@@robertposaric6419 It is 100% accurate that Metal Gear Solid 2 is where things start to get confusing. Everything before that is a precursor to the real bullshit.
Dunkey is a genius because he knew that funniest thing that he could have possibly done in a Metal Gear Solid video was to explain the plot of Metal Gear Solid exactly as it was written
I love that the line “the vampire working for liquid” goes by so quickly you don’t have time to fully absorb that there are vampires now for some reason
Honestly, Vamp isn't even the weirdest guy who you meet, and his "vampirism" is explained better than some of the other characters' abilities. _COUGH_ magic parasitic moss _COUGH_ ...wait, come to think of it, did they ever even _try_ to explain how Volgin's lightning powers worked? I'm trying to remember, but I'm drawing a blank.
@@athenamuldrow1664 Now I'm imagining a high-ranking Soviet officer doing some type of period-appropriate shuffling Soviet dance around his office while chanting _"Kuwabara, kuwabara."_
Dude imagine how quickly it all happened that that quote is actually the 2nd time vampires are mentioned. The 1st occurs when he's explaining MGS 2: 'then a Vampire kills Otacon's sister' LMAO
@@SuperBlooper057 I remember that! Oh you think he's called vamp cause he's a vampire?? No silly he's just bisexual. He totally banged fortune's dad btw
actually all of you are wrong Turns Out after thanos fought Cory from Cory in the House They actually unlocked the Shin Megami Tensei Tenkeichi Budokai from the Shadow Realm Which returned earth to its primal state A la the Matrix. Boobies. Which relates the story into Death Stranding Available now
I've never played a Metal Gear game... but after watching this video, I could start playing without remembering any of the spoilers. It was such chaos that I didn't retain any of it. Well done, Dunkey.
First games were called Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2. Metal Gear Solid was a new series in the franchise. Nobody knows the first two games since they're old as hell but they're there and they're also part of the story.
It's honestly not that complicated. Metal gear solid the "first game" was released after two games on the NES I believe. But the two previous games aren't super necessary to understand the plot.
@@luminousrabbit5824 not really, they were developed for the MSX in japan and never came to the west, the games for NES were an attemp from konami USA division to port the game and is not produced by kojima, hence it doesnt include any of the original games story, and the second game was developed by kojima after learning konami USA was trying to make a 2nd metal gear without him, so he worked on a second game for the MSX in japan
@@luminousrabbit5824 Except they are with the introduction of MGS5. Since the MGS5 boss is the one that is killed in outer heaven in the MG games, because its not the real big boss, but a double made to keep people guessing what big boss was up to, and since its not the real big boss, doesnt have the will and fortitude of the real big boss, and resorts to nukes and child soldiers, which leads people to hunt him thinking he's the real big boss and not the fake big boss meant to be a decoy. The end of MGS5 actually happens in the middle of the raid Snake does on Outer heaven. So its all.. important.
@@hiyathere2168 It's just the MGS theme from the previous three games. There's some *very* shaky claim that it bares some similarity to some obscure classical piece by a Russian composer, and apparently that was a scary enough threat of plagiarism that they just dropped the theme entirely for MGS4.
Honestly, it deserves to be that brief. Don't get me wrong, I love these games, I played some of them many times, but the conspiracies sprinkled throughout the entire series are trash. The characters and their backstories are what really drive this series to the echelon of gaming.
I watched this before playing any of the MGS games, and now that I've finished them all and came back to this video its really surreal realizing how much of this is actually just the lore not exageratted.
as someone who played and beat every game multiple times I was always still highly confused by some parts of the timeline. I find myself laughing hysterically only halfway through the video because of insane this storyline actually is. this video is gold
It's dawned on me that whoever wrote the story of these Metal Gear games didn't give one single flying fuck about anything making proper sense because all the other elements of the games such as music, voiceover, sound effects, graphics, gameplay etc would be outstandingly well done. It's kinda like those rich kids who go to Ivy league universities, and don't care whatever the fuck they write because daddy paid a generous donation to the University, and the professor sat with the kid during the exam with an open book, telling the kid what to write by looking at the book, and then award the kid A+.
