear Rising in the same vein of difficulty "process" as Sekiro. Hard to learn but mostly straightforward in mastering (outside of optional technical stuff you can do for optimal damage or just styling). Unless it's the stealth sections, which are annoying.
@@leithaziz2716 Agreed. I achievement hunted MGR:R and the stealth bits are just asinine. While the difficulty _process_ is comparable to Sekiro, I just want to emphasize that MGR (once you do the bare min tutorial that tells you Direction + attack = block, random kanji/glowing body part means zandatsu) is trivially easy. I beat it on every difficulty stupidly fast, and I don't play these kinds of games often. I got "The Politics of Silencing Foes", "Truly Human", "Chosen by History, "Genius Destroyer", and "Prodigal Murderer" on very hard, and then went back and beat them all on Revengeance which was way easier imo. Edit: The only achievements I'm missing at this point is Stormbringer, You're Hired, and Draw, Pardner
@@SignalRaptor_ Yeah but how long did it take you to learn Nano Paste was a thing and the Arm Sword fight was a metaphor for her fucking you and enjoying the death Big O YOUR first time, round huh? Geek vibes. How much were you "gettin" back then...If you just gushed that much prematurely just talking about how hard you "beat" it that tells me everything. That's fine more for me from you then. I dig "hard" gamers and your style is so hard. I think you might like my style as well, I'm a raver and go hard for it. Get it Hardstyle? I was the teen sl*t boy raver back in Highschool. Leather, fishnets, dyed hair and lots of purple and blacks with spikes and glow sticks, make up and glow in the dark whatever I could get my hands on, among other things.
To be fair, Metal Gear Rising is not very friendly to new fans of the franchise, and alludes back to the other games in the most confusing possible ways.
I can accept struggling with some of the lore, but when he misses half of what's going on simply because he doesn't pay any attention it gets tiresome. The dialogue goes "it's a space launch vehicle" and "we're not going into orbit" and "it travels at Mach 23" and "I'm only going to the troposphere", at which point RT goes "so, wait, is he to Pakistan?!" I swear sometimes he willfully ignores what's going on just so he can make a big deal about how "confusing" it all is.
@@damageYT666 I feel like he understands what’s going on, just hams it up as a joke. Clearly he hears what the characters are saying, otherwise he’d be even more confused than he lets on to be.
I love that during the fight with Senator, Raiden scratches his chin after he dodged the uppercut from Senator, since every time he barely dodged anything (e.g. the chopper blades) his chin was skill slightly scraped
Im so sorry about the age restriction on the video Daniel, its so frustrating! I am here for all the support! Watching, commenting and fighting the stupid RUclips rules (that are so wish washy, that they aren't equally enforced across channels at all!)
"It's quite easy to just not get past his shields ever and just straight up kill him the 'funnular entertainament' way... But if you do this, you're basically annihilating all enjoyment FROM ORBIT. I personally reccomend standing there and just waiting for (him) to *present.* So enjoy that second phase while you can, because this music is a gift from God." -Maxor, in regards to the Sundowner Fight (AKA Weird Shield Man)
As an RT game fan I love how he reacts to everything. As a MGS fan, how can you NOT know that Venom Snake is a body double of Solid Snake, who is one of three clones of Big Boss, the other two being Liquid and Solidus while also being the president of the United States. All three clones being made to make the perfect soldier after Big Boss killed Boss during the Virtuous(virtual) Mission? IT'S SO OBVIOUS AND NOT CONFUSING AT ALL DAN
@@minecraftsteve5201 yah he is, he's a medic that got plastic surgery and did VR training of Snake's Virtuous mission (Snake eater) to become his body double while the OG Snake went into hiding
the Boss wasn't killed in the Virtuous Mission, but she was a triple agent acting to keep a nuclear war from happening by masquerading as a traitor (defecting to the soviet union) to then be killed by an American operation, which was operation Snake Eater, thanks to Volgin using a nuke, and also the cobra unit was mostly just people after their timely equivalent of pirate treasure.
Fun fact about the turret sequence at 59:27! It's a ranked encounter, meaning that you have to complete every wave if you want to get a ranking for it. And since you can't go down, you have to use ranged weapons to fight the majority of the enemies. It's also impossible to beat it hitless using the turret, so you need to equip the augment that gives you unlimited secondary uses in order to spam homing missiles, and alternate homing missiles and EMP grenades for the GRAD if you want to get an S rank. getting all S ranks in Revengeance mode changed me permanently, and not because of any boss. Just this goddamn encounter.
I see. Someone else played way too much mgr too. I was thinking about s ranking everything, but after doing hitless revengeance Armstrong, i quit. It was f*cking awful - phase 2 with his stupid dash grab is pure horror, dodging for 2,5 minutes. I didn't even try dlc Armstrong. My hands still hurt. Took me in sum 4 hours spread over a week to beat that phase.
Yeah. That was the biggest pain in all of the S ranking. The only element worse than that is attempting R-03 No Damage - before World Marshal Building - that is between last and 2nd to last ranked fight(which is the daze sequence to begin with). I somehow did that once on lower difficulty I think without fire extinguishers... and no killing(woodden sword)
The file 4 lobby fight and the slow walk section in file 3 might genuinely be my least favorite encounters in any action game ever (and I’m including things like the Afterburner section in Bayonetta). I did an all S-rank no damage Revengeance playthrough and despite how much fun I had doing it I will never do it again because of those two encounters alone. The other guy didn’t explain the fire extinguisher strat so for the people who don’t know, to no damage that section you have to slowly kick at least 5 fire extinguishers up to the arena, then hit them which will create an RP grenade like effect which will stop the enemies from attacking you, you just wait till one fire extinguisher runs out and then hit another one, sounds easy enough doesn’t it?. The bad part is that pushing those fire extinguishers takes about 8 minutes and you have to do it every single restart, (and that’s the most optimal route I found pushing multiple fire extinguishers at once, if you’re doing it one by one it takes like 15) and hitting those fire extinguishers is very inconsistent, you have to angle Raiden in a very specific way and be a very specific distance from the fire extinguisher and even then it may just not work. And for the icing on the cake the enemies have guns so if you mistime it or miss a fire extinguisher you’ll get shot instantly 99% of the time with no chance to recover. Thank Christ that both of these encounters are optional.
@@pokfen1812 but imagine no damage defeating Jetstream Sam on hard mode, with the wooden sword. You probably will never do this, there's not even an achievement for it, but it's not easy.
Somehow the most painful yet interesting fun through I’ve seen. During the Monsoon fight everyone in twitch chat was screaming for him to parry the huge metal death ball.
As one of the (probably) few people watching this who have actually played MGR I cannot FUCKING BELIEVE that RT just ignored Sundowner's shields entirely
MGR:R is pure insanity compared to the espionage stealth of MGS games. Most people that grew up with MGS never imagined flipping a metal gear ray or saving children from a warmongering warlord with scissors as weapons or getting a philosophical speech about memes being the DNA of the soul
Philosophical lectures yes, but specifically about memes and having the main antagonish use so much memes the population becomes unaware hes trying to cause ww3 is fucking hilarious@@literallynoone9923
Uhh...no? Hideo Kojima loves to put bizzare stuff in his stories ever since Metal Gear 2. Not Solid 2, the original Metal Gear games. And now he's making Death Stranding. This is pretty normal for Metal Gear standards, and honestly one of the most focused stories since MGS3, which might sound bizarre out of context considering how over-the-top and memey this game is.
