Kojima games have always been full of mechanics and characters that are pretty obviously direct jabs at his own player base.
Hrm, after MGS, what does my NA playerbase look like?
Oh, a bunch of skinny, white, emo nerds with massive insecurity about basically everything in their lives?
Perfect, that’s the new main character, and he gets a shonen character arc.
… MGS4 legitimately got me to get a portable cigarette butt container, and then also helped me to quit smoking.
What is a “portable cigarette butt container”?
Its an airtight container that you can fit in a semi-large pocket, which works as an ashtray, and you put cigarette butts in it.
In Japan, littering is extremely frowned upon, there are basically no public ashtrays, it is pretty common for smokers to stash their butts in these containers and then empty them out later.
Very different from the norm in much of the rest of the world where people just litter cig butts everywhere, toss them into garbage cans and start fires.
Here’s Snake using his in MGS 4:
That is actually amazing. This needs to be standard fare everywhere.
Probably easier to get people to stop smoking than stop littering.
I love MGS5
Nonlethal is just as easy as lethal. There’s a morality system that goes with it.
If you kill too many people and don’t wash off their blood then you become permanently soaked in blood, and Snake grows a little devil horn. No matter how many showers you take you will never wash away the blood.
never wash away the blood
True irl too. Tried once, there’s even more blood once you get past the skin.
You can also trigger a fairly bizarre cutscene where your character takes a shower with one of the female characters but she keeps all her clothes on, if you cultivate a certain level of unrepentant stink.
https://www.gameslearningsociety.org/how-do-you-trigger-a-quiet-shower-scene/
Ah yes because Quiet wears a lot of clothes in the first place.
The people who make video games are a bunch of weird assholes
In Death Stranding, if you look at the protagonists crotch, he punches you in the face over it. Glad to know they encourage ogling women but ogling men gets you gay bashed
In Nier: Automata, 2B moves away if you try to look under her skirt. Kaine in Nier Replicant apparently even kills you for it and calls you a “pervy little shit” among other insults.
- Quiet comes into frame, PoV happens to focus on the bucket so the first thing that to end up in the center are her boobs
- Quiet leaves, someone thought the player needed a power zoom on her ass and added a matching sound to it
- They made her hum and dance in a jail cell, while randos in the background mumble Oh, she’s a hot girl, what I wouldn’t do…
Honestly, the zoom gets me the most. Why was that added? How do you get away with something like that?
I love these games, but the fan service scenes sprinkled through like that are cringey as all hell. At least I never knew about this one, I bathed my Snake regularly.
It is a pretty weird scene where they are showering in a jail cell where the guards whistle at them.
If I remember, they justified her showering with her clothes on as it’s a way she would drink water since she breathes through her skin. Also, it’s the reason why she didn’t wear too much.
Or, maybe Kojima is just being Kojima
Also, it’s the reason why she didn’t wear too much.
I’m sure that’s the reason the devs had for this decision.
You ever skip taking a shower for a day or two just so that the next shower you take feels even better?
No, I do it because I’m living in the hamster wheel of capitalism and I’m very tired
Same, baby
Hideo Kojima has a secret message for fans.
What stats go down? Afaik the only thing being dirty really does other than cover you in blood is make you smell, which can give away your position to enemies. But just getting dirty doesn’t make you smell, you have to crawl through something smelly and your stench will be indicated by flies buzzing around you (and Ocelot telling you that you stink). The only way I’ve ever been stinky is by hiding in a dumpster for a bit.
I haven’t played metal gear but in Skyrim stealth is a stat and it seems like this makes it go down
In Death Stranding you can collect Norman Reedus’s bodily fluids and throw them at people.
Seems like Metal Gear Solid is the gamer version of Disney’s Snow White, because that girl motivated me so much to clean my room when I was a kid. Her and Mary Poppins. And so some extent, Pippi Longstocking too.
