I like how MGS3 and The Boss basically serve as a way to turn everything you know about the franchise around. Suddenly you're not sure of who the good guys are. And then the story of Big Boss continues and it is revealed how the Patriots came to be and why Big Boss tried to rebel against them. By the ending of MGS4 you realize that perhaps you've been playing as a pawn of the "bad" guys all along, that the real heroes were Big Boss and Ocelot. Man... I'll miss MGS, one of the greatest pieces of art, videogames or not, that man has seen. I seriously hope Kojima, now with full creative freedom, manages to create something as great if not better with Death Stranding.
@@NichtNameee In MGS1 and 2 I'm pretty sure they are doing exactly what the patriots want them to do. They thought they were acting against them, but nope.
Ocelot was the real hero 😄 edit : he was the only one that understands the boss wish for the world, a very tragic hero TBH. When I realized this it blew my mind.
One thing that always stung me was how when the game makes you shoot The Boss, you might not have it in you to do it, so the game takes control away from you and does it itself as if to take mercy on you and say, "I know it's hard, I'm sorry, but this has to happen."
Jose Colella That's not really Big Boss. Also, for those that think it's necessary to refer about Venom since it was Boss's plan... Man, waiting that long for your decoy to get back up is ridiculous even for MGS. And Kojima sanctioned Nanomachines. SON!
Kojima was pretty tired of making MGS games and konami breathing on his neck at that point I guess so he just came out with a female younger and more sexy version of the end 😂
Bc she followed her mission to the very end knowing the end was going to result in her death. And yet she embraced it with no hesitation. Wat a woman...
The boss actually made me furious at lawful good black and white characters. She taught me conflict, people, and reasoning was more complicated than that. There is no eternal enemy or Ally. It's sad but it's the truth.
Man I love your Metal Gear Devious Intent videos. thank you very much for your work. Every once in a while I come back to this videos as I hold dearly this saga of video games and love the deep characters.
contardation Only real heroes kill innocent SEALS, takes child soldiers for his own selfish ends, and murders a mother because she inconveniences him and takes a sick pleasure in murdering her.
Not at all. Peace Walker showed Snakes decent. This video doesn't touch on those events at all. And so what it explained was just some vague fan fiction that only exists in your head.
You definitely didn't pay attention ... The end of peace Walker expalins EXACTLY what big boss mindset was to eventually becoming the "villan" He was broken after snake eater But in peace Walker he takes action to becoming and building a mercenary group, making war a buissness and fighting for his own ideals and own missions. The phantom pain shows big boss/venom plan in making the war economy come together That is what made big boss the antagonist in other games. He and Zero ruined the world by going extreme routes trying to unify it
@@ElliotKeaton true, but MSF layed the ground work down and pretty much influenced how other should look. I actually find it funny they made the online portion of Phantom pain feed into the war economy by stealing and raiding bases for supplies and gmp, which would make sense in that world
Seriously though despite the fact that the Boss is known as the Joy and her lover is called the Sorrow, she always has a grim look on her face and he is always smiling. Inside joke lol?
I love this series, and thank you for detailing The Boss' reasoning for all that she did. I knew there was more to it than I could remember, and you summed it all well. Keep up the fantastic work!
I like how you left out information from the later games. Really staying true to the "history" this game was designed with. Great video as always. You're one of the best RUclipsrs in my Opinion and your videos have brought me much joy and the Yakuza series! So, I just want to express my Gratitude at this point. Thank you and see you on your next video! :)
Not sure if you're into Tekken, but Heihachi Mishima might make an interesting subject with the amount of history the character has had across 7 games.
5:45 minor point but it's a myth that people with one eye don't have depth perception. Maybe it's slightly impaired but it's not like you lose it entirely. Case in point: there was an NHL hockey player named Bryan Berard who essentially had his eye poked out by a stick and was still able to play at a professional level.
I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW MUCH I LOVE THE PAIN! "TAKE THIS!" Shut up, at least my favourite boss isn't Running Man from Metal Gear from the MSX days... but it is Kojima's, actually.
