A video of this magnitude deserves a chapter select. Hope this helps you guys, this has been my favorite video for the past few months. Intro: 0:00 Metal Gear Solid 4 Was A Mistake - The Disappearance of Fukushima: 3:54 Game Start: 13:01 Act 1: Liquid Sun: 16:10 Mission Briefing Act 1: 21:01 Gameplay: 24:44 Drebin: 28:51 Rat Patrol: 33:20 "The Hounds" - The Protomen: 36:52 Mission Briefing Act 2: 39:59 Sequel Dissonance: 41:46 Act 2: Solid Sun: 48:40 Mission Briefing Act 3: 1:08:07 Everything Is Nanomachines Now: 1:09:26 Mission Briefing Act 3 (cont.): 1:12:27 Act 3: Third Sun: 1:15:33 Everything Changes In Act 3: 1:22:54 "Light Up The Night" - The Protomen: 1:39:02 Mission Briefing Act 4: 1:44:53 Act 4: Twin Suns: 1:50:51 Naomi: 2:10:28 Manchild Antics: 2:15:29 Mission Briefing Act 5: 2:20:27 Act 5: Old Sun: 2:22:39 The Beauty And The Beast Unit: 2:34:08 Golden Boy: 2:39:32 Johnny Gets His Team Killed: 2:41:16 "The Stand (Man Or Machine)" - The Protomen: 2:48:09 Epilogue: Naked Sin: 2:53:20 Raiden: 2:54:50 Debriefing: Naked Son: 3:07:37 Solid Snake Is The Greatest Character In Video Game History: 3:17:07 In Conclusion: 3:22:20
I have started using this video, specifically, to introduce people to The Protomen via Light Up The Night. Thanks for making it that much easier to accomplish this task, and for highlighting the generally awesome taste in music Mr. Bentley possesses.
@@doloresmeatrestauranteater1451 Beauty and beast and is about ANY relationship, that is based around lust. The fact, that you see only abuse in it, tells more about you, than content of the fairy tale.
3:00:13 The game that rebuilt Raiden and made him into an even more beloved character, Metal Gear Rising: Revengence, is now 10 years old. I checked. Yes, I waited 4 years since this vid came out to make this joke. It was worth it.
Tfw you get a lapdance from an operative who immediately dies, you hear over comms "Snake that was Angry Armadillo, she was forced to eat cement as a child"
@@scoopitywoop5665 >Step 1, make tesla coils (make them really big) >Step 2, disguise tesla coils as Metal Gear around your compound >Step 3, lure the PMCs to your compound “I HATE THE WAR ECONOMY! I HATE THE WAR ECONOMY!”
Johnny never getting any nanomachines and the whole “nanomachines suppressing everyone’s negative emotions that come from combat” means Johnny has just been rawdogging this whole thing emotionally, making him one of the hardest motherfuckers in mgs4
"Kojima seems like a smart guy" while showing the picture of his "Egg." tweet had me dying. So many brilliant edits and quick cutaways in this. Love this video.
It's difficult to put into words exactly what changed with the wider evaluation of the series, but even if you really really love this video, it's hard to deny that video essays about the memes of Japanese games changed after it came out.
@@expunkstep7226 we cant know how youtube magic works exactly but i watched this video short time after it came out, it was around 50k views i think. I thought holy shit, three hours, who would watch this, before watching it lol. Point is after this i saw this multi hour essays published, and watched by millions. Probably its not like steak invented it but it might be a perfect storm moment.
The music during Occelot’s GUNS OFTHE PATRIOTS!! BANG! BANG! HAHAHA DIE! hit every dramatic beat with every riff and chord change… It was perfectly synced with the visuals!
i last played mgs4 like 10 years ago so this video has been a major trip down memory lane and seeing that scene again set to that music was just. amazing. that was already probably my favorite scene in MGS4 simply for the sheer coolness of it
i’ve never heard of Protomen before watching this video, but the song was used so well for the Guns of Patriots scene and i fucking love that song now 😂
What I gleaned from this is that MGS 4 was just one of those "last in the season" episodes of show where they bring back all the characters from the first season for literally no reason, but on a larger scale
1:39:02 THIS SEGMENT. What a masterpiece of a moment and how it perfectly fits the mayhem and absurdity of the whole scene. This song has become one of my all time favorites just by association with this madness ^^
Agreed! I was muttering "whatever" for hours up to this point in the game, but this scene brought me back on board. 'Oh! Ocelot isn't Liquid, he's a Solidus proxy. With STYLE!'
God, can you imagine how powerful it would have been if Foxalive turned off all nano machines and THAT’S what killed Naomi instead? If Naomi went into this mission KNOWING she would be destroying the only thing keeping her alive and went through with it anyway for the greater good of the world and the next generation, and the kind of thematic moral sacrifice that would represent in tandem with the original ending where snake dies? Or even if turning off the nano machines was somehow the thing that killed the dangerous foxdie in Snake so that Naomi’s sacrifice ALSO saved Snake’s life along with the lives and freedom and personal identities of everyone else?
Comments like this and a few others I’ve seen that offer alternative directions for characters to have been taken in make me wish someone would undertake trying to rewrite this games story, taking these ideas into account
No, just have her kill herself in the stupidest way imaginable in the MGS universe for the sake of poetry (making Otacon cry over a dead woman he loved for the third time).
To address some post- algorithm bump comments: •To everyone who watched this video to the end, thanks for hearing me out •To those who didn't I don't blame you I hope you made good use of your four hours elsewhere •I recorded the footage in 2017 and scripted, recorded and edited the whole thing over the summer of 2018 so full process was around a year but 90% of the work was done over three months •This video was commissioned by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to make video essays a less appealing medium and improve Japan's declining birth rate. •I talk that quickly because I'm addicted to caffeine and I like fast paced videos so I'm sorry if I'm hard to follow •I really admire Kojima and I think he's an incredible talent but I also think his work is very flawed which is why it interests me enough to want to write a video this long about it •I'm not demo I'm pretty sure demo edited his scripts •The Protomen segments made it so I can't make any money off this video •I still don't regret adding them •I know the title will rub some people the wrong way. It's clickbaity and reads more negatively than I actually feel about the game, but the video was basically written with that title in mind from the beginning. As I state in the video, the experience of playing through and writing about the game warmed me up to it. With that, to me, the meaning of the title evolved too. I probably won't change it and I can't think of a better one anyway :v •Trans rights •I made this video because I wanted to •It's that long because I wanted it to be that long •I don't know if I'll make more •If I do I'll try to make them good •Mistakes are valuable too •Aim for the top •Drink water •I love ya
Being compared to Demo's pretty apt. If you're this funny and informative without serious editing down of your scripts I'm genuinely excited to see how you'll grow as a creator. I really do hope you choose to keep going. It's extremely rare to find someone that's this fun to listen to and heck if you ended up opening a Patreon I'd happily chuck a few dollars your way to see you keep going. Also fuck yeah for the trans rights!
I’ve lost count how many times I’ve watched this and it still hits every time. This video is so damn good. Countless nights (like tonight) I put it on to fall asleep to and usually end up watching all or most of it 😅
This video will not stop showing up in my autoplay, hell i was watching Defunctland then youtube ups and makes me watch Steak again. I unintentionally sleep to this video every week.
"You would be excused for thinking that this is the last time Drebin shows up" He has a monkey, a coin, a catchphrase and does magic tricks. Of course Kojima would keep him around for the entire game
@@itihaas6557 Or three and a half hours of analysis managed to go completely over your head, that is if you even bothered to watch the video in the first place.
In 2016, I was at an anime convention where Khary Payton, Drebin's VA, was attending as one of the guests. Lo and behold, he's there selling autographed Drebin photos and I just had to ask him what the hell was up with the B&B Corps backstory part in the script. From his perspective the script reading and acting was really well done and he was enthusiastic about what he was saying and referencing. Then...Laughing Octopus' lines appeared. And midway through a take, he stops and asks "What the hell is this? What am I reading? This a joke?" Nope. Was straight from Kojima himself. "How the hell does this character suddenly know this? Why does he know this? Why is this important to the player?" He was told yet again, from Kojima himself. Read the lines and ignore it. Did his job wonderfully, but years later at that con, the baffled look on his face sticks with me whenever I play, or watch reviews of MGS4.
that makes the situation even funnier. even as a kid I had no idea why suddenly I (or Snake to be exact) needed a background exposition on the boss I just killed. every other game in the franchise knew how to naturally insert characters backstory (especially if you're on the "bad" side), so knowing the VA himself couldn't take this seriously is beyond funny. ps his monkey and raiden share the same mo cap actor, and that's a backstory I would rather like know than any of the B&B's
Sometimes actors don't know what they're getting into as Peter Weller is still baffled by Buckaroo Banzai. As for Payton, I'd have enjoyed hearing about his time on Deus Ex.
if they let us save the B&B units, and let snake or rose rehabilitate them that would be interesting. Having them killed off makes them as forgettable as the FROGS.
It would have been difficult to implement with any depth, since you can kill or save each B&B as they appear. If devs wanted them to have a conversation with the player or with each other, to talk and interact with other characters during cutscenes, or to appear at different points in the game to assist you, there are potentially 14 combinations or more depending on how a developer writes them (e.g 'nanomachines turn their mind into a single unit'). e.g if x = a B&B you killed, and 1,2,3,4 are each member of the B&B Unit, then combos look like: xxxx (all killed) 1234 (all saved) 1xxx x2xx xx3x xxx4 12xx 1x3x 1xx4 x2xx x23x x2x4 xx3x xx34
RockyPixel Hey, I ain't complaining There are the *EMBERS* of a fire that's gone *OUT* BUT I CAN STILL FEEL THE HEAT ON MY SKIN, THIS MESS THAT WE'RE IN, YOU AND I
That scene (you know which one, BANG) will never be the same in my eyes again. I used to think it was hilarious and baffling, mostly stupid, with the highlight of unironic cool being Ocelot. Now, Eva protecting Solidus and Snake getting burned protecting her, and that entire final 45 second or so stretch of cuts and shots at the end are the most incredible, epic shit I've ever seen. The music really kind of highlights Kojima's love for cinematic setpieces that ramp up in tension and end in a feverish climax (also see the scene of Sam and Igor's disastrous and terrifying corpse disposal gig, early in Death Stranding, which I would actually say is one of Kojima's most well-directed and artistically unique scenes he's ever done. I also haven't finished DS yet so no spoilers pls)
this comment is for my personal use: Intro: 0:00 Metal Gear Solid 4 Was A Mistake - The Disappearance of Fukushima: 3:54 Game Start: 13:01 Act 1: Liquid Sun: 16:10 Mission Briefing Act 1: 21:01 Gameplay: 24:44 Drebin: 28:51 Rat Patrol: 33:20 "The Hounds" - The Protomen: 36:52 Mission Briefing Act 2: 39:59 Sequel Dissonance: 41:46 Act 2: Solid Sun: 48:40 Mission Briefing Act 3: 1:08:07 Everything Is Nanomachines Now: 1:09:26 Mission Briefing Act 3 (cont.): 1:12:27 Act 3: Third Sun: 1:15:33 Everything Changes In Act 3: 1:22:54 "Light Up The Night" - The Protomen: 1:39:02 Mission Briefing Act 4: 1:44:53 Act 4: Twin Suns: 1:50:51 Naomi: 2:10:28 Manchild Antics: 2:15:29 Mission Briefing Act 5: 2:20:27 Act 5: Old Sun: 2:22:39 The Beauty And The Beast Unit: 2:34:08 Golden Boy: 2:39:32 Johnny Gets His Team Killed: 2:41:16 "The Stand (Man Or Machine)" - The Protomen: 2:48:09 Epilogue: Naked Sin: 2:53:20 Raiden: 2:54:50 Debriefing: Naked Son: 3:07:37 Solid Snake Is The Greatest Character In Video Game History: 3:17:07 In Conclusion: 3:22:20
You mentioning your perspective on the ending changing with your friend taking their own life really resonated with me, I had my perspective on it change as I grew older too. I played this game when I was a kid, and as a kid I always thought it should have ended with Snake killing himself, and I felt the fake out with Big Boss coming in to explain everything ruined the tone on an ending I overall enjoyed. Shortly after I graduated college my dad died and I essentially was thrown into adulthood without him to help me figure things out. Over the years I feel like I found my way and being a few years into a graduate program, I can't help but think about how I still don't know what I need to be doing and longing for him to be here just for reassurance. My relationship with my dad was complicated, we loved each other but as is in your early adulthood you argue about stuff that really doesn't matter, but you take it personally because you just don't have the same perspective as each other. Replaying this game and well, watching this video again (I know I'm not the only one who watches this at least once a year) I thought about what Kojima said in that interview, and how all Big Boss is doing is just really coming in and telling Snake how things are going to be okay. Hearing you go over Kojima's interview about losing his father at a young age, and how the ending is exactly that, just him having his dad tell him that he respects him as a man, just made me kind of go "Yeah, I get it". Anyways, great video, it's definitely one of the best on the platform
I wish raidens ending was more realistic. All the pain she put him through I think it would have been much better if he would have retorted with a “I’ll be here for him, not you” kind of thing. Cuz your right she’s gaslighting the shit out of him
@@hishkapish4817 they seem like they have a decent relationship, but obviously they can't be together for a while and Raiden has no qualms with flirting with Courtney (which I really can't blame him for, especially after all the crap he went through because of Rose)
But was Raiden that innocent? I mean, you blame Rose but her actions were justifiable. It was his decision at the first place to drown his sorrow, and pain in alcohol instead of taking therapy and fight with his past like a man.
