@@raymondzellar5523 Haga I hear ya long before I watched stuff online I used to do speed runs for my mates to watch they must get sick of me after all these tears even playing elden ring we're sunbroing up a ladder me 🎵What a thrill.....
@@YourFavoriteSon1 It's probably shorter than MGS3 cutscenes would have been, would they have left Kojima go wild. The man clearly wants to be a movie director... I wonder if his work with Guillermo Del Toro in Death Stranding felt like a dream come true
Lori Alan as The Boss. She did a PHENOMENAL job. She was able to portray so much nuance and subtlety in all her lines, and layers and layers of different emotions... at the same time! And all this, despite the fact that Kojima's writing can sometimes come across as ham-fisted and stilted. Personally, one of my favorite VO performances of all time, across all media, not just video games.
MGS3 for me is in the holy trinity of 6th generation video games alongside OG RE4 and Ninja Gaiden Black. I honestly believe video games peaked in that generation.
MGS got me into gaming in 2015. I bought a used PS3 to help with bordom in college, and played through the whole series in a month for the first time. MGS3 is the first game to make me cry. At 22yo, i had understood why people loved gaming. I've been a gamer ever since.
Thats crazy I had a similar thing in 2014 with a 360 and played assassins creed 2 and it opened up a ton of amazing games on xbox and got a new xbox with tons of games and love it. Gsme on!
@@RaiohTheHunter Congrats. Son said he captured footage on the master collection. Poster above you is correct that it is a PS2 exclusive, but may have used the wrong word when saying "original" From Wikipedia: " "Guy Savage" is the name of the nightmare sequence in the PlayStation 2 versions of Metal Gear Solid 3. ... Guy Savage was not included in Metal Gear Solid 3: HD Edition, Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D, or the version of the game included in Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 1." Y'all play nice now.
@@RaiohTheHunter That easter egg was removed in the HD edition and master collection. There are some speculation that minigame was a teaser for a game (probably a Castlevania game) that ended up being cancelled.
Snake Eater tends to be everyone’s favorite, and it’s not at all a wonder why. The storytelling reached an all new high with its release, the new mechanics are unique and the lore is tough to beat here. The sheer amount of different functions and the hidden Easter Eggs still being rooted out today just overshadow most games, even within the same franchise. I’m still partial to MGS1 myself because of nostalgia, but MGS3 really demonstrates the narrative and technical prowess Kojima Productions and their associates were capable of in their prime.
Another banger of a video. I know you probably didn't want to spend too much time on that section, but one cool thing about The End you could have mentioned is that you can actually hold him up (When Snake sneaks up and says "Freeze"). This lets you shake him down and make him drop his unique camo for you to use. He's the only boss I can remember where this is possible.
I was 23 when MGS3 came out. I liked Metal Gear Solid and considered myself a fan of the series, but not as "hardcore" as I thought MGS 2 was a step back, even though I still thought it was cool. I read the first reviews in Electronic Gaming Monthly. They said it was the best Metal Gear yet. Everyone was raving about how it would change stealth games forever. The graphics looked a cut above as well. I was actually deployed to Iraq, so getting monthly gaming magazines were rare. I didn't know anything else about it until we got back in the Spring of 2004 where I went to Game Stop and preordered it. Life happened and I forgot my preorder. I never came to pick it up. Saw it on the shelf months later and the guy at the checkout told me this was actually the copy I preordered months ago and was the last copy they had in the store that week. He gave me the IGN walkthrough, MGS artbook and lore guide that came with the preorder. I avoided using it as I wanted to experience it the way I had with the other two games- a blind playthrough. After the Virtuous Mission Prologue, and I saw the true intro and the Snake Eater song by Cynthia Harrell, I knew this game was going to be one of the greatest I ever played and boy did it deliver. It was the first game I ever felt emotionally connected to the protagonist and the antagonist at the same time. As the end credits rolled, I just couldn't get over The Boss. She was one of the coolest female characters I had ever seen and wasn't overly sexualized as female characters tend to be games. Having just experienced my first tour in Iraq and having brushes with death, I understood The Boss's last speech and it hit very close to home. A world without borders. Loyalty to the End. How for a soldier, the mission comes first. I became mildly obsessed with Metal Gear Solid after this game. It lives rent free in my head till this day. Words can't describe how excited I am for the remake.
