Use my code AUSTINERUPTION to get $5 off your delicious, healthy Magic Spoon cereal by clicking this link: magicspoon.com/AUSTINERUPTION Also check the description. I read a comment the other day that made me think hard to myself so I included a Song List and will try to do that going forward! FINALLY, Metal Gear Survive is done! That was... one of the longest videos on the channel as well as some of the most effort. Let's just say... I didn't sleep last night. Also to date this video, i'm gonna take a nap and then watch ric flair's last match with bated breath. QUESTION OF THE DAY! After watching this, do you think you'll try Metal Gear Survive?

There's an Easter egg where if Snake falls asleep in his jail cell in MGS3, he has a nightmare where he has to 100% Metal Gear Survive

It’s infuriating that they have probably the best engine for third person shooters ever made, they had metal gear online which they just let die, and they’re sitting on the tech doing fuck all with it. No ambition, no weird ideas, not even shitty games. Just nothing.

I think the point of Kojima’s quote is that when you strip all of the spicy and weird elements in Metal Gear Games, it’s root story and overarching messages are always about politics and espionage. There’s a lot of weird things in Metal Gear but they’re never the center story at hand, unlike how Survive is a zombie tower defense game in story and gameplay all the way through.

The gameplay Kojima’s team put together for MGS V is by far the best third person shooter mechanics I’ve ever played. I’m surprised some of that translated to survive as an asset flip.

Rather than zombies, I think the game would have been more well-received had the premise been something along the lines of a soldier trapped behind enemy lines having to escape/survive against overwhelming odds, with a focus on stealth and survival mechanics with the player having to manage their hunger, thirst and sleep while also avoiding enemy patrols. I'd have certainly given it shot in that scenario.

Alot of the time when I see a video title like "I did X so you don't have to" I still feel like I want to do the thing they did. But this is the first one that comes to mind, where I go "Yeah I don't want to do this"

"Where do zombies fit into Metal Gear?" Literally the Skulls unit and Puppet soldiers.

"Where do zombies fit into that?" I dunno, you tell me, Hideo. Considering there were zombies in MGS5, along with a flaming unicorn, a pyromancer, a reanimated demonic Volgin, a whale made out of fire, and bootleg Strogg soldiers.

To clarify when Kojima said he wanted to finish with it every step along the way... He meant since Mgs 1 on the Playstation. You can end the series at any point of the MGS time line and you'd be correct to say it's the directors idea of a canonical ending.

The one thing that really stood out to me when the game was coming out was despite the fact Konomi did hand out review copies, no one could even play it or review it until after release day, not due to any review embargos, but because the game was online only and the servers weren't up until like a day after release.

The game suffers from "im named after a big game series but im actually nothing like that and im im own unique experience" or DMC devil may cry syndrome.

The thing about the people with telekinesis, the cyborgs, the vampire and the ghost in Metal Gear Solid is that they were being used as weapons or assets by their goverments or the leader of their faction, just like Big Boss or Solid Snake were used, and it's a reference to the Cold War era when military was looking for people with special abilities to work with (or for) them. In Survive you are in an alternate dimension filled with zombies because everyone likes TWD at the moment.

I like a good survival game, but god damn, Konami really shot themselves in the foot of releasing a zombie survival game immediately after splitting with Kojima. It doesn't matter how playable the game is, Zombie saturation was at peak when MG survive was released, booting your star dev to chase a trend that your IP had no prior connection to was dumb. I don't know why anyone would pay for a game that's on life support, it's amazing Konami kept it up for as long as it is.

"It's so wiggly...Why" I was not expecting this and wasn't even looking at the screen until the very second he showed the hat wiggling and I actually died laughing

yea things like always-online connectivity and "the game advances while youre not playing it" mechanics are what kept me from even attempting it. im sure there was some cathartic experiences to be had, but im someone who sees the DD mother base cinematic every time i play mgs5 so everybody would be dead in Survive because id touch it maybe a couple times a year at most

You mentioning Dark Cloud and using Dark Cloud music in your video makes it an immediate 10/10.

