• GlueBear [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    Didn’t the first game have actual footage of castle bravo?

    Edit: can’t find evidence to confirm but I’m pretty sure THAT was the nuclear test they showed in the game.

    I hate chuds, MGS is a fantastic game. If I wanted to play a game about sneaking around in a box I could do that in a box I’d play those hide and seek games on OW2

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      A good chunk of both MGS 1+2’s cut scenes are stock footage from the military. The core theme of 1 is about the government doing nefarious testing on special forces soldiers to make them in the image of history’s greatest mercenary then they revolt and hold washington hostage with a nuclear mech.

      You have to be thicker than a bowl of oatmeal not to pick up on the politics MGS was putting down. The game was influential in a young me getting into politics because I was intrigued by nuclear weapons and their implications, I learned about the START Treaty from this game.