Feel sorry for people who skip The End's boss fight. It was one of the coolest fights i've ever been in in a video game because I took it so seriously lol.
I find it odd how most people miss that Snake never once denies that there were aspects of his and The Boss’s complicated relationship that may have been romantic. Perhaps they were lovers on a night or two. I think simplifying the relationship as a mother role is doing it a disservice. Snake always says “it isn’t that simple.” That means it was a lot of things, all of which were deep. He couldn’t put into words their bond because it was unique to them.
Sure, but there's a clear mother/son, teacher/student dynamic to them that is clearly stated and defines their interactions and relationship to a considerable degree, so it is the lense that most will take to examine those two characters.
Eva is the one who implies that their relationship was romantic or sexual, Snake does deny that and portrays their relationship as platonic but deeper than love.
I'm only late because I just finished up a 3 and a half day long video essay on something. Thank you once again for this gift. I absolutely LOVED this game. I even skipped sleep before work because I just couldn't beat the last encounter before the time ran out. That was so long ago.
MGS3 is my most favourite MG entry and one of my most favourtie games of all time. I played this game so much and loved every second of it. I'll never forget my battle against "The End". I was lying on a cliff, aiming at the direction where i expected him to be. Then i heared a "click" sound.. I froze unable to move my hand. Until i decided to exit sniper view and had to witness the end standing behind me aiming right at my head. He told me: "This... is the end" and then fired. Moving my ass 2 or 3 areas back. This is when i learned the true meaning of pain and defeat. xD But seriously this was one of the best, if not the best and exciting boss battle i ever had. The sheer amount of details and gameplay which went only into this sniper battle. I still get goosebumps thinking about it.
The Fear is either one of the most disappointing bosses in the game if you kill him lethally, or one of the best in the series if you kill him non-lethally.
I still remember waiting in line late to get my pre-order day 1 from EB Games. I ran home faster than Charlie with the golden ticket as soon as it was in my hands.
You killed it again what a great video. Metal gear solid 3 is an amazing game. It was my first game in the series I played besides playing the metal gear solid demo .
Hey son, you've probably already gotten this comment but, the PS3 has always-on HDCP protection that stops it from being recorded by most capture cards. You need to get an HDMI splitter that can bypass the HDCP protection in order to record it. If you google around there are some good threads on which splitters have this capability. Personally I use the OREI HD 102 and it has worked splendidly in my experience. Hope that helps. Thanks for all your hard work. This was a fantastic essay.
My favourite metal gear and the only one I’ve cleared on European extreme. I love everything about it. I first played it while doing my history A levels which was about the Cold War - this is an exaggerated, very “kojima” take on it, but it was relevant enough to feel uncanny. I could never work out snake’s feelings toward The Boss. Was he in love with her? Was it a maternal relationship? I can feel genuine sadness and disappointment when encountering the ghost of her lover; and the final shot to put her down felt more like an ending to what could have been than what was. Incredible work as always son. You make us all proud.
You notice how the Master Collection version of 3 (all the games really) have have had quite a bit of work done polishing up through patches? Yes, they should have launched without omissions and bugs, but i think as it stands now it’s a great first volume.
Really enjoying these videos, working in IT I don't really switch off but I am able to get thru a long batch of work while listening to this one and it kept me focused on work, but I was for want of a better word was riveted to listen to the end and finding out some stuff I did not know. Thanks again for the content I find it best to listen and work to! Look forward to the next video.
Fun fact if you give make snake eat the foods he doesn't like enough times, he'll recover more stamina from them. I think he even changes his dialogue, iirc.
Thank you for covering Acid. I don't blame you for not liking them, but I loved them so much as a kid. They are clunky, and you make a good point about the lack of control, but I think they are really interesting. I enjoyed the wackyness, which I thought worked well for the genre.
I always thought Peacewalker was where a lot of MGSV mechanics got their start, im surprised to learn that Portable Ops was the real prototype for those two games. Really, the most surprising thing from this video series is learning that lot of elements that makes a Metal Gear game a Metal Gear game have their roots in non-MG games or handheld spinoffs.
Pleasant surprise for me on a Sunday morning. You always say you talk for too long, but these videos are perfect to just listen to while I do other things. These are often some of the few videos I love to put on as soon as they come out and they make my day pass so much faster and more enjoyable.
