Fun fact: despite popular belief, I am categorically extremely European and was not intimately aware at how BAD it was to drop the R slang on full auto, my bad. Some people call it a slur but I think I pronounced it perfectly. But also, my bad. Haven't done it since and won't again. Unless I end up covering Death Stranding. I'll try.
Hoping everything gets better, as someone who has experienced something similar, I wanna say that you did the right thing. Don't ever think that what you did was wrong
It’s hard not to admire your passion for your craft. I love every single second of every single video you put out. Like honestly, the wait is always worth it. We love you Punk Duck, hope you’re around for a long time.
From one duck to another, I seriously hope you have a good relationship where someone is there for you and loves you. I’m sorry you had to go through this. No one deserves to go through this.
@@jaykelley103 No no, I know what it is now, there's a reply above explaining it better I just think people shouldn't post comments like this with zero context. Imagine someone went to one of my RU-vid videos and commented "Ohh man I'm so sorry for you! I hope you find someone who treats you right"-- This is just me going fast in Sonic Advance 2's last stage. Go send me a message in a proper context, or at least explain what your context is if you must post to an unrelated RU-vid video
@@connormartinson7619 i have a bitchin pc and i STILL have problems with getting that game to run without crashing or freezing. RPCS3 isnt fully there yet.
@@fredde7356 got into a relationship with squizzy (the person who makes those animations) and was abused in every way you can think of when thinking "abusive relationship"
All fighting game content creators have great taste in RU-vid content. I see so many of you in comments sections. Thanks for the vids, I bought 2 GGs becuase of you
Weird how I can agree with the logic of your arguments while feeling absolutely no empathy for your pain with MGS2 and Peace Walker Probably my most replayed
I love mgs2 -Oddly enough I like the calls and the cutscenes and the cheezy boss fights etc. this is peak mgs for me and I’d play it over and over forever 🤷♂️
i also love mgs2 but i cant say i like the amount of codec calls and cutscenes. ill be trying to have a conversation w someone and make the mistake of entering the next strut during it and be stuck in 3 different codec calls seperated by 2 cutscenes, each one is 7 minutes long and 5 plot twists have just happened. its like the codec sections in mgrr but buffed to a billion, bc at least u can move during those despite it being turtle speed. these just require ur complete attention and take u out the game to do it
Never got to? Well just play it? You can play the ps1 and PSP games on a phone these days Edit' I'll send you android links that's how I play them (and disgaea)
What would be perfect is actually playing the game. Getting your opinions of the series by someone who was filtered hard by MGS 2 is a terrible way to experience these games
@@Guitar-Dog Now why would I do that? These games play like a chore, even more so by todays standards. Even Phantom Pain controls like ass in certain aspects.
It's depressing knowing we will never get a "complete" ending for Phantom Pain 'cause Konami destroyed whatever shred of relationship they had with Kojima. They did mans wrong and then he went to create the greatest fetch quest sim of all time.
Its not like Kojima himself was a saint when working on mgs5. Dude went way over budget among other things. Fame might have been getting to his head a little.
I actually just finished re-watching Steak Bentley’s “MGS4 Was a Mistake” video, and now this arrives. What an amazing surprise. Loving the MGS content. Your stuff always makes me laugh and this was no exception.
Considering you are friends with Shammy and all of them, it is unsurprising to see you upload a massive ass hour long video after 9 months of nothing. Can't wait to watch and rewatch this dozens of times like Joe's Witcher videos
I can agree to pretty much every fault he is talking about here and yet i can play through MGS 1 - 4 back to back, without skipping a single cutscene, without ever getting bored.
@@lts_connerswan7948 nothing is really bad about five lol, I wasn't angry about GZ being 40$ (30 now) because when I got it, it was on discount for 2 dollars and TPP is just a good game, some bad things about it but it is my 2nd favorite MGS game with 3 being my favorite
Facts. I just played through the series. I love MGS4, even though it's such a shit story. It really is. I have played through it 4 times in a week. MGS2 was fun, for the meta commentary. I'm playing through MGS3 again, rn. Peace Walker... I can't play through that again. I just can't. I'm not playing through MGSV again. I have so much stuff researched and unlocked. I just go and play in the sandbox.
