Codec Logs: A Metal Gear Letter Series
Codec Logs is a retrospective Metal Gear letter series brought to you by Exposition Break. We’ll be taking apart the entire Metal Gear series, so join us as we talk about everything from its gameplay to its sexism, from graphics to story to politics.
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Codec Logs – Side Story: Death Stranding
I really should’ve written this maybe a month or so back, when I finished Death Stranding. Or maybe even earlier, once I had a good sense of what the game was at the end…
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Codec Logs: What Do Jeans Have to Do With Nature and Order?
I’m fond of the term “Kojimaverse,” especially since there are plenty of nods to his other works in the Metal Gear games, and I say that as someone who’s probably missed countless others as…
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Codec Logs: Don’t worry, it’s a game! It’s a game just like usual.
What do we call the Metal Gear universe? The word “Nanomachineverse” immediately came to mind. While I find that a little funny, the whole “everything is nanomachines” meme is a little played out at…
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Codec Logs: Our boy is right on schedule. He’ll know soon enough…
I’m pretty sure that Metal Gear Solid almost ended this series for us, and not for any of the obvious reasons (though major life events obviously took their toll as well) but because we…
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Codec Logs: Wait, who had the recessive genes? Is that how any of that actually works?
The characters are no doubt at the center of what makes the Metal Gear franchise so memorable. They’d have to be. The story itself is often bonkers, but the characters ground it and make…
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Codec Logs: A Weapon That Will Change the World
You asked whether Metal Gear Solid might be better on a second playthrough, and unfortunately I need to answer with the ambiguously less-than-useful “yes and no.” Like any story that relies heavily on twists,…
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Codec Logs: Polygons and Vision Cones
Believe it or not, I’ve known people who play the Metal Gear games and skip the cutscenes and codec conversations. When Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain came out, I recall visiting message boards…
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Codec Logs: The Latest Advances in Poly-thermal Technology
I’m going to agree with you that 1998 was one of the greatest year for game release, though in hindsight it’s not a as huge of a surprise, nor was it that 2007 proved…
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Codec Logs: I’m Pretty Sure the Surgeon General Wouldn’t Approve
Every now and then, we get a year where great games are bountiful and formative. 2011 was great. 2007 was better. 1998 was the best (I’m willing to hear an argument for 2007, but…
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Codec Logs: Who Do I Call to Import Some Sand?
I’ll get to the the intro credits in a minute, but you touched on something that I suddenly can’t stop thinking about: the scene with Gustava in the sewer. You’re right, it isn’t necessarily…
