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Metal Gear Solid 5 finally achieves nuclear disarmament after 5 yearsYou can’t hug your Ocelot with nuclear arms
You can’t hug your Ocelot with nuclear arms
Dusty mook-tormenting simulatorMetal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Painhas finally had its much-awaited Peace Day, as players achieved full nuclear disarmament last night.
For the first time since its 2015 release, not a single player had possession of a nuclear weapon. Enough people chose to destroy them that there were simply none left. The result is the unlocking of a new celebratory cutscene, which you can see below thanks to a YouTube user known as Steff.
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It’s not all that substantial, content-wise. But I like that it uses some stark real world facts and quotes to contextualise itself. What it represents is excellent, and defines the core message of the whole series more than anything it’s ever done.
That so many players built a heap of nukes was predictable. That enough would eventually commit to destroying them was less so. The studio surely knew that there was a chance this would never happen. I bet there were arguments about how long it would take, if it ever happened. I respect their commitment to doing this anyway.
This was, incidentally, on the PS3 version. As far as I can tell, it has yet to happen on the other platforms. The cutscene was awoken on PCin February 2018, but the official MGS5 accounttwotethat this was in error. And PS3 players have since reported that the nukes are already back. It only takes one. Humans, huh?
Part of me kind of wishes that they’d somehow set it up so that once disarmament was achieved, anyone who builds a nuke gets automatically banned and their copy of the game remotely detonated. Or perhaps a team of masked men comes to their house and rambles at them about the CIA for seven hours.
Still though. Eight rambling, repetitive minutes or not, it’s a nice touch, and the kind of attention to detail and obscure possibilities regardless of how few players might see them that earned it our recognition as one of thebest PC games of the 2010s.
