MGS2 THE GAME THAT PREDICTED THE FUTURE AND THE PROFOUND TRUTH OF EXISTENCE | ANALYSIS
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- In this video, we delve deep into the intricate world of "Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty," a game that transcends traditional gaming to offer a profound commentary on misinformation, reality, and the human condition. Join us as we explore how Hideo Kojima's masterpiece not only entertained us but also made us question our very existence and the nature of the information we consume.
From Raiden's manipulated memories and the surreal experiences in Arsenal Gear, to the pivotal moment of rejecting the dog tags and breaking free from our constraints, "MGS2" is rich with philosophical and psychological insights. We'll discuss how the game's narrative, intertwined with gameplay, creates a meta-experience that challenges our perceptions and highlights the impact of external control on our identity.
We'll also examine the uncanny parallels between the game's themes and the rise of the digital age, including the proliferation of misinformation and echo chambers. "MGS2" eerily predicted the future, showcasing how technology can shape reality and influence human behavior in profound ways.
Whether you're a long-time fan of the series or new to the world of Metal Gear, this video offers a comprehensive analysis of why "MGS2" remains one of the most significant and thought-provoking games of all time. Join us as we uncover the layers of meaning behind this iconic game and reflect on its enduring relevance in today's world.
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Beatifull video, incredible analysis, i still consider you the most underrated MGS Channel.
Mgs2 is one of the hardest topics to talk about in this community especially the AI part and you my friend did an Amazing job, hats to you boss.
there is great deal in the mgs series, that has shown us something relevant to the real world, with the mgs covering all these important themes that effect us all on emotional levels, personally as well, understand that the effort i put into making these video, is to share and showcase the world we share, through the love we all have from this brilliant game that will never die, and once again brother your someone im glad to see on my feed, hats of too you, for making me get to where i am, to share my passion for mgs, your a bro ! 👉👉 lets keep climbing and exploring what the mgs series will bring our way
@@mycardboardbox ill follow you through all of your journey, keep climbing the Mountain of success, your Channel Is growing fast and your content keeps getting better and Better. You got This champ 🤘🏻
@@mycardboardbox Almighty Deus Ex smirks while learning about that video's existence.
I've played it once and it was pretty good. The fact that everything that was talked about in regards to A.I., controlling media, misinformation, the digital age, and cloning has been happening and slowly unfolding before our eyes is interesting and terrifying at the same time. I love Metal Gear. ❗🐍✌😎👍
The scary part is it's been happening even before the game, right under our noses
It even predicted the rise of Donald Trump, or at least a figure like him. The Patriots alude to how the individual while weak is far from powerless and how someone could use the Internet to shape the course of history. Obviously, the Patriots consider this potentially disastrous. Senator Armstrong in Revengeance is this figure the Patriots warn about as he uses social media to advance his own aims. 3 Years after Revengeance was released, Donald Trump, who is just as flamboyant, over the top and cartoonish as Armstrong also effectively used social media to meme his way to the White House. This is why he is so hated by the establishment. He utterly bypassed them to obtain power. Then the establishment started their own censorship regime, their GW in response to Trump. Social media companies in league with government agencies such as the FBI began to manipulate the algorithm, push, and censor information to advance the narrative that fits their agenda. Claiming they were fighting against misinformation. This is why Elon Musk buying Twitter was such an issue for them because he promised to punch a giant whole in their censorship regime.
It even predicted the rise of a politician with a combover(RUclips Censorship is just awful), or at least a figure like him. The Patriots alude to how the individual while weak is far from powerless and how someone could use the Internet to shape the course of history. Obviously, the Patriots consider this potentially disastrous. Senator Armstrong in Revengeance is this figure the Patriots warn about as he uses social media to advance his own aims after the end of Sons of Patriots AIs. 3 Years after Revengeance was released, the combover politician, who is just as flamboyant, over the top and cartoonish as Armstrong also effectively used social media to meme his way to the White House. This is why he is so hated by the establishment. He utterly bypassed them to obtain power. Then the establishment started their own censorship regime, their GW in response to his election victiry. Social media companies in league with government agencies such as the FBI began to manipulate the algorithm, push, and censor information to advance the narrative that fits their agenda. Claiming they were fighting against misinformation. This is why Elon Musk buying Twitter was such an issue for them because he promised to punch a giant whole in their GW censorship regime.