@@velocityraptor2890 The those three likes that still watch him.... yeah classic. Like calling Fairly Odd Parents classic after they added sparky and then some more when Cloe was introduced as new fodder. I remember when Poof was born, when the light was way better outside. Anti-Fairies and the Fun Land and Dinkelburg jokes. Hey remember when Jurken von meat head was a bad guy and wanted to take all the fairy magic?
@@velocityraptor2890Didn’t Nerdcubed hate this game though? I remember him enjoying like the first five minutes but complaining about everything afterwards, calling it a button masher then quitting at the Mistral fight.
I wasn't expecting to laugh so hard but the part where Raiden is getting beat up by two random policeman because he hear their minds right before you get back into gamplay where you immediately rip their spine really got me
It's funny especially since it always starts with one of them attacking and it is SO EASY to parry that attack. And on the highest difficulty it's a oneshot (it's also funny to S rank it with No Kills achievement).
RT stood here and realised that Kojima was high on American Spirit when making this trainwreck of a masterpiece with all the memes that literally make this game which is a pretty nice argument for RT to make however... *_why don’t you back it up with a source?!_*
Funny thing, Kojima didn’t even write it, he was barely involved with the making of the game. The most he did was asked Platinum to take over iirc. Kinda ironic that the most popular Metal Gear game is both a spin-off and was not even made by Kojima.
If I'm being honest, I probably would't have watched this video since I don't know anything about Metal Gear. When I saw RT's community post I thought "oh shit, I should watch this just to spite RUclips" and then forgot that sentiment 10 minutes in watching RT make strawberry jam. Truly the DNA of my soul
@@williamjones5334 my brother in christ he missed zangetsu everytime he did a finisher just standing there while glowed blue only untill the end did he even start to do so and then forgets again
tbf the game is really bad at telling you about stuff like that. i got through the entire game before realizing that's what the slow-mo sections were for as well.
RT not understanding the themes of the game and hating BladeWolf has got to be the most frustrating, yet most funny and on-brand RTGame moment we've had in a while
He did though??? The only remnants of his human body are his skull and spine, lower jaw not included. So why not get a metal jaw if the rest of you is metal?
watching rt not find out about nanopaste gave me vivid flashbacks to watch my friend's brother stream this game. he didnt know about nanopaste until the final fight with senator armstrong. he'd done a no healing items run up until that point by complete accident.
Tbf I played before and got to just before the ant fight before giving up. This is how I learned about nanopaste. I'm angry and will do another run soon
the sheer confusion from dan is honestly a hilarious highlight for someone who understands everything. hope he plays more metal gear to understand it more
The funny thing is that meme studies are generally discredited because memes are just focusing on ideas floating around as opposed to noting the context, how they spread, and why they became popular (the context behind the meme being important), thus memes are watered-down signs from sign/signifier theory. That means that memetic theory was never considered seriously.
Honestly unless you know what you're doing, it's really easy to skip phase 2. Red sun is such a good track and I wish sundowner had more health and forced phase 2 tbh
Tbf killing him without initiating phase 2 is really easy, so its pretty common for players on their first playthrough to not even know you can break his shield.
There is 2 kinds of stupid. One is "I don't know what to do so I just do anything to get noticed" and the other is "I know exactly what I am doing and I am going to have a lot of fun with it". This game is both.
Metal Gear games, like Kirby games, certainly fit in the category of game series that are extremely fun to watch someone play for the first time, in this case due to the insanity that goes on in them.
I'm not sure if anyone else has said this but he stops to laugh around 1:25:00 because there's a running joke of him getting hit in the chin, and that time he managed to avoid it - only to have his chin scraped across the floor anyways.
I like to consider this game a great reason to get into the Metal Gear series. Not that the gameplay for the rest of the games is remotely similar, but there’s so much BS to unpack that some people can’t help wanting more answers from the rest. And it makes for a great journey.
For a game that is so incredibly on the nose on basically everything, I still feel like some streamers might have missed some points. I genuinely couldn't figure out if Dan understood that aspect of the game
43:23 right as this scene was happening I thought "know what would be funny, if in this rare moment of introspection for Raiden, a car came into frame with someone pointing a gun at him" and then it FUCKING HAPPENED. This is the best metal gear game no competition.
![FILMMAKER REACTS: METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE | [ALL CUTSCENES!!]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/8oDjvm0wzv4/mqdefault.jpg)
This video has unfortunately been age restricted by RUclips. I've written a community post and tweets detailing this further. I unfortunately may have to delete this video altogether should I not be able to resolve it. So I ask that you enjoy the video while you can, if you even see it in your feed. Thanks as ever for the support
Important Update & Edit: As of this afternoon the age restriction has been lifted. A massive thanks to everyone for sending their support on the video, and a thanks to my contacts at RUclips as well for escalating the issue to resolve it. You should now be able to see the video on RUclips normally unless something terrible happens again, so I'd recommend watching sooner rather than later just in case! The Memes are again the DNA of the Soul
man youtube sucks
This is such a RUclips moment right here. RUclips is really a RUclips Company
Would you need to delete it forever? Im sorry Im not knowledgeable in youtube
RUclips needs to get it act together, this is just utterly ridiculous!
why would age restriction mean it'd have to be deleted?
fun fact when senator Armstrong originally walks out he has a health bar of 100% but when he rips off his shirt it is then revealed that his true health is 200% meaning the first health bar isn't his health bar but actually his shirt's
it's like that Deltarune joke, "But Even If You Deplete The Hit Points (Of My: Chair)"
Nah, his shirt is actually an inhibitor for his fire powers, whilst his glasses inhibit his health.
@@minecraftsteve5201 yeah, but they also enhance his speed. that's why he has 100 health in sam's dlc and is a pain in the arse to fight.
Most Based shirt in the short History of shirts
damn his shirt is basically the senator itself
Context for the Monsoon Speech:
Basically Monsoon was like “You hide behind this facade of justice and defending the weak, but you’re actually a killer, just like us.”
And Raiden was like “Hang on… Sam said something kinda similar… you’re right, I am, because I really love killing. But honestly I don’t need an excuse anymore, I can just kill because it’s fun! Lemme start now! With you!”
And then Monsoon was like “You were supposed to have a mental breakdown oh god no-“ and then he died.
"Oh God, oh fuck, no no no, you were supposed to be traumatized, oh shit, what have I done?!"
Moonsoon is literaly the meme of "nihilist when they beg you to not kill them" (i dont remember the full meme but its somwthing like that)
@@santiagobarreraruiz7280 The Smiling Friends fella, right? the guy who's in like a podium promoting nihilism and then starts crying when pointed at with a shotgun
@@silversonome5360 ye
@@silversonome5360 ye
I love this game because it genuinely has some interesting ideas and themes but it's the furthest thing from pretentious about it. It's not afraid to use the stupidest premise possible and never winks to the audience or acknowledges the absurdity. A man made of magnets chadsplains memes to a cyborg ninja going through a mental breakdown about how many hearts he's ripped from the chests of potentially innocent men and it's delivered with zero cynicism or ironic intent.
MGR just leans into it unambiguously and shamelessly, and that's a huge part of why it's so loved. And it's all scored to some of the most fire music ever made by the guy who composed music for fucking Toontown. This game does not give a *single* fuck.
