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    A part of the Metal Gear series, often also considered its own series all the same.

    "Metal Gear Scanlon" Its Happening!

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    Since I bought all the games recently, I think I'm gonna wait on watching these videos until I'v played through the games myself (I know that Dan said that he was going to try and not spoil stuff but I don't want to take any risks since I already feel like I heard too much in their demo derby video. Also, I'd rather not watch a semi-guided playthrough of a game before playing it myself).

    As for the Endurance Run thing, I consider something like this (similar to Dark Souls or Volgarr) just different enough to not be an endurance run. The time investment per week is a little shorter and I think they just prefer this kind of format compared to how they used to do it (I seriously doubt that they will ever do another Endurance Run).

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    @hatking said:

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    @hatking said:

    @splodge: I don't know, to me the ER is them playing a game start to finish, not the time frame they did it.

    It doesn't matter what you think an ER is. The only thing that matters is what they define as an ER, which is playing a game every single day until it's done.

    To be fair, they've never said that. But okay, I don't care. I subscribe anyway. Shoot me for wanting this place to be more inclusive.

    They did say it during the Persona ER.

    Not to mention that all ERs have been daily, and other video content where they've finished games but didn't play daily haven't been called Endurance Runs.

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    @humanity: That says more about video game writing than it does about Metal Gear. Don't get me wrong, Metal Gear is a pretty rad anime, the story gets so convoluted it's hilarious, its climatic scenes are climatic as fuck and god I wouldn't have it all play out any other way. It just bothers me a little when people try to take it too seriously.

    Having watched the first episode now, Dan seems to have exactly the right attitude towards it and I'm sure this will be an incredible feature.

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    #154  Edited By fattony12000

    Wish they had watched the prologue first!

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    @humanity: That says more about video game writing than it does about Metal Gear. Don't get me wrong, Metal Gear is a pretty rad anime, the story gets so convoluted it's hilarious, its climatic scenes are climatic as fuck and god I wouldn't have it all play out any other way. It just bothers me a little when people try to take it too seriously.

    Having watched the first episode now, Dan seems to have exactly the right attitude towards it and I'm sure this will be an incredible feature.

    I personally get bothered when people say it's "shit" or nonsense. It's very melodramatic and over the top in both a genuinely intriguing and humorous way. It's also one of a very few series, if not the only one, that added new story onto the existing fiction with each iteration. When you have a 4th game in the franchise thats referencing very minute details from the first or 2nd entry, that can seem kinda nuts to an outsider, but to a fan who has followed the narrative throughout the years it's actually very rewarding. I think it's extremely cool that Kojima has crafted this huge overarching story that spans the length of all these games. I mean look, we're getting Uncharted 4 soon, but how complex is the Uncharted storyline really? It always seems like a waste that 4 games in and there isn't some sort of deep lore or anything associated with it.

    Dans enthusiasm for Metal Gear is awesome though as he's quite literally the reflection of my younger self when I played the game for the first time. Everything to me was awesome - Liquid Snake? How cool of a name is that! Psycho Mantis, Decoy Octopus.. and what IS a Russian gunship doing in Alaska? I soaked all that stuff in like a sponge.

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    I wonder how they're going to handle the torture scene I tried to do that like five times and could never win it.

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    @humanity said:

    Dans enthusiasm for Metal Gear is awesome though as he's quite literally the reflection of my younger self when I played the game for the first time. Everything to me was awesome - Liquid Snake? How cool of a name is that! Psycho Mantis, Decoy Octopus.. and what IS a Russian gunship doing in Alaska? I soaked all that stuff in like a sponge.

    I am pretty sure it has something to do with the pineapples.

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    Man, I am loving this thing, but who here wishes they would be putting them out AT LEAST every other day. I suppose there is the chance that could still happen since Dan left mid week last week, but It's just so good! I do also want Drew to avoid burning out because I need him to get to 4! In any case, how are you guys handling the spaces between the eps?

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    @fattony12000: This may sound weird, but I remember playing through the first MGS a couple times when it came out. I didn't even know about the prologue until this series they're doing haha.

    I have never seen it before. I'll probably watch through all of it when I go through it myself.

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    #160  Edited By TruthTellah

    Anyone know why they are releasing them so late at night? I thought it was a quirk of the first episode, but the second and now this one are also late at night. I'm curious if it's just a production or upload thing or who knows what.