It even predicted the rise of a politician with a combover(RUclips Censorship is just awful), or at least a figure like him. The Patriots alude to how the individual while weak is far from powerless and how someone could use the Internet to shape the course of history. Obviously, the Patriots consider this potentially disastrous. Senator Armstrong in Revengeance is this figure the Patriots warn about as he uses social media to advance his own aims after the end of Sons of Patriots AIs. 3 Years after Revengeance was released, the combover politician, who is just as flamboyant, over the top and cartoonish as Armstrong also effectively used social media to meme his way to the White House. This is why he is so hated by the establishment. He utterly bypassed them to obtain power. Then the establishment started their own censorship regime, their GW in response to his election victiry. Social media companies in league with government agencies such as the FBI began to manipulate the algorithm, push, and censor information to advance the narrative that fits their agenda. Claiming they were fighting against misinformation. This is why Elon Musk buying Twitter was such an issue for them because he promised to punch a giant whole in their GW censorship regime.
Even GW to an extent became a reality. I had a much longer post, but it got deleted by the algorithm. Just play Metal Gear Revengeance. MGS2 alludes to that games final boss which predicted events a few years after it's release.
I first played this game last year. IT.BLEW.MY.MIND....Kojima is some kind of prophet.
Just an insider that knows the plan
Not sure if you've ever played Death Stranding, but that came out just before covid. Would be a good one to play again now in the post-covid world
It even predicted the rise of a politician with a combover(RUclips Censorship), or at least a figure like him. The Patriots alude to how the individual while weak is far from powerless and how someone could use the Internet to shape the course of history. Obviously, the Patriots consider this potentially disastrous. Senator Armstrong in Revengeance is this figure the Patriots warn about as he uses social media to advance his own aims after the end of Sons of Patriots AIs. 3 Years after Revengeance was released, the combover politician, who is just as flamboyant, over the top and cartoonish as Armstrong also effectively used social media to meme his way to the White House. This is why he is so hated by the establishment. He utterly bypassed them to obtain power. Then the establishment started their own censorship regime, their GW in response to his election victory. Social media companies in league with government agencies such as the FBI began to manipulate the algorithm, push, and censor information to advance the narrative that fits their agenda. Claiming they were fighting against misinformation. This is why the Twitter was such an issue for them because it had the potential to bust a hole in their censorship regime.
Yup, he is friends with the elite… sad
@@big_wiz I've been meaning to play it.
My dad always told me how this game predicted the future, at the time I didn’t believe him, a few years later and now I believe that this game did predict so many things…
This post made me feel old
Your dad? Wat
@@pkemr4yeh can’t wrap my head around this
I was playing this game but skip the dialogue almost forgot about the story behind this is real and happening right now ask we speak.
Play MGS4 if you havent, theres a lot of interesting stuff in that one too. The whole Metal Gear Solid series has some deep material in it.
I remember playing this game when I was 12. I locked myself in my room during the summer and did nothing but play this game. It was an escape from dealing with the fact that my grandmother was in the hospital dying, but it was also a mindblowing obsession at the same time. I remember finishing it and not being able to talk to anyone about it because my grandmother had passed and no one would care. Contemplating the themes of MGS2 and the death of my grandmother who grew up before all of this wretched tech was an extremely formulative time in my life.
Sorry for your loss.
May your grandmother rest well.
Peace.
This game was definitely ahead of its time. And one of my all time favorite games to date
I had little to no internet access when this game came out.
All the Sci-fi " mumbo jumbo" went over my head.
I had no idea I was playing a prophecy.
