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Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain Humiliates Players With Chicken Hat

Nobody calls Snake chicken.

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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain will include a special chicken hat item that will make the game easier, the game's designer Hideo Kojima has announced.

Kojima revealed the new item during a special Christmas stream. Metal Gear fans watched the three hours-long video, probably hoping for some more exciting news or maybe even a release date, but it wasn't until the 2:45:00 mark that Kojima made his big reveal, which in the end was nothing more than the chicken hat.

According to Kotaku, the game will offer players the item if they keep dying and retrying the same section. If they choose to wear it, enemies will be slower to spot and react to players. The only price is the humiliation of looking like a chicken.

The Phantom Pain launches in 2015 for Xbox One and PlayStation 4. A PC version of the open-world game is also in the works, but Konami has not announced a release date for it.

For more on the game, check out our previous coverage.

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This game will never come out..........

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<< LINK REMOVED >> How so?

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The TGS demo already looked easy enough, with an invisible superhuman sniper backing you up and instant fulton recovery system to have enemies permanently gone from the field during missions. There goes the element of having to manage their ZzZ timer, a mechanic made redundant by a cool looking gimmick that'll get old quick. Why didn't Snake just get picked up like that at mission's end instead of having to fight to a designated pickup spot?


Kojima has been dumbing the series down more and more with each release. Started with the increasing amount of patronizing and condescending codec calls aka 'Manual-to-speech drilling' when half of that didn't even need voice over, much less be in a codec conversation breaking up the flow. There's breaking the 4th wall while treating your audience as intelligent individuals and there's that. This expanded from just the codecs in MGS 3 to cut-scenes in 4.


Seems like he's been overcompensating for the negative feedback from those that complained about MGS 2's layered plot since then or is it just about mass appeal now (merchandise plugging with Puma shoes etc., glorified GZ demo, collection reissues)?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> You are also forgetting to mention the fact that in that very same demo a sniper spotted the fulton and shot it down, which initiated an alert. Let us also not forget the fact that the enemy called in air support or the fact that the demonstrator had access to a well developed base and that Quiets cooperation has to be earned

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Chicken wuss.

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Zell is mad, bro.

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Move over Eddie. Kojima is the real Master T.roll.

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Brilliant

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Geeks on them lets play youtube videos cant make out they good at um now

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Hahaaaaa...that's smart

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wait...people don't just normally wear chicken hats? huh...


"Snake? SNAKE?! SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"


"WHAT?!"


"Snake, what the hell are you wearing?!"


"I don't know, it just seems....right...."

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Right in the way in his universe it would be like it makes him OP.

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The only game I will upgrade to an Xbox1 for (well this and fallout 4)

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<< LINK REMOVED >> get it on ps4. trust me. (kojima likes sony better)

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Maybe he does, but PC trumps them all and the difference is marginal anyway.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> you and your pc talk. just let it go.

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Titanfall was very much worth it. Maybe you're not online FPS savvy though.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >>

Savvy? You probably meant something else. Just because you like something doesn't make you an expert in that field.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> yeah but Titanfall is boring...

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> You misspelled Driveclub

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> fun but not upgrade worthy in my opinion

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"...a special chicken hat item that will make the game easier..." ...?


DUDE. Deciding that sneaking missions are too difficult and opting for a career as a cashier at the Cluckin Bell in San Andreas doesn't make the game easier; it means you're playing another game entirely.

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I was kinda hoping to get into this series,but this one being open world puts me off.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> That's seriously a dumb reason to not give this legendary series a change.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> You're right. David Hayter not voicing Snake is the real reason why we shouldn't play it.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Really? The most recent MGS Ive played was 3. Probably my favourite game of all time and I think youre crazy if you think Hayter is a good voice actor. The new guy is far superior. The trailer gave me goosebumps it was so good. But nostalgia trumps all I guess.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> I was sort of joking, but it's also kinda how I feel.

I will play MGS5 because it's finally coming to PC, but the new voice actor just.. no. He doesn't feel right. Yeah it's probably from me knowing Snake's voice for the last 15 years and it changing that makes me hate it (just like Kerrigan's new VA), but that's the reality of voice actor changes. It's extremely jarring to old fans and can just ruin characters for us.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> I can kind of agree with Andre tbh. Open world all too often leads to incredibly generic areas, shortcutcontent, and a bit of watering down of everything. It often leads to a transition from a legendary series to a mediocre crapfest.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> I got the impression that its open, but not Skyrim open. More like Zelda games.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> MGS is still one of not that many series that hasn't let at least me down yet so until they do I will believe in Kojima to once again make something amazing

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Yea, it hasn't let me down yet either, I just feel that it's all too easy to fall into the "open-world" pitfall. I look at Dragon Age Inquisition as having a ton of potential, and a ton of content, with an open world, but 95% of it feels like filler. Chop off 90% of Inquisition and I don't think the game really misses anything. The first Mass Effect had a really cool planet explore feature (in theory), but it was nothing but filler.

It isn't necessarily a fault with the game, but it is far too easy to fall prey to the problems of open world. I hope they pull it off though, I would love to have a reason to get a next gen console for once!

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Can't wait to play it on PC. It's gonna be GLORIOUS!

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TF2 hat simulator.

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Oh burn!!! Very nice dude, very nice! I like you

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