@@TheKrowkaBoo he's obviously not, but between him and Rose, Raiden is ultimately the victim, and the whole "fake marriage, fake miscarriage" thing wasn't the first time Rose fucked him over, considering she entered his life at all with the intent to spy on him for the Patriots
>Gets on motorcycle >Tells her own clone son Snake to hang onto her waist >Starts motorcycle >Meditates for a full 8 seconds >Gives a big fuck off 3 minute speech while basically being spooned by her 76 year old son
@Travis Brink yes but didn't he grow inside her womb and wasn't he birthed by her like a son? I mean he's more her son than big boss's since he's just a clone of him but was actually birthed by her. Idk
Imagine you are preparing for perhaps your final act, and you are confronted by your inner self's desire to resolve unfinished business. Not everything has to act out as if it is scripted xD
There's a beautiful symmetry between Raiden in Rising and Gray Fox. I know it's tragic to see a character whose been through as much as Raiden turn back to violence. But Gray Fox's words sum up his motivation "Fighting was the only thing I was good at. But at least I faught for what I believed in." That's exactly Raiden in Rising. He's fighting for a better future so children don't have to go through the same thing as him.
And the best part is he succeeds, arguably he deals an even bigger blow to the military industrial complex than even Solid Snake when he erased the patriots. He also manages to use the wisdom Snake imparted onto him to simply not just throw his life away, he is putting his life on the line in combat, but now he does it knowing he has a home and a family to go back to, and that is just delicious.
@@Roler42 This is also something unique to him as a _Metal Gear_ protagonist; Raiden is the only protagonist that has a family and home he can reliably go to and be safe and at peace, something not even Solid Snake offered himself as he continued to travel the world to stop Metal Gears with Otacon and eventually Sunny. Despite embracing his violent past and partaking in brutal military combat, he’s finally at peace with himself and the world that made him.
“Then snake falls out Rex and starts screaming and starts yelling because he’s the dumbest man alive.” Is a quote that perfectly captures what makes this video so special somehow being so ernest, funny, bonkers, and beautiful while juggling all of that with some of the most amazing analysis I’ve ever heard. Thank you steak.
@@mercury2157 That part is right at the beginning of a scene. If you're skipping cutscenes, you'll see RAY go up in flames with Ocelot inside it, then we cut to black, and then Ocelot's just running away laughing at you with no context.
I always liked the touch of the "this game is 10 years old, I checked" pictures having a red thumbs down for _Do you like this video game?_ in the beginning at 0:22 and 1:38 until it changes into a green thumbs up at 3:16:04 near the end.
@@antzooma no, it works. If you are familiar with the game and skip cutscenes, you can beat it in a little over 3 hours, especially if you just plow through it. Speed runners have it down to 2 hours. This video is about 3 hrs 26mins. The presence of cutscenes in this video is irrelevant.
Also notice the fact that he had now given the game a positive rating, whereas at the start it was a negative rating. This video is all around pure genius.
I watch Pulp Fiction, The Departed, and Metal Gear Solid 4 Was A Mistake at least once every year. I leave a comment every time I watch it because I'm left in awe which I'm sure will be true 10 years from now. What a beastly documentary.
@@maddogkilla1 You guys and your accountability.....I would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't fer you meddling snoopers! 😆 Seriously though, since I left that comment I've found several other awesome videos on MGS games that are lengthy. Tetramorre has 2 vids on MGS 2 and 5, the latter being over 4 friggin' hours! Also, Futurasound Productions is making documentary-style vids on the series and has made the first 3 so far and they are GREAT! Yall gots to check these out! I don't know that any of them are better than this one,.but they're damn good for sure. So I'll just slide these vids across the table and assume we have ourselves an understanding, gentlemen?
Safest Sephiroth hahaha dude I shit you not, I’m literally in the middle of binging the show so that I can watch and understand that video lmfao it’s great though I’m loving it so far. Makes me wish I’d watched it when I was a kid and it was on haha
The most lasting effect this game has had on my life is that I sometimes text my brother “Oh wait! We’re on PS3™ System!” in response to questions he asks me, which is something I can’t really say about MGS 1-3 I guess 🤷♂️
"If you were writing a story about yourself, wouldn't you want it to have a happy ending?" - fucking incredible line. Great work and thank you for making this video!
That’s funny because I exhausted both those twos content lol. this guy was going to be my replacement but he barely has released anything even though he has great insight. Noah Gervais is another Anyone reading this should try. I had to get acclimated to him but he has interesting things to say.
I've watched this like 12 times over the last month. At first I was curious, then I disagreed, finally I was like "guy has a point". I now use it to fall asleep. Weird ride this year that lead me here.
It will never not be sad that this man dropped the single greatest video in TH-cam history and then quit a year later. It hurts to imagine all of the incredible video essays we could have access to if he was still here 😢
this comment is for my personal use: (I did not make it I copied it from someone else so I can find it easier) Intro: 0:00 Metal Gear Solid 4 Was A Mistake - The Disappearance of Fukushima: 3:54 Game Start: 13:01 Act 1: Liquid Sun: 16:10 Mission Briefing Act 1: 21:01 Gameplay: 24:44 Drebin: 28:51 Rat Patrol: 33:20 "The Hounds" - The Protomen: 36:52 Mission Briefing Act 2: 39:59 Sequel Dissonance: 41:46 Act 2: Solid Sun: 48:40 Mission Briefing Act 3: 1:08:07 Everything Is Nanomachines Now: 1:09:26 Mission Briefing Act 3 (cont.): 1:12:27 Act 3: Third Sun: 1:15:33 Everything Changes In Act 3: 1:22:54 "Light Up The Night" - The Protomen: 1:39:02 Mission Briefing Act 4: 1:44:53 Act 4: Twin Suns: 1:50:51 Naomi: 2:10:28 Manchild Antics: 2:15:29 Mission Briefing Act 5: 2:20:27 Act 5: Old Sun: 2:22:39 The Beauty And The Beast Unit: 2:34:08 Golden Boy: 2:39:32 Johnny Gets His Team Killed: 2:41:16 "The Stand (Man Or Machine)" - The Protomen: 2:48:09 Epilogue: Naked Sin: 2:53:20 Raiden: 2:54:50 Debriefing: Naked Son: 3:07:37 Solid Snake Is The Greatest Character In Video Game History: 3:17:07 In Conclusion: 3:22:20
Funny like the sniper guy "the end" in metal gear 3... you can kill him way before the boss fight when he's been wheeled in. You can snipe him it's so crazy and cool m.th-cam.com/video/LowUJdOxkB8/w-d-xo.html
@@MichaelPhillips-jw4bj I have never fought him because I realized he wasn't wheeled in during the cutscene, so i always shoot him right away. I keep forgetting to leave the area so the wheelchair doesn't take most of my health though.
Steak I want u to know I just watched this vid again to try and sleep while sick and had the most trippy horrific fever dream of my life. Thank you so much for the greatness you’ve brought into my life
How is it this man drops possibly the greatest MGS video essay ever conceived and just falls off the face of the Earth. Amazing. Watching it for the 3rd time in 2 years btw.
@@redshift912 would be a cool mod for somebody to create but I love the way mgs1 plays even if it’s seriously outdated. It just gives me resident evil vibes
When my girlfriend comes home from partying and asks, what i did this evening... "watching this video about a video game from a decade ago telling me it was a mistake"
I love so much about this video. The saddest thing about it is how a a 3.5 hour long video lead me to believe that their MUST be loads more content on your channel-- But all there is is about 1.5 hours of content that I need to ration-out over who knows how long. Please keep making content! You're really fantastic at it!
Hilarious that what he tries to get us to realize about Kojima's desire for the game. Metal Gear as a story (at the time of this game) was already beating a dead horse. It's over. It's okay that it's over. All good things come to an end. And they should end. The creator would be doing the same thing the game and Kojima himself is criticizing us for. We don't need to pour hours and hours over every little detail over all the games. I imagine he would love the recognition (deserved) for the quality and more views on his videos and more money blah blah blah. But that might not be the reason he made this video. It's much more poignant this way.
I know this video is, like, two years old by this point, but it has legitimately been a massive aid in helping me keep my sanity during a rough, messy breakup period. Corny as it is to admit it, it's helped a lot, even if I've watched it like six or seven times by now. Good lad, Steak.
@Joshua Dobson I discovered them when they released ACT II - Loved what they were doing with that retro 80s style and the themes of heroism. Still one of my favorites to listen to.
I’ve never played Metal Gear, but you’ve made me feel like I grew up alongside each character, then you stabbed them to death and pointed out how bad it all was, but also how it shouldn’t work, but does work, and I can’t tell what to think about the game, but I’ve been filled with new vigor to work on my art. Because if a game this big, this bad, and this hated can be simultaneously awesome and loved, maybe I have a chance out there.
Same, I've just finished this video and watching it over the weekend has really pumped me up creatively again out of a confidence slump. Seeing an artist or creative, especially one like Kojima, take such big swings and have so many ideas over half a dozen works created over a decade is just inspiring. Even if they don't all land, looking over the Metal Gear series always makes me feel a sense of wow.
Look up (MGS 3 movie) then (MG5) then (read about MG1 and 2) for Nes, then watch (MGS 1 and 2) movie in that order and ignore all the rest…. Your welcome.
*checks video length* yeah I'm not watching this. ok I'll watch a little (3 hours, 26 minutes and 53 seconds later...) shit i watched it all... and i think I need to watch it again.
Nothing, my dude, that game was actually trashy fun and not up its own ass, murdering its own narrative. Fans of the series will boast about how the series made daring changes between iterations, but then when they find themselves perturbed at one of those 'daring changes' it's suddenly a bridge too far and Metal Gear is NO LONGER best when it's actively trying to not be Metal Gear. I find it so difficult to take the "NOT MY METAL GEAR!" crowd seriously. They're right though - it's not theirs and it never was, it's understandable they'd be upset at finally realizing it. Steak is good for all types of bribing though. That's why we don't use it as currency.
@@fuzzydunlop7928 yeah, that game is amazing, it's flawed, but few games can boast having me hooked for over 300 hours or trying to have every single achievement, there are some bullshit missions but in general is a very enjoyable experience.