I played this game like a month ago, after a very rough breakup, so the codec calls between Jack and Rose really resonated with me. Tho now, I can also see how misinformed I was of my own past experiences, how the truth can get distorted or each person can make up their own convenient truths or half truths to bring down the other person or to not feel guilt, this realization after going to therapy, analyzing a lot of things and having one last message a few days ago that really hurt but I can understand how misinformed, untruthful or hurtful we can be as people, even to loved ones, as a way to "protect" the other person or even ourselves.
I was a little sad with mgs3 and 4 not having as deep codec calls tho still love them for their own fantastic ideas and executions. And really in retrospective mgs2 gives so much to talk about. When I played it I likened the censorship of rapid spreading information and misinformation to the ban on tiktok on the US even if im not from there I can still see how truthful the rapid spreading of meaningless or meaningful information on the internet truly is.
loved the intro, love this series, and rn im playing portable ops so i skipped the mgsV parts but trust me after po, pw ill play mgsV.
In my humble opinion, Portable Ops is the last MGS game with a really good, focused story.
PW is still fine, but underwelming if compared to what came before, and V is the weakest on story, compensating on the gameplay aspect.
@@Rihcterwilker💯Python.
Mgs V's story is not that deep but still is the funniest one to play imo
That's just the beginning. Play snake eater then do guns of the patriots after. You already did the middle part. "Boss...?"- Naked Snake. Sad character arc's 😢
@@OccultOdysseyGamingGalaxies In this last month I played snake eater, guns of the patriots, rising revengeance, portable ops, peace walker and I'm currently playing mgsV but ill take it slow now since its the last until the remake for 3. pretty good games, tho I still really like the codec calls of 2 over the others and the dynamics are pretty good.
I bought the HD collection for the Solid games back in 2019-I was 15 at the time-out of curiosity for who Solid Snake was. I instead had an existential crisis after choosing MGS2 as my first game. It was intense, interesting, and above all it was terrifying to think of what was happening behind the facade of a terrorist intervention. I adore this game
I bought this game from the bargain Bin for 12 dollars during the PS2 era. I remembered seeing the original on display cases at gaming stores but never once considered buying it. It really led me down a rabbit hole.
MGS2 was 100% ahead of its time. thanks for making this video explaining it more
We're very very close to living inside MGS4 now. Unfortunately there are no psycho supermodels in mech suits around though.
Aye... not yet
PMCs fighting for Russia. Yeah
@@wombatkins no
@@mrtophat12 Wagner group in Ukraine?
After Ukraine war countries will start selling "security".
And PMCs in Africa are all the rage btw! Also lifting a ban on nukes will make security valuable resource bought and sold. Ukrainian army will become huge security exporter after us monopoly on security ends ( just like good old days of 16th and 17th century).
2002 me: What? A.I. controlling people? That's absurd! What a dumb ending!
2024 me: All hail the great prophet, Hideo Kojima! All hail the truth teller!
Yeah
I'm loving the MGS deep dives. You've taken up Futurasound and have very intriguing views that make it your own and better. Keep it up brother.
means alot brother 👉👉
Played it for 9 hours, then the Campbell started freaking out with his AI voice. And this broke the 4th wall, i thought i was tripping.
I wish I had been the first time I played it.
The codec call by AI Campbell before you fight Solidus in MGS is probably the most profound 10 mins in History. Not just gaming history. Thank you for this content.
The bit that got me weirded out was the reveal of the s3 programme as the selection for societal sanity
Ground zeros was the tanker incident. Never thought of it that way till now
Isn't it amazing how MGS2 predicted/describes exactly how the RUclips algorithm is designed to work
I’ve been saying this for years! Drones, AI, nude government conspiracies!? All predicted by MGS2! Metal Gear can appear any day now & I wouldn’t be surprised! Kojima & his team are geniuses!