Fantastic video and the editing was brilliant. Can't wait for Devious Intent on Big Boss, you make some of the best content I've seen on RUclips Hayden
the first time I played MGS3 or MG Origins to be exact.... back in 2004/2005 right when I got to the final part where you beat The Boss and she hands you her Patriot and tells you to kill her.... I stood there for a good 5 minutes.... I didn't even press R1 at all or the fire button. I just stood there as the music played on and the meadow grass and flowers swayed. I was thinking maybe if I don't shoot her, she could be saved. But as she said "There can only be on Boss" Because of the US Government using Jack (Big Boss) and forcing him to kill his best friend in existence...... He would slowly become the villian as time progressed. I am guessing that no-one really understood the Boss's mission at all. They all tried to copy it and fullfill it.... but most of them failed. In reality the Boss wanted a world of peace, where people wouldn't have to kill eachother and where love can exist. The Boss truly was the hero of Metal Gear period.
Amazing how older Naked Snake/Big Boss ended up so similar to the Boss. Guess the Boss was right after all: "One must die and one must live. No victory, no defeat. The survivor will carry on the fight. It is our destiny... The one who survives will inherit the title of Boss. And the one who inherits the title of Boss will face an existence of endless battle."
Holy shit, this is so insightful and explains so much in such a simple manner. This really explain some things I did not catch and makes me really appreciate the character development a lot more
8:08 well, there are still the facility just before fightimg ocelot, the facility where we could have killed the End before the batle, where we found Grannin, and I dont think all those soldiers are dead by the end of the game.
Haven't watched yet, but god damn am I happy to see a DI on The Boss. She needed this, your other Character Study videos were so good. Watching now lol
Good timing. Just started playing the Legacy collection that I've had sitting on my shelf for over a year. Just finished this game up. Definitely the best playing game in the series so far and I enjoyed it much more than 2. The Boss was a highlight of the game. On to MG4!
17:38 Here's something that was thankfully removed from the game. In-game voice files of The Boss heavily imply that that scene was to include an aiming mechanic, and you could mess up the killshot as she would tell you to "do it right this time".
I like how you just sort of barely acknowledge the retroactive stuff MGS4 did with The Boss and stuck to her character and motivations from MGS3. Although an Uncharted 3-style exploration of the narrative jank in the MGS4 villains would be an interesting round-out to this Metal Gear Solid D.I. marathon. - Lewis
If you had been in my place back then... maybe you wouldn't have made the same mistakes that I did. Ever since the day I killed The Boss... With my own hands... I... Was already dead. Boss... You were right. It's not about changing the world. It's about doing our best to leave the world... the way it is. It's about respecting the will of others... And believing in your own. Isn't that... What you fought for? At last... I understand the meaning behind what you did.- Big Boss's last words.
Great, great, super awesome stuff. Seriously eloquent explanation of the motivations behind one of the most tragic characters in the entire narrative that is MGS. Way better than anything bunny hop or other channels have put out.
I was expecting for you to cover her "participation" in Peace Walker, about how in the end she just wanted the world at peace and to just sing a song. Still, great video!
Vinícius Carvalho me too. Although that was an AI, not really her herself. Everyone seems to hate PW's ending but I think it really shows the boss' vision of the world.
Based on some of his twitter posts he seems to just unfairly dismiss anything after 4 and MPO because "they all suck lol" and probably never even finished PW.
I like how pretty much everyone connected to the field of operation for Snake Eater is a double agent. Even though The Boss had respectable and unshakable loyalty, I can't help but to think that her faith was misplaced. All her work is doing is promote war profiteering through the Philosophers. It's easy to see how anyone else would grow to reject the ludicrous orders handed to them after being treated like a disposable handkerchief for decades.
Still one of the most confusing story in video games but still fun also. =) And The boss is so complex and a wonderful character. I do wish you put in that she also "returns" in MGS Peace Walker even if she not really meant to be the focus in that game but still it could have been worth mentioning. Anyway great work BitHero. as always. =)
We will see if he will even do peacewalker at all. I wouldn't blame him if he would not do any of the spin off games. The watered and retconnt so much it is a clusterfuck of epic proportions.
