Metal Gear Scanlon: 3: Part 02

"Just joking about taking his pants off and staring at boobs. That's what the greatest spy in the world does."
Thank you, Dan.

"Stop having fun!"

I wonder if Drew will be update by the time MGS5 comes out on September 17th?

But I love these games keep em coming.

Why do characters keep repeating what the other characters say!?

Am I the only one who's not enjoying this as much as Metal Gear Scanlon 2 so far? Still having fun with it, but I find my mind wandering quite a bit, which didn't happen with the last series. I don't think it's any fault of Dan or Drew's though. I guess maybe MGS3 may be more fun to play in a lot of ways compared to MGS2, but it's just not as fun to watch someone else play. The story isn't as interesting or revolutionary and it's not deliberately trying to subvert your expectations like 2 did, so Drew's just kinda trucking through it in a pretty standard way instead of really having to stop and piece together what's put in front of him. MGS2 is a goddamn priceless work of art, and this is just a fantastic video game. Bound to happen, I guess.

kinda wish this would have happened.

Really enjoying these so far but it would be nice if Dan would calm the fuck down and let Drew play the game.

Seems to be an artifact of Japanese. From what I understand, it's similar to saying "Mmhmm" or "Okay" in English. A way of acknowledging what's been said to you. It should probably have been translated a bit less literally? I dunno, fan subs and scanlations often end up being better than the official dubs and translations in anime and manga (And manhwa, too, especially in the case of The Company scanlations vs official Naver/LINE ones) in part due to the more direct, literal translation the fans tend to do (not always, but often enough to be noticeable). Tough job, that.

Yeah, I appreciate Dan for driving this feature but since approx the middle of MGS2 he's been talking *way* too much during the videos.

That was intentional by Kojima. Originally the games plot was going to focus more on the space race between the US and Russia and Space Oddity was set to play during the games ending credits. Plus Kojima seems to be majorly influenced by Bowie, just look at some of the character designs in the series not to mention Big Boss' new Diamond Dogs in MGS5.

Not to mention likening Brezhnev's side to Che Guevara...

Holding L1 while in first person will allow you to use the iron sights for non pistol weapons also

@dynamitekyle said:

my friend told me that if you look at this picture really closely you can see snake but all I see is a brick wall tbh

Why's there a man-shaped hole in that wall?

@danryckert Dan, I love ya, but you gotta stop backseat driving. The first two games were great because you weren't constantly telling Drew what to do.

@danryckert If he doesn't want to slit someone's throat then let him not slit someone's throat. :)

I like MGS3 but I hate the camo system, not only in 3, but also 4 as the guards must truly be blind.

This is the first episode I've ever quit watching early. I felt like Dan was REALLY twisting Drew's arm to make him play the way he wanted him to. I don't care if he walks by a ration in the jungle or whatever.

Also, the cutscenes were very hard to enjoy while Dan was constantly announcing how cool every other thing that happened was, or narrating the humor of Snake being in the box. And the frequent insistence on "stab that guy in the face!! Slit his throat!!!" was pretty creepy. I just thought it was really immature overall, and hard to sit through.

I like watching this series because I like being able to see these games again from a newcomer's perspective, but it gets trampled with someone trying to direct the experience that the others involved are having.

Dan! Stop telling Drew to kill everyone and start telling him to call codecs!

Drew! Keep ignoring Dan's instructions but call codecs more! It's especially fun during times you're not supposed to be calling, like mid-battle and when you're dying. :)

Most importantly: call sigint with the M1911A1 equipped. It's a great call. :)

I loved talking to Para-Medic, the movies and the food, all of the conversations are so great.

@decoy_octopuz: Oh wow, never saw that before. How does this trigger? Is it random or do you only see it on a second playthrough?

@pabba: Pretty sure this is one of the scenes from the bonus disc that came with Subsistence. It basically had a collection of goofy made-up/altered cutscenes. They're all pretty amazing, especially the one with Raiden trying to go back and time to kill Big Boss so he can be the main character.

It's really too bad that Secret Theater didn't make it onto the HD Collection.

Man, I forgot how cool this game is.

This might be worth a watch for some pro tips

Still 100% confident this will end up being Drew's favorite. It's still mine.

Big Boss is so badass, he bandages his gunshot wounds, then pulls the bullet out with a knife afterwards.

The only problem with that "fight" will be how many times will he try to reach the end (and "die" anyway) before he realizes what he's suppose to do to finish it?

