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Podtoid 50: The Metal Gear Solid extravaganza!


Reverend Anthony \\ 04.24.2008	54 comments

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If you only listen to one Podtoid episode ever, make it this one. We put slightly more work into it than usual. You'll have to listen to the actual episode to find out what's special about it, but let's just say that if you were in the pre-show post requesting that Jim Sterling do more impressions of Solid Snake, your wish has been granted.

And then some.

This week, Tiff "Gargantuan Rattlesnake" Chow, Jim "Artificial Donkey" Sterling, Aaron "Energizing Salamander" Linde and myself, Genius Grasshopper, talk about our favoritest videogame series involving bipedal robots and eyepatch-wearing badasses, Metal Gear Solid. Spoilers ensue for all three games in the series.

Topics of discussion included:

-A sonnet from Brilliam
-A surveillance camera??!!??
-Tiff Chow: loves boxes, hates level 5 keycards
-Meryl??!!??
-Defending Raiden
-A Hind D??!!??
-We want more Big Boss, sort of
-Metal Gear??!!??

This week, Arrested Developer won the $25. I'm really, really, really sorry that we didn't get time to ask more reader questions, but Podtoid records pretty late and Jim had to keep slapping himself in the face to stay awake. Anyway, Arrested, put yo' email in the comments and we'll drop you a line.

54 COMMENTS, LATEST BY namtastic
As close as you can get to perfect without an "IT'S NOT OVER YET!" in there. Now if only that free checking came with those Metal Gear AC!D textures. - view discussion

There are 54 comments about this post:

king3vbo says:
04/24/2008 16:10

METAL GEAR??!??!?!?

PaperBowser0 says:
04/24/2008 16:13

Thursday now = Complete. Thanks ya guys! :D

razerangel says:
04/24/2008 16:21

yuuss! I shall go download now!

Akiba says:
04/24/2008 16:24

Free Checking?!

So good.

ArrestedDeveloper says:
04/24/2008 16:42

Yes, this is the first thing I've ever won on dtoid.

Vitamint334@sbcglobal.net

Cheeburga says:
04/24/2008 16:44

I came.

luzer7072 says:
04/24/2008 16:54

Funny:

On RFGO, you said "If you only listen to one episode of Podtoid this week..."

wakka, wakka, wakka.

Reverend Anthony says:
04/24/2008 17:00

I'm glad somebody caught that.

Bricfa says:
04/24/2008 17:09

Spoilers on third game Y/N?

also

METAL GEAR!??!!??!?!?!??!

Jim Sterling says:
04/24/2008 17:17

I still feel disappointed at my performance on the podcast proper.

I still fucking love the special elements though. :-)

Wexx says:
04/24/2008 17:27

Gonna have to wait a while on this one, I haven't beat all of the MGS games quite yet >.<

Jim Sterling says:
04/24/2008 17:30

Oh God and my mic quality is worse than ever! FUCK my landlord hogging the bandwidth. :-(

Eschatos says:
04/24/2008 17:42

I'll win next time.

Holyetheline says:
04/24/2008 17:51

Some day I hope to win something too... So I can be just like Arrested Developer... =D

ArrestedDeveloper says:
04/24/2008 17:57

@Holyetheline
If you play your cards right and refuse to take on responsibility like I do, you may one day be in a state of Arrested Development just like me. Who needs real life experience when you've got games?

Dan CiTi says:
04/24/2008 17:58

Ah, DMC3 quotes are the best. Dante is a brilliant young man.

brainderailment says:
04/24/2008 18:06

Im listening.

Wedge says:
04/24/2008 18:10

There any (MGS3) spoilers in here I should be wary of?

Reverend Anthony says:
04/24/2008 18:21

Yes, there are MGS3 spoilers, specifically about the nature of Snake's mission.

Bricfa says:
04/24/2008 18:27

Ok, will return when I have finished it.

aborto thefetus says:
04/24/2008 18:38

:( I go cry in corner now.