In regards to the VR arena where you fight the Rays, it can’t be ignored that it would have been significantly easier for the team to render it that way, and it’s possible that time/money played into it looking the way it does. That said the whole arsenal gear sequence definitely feels like descending into madness making you wonder if anything is real, just like Raiden does, so it absolutely fits thematically as well.
"No one is invalidated but no one is right."
We need more Metal Gear Solid games!
Kojima grinding Pokémon Crystal is hilarious, real or not.
Ground breaking. I remember beating this game when I was a kid.. It changed my life perspective forever and from then on I realized just how prophetic it really was.
KEEP GIVING THIS SUBLIME VISIONARY MASTERPIECE THE GLORY IT DESERVES
Your channel is so underrated dude, kino vid as always. Hope you get the attention you deserve ASAP
This channel is going to blow up for sure.
Normalize the theory that MGS games are not depicting the MGS universe, but are infact the training simulations within the MGS universe
That would work if MGS2 was the last game but everything after that debunks that theory.
ye mgs4 retcons that
simulations within a simulation released in a simulated 'irl' world
i'll never forget how my mind exploded years ago when i first finished this game.
WOW!!! One of the best , if not the best , MGS2 analysis I have ever seen . So interesting perspective and you gave attention to things that i didn't even think of the game . Thank you so much !
thanks man for the kind words appreciated brother
Btw. Kojima intended to make the tanker incident part starting during the sinking so it would be way harder to believe wich snake is the real one
Nice video. I always think back to this game when I think of current society and MGS4 is tomorrow
true dat.
DS was from 2020-2022
The best bit is following the conclusion of the game. Raiden has ptsd & is ostricised by Rose after knocking her up. Rose then shacks up with non other than Roy Campbell to raise Raiden’s son. 😅
Recently replayed this and it blew my mind, didn’t understand it much when I was a kid
The arsenal gear mission red pilled me so hard when I was 9 years old, playing this in 2002.
The themes of this game are very eerie looking back! I wonder what the reasoning behind it was? I would assume Kojima picked up on the events that was happening at the time of mgs2’s development then looked at how technological advancements would effect the world! Game was way ahead of its time!
Yes! Another amazing video!!
This is the most PROFOUND GAME EVER MADE !!!!!
This game jumpstarted my critical thinking brain, philosophy, etc. when I have a kid I’m starting him on mgs3 to get interested, then give em mgs2. I played mgs 2 and 3 from 9 years old to 24.
Its not an exaggeration to say mgs2 literally predicted the world we live in today. Its that fantastic.
Amazing video, i always expect to see your videos
sons of liberty is an incredibly original work and is in and of itself a critique of postmodern ideas of originality
A real Masterpiece. ❤ The most profound moment in gaming history!
I watched a video over this game, specifically the colonel's profound dialogue... While trippin, and it horrified me lol when the colonels face started flickering it scared tf out of me as a child too
After you see how Raiden turned out in mgs4 and rising you can truly understand the f*ckery his mind went through.
18:42 & 18:46 Please, be careful with flashing images of put a warning before they appear. Some people may have seizures because of them. That aside, nice video.
20 years later im still suspicious of how mgs2 was so much more advanced than other ps2 games for graphics and physics. Just like the patriots controlling the flow of information do console manufacturers actually have much more advanced consoles than the technology they put out, so they can always sell the "upgraded next gen"? just like apple selling new i-phones or computers when they have ones decades in advance available but withhold them deliberately. Why is Japan decades ahead in technology also? And mgs2 just happens to be a japanese made game...
yeah i reckon your spot on there, its like these companies already have this higher tech but they dont sell it masses right away, and when you look at Japan's technological innovations, I'm quite sure there leading in that race, mgs 2 was a game that was so ahead of its time not just for its themes, but the game itself
@@mycardboardbox maybe... but when it comes to the arms race. I doubt they can keep up. homie we literally can cause floods on a cloudy day if we wanted.
Edit: errr I better shut up
Wait till you find out military tech is 20 years ahead of civilian tech
To me metal gear 2 story is up there with 1984.
i never get tired of researching their lore.
