Here’s Why Quiet Is So Naked in MGSV [Spoilers]

Quiet has been in the center of the media for quite some time as the hype leading up to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain built to a fever pitch. Her odd choice of apparel made everyone wonder what the heck Kojima was thinking, but he swore up and down that it had a very good reason. Even going so far as to say that we would feel ashamed once we found out why.

[Orejillz]

Wait seriously? That's the best they could come up with?

[thejigisup]

It's legit

[poppinslops]

Legitimately dumb... I mean, I'm no biologist, but I'm pretty sure people breath with their lungs - not with their skin condition.

Seriously, what happens to her when it rains?
What if she works up a sweat?
Does she drown?

Knowing Kojima, it's probably just his idea of an excuse for her to strip... 'genius'.

Not to mention the effect such a 'condition' would have on her hygeine... poor thing probably reeks.

[KurtRussell]

She would be red like a lobster on that sun. Plus the skin peeling off would be a really sexy combination.

[BG11579]

@poppinslops, she's like a frog. Frogs also breathe through their skin.
So in a serie where you have a cyber-ninja fighting an artificial vampire, giant atomic laughing robots, AI, clones, human beehives, where the strongest soldier was a great woman, why does this concept sound so strange?

[kneon]

What a moronic excuse. Why can't they just admit that the real reason is to appeal more to teenage males.

[Jaqen_Hghar]

a man isn't a teenager and it appeals to him *commences ooogling*

[NobleTeam360]

I'm 23 and it appeals to me, lol.

[insomnium2]

FFS it's all biology. If you have a penis you are more than likely interested in a naked woman no matter if it's a pixelated one.

[monkeyDzoro]

I guess LESBIANS won't and can't be attracted to Quiet then...

[joab777]

I think it a reasonable explanation. And at least there is one.

[frostypants]

Reasonable? Are you kidding? It's the sort of thing someone makes up AFTER they decide they want a chick in a bikini running around in the game.

"Uh, guys, they're asking for a reason."
"Oh geez...uh...SHE BREATHES THROUGH HER SKIN!"

C'mon...it makes sense the same way that saying "she forgot to do her laundry" would make sense.

[chrisx]

People who act suprised might have never played an MGS game before.Those who play the series know stuff like these happen all the time, its typical Kojima

[frostypants]

Yeah, it's his strange sense of humor. And his strange sense of humor is one of the things that has always made MGS difficult for me to get into.

[Jaqen_Hghar]

a man thinks they've never played the "hold X to stare at EVA's boobs" cutscenes in MGS3

[BG11579]

And it's not the first time we see someone naked in the MG series...
Who did forget about Raiden in MG2? I wonder why wasn't any uproar because of him. No one said that Kojima was sexist toward man because of that...

[ChrisW]

Well... That's not the worst nor lamest excuse I've ever heard for something that doesn't need explaining.

[OhMyGandhi]

I'd rather they say, "her cleavage is her vision, and she needs to make sure she can see."

[showtimefolks]

I am as big of a fan of mgs as anyone but please stop it. Is that the reason that every scene she is in the camera focuses on her breasts and ass

Just admit it kojima she is half naked because that's the way we men see beautiful women and in games majority and I do mean vast majority of the times the women are presented as sex toys or sex appeal

[Persistantthug]

Ummmm.....

So what's the problem?

:P

[paradigmfellow]

It still doesn't hide the fact that it promotes unrealistic standards of beauty.

[insomnium2]

I'm pretty sure there are douzens of women who fit her standards quite nicely. You don't seem to understand what the word unrealistic means do you.

[bennissimo]

And she looks like Carl from the Walking Dead.

[xarexerax]

Hahahahahaha what in the actual living hell is this nonsense? THAT'S the big reveal? Dumbest explanation I've ever seen.

[joab777]

May not be a huge reveal but it makes sense.

[NarooN]

Makes sense only in the bizzaro world of MGS, lol. The explanation is pretty stupid, but it's par for the course in the series.

[mopground]

youve never played mgs?

[SaveFerris]

Silent, but deadly.

[ChrisW]

The only thing deadlier is cellophane...

[idsanty]

I hate it when I think of cooler reasons for stuff than what developers confirm is real.

[TheFirstClassic]

Yeah I thought it might actually be dark or meaningful.

[Palitera]

Bring it on!

[crazychris4124]

lol he was better off saying "I like boobies"

[mechlord]

@crazychris4124
right? it would have been the end of it. Now, we will have to suffer weeks of all kinda articles about this "excuse".
No wonder DoA doesnt even bother with these...

why do we even need explanations for the obvious?

[PlayableGamez]

Don't want to know why until I play the game myself.
Just waiting for UPS to deliver my Collector Edition.

[TheFirstClassic]

Don't hold your breath, it isn't much to spoil.

Pun intended

[Sniperwithacause]

In the same boat

[boodi]

it's not important why...

[_LarZen_]

Who cares? She's hot!

[TimmyTesticles]

something something, boobies something..