Neat summary. Although I'm pretty sure The Boss tells Strangelove she wasn't sent to the Bay of Pigs; that was a cover for her being sent to Russia to spy on the Sputnik team. And _then_ she reunited with The Sorrow and had to kill him as part of that mission. (I like to headcanon that she also bumped into a tiny kitten Ocelot and that in Snake Eater, she always knew who he was. Hence the rather mom-like way she takes his guns away and gives him a smack xD)
I clicked this video to save this and watch it later and accidentally watched the whole thing. Holy shit. MGS3 was the first and so far the only game I ever had cried for, it seems dorky just acknowledging it but it's true and I think just goes to show how good it is. 'Love MGS, man.
Even though this video is a few years old, it's a good one! The Boss is the one Metal Gear character that I have the most curious about. It's a pity that Hideo Kojima had a falling out with Konami because he had an interest in making a game centered around The Boss. It would have answered a lot of questions. What is her real name? Where is she from? Who trained her to be the bad ass that she was in MGS3? How did she, or better yet, they come up with the alias "The Boss" and why?. So many unanswered questions. This video gets a huge thumbs up!!
Great video. I would love one on Hot Coldman from _Peace Walker._ He's interesting since he fully believes no one has the stomach to use nukes even though two people in the MGS universe has. Volgin nuked Sokolov's research facility for kicks and the Boss nuked Grozni Grad under orders. Coldman's so ruthless but his naive belief that all humans are naturally too weak-willed to kill themselves baffles me. No wonder Zadornov manipulated him so easily.
I though I played each of the games in the main series. it never felt like a stealth game series since a majority of the characters acknowledge Snake's identity and at the same time attempt to be cinematic. Then for me to consider that one guy was able to take on a Metal Gear. While another pleb named Raiden takes on at lest 10 Metal Gear Rays. It seems that the series actively attempt to completely undermine its own selling point with the franchise. I know the games can be played at higher difficulties but the nature of the series is still marred of the boss fights and the active need for the characters have long winded monologues with each other. Not a series that I think deserves a stealth title but a decent one.
Sons of Liberty makes the point that its entire premise is a carefully orchestrated reenactment of the Shadow Moses incident, ala the VR missions, meant to mold people like Raiden into soldiers like Snake. It's set up in such a way that Raiden was meant to win, along with the fact that he was also a child solder trained by Solidus. Big Boss was aided by the likes of Ocelot and EVA during his mission, with intel from the CIA, not to mention the Boss herself. He was meant to succeed, and he certainly didn't do it alone.
Fun facts: Bikini Atoll actually had nuclear weapons tested on it. A popular theory on SpongeBob is that all the fish can talk because they are in bikini atoll, and mutated by radiation. This is backed by the fact that many explosions in the show are accompanied by black and white clips of nuclear testing from you guessed it :bikini atoll. The reason this is related :the voice actress who plays the big boss, plays pearl ; Mr. Krabs daughter in SpongeBob. The more you know ;)
The relation between The Boss, Snake, Ocelot, EVA and Volgin is so goddamn good! Every scene with more than two of them puts most of today's Hollywood movies to shame. The plot of this game and its scenes are such a pleasure to watch. And without being overly convoluted! 20:15 This scene. This fucking scene. My favorite scene in any video game to date. You can see Snake's disapointment and bitterness in his eyes.
Wow, the snakes during the final battle. I didn't know about it before, very clever. Metal Gear will be nothing without Kojima's crazy ways. What a master piece.
I appreciate that you waited for the 4th of July for this video.
True Patriots
Now one year later i just found this of the 4th of july coincidence I THINK NOT! (All though it actually is a strange coincidence)
I don't get it
The "4th of july" the celebration for Independence, freedom and liberty for Americans
@DrTheKay why tho
Volgin's father gave him a small loan of a 100,000,000 dollars.
TheLakabanzaichrg actually 100,000,000,000
+QuarterM7 No not really. Volgins just gay.
Thought Trump said he was a kisser, not a crotch grabber.
No, he said they let you if you're famous.
QuarterM7 Fucking moron... He said as a celebrity they LET YOU... god damn cnn has corrupted u kid.