Don't worry, Son. I'm used to listening to 12 hour Elder Scrolls retrospectives. You're far from "too long". This was a great one. I've listened to long delves into MGS3 plenty of times over the years, but hearing different people's takes on it never gets old. There's just so many weird and nifty details for people to talk about.
I didn't see this mentioned in any of the comments. So, when you first meet Volgin he says Kuwabara kuwabara. Kind of odd for a Japanese phrase to be spoken by a Russian but I think that's because it kind of doesn't work translated. The phrase is meant to ward off lightning. Considering how Volgin, a guy with electrical powers, was done in by lightning in the final confrontation (where he notably doesn't say the phrase), it's a clever bit of foreshadowing by Kojima.
ive been listening to mgs codec calls (all of them) for the last few weeks in prep for mgs delta, i absolutley love the mgs series and hail it as the most influential of my childhood/teen years, i remember my mum walking in during the scene were volgin finds out your not Raikov, i still remember the look on her face! thank you son
The source link doesn't list the songs. I really want to know the song used in the chapter transitions. It goes so hard. Great video, as always. This is one of my favorite RUclips channels.
Hello Son, Just so you Know. Another banger!! I First Came in contact with the series Back with MGS. Me and my Cousin Played together. And until today I think of 3 as the best/ny Favourite Part in the series, while he prefferes 2. What do you think? A funny trivia: If its Not a gaming Legend you could, by exposing snake to a food often, raised the Level of taste/stamina is gave you. Bats are a God example.
Great video man, mgs3 is my personal favourite as it really stuck with me. But I can't wait for you to cover MGS4, it's gameplay is great, and it's story is wacky af in a good way, I love mgs4 really, shame it's stuck on ps3 which I totally didn't buy just to play mgs 4 and demon souls and the mgs legacy collection 😵💫
By the way, you don’t have to spam the cqc button against the boss, if you press the button right after snake makes a grunt you will win the battle and throw her down every time, I think it’s pretty cool they have the audio cue for you.
I'm a little shocked at how little he covered CQC in general, it's actually a very deep combat system and seemingly the intended ways of defeating Volgin and The Boss, since both take every opportunity to punish you for using weapons, as well as a great way to handle the grunts along the way in a pinch.
I do like how our old tech nanomachines version its just magic parasites. I liked more the two first games that showed us that some people do have that magic, even giving Solid Snake that misticism.
Definitely my favorite mgs game even tho my first was the 2nd in the series and I pour more hours into it. But that’s just cuz I couldn’t get ahold of others when I was so young lol This is just one of the best games of all time imo
I appreciate the people who talk about games in depth because then I get to act like I know stuff about the franchise. (I am only interested because of the one guy I find hot.)
Great Video. Metal Gear Solid 3 is to me the best entry in the series when it comes to story, themes, scenario and game play meeting up. 1 introduced me, it's iconic. 2 was cool but i wasn't getting the theme the first time around and i don't like Raiden that much. 4 is the coolest nostalgia bomb of a movie hidden inside very complicated controls. 5 has one of the best controls for sneaking ever... shame about the development hell and weirdly bloated campaign... Can't wait for the MGS4 retrospective so i can once again ugly-cry when the "The Best Is Yet To Come" plays over Old Snake exploring a dilapidated Shadow Moses... "A surveillance camera?"
One of my favorite things to do was to make Snake eat rats over, and over, and over again, until he likes them. Such a silly mechanic but yet another insane layer of depth to this game.
