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I love how this reframes Raiden from a whiney rookie to the only sane human surrounded by a bunch of psychopaths calling out the absurdities constantly being thrown at him. Everyone else has accepted it and he's like WTF THIS IS NOT OK.
@@unholydiver1095 Wasn't there an interview somewhere in which Kojima explained Raiden in MGS2 was meant to be the player? Seems like a good enough reason to have Raiden play the straight man to everyone else's batshitness.
I never hated Raiden nearly as much as the average fan, but the first time I read this comic it gave me a new appreciation for just how hard the poor guy has it in this game. Now I can't help but like him
I liked raiden alot, may seem whiny but he's likable and has a good character development. MGS 2 was a nice break from snake. I mean imagine if you also played mgs 2 as snake. Playing as snake in MGS 3 would not have been as special, it would just be "oh, cool im snale again". besides, raiden's majestic hair and crazy cart wheel flips and back flip-to-handrail grabs were badass enough to redeem his whiny aspects.
Raiden is meant to have extremely steep character arc, which basically means you are supposed to dislike him at first. The panning he gets from the fanbase is still an inertia of the very first reception he got. It gets alot better in MGS4 and especially MGRR where he develops alot as a character and carries quite a few strong themes.
MGS2 was the first MG game I ever got, (I know, bad) and playing as Snake was awesome, but everything about his character is pure awesome and is a veteran returning to another battle, but I didn't really know any of what was really going on, so I screwed up a lot. But playing as Raiden, a character on his first mission, being thrown into this mess and completely unprepared, and the first shooter or stealth game I'd ever played, was, I feel, a good combo. Both new to something and freaking out at the lack of correct information from the team or the lack of equipment, questioning what really happened or who was on your side. Everything that happened was just a huge surprise I wasn't expecting, Vamp, Fortune and Solidus scared the hell outta me. So Raiden didn't appear whiny to me, most of his reactions were similar to what I was thinking. So I never developed a dislike for him. And actually, he made Snake look even more incredible to me. Him coming in all prepared and knowing how to hold himself together was amazing and a relief. I get it must suck for older fans who were with the games earlier to suddenly have the switch, but the amount of hate for him seems a little unfair.
TheCalvdog the only reason raiden seems so unlikeable is probably rose. their relationship is so awkward and shallow and keeps coming up in most bland codec conversations
EliteDeltaTeam to be honest, not a single main protagonist of each metal gear game knows what the hell is truly going on, the only one that knows everything is Ocelot (except in MG4, where at the very end is Big Boss the one who knows everything and tells to Solid)
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God this really makes you more sympathetic to Raiden. I mean the guy got sent into a balls out crazy mission without proper training, constantly gets screwed with by his superiors who get increasingly more insane with each passing second, fights an overweight mad bomber on roller-skates from upstate new york, a magical gay vampire and a psychotic invincible angsty chick with a bad taste in clothing, gets sexual assaulted by the president of the united states, gets regular assaulted by a different president of the united states, constantly gets interrupted by his girlfriend who turns out might be spy and who might not actually even fucking exist, wakes up naked tied to a table for no good reason, and has a bunch of weird encounters with a team-killing russian cowboy with a dead guy for a hand. Did I miss anything?
Little do we know is the pool he drowned himself in was the ocean he was abandoned in. It just so happened he ran into Emma too, and when he was about to drown her, Hal came in on a revue boat and was like, "Stop it you fucker!"
they're actually really overrated and hiimdaisy does terrible interpretations of these games. they miss major plot points and misrepresent sections of mgs2 as harder than they actually are. mgs2 was by and large less tedious than 1 but they still make it seem annoying
@@IEatYourSandwiches all these terrible interpretation of the MGS storyline is kinda intentional... this isnt a summery of MGS2, that is why all the character trait is cranked up to 11... this isnt meant to be taken seriously..
One way you could look at the way Snake treats Raiden is that he really regards him as a peer and has high hopes for the boy. On the other hand, he wants him to start deflecting bullets after trying a sword for 60 seconds.
i fucking lost it at the 3rd (?) encounter with vamp 16:40 'hisssss' stupid vamp face raiden facepalming 'i can read you muscles, purified hydrogen hooga booga booga' gold
A lot of people got the reference to Grey Fox when Olga called herself Deepthroat, but not as many got the reference to Big Boss in Metal Gear 2 when she called herself Mr. X.