I like how MGS3 and The Boss basically serve as a way to turn everything you know about the franchise around. Suddenly you're not sure of who the good guys are. And then the story of Big Boss continues and it is revealed how the Patriots came to be and why Big Boss tried to rebel against them. By the ending of MGS4 you realize that perhaps you've been playing as a pawn of the "bad" guys all along, that the real heroes were Big Boss and Ocelot. Man... I'll miss MGS, one of the greatest pieces of art, videogames or not, that man has seen. I seriously hope Kojima, now with full creative freedom, manages to create something as great if not better with Death Stranding.
Aaaaaaand he made a delivery game.........
Hahaha
Solid Snake and Otacon were never pawns. Raiden was.
@@NichtNameee In MGS1 and 2 I'm pretty sure they are doing exactly what the patriots want them to do. They thought they were acting against them, but nope.
Ocelot was the real hero 😄 edit : he was the only one that understands the boss wish for the world, a very tragic hero TBH. When I realized this it blew my mind.
If you didn't upload
my sleep would've been... Eternal.
(insert scene of eye bulging out)
Revisiting Metal Gear's story is always a reminder of how incredible it is.
Def the best in the game.
Absolutely! Metal Gear Solid and Castlevania games are my all time favorite games that have a great storyline behind it.
@@flash7mcartathefundamental31 yeah fuck konami somebody should buy them out.
^ exactly.
20 years later, I'm scratching my head at the brilliance, of Kojima's vision.
One thing that always stung me was how when the game makes you shoot The Boss, you might not have it in you to do it, so the game takes control away from you and does it itself as if to take mercy on you and say, "I know it's hard, I'm sorry, but this has to happen."
One might say...
*"IT HAS TO BE THIS WAAAAAAYYY"*
I was just pressing the buttons to skip cause I didn't want to see. I realized the mechanic third playthrough in and felt terrible
I didnt even know you could shoot her so I didnt so I was certain it was supposed to be a long wait until you shoot her
Devious Intent: Big Boss and Zero (Cipher)
PKDeviluke25
My guess is that BB is the last in the Mgs DI series.
devious intent: skull Fa...AHAHAHAHAHaha aa
Ocelot
We dont know enough about Zero (thanks Kojima), but Big Boss really deserves a Devoius Intent...ignoring Phantom Pain, of course.
Jose Colella That's not really Big Boss. Also, for those that think it's necessary to refer about Venom since it was Boss's plan...
Man, waiting that long for your decoy to get back up is ridiculous even for MGS.
And Kojima sanctioned Nanomachines. SON!
The Joy
The Sorrow
The Fury
The Fear
The Pain
The End
The greatest female character in video games.
Agent Alfie gay
well, the boss actually has a personality and history. how dare you compare the two...
How did i get here
Unknown Valleira da fuq who is that?
@@firehawk8521 The mute female sniper from MGS5.
One of the best character.
Too pure and perfect to this world.
I only recently realized that she has the same voice actor as Pearl from SpongeBob.
lmfao
what a thrill...
Fly Boy with darkness and silence through the night
What a thrill........
Mantis im searching and melting to you...
what a fear in my heart
Your sooooooo supreme...
I forgot how good Metal Gear Solid 3's story was.
It's incredible how to this day, after finishing the game countless times, the ending gives me goosebumps every damn time...
;_;7
^ Have you finished The Phantom Pain?
The feels man.
The Feels was the last Cobra Unit... the player.
4Clubs
I am....a cobra? ;~;
Indeed
;_;7
Best female videogame character ever made.
How Kojima went from this to Quiet, will remain for ever a mistery.
Jose Colella
Maybe he was pulling a boss move to make Konami be angry with him by. Introducing a nonsensical character so he can quit
I like to think that was a Konami decision and Kojima just make the best he could with it.
Wasn't there something about how Kojima didn't even expect the Boss to be a popular character?
Kojima was pretty tired of making MGS games and konami breathing on his neck at that point I guess so he just came out with a female younger and more sexy version of the end 😂
Just for the kids? To betray his own audience? Who knows!
The Boss: The Patriot Who Saved the World
Big Boss: The Man Who Sold the World
"Today's friend is tomorrow's enemy". That quote still rings with me to this day.