@@JoiceVaderd I wouldn't even say the story is actually shit. It is just convoluted beyond any reason, cheesy as all hell and too much is explained away with "nanomachines son!!". Of course some plot points are also genuiely stupid in both writing and execution on screen but the full story is still highly entertaining and as much flag as it gets, the game does actually find a decent ending to the whole saga and the different characters. Considering how convoluted the story was even before MGS4, that's quite impressive. Did we ever need an ending? Maybe not, but i'm happy with what we got.
to be fair, it's extremely fitting for a video on Metal Gear Solid that you'd have to sit through on hour of cool stuff to get to the *_really_* good stuff
@@kakashilover9231 back when it was a concept game in the Fox engine. Only time it was ever called rising and it was more of a demo of the Fox Engines capabilities
I was shocked when I checked the chapters at the beginning and rising wasn't one of them. Then an hour went by, just long enough for me to forget about it, and you hit me with the only good review of rising I've ever seen, right at the end.
Excellent Duck. Age hasn't slowed you down one bit. The work you put into this video really shows, and it BLOWS MY FUCKING TINY LITTLE BRAIN! I hadn't really heard of your channel until now, so coming in with this as a first video was AMAZING! This video was the MGS 3 of Metal Gear essay videos. Keep it up, much love
Hey Punk, hope everything works out for you. You've quickly become one of my favourite content creators; your videos are hilarious. Can't count how many times I've re-watched this one. Good luck.
I love what MGS2 says about society as it entered the digital age. The ending talk with the AI had profound and as of today, unanswered questions about how we interpret truth in a “post-truth” world. This sounds more like cinema sins; taking all the intricacies Kojima put into his game and labeling them all as “bad” because they aren’t vanilla troupes.
@@metetural9140 it sounds like he wanted to focus on the gameplay/conveniences and the moment to moment stealth action that you get. I guess it makes sense when you consider what he actually acknowledges in the video. I didn’t enjoy this one either
I'm kinda 50/50. On one hand, I appreciate him for seeing past MGS2's super praised story and looking straight at the gameplay for what it is, which ended up being something he really disliked, but on the other he doesn't really say anything deep about said gameplay. The whole video seems to be more of a light-hearted summary of his experience with the series, in which he briefly explains why he thinks that experience dipped or rose in enjoyment, rather than an in-depth critique. It's a very emotional approach to criticism. However, I thought the quality of the video was pretty good and I really enjoyed the guy's charisma and sense of humor (and I'll probably subscribe and watch his other stuff for that reason). In other words, the broad strokes of this video are very well thought out, but the meat of it - the actual essay/critique part - is pretty weak. Therefore, by Punk Duck's own metric, this this video is the MGS2 of video essays.
MGS 2 posed interesting questions and was surprisingly technologically advanced for its time. However, the gameply and story were kinda ass even on release and aged horribly.
@@Totallynotkyubey personally I’d have to disagree, I think MGS2 made a lot of improvements to its gameplay formula and mechanics. I found it to be really fun when you were just let loose on the shell (when you weren’t bombarded by calls that is) and tanker. I think we could compare this to Death Stranding with what was trying to be done except for the actual gameplay. It’s story heavy and trying to prove a point, etc. I can’t really say much about the plot though it was pretty unremarkable considering it was pretty much a rehash of the first game lmao
Your videos always have a certain charm. It's the same casual and fun feel you get from hanging out with friends coupled with a structured format that effectively gets points across. It's that good dumb (but often insightful) fun that makes me feel at home. Thank you, Punk Duck. Your videos are always worth the wait.
"I couldn't stop coming back to it" was my experience with TPP. At last count I had... over 1700 hours in that game. The game isn't finished and the story doesn't really conclude, but the gameplay literally never gets old so I don't care.
