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The story will go over your head and you'll have no idea who certain characters are,but there are cassette tapes which do explain things a bit better for new players. Can't remember if I've said it ITT but I thought the opening to The Last Of Us was good,this easily blows it out of the water :lol:

Played the prologue on Saturday night. Still got Arkham Knight to finish so I'm saving MGS for when I've finished it instead of jumping between the two.

Excellent start to the game. The hospital stuff was intense as fuck.

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Managed to get all of the buddies now, loving the game. I've been playing it non-stop since Friday and I'm 30% Of the way though the game. I just can't help but sidetrack and do other stuff when I'm supposed to be on missions, it's an amazing game!

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History of Metal Gear, for anyone interested.

1918 - Russia, China and the USA created The Philosophers - A corrupt organisation who control everything.

1961 - President Kennedy disobeys The Philosophers

1963 - The Philosophers kill President Kennedy

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1963 - Game = Metal gear solid 3: Operation Snake Eater

FOX agent Naked Snake(FOX was a covert operations group affiliated with the CIA and lead by Major Zero) is sent into Soviet Russia to recover a Russian weapons designer and destroy a new Soviet super weapon "The shagohod", (Nuclear-armed tank )

Naked Snake is stopped by The Boss (Naked Snake's mentor)

The Boss has defected to Russia and given them a nuclear bomb

The bomb is used on a Russian Research facility by Volgin( a power hungry Russian colonel )

1964

Naked snake is told by Major Zero (Leader of FOX)the U.S the Government was willing to revoke the charges in regards to any and all involvement in The Boss's defection, under the condition that he accepts the follow up mission Operation Snake Eater

The U.S send Naked Snake back in to Kill The Boss and retrieve the stolen weapon "The shagohod"

whilst at the same time, aiming to prove they did not set off the Nuclear device.

Naked Snake is assisted by Eva (Unbeknown to Naked snake, shes a spy for Chinese People's Liberation Army, tasked with obtaining the Philosophers Legacy)

During this mission Naked Snake has many encounters with Ocelot - Later discovering he's a sleeper agent)

Naked Snake discovers Volgin has obtained "the philosophers legacy" a 100 Billion dollar savings account

Naked Snake Destroys the shagohod, Kills The Boss and Volgin and obtains half of the Legacy

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Naked Snake discovers The Boss was actually Loyal to the U.S and working undercover. The Boss was set up and unaware the Philosophers wanted her dead.. She believed she was on a mission ( Virtuous Mission )to acquire the Philosophers Legacy She was given the nuclear bomb, to give to Volgin and earn his trust Unbeknown to the Boss, Volgin had order's to use the nuclear bomb In doing so, the Americans were blamed for the attack! The CIA revised The Boss's mission and named it "Operation Snake Eater" She was told, she would continue to appear a traitor to the U.S and allow herself to be assassinated by an American Agent Naked Snake

The U.S rename Naked Snake "Big Boss" But he is Angered at the U.S, for having The Boss labelled as a traitor, even though she was loyal and having him used to kill her!

Big Boss (Naked snake) Leaves his unit FOX, shortly followed by Major Zero.

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1970 - Game = Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops

Big Boss (Naked Snake) has been captured and tortured by his old unit FOX (FOX was taken over by Gene AKA Viper and became a renegade group)

Whilst Imprisoned, Big Boss meets Green Beret Roy Campbell

Big Boss escapes and learns the U.S is blaming Big Boss for turning the FOX unit renegade and charges him with treason, they also arrest Major Zero!

Big Boss and Roy Campbell decide to create "FOXHOUND" (A unit to take down the remaining FOX unit, whilst clearing their names)

Other members of unit Ocelot - Major Zero - EVA and Frank Jaeger (A former FOX agent)

Big Boss defeats Gene, in doing so Gene gives the boss, all of FOX units money,soldiers and plans to build their own military nation

It is then revealed that FOX kidnapping Big Boss was set up by Ocelot and Major Zero and that Major Zero had manipulated Gene into going renegade

This was to lure the CIA's director out of hiding so they could obtain the Philosophers legacy

Ocelot kills the head of the CIA and obtains the Philosophers legacy and a list, naming all the members of the Philosophers.

