Metal Gear Solid

Recurring themes

Before discussing the individual titles, many themes are repeated over the course of most, if not all these games.

• All about preventing nukes, nukes, and more nukes from being used.
• The console of choice is usually a PlayStation of some kind.
• Oddly incompetent enemy AI (making this game suitable for stupid kids like yourself)
  • Guards can't see shit more than 10 inches away.
  • Guards patrolling along fixed routes making them predictable.
  • What's that? Who's there? Who's that?
  • Upon being detected by an enemy, a red exclamation mark appears above their head.
  • When in alert mode, the enemies are nice enough to shoot now and then, use burst-fire and not be trigger happy when aiming at you.
• Gunfights with numerous soldiers which is your fault because you are going to places where you shouldn't be.
• All this shit that's been happening is all about or has something to do with Big Boss.
• A chance for basement dwelling fans to fap when one of the female characters gets naked
• Some anonymous person attempts to contact you via codec to give you hints and their identity is inevitably revealed later. (Most of the time code-named Deepthroat)
• A nigger of some kind including Sigint or Fortune.
• A blonde woman of some kind including Sniper Wolf, EVA or Cecile.
• A scientist, usually of the Emmerich family such as Hal (a.k.a Otacon).
• Suppressed pistols (M1911, SOCOM, M9, etc.) being more useful than assault rifles (AK-47, M16A1, FAMAS, etc.) in most situations.
• Using cardboard boxes to evade detection.
• (Solid Snake era) A cyborg ninja will come by employing uber lightning fast reflexes with a high frequency blade and will cut up almost any motherfucker in their way.
• (Post Metal Gear Solid 1) Being encouraged to take down living enemies through non-lethal means.
• Someone on a frequency of 140.85, usually Roy Campbell who will assist a moronic Snake.
• You will come close to sabotaging a Metal Gear but will end up fighting an operational Metal Gear anyway.
• Being able to survive being run over by a tank, hit by HEAT missiles and other things capable of killing a normal person immediately.
• A superhuman who can move faster than Usain bolt and hands out knives as fast as guns fire bullets (Vamp or Gene).
• Chaff grenades somehow rendering all electronics temporarily useless in the immediate area.
• A cunt under the guise of someone giving useless advice will actually be the one who betrays you.
• Snake gets tortured one way or another.
• BUTTON MASHING TO PRESERVE YOUR LIFE during the torture, the more biologically inferior sub-humans who struggle to get past this either:
  • Asks someone on the internet to do it for them by uploading their save file.
  • Asks someone more biologically superior than they are to do the job.
  • Stops playing altogether.
• Escape imprisonment, may takes days or even weeks to find out or in the case of the most retarded of players, seek help from someone, such as the interwebz.
• Stealth Camouflage, a device that makes you optically invisible which is earned upon completing certain requirements, making sneaking around almost useless but allows you to punch guards without being seen for the lulz.
• Melee/fist fight as one of the last battles.
• A conversation/phone call at the end of the game about useless shit, with the current game's logo in white font imposed on a black background and.