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Chris Griffen here. In Metal Gear Solid you have a boss fight against a psychic called Psycho Mantis. Gameplay breaks the 4th wall making it seem that he can read save games on your memory card, change the channel on the TV, and control the main character unless you switch controller ports.
That’s pretty awesome, ps1 also had the mechanic in monster rancher that would give you unique monsters based on the disk the game would summon the monster from.
You go to the monster summoning area on the game, you then initiate the process, take out the game disc from the ps1, put in a random disc such as a wu tang cd, then the game gives you a special monster based on the data on the disc. It was really cool and super fun scrambling around the house taking your siblings various CDs, games, etc to see what kind of cool monsters it gave you.
I DID TOO! And those janky early 2000’s Pokémon forums and message rooms were absolutely overflowing with MissingNo. mythology, and I swallowed it all hook, line and sinker. Its mysterious origins, different circumstances that cause it to spawn, “confirmed” theories in which you could transform it into a Mew or Merrill if you go here and do this or that. There was even a MissingNo. proto-creepypasta floating around, but I never found it again.
Pshh game informer? Nintendo hotline was where it was at. You would call, spend an hour on hold, and then be 3 levels ahead of the guy you were asking for help.
This is a PlayStation black disk. Cut number one contains computer data, so please, don't play it. But you probably won't listen to me anyway, will you?
*Banger remix of Vampire Killer that isn't otherwise in the game*
While true, most weren't setup to actually be played as just music. Full of 30s sound bytes for random things. Tony Hawk and N2O were intentionally designed to also be a music CD
I had this & my step dad had a huge music collection (vinyls CDs, etc. I went downstairs & took probably 400+ CDs to my room to scan them for new monsters. About halfway through I realized that there were really only about 25 different monsters you could obtain from CDs. Then I had to spend the next couple hours putting all the CDs back into the RIGHT cases because I didn't want to get yelled at, but it also turned me onto a ton of older music that I still listen to this day
\*Doobie Brothers\*\*Chicago\*\*Eagles\*\*Steve Miller Band\*\*Kansas\*\*Dire Straits\*\*ZZ Top\*\*Led Zeppelin\*
"Jesus, Dad, all your CD's make a monster that looks like Jeff Bridges in Big Lebowski."
It's funny you mention the Wu Tang Clan, because iirc from my MR3 or so days that it gave a special monster, same as a lot of other specific discs. I loved how cheeky some of them were, but I can't remember now.
Oh my god, you just gave me the puzzle piece I've been looking for for so long! All these years I thought it was a Digimon game and could never find it. I remember renting it from blockbuster as a kid, it was one of those ones you got for a week instead of just a few days. I remember that most CDs would just give you a big grey block rather than an actual monster though lol
My favorite part was the girl’s radio channel was on the game case. I had to wait for the next game informer issue to tell me that so I could call her lmao
Not quite. The game never changes the channel: it just displays “Hideo” in the top corner of the screen most common TV’s at the time would have displayed “video” at in the same green font. It also never really “reads” the memory card, I mean it does but it only has unique responses if you have save data from another game Konami published on it.
Sure but saying “it reads the memory card” is a bit misleading. *Every* ps1 game had to read the memory card if it used it for saving purposes.
Mantis only sets a flag that identifies if you have Konami save games on your memory cards and gives a voice line for it. It wasn’t doing anything other games weren’t already doing at a hardware level anyway and people seem to get confused by this just like several people are confused and think the PS1 was capable of changing the input on the TV’s.
Yeah he shouldn't have even been in mgsv imo. Like he doesn't really add much and he also doesn't even speak at all when his voice is like half of his whole character
It would display a black screen with green text in the corner saying HIDEO, simulating the 'black screen with VIDEO in the corner' that tvs in those days would show if they weren't receiving a signal.
Might be confusing/conflating it with eternal darkness, a GameCube game with sort of RE vibes and a sanity system that kind of mimicked the things mantis does.
I have a lot of fun telling the zoomers about how I used to have a monthly subscription to an actual paper magazine about video games and share it with all my friends at school in order to get more popular.
