This Is Meta, Even For MGS
September 18, 2015 9:03 AM   Subscribe

Based on a cutscene discovered in the PC version of Metal Gear Solid V, players have formed a faction in the online portion of the game devoted to ridding the game world of nukes. The faction's name: the Metal Gear Philanthropists. They have created guides to removing nukes from other players and have set up leaderboards tracking individual disarmament efforts. In return, a pro-proliferation counterfaction has popped up, calling themselves the Metal Gear Patriots, supporting the spread of nukes within the online game.
posted by NoxAeternum (33 comments total) 21 users marked this as a favorite
 
a pro-proliferation counterfaction has popped up, calling themselves the Metal Gear Patriots

Glorious.
posted by Fizz at 9:16 AM on September 18, 2015 [4 favorites]


Now all they need is an unlockable tricorn hat, and it's Second Life: Tea Party Solid!
posted by slater at 9:25 AM on September 18, 2015 [3 favorites]


This is hilarious
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 9:27 AM on September 18, 2015 [1 favorite]


Would you. Like to. Play a game?
posted by sexyrobot at 9:33 AM on September 18, 2015 [4 favorites]


I love this. I know nothing about the gameplay of this game but I really hope that it lends itself to small-scale versions of Eve megabattles and we get to read tales of Philanthropists v. Patriots world-spanning carnage.
posted by sparklemotion at 9:35 AM on September 18, 2015


Less hilarious is that this will likely be the last Metal Gear game for some time: Konami is getting out of the AAA game business.
posted by infinitewindow at 9:35 AM on September 18, 2015 [2 favorites]


Would you. Like to. Play a game?

No, thanks.

(I WIN!!!)
posted by Sys Rq at 9:39 AM on September 18, 2015 [4 favorites]


Finally, someone's made a AAA game for Greenpeace.
posted by Nanukthedog at 9:42 AM on September 18, 2015


Would you. Like to. Play a game?

No, thanks.

(I WIN!!!)


...and I lost.
posted by TreeRooster at 9:47 AM on September 18, 2015 [2 favorites]


You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one...
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 9:56 AM on September 18, 2015


infinitewindow: "Less hilarious is that this will likely be the last Metal Gear game for some time: Konami is getting out of the AAA game business."

Yeah, but have you seen what they're getting into? Konami's New Initiative: Erotic Castlevania Pachinko. Not just pachinko machines, but saucy pachinko machines.
posted by boo_radley at 10:01 AM on September 18, 2015 [5 favorites]


MetaFilter: Not just pachinko machines, but saucy pachinko machines.
posted by Fizz at 10:04 AM on September 18, 2015 [8 favorites]


That's almost certainly preferable to making MGS6 without Kojima.
posted by Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish at 10:08 AM on September 18, 2015 [1 favorite]


It's not just a random goal that players made up, it's an attempt to see this cutscene in-game (reposted, after the original clip was taken down by Konami). Someone dug through the game files and found the cutscene, which includes a moment where clip states "Total Nuclear Weapons: 6358" then counts down to zero.

The Kotaku article includes comments from the "Patriots," some who think that by making more nukes, they'll actually get the game up to the required threshold of nukes required to be disarmed to trigger that scene.
posted by filthy light thief at 10:10 AM on September 18, 2015 [1 favorite]


All we need now is a third group calling themselves the Metal Gear Philosophers who skim GMP out of both of the other teams to build up a massive warchest.
posted by Uncle Ira at 10:13 AM on September 18, 2015 [3 favorites]


(What is that font that Japanese games use for the subtitles?)
posted by kittensofthenight at 10:26 AM on September 18, 2015 [1 favorite]


By far the best part of that cutscene is right after the "Total Nuclear Weapons: 0" part, where there's a bit of text that flashes onto the screen sentence by sentence about relative levels of active nuclear warheads before and after START2, and then the last line appears and you see this is all sourced to "Metal Gear Solid (1998)."
posted by Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish at 10:31 AM on September 18, 2015 [2 favorites]


Wow, this is crazy cool!

this is reaching EVE online levels of interesting.
posted by rebent at 10:36 AM on September 18, 2015


Since it's practically in the title here, I assume there's a long history of people making the Meta Gear Solid joke?

That aside, I love the idea of this, whether or not it's in any way possible to achieve.
posted by Four Ds at 10:43 AM on September 18, 2015


this is reaching EVE online levels of interesting.

No, MGS V is fun to play too, not just to watch.
posted by Sangermaine at 10:49 AM on September 18, 2015 [11 favorites]


That's almost certainly preferable to making MGS6 without Kojima.

Awwww, its cute that you think they won't continue to milk this franchise and gamers for all the money they can get their grubby greedy little hands on.
posted by Fizz at 10:50 AM on September 18, 2015 [2 favorites]


I was confused because the online multiplayer portion of the game doesn't go live until Oct, but I guess this is part of the online single player game that is sorta multiplayer too... that I haven't reached yet since I'm only like 20% into the game.
posted by danny the boy at 10:51 AM on September 18, 2015


Awwww, its cute that you think they won't continue to milk this franchise and gamers for all the money they can get their grubby greedy little hands on.

They surely will, but not in this form again. As noted above, Konami is dropping out of the big game business to focus on mobile and arcade stuff. There's just not enough money to be made on these gigantic games anymore.

So you'll likely see MGS-branded stuff in the future, possibly non-Kojima handheld games, but there probably won't be a MGS6 unless the market significantly changes.
posted by Sangermaine at 11:10 AM on September 18, 2015


calling themselves the Metal Gear Patriots

Patriots!??!! ?!?
posted by RobotHero at 11:37 AM on September 18, 2015 [1 favorite]


Metal Gear?!
posted by Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish at 12:05 PM on September 18, 2015 [2 favorites]


The Patriots (aka Cipher) is an in-game organization, not just a random name.

Philanthropy is also an in-game org.

(If you're not familiar with MGS, the storyline is.... convlouted, and a kind of mix of spy stories and daytime soaps (lots of amnesia, multiple personalities, and shocking revelations about who is related to who)).
posted by thefoxgod at 12:16 PM on September 18, 2015 [2 favorites]


Patriots!??!! ?!?
Metal Gear?!


Snake? Snake?
SNAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!!!!!!!!
posted by paper chromatographologist at 12:21 PM on September 18, 2015 [5 favorites]


Snake? Snake?
SNAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!!!!!!!!


Metal Gear Solid: Badger Mushroom
posted by infinitewindow at 12:44 PM on September 18, 2015 [9 favorites]


At what point in the proliferation does MAD cut in, with the actual and permanent destruction of the gamespace and all characters if anyone presses the button? A proper rm -r * burst?

If you're going to play, at least make it interesting.
posted by Devonian at 12:47 PM on September 18, 2015 [1 favorite]


Yeah, but have you seen what they're getting into? Konami's New Initiative: Erotic Castlevania Pachinko. Not just pachinko machines, but saucy pachinko machines.

You know, change EROTIC VIOLENCE to Tactical Erotic Espionage Violence, and I'd say Kojima's vision lives on.
posted by knuckle tattoos at 2:13 PM on September 18, 2015 [4 favorites]


The la-li-lu-le-lo?!
posted by gucci mane at 5:59 PM on September 18, 2015 [1 favorite]


boo_radley Not just pachinko machines, but saucy pachinko machines.

Isn't that redundant?
posted by yeolcoatl at 9:01 PM on September 18, 2015


A cardboard box?!
posted by RobotHero at 12:52 PM on September 19, 2015


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