Alright toontown composer, its a cyborg ninja game, no need to do any...
*SPITS FIRE*
It's so serious about how unserious it is, while simultaneously being unserious about how serious it is. Peak Writing.
I love that it's very clear that Kojima just wanted to make the sickest action movie possible as well and made it happen, no matter how nonsensical. As bonkers as it is, it never feels like anything was phoned in - it feels like a passion project.
Platinum knows writers that use subtext, and they are all cowards
1:24:55 I just realized why he stopped to laugh. Because Raiden finally succeeded in dodging something that could've grazed his chin. His chin finally went unscathed.
That is until you watch the vod and see his poor chin get obliterated by the sheer force of Armstrong's punch and the friction of the metal 😭
it's a really fun detail tbh
If you look even closer, you can see the chin actually physically moves backward. Raiden seemed to not know it could do that.
Pffft how have I never noticed that
The best part of the "University of texas" line is that they infamously have one of the worst football teams in the US, at least in recent years
He had to carry the whole team.
@@CeHee123 physically, he definitely could
And I’m pretty sure that the University of Texas isn’t even in the Ivy League.
@@kaiserredpanda2101Well yeah, Raiden was insulting Armstrong with the suggestion that he played football at an Ivy League school (which wouldn’t be known for good football players, and would also be known for “elite” society members) and Armstrong retorts that he played at University of Texas, making it clear that his college of choice wasn’t the typical kind of institution for politicians to learn at, in order to show Raiden how he doesn’t think like a typical politician and just wants to burn the country down and restart it from the beginning instead of perpetuating its state and getting rich from the top of the pile.
@@emblemblade9245umm… Armstrong himself says “Played college ball at some cushy Ivy League school.”
“They used to call me Jack the Drifter back in college” - John Raiden from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
"I said that my kart was a tool of justice, but now... Now I'm not so sure. Beside..."
*select Daisy*
"this isn't my kart!"
Played college kart you know...
"We're making the mother of all Courses here Jack, you can't fret over every turn"
"Played College Kart, you know, coulda gone pro if i hadn't joined the streamers" Senator RT, probably
Doktor!!! Release the CC inhibitors!!
But Jack we don’t know how your body will react to drifts at that speed!!
Fun Fact: In japanese version of this game, every cyborg has white blood to show they are cyborgs/robots except Sam. The reason to emphasize that Sam is that GUY who barely has any enhancements except his red arm.
Fun Fact: It's censorship!
@@Wozat-is8it Fun Fact: It's creative censorship!
And white blood goes back to MGS4. Raiden had white blood in it
Who looks at white blood and thinks hmmm yes this is a good idea. Why not black or blue or green or literally any other color other than white or yellow or brown.
@@MrAw3sum Because MGS4 had no colour. It was the best they could do.
"I'm not familiar with this franchise"
this game is as close to an official fanfic as a piece of media could possibly get
Including homoerotic yaoi!!!!
It’s like a fanfic directed by a 13 year old and it’s glorious
@@dynawesome the game is so weird, wild, and ridiculous and we love it for that.
Platinum really went and took the quiet part of Kojima games and plugged it into a stadium amp, and added a complex physics engine to turn your enemies into ground meats.
@@jasonkeith2832You say "the quiet part" as if Metal Gear has EVER been particularly subtle.
It's really great how Jetstream Sam is just a dude who lost his arm, and he was so good at swordfighting that the robotic arm made him worse.
He’s literally that guy, he needs a fucking oxygen mask because he’s moving so fast he can’t breathe
all his Fighting data is in the arm, he's not that good
@@cagethelonewolf Did you not play/watch the DLC where you play as Sam? He absolfuckinglutely do NOT need the arm to be as good as he is.
@@GaraichuYT dlc is non cannon flith
@@flintlol5166 nah it's to stop him making out with Raiden passionately (reference)
It's worth noting that Sam is 98% human. the only non-human portion of his body is his right arm, which (spoilers) got cut off by Armstrong in the DLC. so ALL of Sam's reaction speed, his endurance, his skill and all of that- just him. no cyborg bits, no HUD, just raw human talent and spite.
...and a cybernetic suit
the suit was there to keep his body in once piece, not to enhance his skills. it made sure he had enough oxygen/bloodflow to do the nonsense he was doing@@possibly_ben
It is a newer model of the exoskelet (something like Gray Fox's) it was actually made to enhance his reaction speed, power, and overall for him to be able to keep up with modern cyborgs@@garrettruggiero7071
@@garrettruggiero7071that man was literally beyond human. Having to get oxygen from a suit to keep himself alive because he's just that cracked is hilarious. XD
It's just the power of being Brazilian
"Why does every fight need to be a big philosophical debate!?"
Wow, RT really *has* never played a Metal Gear game before XD
This man will not have the patience for Codecs when they show up there.
Edit: Yakuza games and Shonen as a genre will probably confuse the heck out of RT then.
no shit?
@@leithaziz2716dad’s getting old now. We may need to shove him in the retirement home soon.
@@leithaziz2716 I feel like Yakuza would extra confuse him if he plays the ones that are Japanese only because then he'll also have to read all the subtitles to get what's going on
@@taco8951 "if he plays the ones that are Japanese only"
which is 90% of the franchise, only Yakuza 7, 8 and Gaiden have English voiceover (and both Judgment games) - 3 games out of 10 (5 out of 12 when you count Judgment & Lost Judgment)
there's also the recently remade Samurai Spin-off Like a Dragon: Ishin! which also has only Japanese voice acting
Daniel somehow both played incredibly and horribly. I watched the vods, and this man didn't realize how to stun Monsoon, fought Sundowner the Fungular Entertainment Way™️, and didn't hit Armstrong out of his healing correctly and somehow beat them all fairly easily. This guy is actually a psycho.
To be frank, everyone I've seen stream Rising bruteforces the Sundowner fight. It's like a trend with how his fight is handled
@@leithaziz2716 A shame, considering how easy his fight is.
@@minecraftsteve5201 tbf his health is really bad i feel that he should have more defence until you break his shields so that way its harder to kill him The Fungular Entretainment way™
I'm still ashamed to remember how many times I failed Armstrong when I first played... :)
@@DragDenDFO I kept dying because my controller's stick was unprecise with aiming, so I kept losing from not slicing the boulders during the QTE.
Senator Armstrong is unironically one of the greatest examples of a villain stealing the show and becoming iconic in the last hour of a game and with so little screentime. You can chew out hundred of memes from every cutscene he's in. And he's a legit great antagonist that challenges Raiden's ideals beyond the memes.
Nice argument you got there. Why don't you back it up with a source?
@@DracoGalboyMY SOURCE IS THAT I MADE IT THE FUCK UP
Now just a quick clarification, are we talking "funny internet haha" memes or "DNA of the soul" memes?
Yes @@ninjapotatolorf6237
@@ninjapotatolorf6237 ....both.....
Fun Fact! The bike at the end of Denver is actually Jetstream Sam's. He parks it right there in the beginning of the Jetstream Sam DLC
I remember seeing someone do a wholeass detective investigation regarding the bike in the chat during the stream, it was honestly super funny
@@dhampir_days It was me Barry, I went on a detective investigation regarding the bike during the stream! (I just went to a wiki page on motorcycles in the Metal Gear series)
@@Palgineer 💐👑
Some heroes don't wear exoskeletons.