This episode bored me a bit, I find this game to be so bad and I hate the way it is written.. even more goofy than 1 and 2. I quit the game around this point as well and I'm remembering why...

For me MGS is 1 + The Tanker in 2 and that is about it, MGS5 sounds even worse now that they announced today how Snake will barely talk.

The irony of all the comments complaining about other commenters wanting Drew to play the game their way when Dan does that all the time in literally every episode.

I absolutely adore this "game". I don't give two shits about the gameplay - but the story, and especially that ending is enough to warrant the shoddy gameplay, and I'm glad Drew is at least engrossed in the story. It's much simpler and easier to follow than the previous games.

Man, I'm getting to where I have zero patience for non-sequitur sexualization of female characters.

I just want to point out that the Davey Crockett mini nuke launcher is a real thing. I saw it myself at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds once in Maryland. Its hard to remember, but they either never fired it or only fired it once because they realized it was impossible for the users to not catch some of the radioactivity from the blast. I remember when I originally played MGS3, I thought it was too ridiculous to be real.

@drewbert You did awesome with the controls and CQC in this video. However, the only hint I'll give you is do not give into Dan's recommendations to kill everyone. Karma is a real thing in MGS3.

Should leave the motion detector on instead of unequiping everything all the time. I remember that thing never running out of battery.

Drew, you've been doing great this series! And Dan, I feel that your advice has improved too since MGS2.

Regarding your respective improvements, I have a bit of advice: Drew, if you're in the zone during an intense battle, don't feel you have to try out what Dan recommends the second he says it. Keep that flow state going!

I think that's what's pissing people off about Dan's tips. Since Drew has been doing so much better, they're worried that Dan might break Drew's flow. Dan, you don't need to hold your tongue so much as Drew should consider ignoring you in certain situations.

I love metal gear, and metal gear scanlon has one of my favorite giant bomb series. But I agree with all the comments Dan's being way to controlling and the non stop gushing is getting on my nerves

3 Cool Hand Luke callouts on Giant Bomb in the past week. Fine, fine, I'll add it to my watchlist.

And just in case anyone is interested in more of Snake's box love, I present this to @drewbert

@confideration: A-12? Sr-71? Kojima stole the design from Cobra.

http://gijoe.wikia.com/wiki/Night_Raven

Cool article btw, thanks!

@bisonhero said:

@freicasull said:

@nickferg: The plane used is most likely the SR-71A and not the A-12. There's a side window just behind the cockpit and it only exists on the SR-71 since there's a navigator's compartment which is separate from the cockpit.

As a side note, the color scheme used looks like the same one on the SR-71 on exhibit at the Boeing Museum of Flight out in Washington.

It wouldn't surprise me if Kojima and art team went on some pre-production trips to see some of the era-appropriate planes and vehicles, and that particular SR-71 may actually be the direct reference they used for the one in MGS3.

There's a great article here:

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-blackbird-had-a-drone-sidekick-af482e3609f3

They were converted A-12's, renamed to the M-21

I understand that Dan certainly means well, and is no doubt excited to have his friend play one of his favorite series, but he can be a bit too much. I think it almost certainly detracts from Drews enjoyment. Just pull back a little and let Drew play the game in a way he wants to play.

Playing with Dan seems like one of the most irritating experiences going. Relentlessly creaming himself

Even Drew was getting annoyed with the "throw the snake!" stuff at the end. Dan needs to be a little more hands off - you can tell since he hasn't played this in a while he's getting crazy excited over every single thing, but that leaves little room for Drew's actual first time reactions to stuff (which was the point of the series, I think).

Drew missed the thermal goggles back at the swamp, this playthrough just got harder

Here's a good rule of thumb for participating in actual, readable comment threads (like many of the ones found on Giant Bomb) : Feel free to disregard anything that comes after the phrase "You can just tell-" because it is, 9/10 times, puuuuure projection.

Oh. Oh shit.

By the look on his face, you see that Drew realizes in this episode that when people said "This is less Kojima cray-cray than MGS2", they didn't mean "It ain't Kojima cray-cray".

Drew should really stop firing off 3 tranq rounds into every soldier. He's gonna run down that silencer real quick.

Looks like Kojima fell for the M16 tumbling bullets myth.

This was fantastic. Dan you are awesome!

@pabba: its in the MGS3: Subsistence version of the game you have to complete the game once and unlock the secret theater, these special funny cutscenes where removed in the HD collection for some reason.

I do recommend you complete the game before watching any of these :0)

We don't repeat the entire phrase in Japanese though.