Ocelot - Major Zero and Big Boss use the legacy and there new army to reorganize "The Philosophers" and create "The Patriots"

The Patriots gain control of the U.S government and aim to fulfill the ideal of a unified world, that was envisioned by The Boss (Not to be confused the Big Boss AKA Naked Snake)

Ocelot and Major Zero decide to make Big Boss the face of The Patriots

1971

FOXHOUND is turned into an official Military unit

1972

Big Boss is seriously injured

Major Zero, fearful his legendary soldier will die, he uses somatic cell cloning and EVA as a surrogate mother to create a clone of Big Boss

Major Zero names this project "Les Enfants Terribles" a project designed to create the perfect soldier, using the genes of the "Greatest Warrior of the 20th Century" Big Boss.

EVA produced Twins Liquid Snake and Solid Snake

Both regarded as imperfect clones, so a third child was created "Solidus Snake"

Solidus was regarded as the perfect clone of Big boss

To Prevent the clones falling into enemy hands and used against the patriots, each were given accelerated ageing.

With it been estimated they would Die early 40's and if needed, new clones could be made.

Big Boss is outraged at what Major Zero has done

He also believes The patriots have corrupt the vision of The boss and he decides to leave The Patriots

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1974 - Game = Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker

Big Boss and his new group Militaires Sans Frontières are asked to save Costa Rica from an Army who have taken over the country

Big Boss discovers this army is building a Metal Gear codenamed "Peace Walker"

The Peace Walker was built as a Nuclear deterrent and capable of selecting suitable targets for nuclear retaliation, without the need of human involvement.

The Peace Walk is also fitted with BS-Imago AKA The Boss AI

Created by Dr. Strangelove, The Boss AI was an AI based perfectly on The Boss

A CIA agent named Hot Coldman, attempts to feed the Peace Walker false data, to get it to fire at Militaires Sans Frontières

Coldman is killed by the KGB, but before he dies, he manages to reprogram the Peace Walker to fire on Cuba

At the same time, sending false data to the U.S, making it seem as though they were the target of a Soviet missile strike

Big Boss tries to convince the U.S that the missile attack is fake, in an attempt to prevent the U.S launching their own strike

Big boss is unable to stop the Americans from attacking

The Boss AI, sacrifices it's self to kill the false signal and prevents the world from Nuclear war!

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Big Boss uses his group and the Peace Walkers developers, to build his own Metal Gear

This Metal Gear is stolen by a secret agent, sent by Major Zero

Major Zero intends on using the Metal Gear, to launch Nukes at the U.S and frame Big Boss and his group for the attack

Big Boss decides to create his own Military Nation. Free of the exploitation and corruption of the worlds governments.

He names this "Outer Heaven" *He plans to use Outer Heaven and take on Major Zero and his group The Patriots

Between 1975 and around 1984 is where Ground Zero's and The Phantom Pain take place To prevent any spoilers, i will not include any more info about these here

1984 to 1989

Big Boss's army fights in numerous wars

1990

Solid Snake fights in the gulf war for the U.S

Liquid Snake is Captured in Iraq whilst fighting for the SAS

1991

Big Boss takes control of FOXHOUND, so he can keep an eye on the U.S from the inside

The U.S do not know Big Boss also controls Outer Heaven

Outer Heaven develop the TX-55 Metal Gear, a powerful to help them stand a chance at opposing Major Zero and the Patriots

1994

Liquid Snake is released

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1995 - Game = Metal Gear

The U.S learn that Outer Heaven are building their own Metal Gear

They send FOXHOUND to destroy it

Big Boss sends Frank Jaeger AKA "Grey Fox" on the mission to Outer Heaven, but he fails and is captured.

Big Boss sends in Rookie Solid Snake (Solid Snake does not know Big Boss is his dad) to save Grey Fox

Solid Snake saves Grey Fox and continues to complete Grey Fox's mission

Big Boss attempts to stop Solid Snake from completing his mission, he reveals he is the leader of Outer Heaven

That he took the role as leader of FOXHOUND so he could delay the mission, so Outer Heaven could finish building the Metal Gear

Solid Snake defeats Big Boss and the Metal Gear and sets the facility to self destruct

Big Boss survives and saves everyone from Outer before the facility is destroyed

Big Boss and his soldiers retreat to the middle east

1995

With Big Boss presumed dead, Roy Campbell was placed in command of FOXHOUND

1997

Big Boss helps Zanzibar claim independence from Russia by force

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1999 - Game = Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake

The worlds oil is running low, it is considered a major crisis

To counter the problem Dr. Kio Marv creates a synthetic oil

He is kidnapped by soldiers from Zanzibarland, with the intentions of holding the world hostage by controlling the worlds oil supply

Zanzibar uses Metal Gears to watch over Dr. Kio Marv to prevent him escaping or being rescuded

Roy Campbell sends Solid Snake to Zanzibar to rescue Dr. Kio Marv

During the mission discovers Big Boss Survived their first encounter

Solid Snake fails to save Dr. Kio Marv, finding him dead, but manages to obtain the formula for the synthetic oil from his corpse.