That’s what’s so sick about 5 compared to the others. It’s a machine that generates custom stealth missions infinitely. It never runs out of gameplay and there’s always more to do. Crazy ambitious compared to the 12 hour sprints of the other games
@@necromax13 what are YOU saying. im doing my first playthrough and thats exactly where the game and story picks UP lmao. do you even have a brain in there?
idk what you're doing to not get bored. It's just the same repetitive open world bs over and over and there's no point to anything. MGO on the other hand is great. I have over 1000 hours on that
1:02:20 fun fact: in the MGS1 visual novel, to skip all the dumb back-tracking, there was two tanks installed by Donald Anderson in the room so you could heat and freeze the card
It's kinda funny how my brother when he was 13 year old was able to beat peace walker and Even get the true ending but grown adults can't, really gives you perspective about things
man i didn't know people hate MGS 2 that much, it was my first metal gear game , back then i was mind blown by such amazing story and mechanic, i even considering it might be the best game i ever played.. Only to be blown away even more by MGS 3, it was on another level of greatness.. if MGS 2 made me interested in the franchise, then MGS 3 made me fall in love with the series
@@johnfkennedyinanopentopcar8976 should've just played the PC version at that point, I know it's not perfect but it's certainly better than dealing with that
most ppl hated it in the 2000s due to the bait and switch, NO ONE EXCEPT a few people outside of Konami knew about Snake not being the main character. Look it all up, faked MGS2 trailers and screenshots showing u playing Snake were he was never there in the real game. That would be impossibly to keep secret in today's internet age. seriously, no one knew until the day the game.dropped. a few.journalists knew but they kept it secret as well. I love MGS2?
Peacewalker actually has a part that gets even more annoying. So in order to actually get to the final level you have to replay multiple levels trying to track down one guy who keeps escaping from your brig, and each time he will be hidden in a different place. I played the game with a friend so we actually trigger the final level by accident because the guy you are looking for is hiding in the in game firing range and we only found him because we were screwing around with some of the guns. Also the final boss in a teenager in her underware piloting the mech you built, which im pretty sure you can cheese by just ignoring the mech building mini game.
Gonna be perfectly honest, I don't remember much of the games plot and stuff. We never actually listened to the codec calls when me and my friend were playing, I'm not sure we actually knew they were an option, her being 20 makes me feel a little less creeped out by the "dating" missions, but only a little
MGS4 had the BEST mech fight ever made in video games to date. Rex vs. Ray was absolute perfection and arguably the best boss fight in the entire series.
The one disappointing part of this video was the MGS4 review 😔 the rest was so fckn good, I was hopeful Guns of the Patriots would get the same treatment XD
I actually love Peace Walker and it has some of my favorite moments in the series. I also hate it because of shit like the lab issue and the fact that the final boss is RIDICULOUSLY WEIRD trying to figure out how to fight without looking it up.
Aside from zeke just being hard I don't get having to look it up, dodge and hide from the attacks, use the missile defense when ready, spam with rockets, and call for ammo when needed
Saw from a recommendation, saw, and fell in love. What an amazing essay. Even with some disagreements, I totally accept your viewpoints. As someone who has loved this game since MGS 1 back in the day, I love the fresh take from someone who is a late-bloomer. Amazing video. Ive subscribed, and will subscribe 100x over if I could.
This is probably my favorite game series of all time. I remember first playing one when MGS4 came with the PS3 and I instantly fell in love. I then went back and played all the other Metal Gear Solid games.
@@treykefauver9926 MGS4 is pretty difficult to get running on the PC. You could try the RPCS3 emulator with the MGS4 rom but really, your best bet is to get a PS3 and the game itself
I for one think Peace Walker is my all-time favorite MGS, or at the very least tied with MGS3, and I've played them all. Love that shit so much, no idea why. It's just my true comfort zone.
That was an awesome video essay, the "embrace the jank" in mgs3 was the most important part for me, cause it made me try the game for the 4th time, just so I could get accostumed to the controls. It was worth it.
when you were talking about the different ways you can escape jail, it reminded me of the sniper boss. his parrot roams around the jungle acting as a queue for you to find him - but you can kill the parrot and he enrages, forsaking his stealthy approach
The intro bit with the DNA strands and the goofy little Snake But A Duck clip were nicely done. Glad youtube is finally not recommending me only the same 24 or so videos even though I've already watched them all before.