I played the online mode of this with a friend. Fun fact: If you don't play any story mode at all, you have a shitton of locked features in the online modes, so I was just kinda running around with the starting gear and slapping zombies. The best part of the game, by far, is the fact that the Fox Engine lets you play baseball with thrown grenades.

I'm honestly surprised Konami hadn't pulled the plug on the servers by now. I mean there are people playing it but it's not the kind of numbers you'd expect a publisher to be OK with continuing to run, but then Babylon's Fall hasn't shut down...yet.

Excuse me my dear sir, Revolver Ocelot spins his guns for the perfect amount of time, every single time. "Mrowww!!!"

7:46 Did this guy just call Persona garbage? Maybe we should condemn him just like this game.

Getting big Let it Die vibes from this game, even the way they run events and keep it maintenance mode. Super bosses, micros all that jazz.

I geniunely want to know who asked for Survive, who in Konami thought a zombie survival game was definitely what Metal Gear needed after Kojima left

Him: I played this game so you don't have to. Also him: Look how much fun I'm having.

Thanks for making this video, I've always been morbidly curious about Survive. Having picked up playing Fallout 76 recently, I am hearing a lot of similarities, which make it sound like there actually are some good aspects to it, since I'm really enjoying 76. The major difference between them being that Bethesda has continued supporting 76 with things like giant free content updates on a regular basis.

I just want to bring up why the oxygen mask doesn't appear at 13:12 is because you have the bandana head item equipped. For whatever reason, all head cosmetics in the extra slot just disable the mask model completely.

Love u Austin but gotta warn anyone thinking about it that Magic Spoon is a keto-friendly food and is totally not meant to be eaten just like normal cereal and does NOT taste like normal cereal. It was originally made to sell to a small group of people for keto but they didn't make enough profit marketing it that way, so began marketing it to EVERYONE

There's one important detail that you missed. The "storage area" is the future. They're _deep_ in the future of the Metal Gear Solid universe, which fell to a grey goo event from nanomachines. That's... actually the biggest problem with nanomachines.

As a guy who plays alot of this game, you've basically described it in the best way possible, not sugarcoatting anything or over beating things. Nicely done 👍

What also breaks my heart is that Suikoden can't even get a collection like Castlevania, Contra or MGS. The first two games can fit just about anywhere now in terms of storage. 3,4,5 are all also relatively small compared to a modern game. Even if you bundle in Tiekris for all of the translated games you could still fit all 6 games on an 8 GB switch cartridge. Konami must have seen how well the Eiyuden Chronicles Kickstarter made so why they don't just release a collection baffles me.

Appropriate to its secret-time-travel story, Metal Gear Survive seems like a game displaced in time. Everything in this video makes it sound like it would've been a PERFECT smaller-scale portable release on like, the DS or PSP. Unfortunately it released in an era where those don't exist anymore, trying to fit it into the market that does exist only hurts them, and of course it was at basically the absolute WORST time to release a lower-budget Metal Gear spinoff.

I remember when this first came out I saw a few people basically making this exact same video, showcasing the game and saying how it wasn't the worst thing ever made like the internet made it out to be. You can imagine how the internet responded to them. I'd love to see more people come play this game online, it's chaotic and dare I say, kind of fun. Nothing amazing mind you, but nothing extremely bad either.

It always makes me so happy to hear Dark Cloud mentioned by anyone especially when the music is used

To me, i feel like the micro-management of your health was also a subtle callback to MGS3. Cuz back in that game, if you got wounded or something, you had to go into the menu and fugure out what item you need to mend it.

This game is actually decent. Everyone jumped on the bandwagon of "it's trash" but didn't actually give it a chance. I've played every Metal Gear game, and appreciate this as a separate spinoff survival entity.

