did they really need all that just to launch a nuke?

Other than maybe the penis laser what do you think is too much here?

>>715112229 (OP)
I worked in 1998 when Kojimbo wasnt a hack

>>715112229 (OP)
It's supposed to be walked right into enemy territory and launched from within. It's a mobile nuclear platform, so a land version of a nuke submarine. No it isn't that practical, but it's cool as fuck so who gives a shit.

>>715112229 (OP)
Remember that in Kojimavision the real threat of Rex was being able to launch a nuke with no signature. All that other shit was just in case some dumbo flying recon noticed a metal tyrannosaur chilling in an outcropping on a mountain and tried getting closer.

>>715112229 (OP)
No, but that isn't what it was originally designed for.

>>715112229 (OP)
>did they really need all that just to launch a nuke?
there aren't nuclear submarines in MGS world because whales are extremely dangerous and disrupt any underwater vehicles (I'm not kidding, look it up)

Today I will remind them.

>>715113459
That design looks much more practical because it's basically just single crew tank with legs.

>>715113368
>The USS Discovery was an Ohio-class nuclear-powered submarine that was deployed during the Shadow Moses Incident in 2005.
???

>>715112229 (OP)
they are also required to sound like a dinosaur or cow too

>>715113368
*slaps the shit out of Kojima*
Then you stick them on a fucking missile you tard.

>>715112229 (OP)
Did you listen to the guy who made it for more than 2 minutes?
That should explain it.

>>715112229 (OP)
It's a mobile fortress to fire a nuke from within enemy territory. The issue with firing a nuke from another part of the world is that they can be intercepted, or retaliation with nukes from the enemy. Firing a nuke with no propellant within a hundred miles of critical infrastructure would puzzle the fuck out of the enemy. They literally wouldn't know what hit them and where from.

>>715112229 (OP)
The railgun was the real deal, the rest was just there to protect the railgun, like others said its supposed to be stealthy much like a nuclear sub but it goes even further because the launch itself is hard to detect and basically impossible to intercept once launched,

>>715112229 (OP)
After being destroyed numerous times by one guy with a rocket launcher, yes.

Has anti-radar, camouflage, pretty much anything that would make it invisible except for the naked eye a couple yards away.
It's basically mobile ICBMs, which exist, the ones operated by trucks and submarines, but trucks and submarines are fucking gay

>>715113459
please understand, this was after big boss fired his genius roboticist

>>715112229 (OP)

>>715114470
Never mind seismic detectors or the sight of trees being knocked down by that heavy ass thing stomping around

>>715115116
Good luck finding it in a country that is bigger than your backyard

>>715113932
I don't think sticking the whales on a missile is very practical.

>>715113359
It's exactly what it was designed for, they just kept people like Otacon in the dark

>>715119498
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqYfDjbm8-s&t=10045s
>It was originally going to be used as a part of SDI to shoot down enemy ICBMs

>>715115872
Bro Metal Gear Rex has a giant railgun mounted on top of it and still somehow sneaks past base security like it's wearing a cardboard box. In the same world where a guy punches bullets back at you. "Good luck finding it" is just part of the mandatory suspension of disbelief clause Kojima makes you sign by booting up the game.

>>715112229 (OP)
Sure, why not? It's fiction.

>>715113756
I don't fucking remember Raxa and I've played and enjoyed every Kojima game. Am I senile or was it just not memorable?

>>715123431
Iirc Raxa was in PeaceWalker too. Which is odd cause it's missing the other huge one that's the first "boss" in PW

>>715114470
The bipedal was so it wasn't limited to roads like a truck

>>715123431
Isn't that part of the non-canon portable ops game?

>>715113756
To be fair, sahelantropus didn't work at all and had to be puppeteered by a psychic

>>715115116
Yea but why are you looking for it? You would have to go full schizo, constantly scouring over ever piece of land you own just incase there is a Rex in your back yard

>>715123431
Portable-Ops, on PSP.
Sokolov creates RAXA and Big Boss ends up fighting Frank Jaeger (Gray Fox), who is like this genetic super soldier that is put in cryostasis and has his memories removed after each mission, or some this.
Oh, and Big Boss befriends Roy Cambell.

As other anon said, not canon. Fucking not canon.

>>715121043
nigger what did I just say?

>>715124161
The fact that the army wanted REX to launch nukes doesn't change what it was originally designed for.

>>715123610
The flying thing in PW wasn't RAXA, cocoon and chrysalis aren't true metal gears anyway since they aren't nuclear capable.