@@santeixeira9301 yeah, I'm 10 s ranks away from the last two achievements and oh boy it can get tedious, specially when you didn't complete the "listen to the 4 conversations" objectives.
One of the details I noticed in this video and that I love is that when he shows the date of mgs4 on the Google page thing underneath that there is a like and dislike button and at the beginning of the video it is on dislike but at the end of the video it's on like at I thought that was a really good detail and shows how his views change throughout the video
Djnerdyboy gotta say I can respect a person that can still take and accept criticism for something they love. More power to you, just don’t feel like you have to hate MGS4 now haha
@@wreday720 its not that hard, i watch a lot of videos of people hating peace walker and the phantom pain, my second favorite and favorite mgs games and the only thing i could say after watching was... i dont care i still love them
Strangely enough I'm just after doing the same thing, Loved the game, but I also loved how concise steak is in his analysis, this video is an absolute joy to watch
Ceceli 100% agree, a MGSV video would require a backpack of cocaine and a mile of conspiracy string just to get a glimpse of what the fuck was going on in MGSV writer's room.
I like Drebin for one reason only. It's Kojima's most out of place movie reference ever. Drebin strips the ID Locks off weapons for you, and is named after Frank Drebin, protagonist of a series of films spun off of the short lived TV Show, _Police Squad._ The name of the moves? _Naked Gun..._ like the ID locks. It's so dumb I adore it.
I remember that both when I first played MGS4 and then was reminded/given new insight by this video 3 years ago, that I too thought it extremely odd that every culture in the world secede basically everything to a single nanomachine manufacturer.... but nowadays the idea of Tencent and/or Disney and/or Google combining into a international super corporation that we all just accept because we are all too tired to argue about it honestly just seems like a decent prediction of the future technological trajectory
the shitpost in barkley shut up and jam gaiden where square enix merges with food corporation goya and also gets into arms manufacturing is probably, like, just going to happen
Americans are a rapidly spreading fascist disease. Just the fact garbage in this thread are trying to imply vaccines that saved us from collapsing even more are the same thing
So, it was at my third viewing that this video brought tears to my eyes. I don't know if it's just the quarantine, the fact that it's making my sleep schedule completely fucked or my current situation, even maybe a combination of all of this. But I'd like to leave my take: This was my first MGS game. It was, at the time, probably the best game I played, which made it all the more surprising when I learned that it was mostly renounced by most others. After playing and getting to know more about the others, while I do understand why that happened, it's still my favorite one. But I was never capable of expressing it until this was spelled out: the end scene and how it relates to the theme of fatherhood. I wouldn't say I had a bad life growing up, but my father was rather negligent and dismissive of my success. As a kid, 10 years ago, the whole scene where Raiden get's a family only made sense to me. It's his family, they are all meant to be together. But right now, having cut ties with my father, I can understand that it isn't true. Still, the fact that Snake happens to have actual recognition from his "father", it still gets me. Because, to be completely honest, the absence of such respect is why I cut it off with my own. So, in a sense, by making it so Snake got to the scene where Big Boss shows him respect, I got that respect too. Maybe it's just nostalgia, or the fact that it was the first MGS game I played, but 4 still is my favourite. Even if MGS3 is technically better, this will always hold a special part in my heart
You should never have to apologize for this game being your favorite. I don't think MGS3 is technically better than 4. I would say 4's camo system is a great technical improvement over the one in 3. And I still think MGS4 has some of the best moments in the franchise. There are obvious flaws in the game's writing but it's still a great game, so screw what people think. MGS2 is my favorite in the series and that game used to get shit on all the time. It's only recently become popular to like because it predicted the future, but the tough as nails gameplay and the sheer number of VR missions and extra content in MGS2 has always made it the franchise peak for me.
I think the best way I can describe it is that MGS4 is a bad ending to the Metal Gear video game franchise. But it is the right ending for the story of the world Metal Gear takes place in.
It's my second time watching the review, at he time MGS 4 came out I was super deep down the MGS rabbit hole 1 stunned me, ditto 2 and 3 was my joint favourite game ever with Redident Evil 4 Upon its release I couldn't have been more hyped and..... I was confused, disappointed and sometimes excited This review is perfect it so perfectly captures the feel of that time for me Its nostalgia and critique at a level that I haven't come across before, I assume I will watch this review again because its legitimately a piece of art in the field of critique(a rare thing) I want a video from him on MGS 3 and 2 it would be fascinating, he clearly has a deep love and respect for the franchise for the right reasons
What a coinsidence, today is exactly 6 years ago this video dropped! Meaning, 6 years later, I'm still revisiting it because of its mark it left on me and my love for MGS.
If there's anyone who's scrolled down to the comments just to see if this video is worth watching in spite of its length, it is. Watch it however makes it comfortable. Whether that's in a series of short pieces, or like watching 2 or 3 movies, or in one single marathon, it doesn't matter. You don't even need to care that deeply at Metal Gear Solid 4; what matters in this video is not the game itself, but how it lets you understand the person watching it. This video is not sluggishly paced, it just has a lot of meaningful things to say. The only way I could condense it is to remove the space between words, because every single part builds into how it creates an impression of who this person is, why this work matters to them, why they have the opinions they have on it, and why that even matters. Steak, if you ever read this comment, know that I don't care if you never a video this popular ever again, or if you make a hundred that completely surpass it. I will keep on watching them, loving them as I did the Cowboy Bebop video, and coming back here. I've watched this four times now, and this is not going to the last time. Keep on going, and do what you want to do, not what anyone else wants you to do. That's, to me, what makes this video so important. Whatever thing you choose to make the next video on, whether it's some random anime series, or a video game, or a sequel to this focusing on some other part of Metal Gear, the most important part isn't that work, it's that you chose it, and you found it important. That's what makes this video special.
I posted this to the mgs subreddit and they hated it. One complaint was about the length. He complained about length of video in a MGS sub. The irony gets me to this day.
@@aubreyskipper9642Nope, but Lara Cody voiced Lilah in later episodes. I think those were produced after MGS4, but before Loss, but don't quote me on that.
Welcome back. If you're anything like me, this isn't your first visit and you specifically came back to this video. Glad to see you, and enjoy the show again.
While I'm not a fan of some of the songs, this essay is beautifully edited and well narrated definitely my favorite MGS4 and MGS series as a whole critique out there.
I've seen this video about 30 times now. TH-cam puts it on every time I watch more than 4 or 5 gaming related videos in a row. Sometimes it'll be playing when I fall asleep, and it'll be on again when I wake up. Please make more.
On the Protomen's Bandcamp page, there's a review saying they were introduced to them by this video. Having never heard of this channel before then, and having watched every review on here at least twice since then, I am so glad they did. This video is an absolute masterpiece and I love it! The AMV's to Protomen tracks are definitely highlights but the whole thing is just incredible. I've watched it all the way through twice already, and I will do the same again.
I can't tell you how many times I've watched this video-and this introduced me to The Protomen too! I genuinely believe this is one of the greatest videos on TH-cam ever made.
I find it so utterly weird and bizarre how this 6 years old video ended up on my recommendations exactly when it just so happens that I started obsessively listening to The Protomen. I loved SO much that Light up the night scene.
Excellent, Steak. Age hasn't slowed you down one bit. For real, though, terrific video. I've watched it three times, and I love it a bit more every time. Can't wait for your next video in 2020!
I used to go in for work at 12:00 am. I actually didn’t start till three but it takes a while to bike seven miles. At work I moved boxes from one trailer to the next. Miserable stuff. I listened to this video about 100 times back then. I don’t know why but it just brought me into an interesting and nostalgic world. This video for some reason or another got me through tough times. Even now I still rewatch it and I don’t know why. The humor and editing is on a level I wish I could reach. If I ever pull the trigger and start a TH-cam channel it would be because of this. I even started listening to the proto men and got my roommates into it. It’s a good video. Thank you
I did the same thing when I was working overnight at a retail chain, resetting product sets. I watched this video once a day, every day, five days a week, for at least 6 months. Steak did an amazing job on this thing.
@@alexanderduluoz long story, but also by over coming extreme challenges we become strong as people. Physical strength is only so useful but once you’ve used that strength to over come something you thought was impossible you’ll stop seeing problems as impossible. Mountains become mole hills. Bonus points if you also as vain as me and then you get the added benefit of knowing you can do things others can’t.
GOD, I NEED more essays like this with comedy, sincerity, fun edits, and just generally show that they have a fucking pulse. If you ever wondered why this is SO rewatachable, it's because it has a "structured rambling" feeling, a term that doesn't exist but it does now, where it never feels like he's reading a script or droning on, yet he manages to remain casual and engaging. His voice, tone, and delivery is always on point. It's so impressive really. (It also helps that the topic is something he's REALLY passionate about) Just wanna let you know every day you upload is a good day.
this dude unlocked something in my brain when i found this video structured yapping is a thing you can do?? you can overthink what the devs wanted in a videogame like this?? this is awesome and then it mixed with my sonic autism
2:23:00 Fun fact, the random officer Mei Ling talks to was voiced and mocapped by Hideo Kojima in the Japanese version of the game, while he's voiced by Crispin "Sundowner" Freeman in the English version.
That segment with liquid on the boat shutting off all the guns with your music edit is extremely awesome dude. Not to mention everything else. This whole video must have took forever to finish. Words cannot express my astonishment. Well done!
Johnny was a genome soldier, that's the entire reason he was at Shadow Moses in MGS1. Now if memory serves, the genome project was some kind of bizarre super soldier attempt using gene therapy to adapt the subjects to have Snake/Big Boss's genetics (which is also why Johnny kinda looks a little bit like a really young Solid Snake). This would have been the PERFECT avenue to go to give him a reason to avoid the nanomachine injections. He's already been part of one shadowy fucked up government experiment so why shouldn't "mandatory nanomachine injections" stink the same way?
Bro that would have been a PERFECT direction to take his character. The fact that they didn’t use this or at least some variation of this is just another, if not one of the best examples of sequel dissonance like Steak described.
@@orcastrike7750 I personally wouldn't count Johnny's "I just hate needles" line as sequel dissonance. It's not that he diverts from the characterization of his past self in a way that doesn't make sense, the problem with the scene is that it's the exact opposite: Unlike the rest of MGS1's tertiary cast he remains 100% consistent with his joke character origin, and as a result we feel the sting when it's pointed out just how easy it would have been to use the moment as a basis to build something, _anything_ for him to stand on as a character instead of just milking him for another cheap laugh. It's like Steak mentions in his take on Raiden's ending, the line "I don't think you're meant to think about this hard enough to think that Rose did something wrong" really sticks with me here. The same logic definitely feels relevant to scenes where Johnny is present in that it definitely comes off as though Kojima probably never so much as pondered the concept of doing anything more with this character. The goals set for him were simply to make the player laugh, conveniently be able to save Meryl through sheer dumb luck, and subsequently have her decide he's husband material for probably no other reason than to pre-emptively make sure nobody asked whether she was gonna get with Snake.
This shit put me to sleep 3 times but everytime I woke up I went back to pick up where I left off. I'm not even smart enough to express how good this is. It's funny and thought provoking. Coming from the biggest MGS fan I'm not mad at all. 👍🏿
Can't believe 1:39:04 got me into Protomen, of all things. The entire video is some of the best this platform has to offer, but that particular scene is now stuck with me. It works so goddamn well, it's gloriously hammy. I doubt anyone reads comments this far down, but if you somehow get this down, Bentley, thanks. This video, and the Venture Bros. one, are some of the best goddamn things I've watched in recent memory.
Yeeeeeah....this was the first time I ever heard of The Protomen. And it makes me even happier than I'm obsessed with his video essay. I'm actually saving up the Venture Bros. video for a sad day I'll need some cheering up for.
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A video of this magnitude deserves a chapter select. Hope this helps you guys, this has been my favorite video for the past few months.
