Thirith on 19/10/2015 at 08:33
Don't tell me you didn't go rescue the kids at once. You monster.
henke on 19/10/2015 at 08:57
Ah those kids are fine. I'll rescue them eventually. I just got some important stuff to do first, like finding really big hills to slide down in my cardboard box.
242 on 19/10/2015 at 09:59
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Are those Extreme, Subsistence etc. missions compulsory, or are they extras? I've just started chapter 2, and I've played the game so much over the last few weeks that I want to get to the end of the story; I'm hoping that I can just play the story-relevant missions, move on to another game, and then return to TPP every now and then for a mission. Is that how these work?
Basically yes.
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About the missions, yeah I think I'm missing something. Beat episode 40 but no new missions showed up. Progress is probably tied to some side missions.
In the Chapter 2, every ANY 3 side-missions moves the story furhter. Non-story main missions (extreme, stealth etc.) aren't compulsory. But I read that for mission 46 one needs to finish all yellow side missions, there are no such requirements for mission 41.
Finished the game yesterday (after more than 150hrs in the game), I still need to S many missions, finish some side missions, and mission 45, and find missed animals, and get missed key items, but the story is over. It was quite a ride and I liked it. I hadn't figured that
BB wasn't BB until the end of the game.
Also, tried some extreme missions, and I couldn'd beat The Metallic Archaea until I used Quiet (even though I beat it easily with a gattling D-Walker on normal). Quiet did it herself even on extreme without my help in 3 minutes. S of course. I guess a 12.7 sniper rifle is the most effective weapon against Skulls.
BTW, why the Chapter 2 is called "Race"? Race in a poetic sense, like "the present race of poets", i.e. a "family" perhaps. The main theme of the 2nd chapter is Diamond Dogs after all.
Malf on 19/10/2015 at 10:15
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I hadn't figured that
BB wasn't BB until the end of the game.
Yeah, I love the double-fakeout from learning that
Eli doesn't share your DNA and therefore isn't your clone, making you think that he's NOT Liquid, when in fact he is, because you're not actually Big Boss.
242 on 19/10/2015 at 12:26
Quote Posted by Malf
Yeah, I love the double-fakeout from learning that
Eli doesn't share your DNA and therefore isn't your clone, making you think that he's NOT Liquid, when in fact he is, because you're not actually Big Boss.
And how elegant they finished the whole circle. On the other side of the cassette
was coded a message called "Operation Intrude N313". I.e. the scene happens in 1995. The beginning of the very first game of the series, and it was V who was killed back then, not BB.
Also, the thing in which V inserted the cassette was MSX Bitcoder. It's like V was loading the very first game of the series to play it on his MSX :)
Thirith on 19/10/2015 at 13:38
Bowie's "The Man Who Sold The World ((
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Sold_the_World) lyrics), which features early in the game, seems to be a bit of a giveaway too, from what I've seen in other discussions. There appear to be a number of hints that in hindsight are quite telling.
242 on 19/10/2015 at 23:34
Quote Posted by Thirith
Bowie's "The Man Who Sold The World ((
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Sold_the_World) lyrics), which features early in the game, seems to be a bit of a giveaway too, from what I've seen in other discussions. There appear to be a number of hints that in hindsight are quite telling.
Yep, BB even called himself after a character from the song.
"From the man who sold the world" = "From your doppelgänger".henke on 22/10/2015 at 07:23
[video=youtube;E6cPPmcfKao]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6cPPmcfKao[/video]
:cheeky:
henke on 24/10/2015 at 08:59
HOLY SHIT THAT ENDING! :D
I did not see that coming.