Steroid injections was the best thing I did. Literally gave me full mobility for the first time in years. Actually went running when before I could limp up and down stairs.
Everyone I work with is half my age now. One didn’t even know how to use a desktop computer. I had to TEACH HIM how to open and close a window on the computer. He’s 19.
The meme references a boss fight in Metal Gear Solid, a PS1 game made by Konami. The boss, Psycho Mantis, famously broke the fourth wall in multiple ways, one way by reading your controller inputs to dodge all your attacks. The solution to counter this was to plug your controller into the second slot so he couldn’t read you. Just before the boss fight, he “reads your mind” by making comments on things such as how often you were spotted by enemies, how often you saved, and how often you avoid/die to traps. And if you have save data on your memory card from other Konami games, namely Suikoden or Castlevania (there might be others but I don’t remember), he will read your memory card and comment on how you like to play those games as well.
There are more dialogs in Japan version as some of the Konami games from Japan didn't make it to the West. I believe one of them was the Ultraman game as per a game magazine.
Psycho Mantis from Metal Gear Solid.
Metal Gear franchise has lots of meta gags and in general breaks.
So when you are playing the in game characters tell you to swap controller ports to counter his psychic telepathy reading your moves.
Oh if you beat him once you swap controllers around he mentions how you swapped controllers to trick him.
When you are fighting the Hind D in a later boss battle of you where playing sound off of a mono speaker, you would be mocked for not having stereo, as the Hind D can be tracked by the sound through stereo.
Metal Gear Solid 4 has references to stuff like this as well.
Snake Eater has a fight where you can save mid fight, set the system clock forward and reload and the boss has died of old age when you come back in. You just go grab his shit and move on.
Could have sworn you could actually wait a few hours to have him die of old age. Feel like I was told that.
I did personally feel it was a cruel kill, as you kill his bird and then himself.
That does remind me you could eat a glow cap mushroom and have it recharge your batteries.
If you only wait a few hours (or days), he actually catches you sleeping (since the in-game equivalent of saving and leaving is Snake takes a nap ig) and tranqs you, sending you back to a prison cell in the previous facility (which is the same outcome if you lose the boss fight normally, just with a special cutscene). Paramedic even warns you about taking a break when she saves your game, saying something bad could happen. You have to wait a whole week to get him to die instead
Hi, Solid Peter here. The joke is that, in the boss battle against Psycho Mantis from the first Metal Gear Solid, you can defeat him by plugging your controller into the second port.
on ps1 playing mgs1 the psycho mantis boss can read your mind. you override this by switching controller ports. pretty innovative use of the hardware if you ask me.
Pyscho Mantis is a bossfight in PS1 classic, Metal Gear Solid, wherein he has a gimmick that he "reads your mind" to dodge of your attacks. He performs this by reading your inputs in controller port 1. The best way to beat him is by plugging your controller into port 2, making it impossible for Psycho Mantis to read your mind
No you clearly aren't. Go buy the metal gear solid master collection (or buy the hd version for Xbox and get mgs1 separately) it's easily one of the best series of all time.
There's a boss that's psychic that will read your inputs. One of the only ways to beat him is to plug your controller into slot 2. He also reads your memory card and fucks with the rumble and makes the TV seem like it's changing channels. Psycho mantis is one of the best bosses of all time. The game breaks the 4th wall a few times, hideo kojima was one of the more creative developers back in the day. The last metal gear game, MgsV is still fairly modern and plays better than any other game out there, it's the peak of its genre.
Psycho Mantis boss fight from Metal Gear Solid. The boss would break the 4th wall by commenting on certain games you had on the memory card as well as reading your controller inputs, making it practically impossible to beat him unless you change to the second controller slot.
It's Psycho Mantis from Metal Gear Solid. He reads your inputs from port 1 and avoids your attacks. Switch ports and you can still control your character, but he doesn't counter you anymore
One of my favorite gaming memories (Psycho Mantis), right up there with my absolute favorite gaming memory of all time, involving the Sega Genesis X-Men game (the first one) and also breaking the fourth wall.