Intro: 0:00
Metal Gear Solid 4 Was A Mistake - The Disappearance of Fukushima: 3:54
Game Start: 13:01
Act 1: Liquid Sun: 16:10
Mission Briefing Act 1: 21:01
Gameplay: 24:44
Drebin: 28:51
Rat Patrol: 33:20
"The Hounds" - The Protomen: 36:52
Mission Briefing Act 2: 39:59
Sequel Dissonance: 41:46
Act 2: Solid Sun: 48:40
Mission Briefing Act 3: 1:08:07
Everything Is Nanomachines Now: 1:09:26
Mission Briefing Act 3 (cont.): 1:12:27
Act 3: Third Sun: 1:15:33
Everything Changes In Act 3: 1:22:54
"Light Up The Night" - The Protomen: 1:39:02
Mission Briefing Act 4: 1:44:53
Act 4: Twin Suns: 1:50:51
Naomi: 2:10:28
Manchild Antics: 2:15:29
Mission Briefing Act 5: 2:20:27
Act 5: Old Sun: 2:22:39
The Beauty And The Beast Unit: 2:34:08
Golden Boy: 2:39:32
Johnny Gets His Team Killed: 2:41:16
"The Stand (Man Or Machine)" - The Protomen: 2:48:09
Epilogue: Naked Sin: 2:53:20
Raiden: 2:54:50
Debriefing: Naked Son: 3:07:37
Solid Snake Is The Greatest Character In Video Game History: 3:17:07
In Conclusion: 3:22:20
I have started using this video, specifically, to introduce people to The Protomen via Light Up The Night. Thanks for making it that much easier to accomplish this task, and for highlighting the generally awesome taste in music Mr. Bentley possesses.
This chapter select needs a prologue
You’re pretty good!👍
@@krislee442 Pretty Good
You da real mvp
Raiden: Its like Beauty and the Beast
Rose: Don't say that. You're no beast.
Raiden: Who said I was the beast?
Based Raiden
beauty and the beast is about an abusive relationship, so honestly rose being the beast makes more sense than it being raiden.
hey police id like to report a murder
MGR Raiden would say something like that tbh
@@doloresmeatrestauranteater1451 Beauty and beast and is about ANY relationship, that is based around lust.
The fact, that you see only abuse in it, tells more about you, than content of the fairy tale.
3:00:13
The game that rebuilt Raiden and made him into an even more beloved character, Metal Gear Rising: Revengence, is now 10 years old. I checked.
Yes, I waited 4 years since this vid came out to make this joke. It was worth it.
Appreciate the dedication
thanks for checking
You’re the man now dog.
Fucking sad, 5 years that felt like 1 long bad developed year
My hat off to you.
Tfw you get a lapdance from an operative who immediately dies, you hear over comms "Snake that was Angry Armadillo, she was forced to eat cement as a child"
Almost spit out my damn drink 🤣
👑
"Snake, that operative you just took an empty Oil Drum from was Johnny 'Akiba' Sasaki, who farded and shidded and camed his way into this story"
Did you come up with this on your own? It's pretty good, got a big laugh out of me. Almost as good as the Jivin Gorilla text.
@@deathtoraiden2080 unfortunately no, I got it from Twitter
_Scene Selection_
*INTRODUCTION*
0:00 - 4:49 Preface/Opening Credits
4:50 - 13:01 The Disappearance of Tomokazu Fukushima
~ 10:03 - 10:35 real talk
13:01 - 16:10 Game Opening [Stress 9%]
*ACT 1*
16:10 - 40:00 LIQUID SUN [Stress 11% - 26%]
19:30 - 24:44 Flashback/Mission Briefing [Stress 10% - 18%]
~ 28:50 - 33:01 *Drebin* [Stress 22% - 23%]
+~ 36:53 - 39:06 The Hounds; Protomen AMV 1
*ACT 2*
40:06 - 48:40 Mission Briefing [Stress 26%]
~ 41:47 - 48:30 *Sequel Dissonance*
48:40 - 1:08:08 SOLID SUN [Stress 37% - 43%]
~ 53:33 - 59:57 (brief reintroduction/recap on Raiden, Rose and Campbell) [Stress 44% - 53%]
*ACT 3*
1:08:08 - 1:15:30 Mission Briefing [Stress 43% - 47%]
~ 1:09:27 - 1:12:26 *Everything is Nanomachines Now*
1:15:35 - 1:44:54 THIRD SUN [Stress 56% - 72%]
~ 1:20:22 - 1:28:20 *Everything Changes in Act 3* [Stress 65%]
~~ 1:20:55 - 1:22:26 real talk
~ 1:28:20 - 1:35:38 "MGS4 Shouldn't Have Been About Big Boss" [Stress 83%]
+~ 1:39:03 - 1:43:07 Light Up the Night; Protomen AMV 2
*ACT 4*
1:44:54 - 1:50:50 Mission Briefing [Stress 78%]
1:51:20 - 2:20:28 TWIN SUNS [Stress 74% - 80%]
~ 1:58:09 - 2:02:22 (brief comparison of sniper fights between Metal Gear Solid games) [Stress 77%]
~ 2:05:10 - 2:07:56 (briefer comparison of final fights between Metal Gear Solid games)
~ 2:10:29 - 2:15:30 *Naomi* [Stress 85%]
+~ 2:16:16 - 2:17:13 The Will of One; Protomen AMV 3
*ACT 5*
2:20:28 - 2:22:39 Mission Briefing [Stress 83%]
2:22:39 - 2:53:20 OLD SUN [Stress 89%]
~ 2:27:10 - 2:34:05 "Psycho Mantis is the Payoff" [Stress 93%]
~ 2:34:09 - 2:37:19 *The Beauty and Beast Unit* [Stress 97%]
~ 2:39:34 - 2:42:04 (Johnny "Golden Ass" Sasaki)
~ 2:44:39 - 2:48:08 (FoxAlive) [Stress 99%]
+~ 2:48:08 - 2:48:48 The Stand; Protomen AMV 4
~ 2:50:46 - 2:52:54 (final-final fight for real) [Stress: Unknown]
*EPILOGUE*
2:53:20 - 3:07:31 NAKED SIN [Stress 85%]
~ 2:54:45 - 3:03:02 *Raiden*
~ 3:03:02 - 3:07:31 ( -suicide ending- ) [Stress 95%]
3:07:31 - 3:13:33 NAKED SON/Debriefing [Stress: 100%]
3:13:33 - 3:22:20 Ending Retrospective
~ 3:17:08 - 3:20:14 *Solid Snake is the Greatest Character in Video Game History*
~ 3:20:14 - 3:22:20 (fathers and happy endings)
*IN CONCLUSION*
3:22:30 - 3:26:54 Postface/Ending Credits
~ 3:26:30 - 3:26:54 post-credits scene(s)
Thanks
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@@akapotatobrad This is a 3 year old video
Ah scene selection. The good ol days
You are a hero
Liquid ocelot running backwards shrugging and pointing is what made this game a 6/10 to a 9/10 when I originally played it.
I love how much of a little shithead he was in that scene
Best scene in the game bar none.
That cartoonishly meniacle laugh of his just sends me.
Ocelot is the single greatest antagonist in video game history.
@@sasaki999pro sends you what
@@forgot7ensends him to a mission of stopping his evil twin brother who mind controlled a russian spy
“We’ve got you surrounded! Come take your nanomachine shots!”
“I HATE THE WAR ECONOMY! I HATE THE WAR ECONOMY!”
>Johnny
I HATE NEEDLES! I HATE NEEDLES!
“Hate!?! War does many a favor, just give war a chance”
Based Johnny
@@scoopitywoop5665 >Step 1, make tesla coils (make them really big)
>Step 2, disguise tesla coils as Metal Gear around your compound
>Step 3, lure the PMCs to your compound
“I HATE THE WAR ECONOMY! I HATE THE WAR ECONOMY!”
Steak could have stopped at just making a "MGS 4 - Light Up The Night - AMV" but no, we ended up getting a masterpiece.
I would watch that on repeat! 🔁 💀
Johnny never getting any nanomachines and the whole “nanomachines suppressing everyone’s negative emotions that come from combat” means Johnny has just been rawdogging this whole thing emotionally, making him one of the hardest motherfuckers in mgs4
I'd dispute that but it'd go against a lot of the thematics of this game, and those happen to be the ones that actually kind of work
Honestly he should get his own spinoff game.
Makes sense. Only a real gangster can "fart, shit, and cum" their way into being a pivotal soldier in the act of changing the world.
@@GhostOfBilly it worked for Capone
@@epicentreofvideos2571 Case in point
Snake:"Raiden, you're still young, live a good life"
Raiden:"ok"
Raiden a few years later: RULES OF NATURE
Well he’s less young then
@@matthewgallaway3675 don't you mean younger? And also it's only like 3 years between mgs4 and mgr
@@pastaman7278 all I’m hearing is that I’m technically correct.
Raiden:"ok."
*suplexes metal gear cutely :3*
"Kojima seems like a smart guy" while showing the picture of his "Egg." tweet had me dying. So many brilliant edits and quick cutaways in this. Love this video.
*EGG*
hes a fart smella not a smart fella.
Fun fact: The geckos's first appearance was in Smash Bros. Brawl on the Shadow Moses stage 5 months before MGS 4 came out.
I thought you were bs'ing. But it is clear you checked.
@@dualblade14 I remember being so confused in Shadow Moses in SSB
The same way Roy's first appearance in Fire Emblem was in Super Smash Bros. Melee.
That poor boy.
@@HarmonicVector thought u meant roy campbell lol
@@dualblade14 "I checked"
"Metal Gear Solid 4 was a Mistake" was released 4 years ago.
*I CHECKED*
It's difficult to put into words exactly what changed with the wider evaluation of the series, but even if you really really love this video, it's hard to deny that video essays about the memes of Japanese games changed after it came out.
@@expunkstep7226 we cant know how youtube magic works exactly but i watched this video short time after it came out, it was around 50k views i think. I thought holy shit, three hours, who would watch this, before watching it lol. Point is after this i saw this multi hour essays published, and watched by millions. Probably its not like steak invented it but it might be a perfect storm moment.
@@expunkstep7226 One day, the whole video will be re-written like this
Dont worry, shes not pregnant.
*I CHECKED*
wow that’s so brave
This video is longer than all MGSV cutscenes combined.
And almost as long as 1 MGS4 cutscene.
Accurate
Good
MGSV has 6 hours worth of cutscenes, that's standard for the series that only MGS4 broke with it 9 hours worth of cutscenes.
Nope, completely wrong.
th-cam.com/video/WeV992m7L84/w-d-xo.html
@@Miyakolover
It was a joke but either way I meant cinematic cutscenes, which are like 3 hours total, not including in game dialogue.
The use of Protomen as a Liquid Ocelot theme here is INCREDIBLE. The Hounds as an introduction was electric.
The music during Occelot’s GUNS OFTHE PATRIOTS!! BANG! BANG! HAHAHA DIE!
hit every dramatic beat with every riff and chord change…
It was perfectly synced with the visuals!
Liquid Ocelot is a bit of a Dr. Wily type...
@@terpsidance. you know, I see the resemblance too!
i last played mgs4 like 10 years ago so this video has been a major trip down memory lane and seeing that scene again set to that music was just. amazing. that was already probably my favorite scene in MGS4 simply for the sheer coolness of it
i’ve never heard of Protomen before watching this video, but the song was used so well for the Guns of Patriots scene and i fucking love that song now 😂
What I gleaned from this is that MGS 4 was just one of those "last in the season" episodes of show where they bring back all the characters from the first season for literally no reason, but on a larger scale
The characters were brought back for a reason, just not good reasons
It's official. Metal Gear has video essays about it that are as long or longer than it's cutscenes.
GuyOnAChair definitely longer than the gameplay in MGS4 👀
@@JakeRuzi Unless you are DSP.
@@GuyOnAChair DSP is still relevant? Hold on let me show you my 479GB folder of DSP jokes!
@@eastlemon9477 Weak. Mine is 500GB.
@@GuyOnAChair Hold up. There's more?