Solid Snake is attacked by Metal Gear D, a Metal Gear piloted by Grey Fox

Solid Snake defeats the Metal Gear, Grey Fox survives and he and Solid Snake engage in a fight. Solid Snake kills Grey Fox!

Solid Snake comes across Big Boss, they engage in battle resulting in Big Boss being Killed

Just before Big Boss dies, he reveals he is Solid Snakes father

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Big Boss's body is recovered by The Patriots, despite suffering major injuries, he was still alive,just.

Major Zero placed him in cold storage, whilst using nanomachines to artificially induce a cryogenic coma

Major Zero's goal was to use Big Boss's genes to enhance soldiers (Genome Soldiers) giving them augmented senses, reflexes, and combat skills

Major Zero grew sentimental and kept Big Boss's body around (Some suggest he regretted his and Big Boss's loss in friendship)

This angers Ocelot and he starts to plot against Major Zero and The Patriots

2000

Roy Campbell leaves FOXHOUND

Liquid Snake Joins the FOXHOUND and soon afterwards becomes it's leader

2001

Major Zero is growing old and losing faith in humanity, he dosnt trust anyone to take over The Patriots.

Major Zero commissions the construction of an AI network (The System) to pursue his vision

The Sytem consists of 4 AI's controlled by a fifth "master" AI

He uses Big Boss's bio metric data as a key, to access the central Master AI

The System takes over all functions of The Patriots

The Patriots place Solidus Snake as president of the united states

Solidus Snake orchestrates the forthcoming "Shadow Moses indecent"

2003

Dr. Naomi Hunter perfects the virus FOXDIE, a virus that is programmed to kill specific people, by identifying the person's DNA and their nanomachines

Original created to kill Solid Snake as revenge for Snake killing Grey Fox

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2005 - Game = Metal Gear Solid

FOXHOUND leads an armed uprising on a remote island in Alaska's Fox Archipelago. This island, codenamed "Shadow Moses"

Led by Liquid snake, his unit have been genetically advanced (Genome Soldiers)

They have acquired the nuclear-capable Metal Gear REX and are threatening the U.S government with a nuclear strike, if they do not receive the remains of the Big Boss within 24 hours

Roy Campbell sends in Solid Snake, with the mission to locate hostages "DARPA Chief" and "ArmsTech president"

These will confirm if Liquid has the ability to launch the nukes

Snake finds the ArmsTech president and during there conversation, the ArmsTech president suffers a sudden cardiac arrest

Snake is confronted by Ocelot, he challenges snake to a gun fight.

As Ocelot is about to shoot Solid Snake, his hand is chopped off by a Cyborg Ninja

The genome modified Ninja is Grey Fox, who was believed to be dead following his fight with Solid Snake in Metal Gear 2

During the mission, Snake rescues Meryl (Roy Campbell's Daughter) and Otacon (Creator or Metal Gear REX)

Upon saving Otacon, Solid Snake learns Liquid has a Metal Gear "Metal Gear REX"

Solid Snake delves deeper into the shadow moses complex, where he encounters the Metal Gear Rex, being piloted by Liquid Snake

During the battle, Grey Fox comes to the aid of Solid Snake. By heavily damaging Metal Gear Rex

But in doing so, Grey Fox is killed when Metal Gear Rex crushes him

After a fist battle on top of Metal Gear REX, Liquid tries to escape

when Solid Snake catches up to Liquid, Liquid suddenly dies of Cardiac arrest and it is at this point Solid Snake discovers he is infected with the FOXDIE virus.