I can't help but feel that the game going absolute batshit insane the second the President sexual assaults Raiden is some sort of socio-political commentary.
I thank I can say for the rest of the commenters down in the comment section. that what Raiden, went through would make anyone have existential breakdown. I mean Raiden, a army special forces soldier with hardly any field training had to face a nefo vampire, a rotund mad bomber on roller blades, a clinically depressed woman with magical force filed abilities, and an insane super soldier samurai clone, who was not only the former president of the US, but is also he's adoptive father. And then there's the Patriots, I'm surprised that he wasn't thrown in to a psych ward after all of this shindig was over.
He did in Rising. He's got his own war to fight. he looked pretty damn happy about it too...or maybe he just went ape shit. i suppose that can be considered closer?
12:38 - Single-handedly the funniest moment in this whole video. The goofy face, the warped music, the voice acting, and immediately cutting to complete silence at Raiden's 'what' face was perfect.
God this video never stops being hilarious. "Time to stop that bomb and-" *BEEP* *BEEP* "Diffusing a bomb is like starting a relationship" That bit kills me every time
Cheesy Cola aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"I was trained by VIDEO GAMES!" ~Raiden "He's fat...like the PHATTEST MUTHA SUCKA THAT EVA LIVED~!" ~Stillman "Now I'm gonna run around and plant bombs everywhere! On Rollerskates! 'Cause I'm too fat to run! 'Cause I'm Fatman! CHECK IT OUT!" ~Fatman (and CUE THE BENNY HILL MUSIC) "I am the Boss to Surpass BIG BOSS! I will become the BIGGEST BOSS! BOSS BOSS BOSS!" ~"Solid"ous Snake 'uze da kool spray so u kan get dat rashon ok ttyl' ~1337 text from Olga Could go on, but I can't stop laughing while doing this.
Kojima said it's Platinum Games' interpretation, not his. It's uncanon, not only because of that, but because of its development history. It wasn't initially going to have that story. It was originally going to be set in between MGS2 and 4, where Raiden saves Sunny from the Patriots with Paradise Lost Army. But, alas, KojiPro gave the reins of development to a company better suited for Hack-n-slashes, and they butchered up the story, making it a sequel to an already concluded series. -_- **sigh**
1:58 Well Otacon was ready for that. In his description of how the camera and the photos work; “When a picture is taken, the screen data is first stored in the camera’s internal memory. Then it’s automatically processed through various algorithms to protect against tampering. Each picture is electronically stamped and distinctively encrypted. So, in the off chance that someone alters the data during the transmission, we’ll know immediately.”
But then again he was easily fooled by an anonymous email that APPEAR to be from Emma! Just cause it MIGHT have been from her doesn't mean it was (and what do yah know, it was all a setup to frame Snake and the organization by having him caught on camera himself "at the scene of the future crime" (Even as a kid, I saw that coming a mile away the moment that Drone took a picture of us after the Olga fight and then the Tanker blew up I wasn't surprised Snake was framed for it when it came up between Raiden and "Colonel" it only took me watching this and the Metal Gear Solid 2 Abridged to comprehend how much of a dipshit Otacon is as much as I love the sweet boy for falling for obvious BAIT like that)
"No Rose I angst alone!" I really can't help but like Raiden, he's gone through so much shit and he presses on. You have always had my respect pretty boy. O7
MGS4 is canon, no one with a working brain argues that, however it is a confirmed fact that MGS2 was made to purposefully make a sequel impossible, so the interpretation that it "wasn't real" is valid.
I wish I could watch these videos again for the first time because I was f**king howling with laughter. The people who wrote and made these knew everything about the series.
Raiden: President Johnson are you alright? Johnson: I am prepared to grab your crotch! Raiden: Wha.... Johnson: WHOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Raiden: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Watching this so many years later, and all I have to say is Raiden is effin adorable. Aloof as hell, can barely believe anything that's going on, but quick to catch somebody slipping.
Distributors don't have that much control over the actual game development. The distributors only fund..... distribution. Development is different. An example of both being in a games development and distribution history is Nintendo. Konami had no hand in the development of this game other that determined release dates.
For the AI conversation they should've put: "Why are you doing this?!" "We controlling information to control history and therefore the future generations. ...... That and society's digital junk folder is getting too full."