The part about "Big Boss forgot that he killed the Boss" *triggered* me a bit, because its just shows what psychological impact this whole incident had on Snake. His brain repressed that in a form to protect itself.
@@pytecolty7095 That clip with Joseph Anderson was confusing because putting that in your vid means you understand that he went through psychological trauma and that it wasn’t Costa Rica making him stupid, right? Otherwise you’d be taking Joseph’s side... which would mean you’d be wrong and can’t read into subtext...
I remember not really liking peace walker when I first tried it but the more I played it, the more I kept getting sucked into it and then it became super fun
One of my favorite things about MGS3 was that the Subsistence version came with an online mode. It was very unique and pretty baller, you could knock out other players for a small amount of time and shoot out their radios so they couldn't communicate with their team. I put 1000s of hours into that online, but they pulled the plug after only ~2 years. MGS4 also had Metal Gear Online (2), it was good too but tried harder to be a call of dooty. MGO3 on MGSV was terrible and not worth playing.
Thank you so much, you make amazing videos... I'm probably going to be watching this one on loop for quite some time Update: finished the video, and if you did want to make each video better than the last, then you most certainly did, phenomenal work!
I skipped this video of yours because I didn't have an interest in Metal Gear despite owning some of 'em. But now coming back to watch it I'm going to play all of them, this video is one of your greatest works and it deserves so many more views man, truly a masterpiece made by a fan. Great work throughout!
Never. Ever. Stop making content. ((As long as you want to)) Cause I will watch and love it all. This was one of the best hours of my life, well fucking spent. I'm not even finished the video and I'm considering rewatching it again. Your content is so fecking good, thanks so much for putting out and making this 🥲😌🤺
My real question before getting into this is, are the metal gears really solid? I've heard about some liquid shenanigans, so I'm doubting the validity of the game titles... Edit: Man, I want a sequel to Rising too...
My big gripe with TPP is that unlike all the previous titles it didn't incorporate the hardware you were playing it on. A lot of the witt was gone, which was a favorite aspect of the other games for me. Still the best gameplay wise, I hope Delta blows all of our minds
Solid snake is a very inspiring character for me. The world asks so much of him and he always delivers. If you ask a lesser man to take down metal gear Rex by himself he would curl up in a ball and cry but snake grabs the stinger and gets to work. What a man
i’m gonna be honest, the two games you trashed (pw and 2) are actually some of my favorites in the series, but EVERYTHING you said was correct. the awful controls/camera, monotony of gameplay, infuriating boss fights and useless plot points were all things i despised about both games. another thing; when it comes to mgs, i’m very much invested in the story and i found peace walker to be the perfect link between 3 and 5 - an escapist fantasy where big boss is a fucking power house in control of a small nation’s worth of soldiers… before crashing down to a bleak and depressing reality via gz/tpp. this video was great, btw! it made me laugh a LOT, you earned a new sub :D
I have watched this video at least 3 times. I cannot state the amount of love I have for this fucking series and adding one of my favorite content creators give an essay on it so passionately with such an amazing use of music just-AH! SO GOOD!
22:08 Peace Walker is a lot better than you give it credit for. The whole time, he's struggling to move past The Boss' death. He didn't "forget" as he literally made a scar similar to The Boss'. He was forced to confront what he did and let go especially once he came into contact with another person who just couldn't let go of The Boss, Strangelove. It even has a full circle moment revolving around one of The Boss' quotes: "Just look at that bandana. If you can't leave the past behind you, you won't survive long." And it makes sense that he can't just simply let go of his mentor and mother figure. That's the real point of Peace Walker, it's an emotional story of moving on, where MGS3 was about him growing into a soldier.
Absolutely incredible video When you mentioned Steak’s video i realised i’ve not enjoyed a video this much since i watched his. Makes me really happy to see a video finally praising the best part of MGS V… the gameplay.
This has become one of my fav videos no joke! I'm playing the saga in the launch order, and the best thing is the gameplay didn't slapped me so much, but man, mgs2 gets me in the nerves, took me months to finish.