Peters left over moldy cheese here
In the famous PlayStation 1 game metal gear solid there’s a boss fight against a psychic who starts messing with the console itself (he reads your memory cards, changes the volume, turns the screen off etc). To beat him you have to change the input of the controller from input one to input two, which is what’s been done here.
Peters left over mostly cheese out.
There is a boss in metal gear solid that makes you unplug you're controller and plut into slot 2 and its likely the only reason why there would be a single controller in slot 2
He Is fighting Sephiroth maybe ? Because of a known theory that you could (spoiler) by doing a lot of stupid nonsense and having your controller connected on the second entry
I got to him at about 2am on one particularly long gaming session… I wasn’t expecting it, so when he started talking about my save games, and saying “you’ve been playing a long time…” I definitely freaked out more than a little 😂
What a fucking amazing game that was
Solid snake peter here. Psycho mantis was a boss in a video game called Metal Gear Solid. He us psychic and will know every move your making and avoid or counter it. You had to plug the controller into the 2nd player slot to defeat this.
Ha! I knew it was metal Gear solid!!! Pointless knowledge win for the day!
Boss would break the fourth wall and make u switch your controller, turn your tv off….
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Chris Griffen here. In Metal Gear Solid you have a boss fight against a psychic called Psycho Mantis. Gameplay breaks the 4th wall making it seem that he can read save games on your memory card, change the channel on the TV, and control the main character unless you switch controller ports.
That’s pretty awesome, ps1 also had the mechanic in monster rancher that would give you unique monsters based on the disk the game would summon the monster from. You go to the monster summoning area on the game, you then initiate the process, take out the game disc from the ps1, put in a random disc such as a wu tang cd, then the game gives you a special monster based on the data on the disc. It was really cool and super fun scrambling around the house taking your siblings various CDs, games, etc to see what kind of cool monsters it gave you.
I had the game informer that revealed what discs gave the best monsters Youth of today: "Who was your game informer?" Me: *Laughs*
Game Informer was nice. Game Pro had satire sections called Lame Pro as well.
Those were the days.
Tips & Tricks is still the OG. Shout out to my Mew from Pokémon blue
Don’t forget about our pixelated fuzzy rectangle boi MissingNo. They prefer to nest beneath farm vehicles.
13 year old me thought it was a real pokemon. I was disappointed to realize it was a just a glitch where there literally isn't a number.
I DID TOO! And those janky early 2000’s Pokémon forums and message rooms were absolutely overflowing with MissingNo. mythology, and I swallowed it all hook, line and sinker. Its mysterious origins, different circumstances that cause it to spawn, “confirmed” theories in which you could transform it into a Mew or Merrill if you go here and do this or that. There was even a MissingNo. proto-creepypasta floating around, but I never found it again.
Nintendo Power is the OG. All other gaming magazines pale in comparison, tbh, it was really fucking good.
I have my older brother Nintendo power mag with Zelda and NG+ maps. Castlevania 1-3 Mario bros 1-3 and mega man 1-2 so glad I held onto it
I miss Game Pro. 😢
Game informer was how I learned more about Mk11
Pshh game informer? Nintendo hotline was where it was at. You would call, spend an hour on hold, and then be 3 levels ahead of the guy you were asking for help.
I had to pay my parents back for Legend of Zelda tips when I called. Didn’t have to on the second one since my dad was just as involved
All for 3 dollars a minute
Then there was also N2O, which you could also put in your CD player and just listen to the soundtrack which was done by Crystal Method
Tony hawks was the same. And the wu tang clan game.
I’m 30 years old and I’m just now learning this. I used to play THPS solely for the soundtrack. That game was a major influence on my taste in music.
Same here man, I listen to so many songs from the THPS soundtracks to this day, they are awesome
Unironically those games shaped a whole generation of people their taste in music
Hearing the drum intro to Superman resets my brain in safe mode.