This implies he either always parks in that spot or he hasn't touched his bike in years
@@thediam0nddrag0n78
He also left the keys in
My favorite part of the stream was everyone talking about Raiden's eye makeup and heels and fancy nails, like for a stone cold killer he makes sure he goes into battle looking like a whole distraction for the girls and the gays
as a gay I need him carnally
@@dhampir_daysfor real like his suit doesn't need to frame his perfectly sculpted butt the way it does and I'm so jealous of his smokey eye
@@taylorcarpenter8290 honestly will never not find it funny how he was originally designed to be fanservice. anyway the things I would do to that man border on cartoonish. I'd probably get shredded by those nails but it'd be worth it.
@@dhampir_days
Reminder that MGS4 shows us he does have more _normal_ bodies for civilian life... and they gave him pants, so... 👀
@@Rad-Dude63andathird I'm not a coward I would do it with his combat body tbh
I don't know if anyone's mentioned this or if someone explained it to Daniel, but in case you didn't know, the game isn't using the term "meme" in the modern internet usage. They're using the original defenition coined by Richard Dawkins in the 70's, essentially meaning "something that is imitated." So whenever the game mentions memes, it actually is refering to learned beliefs and behaviors. It just ends up being unintentionally hilarious because no one knows that defention and we just think theyre talking extremely seriously about the concept of dumb internet jokes.
even if they did, I doubt Dan noticed in chat
Dan said in the vod he already knew, but it's still hard to take seriously given the common usage.
I'm pretty sure RT is an English major, so he definitely knew about the original definition of meme. However, it's much funnier to assume they're talking about dumb internet jokes.
Funnily enough, the current use of meme is still correct. The game describes memes as "the DNA of the soul" (which is the iconic like everyone remembers) and also things handed down through a culture, rather than handed down through genetics.
In a way, the internet jokes we have today are very much the DNA of our modern culture. Most people I know, at least, get their latest news by way of seeing a meme before they see the headline. They see a meme about a game, look into it and share it with others for better or for worse (both the meme itself and what it's referring to).
TLDR: in a roundabout way, MGR is using the correct definition of meme as it pertains to its original definition AND it's modern connotation. Truly ahead of its time.
I really love that because Internet memes are basically like ideas that float around and also constitute cultural identity, Internet memes are the purest form of Richard Dawkins’s memes.
The police shooting first before telling Raiden to pull over is too hilarious.
This is America, after all.
They have laws
@@Ludroviscoyea, and the police are immune to them!
@@alextheonewarrior You hear about the police accountability department that just got its leadership directly from an officer "involved in the death" of a black man who was being arrested for legally possessing a knife? The charges were dropped, of course. I assume they'll be carrying on the good work of police accountability: Keeping the public and courts accountable to the police!
And Raiden is Liberian@@PlayMadness
The universal response of "What do you mean again?" when Raiden get his arm sliced off by Sam always makes me laugh.
I mean, most people haven't seen the ending of MGS4 with armless Raiden kicking ass with literal lightning.
I love how he just sounds annoyed
@@garr_inc kinda sad his lightning didn't get shown more in MGR, would have been cool
@@garr_incwasn't he also breakdancing during that scene
@@anonecki Not sure. I do remember him breakdancing while having two UGs attached to his legs via cables.
Fun fact: By memes, they mean memetics, which is the idea of sharing and using media to learn things.
Funnier fact: It took RT 4 hours to realise the giant fucking "recovery" slot that was their since the start of the game.
The term memetics predates the internet.
@@PikaPenny17 right, sorry, just media then.
But thanks to the Internet and how it went on to use the term, the speech was *memed* with its intended message obfuscated.
@@lewatoaofair2522 technically, memes are used in the correct context, its how they got their name in the first place. It's just, the learning/message tends to be with humor added. Well...unless its one of those weirdos that make paragraphs and slap a photo to it and cry "are you not entertained?" and wonder why people say they can't meme...
no, they don't. they mean meme as the old definition. a meme is the base unit of culture, multiple memes compose a singular idea, tradition, or cultural action.
I seriously love RT saying “spine please” every time he rips out a spine and calling Ripper Mode “Sicko Mode”. Makes me laugh every time.
And joker mode lol
I cannot get over the fact that, despite primarily not being made by Kojima (it was programmed by Platinum, the devs behind Bayonetta, working off an original concept given to them by Kojima Productions), this somehow manages to be the most Kojima game ever made.
I don't think the writer for Rising is made clear, but Kojima did oversee the project, so he had clear involvement.
@@leithaziz2716 Oversee in a technical sense, but had minimal oversight ability, from my understanding of things. Elsewise we'd have seen more of this in 5, death stranding, and such if this had been his brainchild. Not full-blown, but elements -- and there are effectively little to none. Pattern recognition points to it not being a Kojima decision, then.
@@Thiccubus The final boss in MGSV isn't exactly "reserved" is all I'll say without spoilers. So take that how you will. But yes, Platinum games are known for being bombastic action games. Some of the team are Ex Capcom employees who worked on Itsuno's Devil May Cry series. And you can see the inspiration here.
@@leithaziz2716 No, not *exactly* but certainly not to this level -- nor would I, personally, categorize it as being in the same ballpark. I feel like Kojima is very... *particular* in his visions. I point to the many stories of his apparent... not method-acting, but I guess method-designing? Method-directing? Eccentricities. And I feel that in that sense, either Platinum somehow limited Kojima's oversight abilities, or Kojima gave them carte blanche to do whatever and didn't micromanage it at all. One of those two -- but it went wild and doesn't have the... I say this both literally and ironically, because Kojima is a living oxymoron like that, "Reserved Chaos" that his other games do.
But yeah, you can see large DMC, some Bayonetta, and a smattering few of Godhand elements in Revengence for sure -- and it's beautiful.
@@Thiccubusi mean, are we gonna ignore the giant burning space whale, and the zombie/ghost Volgin permanently on fire, that get defeated by getting sprayed with a plastic water pistol on MGS5, or the *everything* of MGS4? Hell, most of MGS2 as well, with the inmortal spanish vampire, the 4th wall breaking simulations and the enemy who can quite literally harness the power of the concept of luck.
The MGS series has been a bombastic over the top thing since pretty much the beginning. MGR is pretty much in line with the rest of the series, vision wise. The major difference is that in this one they just dropped any pretensions of seriousness and just had fun with it.
You know, for years people have been wondering what flavor the blue Gatorade is actually supposed to be. Thank you Metal Gear Rising and Mr. Rumble Tumble for showing us that it was actually human spine this whole time!
Just like our athletes , the soldier of the future is powered by Gatorade.
@@__TK___ Max0r Quotes never get old
When you rip OUT his SPINE and be lookin at his ELECTROLYTES like BULLESEYE
not a Max0r quote but it's famous enough right?
sadgez that the video got restricted
What flavor ist your human spine
Spinal fluid is actually sweet, can't be that far off
Unironically "this isnt my sword" goes unbelievably hard
I kept trying to say it out loud after Raiden said his sword was a tool of justice during his first encounter with Sam.
But I couldn't say it seriously without bursting out into laughter.
@@Deadgye
"I-where the fuck is my sword, give it back!"
not really, no
@@beckmts wrong
“It’s a fucking mistake!”
LOVE that Raiden wears heels, makeup, and nails even in combat. He said y'all won't ever catch me slackin' 💅
My ideal woman
WELL, IF IT ISN'T SAUCY JACK.
i seriously did NOT notice his cunty little heels until this rewatch... step on their throats girl.......