@@sztypetttoI mean, the story does make sense. There's actually very little that had to be changed(Revolver being possesed gets dropped in MGS4). It's just that it's very complicated and a lot of the details you get from various perspectives so you have to piece everything together yourself
At first I was like: "there's no way he explained the whole story in under 7 minutes, it has to be a joke" But actually no, it's not a joke. He really did explain it
*”Oh and many years later that Raiden guy from MGS2 becomes a robot ninja and has to fight a bunch of cyborg super soldiers lead by Donald Tru- cough Senator Armstrong in order to save the world”*
Writing a story like this is actually genius. With infinite twists and turns, you can never have any plot holes. Perfectly not complicated story if you dont have any plot holes...
There is one major plot hole, in the original Metal Gear, Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake, and Metal Gear Solid Big boss is painted as some insane war loving lunatic asshole who everyone fears and does nothing good. But in Metal Gear 3 you play as big boss and he's like a pretty good guy, then in Metal Gear 4 you meet big boss (as his clone son snake) and he's actually a pretty good guy, and in peace walker you play as him again still cool, then mgsV you play as a guy playing him, who thinks he's him but Is still a pretty nice and genuine guy. But we're supposed to believe as he gets older he becomes a nuclear terrorist. But it's just at this point not possible
@@zaystation. Iirc this is explained through Peacewalker and V. Big Boss isn't a lunatic warmonger, he was just viewed like that because he was the face of a mercenary nation who owned nukes. Because most people didn't know Big Boss personally, only the fact he was some kind of mercenary king with a nuclear weapon, it's pretty easy to see how he would be painted as a warmongering asshole. Also, tbf Big Boss was kind of a jerk. He thought it was ok to use child soldiers and brainwash soldiers just to get what he wanted, and he basically used a medic and sent him to death just so BB could escape. While that might not put him in the "war loving lunatic asshole" description, it certainly gets him closer.
The only thing that I've found wrong in this masterpiece of a summarization is that ocelot wasn't killed by fox die at first because the nanomachines thought he was liquid and wasn't part of the original patriots. But when he fought snake and the hypnosis was undone he was back as revolver ocelot and so the nanomachines did their thing
@@thomasprice7893 they're pretty advanced though. After ocelot took over sop the system was recognizing him as liquid. But after the final fight, ocelot didn't have control anymore of anything since the system is destroyed and he isn't even liquid anymore so the nanomachines will recognize him as ocelot and as an original member of the patriots and kill him
@@thomasprice7893He uses hypnosis AND nanomachines to program himself as Liquid. It's spelled out that the whole sham of him being taken over by Liquid has like 3 whole stages to it.
@@ir6734Given that he's the son of the Sorrow, channeling liquid makes more sense than nanomachines did - both in the personality takeover and the foxdie reaction
He's Romanian He's a wizard with knifes Oh also he's a vampire Die twice in mgs2 Die for real this time in mgs4 JK he was alive the whole time as a ninja vampire cyborg in mgr revengence and then he die foe real this time like for real for real
actually if you KNEW anything about the Metal Gear Solid lore, you would know that Eeyore was actually a patsy for the true villain of the series: The protagonist from the Kill Butt series
No, it's not. Taken individually, 1 has a decent spy thriller story. 3, too, if you take it as sort of a fairytale version of perhaps real events, with its ridiculous bosses and whatnot. 2 has a very cogent message and social commentary to it, but the story itself is not even remotely good. 2, 4, Portable Ops, Peace Walker, 5: All trash. Add it all up: overly convoluted, monumentally over-the-top and stupid trash.
@@AgentMorgan2010 the reason why MGS fans (like me) love the story is that it's over the top and cheesy, and completely takes itself so seriously I still think it's a great story, but each to their own opinions :P
@@captaincrunch6011 Well. I'm an MGS fan, too. Believe it or not. I grew up on this series. The original blew me away as a 13 year-old kid. I actually had a Sega CD and loved Snatcher before that (which _does_ have a pretty good story with great characters). I've played all these games. In fact, I'm replaying MGS Ghost Babel right now, as we speak. I certainly understand how people can _enjoy_ the story. I certainly enjoy aspects of it myself. But when you look at the thing as a whole, it's an absolute convoluted mess, chock full of inconsistencies, with more plot holes than a swiss cheese, and full of just plain stupidity. 2 is by far the worst offender. Now, you can tell me that sentient appendages that talk -- Liquid's Arm -- being blatantly ridiculous and just plain fucking stupid is just my "opinion", but the fact is, it _is_ blatantly ridiculous and just plain fucking stupid. If you can't acknowledge these kinds of things, I don't know what to tell ya. There's nothing wrong with enjoying kitsch, so long as you acknowledge that it's kitsch. But a lot of MGS/Kojima fans are really pretentious, and actually try to hold this shit up as high art or something. Good luck with that.
