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: Don’t Picture the GAME OVER Screen, Even If You Make a Mistake
To: Blake Foley From: Sean Gandert Subject: RE: The Phantom Sequel Theoretically, I would always have games make an attempt at telling their stories through gameplay—after all, that’s why we’re here, right? Playing through…
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Codec Logs: A Very Sad Olympian
The inventory in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before in a video game, and I think you are on to something when you compare it to an adventure…
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Codec Logs: When You’re Boiling an Egg, You’ve Got to Time It Just Right
To: Blake Foley From: Sean Gandert Subject: RE: The Phantom Sequel Dear Blake, So if Metal Gear 2 isn’t just more of the same, then the question I have to ask is, “What is…
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Codec Logs: The Phantom Sequel
To: Sean Gandert From: Blake Foley Subject: The Phantom Sequel Dear Sean, As we head into Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, I thought it would be worthwhile to take a brief look back at…
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Codec Logs: Positive Punk
From: Blake Foley To: Sean Gandert Subject: RE: Stop the Operation. Switch off Your MSX at Once. Man, Bioshock’s twist… I really hate that it is THE twist in video games, and I equally…
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Codec Logs: Stop the Operation. Switch off Your MSX at Once.
Codec Logs is a retrospective Metal Gear letter series by Blake Foley and Sean Gandert. An index of the letters can be found here. From: Sean Gandert To: Blake Foley Subject: Stop the Operation.…
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Codec Logs: World-Building with Steve
From: Blake Foley To: Sean Gandert Subject: RE: Entering the Cardboard Box Sean, Even though I’m a long time fan of the series, I actually never went back to Metal Gear on the MSX2.…
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Codec Logs: Entering the Cardboard Box
This is going to put me in a tiny minority of players, but before we began this project Metal Gear was the most recent entry of the series that I’d played. After I graduated…
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Codec Logs: “Metal Gear?!?”
It is 2015 and I am neck deep in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain; a game that is likely the end of an era. Konami might release a Metal Gear Solid 6,…
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Kept you waiting, huh?
For Exposition Break’s inaugural series of features, we’ll be taking apart the entire Metal Gear series. Join us as we talk about everything from its gameplay to its sexism, from graphics to story to…