52:26 So fun fact: the word meme has actually been around way longer than we realise. It's a term that basically means an idea or concept that gets spread from person to person. While we have come to ascociate it with jokes on the internet, it technically is accurate to what they are doing in the game.
Hell the idea of 'genes vs memes' is kind of a core concept to metal gear
Specifically, the term 'meme' was invented in 1976 by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins
For more info, read Hideo Kojima’s book, The Creative Gene
A common example of a meme in the traditional sense is the idea of standing in a queue.
Were it not for that shared concept, any process that involved multiple people having to wait for something would result in the physically strongest people bullying their way to the front.
Since the meme of the "queue" has achieved widespread adoption, those processes are handled in a much more civilised fashion (most of the time at least).
Read a old text about memetics for class, made the whole meme thing make sense
Never forget; Brazilians CAN double jump.
As a brazilian, I can confirm
Yes, its one of those quirky details people always forget about us.
Actually, Sam's DLC says no. Brazilians have the mid-air dash.
That is almost the same thing
And people from Boston
Raiden casually splits buildingsized mechs in half only to be stopped by a shield, and 3 dudes in the sewers.
to be fair about the shield, it's made of ERA which explodes on contact with (normally tank munitions) but also Raiden's sword
Dont forget, literally just glass
@@gabrielhenson5751well its also the regular shield guys too
@@abeautifulduwang if you have upgraded enough you can brute force their shields and cut through them.
@@gabrielhenson5751 wait how? other than the wigs
50:16 Love RT unintentionally becoming Jack The Ripper 5 minutes before he finds out about the Jack The Ripper persona is accidental comedy at its finest
Who's Love RT
Fun fact: The fact that the MGR:R soundtrack starts using lyrics whenever emotions or tensions run high, makes MGR:R by definition a musical.
"My favorite political and economic simulator with a game attached"
Nah, political and economic simulator musical with a game attached
The cast isn't singing so it isn't.
@@timburlingame5893non-diagetic musical
Ahh, a fellow Jacob Geller enjoyer?
“Your memes…end here.” goes so fucking hard
Not quite…I’ve still passed one onto you.
Seems like the memes were only just getting started.
When you awaken a persona long dead that you thought you were over because you traumatized yourself into thinking you were not a child soldier and then felt like you had to fight for righteous causes because “you were trapped in fighting”, and then you overcome that hurdle, no Raiden, you did not halt his memes. In fact, it was more like the memes were resonating.
So fun fact, the Gekkos make cow sounds because humans relax when they think of nature, therefore you have a giant machine using psychological warfare on normal soldiers
Edit:took me 15 hours to notice spelling mistake
insanely funny tbh because if I heard the sound of a mad cow I would NOT be relaxed
in fact Ibeleive its stated that its meant to be a sound used to instill terror in enemies
Maybe you do, I'm aware of how f'ed up nature is.
it's very funny that Dan played through half the game without realizing he could heal, and then the other half not equipping the heals so they automatically get used
He even equipped the armour that increases the amount of heals he can carry, long before using any!
@@IAmOnFyre If you watch the Twitch vod, everyone predicted it when he bought the white suit.
He also didnt learn to parry until monsoon
29:42 I love RT saying that the parry isn´t working on thie enemy, while never having used it correctly so far. Still impressive how far he got without using it properly
Wonder how he beat blade wolf tbh
@@alandtic4616Through sheer determination :D. Also, I can't even laugh at him, I only learned to parry while fighting Monsoon... 's body double
@@DragDenDFO Same. I somehow almost killed monsoon without parrying. I didnt realise how i got him out of his invincibility phase the first few times so i died near the end. I have no idea how i was able to reach him on hardest difficulty without parrying
@@ПавелУшкин-п7р you did revengeance difficulty and beat him without parrying???? are you certain? there is 5 difficulty settings, 3 of which are initially available
Ten years later, and I'm pretty sure that Senator Armstrong unironically would be supported in the polls for the presidency, since cartoonishly evil doesn't seem to disqualify you from that kind of thing anymore.
especially considering everyone's media literacy descended into hell the moment he started talking. RT himself even said "are we forgetting about the children's brains??" and Raiden calls him batshit insane lmao
sidenote, I don't know why people think Raiden is taking after Armstrong, when it's very explicit he's carrying on Sam's legacy, only unlike Sam he's motivated by his own desire to do good and is using his own bloodlust to achieve that goal. he's sadistic but he's not violent without reason. Armstrong was just a massive hypocrite, Raiden even calls him out and just because Armstrong got the last word doesn't make Raiden's point wrong.
he was trying to do what he did to Sam; make him doubt his own morals by pulling the "we're not so different" card, only Raiden saw through that bullshit
@@dhampir_days Boooo media literacy mentioned
@pointillism252 It's a real thing though that some people desperately need
@@dhampir_days I mean I don't think it is that simple, it's pretty clear that Armstrong is portrayed as unflinchingly sincere. Armstrong is also motivated by a desire to do what he sees as good, the entire comparison he makes in regard to Raiden isn't the same as Monsoon. Monsoon is "Jack we're the same because we both enjoy killing", Armstrong is "Jack we're both the same because we believe in our goals beyond the point of not compromising other ideals". Like yes obviously Armstrong has an ideal for the world that we find to be unpalpable, but he's not doing what he does out of simple motives like greed or pettiness. He's also not hypocritical because from his perspective the goal is more important than the means of achieving it - which go figure is exactly Raiden's take on murder etc. That's why he and Armstrong are similar. Their difference is in the degree of how far they have been made to go/chosen to go to achieve their goals, and in what their vision of an ideal world is.
I also would be remiss to not point out that a whoooooooooole lotta current-day governments do all sorts of warcrimes on a regular basis so while I personally don't think children brain jar is an acceptable cost of having government, I also cannot confidently say how much worse it is than drone striking civillians.
I do get the whole getting pissed at seeing people go "Wow Armstrong has a point actually guys" but I think there's more to it than "Armstrong is wrong in every way". My takeaway is something more to the degree of "Armstrong is admirable in having self-consistent ideals that he strives to enact unto the world, but those ideals are also morally unacceptable to me". One of the most pathetic aspects of real-life Armstrong-alike politicians is that they say the things they do without an ounce of consistency or principal. The fact that he has principals and consistency is specifically why he's an appealing antagonist in my eyes.
Nor being senile, or a child predator. Seriously, all options are shit these days.
50:20 Raiden: Having a soul searing realization that his opponent's aren't in full control of their emotions.
RT: RIP AND TEAR
Literally me at the mental breakdance part
@@eat00002I haven't finished the video yet so I genuinely can't tell if this got auto corrected or you actually mean "mental breakdance"
bro even did his best jack the ripper impression
"What am I even fighting for...?"
"BULLSEYE!"
20:56 Old man RT has finally gone senile. The tutorial only taught 3 things to him: Press sword to sword, press QTE to QTE, and press sword to sword.
They call him the drift King, not the sword and gte king 🤷♀️
You forget that he failed the first QTE in the metal gear ray fight for no discernible reason. Literally show the glowing buttons that he was supposed to press on the controller for a decent amount of time, “huh? What was i supposed to do there?”
@@SignalRaptor_ more than 1 button in QTE = brains fried of zoomer AND boomer gamers
@@SignalRaptor_and this man Sekiro.