This whole video has me so hyped up to play the remake when it comes out. I think metal gear's solid 3 is the greatest example of what video games should be. So many loving extra details just to provide a better service. Not locked behind DLC or pay to win. Not me being nostalgic over here.😅
Not too bad my man, I enjoy your coverage of MGS, do you have one of these for MGS1 or the first few on NES/pc98 or whatever they were i forget the computer versions
U ever wonder about what direction each game has gone in that one of there next game will be The Bosses story in WW2 It wouldn’t interfere with the current story and it’s already established The end would be where she takes in snake and trains him
I'm honestly a little baffled where the interpretation of EVA/Tatyana being Sokolov's "wife" ever came from, as if its some kind of revelation when Sokolov shows Snake the photo of his family in Groznyj Grad. Ocelot initially referred to her as Sokolov's "woman" and Snake himself more directly says he thought she was Sokolov's "lover" before Sokolov shows him the photo of his actual wife. The implication always seemed kind of clear that she was meant to be thought of as his mistress. That he was a bit of a dirty old man. But more than anything, it was during the Virtuous Missions' briefing that it was stated one of Sokolov's defection conditions was that his family had to go with him. Zero than states Sokolov's family was successfully transported to the West before Sokolov himself went over the fence. They stayed in the West when he was returned. The photo was just to remind us of that, and probably to try and make us, the players, feel somewhat bad for assuming he might have been having an affair, as in the in-universe characters largely seemed to.
Man I wish I didn't have a hyperfixation pronunciation, but considering how populat the topic is and how widely known Hideo Kojima is the fact his name hasn't been pronounced correctly through this series drives me bonkers XD
THANK YOU for mentioning America's moving of nukes into Turkey and Italy, with the Soviet response being to move nukes to Cuba It's crazy how often a lot of people leave out US aggression when talking about this. No wonder you're the favorite.
How do you feel about Metal Gear Solid 3? 🐍
My friend and I 100% this game back before we knew that was a thing lol. Most fun of all metal gear games I think.
Real good, man 😎👍
It’s my favorite one
The first one I completed fully and played regularly
The best Rambo game that's ever been made 😂
@@raymondzellar5523 Haga I hear ya long before I watched stuff online I used to do speed runs for my mates to watch they must get sick of me after all these tears even playing elden ring we're sunbroing up a ladder me 🎵What a thrill.....
"I Talk For Far Too Long"
But it's only 104 minutes!
I guess that's technically short for this channel haha
@@YourFavoriteSon1 One can also never talk for too long about MGS 😁
@@YourFavoriteSon1 It's probably shorter than MGS3 cutscenes would have been, would they have left Kojima go wild. The man clearly wants to be a movie director... I wonder if his work with Guillermo Del Toro in Death Stranding felt like a dream come true
@@YourFavoriteSon1We need the Subsistence cut of this retrospective 😂
Thats only 6,240 seconds!
Lori Alan as The Boss. She did a PHENOMENAL job. She was able to portray so much nuance and subtlety in all her lines, and layers and layers of different emotions... at the same time! And all this, despite the fact that Kojima's writing can sometimes come across as ham-fisted and stilted.
Personally, one of my favorite VO performances of all time, across all media, not just video games.
MGS3 for me is in the holy trinity of 6th generation video games alongside OG RE4 and Ninja Gaiden Black. I honestly believe video games peaked in that generation.
MGS got me into gaming in 2015. I bought a used PS3 to help with bordom in college, and played through the whole series in a month for the first time. MGS3 is the first game to make me cry. At 22yo, i had understood why people loved gaming. I've been a gamer ever since.
Thats crazy I had a similar thing in 2014 with a 360 and played assassins creed 2 and it opened up a ton of amazing games on xbox and got a new xbox with tons of games and love it. Gsme on!
If that made you cry, wait till you try the yakuza games.
@@chrishickman7059 oh yeah Yakuza 7(my first Yakuza) definitely made me cry.
Aww Son, you didn't save and load in the jail for Snake to have a nightmare and play a cool mini-game.
He couldn’t even if wanted to. He would have to the play the original ps2 version or ps2 subsistence version
@@4Ph4ntom I've done it on Subsistence every time I play through the game.
@@RaiohTheHunter
Congrats.
Son said he captured footage on the master collection. Poster above you is correct that it is a PS2 exclusive, but may have used the wrong word when saying "original"
From Wikipedia:
" "Guy Savage" is the name of the nightmare sequence in the PlayStation 2 versions of Metal Gear Solid 3.
...
Guy Savage was not included in Metal Gear Solid 3: HD Edition, Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D, or the version of the game included in Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 1."
Y'all play nice now.
@@RaiohTheHunter but he said he was playing the master collection volume 1 version of MGS3. That’s why I said he couldn’t even if he wanted to.
@@RaiohTheHunter That easter egg was removed in the HD edition and master collection. There are some speculation that minigame was a teaser for a game (probably a Castlevania game) that ended up being cancelled.
