Metal Gear (Series)
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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: 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: 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…
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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: “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…