Dr Mike says:
04/24/2008 18:40

Spoilers alert for those who have not played MGS2.

To nerd out for a moment: Aaron slightly glosses over that the reason Raiden and Solidus battle at the end (spoilers) is that Solidus believes the way to track down the patriots is through Raiden's Nanomachines.

For the ending, I might be totally wrong but S3 is revealed to stand for Selection for Societal Sanity and they are successful in covering up why no one seems to mind that a gigantic fucking robot monster has crashed into NYC. In other words: Solidus utterly failed.

Is this even remotely true?

DaedHead8 says:
04/24/2008 19:20

I agree, free checking ftw.

Aaron Linde says:
04/24/2008 19:27

Dr. Mike, whatever you say -- that ending was such a clusterfuck I may have crossed over a few facts. It's been too long!

But I thought the virus Emma installed in GW disrupted that too, or something. Fuck. So many double- and triple-crosses that I have no fucking idea what the fuck.

Still love that ending, though.

manasteel88 says:
04/24/2008 19:27

decent podcast (just cause its so hard to live up to the hype) and love the little voice moments...I personally hated the MGS2 story and thought MGS was a million times better. and I just got MGS3: Snake Eater from Goozex and the camera is a bitch so I'm gonna have to get used to that.

and I love the constant reference to 24. didn't MGS predate the hit fox show? so its kind of a worthless reference. I mean I know Tiff hadn't played it until last week or whatever but somebody should have said that this melodrama predated that melodrama.

also gotta love the "STFU Chad" at the end...brilliant

Scape says:
04/24/2008 19:28

@Dr. Mike
You're right about the Solidus/Raiden fight, but that isn't really what S3 is. It basically just controls the information that is released to the public so the Patriots can control what people perceive as important and cover up things they don't want people to know.
It doesn't really straight up "brainwash" people. We don't really know how they reacted to Arsenal crashing into Manhattan because the game ends.

Reverend Anthony says:
04/24/2008 19:39

Aaron:
And THAT is why I fucking hate the ending of MGS2.

Tiff says:
04/24/2008 19:53

@manasteel88

I don't see how it's an entirely worthless reference, just a contextual means of comparison to something that I'm familiar with that exists within the same planes of Western-stle action/drama dripping with machismo. Given the fact that I barely dipped my toes into the game, my understanding of what MGS 'is' was more or less extracted via comparison. *shrug*

Brilliam says:
04/24/2008 22:14

Oh my god you guys, I was at work when you read that poem and I got so embarrassed even though nobody else at work could hear it AND even if they did they wouldn't know it was me... anyway, I was so embarrassed a TEAR RAN DOWN MY FACE SO EMBARRASSED

Samit Sarkar says:
04/24/2008 22:22

@manasteel88: Would you have preferred a reference to an older, more established badass that predated Metal Gear, like John McClane, or, I don�t know...Batman?

stevesan says:
04/24/2008 23:24

snake! snake?? SNAAKEEE!!!!!!!

johpan says:
04/24/2008 23:26

lol tiff + meryl = hot?

prowlerx083 says:
04/24/2008 23:52

amazing? Amazing?! AMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZIIIIIIIIINGGG!!!

lolz

Tiff says:
04/24/2008 23:56

Brilliam = ;_;
Your sonnet was the cat's pajamas, by the way.

Batthink says:
04/25/2008 00:22

That Podtoid was excellent. Give yourselves a pat on the back. :OD

ArrestedDeveloper says:
04/25/2008 01:29

Favorite line of the Podtoid :

Revolver Ocelot - "Hey guys, check out these wicked pokemon cards"

Kif says:
04/25/2008 02:34

Oh my god best Podtoid ever. I wish you'd do these special elements for other games each episode. Maybe a Bioshock themed episode? Seriously, it breaks up the podcast nicely and it's funny as hell.