"Johnny shidded and farded and camed his way into the story" oh my god I am crying
yep
What are you doing here?
Yo what are you doing in an MGS vid?
It's Russian Pyro!
an hero
1:39:02 THIS SEGMENT. What a masterpiece of a moment and how it perfectly fits the mayhem and absurdity of the whole scene. This song has become one of my all time favorites just by association with this madness ^^
Agreed! I was muttering "whatever" for hours up to this point in the game, but this scene brought me back on board. 'Oh! Ocelot isn't Liquid, he's a Solidus proxy. With STYLE!'
You should listen to the Protomen btw
Very good
@@lemmonboy6459The entire album this song comes from is pure rock orchestra, I fucking love it.
@@toro2812
BRO I KNOOOOOW 😩😩😩
The Stand (Man or Machine) put them FEELINGS in me
This song got me through the last shifts I had to do at a terrible job. And I knew it existed thanks to Steak!
God, can you imagine how powerful it would have been if Foxalive turned off all nano machines and THAT’S what killed Naomi instead? If Naomi went into this mission KNOWING she would be destroying the only thing keeping her alive and went through with it anyway for the greater good of the world and the next generation, and the kind of thematic moral sacrifice that would represent in tandem with the original ending where snake dies? Or even if turning off the nano machines was somehow the thing that killed the dangerous foxdie in Snake so that Naomi’s sacrifice ALSO saved Snake’s life along with the lives and freedom and personal identities of everyone else?
....Why can I hear Steak say this comment?
This comment deserves 400x more upvotes
Super interesting idea
Damn..
Comments like this and a few others I’ve seen that offer alternative directions for characters to have been taken in make me wish someone would undertake trying to rewrite this games story, taking these ideas into account
No, just have her kill herself in the stupidest way imaginable in the MGS universe for the sake of poetry (making Otacon cry over a dead woman he loved for the third time).
To address some post- algorithm bump comments:
•To everyone who watched this video to the end, thanks for hearing me out
•To those who didn't I don't blame you I hope you made good use of your four hours elsewhere
•I recorded the footage in 2017 and scripted, recorded and edited the whole thing over the summer of 2018 so full process was around a year but 90% of the work was done over three months
•This video was commissioned by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to make video essays a less appealing medium and improve Japan's declining birth rate.
•I talk that quickly because I'm addicted to caffeine and I like fast paced videos so I'm sorry if I'm hard to follow
•I really admire Kojima and I think he's an incredible talent but I also think his work is very flawed which is why it interests me enough to want to write a video this long about it
•I'm not demo I'm pretty sure demo edited his scripts
•The Protomen segments made it so I can't make any money off this video
•I still don't regret adding them
•I know the title will rub some people the wrong way. It's clickbaity and reads more negatively than I actually feel about the game, but the video was basically written with that title in mind from the beginning. As I state in the video, the experience of playing through and writing about the game warmed me up to it. With that, to me, the meaning of the title evolved too. I probably won't change it and I can't think of a better one anyway :v
•Trans rights
•I made this video because I wanted to
•It's that long because I wanted it to be that long
•I don't know if I'll make more
•If I do I'll try to make them good
•Mistakes are valuable too
•Aim for the top
•Drink water
•I love ya
You’re exceedingly talented. Just remember that! :D
Being compared to Demo's pretty apt. If you're this funny and informative without serious editing down of your scripts I'm genuinely excited to see how you'll grow as a creator.
I really do hope you choose to keep going. It's extremely rare to find someone that's this fun to listen to and heck if you ended up opening a Patreon I'd happily chuck a few dollars your way to see you keep going.
Also fuck yeah for the trans rights!
You’re an incredibly talented videographer sir! If your passionate about it I encourage you to keep at it
Yeah you got quality content man! As a fan I'd love to see more from you. Maybe mgs2? Just an idea. Cheers mate. 🥂
do more pls
''Snake...''
''Raiden!''
''Europe.''
dies instantly
that part always catches me off guard each time i watch it and i love it
I always thought he said "You're up!"
@@jdalbiac this match will get red hot
"Europe" **dies of cringe**
I come back to this video probably once a year and every time the "I checked" bit hits just as hard as the last time. Thank you.
I’ve lost count how many times I’ve watched this and it still hits every time. This video is so damn good. Countless nights (like tonight) I put it on to fall asleep to and usually end up watching all or most of it 😅
I end up watching it every 3-6 months myself. It's my god standard for reviews, he clearly loves the series and is critical, but fair
This video will not stop showing up in my autoplay, hell i was watching Defunctland then youtube ups and makes me watch Steak again.
I unintentionally sleep to this video every week.
What part is that?
@@bradbeck2601me rn
"You would be excused for thinking that this is the last time Drebin shows up"
He has a monkey, a coin, a catchphrase and does magic tricks. Of course Kojima would keep him around for the entire game
3hrs+ ??? Man he must really pan this argument out...
*speaks like its already at 2x speed*
JESUS CHRIST THIS MAN HAS SOMETHING TO SAY
Or he talks a lot without saying anything.
Sounds like cafeine addict high.
@@itihaas6557 Or three and a half hours of analysis managed to go completely over your head, that is if you even bothered to watch the video in the first place.
@@fuzzydunlop7928 Most people wouldn't watch a 3 hour video non-stop anyway.
@@filipeflower I ain't most people
In 2016, I was at an anime convention where Khary Payton, Drebin's VA, was attending as one of the guests. Lo and behold, he's there selling autographed Drebin photos and I just had to ask him what the hell was up with the B&B Corps backstory part in the script. From his perspective the script reading and acting was really well done and he was enthusiastic about what he was saying and referencing. Then...Laughing Octopus' lines appeared. And midway through a take, he stops and asks "What the hell is this? What am I reading? This a joke?" Nope. Was straight from Kojima himself. "How the hell does this character suddenly know this? Why does he know this? Why is this important to the player?" He was told yet again, from Kojima himself. Read the lines and ignore it. Did his job wonderfully, but years later at that con, the baffled look on his face sticks with me whenever I play, or watch reviews of MGS4.
That’s wild
Beyond epic.
that makes the situation even funnier. even as a kid I had no idea why suddenly I (or Snake to be exact) needed a background exposition on the boss I just killed. every other game in the franchise knew how to naturally insert characters backstory (especially if you're on the "bad" side), so knowing the VA himself couldn't take this seriously is beyond funny.
ps his monkey and raiden share the same mo cap actor, and that's a backstory I would rather like know than any of the B&B's
Sometimes actors don't know what they're getting into as Peter Weller is still baffled by Buckaroo Banzai. As for Payton, I'd have enjoyed hearing about his time on Deus Ex.
Khary Payton is a champ va. Honestly that may be the reason a part of me kinda liked Drebbib
if they let us save the B&B units, and let snake or rose rehabilitate them that would be interesting. Having them killed off makes them as forgettable as the FROGS.
It would have been difficult to implement with any depth, since you can kill or save each B&B as they appear. If devs wanted them to have a conversation with the player or with each other, to talk and interact with other characters during cutscenes, or to appear at different points in the game to assist you, there are potentially 14 combinations or more depending on how a developer writes them (e.g 'nanomachines turn their mind into a single unit').
e.g if x = a B&B you killed, and 1,2,3,4 are each member of the B&B Unit, then combos look like:
xxxx (all killed)
1234 (all saved)
1xxx
x2xx
xx3x
xxx4
12xx
1x3x
1xx4
x2xx
x23x
x2x4
xx3x
xx34
Also the b&b squad should have been both a mix between men and women, and they should have told their own stories.
Drebin is cancer on this game.
You don't kill them off unless you want to kill them off lol
I get the feeling this was an elaborate ruse to show your Protomen AMVs to as many people as possible.
And we should respect him for that. He's spreading the work of the gods.
For a frame after Light up the Night he basically says that in text form.
RockyPixel Hey, I ain't complaining
There are the *EMBERS* of a fire that's gone *OUT* BUT I CAN STILL FEEL THE HEAT ON MY SKIN, THIS MESS THAT WE'RE IN, YOU AND I
That scene (you know which one, BANG) will never be the same in my eyes again. I used to think it was hilarious and baffling, mostly stupid, with the highlight of unironic cool being Ocelot.
Now, Eva protecting Solidus and Snake getting burned protecting her, and that entire final 45 second or so stretch of cuts and shots at the end are the most incredible, epic shit I've ever seen.
The music really kind of highlights Kojima's love for cinematic setpieces that ramp up in tension and end in a feverish climax (also see the scene of Sam and Igor's disastrous and terrifying corpse disposal gig, early in Death Stranding, which I would actually say is one of Kojima's most well-directed and artistically unique scenes he's ever done. I also haven't finished DS yet so no spoilers pls)
And why not? They’re GREAT AMVs that sell the scenes they’re put over extremely well.
this comment is for my personal use:
Intro: 0:00
Metal Gear Solid 4 Was A Mistake - The Disappearance of Fukushima: 3:54
Game Start: 13:01
Act 1: Liquid Sun: 16:10
Mission Briefing Act 1: 21:01
Gameplay: 24:44
Drebin: 28:51
Rat Patrol: 33:20
"The Hounds" - The Protomen: 36:52
Mission Briefing Act 2: 39:59
Sequel Dissonance: 41:46
Act 2: Solid Sun: 48:40
Mission Briefing Act 3: 1:08:07
Everything Is Nanomachines Now: 1:09:26
Mission Briefing Act 3 (cont.): 1:12:27
Act 3: Third Sun: 1:15:33
Everything Changes In Act 3: 1:22:54
"Light Up The Night" - The Protomen: 1:39:02
Mission Briefing Act 4: 1:44:53
Act 4: Twin Suns: 1:50:51
Naomi: 2:10:28
Manchild Antics: 2:15:29
Mission Briefing Act 5: 2:20:27
Act 5: Old Sun: 2:22:39
The Beauty And The Beast Unit: 2:34:08
Golden Boy: 2:39:32
Johnny Gets His Team Killed: 2:41:16
"The Stand (Man Or Machine)" - The Protomen: 2:48:09
Epilogue: Naked Sin: 2:53:20
Raiden: 2:54:50
Debriefing: Naked Son: 3:07:37
Solid Snake Is The Greatest Character In Video Game History: 3:17:07
In Conclusion: 3:22:20
You da real mvp
Well done. I would only add one time stamp, 1:47:35, and only because it’s my favorite part.
@@schizophrenic_AI haha, yeah that part got me too, also idioteque 🎧
"It's always metalest before the gear"
-John Metalgear, protagonist of Metal Gear
Solid Steve.
@@Locke5413 Liquid Lakes
Sounds like something maxor would say.
every gear has its metal
"do me a Solid and Metal that Gear for me"
- David Metalgear, supporting character
You mentioning your perspective on the ending changing with your friend taking their own life really resonated with me, I had my perspective on it change as I grew older too. I played this game when I was a kid, and as a kid I always thought it should have ended with Snake killing himself, and I felt the fake out with Big Boss coming in to explain everything ruined the tone on an ending I overall enjoyed. Shortly after I graduated college my dad died and I essentially was thrown into adulthood without him to help me figure things out. Over the years I feel like I found my way and being a few years into a graduate program, I can't help but think about how I still don't know what I need to be doing and longing for him to be here just for reassurance.
My relationship with my dad was complicated, we loved each other but as is in your early adulthood you argue about stuff that really doesn't matter, but you take it personally because you just don't have the same perspective as each other. Replaying this game and well, watching this video again (I know I'm not the only one who watches this at least once a year) I thought about what Kojima said in that interview, and how all Big Boss is doing is just really coming in and telling Snake how things are going to be okay. Hearing you go over Kojima's interview about losing his father at a young age, and how the ending is exactly that, just him having his dad tell him that he respects him as a man, just made me kind of go "Yeah, I get it".