I still would've liked it to see why EVA respected the Boss so much.
Bc she followed her mission to the very end knowing the end was going to result in her death. And yet she embraced it with no hesitation. Wat a woman...
@@armarelder7260
If only the game actually showed interactions between the two.
The boss actually made me furious at lawful good black and white characters. She taught me conflict, people, and reasoning was more complicated than that. There is no eternal enemy or Ally. It's sad but it's the truth.
@@tempusmars6272
She was interesting to me as a teenager but now, I just find her to be an okay character at best.
@@civilwarfare101 Same. But she taught me an important lesson at a difficult time in my life, and helped change my perspective growing up.
17:04 *CQClaymore, bitch!*
Lmao
Konami deserves their own Devious Intent video. They're a bigger villain than any of the ones in their video games.
Man I love your Metal Gear Devious Intent videos. thank you very much for your work. Every once in a while I come back to this videos as I hold dearly this saga of video games and love the deep characters.
when i 1st play mgs3 i nearly cried in the end.
Snake's tear has so much impact once you heard everything Eva had to tell snake
The Boss: without a doubt the greatest female character in the entirety of gaming.
Todays friends are tomorrows enemies.
There's plenty of doubt to that. She probably isn't even in my top ten.
Then youve got some subpar tastes man.
gilgamesh310 b ok let's here your top ten. Then we can judge you and call u dumb :)
Just curious. Who do you consider the greatest female character in gaming?
April Ryan, Zoe Castillo, Terra, Freya, Ellie, Jill Valentine, Heather Mason, Jennifer Tate, Yennefer...
Funny that no one whined about Solidus being called "Devious". Kind of ironic.
Jenya588 I did. Solidus is the biggest hero of the MGS universe.
contardation Only real heroes kill innocent SEALS, takes child soldiers for his own selfish ends, and murders a mother because she inconveniences him and takes a sick pleasure in murdering her.
Solidus is the type of nigga who thinks ends justify the means. He is no hero.
QuarterM7 Yea Solidus was a fuck but he was pretty badass lol
JustaPseudorandomDude I could never dislike raiden misleading marketing or not
I love how this video explains Snake's descent into who he is in later games better than the entirety of Peace Walker and MGS5
Not at all. Peace Walker showed Snakes decent. This video doesn't touch on those events at all. And so what it explained was just some vague fan fiction that only exists in your head.
You definitely didn't pay attention ... The end of peace Walker expalins EXACTLY what big boss mindset was to eventually becoming the "villan"
He was broken after snake eater
But in peace Walker he takes action to becoming and building a mercenary group, making war a buissness and fighting for his own ideals and own missions.
The phantom pain shows big boss/venom plan in making the war economy come together
That is what made big boss the antagonist in other games. He and Zero ruined the world by going extreme routes trying to unify it
Which snake is better the clone or the original.
@@Jsmoove8k In fairness, the war economy happened as a result of MSF being destroyed.
@@ElliotKeaton true, but MSF layed the ground work down and pretty much influenced how other should look. I actually find it funny they made the online portion of Phantom pain feed into the war economy by stealing and raiding bases for supplies and gmp, which would make sense in that world
Seriously though despite the fact that the Boss is known as the Joy and her lover is called the Sorrow, she always has a grim look on her face and he is always smiling.
Inside joke lol?
Niklas Nordbäck because her joy was distinguished by the loss of the sorrow
@@zaboza2011 Doesn't explain why the sorrow is always smiling
@@justbny9278 maybe she talked too much and now he found peace
@@Manoliskon917 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA LMAO
She is called The Joy because of the joy she feels during battle though
a July 4th upload for a true patriot.
The Boss was the weapon to surpass metal gear.
I hope there is an antagonist as memorable as The Boss in Death Stranding.
Superlosia we will probably get an antagonist as memorable as skullface.
Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo?
George Moose just when you thought played us like a fiddle was cheesy, kojima one up the scene. betray your audience alright
skullface was memorable...in tapes.
Not counting on it...Kojima kinda lost his marbles when he thought V's story was anything close to decent.