I absolutely agree with how you rated Survive. It's very okay, it's mostly inoffensive as a game, but didn't need the Metal Gear title. I myself liked the game though, messing around with friends in the multiplayer was a ton of fun.

The fact that this has a bigger player base than Babylon's Fall is insanity.

I never beat the game 100%, but I did play through the campaign and got both good and bad endings. Honestly, I didn't hate it? It was painfully average, but I didn't really get bored playing it. I can't imagine 100%'ing it though.

Dark cloud is a series that doesnt get enough love. Props

If they made a battle royale game with the Fox engine/MGSV gameplay I would play it forever.

The drastic downfall of Konami is one of the most heartbreaking things I've gone through when it comes to gaming. They use to publish some of my favorite series. I miss Silent Hill and Metal Gear so much. It is right up there with the drastic drop off in quality with Bioware games. I'm not one of those that screams about gaming being better back in the day as we have a ton of amazing games these days, but I can't help but really miss some of the old days and how if you saw a publisher or dev associated with a game you could almost bet it would be good. Hell now you can't even trust CD Project Red who were the darlings before CP2077. As a pc guy I have to say Sony seems to have the last couple devs you can bet will release a great product and of course we still have from software

The updates from this channel are always an automatic "stop everything else and watch" for me. Especially if it's not a series or game I'm familiar with, bc Austin just doing Austin Things is a solid time

Kojima gets a lot of praise but hes also the guy who takes 100 percent credit fro the games that many talented people make

That ending "we'll get a " is now funnier than hell

If they released the game as a brand new IP instead of associating the "Metal Gear" this would be a pretty popular game with a solid small community behind it. Is a bit fun survival game

“I beat it 100%.” “Hey all so I didn’t beat it 100% because it would take too long.” Uh?

Funnily enough MGS V did have zombies of a sort; some of the skulls could make temporary zombies to annoy you during a few boss fights.

I did really love the MGSV gameplay systems and definitely wanted more. But yeah this felt like a strange turn

Thank you, Austin, for continuing to suffer through games so we don't have to. Super excited for the SEGA Marvel stuff.

Mad props to you for actually playing Survive for a good amount of time to make this video, you put in more work then, I dare say, most people do. Also I didn't remember Konami owned all those franchises so now I'm sad again.

I've been waiting so long for someone to do this

The most fun I've had with this game was play testing it and making Jill Valentine. After that playing the game made me realize. I rather be water boarded.

13:12 that's mainly due to how the special accessories work. It will always get rid of anything on your head so not only would you have the accessory on no matter what and so it won't cause clipping issues. You can see it if you go I to the dust without a special head accessory on and when you go with one on.

"The _Metal Gear_ games are about political fiction and espionage... Where do zombies fit into that?" --Hideo Kojima, the man who put skin-breathing, voluptuous, bikini-wearing mutes, fire whales, fire horses, leather wearing grey aliens and, well, zombies in MGSV?

You hit me with the nostalgia when you mentioned dark cloud base building then started playing dark cloud 2 music. That games music is so good.

Thank you so much. I was still procrastinating on playing this game because nobody else 100%’d it for me.

Interesting take on this game. Metal Gear may be my favorite franchise, but I only ever heard negative impressions regarding this one. Some of the lore in Survive at least seemed like it was trying to do some interesting stuff.

Fans:"Konami, you have such great ips, please use them!" Konami:"Here's a pachinko, best I can do." Fans:"but.....but we wanted actual video games." Konami:"You know what? Because I like you kid, I'll throw in a nice cg cutscene that shows you what could've been!" Fans:“......Why are you like this...."

How interesting how we AFTERWARDS happened to get a remake of Snake Eater AND a collection of the first three Metal Gear games INCLUDING some titles from Gameboy and NES!🙂😁🤔😏

Getting a rando bando with coop in this game is like getting a random in RE5 back in the day with every weapon and enough golden eggs to throw at you.