Snake Eater tends to be everyone’s favorite, and it’s not at all a wonder why. The storytelling reached an all new high with its release, the new mechanics are unique and the lore is tough to beat here. The sheer amount of different functions and the hidden Easter Eggs still being rooted out today just overshadow most games, even within the same franchise. I’m still partial to MGS1 myself because of nostalgia, but MGS3 really demonstrates the narrative and technical prowess Kojima Productions and their associates were capable of in their prime.
Another banger of a video. I know you probably didn't want to spend too much time on that section, but one cool thing about The End you could have mentioned is that you can actually hold him up (When Snake sneaks up and says "Freeze"). This lets you shake him down and make him drop his unique camo for you to use. He's the only boss I can remember where this is possible.
So many little details like this in MGS3, so cool.
You can also kill him early in the game way before the battle :0
@@Smartacus420 Yeah, my son demonstrates that very act at 45:37
You can also save the game and wait 2 weeks ( or set the clock ahead on ps2) and he'll die of old age. 😊
@@SeanIsCrazy this is mentioned in the video @49:40 :)
That theme song will be forever burned into my mind.
It's one of the most iconic
Best bond theme imo
Son, i dont think you realize how much you just made my day. I'm proud of you, slugger
I was 23 when MGS3 came out. I liked Metal Gear Solid and considered myself a fan of the series, but not as "hardcore" as I thought MGS 2 was a step back, even though I still thought it was cool. I read the first reviews in Electronic Gaming Monthly. They said it was the best Metal Gear yet. Everyone was raving about how it would change stealth games forever. The graphics looked a cut above as well. I was actually deployed to Iraq, so getting monthly gaming magazines were rare. I didn't know anything else about it until we got back in the Spring of 2004 where I went to Game Stop and preordered it. Life happened and I forgot my preorder. I never came to pick it up. Saw it on the shelf months later and the guy at the checkout told me this was actually the copy I preordered months ago and was the last copy they had in the store that week. He gave me the IGN walkthrough, MGS artbook and lore guide that came with the preorder. I avoided using it as I wanted to experience it the way I had with the other two games- a blind playthrough. After the Virtuous Mission Prologue, and I saw the true intro and the Snake Eater song by Cynthia Harrell, I knew this game was going to be one of the greatest I ever played and boy did it deliver. It was the first game I ever felt emotionally connected to the protagonist and the antagonist at the same time. As the end credits rolled, I just couldn't get over The Boss. She was one of the coolest female characters I had ever seen and wasn't overly sexualized as female characters tend to be games. Having just experienced my first tour in Iraq and having brushes with death, I understood The Boss's last speech and it hit very close to home. A world without borders. Loyalty to the End. How for a soldier, the mission comes first. I became mildly obsessed with Metal Gear Solid after this game. It lives rent free in my head till this day. Words can't describe how excited I am for the remake.
Feel sorry for people who skip The End's boss fight. It was one of the coolest fights i've ever been in in a video game because I took it so seriously lol.
Been looking forward to your MGS3 video.
Thanks, hope you like it!
Good to see you, Son - stay safe and eat right
~ Dad. London UK
I find it odd how most people miss that Snake never once denies that there were aspects of his and The Boss’s complicated relationship that may have been romantic. Perhaps they were lovers on a night or two. I think simplifying the relationship as a mother role is doing it a disservice. Snake always says “it isn’t that simple.” That means it was a lot of things, all of which were deep. He couldn’t put into words their bond because it was unique to them.
I got the same vibe. I think it goes far beyond the mentor-student relationship.
I felt the same way also.
Sure, but there's a clear mother/son, teacher/student dynamic to them that is clearly stated and defines their interactions and relationship to a considerable degree, so it is the lense that most will take to examine those two characters.
Eva is the one who implies that their relationship was romantic or sexual, Snake does deny that and portrays their relationship as platonic but deeper than love.
Love the first 2 vids. This is good to have on for a Sunday. Perfect timing fam!
Hope you enjoy this one too!
Awesome video my dude! I always look forward to your work with how detail laden and researched all aspects of the games you do!