I play Metal Gear Solid 1 great game never play the second one and play the one on the PS3 apparently I missed out on a great game
In the era of the extremities screaming at each other, the truth is usually found hiding somewhere in the quiet middle in my experience...
Currently doing a Longplay of this! Good Predictive Programming this game was and is,like all mgs games they are likely half fiction half truth.
This was my first ps2 game in 2001 at -8 years old
“Raiden,in the future the internet will be used in the future by influencers wielding memes without context to groom children”
“For child soldiers?”
“No.”
LMAO bruh Im so disappointed now.
my favorite game of all time.. i was saying this was a mirror of reality when it first came out........
MGS2 is my favorite Metal Gear game.
There's a lot of really good breakdowns of this game online. This is also one of them. One of the better ones, even. A bit of a mindfuck on top of that. Was that really psycho mantis' voice? Where are the color coded segments from?!
35:47 how'd you make the codec look like that?
You know... using phrases such as "your truth" and "facts that are subjective" unironically is only furthering the issue.
Neither truth nor facts are subjective. Humanity, at least in the english speaking world, have devolved to having a dangerously casual relationship with the definition of those words among others.
A fact is a fact, or it isn't a fact. The truth is the truth, or it isn't the truth. As soon as subjectivity comes into play with either one of these, they cease to be. They become opinions.
As silly as it sounds, I think we need to increase the strictness of our language policeing. Letting our grip slip on the structure and use of our language endangers our ability to communicate with each other effectively. Words have definitions. Definitions are the concepts or ideas that we wish to communicate with each other that we then agree to be represented by words. If we lose this ability to communicate... I refer you to the tower of Babel.
words that kill
its an issue if the powers that be like the patriots, elites, people in power, etc call something "fact or truth" might be subjective is my point as people will believe it as a fact just because they say it is, as you said a fact is a fact, or it isn't its objectively proven, communication has changed over the years with English been the most dominate language, and with communication becomes information, that can be manipulated, look at the definition's of words and definition's today as the "pronouns" phenomena, shows that policing on language doesn't happenen, and sub cultures even create there own words, communication is ever changing, the digital age is living proof of that
You talking about facts but refuse to see what Billion Dollar companys do to Push there agenda . Best case Ubisoft and the Afro American man Yasuke .
Here Ubisoft hired Personal with the intend to rewrite history and they did it acutally befor the Wikipedia page was rolled back . In this day and Age with all the Technonolie and the Internet . There is no longer a thing called a fact as these so called facts can be rewritten and edited to push an Angenda
There we go, Mgs2 time, ill Watch the vid in the next couple of days, i can't Watch them currently, ill be back mate
we await your return boss, the world still needs you
@@mycardboardbox i feel Honored being called boss by you, thank you boss 🤘🏻
Nobody care about you
@@mycardboardbox How'd you add those emojis?
@@maggondatreides4783 when you get to a certain level in you tube you get to add your own emojis
I NEED SCISSORS!
61!!
The MGS2 Prophecy while scary... is still not as scary that at the end it will go from a video game to a book.... and we will ALL end up living 1984
fun fact; hideo didn't want to make 2; konami was going to make it without him so he quickly wrote the story on the subway ride home. at least thats what I heard and that would make it his game with the least effort
why does he write words he can’t pronounce? did he actually write his essay?
It's kojima going out of his way to not give the audience what they want 😂
Abe's name is pronounced ahbeh
Pretty solid video on one of my favorite games
They cutting this if mgs2 remake comes out
Played mgs2 when it came out as a kid. I'm 35 now..... been telling my parents for decades now. Show them this same type of video by max derrant and now they believe it. Eat. The. Rich. Before its too late.
Love how deep into the lore that konami will take metal gear :)
The Bible truly warns of the future. Anyone who’s read that and then looked at what goes on around them can see what’s coming.
revelations
The struggle of Dangerous Freedom vs Peaceful Slavery
Removing the codec effect is some blasphemous shit I was not expecting. You're going to MGS hell.
im already there and so are you
Genome editing….