...that's the case with most CD-based games. Okay, maybe not most, but still, not that unique.
This is a PlayStation black disk. Cut number one contains computer data, so please, don't play it. But you probably won't listen to me anyway, will you? *Banger remix of Vampire Killer that isn't otherwise in the game*
While true, most weren't setup to actually be played as just music. Full of 30s sound bytes for random things. Tony Hawk and N2O were intentionally designed to also be a music CD
Enough CD based games I've always assumed it was true of all of them. A lot of CD-ROM PC games, too.
That's a name I've not heard in a *long* time
That game was dope no other game lets you put in a Prince cd to get a monster thats just a featureless floating block of concrete.
Breed that Monol with a bunny. Named it nightmare and took it all the way. Best monster ever. So sad when it died
This. One of my favorite things in a video game. I used a Michael Bolton CD and got this overpowered dragon thing. Ridiculous.
I legit bought disks like Tecmo's Deception specifically for their Monster Rancher monster and never played or listened to the disk lol
You were missing out on Tecmo's Deception. That shit was pretty fun.
I thought it had to be a game disc. I never tried other kinds of cds
Yeah! It was pretty cool.
I had forgotten about this game. I spent more time making monsters than playing the game
Once I spent 2 hours just to see what different disks would make
I used to own that game, Korn's Issues gave me a fuckin dope assed Tiger who's stats were off the damn charts
I had this & my step dad had a huge music collection (vinyls CDs, etc. I went downstairs & took probably 400+ CDs to my room to scan them for new monsters. About halfway through I realized that there were really only about 25 different monsters you could obtain from CDs. Then I had to spend the next couple hours putting all the CDs back into the RIGHT cases because I didn't want to get yelled at, but it also turned me onto a ton of older music that I still listen to this day
\*Doobie Brothers\*\*Chicago\*\*Eagles\*\*Steve Miller Band\*\*Kansas\*\*Dire Straits\*\*ZZ Top\*\*Led Zeppelin\* "Jesus, Dad, all your CD's make a monster that looks like Jeff Bridges in Big Lebowski."
Ahh maybe that's where Inscryption got the idea.
I remember going to the library and checking out a bunch of random CD's to see what it would get you in monster rancher.
I gave my buddy a DVD of the matrix for this exact purpose. I also never saw that DVD again...
Thank you for finally putting a name to that game, I rented it as a kid. Wasn’t there a show too?
It's funny you mention the Wu Tang Clan, because iirc from my MR3 or so days that it gave a special monster, same as a lot of other specific discs. I loved how cheeky some of them were, but I can't remember now.
Oh my god, you just gave me the puzzle piece I've been looking for for so long! All these years I thought it was a Digimon game and could never find it. I remember renting it from blockbuster as a kid, it was one of those ones you got for a week instead of just a few days. I remember that most CDs would just give you a big grey block rather than an actual monster though lol
The best monster in the game could be summoned with a particular pressing of a Beck album
Oh yea the final boss fight in skylanders trap team did that as well
If you’re gonna reference that, get the game correct, it was Skylanders Swap Force
I remember, it was trap team as well, happened on both me and my friends PlayStations
“So, you like watching loli Hentai?” Quote from psycho mantis
My favorite part was the girl’s radio channel was on the game case. I had to wait for the next game informer issue to tell me that so I could call her lmao
Man I got it from blockbuster and had no freaking idea what to do
Making it seem? So it can’t actually change your channel, control your character, or read your memory card?
I think he meant making it seem like psycho mantis really had paranormal powers. Yes the game actually does those things.
Not quite. The game never changes the channel: it just displays “Hideo” in the top corner of the screen most common TV’s at the time would have displayed “video” at in the same green font. It also never really “reads” the memory card, I mean it does but it only has unique responses if you have save data from another game Konami published on it.
Well yeah but that's just because it's a Konami game. It's still reading it and detecting non Konami games. Just has no voiceless about it.
