Metal Gear/Nightmare Fuel: Difference between revisions

 

----

* No matter how badly [[You Suck|Raiden]] is looked down on by the fandom, he really did not deserve what happened to him between MGS2 and MGS4. {{spoiler|He was eventually kidnapped and put through a similar stage of torture and experimentation that Gray Fox has been through, only worse - he loses everything ''below his upper jaw'' and gets replaced with cybernetic parts. Fortunately it seemed that he hasn't suffer the same psychological trauma that Gray Fox did.}}

** And for those who feel sorry for the poor guy, {{spoiler|at the end of the game you find out that he has had surgery to look human again, but there are still marks from the cybernetics visible.}}

** Don't forget the fact that he was {{spoiler|caught in a church bombing, pierced by a crucifix, forced to lie in the rubble next to his dead parents, and only survived by drinking their blood.}} Fun times!

 

* The underground caves definitely belong here. The creepy music combined with the distant howling of those dangerous wolf-dogs really unnerved [[This Troper]].

* The moment that stands out to this troper is when Vulcan Raven is defeated...imagine, ''as'' you're dying, that ''craploads upon craploads of ravens are pecking and eating you, '''even though you aren't dead.''''' It creeps me out to think that Vulcan actually ''wanted'' that to happen to him (seeing it as "returning to the earth"), but in both the original and ''The Twin Snakes,'' that discretion shot with blood falling about reminds this troper how much buzzards in general scare the crap out of her.

 

 

 

== Metal Gear Solid 3 ==

** This was actually a very cleverly hidden tech demo for a game in production at the time, entitled ''Guy Savage''. Said game never wound up being released, which debatably makes the demo even better.

* Several of the bosses count. There's The Pain, who attacks using thousands of bees, and is, himself, a living beehive. The Fear has a long, forked tongue, and double-jointed elbows that allow him to scurry up and down trees in a very creepy manner. The End's battle is a long, drawn-out sniper battle, and though tense, isn't scary... though if you sit around in first-person view for too long, he'll sneak around ''right'' behind you and shoot you, which is sure to make some people jump. The Fury stalks you around in a series of dark corridors, with slow, heavy footsteps; hearing those footsteps ''running'' full-speed at you can be freaky. And, finally, the worst of the bunch, there's The Sorrow, who comes to you during a near-death experience, and takes you on a nightmarish trip through a river filled with dead fish and human skulls. Disturbing pictures occasionally fill the screen, accompanied with a scream. You must confront everyone whose lives you've ended so far, too. They're depicted in the way you killed them: If you shot a guy in the leg, his ghost will be limping. If you slit his throat, his head will be hanging back, his neck spurting blood as he shambles towards you. If you've been taking the Rambo approach to the game, indiscriminately gunning down guards and innocent scientists alike, this sequence can be quite gut-wrenching, as you'll be facing down dozens, even hundreds, of angry ghosts.

*** This becomes complete and total [[Nightmare Retardant|Retardant]] if you, like This Troper, went through capping almost every guard in the testes. Try and keep a straight face when you see literally hundreds of guards wobbling towards you, grabbing their junk and moaning. I couldn't stop laughing till it was over.

*** Or, in the case of this This Troper, a 3 minute sequence of "Only the bosses? Huh..."

*** This troper, on the first time through the game, took "no witnesses" to mean "no survivors". That was a ''hell'' of a long battle.

** On the topic of The Sorrow this troper has to admit...the idea of him just LURKING over The Boss' shoulder CREEPS HER OUT. Maybe it's lack of sleep but imagining him just hovering there looking creepy made this troper shiver! Fellow tropers imagine if you will The Sorrow hanging out behind you at all times. You can't see him. You can't hear him. You can't touch him. But HE IS THERE. Just watching you. Enjoy running that scenario through your head.

*** Dunno if this makes you feel any better, but this creeps The Boss out. Looks how she looks freaked out when his ghost appears.

*** {{spoiler|He's her lover.}} He would never harm her. He's protecting her. [[Action Girl|Not that]] [[Lady of War|she needs]] [[Badass|protection...]]

* "I can see the earth!" [[Stuff Blowing Up|(cue explosion)]]

* The worst thing you can hear the ghost of a dead guard say on the river; "You ate me! '''[[I'm a Humanitarian|You ate me!]]'''"

* Call me crazy, but this troper finds the Gekko extremely unsettling, on an intellectual level. Those legs aren't just nanotech synthetic muscles, they're ''actual cloned living ungulate tissue''. They're basically two disembodied cow legs hooked up to life support, with a mini-tank on top. And after doing anything strenuous, they excrete excess lactic acid. Creepy. As. Hell.

** They're very likely ''designed'' to scare and unsettle, especially considering the variety of bizarre noises they emit during combat. These range from the chirping of cicadas to the screams of cattle, the latter being particularly unsettling considering their relation to Japanese WWII air raid sirens.

* That bit where Snake wakes up with his pixelated MGS1 head on his hi-res MGS4 body. It just drives straight into the [[Uncanny Valley]] and never leaves.

* The Microwave Hallway is a combination of this and [[Tear Jerker]].

 

== Metal Gear Rising ==

* [http://www.metalgearsolid.com/rising/ The live-action "Make it Right" viral ad campaign], depicting Raiden experiencing flashbacks while undergoing surgery. Sure, the acting is cheesy, but there is some pretty disturbing imagery.

** For example, at about 1:20/1:21 on the "Arm" ad, you can see what looks like an authentic eye with wires stuck through the pupil area. [[Sarcasm Mode|Sweet dreams.]]

{{reflist}}

[[Category:Video Games/Nightmare Fuel]]

[[Category:Nightmare Fuel]]