Metal Gear Scanlon: 4 - Part 03

"be'uz" at about 1:01:05

@windir2112: Sennheiser HD 202s. I have them too. Pretty good, pretty cheap.

@nathanxplosion: Because the game already had something like a 45 minute cutscene to 15 minutes of gameplay split before this. Add in the briefing and you have a solid hour of cutscene when their goal was to try and get you in the game fast enough. Probably they focus tested it with the briefing and it was changed from the feedback.

@guybrush: Awesome, I'll look into them. Thanks!

I had no idea the mission briefing was so clearly cut right out from the main game in the interest of time.

I never bothered to watch it before now, but it sets the next part of the game up perfectly! Damn shame too, because people bitched about the lengthy beginning anyway. Might as well have left this crucial setup in for all the good it did.

I always felt like this game was...missing something. and I think the act 1 mission briefing might have been it for me.

First one is in the menu when you start and doesn't play when you just hit New Game, the others get presented to you automatically between acts and then get added to that menu.

Akiba is short for Akihabra, a huge area in Japan for Otakus. Hes meant to be like this in the game but he gets better.

Much better episode but Drew still needs to take things slower and calm down. Play like its an F1 game.

SHOW ME YOUR HYPE

WATCH WITH ME

Man that Johnny....... Hoo boy that will be fun.

Conflicted on Meryl, people know why. She's great, but man.....

Wow I can't believe Drew isn't holding the controller upside down what a fuckin pansy

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE!!!

(not really a spoiler, but kinda is...but kinda isn't...but kinda is)

Don't worry, going by this episode, Dan will just tell Drew everything.

I really wish Drew would try to actually play the game instead of just shooting his way through, but I guess that's been his tactic since the beginning. It's a shame that he hasn't been helping out the militia. The game let's you know that they can be your allies, it's just that they don't pay much attention.

edit: Oh, Dan just informed Drew that he could be doing just that. That kind of stuff Dan should be telling Drew about, just don't say ANYTHING plot-wise.

Is funny how Drew gets mad at the game because doesn't explains common sense.

@tonch: oh thank god I thought I was going crazy. Audio is definitely swapped.

@giefcookie: Man I don't even remember all that. It's been so long since I played this and I only played it once.

I got totally spoiled on those longer MGS 3 videos.

Let Drew know that the "Compress" fixes Snake's back pain after he's been crouching for ages!

@dirtytea: Yeah, funny how the game notorious for long cutscenes has better ways of handling (some of) them than games with cutscenes just a few minutes long.

Drew, why do you sigh so much at having to do any task in a Metal Gear game? Is it just a Pavlovian response by now?

Also, this always bothered me, but why is the logo of Foxhound a fox if the unit is called Foxhound as in a dog that chases foxes? Is the logo for Diamond Dogs a reference to this, because it actually looks like a foxhound?

@babychoochoo: Drebin actually tells it to Snake in act two

Dan, those commercials were for the different PMCs you encounter throughout the game.

Not perfume!

*sigh*

Or Dan's just taking the piss.

@danryckert The game audio is the wrong way round. :)

it's interesting how the type of shoes fit each person on GB. like Ryan and Jeff being New Balance guys and Dan Ryckert being a Cortez guy, wait, where was I, oh yeah: METAL GEAR SCANLON! LET'S DO THIS THANG! Hooyah!

I think the part of Metal Gear Scanlon that bugs me the most is how Dan/Drew are about the game telling you stuff. Three of the four games came out in the era where games didn't tell you stuff and you were expected to read the manual that came with the game. 2008 was about when manuals disappeared all together but MGS4 actually still has a sizable manual to explain the game mechanics. The crazy mechanics of MGS have always been documented. Stop being weird about that being spoilers.

I know MG Scanlon has been about going in blind storywise but I wish that didn't extend to the gameplay too. People used to read manuals when games had them.

14:32 Drew does a perfect 1 second otakon impression again enough to fool me again for a couple seconds.

