METAL GEAR SOLID (1998) and Existentialism

TACTICAL RETRO-NAGE ACTION
A heartfelt discussion on the subject of Existentialism and Hideo Kojima's extinct Metal Gear Solid.


Note on the etymology of Existence.


 "existence (n.)

late 14c., "reality," from Old French existence, from Medieval Latin existentia/exsistentia, from existentem/exsistentem (nominative existens/exsistens) "existent," present participle of Latin existere/exsistere "stand forth, come out, emerge; appear, be visible, come to light; arise, be produced; turn into," and, as a secondary meaning, "exist, be;" from ex "forth" (see ex-) + sistere "cause to stand," from PIE *si-st-, reduplicated form of root *sta- "to stand, make or be firm..." (e.g. solid).
https://www.etymonline.com/word/exist...





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[MGS1 Retrospective 12]
PROLOGUE
0:00 Introduction
0:39 Cold Open
1:25 Title Sequence - "Life's What You Make It" by Talk Talk (1985)

ACT ONE
02:33 Synopsis of Events to Come (Cell Escape to Snowfield)
03:37 MGS1 Bosses and Characterization
03:53 Mid-game Boss Battles, real-time 3D, and MGS1's revolution in camera angles
04:34 Humanizing the enemy (physically)
05:10 Importance of subjective human psychology (from characters to gameplay)
06:51 Hideo Kojima on the difference between writing a movie character and a game boss
07:35 Getting to know bosses by fighting them
08:20 A morally ambiguous enemy (comparison to 1930s crime cinema)
08:52 ACT ONE SUMMARY & CONCLUSION

ACT TWO
09:05 Title Card (Quote from Sartre)
09:15 Conflict in MGS1 between the Subjective / Psychological and the Objective / Material
11:58 Literal Conflicts in MGS1 between Nurture and Nature
14:50 Fate vs. Faith, Meaning vs. Truth, in MGS1
15:54 Thesis of Existentialism
17:42 Existential character arcs in MGS1

ACT THREE
24:01 Sniper Wolf
32:40 Conclusion and Finale

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"life's what you make it
Don't backdate it
don't try to shade it
Beauty's naked"
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Further Reading:
"Existentialism" https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ex...
"Existentialism is a Humanism" by Jean-Paul Sartre (http://www.mrsmoser.com/uploads/8/5/0...)
"On Truth and Lies in a Non-Moral Sense' (http://nietzsche.holtof.com/Nietzsche...)

Credits Song:
   • Talk Talk - Life's What You Make It Offici...