The Fabrication of MGS2 [METAL GEAR SOLID 2 RETROSPECTIVE 1]

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Welcome to Existence Season 2! Just like with 1998's METAL GEAR SOLID, we'll be delving way back in yesterday, by taking an extended look at everything we can about 2001's METAL GEAR SOLID 2: SONS OF LIBERTY, from story, to themes, to even technical design.
In this double stuffed opener, we go into the creation of MGS2 along a key moment to moment timeline, as provided by interviews and principally, the Document of MGS2.
0:00 Introduction
1:16 The debut of MGS1, and the coming wave of multimedia devices like the PS1 and 2.
4:10 Context: the UNSCOM Incidents in Iraq and other events
7:04 Rough draft for what will become the 'Tanker' Chapter
8:48 Context: Y2K
10:16 Context: The Tower of Babel and Paul Auster's NY Trilogy
11:53 The 'Hollywood Game' Idea
13:56 How MGS2 finds its composer
18:53 Networks, Extended Phenotypes, and Meme Theory
20:46 Why Information about the protagonist may have been 'suppressed'
21:55 The initial idea of calling it 'MGS III' (and some theories why)
24:50 The 21st Century Game
25:51 Draft 2 for the entirety of what will become MGS2
28:17 Context: Oil, Postmodernism, and Soft Power
30:28 Characters that won't make it into the final game
32:00 Paul Auster's the NY Trilogy and the Sons of Liberty
32:44 The 1990s and Artificial Intelligence
35:21 Development takes its course over the rest of the year
39:10 Early 1999, and more information on the technical aspects to MGS2
51:07 Summer of 1999, Plant chapter creation commences
52:29 Late 1999, the game takes shape
53:55 2000, and the use of notebooks a la NY Trilogy and Kangaroo Notebook by Kobo Abe during development
55:12 The iconic unveiling of MGS2 at E3 in the Summer of 2000
55:56 Final stages of photo research
58:19 End of November, a playable demo is produced
58:33 2001, the game enters post production
59:41 The events of 9/11 cause last minute changes
1:00:04 The game is completed in Fall of 2001

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