Just incase you aren’t aware, you don’t mash the melee button to counter the CQC, you actually just hit the CQC button when the ! Pops up on her head
I'm only late because I just finished up a 3 and a half day long video essay on something. Thank you once again for this gift. I absolutely LOVED this game. I even skipped sleep before work because I just couldn't beat the last encounter before the time ran out. That was so long ago.
My absolute favorite MGS. I cried like a baby at the end. I’ve been so hyped for this.
MGS3 is my most favourite MG entry and one of my most favourtie games of all time. I played this game so much and loved every second of it.
I'll never forget my battle against "The End". I was lying on a cliff, aiming at the direction where i expected him to be.
Then i heared a "click" sound.. I froze unable to move my hand. Until i decided to exit sniper view and had to witness the end standing behind me aiming right at my head.
He told me: "This... is the end" and then fired. Moving my ass 2 or 3 areas back. This is when i learned the true meaning of pain and defeat. xD
But seriously this was one of the best, if not the best and exciting boss battle i ever had. The sheer amount of details and gameplay which went only into this sniper battle. I still get goosebumps thinking about it.
The Fear is either one of the most disappointing bosses in the game if you kill him lethally, or one of the best in the series if you kill him non-lethally.
I still remember waiting in line late to get my pre-order day 1 from EB Games. I ran home faster than Charlie with the golden ticket as soon as it was in my hands.
Your timing could not have been more perfect! Just sat down with my dinner and was wondering what to watch... thanks!
YES, been hoping and waiting for this, you kept us waiting!
28:08 FROM A LACERATED SKY!!
I really hope we get a msg4 video from you really awesome job on the series been loving listening to these while im at work 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
57:08 Just wanted to mention that according to one of the PSP games, Sokolov actually survived MGS 3 and can be recruited as a unit
Would LOVE to see a Zone of the Enders retrospective 😊
Great vid looking forward to the next one
Just found this channel and had to instant subscribe, binged watched all 3 MGS videos...prenominal content
You killed it again what a great video. Metal gear solid 3 is an amazing game. It was my first game in the series I played besides playing the metal gear solid demo .
Hey son, you've probably already gotten this comment but, the PS3 has always-on HDCP protection that stops it from being recorded by most capture cards. You need to get an HDMI splitter that can bypass the HDCP protection in order to record it. If you google around there are some good threads on which splitters have this capability. Personally I use the OREI HD 102 and it has worked splendidly in my experience. Hope that helps. Thanks for all your hard work. This was a fantastic essay.
My favourite metal gear and the only one I’ve cleared on European extreme. I love everything about it. I first played it while doing my history A levels which was about the Cold War - this is an exaggerated, very “kojima” take on it, but it was relevant enough to feel uncanny.
I could never work out snake’s feelings toward The Boss. Was he in love with her? Was it a maternal relationship? I can feel genuine sadness and disappointment when encountering the ghost of her lover; and the final shot to put her down felt more like an ending to what could have been than what was.
Incredible work as always son. You make us all proud.
You notice how the Master Collection version of 3 (all the games really) have have had quite a bit of work done polishing up through patches? Yes, they should have launched without omissions and bugs, but i think as it stands now it’s a great first volume.
Thank you so much for playing the full ocelot classic scene of him juggling his revolvers
Been waiting for this breakdown!!! Keep up the hard work!!!
Really enjoying these videos, working in IT I don't really switch off but I am able to get thru a long batch of work while listening to this one and it kept me focused on work, but I was for want of a better word was riveted to listen to the end and finding out some stuff I did not know. Thanks again for the content I find it best to listen and work to! Look forward to the next video.
Dude, Acid was so fucking good!
Fun fact if you give make snake eat the foods he doesn't like enough times, he'll recover more stamina from them. I think he even changes his dialogue, iirc.
Thank you for covering Acid. I don't blame you for not liking them, but I loved them so much as a kid. They are clunky, and you make a good point about the lack of control, but I think they are really interesting. I enjoyed the wackyness, which I thought worked well for the genre.
Been looking forward to your video on mgs3. Great quality work as always
I always thought Peacewalker was where a lot of MGSV mechanics got their start, im surprised to learn that Portable Ops was the real prototype for those two games.
Really, the most surprising thing from this video series is learning that lot of elements that makes a Metal Gear game a Metal Gear game have their roots in non-MG games or handheld spinoffs.