Anyways, great video, it's definitely one of the best on the platform
I wish raidens ending was more realistic. All the pain she put him through I think it would have been much better if he would have retorted with a “I’ll be here for him, not you” kind of thing. Cuz your right she’s gaslighting the shit out of him
if u wanna take metal gear rising as canon, u can kinda see it as their relationship didn't end up working out
@@hishkapish4817 they seem like they have a decent relationship, but obviously they can't be together for a while and Raiden has no qualms with flirting with Courtney (which I really can't blame him for, especially after all the crap he went through because of Rose)
Love seeing the recent comments. Love this video.
But was Raiden that innocent? I mean, you blame Rose but her actions were justifiable. It was his decision at the first place to drown his sorrow, and pain in alcohol instead of taking therapy and fight with his past like a man.
@@TheKrowkaBoo he's obviously not, but between him and Rose, Raiden is ultimately the victim, and the whole "fake marriage, fake miscarriage" thing wasn't the first time Rose fucked him over, considering she entered his life at all with the intent to spy on him for the Patriots
>Gets on motorcycle
>Tells her own clone son Snake to hang onto her waist
>Starts motorcycle
>Meditates for a full 8 seconds
>Gives a big fuck off 3 minute speech while basically being spooned by her 76 year old son
Just how Kojima likes it, creepy and awkwardly long.
how to spoon?
@Travis Brink yes but didn't he grow inside her womb and wasn't he birthed by her like a son? I mean he's more her son than big boss's since he's just a clone of him but was actually birthed by her.
Idk
@Travis Brink did you... watch this video... or play the game...
Imagine you are preparing for perhaps your final act, and you are confronted by your inner self's desire to resolve unfinished business. Not everything has to act out as if it is scripted xD
There's a beautiful symmetry between Raiden in Rising and Gray Fox. I know it's tragic to see a character whose been through as much as Raiden turn back to violence. But Gray Fox's words sum up his motivation "Fighting was the only thing I was good at. But at least I faught for what I believed in."
That's exactly Raiden in Rising. He's fighting for a better future so children don't have to go through the same thing as him.
And the best part is he succeeds, arguably he deals an even bigger blow to the military industrial complex than even Solid Snake when he erased the patriots.
He also manages to use the wisdom Snake imparted onto him to simply not just throw his life away, he is putting his life on the line in combat, but now he does it knowing he has a home and a family to go back to, and that is just delicious.
@@Roler42 I mean no, a bigger blow to the private military industry complex than destroying the patriots is to abolish PMC’s as a whole.
@@Roler42
This is also something unique to him as a _Metal Gear_ protagonist; Raiden is the only protagonist that has a family and home he can reliably go to and be safe and at peace, something not even Solid Snake offered himself as he continued to travel the world to stop Metal Gears with Otacon and eventually Sunny. Despite embracing his violent past and partaking in brutal military combat, he’s finally at peace with himself and the world that made him.
And in some ways raiden succeeds where gray fox fails....
“Then snake falls out Rex and starts screaming and starts yelling because he’s the dumbest man alive.” Is a quote that perfectly captures what makes this video so special somehow being so ernest, funny, bonkers, and beautiful while juggling all of that with some of the most amazing analysis I’ve ever heard. Thank you steak.
Hello darkness my old friend...
Also way lots much great music + sound edits too!
Truly a fan perspective of a lad who grew up loving this series to death and helped form their interest in other Eastern artforms.
That whole scene just kills me. Ocelot running and turning around to point and laugh like he's fucking 9 years old is unmatched comedy.
@@mercury2157 That part is right at the beginning of a scene. If you're skipping cutscenes, you'll see RAY go up in flames with Ocelot inside it, then we cut to black, and then Ocelot's just running away laughing at you with no context.
3 and a half hours of Metal Gear Solid 4 critique changes you
Still better than MGS(urvive).
Im about half an hour in
war... war has changed
9:55 into the video I've already had my mind blown by some of the harsh words against Kojima because they sound entirely fair
@@al112v4 anything is better than that trash heap.
The greatest trick that Fukushima ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't touch kids"
-Kevin Spacy's Career
@@Gadget-Walkmen He had it written all over his face too. Hiding in plain sight... the last place the world would ever look.
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled on me was banning me from the all you can eat pizza buffet”
@@dondraper3898 the fact he didn't arrested for that shit yet or brought to court REALLY irks the fuck out of me.
Draven Flores-Rios. ok. and how did he do that.
I always liked the touch of the "this game is 10 years old, I checked" pictures having a red thumbs down for _Do you like this video game?_ in the beginning at 0:22 and 1:38 until it changes into a green thumbs up at 3:16:04 near the end.
This video really is something else huh? I notice 3 new things every time I watch it
bruh how the fuck did you notice that how many watch throughs are you on
Hey, I saw you at the 1 hour mark. Well 59:58 actually. But still.
Never noticed that. Nice catch!
Can we just take a moment and reflect upon the fact this video is longer than mgs4 if you skip the cutscenes
this comment doesn't really work because this video is also the cutscenes
@@antzooma no, it works. If you are familiar with the game and skip cutscenes, you can beat it in a little over 3 hours, especially if you just plow through it. Speed runners have it down to 2 hours. This video is about 3 hrs 26mins. The presence of cutscenes in this video is irrelevant.
@@XanthosAcanthus they are relevant
@@antzooma how so?
@@antzoomalud shut ur goofy ass up
That "I checked" at 3:15:50 actually gave me the chills for some reason. After all that, that call back to the joke from 3 hours ago really got me.
Also notice the fact that he had now given the game a positive rating, whereas at the start it was a negative rating.
This video is all around pure genius.
Took me 3 days for me to get through the whole thing so it really hit for me
Wow I'm a total moron as well who furiously shit myself after that call back to a joke from 3 hours ago. Wow, pure genius.
We were oh so young
The character arc of Steak.
Drebin has three things going for him
1. He brings you weapons
2. He brings you exposition
3. Monke
A week ago
Nice
@@arseniipopov5366 poggy
Return to Monke
Suits vans hair shades flair oh yeah forgot about the monkey I really struggled to like this depression gray game of sadness
He's undoubtedly one of the worst characters/plot devices of the game and I friggin love him!
I watch Pulp Fiction, The Departed, and Metal Gear Solid 4 Was A Mistake at least once every year. I leave a comment every time I watch it because I'm left in awe which I'm sure will be true 10 years from now. What a beastly documentary.
Dude you left 2 comments under this video. We can check that now you know.
Its been about a year, where is your new comment dude? Youre not full of shit are you?
@@maddogkilla1 You guys and your accountability.....I would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't fer you meddling snoopers! 😆
Seriously though, since I left that comment I've found several other awesome videos on MGS games that are lengthy. Tetramorre has 2 vids on MGS 2 and 5, the latter being over 4 friggin' hours! Also, Futurasound Productions is making documentary-style vids on the series and has made the first 3 so far and they are GREAT! Yall gots to check these out! I don't know that any of them are better than this one,.but they're damn good for sure. So I'll just slide these vids across the table and assume we have ourselves an understanding, gentlemen?
@@johnnybensonitis7853 tl;dr
@@maddogkilla1 Ah shit, my bad! I forgot who a portion of Steak's fanbase as well as MGS 4 were.
6 years. I checked.
This is longer than endgame
And better
titanic: am i a joke to you?
lol i love u guys.
Oh my god it is
tru
Hopefully this dude has spent the last year and a half making a Metal Gear Solid 2 is a masterpiece video.
Harrison McKinney oh my fucking god I could die happy
He made a really great cowboy Bebop video after this, you should give it a watch!
Safest Sephiroth hahaha dude I shit you not, I’m literally in the middle of binging the show so that I can watch and understand that video lmfao it’s great though I’m loving it so far. Makes me wish I’d watched it when I was a kid and it was on haha
A Convenient Myth I could never get into it when I was younger idk why
Who do I have to suck off to make this happen
The most lasting effect this game has had on my life is that I sometimes text my brother “Oh wait! We’re on PS3™ System!” in response to questions he asks me, which is something I can’t really say about MGS 1-3 I guess 🤷♂️
Lmfao
That is hilarious. 🤣
"If you were writing a story about yourself, wouldn't you want it to have a happy ending?" - fucking incredible line. Great work and thank you for making this video!
Do more shit like this. I need overly long analysis with a sense of humor in my life. Seriously
Check out TehSnakerer - he's basically this guy but British.
MauLer
That’s funny because I exhausted both those twos content lol. this guy was going to be my replacement but he barely has released anything even though he has great insight. Noah Gervais is another Anyone reading this should try. I had to get acclimated to him but he has interesting things to say.
The Critical Drinker
DJ Peach Cobbler has shorter content but it's good. Jacob Gellar does some fantastic longform videos
I've watched this like 12 times over the last month. At first I was curious, then I disagreed, finally I was like "guy has a point". I now use it to fall asleep. Weird ride this year that lead me here.
dude, fucking same. i don't know what makes this so rewatchable/good to have playing in the background
ainsley toledo definitely to do with presentation. I feel like I’m relaxing in a lounge when I watch this video.
Ive watched the whole thing twice and use it as a excellent ambience sound when on a road trip or art project. Its like vibing with a bro.
@@micpere1991 and when he yells or geeks out it has the same effect it would in live conversation
I finished the game in like 3 to 2 days Like Bruh I Mean is Mgs 4 bad cause I dont think so
When you make review about game that was made 10 years ago
"kept you waiting huh?"
Good one !!
It will never not be sad that this man dropped the single greatest video in TH-cam history and then quit a year later. It hurts to imagine all of the incredible video essays we could have access to if he was still here 😢
He just posted a video on Scavengers Reign
@@TheOneShotWunda WHAT
@@Scraxivele you jinxed it into existence with this comment lol
@@TheOneShotWunda we’re all welcome I guess 😂
this comment is for my personal use:
(I did not make it I copied it from someone else so I can find it easier)
Intro: 0:00
Metal Gear Solid 4 Was A Mistake - The Disappearance of Fukushima: 3:54
Game Start: 13:01
Act 1: Liquid Sun: 16:10
Mission Briefing Act 1: 21:01
Gameplay: 24:44
Drebin: 28:51
Rat Patrol: 33:20
"The Hounds" - The Protomen: 36:52
Mission Briefing Act 2: 39:59
Sequel Dissonance: 41:46
Act 2: Solid Sun: 48:40
Mission Briefing Act 3: 1:08:07
Everything Is Nanomachines Now: 1:09:26
Mission Briefing Act 3 (cont.): 1:12:27
Act 3: Third Sun: 1:15:33
Everything Changes In Act 3: 1:22:54
"Light Up The Night" - The Protomen: 1:39:02
Mission Briefing Act 4: 1:44:53
Act 4: Twin Suns: 1:50:51
Naomi: 2:10:28
Manchild Antics: 2:15:29
Mission Briefing Act 5: 2:20:27
Act 5: Old Sun: 2:22:39
The Beauty And The Beast Unit: 2:34:08
Golden Boy: 2:39:32
Johnny Gets His Team Killed: 2:41:16
"The Stand (Man Or Machine)" - The Protomen: 2:48:09
Epilogue: Naked Sin: 2:53:20
Raiden: 2:54:50
Debriefing: Naked Son: 3:07:37
Solid Snake Is The Greatest Character In Video Game History: 3:17:07
In Conclusion: 3:22:20
this should be pinned imo
at the solid snake is the best video game character ever
who is the "king" and what game is he from
@@The-Big-Boss
Katamari Damacy
@@machiiiiiiiiii I see
You are a great man
can't wait for 2028 comments saying "this video came out 10 years ago. I checked."
Don't tempt me.
This comment came out 1 month ago. I checked.
Already made one like this
What we used to watch media on ten years ago
!remind me 7 years
Not many people know this;
You can hide from Vamp during his boss fight. And sneak up behind him to instant kill him with the syringe.
I can confirm
How?