AI control…..
Information censorship on the internet…
Femboy super-spies…
MGS2 predicted it all.
4 thousand views? I think I have caught a viral video early
metal meme solid
When I first played this game after it came out, I've thought about the game conversations the GW A.I talks about at the end constantly and what it all meant, and it made me self-aware of how the Internet was growing, and still is, and how it changes people as they integrate more of it into their lives. It's constantly evolving and changing with the times faster than the real-world can keep up with.
Just dropping in to point out that MGS 2 didn't predict the future. Everything it commented on was already happening at the time (which is how Kojima knew to comment on it). Just that fewer people back then were aware of it than are now.
word; like things have gotten way worse; the abuse of "memes" and pushing clusters of memes into groups of incapable memes is only resulting is self decay. Ex. Look at London.
I played this game as my first ever “ME” game that I owned and no one else was allowed to play… when I tell you this awoke 8-10 year old me it’s an understatement. MGS2 is my foundation for how I analyze todays blurred world.
This game didn't predict the future. Kojima didn't predict the future. Kojima is part of the clubs. He's always had access to knowledge. What amazes me is how everyone thinks a carefully crafted game narrative is in the realm of prediction. When i think a lot of you are suffering from the S3 PLAN 😂😂 Just like Raiden was 😆
Critical thinker detected
since he "predicted“ the coof in DS , there’s no doubt imho.
He isn't the first warning about the danger of future social media.
But he's the first doing it in a video game.
@@Geekezf deus ex did it first
@@type.silver you're correct
CONVENIENT HALF TRUTHS
Yes yes yes
Selection for Societal Sanity
great video.
kojima is just a prophet.
it started with mgs1, goes over mgs 2 and ofc. mgs4.
don‘t get me started about DS and the pandemic. 🤯
THe Red Pill Will Reveal the Truth, the Blue Pill will make you Rock Hard for Hours
where is the truth hidden in the lies that is totally true
Subd.
I wish we could see the uncut mgs 2... what did they had in mind with the twin towers.... maybe this would fry our brains even more....
MGS 2 is not Kojima’s finest work lmao.
Create context?
Noice!
12:55 Otakon sure sounds like his sister... and Jack
"Baud Drillard"
It's pronounced Boh-dree-ard, he's French
ah thanks for the correction bud
@@mycardboardbox np! Nice video!
Raiden voice acting so damn cringe.
Your ideas are great, and you fail to pronounce every 10th word
I found that weird too. Almost as if the script wasn't entirely his... Writing aided by AI perhaps? It would be quite meta
Edit: sorry "Mayta"
Metal Gear Solid 2 wasn't the first game to have an unreliable narrator. Final Fantasy VII is the first major example. FFVII and MGS1 were simply the first modern games.
Things MGS2 touched was explored in other media before it. At least I wasn't impressed with it at the time and nothing change since. What did impressed me is how an event was somewhat predicted by a game called Urban Strike.
Oh cool, u managed to spoiler me the end of the game, with ur Thumbnail.. I had no fucking chance to avoid it, Bravo !
Games been out for a while, bub.
I'm wondering if you used ai to help script this haha. You use words that you seem to not to know how to pronounce.
25:34 isn’t that just like a woman? Dodge responsibility, and make it all about her.
How many times are we going to see the same video again and again!? The concept of Artificial Intelligence is older than this, the concept of Post-truth is also older than this, as well as Mass Manipulation and Selective Control of Information, as well as the triumphant realities of certain moralities in a moment in time. Most of these are heavily elaborated by philosophers like Niccolo di Machiavelli and Emmanuelle Kant, and movies like Terminator or The Truman Show, all of this predating MGS2.
Y'all like those dudes who discovered Jung and his Persona through the SMT spin-off. Seriously, read some books guys!