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    How much reading up do I need to enjoy MGS5: Phantom Pain?

    I've seen some videos and it looks interesting.


    However, I'd like to know how complex the story is and whether I can get into the game without having to watch 72 hours of youtube videos to understand what's going on.

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    Watching the full videos really is the best way but that said you only need to know the stories for Snake Eater --> Peace Walker --> Ground Zeroes and then Phantom Pain. See the handy info below from the other thread.

    1965 Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zndcY57Tijo
    1974 Metal Gear Solid: Peacewalker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cy7E76mBL0
    1975 Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4UxP_8eFU8
    1984 Metal Gear Solid: Phantom Pain

    If you like an emotional imbued experience playing Phantom Pain then you must watch the gamevideos of MGS that happens after Phantom Pain up to MGS 4: Guns of the Patriots:

    1995 Metal Gear
    1999 Solid Snake
    2005 Metal Gear Solid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeYbHWQrM9A
    2007 Metal Gear Solid 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5AunfmI8bs
    2014 Metal Gear Solid 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPbNi_UxNBw

    But the story super condensed is Snake Eater: Naked Snake AKA Big Boss (not the snake from the future games who is Solid Snake) gets wind that his trainer Boss is helping guard an experimental super weapon (Metal Gear). He goes in, fights a lot of bosses, stops the weapon and boss by killing her. It turns out that the Boss wasn't betraying America she was ordered to do it because the enemy used an american nuke to bomb someone so by acting like a traitor she saves the US and the world from nuclear war.

    Peace Walker: Big Boss is now running his own private army without borders operating out of Mother Base (platform in the ocean). He must go to Costa Rica to help stop another private army because Costa Rica constitution will not allow them to have an army. He ends up finding out that Dr. Strangelove is building a new Metal Gear and using the Boss's consciousness because she is the only one who is calm and calculated enough despite any pressures. Basically everyone agrees that when faced with being attacked by a nuke, humans will not retaliate because we are afraid. So the ultimate deterrence is an AI that will retaliate no matter the cost. Snake and Strangelove fight, she tortures him then they end up working together to stop PW after it is fed false data and prepares to launch a nuke. Nobody can stop it and seconds before the launch the Boss AI develops a consciousness and drowns itself to stop the firing (queue stuff about the different parts of a brain). After the credits roll there's another section where Big Boss gets his own metal gear and it is taken over by Paz (a triple agent!). Snake stops Paz and she is launched from the MG into the ocean and presumed dead.

    Ground Zero: Go on an infiltration mission to rescue Paz, find out about Skull Face who leads XOF (the mirror of FOX) who during your time in GZ is busy infiltrating mother base. Paz has been tortured and multiple bombs have been inserted into her (lots of torture, very dark game). The last scene shows Skull Face and XOF destroying mother base and Big Boss barely escaping in a chopper until Paz sacrifices herself and jumps out of the helicopter before blowing up which causes the chopper to crash and put Big Boss into a coma for 9 years which leads into the intro for the phantom pain.

    So I missed a ton and that was super basic but if you want to read, the wiki's seem to be pretty good but won't hold up to watching the full cutscene videos.

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