Thought I was kidding, did you? Inspired by Polybius' FFX-2 drinking game, here's one devoted to my favorite series ever. I got a little serious yesterday, so now let's get drunk.You will need:
A copious portion of American beer.
A bottle of Russian vodka, well chilled.
Six pack of Red Bull, probably sugarless, since you don't want to get sick.
Some good, coarse salt.
Either lemon juice, lime juice or sour mix.
Calorie-Mate. Or something edible, to keep your stomach steady.
This drinking game is designed to be used in any title in the Metal Gear series. I'll refer to "Snake," but unless specifically indicated, this can refer to Big Boss or Raiden also -- whomever you're playing as. Remember, kids, the Metal Gear drinking game is strictly intended for legal adults 21 and over, or whatever the legal age is in your country. SVGL does not promote drinking to dangerous and potentially lethal excess, so don't be an idiot, hey?
UPDATE: People have asked how much beer should be drank when not otherwise specified. Have a glass handy and take a generous sip from it whenever it says to. Of course, if you want to standardize the portion for your particular session, you can specify whatever you want.
- Whenever your commander reminds you via codec that you're on a stealth/sneaking mission: Swill red-blooded American beer.
- Whenever a female, on codec or otherwise, alludes to your legendary status, your mysteriousness, your quietness, your handsomeness or how otherwise impressive you are: Drink beer.
- Whenever one of your advisory team breaks the fourth wall by instructing you to push controller buttons: Drink beer.
- When you're told to rescue a scientist: Drink beer.
- When you're told you have to pick up all your own equipment: Drink beer.
- When the scientist you rescue pees himself: Take a cold, Russian shot.
- When anyone else pees themselves: Take two shots.
- When your rescue mission fails: Lick the salt and wash it down with a squirt of lemon juice. Chase it with vodka until the horrible bitter taste goes away.
- When your supervisor or one of your colleagues turns out to have betrayed, lied or withheld information from you: Take a shot.
- Whenever anyone is revealed to have a different identity than you originally believed: Salt, lemon juice, vodka chaser.
- When any character confesses to you their deeply personal emotional history regarding war: Take a shot.
- When you trigger an alert: Drink Red Bull.
- When an enemy boss' speech continues beyond two minutes: Drink succinct, gruff and silent American beer.
- When an enemy shows inappropriate sexual attraction to Snake: Icy, bracing Russian shot.
- When a real-world wartime official is mentioned: Lyndon Johnson, Nikita Khrushchev, whatever -- drink beer if they're American, vodka if they're Russian, and vodka and Red Bull if they're anything else.
- When Raiden says the word "virtual," "VR," VR training" or any viable variation: Slap your friend in the face.
- When Ocelot shows off his revolver, either by directly aggrandizing it or flipping it in the air: Put a shot of vodka into a glass of beer and chug. Double agent!
- If Otacon cries, drink plenty of water.
- When you find out your government has abandoned, betrayed or otherwise manipulated you for money: Salt, lemon juice, chaser.
- When someone who is definitely supposed to be dead is revealed not to be: Take a shot.
- When Snake unabashedly checks out a girl's body: Hell yeah, pound that testosterone-addled American beer.
- When you take a good, hard dive in slow-mo FMV from somewhere and hit the ground with a crunch: Chug beer.
- When you enter an area that's cold and swirling with snow: Cold, cold Russian vodka.
- Whenever nukes are mentioned: Drink beer.
- Whenever a key scientist, politician or hostage dies: Salt, lemon juice, chaser.
- When you're tortured: Take two shots, chase with Red Bull, and don't tell them anything.
- If someone mentions either the Philosophers or the Patriots: Take two shots.
- La-li-lu-le-lo: You decide.
You should be pretty hugely toxified right now. By this point, you'll be looking at the screen, listening to the dialogue and wondering: "Wait... what the hell's happening, now? What is this about, again?" Just as if you were sober! Now that's a Metal Gear-quality mindfuck. Congratulations!
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I'm sorry Leigh but that's WAY too complicated. Though the premise is awesome. I suggest you try the Guitar Wolf: Wild Zero drinking game:
The DVD suggests a Wild Zero drinking game, in which a drinking symbol appears everytime a character drinks, says "Rock 'n Roll," or combs their hair, or when a head pops, something explodes, or fire shoots out of something.