Austin: "Whole world wants you to die and unfortunately there is no quicksave" Death Stranding: How is that an issue?

You know what would have been a better idea than making this game? Co-op Metal Gear Solid 5. Like it was all there and the game even had multiplayer but rather than give us a mission based co-op mode where we get to use stealth tactics as a team...we got this. Just...what...we....asked for?

i played this game till i got to end game without ever knowing there was a multiplayer. thank you for crushing my soul with this one

24:18 Old Metal Gear Sahelanthropus........9 years before being created Well the time travel plot exist

The Fox engine is so good in Metal Gear Solid 5 and makes the whole game feel so modern and polished even in 2022. Konami are really wasting it by only making this trash and football games.

I really enjoyed the demo. I truly had fun playing it with friends. But the full game put me in a situation to where I had to grind for food, and I just don't feel like it meshed as well. If it could've just been the multi-player I would have gladly got it as a 15-20 dollar expansion.

It might be because it was 4 years ago, but I actually liked this game and beat it like twice back when it came out haha

Not the hero that we want, but the hero that we deserve, thank you soldier

Thank you for your sacrifice, Austin. You truly play it so we don't have to.

It wasn't zombies that killed this game it was the mandatory internet connection. People tend to get upset when you tell them they can't actually own the thing they paid money for.

Back then when MGS released in PlayStation, it revolutionized story telling in video game; now with directed & voice acted cutscene, and with each new installment have it's moment and memorable characters. MGSurvive just throw all that outta window.

Wow, I forgot this game exists. My wife and I are huge Metal Gear fans and Survive was pushed out of my memory by our frequent discussions of how much we love literally every other Metal Gear.

THIS controversial game series is damn good!

I got this game for like 5 bucks in a bargain bin. Glad I didn't play it at full price at launch but I found it Worth it for that much least. A better executed zombie game in MGSVs engine would have been amazing though

Got 1000G on Xbox took about 350 hours but is almost impossible without others at level 69 for salvage Fairly easy though really enjoyed it

Something terrible you forgot to mention about the Foodie achievement: it's bugged. Sometimes when you collect new food, your recipe list wont update, and the only way to fix it is to deconstruct then reconstruct every single food facility you have, then hunt the animal again. that achievement alone can take literal days because of the glitch, and it happens very often.

this video did not need to be this long

I enjoyed it for what it was. Parts were a bit repetitive but going further and further into the dust/progressing the story was quite interesting.

Just in case, the oxigen mask didn't fail to load, it's invisible when you have any sort of head decoration (like you did). Still, sucks to have barely any stamina in a game where running is vital at the very least.

Didnt expect to see to see you come across my feed today, but glad to see you're doing well lol.

For everyone wandering the video technically start at 6:00 minutes and the plot at 9:15

I remember when this was announced I actually thought it looked interesting. Like, if it wasn't made by Konami or even just under the MGS title after the shit they pulled, I would have bought it cause I love survival horror like this. And from watching your video, yeah I would have loved it. But then again it IS Konami, and fuck em.

thx for making it and not absolutely calling it trash

I also think the game had some fun stuff and just need a lot more stuff to do on the map or buildings (same as you said MGSV also lacks a bit.). I played it with a friend for a few days but couldn't deal with the generic characters lack any interesting stuff happening in the singleplayer so we dropped it before finishing it. I almost feel like going back. *I only paid $4.99 for it btw