I love this game for it's CQC mechanics, survival and also for how exaggerated it is (even within Metal Gear standards), like a James Bond film.
Shame I realise how much I suck at it every time I fight the Boss 🤣
Honestly the best entry in the series. Another great video son. Have a great SonDay!
Pleasant surprise for me on a Sunday morning. You always say you talk for too long, but these videos are perfect to just listen to while I do other things. These are often some of the few videos I love to put on as soon as they come out and they make my day pass so much faster and more enjoyable.
I'm so happy to see you cover the metal gear solid series, the retrospective has been great so far.
Thanks for that, Boss 🫡
I just finished the game the 5th times a few days ago. What a perfect timing
damn, smashing into an iron gate with a motorcycle is some bold shit @1:04:43
I swear Sokolov did the Kamehameha pose when Snake was trying to rescue him.
Also Ocelot is actually taking all of snakes advice throughout game, he essentially made revolver ocelot 😂😂
Don't worry, Son. I'm used to listening to 12 hour Elder Scrolls retrospectives. You're far from "too long".
This was a great one. I've listened to long delves into MGS3 plenty of times over the years, but hearing different people's takes on it never gets old. There's just so many weird and nifty details for people to talk about.
Super Rad does make some long ass vids.
I didn't see this mentioned in any of the comments. So, when you first meet Volgin he says Kuwabara kuwabara. Kind of odd for a Japanese phrase to be spoken by a Russian but I think that's because it kind of doesn't work translated. The phrase is meant to ward off lightning. Considering how Volgin, a guy with electrical powers, was done in by lightning in the final confrontation (where he notably doesn't say the phrase), it's a clever bit of foreshadowing by Kojima.
Homie I just finished the second retrospective yesterday, this is divine timing son , I'm proud of you 🥲
ive been listening to mgs codec calls (all of them) for the last few weeks in prep for mgs delta, i absolutley love the mgs series and hail it as the most influential of my childhood/teen years, i remember my mum walking in during the scene were volgin finds out your not Raikov, i still remember the look on her face! thank you son
MGS3 retrospectives are my guilty pleasure
Another banger video
We’ve definitely got some different feelings about the story of MGS3, but this was a great video nonetheless. Looking forward to what you cover next!
32:24 Because of Vinny Vinesauce's playthrough of this game, I will always remember Lyndon B Johnson's phonecall to a tailor ti grt bigger pants.
I would say this is my favourite. First MGS game I played. Didn't understand the complexity. Just enjoyed the gameplay and camo etc.
The source link doesn't list the songs. I really want to know the song used in the chapter transitions. It goes so hard. Great video, as always. This is one of my favorite RUclips channels.
Hello Son, Just so you Know. Another banger!!
I First Came in contact with the series Back with MGS. Me and my Cousin Played together. And until today I think of 3 as the best/ny Favourite Part in the series, while he prefferes 2. What do you think?
A funny trivia: If its Not a gaming Legend you could, by exposing snake to a food often, raised the Level of taste/stamina is gave you. Bats are a God example.
mgs3 vid lets gooooo! as always, i already know this vid is gonna be great. were in for a good one
Great video man, mgs3 is my personal favourite as it really stuck with me. But I can't wait for you to cover MGS4, it's gameplay is great, and it's story is wacky af in a good way, I love mgs4 really, shame it's stuck on ps3 which I totally didn't buy just to play mgs 4 and demon souls and the mgs legacy collection 😵💫
I was waiting for a breakdown/ explanation of Big Boss's leggings in Portable Ops
The peak of the series. A masterpiece
51:36 I think you meant an "Endless" ladder.
By the way, you don’t have to spam the cqc button against the boss, if you press the button right after snake makes a grunt you will win the battle and throw her down every time, I think it’s pretty cool they have the audio cue for you.
I'm a little shocked at how little he covered CQC in general, it's actually a very deep combat system and seemingly the intended ways of defeating Volgin and The Boss, since both take every opportunity to punish you for using weapons, as well as a great way to handle the grunts along the way in a pinch.
Please do portable ops next
watch the video
I'm sick in bed so this came right on time!
Hope you enjoy and feel better!
This is the best game in the best video game franchise. I may be biased, but that's pretty impressive.
Are you planning to cover Metal Gear Rising eventually, and if so, would that make you YourFavoriteNanomachineSon for the duration?
