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Who's The Big Boss?

Who's The Big Boss?: 2! - Episode 03

Solid Snake finally found his greatest disguise: the bucket.

After decades of avoiding his sacred duty, Dan finally begins Operation Intrude N313.

Jun. 6 2018

Cast: Vinny, Dan

Posted by: Abby

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Bucket that can stop bullets, but you get hurt if someone walks over it.

VIDEO GAMES

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Honestly I don't envy Dan having to remember where he left off after each episode. This is the kinda game you really wanna grab a few cans of Rockstar or whatever and plow through in one night. It's perfect for that kinda long session playing.

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Dan playing something like Alundra would be pretty great haha.

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Man there were some crazy highs and lows in this episode.

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The best ending!

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Tremendous ending.

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@rituelen1: Yes that makes everything make so much more sense

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@onkel: BUT, Dan will have the controller. He will cast Bufu. A lot.

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Dan should play the Mass Effect series.

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@gregalor said:
@boozak said:

That's some Mario Maker bullshit at the end there, but to be honest I expected it. (it's a very Kojima thing to do)

Technically, it isn't Kojima fucking with the player. If I remember right, it's just how you get back from that area.

Yah I'm not sure why everyone thinks this is some huge troll that Kojima purposefully planted. This is a VERY old game by all means. Back then people weren't trolling the player, games were just kind of primitive and not QA tested like that.

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Final Fantasy 7 also had a ridiculously long staircase sequence (the way into the Shinra building). Was it a common gag in Japanese video games?

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Did someone say persona!?

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You'd never have guessed that Dan knew Czech so well!

@novisanima said:

Surely the Telltale walking dead games are the ultimate non Dan games they are all talking and drama and less so on the action. No cool guy moments.

Those games are garbage.

Yeah, it should be Persona, preferrably the one you know least for maximum WHUH.

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@rituelen1 said:

@danryckert: The psycho-hypnosis came after the Big Shell events, when Ocelot cut the original arm off because it damn near ruined his plans to sabotage the patriots (on behalf of Big Boss). He then secretly replaced it with a cybernetic arm to fool the patriots into thinking it was Liquid going against them in MGS4 while hypnotizing himself to also fool himself into thinking he was Liquid at the same time.

The chain of events described here might be the stupidest thing I have ever read.

I love it.

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everybody's talking about making dan play [jrpg,etc] and i'm absolutely losing my shit thinking about dan playing nier gestalt

because i honestly think dan would genuinely like the prologue, protagonist and lore surrounding project gestalt

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Dan accidentally plays the game properly at 3:57

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if hes in a bucket doesnt that mean he is liquid snake?

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@krist5000: I mean, he loves Zelda, so he'd probably actually like Alundra, which is mostly just (more) anime Legend of Zelda. It's also one of the few games that took advantage of the PS1's 2d sprite capability--doesn't look as good as SOTN, but I think it holds up OK.

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Endurance Run Persona 4 2

But for real, I'd love it if they continued going through the Yakuza games.

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I would love to see Metal Gear Scanlon 2: Metal Gear Russell

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The last 30 minutes didn’t happen at all

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I agree with this person. Please this. I want to watch Dan fall in love with KH like he did DBZ

@genericbrotagonist said:

Niche, hard to get into, massive lore, and a jrpg? Kingdom Hearts is the only answer. It even has the button mashing Dan said he likes. Kingdom Heartache: 358/2 Dans.

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Massively successful yet still niche, tons of convoluted lore, and fundamentally anti-Dan? There is only one answer:

Myst!

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@danryckert: Grab Alex Navarro and coop thru Goof Troop on the SNES. It's fairly short and sweet, there's plenty of opportunity to fuck with each other, and the costs for doing so isn't too terrible. Guaranteed fun times all around.

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Hearing @danryckert reading czech was fun :D

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Super frustrating watching Dan trying to play brute force without the items he needs (mine detector) and making zero effort to avoid alerts by just looking at the radar.

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Massively successful yet still niche, tons of convoluted lore, and fundamentally anti-Dan? There is only one answer:

Myst!

This is definitely the right answer! Watching Dan try to figure out some of the dumb, convoluted bullshit in that game would be amazing.

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@bruhaha said:

Super frustrating watching Dan trying to play brute force without the items he needs (mine detector) and making zero effort to avoid alerts by just looking at the radar.

He thinks he's getting through the game faster by just getting spotted and running past every stealth puzzle, but I'm not so sure, because what he actually does is freeze like a deer in headlights and tries to kill a hundred guys who keep appearing.

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@dirty_duck:

You should make Dan play dangenropa or that virtue's last reward series

I was actually this close to suggesting both of those, but considering how much of them is spent just reading through text I'm not sure they'd be a good fit. I WOULD love to see the Beast crew react to all the crazy shit that goes down in the Zero Escape series (this being 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors, Virtue's Last Reward and Zero Time Dilemma) as Vinny knowingly smiles at the camera, though, so I'll still hold out hope.

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I will pay @danryckert to play Silent Hill games on camera.

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That JRPG town music couldn't be any more on point, Vinny I love you! Shinra's been sucking the energy for years...

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After watching the Sony E3 coverage Dan needs to do a feature where he plays through Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2.

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Holy crap Dan wasted a lot of ammo on that Four Horsemen fight.

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Dan reading Czech is some lays enfants turreeblays -level diction.

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Little did they know how much Smash information was in store...

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Man, hearing them talking about the Nintendo press conference in hindsight...just a little bit cringey.

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Finally, I'm catching up on this series.

The GBeast crew on Persona 5 with Dan playing would probably be a great series albeit very long. I'd be down for it though.

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Found at least 1!

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I'd love to see an East coast Persona 5 play through, but would like them to return to do Shenmue 2 and maybe Yakuza Kiwami first.

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"The more you sweat the less you'll bleed" is flat-out not true.

Ask any pro wrestler, for crap's sake!

Also I know he's sorta fucking around, but if you made a list of the most moving game scenes in history, MGS3's field of flowers scene would 100 percent be on there. Possibly topping it.