Watching this because the new remake for PS5 came out today

Heyyy, I'm one of those aforementioned crazy folks of the 100-ish daily players that still log in to Survive today. And I gotta say, you absolutely did a great job in being fair covering Survive, especially compared to what everyone said about it in 2018-19. To be perfectly clear, I have over 800 hours in the game, 4 characters, 2 of them with all 4 sublcasses maxed out (and the other 2 are almost there), and I even made my own review of the game on my main account's channel. I really like this game, and I am one of its craziest defenders today. I did note a couple of inconsistencies you didn't get 100% right but it was nothing big (one I remember is that you don't always have to reload a save on dying; the game lets you port back to base and leave a box with all your gathered materials in it that you can retrieve later). I did want to say that I feel like the multiplayer was the point of this game, and once you really dig into Extreme matches with a group of 4 you start to see a side of the game that doesn't come out at any other time, and really wouldn't work if you didn't work as hard as you have to in order to get to that point. In other words, the endgame of Survive is super hard, but it's very learnable for almost anyone, and once you get a team of 4 who have that learning already done, you'll be really impressed with what you can do just by having experience. You don't have to be a god gamer to be great at Survive, you just have to be smart enough and willing to put in the work. So in light of that I wish you hadn't said players shouldn't do multiplayer as soon as possible, because that's what I tell everyone. As soon as you hit level 5, hop into the Discord and there will inevitably be someone who's willing to carry you or let you tag along and help you get a lot of materials, which makes the rest of the single player story so much less of a chore. On that note, there's a big Survive Discord server with hundreds of people in it on every platform that I see match up every day, and the in-game matchmaking Survive provides absolutely blows, so you really should get on Discord to group up here like you mentioned. Thanks for being so fair to Survive, I enjoyed watching your video! I play on PC too, so if you ever want to come back to the game for some masochistic reason, hit me up on Steam. I'm Rossaroni on there. I solo hard salvages all the time, I'll show you what those hammers are really for. [Edit to add] Oh I also wanted to say that despite my 800+ hours, I also have not gotten the 100% on Survive. It's a silly thing.

I know it was just a minor slip-up, but "the cons outweigh the negatives" is so profound and speaks volumes about so many games.

The super rare Dark Cloud name drop and Dark Cloud 2 Music input? I see you too are a man of Culture.

Honestly, I was willing to give survive a chance, not enough of a chance to get immediately, thank goodness. After learning about the constant struggle for food and water, the resource shenanigans and the general crafting madness, I had cooled off to it and left it alone.

I also bought survive recently. We were probably playing and beating it at similar times. I don't find it horrible. It would be hard to take the guts of MGSV , re arrange em and turn that into something which is not fun. Not sure if the whatever talent was spent in this comes from the work of the KojiPro that left, or the devs that stayed and made this. The biggest complaint that i have about it, is that it reeks of greed. It tries all the scummy monetization tactics and new ones that would never pass through the minds of EA and Activision. I also don't like how you can't unlock everything unless you play the online part. The community is pretty small and i barely get 2 man teams for online. There's no way ill get any of the good stuff ...maybe unless i pay :p Anyway. I don't regret my time with it. I'll stick around for a bit more.

I love how you mention talking about tossing something into the garbage right as you zoom in on ms.amagi.

2:23 Me:*uses orange juice* Also me: is what you want?

I legitimately like mg survive idk. Guilty pleasure maybe? Fox engine is is always good fun and the game is challenging managing your meters. Stories weird and lack luster but i wasn’t expecting a good one for this game. It’s also one of the better survival games out there imo. Idk give it a shot if your interested.

I had alot of fun with this game

Wait, is that Boktai background music in the middle?!? I love this video, so that was an added bonus that sent me back.

7:10 Kojima asking where zombies belong in Metal Gear, when he himself put a fucking stupid zombie mission at the end of MGSV with Shining Lights. Kojima made three good Metal Gear games with 1-3 and the rest shouldn't have ever happened.

That zombie's line from Kojima always drove me nuts because HE PUT ZOMBIES IN 5!

32:57 'The cons outweigh the negatives' This got to be the best MGSVS summary ever.

The reason they’re wary of digging into that gold mine is because they keep Fing up every sequel and reboot they attempt.

20:46 I really love that Legend of Legaia is a cult favorite. How did you get the bgm?