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Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2004) - Band of Brothers
🕑 Added 2025-09-17 23:16:50 +0000 UTCThis week, we arrive at perhaps the greatest game ever made. To this day, no one has even tried to say so much about motherhood, the actual meaning of one's purpose in life, and how it's actually pretty cool to come of age when you're 29 seeing as it's still fairly young (even in 1964!) and you'll still have tons of time to become a truly awful person later on.
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is a remarkable game for many reasons, but the thing that stuck out especially this go around was how different it was from the dull and crowd-pleasing prequels that are now overrepresented in nearly all forms of media. In 2004, you could still get so sick of your megahit IP that you could just fuck off and make a prequel that is focused mostly on a Brigette/Emanuel Macron type relationship that the IP's hero's dad was in 60 years ago. Nowadays, that would get you thrown in the clink.
Check your camo index. Top off your stamina bar. It's time to beat up your teacher/lover/battlefield mom's real son so badly that he falls in love with you forever.
Art by Josh Lynch. Theme song by Brendan James, inspired by the work of Tappi Iwase, Kazuki Muraoka and Norihiko Hibino.
Comments
江戸 ねビル
This series is fantastic. I haven't played mgs in many years and just hearing all this brings back so many memories of some of the most important experiences in my life
Axels Pizzas
The Boss says Russia and America will be friends in the 21st century and that’s about all you need to know about how smart the Boss is and how politically savvy Kojima is.
Axels Pizzas
Philosophers Legacy is some National Treasure ahh silliness. Why/how is the PRC party to it when it would not come into existence until well after WW2? China was in complete turmoil after WW1. It’s ridiculous to propose that the USSR would conspire with the US or vice versa during or after the Soviets leaked the plans to break up the Ottoman territories.
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Amazing episode fellas, I didn’t realize how important mgs was for my childhood I somehow remember so many of these cutscenes and boss fights and Easter eggs even though I haven’t played this game in 15+ years
MKUItramega0K
These episodes all have the same replay value as the games do
MeowMita
I feel like the Boss's speech makes a more sense given it's a nostalgia for childhood considering that she's the daughter of a patriot. She herself is sort of downwardly mobile given that she didn't inherit the spot on the philosopher that her father had before he was killed.
R
It's canon that Kaz and Big Boss did, on the beach, in a box.
Kieran Mielek
Do you think Snake and Ocelet ever went bareback?
huff
he says "the missing link between infantry and artillery" is a "metal gear..." is because a gear is something that sits between things, linking them together. it IS really stupid, but that's what granin is literally saying.
brobrah
Strips Raikov "I'm a whole different game from Solidus!" *puts on his face*
Tyler
What’s the one-man game that Felix is referring to at the end?
Hainish
What is the game Felix references at the end developed by one person?
Mark Brian Wilson
I want to talk to Felix about Warhammer 40K over a soda
Baby J
Why would you skip the fight with The End? I thought that was such an exhilarating and frustrating boss fight as a kid.
Blown Load Steve Austin
Release the 6 hour unedited version
Eric
“you finally cleaning all the dust in your gaming room” I feel seen
Matt Ponikvar
"You have to understand the future better!!!"
Fredy Garcia
A Snake is in a cell guarded by a Johnny. (time is a flat circle)
James Wallace
Such delicious slop. Laugh! And grow fat!
Jackson Mundie
I wanna hear their thoughts on delta. Personally I think it’s phenomenal.
Gray Robinson
Need Dark Souls next
D Metcalf
The only official msg continuation I will accept is a dating sim starring solid trying to find his +1 for Meryl’s wedding
D Metcalf
“Master miller I picked this cabin for me and my huskies cause it’s where my mom and dad fucked
