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Metal Gear Scanlon

Metal Gear Scanlon: V: Ground Zeroes

Just in time for The Phantom Pain, Solid Scanlon finally grasps the basics of CQC.

Drew Scanlon attempts to go on as many sneaking missions as he can find.

Aug. 18 2015

Posted by: Jason

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YES!

Great play through. Honestly though drew, I think you should just play MGS5 when it comes out yourself and finish it that way. You will never get the chance to experience a MGS game at launch by yourself ever again if you don't! And considering you never have played a MGS other than this setting, I think should give it again. Sucks for all of us but its just better for you that way!

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YES

You guys really need to listen to the tapes. If you don't want to collect them all then look them up on Youtube. It might seem like a dumb optional thing but they are extremely important. Kojima has replaced the codec for them so a lot of exposition and backstory are told in the tapes.

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DAT METAL GEAR GRAVY TRAIN JUST WON'T STOP!!!

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! IT'S KEIFER!!!!!!! RUN!!!!!!!!!

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:)

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Been excited for this all day!

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Here's to you, Dan and Drew

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Kept you waiting, huh?

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ARGHHH!!

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Here's to you, Nicola and Bart!

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Is it bad to speculate that they'll be doing TPP this year as they'll just forget all the information if they do it later? Please let it be true!

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DREW! Kill'em all with strategic importance!

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Vibration is back again

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One last ride.

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I LOVE the opening cutscene of this. Something about it just clicks with me. The tracking shot, the music, the conversation between Kaz and BB (which is honestly one of the most concise things Kojima has ever written), it's all great.

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KEPT ME WAITING

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I WAS NOT KEPT WAITING, HUH.

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@tagyhag said:

Is it bad to speculate that they'll be doing TPP this year as they'll just forget all the information if they do it later? Please let it be true!

I am thinking they might wait until Aug 2016 to play TPP on stream. Or not do it at all.

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woah, that was fast

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Age hasn't slowed you down one bit!

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The crash from the last couple weeks of Metal Gear overload is going to leave me in a coma .... TILL EXATLY TWO WEEKS FROM TODAY.

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I play MGS1-4 every summer and I literally finished MGS4 20 minutes ago. This is perfect.

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Goddammit, guys, you're just piling it on. Thanks so much.

Continuing the long tradition of Drew blaming the controls for being obscure despite crystal clear communication on their part. C'mon, Drew, it's a video game; input generates output, which you use to refine your understanding of how mechanics work. Do like Dan said, and abandon all notions of how you think Metal Gear Solid works - I feel it's been holding you back since 3 at least.

For whatever reason, Drew has completely unlearned the Caution/Alert phases. In MGS4 and here he's just operating as usual as alarms are going off (which means the enemy knows where you are).

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Oh man I'm going to sneak mission all over MGSV. COULD IT DETHRONE MGS3 AS THE BEST OF THE SNEAK MISSIONS?!

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Lol @ that description.

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oh man, after playing all of them on playstation systems i thought theyed play the ps4 version and freaked out when the dash came up.

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Just the best week to be a premium member.

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Thy cup runneth over.

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“Hold her down, HOLD HER DOWN!” is about the only merit Sutherland brought to the table, the rest, not so much.

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I'm surprised Konami hasn't shut this marathon down.

But hell, this has given me a year of hype buildup for 5.

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Mine was Shotgun Anaconda

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I swear, this series is the only thing that has kept me sane while waiting for The Phantom Pain.

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My guess as to why they made the change is because Drew will be playing Phantom Pain on Xbob One since that is all he owns

oh man, after playing all of them on playstation systems i thought theyed play the ps4 version and freaked out when the dash came up.

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Because Giant Bomb uses its own video player and is owned by CBS trying to take down their videos is WAY harder than taking a youtube video down.

@csl316 said:

I'm surprised Konami hasn't shut this marathon down.

But hell, this has given me a year of hype buildup for 5.

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Holy crap, I can't keep up with all the Metal Gear videos, awesome work guys!

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wait what! what the heck

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Yeah!

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Even though I will miss it.

I hope Drew gets to enjoy MGSV on his own time.

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Oh cool, just finished the Peace Walker video. More MGScanlon!

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My Metal Gear Solid name is Flame Jackal, but really all these code names just sound like Mega Man X bosses.

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@danryckert@drewbert Dan, Sacco and Vanzetti were two ITALIAN immigrants wrongfully executed by AMERICA. When you refer to them as "American immigrants who were executed", it kinda paints the exact opposite picture of what actually happened...

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Never complained before but 23 minutes in and DAN SHUT UP. I LOVE YOU BUT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD THIS IS not dan's opinion hour, or dan's walks you through how to hold a guy, or dan teaches you how to play metal gear solid. Let him experience it by learning himself. stop holding his hand and telling him every detail of every little thing before he has a chance to do it himself. how is he gonna enjoy the game where theres always someone telling him how to do everything.

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Man, Sutherland still just sounds so civilian and so wrong. Maybe because I've never seen anything he's ever been in, but man does he make Big Boss just so much less interesting to listen to.

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Holy sh*t this looks good after watching Drew go through all of these, and 4 already looked great. I got this from PS+ but didn't play it because I wished that Drew would get to this =)

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Never complained before but 23 minutes in and DAN SHUT UP. I LOVE YOU BUT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD THIS IS not dan's opinion hour, or dan's walks you through how to hold a guy, or dan teaches you how to play metal gear solid. Let him experience it by learning himself. stop holding his hand and telling him every detail of every little thing before he has a chance to do it himself. how is he gonna enjoy the game where theres always someone telling him how to do everything.

I take it we're out of the "Dan barely knows anything about this game" era of MG Scanlon and we're back to the MGS1 backseat-driver Dan?