The fact he didn't realize that he had slash the enemies up in zandatsu until the helicopter fight killed me. I thought he was just being merciful with Blade wolf.
I'm 25 minutes into the video and I haven't seen a single button pressed besides X
@@Landjrin painful to watch
@@hem9483yes very
Haven’t seen him block or parry a sjngle time, 20 minutes in
@@SeasoneCrabhe never learns that you can Zandatsu Blade after a stealth kill. It hurts to watch
15:00 “I’ve zoned out for a minute, what the hell are they talking about?”
Welcome ti Metal Gear codec calls.
Just kojima in general. Death Stranding has moments like that. A memorable one being a character going in depth about how population diversity is important and that's why you're carry frozen sperm.
"I WANNA HANG UP"
The low health beeping when Raiden is at like 10% HP sounds exactly like the beeping indicator my fridge makes when the door is left open for too long. It's the exact same pitch, speed, and everything. Everytime RT is losing a fight, I just wanna check to make sure the fridge door is closed all the way before the milk spoils.
Right??? I had the exact same reaction every time.😂
Raiden is a refrigerator containing his blood
"did it extend that far?? its not that long of a sword"
that had me cracking up lol
Anime.
Hell yeah.
I’d like it known that during the boss fights, chat was singing the lyrics to the songs
good
As they should
I would expect no less.
The game is incredibly stuoid, for sure, but the music is a banger
Singing and headbanging
“Why does every fight have to start with a philosophical debate?”
Welcome to metal gear, RT
Ah. I always love seeing first time players with this. No parry, no dodge, just getting double drop kicked by a robot gorilla in the sewers.
As a security guard i can confirm that this is pretty accurate to my experience, its very annoying how often my left hand gets cut off, especially as i am a lefty. And dont get me started on how many times some psychos come in and just chopped me up into bits, im not even armed.
A fellow left-handed person
As a right-handed person, HAHA!
I now see why the tutorial vr missions are essential. Dan not understanding Zandatsu, lock on, or the ability to block made this game way harder than it needed to be. MGR is an easy game when you understand the 3 basic mechanics of attack, block, and heal.
I tend to categorise Metal Gear Rising in the same vein of difficulty "process" as Sekiro. Hard to learn but mostly straightforward in mastering (outside of optional technical stuff you can do for optimal damage or just styling). Unless it's the stealth sections, which are annoying.
@@leithaziz2716 Agreed. I achievement hunted MGR:R and the stealth bits are just asinine. While the difficulty _process_ is comparable to Sekiro, I just want to emphasize that MGR (once you do the bare min tutorial that tells you Direction + attack = block, random kanji/glowing body part means zandatsu) is trivially easy. I beat it on every difficulty stupidly fast, and I don't play these kinds of games often.
I got "The Politics of Silencing Foes", "Truly Human", "Chosen by History, "Genius Destroyer", and "Prodigal Murderer" on very hard, and then went back and beat them all on Revengeance which was way easier imo.
Edit: The only achievements I'm missing at this point is Stormbringer, You're Hired, and Draw, Pardner
It actually took rt 4 hours to realize Nano paste were a thing
In the stream VOD he actually did the tutorials... Badly
@@SignalRaptor_ Yeah but how long did it take you to learn Nano Paste was a thing and the Arm Sword fight was a metaphor for her fucking you and enjoying the death Big O YOUR first time, round huh? Geek vibes. How much were you "gettin" back then...If you just gushed that much prematurely just talking about how hard you "beat" it that tells me everything. That's fine more for me from you then. I dig "hard" gamers and your style is so hard. I think you might like my style as well, I'm a raver and go hard for it. Get it Hardstyle? I was the teen sl*t boy raver back in Highschool. Leather, fishnets, dyed hair and lots of purple and blacks with spikes and glow sticks, make up and glow in the dark whatever I could get my hands on, among other things.
“Don’t worry guys it’s a cutscene it can’t be bad”, he says right before Raiden’s arm gets cut off.
RT:" I can't be bothered to listen to the lore!"
RT ten seconds later:" What's the lore behind this?"
To be fair, Metal Gear Rising is not very friendly to new fans of the franchise, and alludes back to the other games in the most confusing possible ways.
RT is too slow for non text based dialogue
I can accept struggling with some of the lore, but when he misses half of what's going on simply because he doesn't pay any attention it gets tiresome. The dialogue goes "it's a space launch vehicle" and "we're not going into orbit" and "it travels at Mach 23" and "I'm only going to the troposphere", at which point RT goes "so, wait, is he to Pakistan?!"
I swear sometimes he willfully ignores what's going on just so he can make a big deal about how "confusing" it all is.
@@damageYT666 I feel like he understands what’s going on, just hams it up as a joke. Clearly he hears what the characters are saying, otherwise he’d be even more confused than he lets on to be.
I love that during the fight with Senator, Raiden scratches his chin after he dodged the uppercut from Senator, since every time he barely dodged anything (e.g. the chopper blades) his chin was skill slightly scraped
What about the chainsaw
Jetstream Sam always manages to pull out the most shit-eating grins possible every time he does anything.
Im so sorry about the age restriction on the video Daniel, its so frustrating! I am here for all the support! Watching, commenting and fighting the stupid RUclips rules (that are so wish washy, that they aren't equally enforced across channels at all!)
Hey thank you very much, really appreciate the support
Also very bad that YT is fucked like this anyways nobody should have to be screws by stupid people. FK them RUclips!
- _Fancy meeting you here!_
@@garr_incWoah, I know this guy!
-Male adult human physically lifting an object
Yes! Screw the algorithm! Comments to blow this video up!!🎉🎉🎉🎉
"ridel me this riden if quizzes are quizzical what are tests?"
-monsoon wind of destruction
"the answer is... youe dead"
- jak riper
"It's quite easy to just not get past his shields ever and just straight up kill him the 'funnular entertainament' way... But if you do this, you're basically annihilating all enjoyment FROM ORBIT. I personally reccomend standing there and just waiting for (him) to *present.* So enjoy that second phase while you can, because this music is a gift from God." -Maxor, in regards to the Sundowner Fight (AKA Weird Shield Man)
Its such a fucking shame that the game dosent force the 2 phase on you in my opinion red sun is the best track in the game
Kids are cruel, Jack! And I just l-pfff-loooove miners.
@@emblemblade9245 Minors.*
And here above me, you can see 2 levels of chaotic
Ah yes the genshin farm
"You're not greedy... You're bat-sht insane!"
Armstrong: 😮
The anarchocapitalist when he realizes money won't protect him in a world where currency is meaningless.
As an RT game fan I love how he reacts to everything. As a MGS fan, how can you NOT know that Venom Snake is a body double of Solid Snake, who is one of three clones of Big Boss, the other two being Liquid and Solidus while also being the president of the United States. All three clones being made to make the perfect soldier after Big Boss killed Boss during the Virtuous(virtual) Mission? IT'S SO OBVIOUS AND NOT CONFUSING AT ALL DAN
Quick heads-up, Venom is not Solid's body double.