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    @fattony12000: This may sound weird, but I remember playing through the first MGS a couple times when it came out. I didn't even know about the prologue until this series they're doing haha.

    That is simply inconceivable to me!

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    This has absolutely become my favourite thing on Giantbomb. I'm hanging for the next one

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    @warpig87: I'm the same, I'm as eager to watch every new episode as I was way back during the Persona 4 Endurance Run.

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    @ninja: Yeah, it's just such a preposterous story full of twists and turns, and seeing someone experience it for the first time is great. Just like P4 in that sense. Also it's great to see the full range of Drew expressions, ranging from "baffled by the technobabble" to "exasperated by how long he is taking to beat a boss".

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    Anyone know why they are releasing them so late at night? I thought it was a quirk of the first episode, but the second and now this one are also late at night. I'm curious if it's just a production or upload thing or who knows what.

    I thought they were just trying to throw the out of towners a bone, that's all. Most everything on this site is America Time All The Time, but there are tons of users in other time zones.

    The go time is *super late* so it seems unlikely it's due to upload, pretty much nothing goes live that late here. No clue really though, just a guess.

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    #166  Edited By Teddie
    HYPE!
    HYPE!

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    YES!!!!

    I thought they'd make us wait until next year. I am so goddamn happy I was wrong!

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    Saw it a bit ago too. I'm so fucking excited!! I thought we'd be waiting until next calendar year, especially with Drew's vacation and GotY coming up. But man, my day just got a whole hell of a lot better tomorrow.

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    Yes , this is a good day.

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    I'm so happy about this.

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    I didn't think it would happen so soon! Shout-out to Dan, Drew and Jason!

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    @teddie said:

    HYPE!
    HYPE!

    Great news. Not sure how the format of the episodes will be with those really long codec calls. But, either way, I'm super hyped!

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    As someone that just watched a buddy play through this whole game, and as someone that just rewatched ALL the cutscenes for the first time since release... well, we're really in for something.

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    OH MAAAAAAAAN

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    Oh shit! This is gonna be great.

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    #177  Edited By Takahashiro

    Fantastic news. And it means we are getting closer to MGS 3.^^

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    Hooray! It begins!

    I've been practicing "Can't Say Goodbye to Yesterday" on the piano for the past couple months in preparation for this moment. No where near as good at it as I'd like to be, but I might have to throw up a video of myself playing it to celebrate.

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    This is awesome news! Wasn't excepting this till next year.

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    #180  Edited By flakmunkey

    Ohhh man I'm so excited. Looks like I'm staying up till midnight!

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    #181  Edited By 49th

    I'm looking forward to this more than the first playthrough because I have actually played MGS2 so I have some context for the mechanics and story.

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    I played through MGS2 for the first time recently. So excited for this!

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    Man, I really need to catch up. Excited they're continuing it.

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    YEEEEESSSSSSSS

    So happy to see the return of my favourite feature. Can't wait to see how Drew handles the improvements made with MGS2.

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    I cannot wait to see Drew's reactions to half the shit that happens in this game...

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    Here we goooo!

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    #188  Edited By TruthTellah
    Aaaaa can't take the excitement!!
    Aaaaa can't take the excitement!!

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    Plot twist: Part 1 consists of Drew reading aloud the "In the Darkness of Shadow Moses" novella by everyone's favorite Russian weapons expert.

    (can't wait!)

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    Welp, guess I finally have a reason to resub now.

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    #191  Edited By hassun

    Wonder if they'll finish it before the end of the year.

    @drewbert's incredulous/astonished facial expressions while playing/watching this game should be plentiful and screen-capture worthy.

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    #192  Edited By Monkeyman04

    YES!! Can't wait!

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    #193  Edited By Berserker976

    Man! Christmas in November! SO looking forward to this!

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    Happening Status: Confirmed

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    #195  Edited By shirogane

    The twist is that Dan is going to play most of the game instead of Drew.

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    #196  Edited By DjTonySnark

    OH MY GOD. Guess I'm staying up tonight.

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    #197  Edited By marc

    AHHHHH!! Just noticed part 2 starts tomorrow!! Very excite!!!

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    @shirogane: I see what you did there.

    Is it weird that I think that would be fitting?

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    Man I love this series so much, I was in the same boat as Drew in the way I never played Metal Gear but it was always so interesting, so i'm both excited to watch this feature and to find out what happens on the next, Metal Gear.

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