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In 2023, the Japanese noodle brand Cup Noodle used footage from the beginning of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain with Konami's permission to advertise their premium seafood cup noodles. The commercial features a scene where Big Boss Spoiler:(actually Venom Snake in disguise) wakes up from a coma and a doctor tells him how long he was out, with the dialogue changed to have the doctor inform Big Boss that while the seafood flavored cup noodles feature no shrimp, the new premium sea food flavor does have shrimp. This scene in general is a meme in the Japanese-speaking Internet, hence why it was used.
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Big Boss' final vision of Paz in censored the Japanese version of the game. The scene is altered by using different camera angles and animations of Paz to obscure gore. In a later update for PC, this scene was also censored worldwide.
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During mission 29, Spoiler:if the player shoots down the chopper that arrives after defeating the skulls, instead of the usual "Game Over" text it will change to "Time Paradox".
The same thing can happen on the first mission in the game. Spoiler:If it takes more than three days to rescue Kaz the cut-scene will be different, and the text will again change to "Time Paradox".
The same thing can happen on the first mission in the game. Spoiler:If it takes more than three days to rescue Kaz the cut-scene will be different, and the text will again change to "Time Paradox".
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During "Mission 2 - Diamond Dogs" on Mother Base, it is possible to shoot Ocelot with a tranquilizer gun. Doing so will make him say a few comments instead of knocking him out. Sometimes he will say "La Li Lu Le Lo", in reference to the Patriots from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
He will also sometimes say "Kawanishi-Noseguchi, Kinunobebashi, Takiyama, Uguisunomori, Tsuzumigataki", which is a shortened list of the names of train stations of the Myōken Line, operated by Nose Electric Railway in the Kansai region of Honshū, Japan. This is also a recurring easter egg that started in the first Metal Gear Solid.
He will also sometimes say "Kawanishi-Noseguchi, Kinunobebashi, Takiyama, Uguisunomori, Tsuzumigataki", which is a shortened list of the names of train stations of the Myōken Line, operated by Nose Electric Railway in the Kansai region of Honshū, Japan. This is also a recurring easter egg that started in the first Metal Gear Solid.
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- He'll have shrapnel in his head when controlled by Venom Snake.
- His sleeves will be on fire when controlled by The Man On Fire.
- His mask will change to resemble Skull Face's mask when controlled by him.
- He'll be wearing Shabani's necklace when controlled by him.
- He'll have Eli's red cloth on his shoulder when controlled by him.
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If the player does a punch attack while sprinting, the classic "bionic strain" sound effect from the 1974 television series The Six Million Dollar Man will play. Venom Snake himself also has a bionic arm to help further cement the reference.
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The game originally had an "80's filter" during production. According to director Hideo Kojima, it was inspired by the 2013 film Rush, which itself "had very 70's texture & tone of film." As the game's story was set in 1984, the team studied and developed a filter reminiscent of the 1980's. However, once it was used in fullscreen, it ultimately demanded too much processing power, slowing the game down significantly. This ultimately caused the feature to be removed in the final product.
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There was originally a final mission planned that was ultimately cut from the game, called Spoiler:Mission 51: Kingdom of the Flies. The mission would have tied the final loose-end of Eli running away with Sahelanthropus alongside the war-children and the remaining English vocal-cord parasite. A new area, an island surrounded by a salt lake located in Central Africa, was planned for the mission as well.
XOF Soldiers and Child Soldiers would be patrolling across the island until Snake finally confronts Eli inside of Sahelanthropus, resulting in a final fight that would end with Sahelanthropus being destroyed. It is revealed that Eli intentionally infected himself with the English vocal-cord parasite that the Floating-Boy gave him, and he is left behind to either take his own life or to die to incoming Napalm strikes on the island. After Snake and Diamond Dogs leave the island, the Floating Boy uses his powers to remove the parasites and takes him off the island.
Only 30% of the cutscenes were ever finished, and footage shows no facial animations on any of the characters. It is unknown how much of the island itself, or the boss fight, were ever completed.
XOF Soldiers and Child Soldiers would be patrolling across the island until Snake finally confronts Eli inside of Sahelanthropus, resulting in a final fight that would end with Sahelanthropus being destroyed. It is revealed that Eli intentionally infected himself with the English vocal-cord parasite that the Floating-Boy gave him, and he is left behind to either take his own life or to die to incoming Napalm strikes on the island. After Snake and Diamond Dogs leave the island, the Floating Boy uses his powers to remove the parasites and takes him off the island.
Only 30% of the cutscenes were ever finished, and footage shows no facial animations on any of the characters. It is unknown how much of the island itself, or the boss fight, were ever completed.
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The game's PC retail release is simply a CD with nothing but a Steam installer file on it, making the contents take up a total of only 8.78mb and contain no data actually retaining to the game itself.
This was widely considered a grievous decision, as many players who purchased the retail copy of the game likely had unstable or restricted bandwidth on their internet connection, making the 28GB download a struggle.
This was widely considered a grievous decision, as many players who purchased the retail copy of the game likely had unstable or restricted bandwidth on their internet connection, making the 28GB download a struggle.
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The codename of the Aerial Command Center, pequod, is named after the ship belonging to the whaling crew featured in Moby Dick.
subdirectory_arrow_right Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (Game)
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It was originally intended for both parts of Metal Gear Solid V, Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain, to be a single game, but the game's designer, Hideo Kojima, wanted people to experience the game near the launch of the recently announced next generation of consoles (PlayStation 4 and Xbox One). Ground Zeroes was also considered for the PlayStation Portable, but development proved to be much tougher than expected, and that version was cancelled.
However, in 2023, Kojima stated on Twitter that he originally intended for Ground Zeroes to not just be released separately as a prologue to The Phantom Pain all along, but he also intended it to be the first installment of an episodic series. His reasoning for this was due to lengthy development times for recent games resulting in ideas changing over the course of production. His original plan was to produce the first episode to gauge audience reactions, and then develop two more episodes while receiving feedback, but due to criticism over the game's short length and pricing, and subsequent confusion over whether or not Ground Zeroes was considered a full game, this plan was scrapped.
However, in 2023, Kojima stated on Twitter that he originally intended for Ground Zeroes to not just be released separately as a prologue to The Phantom Pain all along, but he also intended it to be the first installment of an episodic series. His reasoning for this was due to lengthy development times for recent games resulting in ideas changing over the course of production. His original plan was to produce the first episode to gauge audience reactions, and then develop two more episodes while receiving feedback, but due to criticism over the game's short length and pricing, and subsequent confusion over whether or not Ground Zeroes was considered a full game, this plan was scrapped.
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Kiefer Sutherland was recommended to Kojima for the role of Snake by Avi Arad, who is producing the Metal Gear Solid movie.
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This game is named after a real medical condition. Phantom pain is pain that feels like it's coming from a body part that's no longer there. Doctors once believed this post-amputation phenomenon was a psychological problem, but experts now recognize that these real sensations originate in the spinal cord and brain.
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In Japanese
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In English:
"They had cut off my ears and my nose, I looked terrible"
These new words fit perfectly with Ishmael's bandaged face in Metal Gear Solid 5.
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The demo Hideo Kojima showed at GDC 2013 for The Phantom Pain starts with the words, "Okay Ahab, time to go." A bandaged man then turns and runs to Snake, saying, "You can call me Ishmael." Snake is also revealed to have a prosthetic left arm and in the actual trailer for the game you can see a large flaming whale. These are all allusions to the novel Moby Dick. The main character in Moby Dick is named Captain Ahab, the first words in the book are "You can call me Ishmael", and Ahab has a wooden leg and is hunting the whale that took it.
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