Unknown Grey Fox at the time was still alive, Dr. Naomi Hunter had earlier injected Solid Snake with the virus

Solid Snake is told, he may have years to live

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Following the Shadow Moses a book is published, revealing everything, including Solidus's involvement

He is forced to step down as president and goes into hiding with Ocelot

Ocelot also graphs Liquid Snake's hand to himself, in replace of his decapitated one

This results in Liquid Snakes conscience trying to take over Ocelot's body

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2007 - Game = Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Part 1)

Solid Snake discovers a tanker is transporting a Metal Gear Ray

Solid Snake finds and boards the ship in an attempt to destroy it

The tanker is hijacked by Ocelot (who is currently possesed by Liquid Snake) and he Steals the Metal Gear Ray

Solid Snake is accused of stealing Metal Gear Ray and goes into hiding

2009 - Game = Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Part 2)

FOXHOUND agent Raiden (Also the adopted son of Solidus Snake, but has lost his memories of this) is ordered to rescue hostages being held the Big Shell facility

They are being held captive by a terrorist group named Sons of Liberty (whose leader claims to be Solid Snake)

During the mission Raiden meets a man named Pliskin, who helps him try transport the hostages from the facility

Raiden and Pliskin are attacked by the Leader of The Sons of Liberty, who calls himself Solid Snake

Raiden and Pliskin defeat Solid but he escapes. It is then revealed that the Solid Snake impersonator and the leader of The sons of Liberty is Solidus Snake

Solidus took on the name of Solid to frame Solid for the terrorist activities *At the same time Pliskin reveals he is Solid Snake

Whilst on the facility, Raiden learns the facility is one massive Metal Gear

Also that it also houses one of the Patriot AI systems

Raiden and Solid Snake successfully plant the virus into the AI system, but Solid Snake is captured

Raiden then fights an army of Metal gear Rays

Ocelot reveals that that the entire Big Shell mission was a carefully coordinated attempt to re-enact the events of the Shadow Moses incident

Orchestrated by The Patriot AI for the purpose of creating a soldier (Raiden) on par with Solid Snake

Raiden is then Contacted by The patriot AI via his coms unit.

It reveals that the true purpose of the simulation was to see how well they could simulate and control human behaviour *The AI Orders Raiden to Kill Solidus, otherwise they will kill his loved ones

When Raiden confronts Solidus, Solidus reveals Radiens past to him and that he is Raidens foster father

The two engage in battle, in which Raiden Kills Solidus Snake

When Ocelot sees Solidus Killed, he flee's with last Metal Gear

Angered at being manipulated by The Patriots, Raiden vows to destroy them

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2014 - Game = Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

Ocelot is now controlled by Liquid Snakes conscience so will be refereed to currently as "Liquid Ocelot"

The world is now run by private nanomachine enhanced militarises, with the biggest ones been lead by Liquid Ocelot

The UN want Liquid Ocelot assassinated, so they send in Solid Snake to kill Liquid Ocelot

Due to the accelerated ageing, Solid Snake is now old and has around 1 year to live

Snake fails is first attempt to assassinate Liquid Ocelot, but discovers Dr. Naomi Hunter is being held captive by Liquid Ocelot

Snake rescues Dr. Naomi Hunter, then is told the FOXDIE virus in his body is mutating

She then explains, Liquid Ocelot wants Big Boss's frozen body, retrieve his bio metric data and use it to access the Master Patriot AI

Giving him control over ever nanomachine in the world

That it will soon become uncontrollable and start to kill everyone aground Solid Snake

During a battle with multiple Mech's (Non nuclear Metal Gears)a Cyborg Ninja assists Solid Snake and helps him escape

The Ninja is revealed to be Raiden

Ocelot succeeds in acquiring Big Boss, gaining control of all the nanomachines in the world, he shuts down every army, in the world, apart from his own

He plans on using Metal Gear Rex (from MGS1) to destroy The Patriots, so he heads back to Shadow Moses to acquire it.

Ocelot obtains Metal Gear Rex and prepares to Launch his Nuclear strike on the Patriots central core.

Solid Snake and Raiden managed to prevent Liquid Ocelot from Launching the strike.

They plant a virus created by Dr. Naomi Hunter into the core of the AI system

The virus destroys The Patriot System, which in turn destroys all AI's and nanomachines in the world

The world is left with only the bare necessity's for the modern civilization to survive

Solid Snake and Liquid Ocelot engage in one final fight, in which Solid Snake kills Liquid Ocelot

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With The Patriots and all nanomachines gone, every Army / Person / Government in the world is free from manipulation and can do their own thing

Solid Snake visits The Big Boss's grave, with only a year to live and the FOXDIE virus in him mutating, threatening to kill everyone around him

he decides to commit suicide

Before he pulls the trigger, a man approaches Solid Snake pushing another man in a wheelchair.

The man walking, is Big Boss!!!!!!