@@minecraftsteve5201 yah he is, he's a medic that got plastic surgery and did VR training of Snake's Virtuous mission (Snake eater) to become his body double while the OG Snake went into hiding
@@6tango16i think they mean that venom is a double of naked/big boss not solid snake
> Venom Snake is a body double of Solid Snake
NO! THAT IS NOT SOLID SNAKE!
the Boss wasn't killed in the Virtuous Mission, but she was a triple agent acting to keep a nuclear war from happening by masquerading as a traitor (defecting to the soviet union) to then be killed by an American operation, which was operation Snake Eater, thanks to Volgin using a nuke, and also the cobra unit was mostly just people after their timely equivalent of pirate treasure.
Chat just erupting into a frenzy of memes once Armstrong exited the Robot at the final fight was hilarious.
"Check the internet lately?"
"The memes!"
1:18:01 “You don’t half-ass these things. You give it a full ass.”
- RTGame
Unlike RUclips.
That quote feels right at home in Revengence tbh
He says, while cutting a guard's ass in half.
No more half-asses, waltuh
Fun fact about the turret sequence at 59:27! It's a ranked encounter, meaning that you have to complete every wave if you want to get a ranking for it. And since you can't go down, you have to use ranged weapons to fight the majority of the enemies. It's also impossible to beat it hitless using the turret, so you need to equip the augment that gives you unlimited secondary uses in order to spam homing missiles, and alternate homing missiles and EMP grenades for the GRAD if you want to get an S rank. getting all S ranks in Revengeance mode changed me permanently, and not because of any boss. Just this goddamn encounter.
I see. Someone else played way too much mgr too.
I was thinking about s ranking everything, but after doing hitless revengeance Armstrong, i quit. It was f*cking awful - phase 2 with his stupid dash grab is pure horror, dodging for 2,5 minutes. I didn't even try dlc Armstrong. My hands still hurt.
Took me in sum 4 hours spread over a week to beat that phase.
Yeah. That was the biggest pain in all of the S ranking.
The only element worse than that is attempting R-03 No Damage - before World Marshal Building - that is between last and 2nd to last ranked fight(which is the daze sequence to begin with). I somehow did that once on lower difficulty I think without fire extinguishers... and no killing(woodden sword)
@@pokfen1812 Oh my god I actually blocked that one out of my memory. It sucked so much ass. Definitely the second worst encounter in the game.
The file 4 lobby fight and the slow walk section in file 3 might genuinely be my least favorite encounters in any action game ever (and I’m including things like the Afterburner section in Bayonetta). I did an all S-rank no damage Revengeance playthrough and despite how much fun I had doing it I will never do it again because of those two encounters alone. The other guy didn’t explain the fire extinguisher strat so for the people who don’t know, to no damage that section you have to slowly kick at least 5 fire extinguishers up to the arena, then hit them which will create an RP grenade like effect which will stop the enemies from attacking you, you just wait till one fire extinguisher runs out and then hit another one, sounds easy enough doesn’t it?. The bad part is that pushing those fire extinguishers takes about 8 minutes and you have to do it every single restart, (and that’s the most optimal route I found pushing multiple fire extinguishers at once, if you’re doing it one by one it takes like 15) and hitting those fire extinguishers is very inconsistent, you have to angle Raiden in a very specific way and be a very specific distance from the fire extinguisher and even then it may just not work. And for the icing on the cake the enemies have guns so if you mistime it or miss a fire extinguisher you’ll get shot instantly 99% of the time with no chance to recover.
Thank Christ that both of these encounters are optional.
@@pokfen1812 but imagine no damage defeating Jetstream Sam on hard mode, with the wooden sword. You probably will never do this, there's not even an achievement for it, but it's not easy.
Somehow the most painful yet interesting fun through I’ve seen.
During the Monsoon fight everyone in twitch chat was screaming for him to parry the huge metal death ball.
As one of the (probably) few people watching this who have actually played MGR I cannot FUCKING BELIEVE that RT just ignored Sundowner's shields entirely
TBF it's easier than trying to beat him correctly
@@Shaggyladd it sucks all the fun out of the fight
@@realkekz I'm aware plus you don't get to hear his song but it's RT. I wouldn't expect him not to cheese it
As someone with 100 hours in this game, it hurts to watch this playthrough. Although, wouldn't say I was any different on my first time
MGR:R is pure insanity compared to the espionage stealth of MGS games. Most people that grew up with MGS never imagined flipping a metal gear ray or saving children from a warmongering warlord with scissors as weapons or getting a philosophical speech about memes being the DNA of the soul
That is like objectively incorrect. Philosophical Speeches about memes are an integral part of MGS since like 2001
Philosophical lectures yes, but specifically about memes and having the main antagonish use so much memes the population becomes unaware hes trying to cause ww3 is fucking hilarious@@literallynoone9923
Uhh...no?
Hideo Kojima loves to put bizzare stuff in his stories ever since Metal Gear 2. Not Solid 2, the original Metal Gear games. And now he's making Death Stranding.
This is pretty normal for Metal Gear standards, and honestly one of the most focused stories since MGS3, which might sound bizarre out of context considering how over-the-top and memey this game is.
We didn't expect it... 23 years ago. MGS2 did most of what you just said, play literally any Metal Gear game other than Rising
@@samuelconnell4609Mecha fight between Ray and Rex was peak MGS
I think one of my favorite reviews from this game comes from another youtuber
"I hope this game doesn't have peanut allergy CAUSE IT'S F*CKING NUTS!"
ahh, nerdcubed, classic!
@@velocityraptor2890 The those three likes that still watch him.... yeah classic. Like calling Fairly Odd Parents classic after they added sparky and then some more when Cloe was introduced as new fodder. I remember when Poof was born, when the light was way better outside. Anti-Fairies and the Fun Land and Dinkelburg jokes. Hey remember when Jurken von meat head was a bad guy and wanted to take all the fairy magic?
BOOOOO@@BlackMoonHowls
@@velocityraptor2890Didn’t Nerdcubed hate this game though? I remember him enjoying like the first five minutes but complaining about everything afterwards, calling it a button masher then quitting at the Mistral fight.
@@assassinonprozac i distinctly remember that, and i am still salty about that
I wasn't expecting to laugh so hard but the part where Raiden is getting beat up by two random policeman because he hear their minds right before you get back into gamplay where you immediately rip their spine really got me
It's funny especially since it always starts with one of them attacking and it is SO EASY to parry that attack. And on the highest difficulty it's a oneshot (it's also funny to S rank it with No Kills achievement).
I've seen a couple of these cutscenes in like meme channels and shit on discord, but i didn't realize they were *not edited at all* that's crazy lol
Fun fact RT, the actual audio in the game is DRASTICALLY longer than the actual playtime minus what isn't forced upon you.
“I like how every fight needs to be a philosophy lecture.”
Welcome to the Metal Gear universe.
RT stood here and realised that Kojima was high on American Spirit when making this trainwreck of a masterpiece with all the memes that literally make this game which is a pretty nice argument for RT to make however... *_why don’t you back it up with a source?!_*
I love how that quote will forever be connected to this game for the rest of time. Max0r truly did make history
@@Ashurman666every game maxor touches changes forever, look at ultrakill
“MY SOURCE IS THAT I MADE IT THE FUCK UP”
Funny thing, Kojima didn’t even write it, he was barely involved with the making of the game. The most he did was asked Platinum to take over iirc.
Kinda ironic that the most popular Metal Gear game is both a spin-off and was not even made by Kojima.
I bet it felt good when this game faded away in ground zeroes. Oh wait, what?