ArrestedDeveloper says:
04/25/2008 02:38

A couple more things.

Rev/Chad ending was AMAZING!

Also, someone needs to defend MGS2's ending. I'm not sure if you guys know, since you didn't mention it on the podcast, but MGS2 ending was drastically changed last minute. Originally Arsenal gear was supposed to crash into the Statue of Liberty and the World Trade Center and unfortunately for Konami the game went gold about 1 week before September 11th. So Konami went back ripped out tons of codec conversations and got rid of the WTC from the plot completely. In the end the game would have still been pretty out there but taking a sizeable chunk out of the last hour of your game is bound to not help clarity.

If anyone is interested there is an interesting plot analysis with some interesting theories.

KamikazeTutor says:
04/25/2008 03:34

Meryl's codec on the back of the case was the coolest piracy counter-measure I ever seen.
It takes after Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake, where you needed to check the manual to decode a morse code.

Major Mustard says:
04/25/2008 03:35

I guess I was late with my comment. =P

Happy 50th. Great show.
AMAAAAAAAZIIIIIIIIINNNGGGGG!!!!!!

The gay snake would've been interesting. If the love on the battlefield thing had just been filled with innuendos, it may have been passable.

"I'll love your battlefield!"
Better than that obviously.

Kapkomi says:
04/25/2008 05:55

Damnit Jim! Take off Liquid's snow boots before your mind becomes lost completely!

Demtor says:
04/25/2008 09:11

I love the site and I think what you guys do with the show is awesome, but I'd offer just a little constructive criticism. As much as I laughed at some of the jokes during the first half of the show I kept waiting for you guys to quit imitating characters at inane times and interrupting each others thoughts. I wanted more thought provoking analysis and questions. Things seemed to finally come together in the last .half, of which I enjoyed immensely. As much as I like jokes in a show enough is enough sometimes.

All in all though, thanks for the entertaining show I love all of Metal Gear and appreciate the work you guys put in to this site for a gaming fanboy like me :) Happy 50 shows, cheers!

Yuphrum says:
04/25/2008 10:20

Quite possibly one of the funniest episodes of Podtoid to date!I couldnt stop laughing at Jim's rendition of the Metal Gear Solid 1 ending. ROFL

Irvine_frost says:
04/25/2008 12:27

c`mon the voices we're SPOT ON! they should remake the WHOLE GAME, this episode is amazing!!!!

Faceless says:
04/25/2008 14:29

Best. Ending. Ever.

Lotan says:
04/26/2008 01:44

I agree with Jim about Raiden. Also, I think Kojima more than clearer implied that Raiden and player are the same. All those experience with VI missions, whining, clueless and desire to be like Snake. Kojima kinda placed a mirror in front of the player.

perri says:
04/26/2008 13:23

AMAZING INTRO! These podcasts make me respect games that I've never liked before....weird?

perri says:
04/26/2008 15:12

I know nobody is reading these comments anymore, but I just listened to the show...Best. Ending. Ever.

perri says:
04/26/2008 15:13

whoops, looks like I plagiarized... Sorry faceless, great minds?

ShinSennju says:
04/26/2008 23:23

I'm still reading Perri, and I must say I completely agree with you guys: Best. Ending. Ever.

"STFU Chad Concelmo" was a stroke of pure genius. Jim's character voices were amazing as hell too.

In conclusion: Amaaazing!

ScreamingScarab says:
04/27/2008 10:05

Podtoid did not download to my Zune software this week. Is Podtoid only iTunes friendly now?

ScreamingScarab says:
04/27/2008 10:07

Sorry for the repost, but I fixed the problem. Just had to refresh the link to the feedburner in the software. I love the podcasts, Dtoid!

BluFire says:
04/27/2008 11:35

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namtastic says:
04/28/2008 15:36

As close as you can get to perfect without an "IT'S NOT OVER YET!" in there. Now if only that free checking came with those Metal Gear AC!D textures.

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