[MoveTheGlow]

I mean, it's dumb, but it's Kojima dumb - it's humorous and serious at the same time. Kinda like when you're painfully sneaking out of a hospital with troops gunning down everyone while the camera's focused on Ishmael's butt sticking out of the scrubs. Equal opportunity?

[Summons75]

XD I found that funny, all of a sudden you get a close up of butt...I'm sitting there going Snake! You had the privilege of sleeping with EVA what are you doing man!

[user9950279]

bcuz boobies r good?

[spicelicka]

Why do we create this facade around the reality.

IT'S A CHEAP PLOY TO GET GUYS' ATTENTION TOWARDS THE GAME.

We shouldn't have to come up with reasons to cover that up (no pun intended).

It's only going to stop once we stop attacking AND defending these practices.

[InTheZoneAC]

even if she wasn't in the game it wouldn't change anything, so it's really pointless for something like this

[ShrektheHulk]

Yeah, I'm not buying it to look at her boobs, I'm buying it to play through a MGS game and make what I can out of the story. If the only thing you see in the game is a scantily clad woman I think you're the problem.
I kept forgetting about her being in the game and then someone would inevitably raise their pitchfork about a woman in a game wearing something that isn't particularly more revealing than things some women choose to wear in the real world. What you see as some pernicious problem and cheap ploy to get attention only seems that way until you grow up.

[spicelicka]

Well that's my point. It makes zero difference to me either where her boobs are there or not. And that's exactly why it's insulting that they would include this so unnecessarily, as if it's going to make a difference.

It's in my face and I don't see any practical reason for it to be there (their explanation proves that). It would have no affect on me buying the game obviously.

Your point would've made more sense if I was offended (which I'm really not) by seeing a "scantily clad" woman (which is what it's meant to be whether you admit it or not) in a beach volleyball game, where it's a totally practical uniform.

If anything your comment applies to the developers.

[ShrektheHulk]

It obviously DOES make a difference since you're insulted that they included it. It's YOU that has the problem with a woman showing skin, it's YOU that are saying that it's unnecessary, and my comment applies directly to you and anyone else who can't see past someone's physical appearance before passing judgement.

You can't say that it makes zero difference and then try to vilify the developers and deflect my comment towards them instead. You also can't say that you aren't offended almost immediately after saying that it's insulting that they would include something.

Additionally, practicality of clothing has no bearing in the real world or video games. I saw a girl wearing yoga pants and high heels at my local Target the other day, totally impractical, but not a single person went up to her to admonish her for how impractical it was.

If you judge people by what they're wearing then I say again that YOU are the problem. What she's wearing is 100% something that a designer in the real world would create, regardless of whether or not the person intending to wear it can breathe through her skin.

You're imposing your morals on the rest of the world by insinuating that liking, or not being offended by, this character's design somehow means you're an easily manipulated man that can't control his urges just by SEEING an attractive character showing skin. All of these things add up to you being a supercilious prick that passes judgement on things without knowing the extent of what they're judging.

There are any number of different designs for Quiet that could have been used, there could have been a different configuration of her clothes that left the same amount of skin exposed but didn't look like a bikini, they could have done away with the premise altogether. None of those hypothetical situations matter though, because you aren't the content creator and you didn't make the choice. Being offended by someone else's choice doesn't make their choice wrong -- just because you don't like her outfit doesn't mean that it's wrong that she's wearing it.

I don't know how many times I can say the same thing. I've tried several in the hopes that you will latch onto one of them:
Her clothes don't matter.
Boobs aren't offensive.
Designers have the right to design what they want.
Scantily clad doesn't not mean inherently sexualized, that's the responsibility of the viewer.
You can't be both offended and blasé about a subject.
Your definition of 'practical' has no bearing on anything, nor does anyone else's definition.
It's not EVER going to stop; if men don't create content with scantily clad women then women absolutely will create it themselves as they already do.

Kojima could have said that aliens told her in a dream that a goat would eat her soul if she wore anything less revealing and it still shouldn't matter, because what she's wearing should NOT be an issue. Again, if you put more importance on what she's wearing rather than what she does that means YOU are the one who is determining her value based on her appearance and coming to the conclusion that she has no place in the story because of how she looks.

[spicelicka]

You still haven't understood my point at all. You're on this rant making me sound like I'm some kind of religious crusade imposing my morals on people when you have zero idea what my perspective is.

I've made no judgements towards anyone wearing anything, let alone a fictional character. Yet you've hurled half a dozen judgments at me...

"YOU are the problem", "You're imposing your morals", "supercilious prick" etc.

On top of that you're unreasonably offended over a COMMENT i made, when i wasn't even offended at this whole ordeal. Holding your pitchfork while claiming that I'm the one imposing anything on anyone.

Yes I wasn't offended, I found the reasoning a little insulting in concept. Offended would be if I took it personally and decided not to buy the game. All it got from me was a little sigh. Offended is what you got from my comment, which makes no sense when you think about it.

