Aside from the day George Washongton became president that is also the day Adolf Hitler killed himself (in case he didnt flee to Latin America). Sorry if you are quoting Raiden I didnt play MGS2 yet but that AI conversation at the end I heard 2 years ago destroyed my mind and changed my life memetically along with the best analysis from a youtube channel ive ever had the pleasure of being enlightened by
@@gloglogloyper7888 so a conversation in a game "destroyed your mind and changed your life" and you still havent played it yet? Imagine being this lazy.
"It took a while too realize this but nobody sees themselfs as the bad guy, everyone pretty much sees themselfs pretty much in the right." -Vince Gilligan who made breaking bad
This game series is seriously so deep people wouldn’t even understand it today. Kids wouldn’t even have the patience to sit through the cutscenes. Playing mgs1 at 8 opened my eyes to worldwide politics , war and economy at an age where it didn’t matter but still heavily interested me and I carried that into the future. These games definitely made me more intelligent
Not a hope could kids today grasp what this game is trying to convey. Especially since they're actually living through some of the concepts in the story. I was only 12 when this game dropped. I enjoyed every bit of it but I won't pretend that I understood it all. It was years later after going back to it and listening to some channels like this that I fully understood it. This channel is amazing at how they pick apart such complex things from these games. Which grants even more credit to Kojima for coming up with the concept to make a playable game of it.
These are amazing, keep it up! When I'm doing video dictation like this I use the stopwatch app and hit the lap timer when I flub a line, so I can go back to that point and overdub afterward without losing my momentum.
this video is so dense that i felt like it was 4 hours of it instead of 50 minutes, or maybe that's just me falling asleep and still trying to understand
I was seventeen when this game came out, and it was the entire reason I bought a PS2. I rank it up there with Terminator and Terminator 2 as to the reasons I give a wary eye to the use and abuse of technology.
Have this game been produced by an American, I bet it would be selected by the National Film Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States." because it just is. How ironic a Japanese know deeper about the problem of the US than most US population themselves.
MGS2 was the “Hollywood video game” MGSPW/MGSV was the prematurely canceled “Tv series/streamed series video game” forced into “reruns” MGSV always having credits for all the main players of the mission always came across to me as a tv series as opposed to Hollywood film type feel. I think Kojima said as much in an interview as well. Interesting idea!
because like the video stated, the quantity of the audience is manipulated by system with greater power, or drown out by rubbish videos, no decided by the quality of the product.
Funny story first time I beat mgs2 was a April 30th. When solidus asked if i knew what day it was on that day I didnt realize it actually was April 30th.
Completely separate but is there any chance you’ve already have made or would be willing to make a video about a comparison of MGS2 and MGSV’s similar themes and references and continuations of ideas etc
Just wanna mention I literally realized just the other day that the reason that 2 & V are so thematically symmetrical/linked is because 2+2=5... so yeah good stuff Kojima good stuff indeed.
BLACK MAN it’s a reference to Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, V is full of cool references to stuff like that. If you get a chance to play it, I hope you enjoy!
10:36 "The original sons of Liberty" but you just taught me in your other video about the Sons of Liberty that preceded the American revolution... Love the essays.
I just got an ad for an AI friend while watching this video. While not AI, this reminded me about the so called Russian bot situation that's happened in recent years, and seems to a parallel to this video speaking to "truths" and narrative.
Watched the previous parts of this serious of yours, not done with this one. I don't remember you saying Jack is what we as players use to literally "jack in" into the reality of the game. I wonder what you think of this idea. Do you think this is a worthy point?
It seems like the only solid truth is just raw quantifiable data. You then interpret that data and filter it through your own perspective and experiences which forms a narrative which is subjective because it's your own interpretation and is being expressed in language which is imperfect because it is loaded with context and connotations and can never perfectly mirror reality. The tao that can be spoken is not the true tao. Then add on top of that that our memories of our experiences are highly malleable and basically get rewritten every time we remember them, and the truth gets even fuzzier. It's not that there is no such thing as truth or reality. It's that the way you interpret the data and the meaning you take from it and the way you choose to express it in language are all subjective. Once you form narratives and meanings out of data, you can only reach a provisional "truth" that is only true within a certain context.
Still so much to unpack in a game from two decades ago. Truly a masterpiece. And where back then and even today most games are just games, this was a proper work of art.
I think it's both, that's where they learned it from evidently. EE has a line about how she and Hal would play doctor, and she's pretty in love with him
@@FuturasoundProductions She said they used to play "house" Hal pretended to be the husband and she pretended being the wife but I really don't think anything sexual was implied.
