There definitely are some decoy elements in the trailers, one I won’t even mention in a spoiler tag.
I suppose being boring would actually help Ocelot trick people, since you would probably not suspect the boring guy to actually be a quadruple agent.
I have an idea of what Kojima could of been talking about, and I’ll mention it later.
Seeing the Skulls actually beaten rather than fled from here is so wild to me. I remember when I played this even when I’d beaten the game I found running into them on mission replays still kinda terrifying, they just move and fight so differently to everything else that I just could never learn to deal with them.
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For me it’s just I never liked fighting them. What makes stuff like this worse is if you just bring your stealth load-out to a mission that ends up having surprise-skulls.
Well, as much of a surprise as the credits leading into the mission will allow.
That is five hundred percent a dick and balls.
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Oh yeah that’s a pepis if I’ve ever seen one.
Master Benedict “Kazuhira” “McDonall” Miller.
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I somehow never noticed the, er… “phallic symbolism” on the back of the stealth suit. I guess I always had a gun on his back, and then I switched to another outfit relatively early on and never went back to the stealth suit.
The “taboo” Kojima was talking about… I can think of something it could be too, but yeah - it might be kind of spoiler-ish to mention now.
That surprise fight with the Skulls; I was proud of myself at the time for getting through it on my first attempt, defeating them all and not using the Honey Bee. It wasn’t exactly graceful though. Lots of flailing and scrambling through the mist, getting knocked on my arse, trying to hide in nooks and crannies waiting for my health to regenerate, etc. What got me through it was managing to get on the anti-air gun and taking them out with that. Even then it took a lot; they’re ridiculously tough. They’re also usually really good at countering you getting on a mounted gun, so I think I just got lucky.
Sadly I didn’t see any comics that might relate to whatever’s happening, so none today. And I think Venom Snake is going to get a lot of mileage out of that rocket launcher in the future.
I’m actually surprised Big Boss is the one to use it. Venom Snake seems the type to resort to heavy weapon fire.
…of course he also dropped a helicopter on the base so I guess that events things out.
The Taboo is the one about not wearing shirts with giant dicks.
I also beat them without using the Honey Bee because I thought I’d fail the mission, and didn’t know I could run away. Didn’t use the AA gun though, just ran around picking up AKs.
Something tells me that this episode was recorded sometime around when Oh No Ross and Carrie was doing their investigation on ayahuasca.
I’m so glad Chip is blurring out the appearances of the SKULLS in the mission credits, because they are one part “Oh, come on! Why would they spoil that?!” and another part “Oh SHIT, I need a different loadout!”
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Not only was the Stinger developed by the time of the game, this mission is actually based on real life! There was some controversy during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan when the CIA aided the Afghans by supplying them with Stinger missiles. The US tried to buy them back after the war, but about 600 disappeared and ended up scattered around the world.
Also, we’re continuing the trend of Chip showing off things I had never even imagined were possible. I wouldn’t have tried to CQC the Skulls, let alone counter them.
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So I guess Parasite Unit is their official name and “Skulls” as well as “Mist Unit” are nicknames Snake’s crew came up with? Do they gain more names as the game goes along?
“Boss, it’s the Cyborg Zombie Unit again. They threaten the mission, dispatch them quickly. Or just run away, that seems to work just fine.”
Basically, yeah. It’s like how Zeon called White Base “Trojan Horse”. Skulls is what we call it since we don’t actually know their proper on paper name, and that is the Parasite Unit.
Presumably the same goes with Big Boss. On paper he’s Venom Snake, the baddies call him Punished Snake.
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The thing that always bothered me about the Skulls is that Skull Face doesn’t seem to appreciate that he has a squad of what are essentially wizards at his beck and call. They can summon guns, giant rocks for offense and defense, create zombies, leap incredible distances and go partly invisible. If I commanded them I’d never shut up about my cadre of wizard slaves.
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