I love this series, and thank you for detailing The Boss' reasoning for all that she did. I knew there was more to it than I could remember, and you summed it all well. Keep up the fantastic work!
This ☝️
These were the words I tried to find earlier. You said it perfectly.
It's 20 Yr old now. Bit still a bloody great game.
God. This game is sooooo good. Amazing in every aspect. Even the graphics still hold up. Best MGS game ever!!!
I like how you left out information from the later games. Really staying true to the "history" this game was designed with. Great video as always. You're one of the best RUclipsrs in my Opinion and your videos have brought me much joy and the Yakuza series! So, I just want to express my Gratitude at this point. Thank you and see you on your next video! :)
Damn you're making me want to play snake eater again
^ right lmao
The greatest soldier that never lived. The mother of all special forces. The founder of emotion on the battlefield. Beyond badass.
Not sure if you're into Tekken, but Heihachi Mishima might make an interesting subject with the amount of history the character has had across 7 games.
5:02 When mom puts the whole family on a time-out.
the boss has always been my favorite MGS character and this video just emphasizes everything about her that makes here great thank you so much
Making a Boss game will be too great. The emotional story it'll tell would be overwhelming
your synopses are always fantastic, your channel is always wonderful to come across in my feed, thank you for what you do.
Boss throwing Ocelot's signature double-hand throw right back at him is without a doubt the best diss in anything ever.
No Step on Snek!
5:45 minor point but it's a myth that people with one eye don't have depth perception. Maybe it's slightly impaired but it's not like you lose it entirely. Case in point: there was an NHL hockey player named Bryan Berard who essentially had his eye poked out by a stick and was still able to play at a professional level.
Doesn’t matter how many times I see that ending scene. I will always shed a tear when Big Boss salutes and let out his sadness to The Boss’s grave.
I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW MUCH I LOVE THE PAIN!
"TAKE THIS!"
Shut up, at least my favourite boss isn't Running Man from Metal Gear from the MSX days... but it is Kojima's, actually.
I'm the pain, PAINNNNNNNNNNNNNN
Fantastic video and the editing was brilliant. Can't wait for Devious Intent on Big Boss, you make some of the best content I've seen on RUclips Hayden
Great video. The Boss has always been one of my favorite characters, and fights of the series.
I miss this channel, I appreciated your work.
The ending theme is a tear jerker. Can't change my mind, either.
the first time I played MGS3 or MG Origins to be exact.... back in 2004/2005 right when I got to the final part where you beat The Boss and she hands you her Patriot and tells you to kill her.... I stood there for a good 5 minutes.... I didn't even press R1 at all or the fire button. I just stood there as the music played on and the meadow grass and flowers swayed. I was thinking maybe if I don't shoot her, she could be saved. But as she said "There can only be on Boss"
Because of the US Government using Jack (Big Boss) and forcing him to kill his best friend in existence...... He would slowly become the villian as time progressed. I am guessing that no-one really understood the Boss's mission at all. They all tried to copy it and fullfill it.... but most of them failed.
In reality the Boss wanted a world of peace, where people wouldn't have to kill eachother and where love can exist.
The Boss truly was the hero of Metal Gear period.
^ I was conflicted in Metal Gear Solid 3 when it was revealed that she trained snake.
So beautiful I almost cried hearing her story again.
Amazing how older Naked Snake/Big Boss ended up so similar to the Boss.
Guess the Boss was right after all: "One must die and one must live. No victory, no defeat. The survivor will carry on the fight. It is our destiny... The one who survives will inherit the title of Boss. And the one who inherits the title of Boss will face an existence of endless battle."
21:59 Right. Put simply, they broke Big Boss’ heart. That’s why we all fell in love with the story in MGS3
i love how this amazing series is still being reviewed and charished
It's been long time since I was excited by a video released on yt. Love your content HyperBitHero !
Dude you really outdid yourself this video I've always been a fan but this video brought tears to my eyes man keep you the good work
Holy shit, this is so insightful and explains so much in such a simple manner. This really explain some things I did not catch and makes me really appreciate the character development a lot more
8:08 well, there are still the facility just before fightimg ocelot, the facility where we could have killed the End before the batle, where we found Grannin, and I dont think all those soldiers are dead by the end of the game.