How did it take you months? Yes it can be very annoying and really shows some lackluster game design from back then but it's fairly quick to get through
MGS being the last one he played has me perplexed, that was the first MGS game I played ever in 2016 then MGS3, MGS2, MGSPO, I’ve never played VGZ or VPP but even the original trilogy of games works as a contained story even if you haven’t played MGS4
Snake was still getting over The Boss in Peace Walker, so he remembered Boss as an actual traitor to make it easier. He later comes to terms with Boss, as shown by his true memories later in the game
Right? It makes even more sense when you realize Big Boss was raised as a "soldier." Not a normal kid. He was raised as a soldier, and so he thinks mostly like one too. At the end of PW, Snake came to the conclusion that The Boss put down her gun and in doing so betrayed everything about being a soldier. From the way he was raised, he viewed it as her betraying the idea of "loyalty to the end." To the average person, it's obvious that wasn't the case, but Snake has only known "war," so that's how he views the whole situation. People tend to forget that Big Boss' mindset is not the same as normal people. He had a completely different upbringing then the average Joe, and as such, his views on life are completely different than what they'd be if he wasn't raised as a soldier. (They also tend to forget he literally becomes an antagonist. He's not exactly suppose to be a completely morally good character. He's a complex character who legit does some pretty despicable things in the later games like becoming a terrorist and starting wars and using child soldiers.)
I was 6 years old when I played Metal Gear Solid 2 for the first time. Played the tanker mission over and over again till I was like 9 or 10 thinking that was the whole game. Then my mind was blown when I was smart enough to follow directions and read objectives. These games taught me how to read in a way, I literally was able to grow up with these games. MGS2 will always hold a special place in my heart. Like seeing Empire Strikes Back for the first time with out any spoilers or knowledge of the lore.
Most of the franchise got on PC (MGS1 and 2 were done pretty badly, the MSX games were mostly ignored) - MGS3, MGS4, Peace Walker and Portable Ops were Playstation exclusives. The only way to play them on PC is through emulation.
These are a lot of bad takes about MGS, specially Peace Walker. Like they are straight up wrong. One of the examples being "Crouching is as fast as walking" when it's not.
MGS 3 is one of the best games ever created. and they pulled off a GENIOUS approach with the under the bed thing, bc this was one of the solutions from when you get imprisoned in MGS 1. I love when games are self aware and don't pull the same tricks, i feel respected as a player. Speaking of MGS 1, I think i got into gamedev because the game encourages you to "think as the game developer would" (Thanks Colonel for the best game advice of all times)
Another thing i LOVE about MGS3 is that Ocelot's Revolver bullets REALLY BOUNCE like, it's not a boss perk that it's exclusive to him because he is a master of revolving and oceloting, it's a weapon characteristic that you can exploit! I got tons of fun bouncing bullets to unnaware necks while the enemy thought i missed. This game made me feel like the chaddest chad
I just started playing mgs 5. First time playing an mgs. I’m loving it and feeling like I robbed my childhood of these games. Not sure why I never played them before. So now i’m watching all these videos about the older games, yours came up and it was incredible!
@@lite1776 yeah like the story was strange, gameplay was super fun, and when i looked at the old ones i’m like man these look fun gameplay wise but with great story too.
The gameplay in MGS5 was so good and addictive that i didnt mind the fact that the story is literally unfinished ... i really wish konami pulled their head out of their ass and released all the metal gear games on steam like sega did with yakuza.
Watched this after the announcement for Delta for the first time. This sums up how i feel about my favorite series too. Super entertaining watch, thanks!!
Every MGS was great. I love that you are encouraging people to play these but implying only 2 of the games are “good” and that PW was bad in any respect are just bad takes.
You put your heart and soul into this videos and it tells. The script is awesome, the jokes are on point and the message is clear. I still rewatch your Monster Hunter World Video at times (must have watched it dozen times at least) it rezonates so strongly with how I feel about the game. You are a master of the storytelling craft and I hope your passion about what you do never changes.