Funny like the sniper guy "the end" in metal gear 3... you can kill him way before the boss fight when he's been wheeled in. You can snipe him it's so crazy and cool m.th-cam.com/video/LowUJdOxkB8/w-d-xo.html
@@MichaelPhillips-jw4bj I have never fought him because I realized he wasn't wheeled in during the cutscene, so i always shoot him right away. I keep forgetting to leave the area so the wheelchair doesn't take most of my health though.
Fuck that shit, I'm using the Gun Del Sol
Steak I want u to know I just watched this vid again to try and sleep while sick and had the most trippy horrific fever dream of my life. Thank you so much for the greatness you’ve brought into my life
How is it this man drops possibly the greatest MGS video essay ever conceived and just falls off the face of the Earth. Amazing. Watching it for the 3rd time in 2 years btw.
The Patriots silenced him
I stopped keeping track of how many times I've watched this lol. Not to mention the times I put it on to fall asleep to.
That Cowboy Bebop video also slaps but godamn right after the patriots got him
Maybe he got in a car accident or something and died
he's still active on Twitter
1:27:59 "With so many wars being waged..."
*STOP TALKING!!!!!*
That made me AND my 3 year old laugh out loud
@@walterjeffreys40 why are you watching this with your 3 year old, it's fairly graphic in parts
@@nataliecameron she was just hanging out next to me playing, but I had the volume up, and I started laughing so she did too
this video sells metal gear solid 4 more than it tears it down
@Asvolies Harvem mg5 was my first and got me into the series loved it
@Asvolies Harvem I don’t play mg5 for the story just gameplay
@@miketrujillo3677 Same, except after playing the others, MGS5 has become one of my least favourites
Wish someone would remake 1 in the 5 engine
@@redshift912 would be a cool mod for somebody to create but I love the way mgs1 plays even if it’s seriously outdated. It just gives me resident evil vibes
Hey it's me. Solid Steve.
Hey its solid steve
Oh shit, it's Solid Steve.
Holy fucking shit
No!! That is not solid Steve
Jesus Christ, it's Solid Steve.
When my girlfriend comes home from partying and asks, what i did this evening... "watching this video about a video game from a decade ago telling me it was a mistake"
Good one lol...I feel like I'm not going to get those 3 hours back
@@healinghusky7754 wasnt it worth it tho
@@baccarah7010 I loved the video I was just saying that other part as a joke
Why didn't u go with her lmao
@@statiq1941 i was watching a Video about mgs4
After listening to you for 3 hours straight, I feel like we're friends
Honestly, i feel a deep personal connection with everyone who watched this through.
parasocial
I feel the same lol
like the best of friends......
This. You get it.
“If you were writing a story about yourself, wouldn’t you want it to have a happy ending?” What a beautiful line.
Yeah man just all around really quality stuff
I wouldn’t
to answer the question, nah
Neil druckmann: hehe NO
Nah, let ending be as it should. I don't know the ending to my story so I just go with the flow.
5 years later, I still consider this to be the definitive analysis of this franchise
I love so much about this video.
The saddest thing about it is how a a 3.5 hour long video lead me to believe that their MUST be loads more content on your channel--
But all there is is about 1.5 hours of content that I need to ration-out over who knows how long.
Please keep making content! You're really fantastic at it!
Welcome to the club, pal.. I'm on my fourth time through. Figures he would disappear when we need him most.
@@jamesoclaire4512 He's the hero we need, but do not deserve.
If you're looking for more MGS content in general futurasound productions is great if a bit dry in humor.
All we wanted was 10 more hours covering the amazingness of the first three MGS games, and a 4 hour essay on 5...
Hilarious that what he tries to get us to realize about Kojima's desire for the game. Metal Gear as a story (at the time of this game) was already beating a dead horse. It's over. It's okay that it's over. All good things come to an end. And they should end. The creator would be doing the same thing the game and Kojima himself is criticizing us for. We don't need to pour hours and hours over every little detail over all the games. I imagine he would love the recognition (deserved) for the quality and more views on his videos and more money blah blah blah. But that might not be the reason he made this video. It's much more poignant this way.
I know this video is, like, two years old by this point, but it has legitimately been a massive aid in helping me keep my sanity during a rough, messy breakup period. Corny as it is to admit it, it's helped a lot, even if I've watched it like six or seven times by now.
Good lad, Steak.
Hope you're good bro. Remember, you're pretty good
and it has some pretty bitchin music from the protomen.
Hope all’s well man!
@Joshua Dobson I discovered them when they released ACT II - Loved what they were doing with that retro 80s style and the themes of heroism. Still one of my favorites to listen to.
videos like this are the best, brutalmoose might be something you like as well
Not only did he create one of the best long video essays I’ve had the joy of watching, but he listed all the music used in order.
2:54:50?
@@FjreHazard Rules of Nature, from Metal Gear Rising Revengeance's ost
@@kiwaminski thanks.
Do you know the one at 1:09:27?
@@strictlybananas ROBOTMAN by the pillows
I’ve never played Metal Gear, but you’ve made me feel like I grew up alongside each character, then you stabbed them to death and pointed out how bad it all was, but also how it shouldn’t work, but does work, and I can’t tell what to think about the game, but I’ve been filled with new vigor to work on my art.
Because if a game this big, this bad, and this hated can be simultaneously awesome and loved, maybe I have a chance out there.
Exact same thing with me
Metal gear is just such a fundamentally brilliant series that even when it’s bad, it’s still kinda camp.
Same, I've just finished this video and watching it over the weekend has really pumped me up creatively again out of a confidence slump. Seeing an artist or creative, especially one like Kojima, take such big swings and have so many ideas over half a dozen works created over a decade is just inspiring. Even if they don't all land, looking over the Metal Gear series always makes me feel a sense of wow.
I haven't read your commet, but I completely agree with everything you said
Look up (MGS 3 movie) then (MG5) then (read about MG1 and 2) for Nes, then watch (MGS 1 and 2) movie in that order and ignore all the rest…. Your welcome.
*checks video length*
yeah I'm not watching this.
ok I'll watch a little
(3 hours, 26 minutes and 53 seconds later...)
shit i watched it all...
and i think I need to watch it again.
We all knew where it would end after the first line.
What do I have to do to get a lil vid for mgs5?
Steak?
Steak!?
Steak!!!!
Nothing, my dude, that game was actually trashy fun and not up its own ass, murdering its own narrative. Fans of the series will boast about how the series made daring changes between iterations, but then when they find themselves perturbed at one of those 'daring changes' it's suddenly a bridge too far and Metal Gear is NO LONGER best when it's actively trying to not be Metal Gear. I find it so difficult to take the "NOT MY METAL GEAR!" crowd seriously. They're right though - it's not theirs and it never was, it's understandable they'd be upset at finally realizing it. Steak is good for all types of bribing though. That's why we don't use it as currency.
@@fuzzydunlop7928 yeah, that game is amazing, it's flawed, but few games can boast having me hooked for over 300 hours or trying to have every single achievement, there are some bullshit missions but in general is a very enjoyable experience.
@@javierortiz82 )ĥ
@@javierortiz82 sadly the episode 2 with all those replay of mission was so shity and not memorable. But the recon was amazing.
@@santeixeira9301 yeah, I'm 10 s ranks away from the last two achievements and oh boy it can get tedious, specially when you didn't complete the "listen to the 4 conversations" objectives.
Well this is brilliant.
You've earned your new title of:
Solid Steak
Naked steak has earned the title of Big Beef
What about liquid smoked steak
Psycho Meatis
Solidus Steak
@@chrismunoz7859 That's what we in the business call "Well Done"
The Xavier Renegade Angel reference is just... *chefs kiss* excellent my man.
One of the details I noticed in this video and that I love is that when he shows the date of mgs4 on the Google page thing underneath that there is a like and dislike button and at the beginning of the video it is on dislike but at the end of the video it's on like at I thought that was a really good detail and shows how his views change throughout the video
Just watched a 3 hour video shitting on my second favourite game of all time, and my favourite metal gear game.
Loved every second
Djnerdyboy gotta say I can respect a person that can still take and accept criticism for something they love. More power to you, just don’t feel like you have to hate MGS4 now haha
@@wreday720 its not that hard, i watch a lot of videos of people hating peace walker and the phantom pain, my second favorite and favorite mgs games and the only thing i could say after watching was... i dont care i still love them
jeff blacklight it’s not that it’s hard, it’s just that there’s not enough people willing to see or even entertain different points of view
Strangely enough I'm just after doing the same thing, Loved the game, but I also loved how concise steak is in his analysis, this video is an absolute joy to watch
I also loved it so much, definitely second favorite
This video is a fucking masterpiece. It actively makes Metal Gear Solid 4 a better game. The whole franchise is enhanced because this video exists.
totally agreed
Same, though I probably will never play 4 because it PS3 exclusively.
I just finished watching the whole video and I can only think: where is this dude's video on MGS5?
@@thunderring8056 If you've got a strong enough rig, the RPCS3 emulator can in fact run the game. Look into it if you ever feel bored.
Ceceli 100% agree, a MGSV video would require a backpack of cocaine and a mile of conspiracy string just to get a glimpse of what the fuck was going on in MGSV writer's room.
First video that I watched from him glad to see its not some guy hating on it but is giving it tough love and criticism and not being a asshole
That's what it is: but so many idiorts don't seem to realize that, because they don't actually watch it and leave hate.
I like Drebin for one reason only.
It's Kojima's most out of place movie reference ever. Drebin strips the ID Locks off weapons for you, and is named after Frank Drebin, protagonist of a series of films spun off of the short lived TV Show, _Police Squad._ The name of the moves? _Naked Gun..._ like the ID locks. It's so dumb I adore it.
My god...
Wow.. Yeah the reason I love watching videos like this is because for whatever reason I am SO BAD at noticing stuff like that... 😅🤦♀️
That is so fucking bizarre omfl 😂
I remember that both when I first played MGS4 and then was reminded/given new insight by this video 3 years ago, that I too thought it extremely odd that every culture in the world secede basically everything to a single nanomachine manufacturer.... but nowadays the idea of Tencent and/or Disney and/or Google combining into a international super corporation that we all just accept because we are all too tired to argue about it honestly just seems like a decent prediction of the future technological trajectory
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the shitpost in barkley shut up and jam gaiden where square enix merges with food corporation goya and also gets into arms manufacturing is probably, like, just going to happen
I'm terminal and this is one of the dumbest comments I've ever read, and will now be the last. Goodbye
@@gyrasolune5436 doesn't general electric _already_ manufacture pretty much anything that can be manufactured, from dishwashers to nuclear reactors?
Americans are a rapidly spreading fascist disease. Just the fact garbage in this thread are trying to imply vaccines that saved us from collapsing even more are the same thing
So, it was at my third viewing that this video brought tears to my eyes. I don't know if it's just the quarantine, the fact that it's making my sleep schedule completely fucked or my current situation, even maybe a combination of all of this. But I'd like to leave my take:
This was my first MGS game. It was, at the time, probably the best game I played, which made it all the more surprising when I learned that it was mostly renounced by most others. After playing and getting to know more about the others, while I do understand why that happened, it's still my favorite one. But I was never capable of expressing it until this was spelled out: the end scene and how it relates to the theme of fatherhood. I wouldn't say I had a bad life growing up, but my father was rather negligent and dismissive of my success. As a kid, 10 years ago, the whole scene where Raiden get's a family only made sense to me. It's his family, they are all meant to be together. But right now, having cut ties with my father, I can understand that it isn't true. Still, the fact that Snake happens to have actual recognition from his "father", it still gets me. Because, to be completely honest, the absence of such respect is why I cut it off with my own. So, in a sense, by making it so Snake got to the scene where Big Boss shows him respect, I got that respect too.