Haven't watched yet, but god damn am I happy to see a DI on The Boss. She needed this, your other Character Study videos were so good. Watching now lol
Kuwabara kuwabara
Good timing. Just started playing the Legacy collection that I've had sitting on my shelf for over a year. Just finished this game up. Definitely the best playing game in the series so far and I enjoyed it much more than 2. The Boss was a highlight of the game. On to MG4!
17:38 Here's something that was thankfully removed from the game. In-game voice files of The Boss heavily imply that that scene was to include an aiming mechanic, and you could mess up the killshot as she would tell you to "do it right this time".
I like how you just sort of barely acknowledge the retroactive stuff MGS4 did with The Boss and stuck to her character and motivations from MGS3. Although an Uncharted 3-style exploration of the narrative jank in the MGS4 villains would be an interesting round-out to this Metal Gear Solid D.I. marathon.
- Lewis
BrainScratch Commentaries How exactly is 4 a retcon? Or are people not allowed to change after decades?
If you had been in my place back then... maybe you wouldn't have made the same mistakes that I did. Ever since the day I killed The Boss... With my own hands... I... Was already dead. Boss... You were right. It's not about changing the world. It's about doing our best to leave the world... the way it is. It's about respecting the will of others... And believing in your own. Isn't that... What you fought for? At last... I understand the meaning behind what you did.- Big Boss's last words.
Can't wait to see Big Boss, oh man.
Great, great, super awesome stuff.
Seriously eloquent explanation of the motivations behind one of the most tragic characters in the entire narrative that is MGS.
Way better than anything bunny hop or other channels have put out.
MGS3 set up Big Boss so well and Phantom Pain just ruined it.
Portable Ops, Peace Walker and Pantom Pain ruined it*
^ not really. Missed out on Metal Gear Solid 4, but V still played on the theme of Big Boss, which I liked.
OHHHHH YEAAAAAH!!!!!!!! I live for these kind of long video essays, mix that with MGS? This made my day.
>4th of July
Good timing.
Arby W.
Perfect timing
Ranking:The boss + The big boss
I was expecting for you to cover her "participation" in Peace Walker, about how in the end she just wanted the world at peace and to just sing a song.
Still, great video!
Vinícius Carvalho me too.
Although that was an AI, not really her herself.
Everyone seems to hate PW's ending but I think it really shows the boss' vision of the world.
Based on some of his twitter posts he seems to just unfairly dismiss anything after 4 and MPO because "they all suck lol" and probably never even finished PW.
Never in my have I ever subscribed to somebody who put ads on other vids. This is awesome!
Kept us waiting huh?
Seriously this is very well done! the Boss is truly a fantastic character! Looking foward to a video on Big Boss in the future!
Damnit that ending credits made me cry again...
I like how pretty much everyone connected to the field of operation for Snake Eater is a double agent. Even though The Boss had respectable and unshakable loyalty, I can't help but to think that her faith was misplaced. All her work is doing is promote war profiteering through the Philosophers. It's easy to see how anyone else would grow to reject the ludicrous orders handed to them after being treated like a disposable handkerchief for decades.
Mgs 1-3 were life changing for me when I was a kid playing these games. God Bless Kojima.
^ right. Got me thinking about life
Still one of the most confusing story in video games but still fun also. =) And The boss is so complex and a wonderful character. I do wish you put in that she also "returns" in MGS Peace Walker even if she not really meant to be the focus in that game but still it could have been worth mentioning. Anyway great work BitHero. as always. =)
We will see if he will even do peacewalker at all.
I wouldn't blame him if he would not do any of the spin off games.
The watered and retconnt so much it is a clusterfuck of epic proportions.
Great. The Boss, the best character ever
I've always wanted to play a game as the Boss/the Joy with the cobra unit during their heyday
whenever the boss talks all I can think of is pearl from spongebob
The Boss my favorite character from Metal Gear series, despite the fact that She appears only In Metal gear solid 3 and Peace Walker (as flashback)
i wish you mentioned that the player has to press Square himself to kill The Boss. Really hit you hard
Nothing but adoration for Metal Gear. Even the mediocre entries are a lot of fun.