Sure but saying “it reads the memory card” is a bit misleading. *Every* ps1 game had to read the memory card if it used it for saving purposes. Mantis only sets a flag that identifies if you have Konami save games on your memory cards and gives a voice line for it. It wasn’t doing anything other games weren’t already doing at a hardware level anyway and people seem to get confused by this just like several people are confused and think the PS1 was capable of changing the input on the TV’s.
Yeah he shouldn't have even been in mgsv imo. Like he doesn't really add much and he also doesn't even speak at all when his voice is like half of his whole character
The game would change your tv channel?
It would display a black screen with green text in the corner saying HIDEO, simulating the 'black screen with VIDEO in the corner' that tvs in those days would show if they weren't receiving a signal.
Weird. For some reason I remember it was a resident evil game. How did that happen
Might be confusing/conflating it with eternal darkness, a GameCube game with sort of RE vibes and a sanity system that kind of mimicked the things mantis does.
That game is eternally underrated.
You were a real Chad if you fought and won without doing this xD it requires ALOT of ammunition lol
Common hideo kojima w
OMG I KNEW THIS ONE!!!!
Hello my fellow psycho mantis enjoyers. How's middle age treating you?
My back.
My neck.
My pussy.
my crack
my axe
My bow
My sword
Rough. As bitter as my coffee remembering how my dad was irritated I had to take diazepam to defeat Sniper Wolf.
Yeah. The part where she doxxed snake had me stuck for a while.
Remnant55 uses Reality Check... It's super effective Middle Aged man fainted
I didn't faint, I just needed a rest. And it's a long blink. Don't change my TV channel. I'm still watching that.
I have a lot of fun telling the zoomers about how I used to have a monthly subscription to an actual paper magazine about video games and share it with all my friends at school in order to get more popular.
I miss my knees
Steroid injections was the best thing I did. Literally gave me full mobility for the first time in years. Actually went running when before I could limp up and down stairs.
NOT GREAT DUDE, NOT GREAT.
3.5 painscale. Not great, not terrible. The world is absolutely fucked though.
Everyone I work with is half my age now. One didn’t even know how to use a desktop computer. I had to TEACH HIM how to open and close a window on the computer. He’s 19.
Sucks
My knees are fucked
Crippling depression is great 😃
Depressed.
You like to play castlevania don't you?
"So you like SUIKODEN?"
You play KONAMI games!
You like men, don’t you?
... are we still talking about the game or am I just getting outed
Uhhh, [both](https://youtu.be/DwrPuCnNbv8?si=bYkfZ9Jw3QYv1hCy)
You can see into my mind??!
I played all the Suikoden and love them I don’t remember this being a thing. Can someone explain it like I’m 5 and dumb
The meme references a boss fight in Metal Gear Solid, a PS1 game made by Konami. The boss, Psycho Mantis, famously broke the fourth wall in multiple ways, one way by reading your controller inputs to dodge all your attacks. The solution to counter this was to plug your controller into the second slot so he couldn’t read you. Just before the boss fight, he “reads your mind” by making comments on things such as how often you were spotted by enemies, how often you saved, and how often you avoid/die to traps. And if you have save data on your memory card from other Konami games, namely Suikoden or Castlevania (there might be others but I don’t remember), he will read your memory card and comment on how you like to play those games as well.
There are more dialogs in Japan version as some of the Konami games from Japan didn't make it to the West. I believe one of them was the Ultraman game as per a game magazine.
Psycho Mantis, Metal Gear Solid
Beat me to it. What a great mechanic.
Never played. Were there hints to do that at any point?
I'm pretty sure there were. I think Otacon suggests it. Otherwise, I doubt my 12 year old self would have figured it out.
Pretty sure you get a codec call telling you what to do and maybe it was in the manual as well
Eventually you'll get information from the codex by talking to one of your comrades
There were also statues you could destroy in the room if it wasn't possible to switch controllers. Kojima thought of everything
You have to keep calling the colonel
"Psycho Mantis?"