I feel like you guys have done yourselves a HUGE disservice by trying to play MGS in a way that makes for a more viewer friendly series.

MGS is a game series that rewards slow methodical play, extensive reading of instruction manuals and in game text, and the kind of player who prepares as much as possible before taking the first step into a dangerous area.

The game is SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED to punish the kind of play that Drew brings to the game.

As an example, I would usually read about 30-60 minutes of text in the manual and game menus before even starting a new game.

Snake's psych, Drew!

"It's gone! Where'd it go?"

Give that man some noodles or a compress. Geez.

I'd like to read as little as possible. I'm tired of long cutscenes in these games. That's why I appreciated how it's up to the player to look up the codec in Snake Eater from time to time.

@badgerlord: it's tuesday

You can CQC with two handed weapons. You can slam them down by holding the R1 and a direction.

Also, good stuff spoiling that twist lmao.

F the haters Drew, You do you. Dats y we ere.

Also ive said this before in comments on MGScanlon videos before but for as long as I have had android phones(and i had the G1 aka the first one) I have used the codec call as my ringtone and the Ration sound as my SMS/Notification tone. Been rocking that shit for years.

You have the voice over volume too low STILL! I cannot hear the game!

I have opinions on how Drew plays this game!

oh...

wow, the robot part at the start was really cool

Yeah, is better to download it and reverse the channels on the player (vlc in my case)

I can't remember the last MGScanlon where Dan outright spoiled major plot points in the game. That was kind of disappointing, even though I don't think Drew really picked up on the Johnny one. I hate to be the guy that tells you 'YOU SHOULD DO THINGS THIS WAY' but Drew reacting to these story beats as they're revealed is what keeps me watching. We get that you know this stuff Dan, we want to see Drew piece this stuff together (or utterly fail to and get confused about it) on his own. It would be cool if you took the approach you took on previous series where you just told him what he wanted to know and made discussion without touching on major plot points that were yet to be revealed.

someone please tell drew that CQC is with R2, and someone please tell him how to do the worm. also, dan, god damn it....stop spoiling stuff, man!

oh, and tell him to take care of his psyche bar...oh oh, and make sure he non-lethals laughing octopus so he can get the mask.

I'm gonna join the chorus of "Dan's dropping mad spoilers, yo!". I counted at least 3, and while one of them was pretty obvious anyways, the other 2 were pretty big.

Good grief, the bitching and whining about play style never stops. News flash, everybody: they're 4 games in now, they're going to play how they want to play, not how shouty internet commentator #733 wants them to play.

I really enjoy this series, it's always a great watch. Thank you Drew, Dan, and Jason!

@stiverton said:

Drew is feeling really punished right now. Yeesh.

Also you don't know what Drew does off camera, nothing is stopping him from doing so, and that's really fucking boring.

Drew... That's exactly what Rat Patrol is!

This video was over half cutscene > gameplay. Get ready for MGS4 yo! Gosh, I can't wait for V to be more gameplay!

I like all the cool Army stuff Metal Gear games do, but then it goes all campy and dumb with flying robots shouting RAGE or like Drew said, Bee guys and it just has my eyes rolling. Why MGS1 is still the only one I liked, it's the one that feels the most realistic, even though it still has those moments, you let it off because that was what games were like back then.

Now though you expect more and MGS games just feel stuck in the past.

Not really a comment on how Drew plays, but the excuses are nearly Brad-level. Otacon tells you very early that neither side is your enemy, he just shot the first guy he saw and his buddies didn't care for that.

If I complain about people incessantly, maddeningly complaining, am I as bad as them?

We're in the fourth game of the series, is it that hard to understand by now that Metal Gear Scanlon is about how Drew plays it for the first time with Dan's reactions and not about how to play it properly? This never was supposed to be a walkthrough.

I played the four games at least twice being as stealthy as possible and I still find this to be extremely entertaining, never had a problem with the way they play.

Pretty sure the act 1 briefing only plays if you don't have a MGS4 save on the ps3 already.