@@AgentMorgan2010I don't believe the story itself is a masterpiece, but I do enjoy it alot, there's far FAAAAR better stories, but it's the themes, messages and ideas that truly pulls me personally Also, whoever told you these stories are straight up masterpieces, it's not, has any one of them played MGS5? that story was half baked and never finished (fuck you Konami)
@@Nilloc1221 well he just tried to explain the story of like 5 games in under 7 minutes while adding jokes here and there so yeah its gonna sound ridiculous lol.
I played the first 3 Solid games. The first was a masterpiece, it was a great standalone game. Did not need a sequel. The second was dumb as fuck but fun to play. The third was much less complicated and revolutionary in terms of gameplay. I played about half an hour of the fourth one after sitting through like 45 minutes of cinematics, and sold it back. Fuck Hideo Kojima, he sucks dick.
The games are fantastic and a ton of fun to play, particularly snake eater and phantom pain. I grew up on these games, played all of them more than once, and still to this day, I have no earthly idea wtf is going on in these games 99.7% of the time.
It doesn't really narrow things down. In each of the games, at least one person pisses themselves. Sometimes several. Some of them also poop themselves, but those people are usually Johnnys. Different Johnnys. But usually the same Johnny.
@@ZechsMerquise73 BUT there is also peace walker that is/isn't considered a mgs game depending on who you talk to that happens between mgs 3 and mgsv and was made between mgs 4 and mgs5, making it second in the timeline but second last to be developers skipping over social ops and mgr revengeance.
What does “reverse quadruple agent” mean ? A “double agent” is agent who pretends to spy for a country while they spy on said country for another one; so a quadruple agent ??? And a reverse... ?
Nicholas Leclerc It’s like a double double McDonald’s double double agent but flipped and mirrored backwards the same way you flip Davenport and Chesterfield but actually PEMDAS cancels it out. It’s quite simple really
It's like being an agent for the Rothschild Banks while being a KGB agent while serving in Mossad while serving in the CIA. This shit usually doesn't go that deep, maybe only two layers deep, but even then it goes to show why you really can't trust intelligence agencies at a fundamental level.
I came here expecting a parody of how much of a confusing mess the MGS storyline is. Was suprised to see an accurate representation of how much of a confusing mess the MGS storyline is.
Dude, has a hardocre fan of the MGS franchise, I gotta say: u made my day!! Even I at some point lost myself (love the game for it), and in these 7min laughed, remembered the whole franchise again. Ty for this video! Love from Portugal
@Huff Boy Metal Gear: Ghost Babel and the AC!D games don't count ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) "I was actually referring to Portabl--" *Kazuhira Miller:* "Finally, we can leave all that crap in San Hieronymo behind..."
I'm actually impressed that he was able to give such a perfect summation of the entire plot while his little brother was playing throughout all the games.
@@adoji1867 Assuming you're reading comments during the whole video (which you probably weren't) and using a rounded simple number of 1.4 seconds as the defining factor of when reading becomes writing. Plus, the comment section holding over 16000 comments but at the time of your reading was somewhere over 9000. With scrolling rate adjusted and Son Goku would put you at about a 1 in 3 chance.
@@Moooras yeah any inaccuracies are extremely pedantic and superficial. Otacon made REX for the US Army not Liquid, but its pretty immaterial given that Liquid is head of a US Army Special Forces unit Shagohod is not a prototype of Metal Gear but rather divergent evolution since Sokolov and Granin disagreed on the future of mobile nuclear assault platforms but it doesn't really matter because it's stull a nuclear tank that can launch from almost anywhere And Tigger is the true perpetrator not Eeyore but it doesn't matter because Sora and Pooh are the real masterminds But seriously this is a very accurate recap from the dunkmeister
Actually this is bad story telling. Good story telling is the witcher 3. Everything is clear and pretty well described without trying to mess the story up. I can understand that you and me loves the franchise but no, this is not the way to write a good story.
The amount of editing is impressive. And your tone is so theatrical. And thanks a lot for this. It was at the same time interesting, passionate, funny and all. ++++
@@nofabe he could have just said : you play as venom snake, who thinks he is big boss, but is actually the player pretending to be big boss.And dies in metal gear 1 instead of big boss.