The link for sources and songs only contains the sources, no songs!
Making this the avg. length of a movie is genius.
I do like how our old tech nanomachines version its just magic parasites. I liked more the two first games that showed us that some people do have that magic, even giving Solid Snake that misticism.
Definitely my favorite mgs game even tho my first was the 2nd in the series and I pour more hours into it. But that’s just cuz I couldn’t get ahold of others when I was so young lol
This is just one of the best games of all time imo
I’ve been waiting for this one
I appreciate the people who talk about games in depth because then I get to act like I know stuff about the franchise. (I am only interested because of the one guy I find hot.)
Great Video.
Metal Gear Solid 3 is to me the best entry in the series when it comes to story, themes, scenario and game play meeting up. 1 introduced me, it's iconic. 2 was cool but i wasn't getting the theme the first time around and i don't like Raiden that much. 4 is the coolest nostalgia bomb of a movie hidden inside very complicated controls. 5 has one of the best controls for sneaking ever... shame about the development hell and weirdly bloated campaign...
Can't wait for the MGS4 retrospective so i can once again ugly-cry when the "The Best Is Yet To Come" plays over Old Snake exploring a dilapidated Shadow Moses... "A surveillance camera?"
Not to criticise to much but solid snake never fights big boss he fights venom snake. Love your vids tho keep them up
Maybe he didn't want to spoil it for people who haven't played MGSV yet
He fights both. Isn't the whole point of MG2 that "somehow Big Boss returned" so Solid Snake fights him 'again'?
First mgs i got bigboss/foxhound rank. Doing sons of liberty big boss next
My favorite MGS and the best MGS game.
Another great video, can't wait for mgs4!
One of my favorite things to do was to make Snake eat rats over, and over, and over again, until he likes them. Such a silly mechanic but yet another insane layer of depth to this game.
This whole video has me so hyped up to play the remake when it comes out. I think metal gear's solid 3 is the greatest example of what video games should be. So many loving extra details just to provide a better service. Not locked behind DLC or pay to win. Not me being nostalgic over here.😅
Not too bad my man, I enjoy your coverage of MGS, do you have one of these for MGS1 or the first few on NES/pc98 or whatever they were i forget the computer versions
He covers the MSX originals in his coverage of MGS1
Best game ever made and also best in the series. Only game that may top it is its own remake.
Hell yes, one of my favorite games of all time!
Right about time, son ! Thanks!
U ever wonder about what direction each game has gone in that one of there next game will be The Bosses story in WW2
It wouldn’t interfere with the current story and it’s already established
The end would be where she takes in snake and trains him
I'm honestly a little baffled where the interpretation of EVA/Tatyana being Sokolov's "wife" ever came from, as if its some kind of revelation when Sokolov shows Snake the photo of his family in Groznyj Grad. Ocelot initially referred to her as Sokolov's "woman" and Snake himself more directly says he thought she was Sokolov's "lover" before Sokolov shows him the photo of his actual wife.
The implication always seemed kind of clear that she was meant to be thought of as his mistress. That he was a bit of a dirty old man.
But more than anything, it was during the Virtuous Missions' briefing that it was stated one of Sokolov's defection conditions was that his family had to go with him. Zero than states Sokolov's family was successfully transported to the West before Sokolov himself went over the fence. They stayed in the West when he was returned. The photo was just to remind us of that, and probably to try and make us, the players, feel somewhat bad for assuming he might have been having an affair, as in the in-universe characters largely seemed to.
Man I wish I didn't have a hyperfixation pronunciation, but considering how populat the topic is and how widely known Hideo Kojima is the fact his name hasn't been pronounced correctly through this series drives me bonkers XD
Son, you've got a way to fall. They'll tell you where to go, but they won't know..
Clicked so fast!!
This game made me a gamer for life.
NO WAY HE WENT AND DID IT
THANKS SON
What a thrill..... Son 👍
Funny thing I never used ap or motion d . Played so many times that I know where all sentries are 😂😂😂
THANK YOU for mentioning America's moving of nukes into Turkey and Italy, with the Soviet response being to move nukes to Cuba
It's crazy how often a lot of people leave out US aggression when talking about this.
No wonder you're the favorite.
14:21 so THAT’S why it’s called snake eater?