With Quiet locked up on Mother Base, we can now do the thing we were trying to in the first place: extract Huey from Cipher's Afghanistan base. Maybe in all the time since Ground Zeroes he's chilled out a bit. Maybe he regrets his involvement in all of that. Or you know, maybe he sucks more than ever. Let's find out! All of that plus an unexpected (and undeserved) reunion with someone else from Ground Zeroes. Who could it be?

Episode 42: Portable Ops Nation

We've reached a very important moment in The Phantom Pain. Our journey to regretting our words and deeds starts here. That's right; it's time to recruit Quiet. But first we must face off in a sniper duel against her, listen to Mommy Miller and Daddy Ocelot argue over whether to keep her, and then watch as she snipes a jet out of the sky from a moving helicopter. Episode 41: Revolver Octopus

We're back at it with The Phantom Pain, and now that things are starting to pick up at Mother Base, it's time for some classic sneaking missions with Venom Snake culminating in a reunion with our old friend Skull Face, who's got a fun(?) new look, and a big ol' Metal Gear at his disposal. Also Snake and Ocelot decide to adopt. Episode 40: "Do it (Defecate)" now available

We've tasted the appetizer, and it's on to the main course as we begin The Phantom Pain. Nine years after Ground Zeroes, Snake is back, full of Venom, and ready to build up yet another offshore military base, but first we've gotta rescue an old friend with the help of our favorite cowboy-coded gunslinger. Episode 39: Booby Snake

We're moving on to MGSV, but before we can start on the main entree of The Phantom Pain, we have to play through the appetizer that is Ground Zeroes. Despite being a bit of a prologue and teaser for what's to come in The Phantom Pain, there is a lot to dig into with Ground Zeroes, bad and good. If you know anything about GZ, you know exactly what I mean. Enjoy this extra beefy episode as we work through on thoughts and feelings about this strange entry in the series. Huge content warning for discussion of torture, organ removal, violent surgery, and rape. Episode 38: Big Boss: My Favorite War Criminal

We're back, and this time we're finishing Peace Walker for real. Last time we put a stop to Peace Walker and Hot Coldman, averting a nuclear disaster. Surely chapter 5 will have us doing something equally important, right? Wrong! We've got an escaped Russian prisoner to hunt down over and over again, until finally something dramatic does happen. Perhaps someone is not who they said they were. Perhaps Peace Walker wasn't the only mobile nuclear weapon platform we would have to fight in this game. One things for sure though: we've got some bad news for Kaz about the band he was planning to form. Episode 37: We Were Going to Start a Band!

It's time for us to face Peace Walker one last time, and finally put a stop to Hot Coldman's plans. We also get another healthy dose of characters assuming they know way more about the Boss than they really do. And at the end of it all, it's time for Snake to fully accept his role as Big Boss. Yet, despite all of that, there's still more of this game left. Tune in as we come to the first of Peace Walkers two endings. Episode 35: She's the Clown!

It's time to fight Peace Walker! Except first we have to sneak through a hanger, get captured and tortured, escape, sneak through said hanger AGAIN, and then we fight Peace Walker. Only for it turn spider-mode and run away, the coward. We talk about all of that and still find time to talk about Huey's cringe letter to Strangelove. If you thought Otacon was a bit of loser, wait til you get a load of his dad. Episode 35: Huey's Cringe Letter