And what with all the meteors, zombies, aliens, rockers, coke heads, managers turning into laser shooting monsters, rocking, transvestites and god knows what else, you're also in for a very confusing mind-fuck, rivaling only the Metal Gear Solid 2 closing movie itself.
Oh, and Leigh, if you need a copy of Guitar Wolf: Wild Zero to try the drinking game, drop me an email: purvis dot daniel at gmail dot com.
Holy cow, I never even heard of that film, but that seems awesome.
And Metal Gear is supposed to be complicated. So THERE! :)
"DO IT!!"
Ah, Wild Zero... what a show. ;) It'll make sense once you've seen it.
I prefer the Shenmue drinking game anyway. One rule, really simple.
* When you say "I see" take a drink.
You will be drunk very, very quickly.
So I'm thinking of picking up a PS3 this weekend. Assuming I can find one with PS2 backwards compatibility, I'm guessing it would be in my best interest to track down the first three Metal Gear Solid games? I'm a Playstation noob. :-(
Sean,
Get Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty for PS2. Get Metal Gear Solid 3 also, but get the "Subsistence" version as opposed to the original. In the latter, you can control the camera angle.
As for Metal Gear Solid, the best possible thing to do is get the Twin Snakes remake for Gamecube. You can play that on a Wii too, of course.
Weirdly, I'm more inclined to advise a Sony n00b to get a PS2, rather than a PS3. Though I don't own one of the latter (nothing I wanted to play badly enough, yet), the former has the highest quantity of freaking great software of maybe any console, ever. And there's still plenty of games for it that, like, just came out, in addition to most of my near-and-dear favorites over the years. I think you can get it for $99 bucks now.
Hmm, I do have a Gamecube collecting dust that I got from a friend. I guess that's a good place to start. As for the PS2, that sounds like a more sensible place to start. I can probably pick up a bunch of games for the same price as the PS3 by itself. Thanks for the info!
If you get a PS2, I must recommend:
ICO
Persona 3
God of War I & II
Resident Evil: Code Veronica (if you're into that series)
Fatal Frame I, II, and III
Silent Hill series
That's just a few. There are so many good games for PS2 I don't even know where to begin. Toward the end of the last console generation in particular, the developers rode that pony as hard as she could go and really just got some serious beauty out of it.
Oh, God.
Please...the very mention of Red Bull/Vodka is enough to make me want to sew my mouth shut. I have nevernevernever wanted to die more than the morning after a Red Bull/Vodka binge.
However, MG + Alcohol is the gaming equivalent of chocolate and peanut butter, and so but for the grace of God go I.
What should we do whenever Snake incredulously repeats the key nouns from the sentence before his?
"Metal Gear?"
"Gurlukovich?"
"The Patriots?"
@ Joe.
I say that that would call for a repeat of the previous action - only doubled for "Dramatic Effect".
Joe -- I said I don't condone alcohol poisoning! That would be too much!
"What the hell?!"
Instead of the salt, lemon, vodka combination, surely a much tastier (and dare I say it, hangover inducing idea), would be the good old fashioned tequila slammer, take the salt, neck the shot, slam the empty glass down then desperately bite into a lemon slice...mmmm alcoholism doesn't get much better than that :-p
In fact, next time i have some friends round for an N64 session, I'm going to come up with Goldeneye and Mario Kart 64 based drinking games...any ideas from anyone? I like the idea of every time someone slaps you to death, you have to take two shots of something strong...mad chase to get everyone else massively drunk :-D
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I think I've gotten drunk just reading this. Great list, but too dangerous a game to play. Though I probably could handle it.
Seems like a pretty fun drinking game, I may have to try it sometime...
More to the point though: there's a Wild Zero drinking game? Or rather: there's more than one person that's seen Wild Zero? Awesome.
Sugarless red bull, because you don't want to get sick? Hell no! It's sugarless. Have you ever had too much sugar free candy? You get MASSIVE bowel disturbances. Nope, no way.
I have an MGS drinking game. It's a lot simpler, and it's called "Metal Gear?". You play the game, and drink whenever anyone repeats the last few words of what someone else is saying, after shouting it back at them.
Drinking games should not have so many rules. There are far too many to keep track of.
Can't just everybody say "Awesome" then shut up? ;-)
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