He explains the frozen corpse was not him, but Solidus Snake.

As Solidus Snake was the perfect clone of Big Boss and shared his DNA, people presumed the frozen body was Big Boss

Big Boss explains the patriots were created to fullfil The Boss's vision, or a unified world

But along the way Big Boss and Major Zero both lost their way and pursued different paths to achieve this

Big Boss explains Major Zero allowed the AI's to take control, which lead to a world dependent on the war economy

And that his was far from the Vision of The Boss when she envisioned a unified world

Big Boss then walks behind the old man in the wheel chair and turns off his life support, the old man dies in Big Boss's arms

This man, was Major Zero and the war between the two, comes to an end!

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Big Boss informs Solid Snake, the AI implanted a new strain of FOXDIE in Solid Snake

That Solid Snake was no longer becoming a biological weapon, but being in the presence of Solid Snake, was killing him (Big Boss)

Big Boss reveals that himself, Major Zero and Ocelot, all just wanted to be free of the way the world was

That each were following their own adaptations of The Boss's original dream

But that ultimately, what The Boss wanted, was to just leave the world alone

Big Boss also reveals that Liquids arm had not possessed Ocelot and that Ocelot had used Drugs, nanotech and hypnosis to implant Liquids personality into himself, to fool the AI. But when he had Liquids arm removed, Ocelot lost his mind and was actually convinced he was Liquid Snake

Big Boss and Solid Snake reconcile then Big Boss dies in Solid Snakes Arms

Solid Snake then goes on, to live the remainder of his life and to see what becomes of the world

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phantom pain is starting to get a bit repetitive now after 15 hours or so.feels like far cry 4 where you're just infiltrating bases over and over,and it's the same bases i've visited on more than one occasion.about 2 cutscenes so far and that's it.still a good game,but doesn't deserve some of the 10 out of 10 reviews i've been seeing.

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I've put well over 50 hours into this game. It's phenomenal IMO.

I've been waiting years for it though, I'm a massive MGS fanboy. Other than Rangers it's the only thing I get excited about.

Need to ask someone a question, not sure how far into the storyline you guys will be though:

I'm in Angola/Zaire at the minute and I'm trying to extract a truck but the Skulls have jumped out and I can't find any way to complete it. I've tried driving the truck out, fultoning the truck and going head to head with the skulls, but no luck. Anyone have any ideas?
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Just thinking there, I don't have a lot of space left on my PS4, can I use an external hard drive say 1TB with it? Like plug it in and use it as an external device to instal the games in? Or am I gonna have to get rid of shit?

Nah you can't just plug a HD in. You're going to have to delete some stuff.

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I've put well over 50 hours into this game. It's phenomenal IMO.

I've been waiting years for it though, I'm a massive MGS fanboy. Other than Rangers it's the only thing I get excited about.

Need to ask someone a question, not sure how far into the storyline you guys will be though:

I'm in Angola/Zaire at the minute and I'm trying to extract a truck but the Skulls have jumped out and I can't find any way to complete it. I've tried driving the truck out, fultoning the truck and going head to head with the skulls, but no luck. Anyone have any ideas?

Managed to get it sorted :D

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From what I've seen TPP looks pretty boring.

Looks great but gameplay wise? Meh

Roll on Fallout 4

it's actually quite good mate,caved in to the hype train as there was fuck all else out,very addictive,but the first 15 hrs is just like far cry 4,infiltrating bases and capturing commanders,prisoners etc over and over again,to the point it becomes a bit tedious.

just unlocked africa,so it's nice to have a change of scenery from afghanistan,but i've a feeling it's just going to be doing the same shit again.

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it's actually quite good mate,caved in to the hype train as there was fuck all else out,very addictive,but the first 15 hrs is just like far cry 4,infiltrating bases and capturing commanders,prisoners etc over and over again,to the point it becomes a bit tedious.

just unlocked africa,so it's nice to have a change of scenery from afghanistan,but i've a feeling it's just going to be doing the same shit again.

Not for me mate, played like boring shite from what I could tell.

Not into stealth shite at all.

Fallout is the game I'm waiting for

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Just thinking there, I don't have a lot of space left on my PS4, can I use an external hard drive say 1TB with it? Like plug it in and use it as an external device to instal the games in? Or am I gonna have to get rid of shit?

No but you can buy another HDD and replace your old one, swap them each time you play certain games. Like have your favourite games on one, and rarely played games on the other.
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