Maybe it's just nostalgia, or the fact that it was the first MGS game I played, but 4 still is my favourite. Even if MGS3 is technically better, this will always hold a special part in my heart
You should never have to apologize for this game being your favorite. I don't think MGS3 is technically better than 4. I would say 4's camo system is a great technical improvement over the one in 3. And I still think MGS4 has some of the best moments in the franchise. There are obvious flaws in the game's writing but it's still a great game, so screw what people think. MGS2 is my favorite in the series and that game used to get shit on all the time. It's only recently become popular to like because it predicted the future, but the tough as nails gameplay and the sheer number of VR missions and extra content in MGS2 has always made it the franchise peak for me.
I think the best way I can describe it is that MGS4 is a bad ending to the Metal Gear video game franchise. But it is the right ending for the story of the world Metal Gear takes place in.
And that's why when art touches your soul its a lot more meaningful. Mgs is the best game series ever.
It's my second time watching the review, at he time MGS 4 came out I was super deep down the MGS rabbit hole 1 stunned me, ditto 2 and 3 was my joint favourite game ever with Redident Evil 4
Upon its release I couldn't have been more hyped and..... I was confused, disappointed and sometimes excited
This review is perfect it so perfectly captures the feel of that time for me
Its nostalgia and critique at a level that I haven't come across before, I assume I will watch this review again because its legitimately a piece of art in the field of critique(a rare thing)
I want a video from him on MGS 3 and 2 it would be fascinating, he clearly has a deep love and respect for the franchise for the right reasons
Same dude and I mean exactly the same, played the game when I was young and loved it.
What a coinsidence, today is exactly 6 years ago this video dropped! Meaning, 6 years later, I'm still revisiting it because of its mark it left on me and my love for MGS.
If there's anyone who's scrolled down to the comments just to see if this video is worth watching in spite of its length, it is. Watch it however makes it comfortable. Whether that's in a series of short pieces, or like watching 2 or 3 movies, or in one single marathon, it doesn't matter. You don't even need to care that deeply at Metal Gear Solid 4; what matters in this video is not the game itself, but how it lets you understand the person watching it. This video is not sluggishly paced, it just has a lot of meaningful things to say. The only way I could condense it is to remove the space between words, because every single part builds into how it creates an impression of who this person is, why this work matters to them, why they have the opinions they have on it, and why that even matters.
Steak, if you ever read this comment, know that I don't care if you never a video this popular ever again, or if you make a hundred that completely surpass it. I will keep on watching them, loving them as I did the Cowboy Bebop video, and coming back here. I've watched this four times now, and this is not going to the last time. Keep on going, and do what you want to do, not what anyone else wants you to do. That's, to me, what makes this video so important. Whatever thing you choose to make the next video on, whether it's some random anime series, or a video game, or a sequel to this focusing on some other part of Metal Gear, the most important part isn't that work, it's that you chose it, and you found it important. That's what makes this video special.
If anyone is scrolling down to see if this comment is worth it, it’s not.
@@MeanMustard650 thank you
@@MeanMustard650 arigato!!
I posted this to the mgs subreddit and they hated it.
One complaint was about the length.
He complained about length of video in a MGS sub.
The irony gets me to this day.
ikr, this is like one of the best video essays around for real, and the comments are all people 20min in saying "lol this is a long video"
"Rose lied about a miscarriage"
Her voice actor also voiced the girl from the Loss meme. Let that sink in.
I wanna see the loss meme with Raiden and Rose now
@@TheShadowOfHumanity Quinton Flynn wouldn't be a bad voice match for the guy who voiced Ethan, now that you mention it.
Jessica Wachsman voiced rose?
@@aubreyskipper9642Nope, but Lara Cody voiced Lilah in later episodes. I think those were produced after MGS4, but before Loss, but don't quote me on that.
what does it want now?
Snake: "Raiden what're you doing? What happened to you?"
Raiden: "Your mom lol"
*_(Cue Snake Eater fanfare)_*
Underrated comment
Too true.
*rules of nature starts playing in the background*
Welcome back. If you're anything like me, this isn't your first visit and you specifically came back to this video. Glad to see you, and enjoy the show again.
This is one of my favorite hours long videos, his style is really unique
@@arielmz4956 I've been watching it many times for over two years based on my comment history
I’ve watched this movie for more than 24 hours at this point I’m all but certain. It’s just comfy.
While I'm not a fan of some of the songs, this essay is beautifully edited and well narrated definitely my favorite MGS4 and MGS series as a whole critique out there.
I've seen this video about 30 times now. TH-cam puts it on every time I watch more than 4 or 5 gaming related videos in a row. Sometimes it'll be playing when I fall asleep, and it'll be on again when I wake up.
Please make more.
You are not the only one who fell asleep to this...
Same. I did last night.
Please make more, Steak
when he said "oh boy its rrrrrrrr" and I slowly heard rules of nature creeping in I realised this is my favourite youtube video
On the Protomen's Bandcamp page, there's a review saying they were introduced to them by this video. Having never heard of this channel before then, and having watched every review on here at least twice since then, I am so glad they did. This video is an absolute masterpiece and I love it! The AMV's to Protomen tracks are definitely highlights but the whole thing is just incredible. I've watched it all the way through twice already, and I will do the same again.
I can't tell you how many times I've watched this video-and this introduced me to The Protomen too!
I genuinely believe this is one of the greatest videos on TH-cam ever made.
I find it so utterly weird and bizarre how this 6 years old video ended up on my recommendations exactly when it just so happens that I started obsessively listening to The Protomen. I loved SO much that Light up the night scene.
Excellent, Steak. Age hasn't slowed you down one bit.
For real, though, terrific video. I've watched it three times, and I love it a bit more every time. Can't wait for your next video in 2020!
Lmao
Liquid: Activate it...
*Ad plays*
LIQUIDDDDDDDD!!!!
Lol Same shit happened to me when I rewatched this
I used to go in for work at 12:00 am. I actually didn’t start till three but it takes a while to bike seven miles. At work I moved boxes from one trailer to the next. Miserable stuff. I listened to this video about 100 times back then. I don’t know why but it just brought me into an interesting and nostalgic world. This video for some reason or another got me through tough times. Even now I still rewatch it and I don’t know why. The humor and editing is on a level I wish I could reach. If I ever pull the trigger and start a TH-cam channel it would be because of this. I even started listening to the proto men and got my roommates into it. It’s a good video. Thank you
I did the same thing when I was working overnight at a retail chain, resetting product sets. I watched this video once a day, every day, five days a week, for at least 6 months. Steak did an amazing job on this thing.
Thank you me too! It's like comforting to me now
Why not just buy a car or even moped? That miserable ride to work was on you
@@alexanderduluoz long story, but also by over coming extreme challenges we become strong as people. Physical strength is only so useful but once you’ve used that strength to over come something you thought was impossible you’ll stop seeing problems as impossible. Mountains become mole hills. Bonus points if you also as vain as me and then you get the added benefit of knowing you can do things others can’t.
I'm a fat fuck who hasn't biked in ages. But surely you can cycle 7 miles in under 3 hours?
GOD, I NEED more essays like this with comedy, sincerity, fun edits, and just generally show that they have a fucking pulse.
If you ever wondered why this is SO rewatachable, it's because it has a "structured rambling" feeling, a term that doesn't exist but it does now, where it never feels like he's reading a script or droning on, yet he manages to remain casual and engaging. His voice, tone, and delivery is always on point. It's so impressive really. (It also helps that the topic is something he's REALLY passionate about)
Just wanna let you know every day you upload is a good day.
Also music choices are bangers that helps too
this dude unlocked something in my brain when i found this video
structured yapping is a thing you can do?? you can overthink what the devs wanted in a videogame like this?? this is awesome
and then it mixed with my sonic autism
Dude, can you please make more 3 and a half hour videos? This just might be my favorite thing on TH-cam. Talk about MGS 2 Ffs!!!! 😃
seriously, really wanting more video essays from this guy. would love an individual video about mgs2 and mgs3 tbh.
It doesn’t need to be 3.5 hours but being an hour would be more than enough.
The only detail of MGS4 instantly I remember is "the guy who shits himself got Meryl."
Untrue. I remember Big Boss and Snakes high fondly
I guess all that psychotherapy they put Meryl through wasn't very effective after all. Still ends up being a blushing bride.
@@Antiformed Most likely, Psycho Mantis got rid of it.
@@filipeflower or the wiki is just wrong
@@bakedcrystal915 What Wiki? What exactly are you talking about?
2:23:00 Fun fact, the random officer Mei Ling talks to was voiced and mocapped by Hideo Kojima in the Japanese version of the game, while he's voiced by Crispin "Sundowner" Freeman in the English version.
oh shit thats english alucard from hellsing too, what a weird random role to have in mgs
Sundowner = Kojima
Every six months this video reappears in my mind and I have to rewatch it start to finish in a single sitting
That segment with liquid on the boat shutting off all the guns with your music edit is extremely awesome dude. Not to mention everything else. This whole video must have took forever to finish. Words cannot express my astonishment. Well done!
Linda Niemkiewicz 1:39:00
Johnny was a genome soldier, that's the entire reason he was at Shadow Moses in MGS1. Now if memory serves, the genome project was some kind of bizarre super soldier attempt using gene therapy to adapt the subjects to have Snake/Big Boss's genetics (which is also why Johnny kinda looks a little bit like a really young Solid Snake). This would have been the PERFECT avenue to go to give him a reason to avoid the nanomachine injections. He's already been part of one shadowy fucked up government experiment so why shouldn't "mandatory nanomachine injections" stink the same way?
It also gave him the worst IBS any man has ever had to suffer through. I guess he just got the worst genes.
Bro that would have been a PERFECT direction to take his character. The fact that they didn’t use this or at least some variation of this is just another, if not one of the best examples of sequel dissonance like Steak described.
@@nogohoho Other way around, the nanomachines were filtering the water the soldiers were drinking, that's why he has the shits
@@orcastrike7750 I personally wouldn't count Johnny's "I just hate needles" line as sequel dissonance. It's not that he diverts from the characterization of his past self in a way that doesn't make sense, the problem with the scene is that it's the exact opposite: Unlike the rest of MGS1's tertiary cast he remains 100% consistent with his joke character origin, and as a result we feel the sting when it's pointed out just how easy it would have been to use the moment as a basis to build something, _anything_ for him to stand on as a character instead of just milking him for another cheap laugh.
It's like Steak mentions in his take on Raiden's ending, the line "I don't think you're meant to think about this hard enough to think that Rose did something wrong" really sticks with me here. The same logic definitely feels relevant to scenes where Johnny is present in that it definitely comes off as though Kojima probably never so much as pondered the concept of doing anything more with this character. The goals set for him were simply to make the player laugh, conveniently be able to save Meryl through sheer dumb luck, and subsequently have her decide he's husband material for probably no other reason than to pre-emptively make sure nobody asked whether she was gonna get with Snake.
I wish
This shit put me to sleep 3 times but everytime I woke up I went back to pick up where I left off. I'm not even smart enough to express how good this is. It's funny and thought provoking. Coming from the biggest MGS fan I'm not mad at all. 👍🏿
What a crazily relatable comment! Did the exact same thing lol
i join this group lmao, loved this
Literally just had JC Denton talk about Metal Gear to me for 3 hours
Completing my annual rewatch of this epic masterpiece.
Dude I haven't watched it for 2 years (crazy to me) but it's like I've never watched it before watching it again
See you in 2 months! Or not, I wouldn’t blame you for starting early
It’s that time again!
@@thomaswatson1420 welcome back!
Can't believe 1:39:04 got me into Protomen, of all things. The entire video is some of the best this platform has to offer, but that particular scene is now stuck with me. It works so goddamn well, it's gloriously hammy. I doubt anyone reads comments this far down, but if you somehow get this down, Bentley, thanks. This video, and the Venture Bros. one, are some of the best goddamn things I've watched in recent memory.
Yeeeeeah....this was the first time I ever heard of The Protomen.
And it makes me even happier than I'm obsessed with his video essay.
I'm actually saving up the Venture Bros. video for a sad day I'll need some cheering up for.
It's really crazy how well that song matches up with that cutscene.
Thanks for the comment. I couldn’t find the name of the band. Until now