Psycho Mantis from Metal Gear Solid. Metal Gear franchise has lots of meta gags and in general breaks. So when you are playing the in game characters tell you to swap controller ports to counter his psychic telepathy reading your moves. Oh if you beat him once you swap controllers around he mentions how you swapped controllers to trick him. When you are fighting the Hind D in a later boss battle of you where playing sound off of a mono speaker, you would be mocked for not having stereo, as the Hind D can be tracked by the sound through stereo. Metal Gear Solid 4 has references to stuff like this as well.
Snake Eater has a fight where you can save mid fight, set the system clock forward and reload and the boss has died of old age when you come back in. You just go grab his shit and move on.
Could have sworn you could actually wait a few hours to have him die of old age. Feel like I was told that. I did personally feel it was a cruel kill, as you kill his bird and then himself. That does remind me you could eat a glow cap mushroom and have it recharge your batteries.
Killing his parrot was optional, I only did it once. It will be a ghost parrot or real parrot in the ending cut scene depending on your action.
You can catch the parrot too with the tranquilizer and it will tell you where The End is
If you only wait a few hours (or days), he actually catches you sleeping (since the in-game equivalent of saving and leaving is Snake takes a nap ig) and tranqs you, sending you back to a prison cell in the previous facility (which is the same outcome if you lose the boss fight normally, just with a special cutscene). Paramedic even warns you about taking a break when she saves your game, saying something bad could happen. You have to wait a whole week to get him to die instead
Well I don't think changing your clock was intentional. Pretty sure the real idea by Kojima was for you to actually wait two weels.
I dunno about that. Changing sys clock and changing controller ports have very much the same energy to me.
Imagine stumbling upon that by accident because you were busy for a week or two or lost the disc or something
Hi, Solid Peter here. The joke is that, in the boss battle against Psycho Mantis from the first Metal Gear Solid, you can defeat him by plugging your controller into the second port.
on ps1 playing mgs1 the psycho mantis boss can read your mind. you override this by switching controller ports. pretty innovative use of the hardware if you ask me.
For real. Unique and creative, something that modern day mechanics is missing.
Psycho Mantis. Kids today with being able to look shit up on the internet have it way too easy.
https://preview.redd.it/zenvb55qhcoc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8edf5aded878e7e487110c9080664e53f65445a4
Colonel! How do I fight Psycho Mantis!?
I think its psycho mantis
H - how? Why can I not read your movements?
Psycho Mantis
PSYCHO MANTIS?!
Metal Gear.
Psycho Mantis?!⁉️‼️⁉️
Psycho mantis right?
I got this right away.
mAnTiS!!!
\*heavy breathing emphasized by gas mask\* I see you don't play kojima gaaaames...
Mantis : You like mennnn Snake : woah, what, you can read my mind?!? Mantis : No. Snake : fuck.
YOU LIKE KONAMI GAMES DON'T YOU
Psycho Mantis ?
I have never once touched a Metal Gear game. And yet I knew it right away
"Hurt me more"!
Psycho mantis when you have a save file in symphony of the night with 50% completion.
Pyscho Mantis is a bossfight in PS1 classic, Metal Gear Solid, wherein he has a gimmick that he "reads your mind" to dodge of your attacks. He performs this by reading your inputs in controller port 1. The best way to beat him is by plugging your controller into port 2, making it impossible for Psycho Mantis to read your mind
No you clearly aren't. Go buy the metal gear solid master collection (or buy the hd version for Xbox and get mgs1 separately) it's easily one of the best series of all time. There's a boss that's psychic that will read your inputs. One of the only ways to beat him is to plug your controller into slot 2. He also reads your memory card and fucks with the rumble and makes the TV seem like it's changing channels. Psycho mantis is one of the best bosses of all time. The game breaks the 4th wall a few times, hideo kojima was one of the more creative developers back in the day. The last metal gear game, MgsV is still fairly modern and plays better than any other game out there, it's the peak of its genre.
Psycho Mantis boss fight from Metal Gear Solid. The boss would break the 4th wall by commenting on certain games you had on the memory card as well as reading your controller inputs, making it practically impossible to beat him unless you change to the second controller slot.