Neat summary. Although I'm pretty sure The Boss tells Strangelove she wasn't sent to the Bay of Pigs; that was a cover for her being sent to Russia to spy on the Sputnik team. And _then_ she reunited with The Sorrow and had to kill him as part of that mission. (I like to headcanon that she also bumped into a tiny kitten Ocelot and that in Snake Eater, she always knew who he was. Hence the rather mom-like way she takes his guns away and gives him a smack xD)
Back when metal gear had actual good writing
It always had good writing.
I clicked this video to save this and watch it later and accidentally watched the whole thing. Holy shit. MGS3 was the first and so far the only game I ever had cried for, it seems dorky just acknowledging it but it's true and I think just goes to show how good it is. 'Love MGS, man.
This video makes the final fight in MGS4 a littler sad and that much deeper in retrospective
tears tears and more tears.....
i cry everyday SHE DID SO MUCH FOR US
Even though this video is a few years old, it's a good one! The Boss is the one Metal Gear character that I have the most curious about. It's a pity that Hideo Kojima had a falling out with Konami because he had an interest in making a game centered around The Boss. It would have answered a lot of questions. What is her real name? Where is she from? Who trained her to be the bad ass that she was in MGS3? How did she, or better yet, they come up with the alias "The Boss" and why?. So many unanswered questions. This video gets a huge thumbs up!!
Great video. I would love one on Hot Coldman from _Peace Walker._ He's interesting since he fully believes no one has the stomach to use nukes even though two people in the MGS universe has. Volgin nuked Sokolov's research facility for kicks and the Boss nuked Grozni Grad under orders. Coldman's so ruthless but his naive belief that all humans are naturally too weak-willed to kill themselves baffles me. No wonder Zadornov manipulated him so easily.
IN MEMORY
OF A
PATRIOT
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you, Boss 😭
Awesome video, mate! Never clicked that Ocelot was the baby The Boss had taken away from her.
I though I played each of the games in the main series. it never felt like a stealth game series since a majority of the characters acknowledge Snake's identity and at the same time attempt to be cinematic. Then for me to consider that one guy was able to take on a Metal Gear. While another pleb named Raiden takes on at lest 10 Metal Gear Rays. It seems that the series actively attempt to completely undermine its own selling point with the franchise.
I know the games can be played at higher difficulties but the nature of the series is still marred of the boss fights and the active need for the characters have long winded monologues with each other.
Not a series that I think deserves a stealth title but a decent one.
Sons of Liberty makes the point that its entire premise is a carefully orchestrated reenactment of the Shadow Moses incident, ala the VR missions, meant to mold people like Raiden into soldiers like Snake. It's set up in such a way that Raiden was meant to win, along with the fact that he was also a child solder trained by Solidus.
Big Boss was aided by the likes of Ocelot and EVA during his mission, with intel from the CIA, not to mention the Boss herself. He was meant to succeed, and he certainly didn't do it alone.
You're shiting through your mouth, son. Whatch out!
This is awesome, can’t get enough of the story mechanics of MGS. Better than movies.
I'm playing through the whole so far 3 is looking like the best
Fun facts: Bikini Atoll actually had nuclear weapons tested on it. A popular theory on SpongeBob is that all the fish can talk because they are in bikini atoll, and mutated by radiation. This is backed by the fact that many explosions in the show are accompanied by black and white clips of nuclear testing from you guessed it :bikini atoll. The reason this is related :the voice actress who plays the big boss, plays pearl ; Mr. Krabs daughter in SpongeBob. The more you know ;)
This grave marks a fallen soilder. A patriot that saved the world.
*Son*
The relation between The Boss, Snake, Ocelot, EVA and Volgin is so goddamn good! Every scene with more than two of them puts most of today's Hollywood movies to shame. The plot of this game and its scenes are such a pleasure to watch. And without being overly convoluted!
20:15 This scene. This fucking scene. My favorite scene in any video game to date. You can see Snake's disapointment and bitterness in his eyes.
Wow, the snakes during the final battle. I didn't know about it before, very clever. Metal Gear will be nothing without Kojima's crazy ways. What a master piece.