>>715113756
Sahelanthropus was a completely failed machine (Just like Huey's whole life lmafo) that was only animated by magic bullshit

>>715124639
Yes, it does. That's always been the point of Metal Gear projects. Who the fuck do you think was funding the project?
THEY HID IT IN A NUCLEAR DISPOSAL FACILITY

>>715124792
I never understood why they weren't? It has a rail gun right there

>>715112229 (OP)
Its supposed to be a mobile platform that can traverse any terrain.

>>715126902
Presumably it's not powerful enough for the intercontinental nuke fling since it's on a spindly flying platform.

>>715112229 (OP)
No. It needed all that because the Patriots didn't want Snake to blow it up again.

>>715127361
Solidus was behind the development of Rex through that dumbass fall guy the secretary of defense, the patriot system wanted it blown up. That's why FoxDIE had sigint and the armstech president's DNA targeted.

The Metal Gears do make some degree of sense if you think about their circumstances.

ZEKE was put together using parts from Stragelove's AI weapons. In spite of being capable of launching nukes, it was intended first and foremost to be a just a bipedal tank thing modeled after Granin's design. It didn't become nuclear capable until Big Boss gave the go-ahead.
Sahelanthropus is just Huey being retarded.
The TX-55 Metal Gear was a relatively "pure" Metal Gear with few of the extraneous features present in previous models. Snake blew it up.
Metal Gear D was a TX-55 with more self-defense features to prevent the same thing happening. Snake blew it up.
Metal Gear REX has WAY more self-defensive features and is arguably the most durable and efficient Metal Gear in the series. Snake failed to blow it up.
RAY was designed to counter REX derivatives despite not having nuclear launch capabilities. Because it was still technically associated with "nuclear deterrence", the Patriots named it a Metal Gear out of technicality.
Arsenal Gear is meant to be the Metal Gear of the information age, despite not having any legs at all. At this point, the Patriots didn't really give a shit about technicalities anymore. Anything can be a Metal Gear so long as it embodies warfare dominance.
Gekko are technically modeled after Metal Gears despite not having nuclear launch abilities. They serve no purpose in nuclear deterrence. No one actually calls them Metal Gears.

Metal gear ray is the most successful metal gear ever made, because it's the one everyone copied and mass produced and had a real use case beside "nuclear war"

>>715128374
And Raiden blew up a bunch of them with a small rocket launcher.

>>715128336
I wish we still got real metal gear games so we could have seen some of those REX derivatives. A futuristic REX clone that's technically superior to all previous designs would have been cool to fight.

>>715128447
>he thinks the second half of MGS2 isn't just another, deeper simulation where you "break out" within agreeable bounds
heh

>>715128459
If we ever got a new Solid Snake game, or fuck, even just a remake of one, maybe they could add it in as some sort of extra.

>>715128447
I don't think anything within Arsenal Gear is meant to be taken as factual, especially since he destroys like 10 of them

>>715128459
>get to end of mgs6
>fight sci-fi rex
>looks cool but still dies and just seems like a slightly better version
>actually faked its death, suddenly stands up out of the rubble on two legs, and begins moving all humanlike and starts flying around like something from zone of the enders
would have been unmitigated kino

>>715128642
The mass-produced models seem to have severe vulnerabilities, as well as trash AI. Still, a dilapidated REX managed to take down the original.

>>715128374
You've got it backwards, everyone made chinese-copies of REX because the REX plans leaked onto the internet.
RAY had a manned prototype, and a bunch of US-made AI versions. Nobody but the US used RAY.

>>715112918
im pretty sure the cannon was said to be strong enough to reach anywhere on the globe it didnt need to be within
but the missle was also untraceable

>>715114470
>>715123717
on top of being trucks and gay those are also subject to nuke limitation treaties which are also gay
due to the delivery system rex used it could technically not be classified as a nuclear missile so it was all kosher to build

>>715112229 (OP)
Man I want that Rex model kit but I'm scared of fucking up the splitter camo paint job
Also it's old and kotobukiya and all the big flat pieces will probably be warped

>>715126902
>>715127232
They were prototypes, the goal of peace walker was to design a completely independent, self sufficient nuke launcher that could hide anywhere on earth as an independent MAD deterrent.

>>715112229 (OP)
you can't have a sick boss fight against a truck towing a railgun. a dramatic shirtless fight on top of a TEL just doesn't land the same way