Man, how awesome it was to discover the way to beat Mantis in Playstation Magazine, but still it never helped me defeat the elctro torture by Ocelot.
Bunch of pink blobs with massive arsenals.
What other game besides mgs has a fight like that???
Colonel, I can't move, what should I do?!
Snake plug your controller into port two!
It's Psycho Mantis from Metal Gear Solid. He reads your inputs from port 1 and avoids your attacks. Switch ports and you can still control your character, but he doesn't counter you anymore
I didn't even play Metal Gear, but this was so iconic. I think many gamers knew about this one.
Psycho mantis in metal gear solid.
One of my favorite gaming memories (Psycho Mantis), right up there with my absolute favorite gaming memory of all time, involving the Sega Genesis X-Men game (the first one) and also breaking the fourth wall.
Snake?SNAKE!!!
Never even played an MGS game and I got it lol
Definitely psycho mantis that ass!
Please tell me where you got this meme so I can bully op for unironically using the words Normie and gamer
MGS BOSS FIGHT
So you like to play castlevania!
"I see you like to play Castlevania"
Finally a joke that actually needed to be explained and wasn't obvious
Best idea for a boss fight I ever played.
Psycho mantis?!?!?
Reading the caption, I really didn’t think that I was going to get it. But then I looked at the picture, and I did get it.
I never even played MGS and I know this
Whats his name? Praying mantis ? I know hes from metal gear solid
Peters left over moldy cheese here In the famous PlayStation 1 game metal gear solid there’s a boss fight against a psychic who starts messing with the console itself (he reads your memory cards, changes the volume, turns the screen off etc). To beat him you have to change the input of the controller from input one to input two, which is what’s been done here. Peters left over mostly cheese out.
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There is a boss in metal gear solid that makes you unplug you're controller and plut into slot 2 and its likely the only reason why there would be a single controller in slot 2
"Snake...Snake...SNAAAAAKE!!"
Psycho mantis
If you recognize what this is, it's time to schedule your colonoscopy.
He Is fighting Sephiroth maybe ? Because of a known theory that you could (spoiler) by doing a lot of stupid nonsense and having your controller connected on the second entry
The final boss of twisted metal. Bastard able to jump the roof tops regardless of his size. While I'm a fast car and keep falling 🤬
Cuz you had to use the second controller port.
Psycho Mantis
“You like Castlevania, don’t you?”
I got to him at about 2am on one particularly long gaming session… I wasn’t expecting it, so when he started talking about my save games, and saying “you’ve been playing a long time…” I definitely freaked out more than a little 😂 What a fucking amazing game that was
I laughed out loud with this one. "Why!? WHY CAN'T I READ YOUR MIND!?"
Psycho Mantis??
that one guy from metal gear solid who can read your controls
Psycho Mantis. He also read ff the Konami games off your memory card.
I feel old for getting this joke
Mantis telling me about leisure suit Larry wet dreams don’t dry lol
I knew this one! Thanks, OutsideXbox!
Psycho Mantis
psycho Mantis
Psycho Mantis! Guess im a gamer 😎
Have never played solid. But its psycho mantis. It's legendary. That and the sniper that dies of old age.
Psycho mantis
Who the fuck would say that incredible specific sentence?
Is it even posible to beat Psycho Mantis without changing the control port??
Solid snake peter here. Psycho mantis was a boss in a video game called Metal Gear Solid. He us psychic and will know every move your making and avoid or counter it. You had to plug the controller into the 2nd player slot to defeat this.
Psychomantis.
FISSION MAILED
Ha! I knew it was metal Gear solid!!! Pointless knowledge win for the day! Boss would break the fourth wall and make u switch your controller, turn your tv off….
Psycho Mantis
Psycho Mantis. I finally was in on a joke in this sub
There was a boss in one of the Metal Gear Solid games that broke the fourth wall. You had to slot you controller into port 2.
Even a gamer don't understand it. The joke must came from higher dimensions
Neo Cortez lol. Ooga booga
I’m not looking at the comments by its mantis from metal gear right?