I find it funny that it took RT 4 hours to realize that there was a way to heal besides ripping out spines.
my favorite part of the Armstrong fight is seeing people react to "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
If I'm being honest, I probably would't have watched this video since I don't know anything about Metal Gear. When I saw RT's community post I thought "oh shit, I should watch this just to spite RUclips" and then forgot that sentiment 10 minutes in watching RT make strawberry jam. Truly the DNA of my soul
This game has very little to do with the rest of the metal gear franchise which in a backwards way has helped it reach a broader audience
1:18:10
he is LITERALLY the black knight monty python
"Tis' but a scratch."
@@Hungeryan "A scratch?! Your arm's off!"
@@rokkraljkolesa9317No it’s not
@@Exeggutor_Enjoyer "Tis but a flesh wound".
people not realizing that when the screen turns blue you need to use blade mode hurts me
same
Seeing that hurts my very soul
But he does know that? He just sometimes ignores it when he can get away with it (such as after stealth kills), or forgets in the heat of the moment.
@@williamjones5334 my brother in christ he missed zangetsu everytime he did a finisher just standing there while glowed blue only untill the end did he even start to do so and then forgets again
tbf the game is really bad at telling you about stuff like that. i got through the entire game before realizing that's what the slow-mo sections were for as well.
RT committed a cardinal sin by beating Sundowner without breaking the shield. The fight gets so much better when you trigger phase two
I know it a shame the game dosent just force you into phase 2 i you kill him without breaking his shield
a shame he has like zero health while being the bulkiest character besides Armstrong
Jack is sometimes used as a nickname for John.. Johnny is another.. MY GOD IT WAS JOHNNY ANIME ALL ALONG
I mean, he quite literally took his heart.
well its either that ore...
magical john
no its john metal gear
RT not understanding the themes of the game and hating BladeWolf has got to be the most frustrating, yet most funny and on-brand RTGame moment we've had in a while
Blade wolf is a good boy. :(
I think he understands, he's just annoyed
Raiden had no reasons to get a metalic jaw
He just tries his hardest to look cool, and I love it
he has a reason... the fact he doesn't have a normal human jaw anymore. He hasn't had a normal jaw since... 2008?
actually the reason is that he's pretty much a head minus the jaw along with a spine, rest of him got totaled
The question is ,is his balls alright?@@dhampir_days
With how much punishment his chin takes through the game I'd argue he had _very_ good reasons to get a metal jaw
He did though??? The only remnants of his human body are his skull and spine, lower jaw not included. So why not get a metal jaw if the rest of you is metal?
Can't wait to see another spike in Metal gear rising revengeance's popularity. It happens every 6 or so months now.
It's one of those games that just refuses to die
watching rt not find out about nanopaste gave me vivid flashbacks to watch my friend's brother stream this game.
he didnt know about nanopaste until the final fight with senator armstrong. he'd done a no healing items run up until that point by complete accident.
Tbf I played before and got to just before the ant fight before giving up. This is how I learned about nanopaste. I'm angry and will do another run soon
The game pauses for THREE SECONDS STRAIGHT and the same blade mode symbol pops up and he STILL doesn’t know that he’s supposed to enter blade mode
Take a shot every time Dan fucks up saying "Revengeance"; you will die
Revegenance
the sheer confusion from dan is honestly a hilarious highlight for someone who understands everything. hope he plays more metal gear to understand it more
Memes, the DNA of the soul
52:26
"How about full of shit, is that a meme?"
I love that line, but i hate that memes have been ruined forever as a scientific concept by the internet 😅
The funny thing is that meme studies are generally discredited because memes are just focusing on ideas floating around as opposed to noting the context, how they spread, and why they became popular (the context behind the meme being important), thus memes are watered-down signs from sign/signifier theory. That means that memetic theory was never considered seriously.
@@iantaakalla8180 that's very interesting
RT going “what the hell is going on?!” for an hour and a half was exactly what I was hoping for from this game.
18:53
Gekkos make this sound as a psychological trick to put you off your guard by imatiating a typically harmless creature
Truly a formidable innovation of science
From what I remember, the legs use some kind of cultured ungulate muscle cells or something too, I think?
I still love that that instead of replacing raidens eye with some sort of robo eye they just gave him a makeshift eyepatch
".. well, if it isn't sussy Jack."
"You know what they say, you can't spell 'Metal Gear EXCELSUS' without 'sus'"
Bro, are you high?
@@rhadamanthys649 "Let me check..."
*Looks at watch.*
"Yes... HIGH ON AMERICAN SPIRIT!"
@@teawizard374and there's nothing more American than- **erupts into laughter**
I cry every time a streamer skips sundowners real fight. There goes the best track in the game
Honestly unless you know what you're doing, it's really easy to skip phase 2. Red sun is such a good track and I wish sundowner had more health and forced phase 2 tbh
Tbf killing him without initiating phase 2 is really easy, so its pretty common for players on their first playthrough to not even know you can break his shield.
One of the best tracks. The best is between Hot Wind Blowing and The Only Thing I Know For Real.
@@TheFirstCurse1 Tremendously based first curse pfp.
@@dvdossbsvskfbdvavthankfully the chat was singing it but it's a shame that it's so easy to skip
There is 2 kinds of stupid.
One is "I don't know what to do so I just do anything to get noticed" and the other is "I know exactly what I am doing and I am going to have a lot of fun with it".
This game is both.
I like how the game uses the term "meme" in its original sociology definition. the game has aged... perhaps too well
Metal Gear games, like Kirby games, certainly fit in the category of game series that are extremely fun to watch someone play for the first time, in this case due to the insanity that goes on in them.
It's a shame RT missed Raiden ignoring the meme rant to pet a cat instead.
"Nanomachines RT, they harden in response to physical trauma!" - Senator Cupcake
"memories broken,the drift goes unspoken, i've even forgotten my name" john rumble gear
Rumble gear goes hard
I'm not sure if anyone else has said this but he stops to laugh around 1:25:00 because there's a running joke of him getting hit in the chin, and that time he managed to avoid it - only to have his chin scraped across the floor anyways.
You know what’ll be funny, if Dan now plays all Metal Gear games in reverse order.
The fact it took until monsoon for rt to realize you could HEAL after he specifically asked if you could in the tutorial metal gear fight
that and literally never parrying an attack past when the game forces you to
@@UriMegaConnorI assume you're talking about the tutorial, which don't even have to do to progress, for some reason.
I like to consider this game a great reason to get into the Metal Gear series. Not that the gameplay for the rest of the games is remotely similar, but there’s so much BS to unpack that some people can’t help wanting more answers from the rest. And it makes for a great journey.
And some of those questions will even be answered... kinda :)
It was this game that got me interested in Metal Gear to begin with
Oh, thank RUclips. I was waiting to see this come out.
Saw him streaming it the other day and was so excited to see the vid. Not one for streams myself
This comment has seemingly aged poorly 😂
How the RUclips did this get age restricted????
@@lucyarisato6850 Probably cause of profanity and “strawberry jam”. RUclips can be such RUclipss at time.
@@lucyarisato6850 ITS OVER! THE AGE RESTRICTION IS OVER!!!
For a game that is so incredibly on the nose on basically everything, I still feel like some streamers might have missed some points. I genuinely couldn't figure out if Dan understood that aspect of the game
43:23 right as this scene was happening I thought "know what would be funny, if in this rare moment of introspection for Raiden, a car came into frame with someone pointing a gun at him" and then it FUCKING HAPPENED. This is the best metal gear game no competition.