E.E.: Big bro~, I'm stuck in the Shell 2 Core B1. Otacon: *heavy eyes glare* Just like one of my japanese animes! I don't know anymore what am I commenting in these videos. BTW, am I the only one whot thinks that Fortune is cute? 🤔
![The Meme Spill of MGS2 [METAL GEAR SOLID 2 RETROSPECTIVE 2]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/SaZ1cY787yA/mqdefault.jpg)
I truly cannot fathom how this channel consistently produces so many great, thought provoking video essays.
MGS2 essays are my go-to drug on TH-cam, and your channel has fueled my addiction for weeks to come.
Thanks
Your channel is a goldmine. Thanks for the amazing content!
+1
Happy MGS2 day! (30th of april)
No shit?!
April 30th.... is there something special about that day?
Aside from the day George Washongton became president that is also the day Adolf Hitler killed himself (in case he didnt flee to Latin America). Sorry if you are quoting Raiden I didnt play MGS2 yet but that AI conversation at the end I heard 2 years ago destroyed my mind and changed my life memetically along with the best analysis from a youtube channel ive ever had the pleasure of being enlightened by
I have to get back to the video now lol
The day I met Rose?
@@遊具も数化 yeah i didnt know that, didnt play mgs2 yet
@@gloglogloyper7888 so a conversation in a game "destroyed your mind and changed your life" and you still havent played it yet? Imagine being this lazy.
"It took a while too realize this but nobody sees themselfs as the bad guy, everyone pretty much sees themselfs pretty much in the right." -Vince Gilligan who made breaking bad
Man this game was just so ahead of its time.
These series are amazing. Thank you. Unmatched! Keep it up!
Man can't get enough of your vids !
another one to meditate on
thanks man !
This one in particular is really really good.
arbear indeed
This game series is seriously so deep people wouldn’t even understand it today. Kids wouldn’t even have the patience to sit through the cutscenes. Playing mgs1 at 8 opened my eyes to worldwide politics , war and economy at an age where it didn’t matter but still heavily interested me and I carried that into the future. These games definitely made me more intelligent
Not a hope could kids today grasp what this game is trying to convey. Especially since they're actually living through some of the concepts in the story. I was only 12 when this game dropped. I enjoyed every bit of it but I won't pretend that I understood it all. It was years later after going back to it and listening to some channels like this that I fully understood it. This channel is amazing at how they pick apart such complex things from these games. Which grants even more credit to Kojima for coming up with the concept to make a playable game of it.
Jack, do you know what day it is today?
“I’m sorry, but I still don’t have a clue.”
How did I never realize the Jack and Rose titanic connection.. Omg 😯
These are amazing, keep it up! When I'm doing video dictation like this I use the stopwatch app and hit the lap timer when I flub a line, so I can go back to that point and overdub afterward without losing my momentum.
this video is so dense that i felt like it was 4 hours of it instead of 50 minutes, or maybe that's just me falling asleep and still trying to understand
Great video essay! I’ve also noticed reality tv’s effect on how people vlog and use apps like Snapchat
"How much do you think the Patriots control really extends?" _shows Shrek_ lmao
Thanks for teaching so much about ourselves in addition to MGS2. Amazing video :)
‘You want to know why wars happened, Johnny? Because we closed our eyes for too long.‘
I was seventeen when this game came out, and it was the entire reason I bought a PS2. I rank it up there with Terminator and Terminator 2 as to the reasons I give a wary eye to the use and abuse of technology.
And then he made Death Stranding....
Happy april 30th
Have this game been produced by an American, I bet it would be selected by the National Film Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States." because it just is. How ironic a Japanese know deeper about the problem of the US than most US population themselves.
MGS2 was the “Hollywood video game” MGSPW/MGSV was the prematurely canceled “Tv series/streamed series video game” forced into “reruns” MGSV always having credits for all the main players of the mission always came across to me as a tv series as opposed to Hollywood film type feel. I think Kojima said as much in an interview as well. Interesting idea!
So what was MGS, MGS 3 and 4 ?
Homestar Runner?! Some deep cuts in this video. Love it!
How do you pump out such in-depth content and yet you have such little subscribers?
because like the video stated, the quantity of the audience is manipulated by system with greater power, or drown out by rubbish videos, no decided by the quality of the product.
Great channel man
Funny story first time I beat mgs2 was a April 30th. When solidus asked if i knew what day it was on that day I didnt realize it actually was April 30th.
Completely separate but is there any chance you’ve already have made or would be willing to make a video about a comparison of MGS2 and MGSV’s similar themes and references and continuations of ideas etc
A great idea!
Just wanna mention I literally realized just the other day that the reason that 2 & V are so thematically symmetrical/linked is because 2+2=5... so yeah good stuff Kojima good stuff indeed.
@Guy Person
What? How did you reach that?
I still haven’t played five yet.
BLACK MAN it’s a reference to Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, V is full of cool references to stuff like that. If you get a chance to play it, I hope you enjoy!
@@guyperson1229
2 + 2 = V*
10:36 "The original sons of Liberty" but you just taught me in your other video about the Sons of Liberty that preceded the American revolution... Love the essays.
FATMAN IS SO CUTE I HOPE HE GETS HIS OWN MOVIE
Dont let the word Hollywood scare you my friends, let it liberate you
So many good points in this essay.
I ma devouring this channel since I found about it 4 days ago and OMG....
I can relate to this all to well, and yet, the turnback is to painful to say the least.
I'm here too.
I beat this game so many times low key my fav mgs although I def skipped school to beat mgs3
I just got an ad for an AI friend while watching this video. While not AI, this reminded me about the so called Russian bot situation that's happened in recent years, and seems to a parallel to this video speaking to "truths" and narrative.
66 comments on one of the best videos I've ever seen. I look forward to the day when you have a million subscribers, cause it's gonna happen ;)
Watched the previous parts of this serious of yours, not done with this one. I don't remember you saying Jack is what we as players use to literally "jack in" into the reality of the game. I wonder what you think of this idea. Do you think this is a worthy point?
Alex Lokanin hell yes! Especially given how much Kojima loved the Matrix and said it used a lot of similar ideas as MGS2
Layers upon layers
Your channel needs more views and subs!
Such an amazing video
Also Praise the Lord
This shit is a gem in the dirt . Loved it
It seems like the only solid truth is just raw quantifiable data. You then interpret that data and filter it through your own perspective and experiences which forms a narrative which is subjective because it's your own interpretation and is being expressed in language which is imperfect because it is loaded with context and connotations and can never perfectly mirror reality. The tao that can be spoken is not the true tao. Then add on top of that that our memories of our experiences are highly malleable and basically get rewritten every time we remember them, and the truth gets even fuzzier. It's not that there is no such thing as truth or reality. It's that the way you interpret the data and the meaning you take from it and the way you choose to express it in language are all subjective. Once you form narratives and meanings out of data, you can only reach a provisional "truth" that is only true within a certain context.
This is why MGS2 is my favorite video game~!
Still so much to unpack in a game from two decades ago. Truly a masterpiece. And where back then and even today most games are just games, this was a proper work of art.
I wander if Vamp has a connection with Skullface
April 30th? That's right. George Washington took office as the first president of the United States of America 200 years ago today.
Dude I hope you get your PhD with these essays
Cinema is TRUTH 24 times a second
-Jean Luc Godard
You said the fucking opposite homie. ¿How?
Thanks for the content😁
Its son's of liberty day, as of April 30th
Rose reminds me of Jennifer Connelly.
14:50 I don't think it's right to blame Hal for the ruination of her life. Momlester is to blame.
I get it: Rose, Plant.
Hey, quick question. Are your videos monetized? I hope your making revenue off of the advertisements in your videos.
51:15 I disagree, I think enlightenment values are at least as influential as those, too.
I mustve remembered the game incorrectly. I thought Hal was having an affair with his step mother, not WITH Emma....
I think it's both, that's where they learned it from evidently. EE has a line about how she and Hal would play doctor, and she's pretty in love with him
@@FuturasoundProductions She said they used to play "house" Hal pretended to be the husband and she pretended being the wife but I really don't think anything sexual was implied.
E.E.: Big bro~, I'm stuck in the Shell 2 Core B1.
Otacon: *heavy eyes glare* Just like one of my japanese animes!
I don't know anymore what am I commenting in these videos.
BTW, am I the only one whot thinks that Fortune is cute? 🤔
Pretty sure mgs3 aas suppose to be the rake on hollywood movies. Mfs2 was simulation in simulation in a guess what?! Another simulation!
There’s only one truth everything else is false
Please stop saying nod. "Allusion" or "similar to" please.
Way too many ads dude, wtf
Yeah how dare he get some compensation for his no doubt 100 hours of effort.
Orange man bad.
Aitcheoz i agree
You watched 1 minute and got too triggered to finish, didn't you?
“The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record...being played at the moment.” - George Orwell
I beat this game so many times low key my fav mgs although I def skipped school to beat mgs3