I didn't say she shouldn't be allowed wear what she's wearing, nor did I say the creator shouldn't be allowed to design the way he wants. But I can criticize design choice if I want because I'm entitled to (which I'm not even doing, I merely brought up a small point). I'm buying the game and care about it.

So FYI if I did want to criticize I could. like many would criticize a design choice of Snake having a dog's nose, or if he looked like a cow, and the reasoning given that he went through an "experiment". People aren't just gonna go "OH IT'S HIS GAME HE CAN DO WHAT HE WANTS OH WELL", they would raise an eyebrow, or a sigh of "come on man", and they're entitled to do so.

You need to understand people's thought process, if you really think the first thought in Kojima's mind wasn't to show boobs then you don't understand basic human psychology. And I'm not offended by that, I just wasn't satisfied with what felt like a fake reasoning.

It's very possible he didn't think that first, but not likely. It's also very possible there is a deeper more complex reasoning I don't know about, but as of now I don't know it. And I'm allowed to break down his thought process behind it, without being bombarded by wall of defense you created.

If instead you wanted to discuss the logic behind it, i would've been happy to hear it. Like the person below me says, we can give him more credit than that, and I'm open to do that, it's just that this particular reasoning doesn't male sense to me so it seems more like boobs shoved in the game (which is fine, i was just annoyed by the forced explanation).

[MoveTheGlow]

Maybe, but I want to give Kojima a little more credit than that and just say that he's a bit of a perv. You see it throughout the series with the incessant Playboy/magazine/photo references. These games are very self-expressive of what he likes, so it would follow that Kojima didn't just suddenly go "OMG WE NEED TO TARGET GUYS I FORGOT ABOUT THAT QUICK MAKE SOMEONE NAKED."

He's certainly not on the sociological side of making a difference in how we treat sexuality through game design, but at least the guy could make what he wanted to make.

[-Gespenst-]

I thought maybe it was going to be because she had naturally octo-camo skin, which would be useful because she's a sniper. But then, that wouldn't make sense either because her clothes and other stuff would stand out.

I think Kojima just wanted an excuse to have a big breasted girl in a thong bikini slinking about. He came up with this dumb reason for it so he WE'D feel ashamed of ourselves for suggesting she wear more clothes. But I don't feel ashamed, because it's a contrived reason for her not to wear regular clothes. Given that this reason was the one that made it into the final game, it MUST have been the best he could come up with, and the fact that it's so crap as a reason just kind of proves that no matter how hard you try, it's hard to come up with a really good reason to make a female character semi-nude other than for fan-service and cynically garnered sales. This justification is blatantly a shallow cover-up of the real reasons why she was designed as permanently semi-nude.

This doesn't stop the game from being great, but it does hurt the overall experience of it to some degree.

[vikingland1]

Sounds like typical MGS stuff to me.

[feraldrgn]

"Her odd choice of apparel made everyone wonder what the heck Kojima was thinking"

Not really, that was a new thing brought about by questionable journalists.
She's a character with a script, written to help me like her persona as the story goes on, don't give a crap what she's wearing.

[mechlord]

i feel you, but you cant REALLY not give a crap. I mean...
once in a while you gotta look at those boobs and a$$ and at least sneer

[deadpools_n64]

I'll take it as legit. At least there was a "scientific" reason.

[KTF26]

or maybe she has to be infected to justify the fanservice

[neoandrew]

Al Bundy doesn't care.

[OB1Biker]

Why would it need to justify anything? Doesnt bother me in the least if shes like in bikini. Whatever..
The gaming media has a long way to go really

[FullmetalRoyale]

Suffocation, no breathing. Don't give a....

Loving the game so far, but that is pretty absurd!

[Spotie]

As reasonable as anything else in the game.

[FullmetalRoyale]

Ridiculous.

*goes back to sliding down hills in boxes*

Weeeeeee!

[GigawattConduit]

God, that's the dumbest reasoning I've ever heard.

[isarai]

What about her octocamo like ability?

[mogwaii]

So desperate, so creepy, so japanese.

[maelstromb]

If that is in fact the reasoning, it certainly does not at all explain why she is then wearing a black leather arm-covering glove... If that were the case, I think a simple leather shooting glove would have sufficed.

[AstroCyborg]

the lies dev come up with these days LOL

[adambomb969]

guys, i was at mother base and 2 of my soldiers were fultoned! how did that happen

[adambomb969]

wsomebody tell me how this is possible without the servers being up

[TheHaloGuy]

Who cares why? You realize by constantly bringing it up were making it worse, right? People are attracted to people, get over it.

[GrimDragon]

Pfff who cares why she almost naked all that matters is that she is so thank you Kojima for giving me nice eye candy while I kidnap maim choke and kill things and bathe in their blood and entrails ahhhh it's nice to come back to something soft sexy and pleasing to the eyes....my only complaint she not naked enough...but nothing a modded can't fix. Thank god no one gets in an uproar over murder can you imagine.

[jholden3249]

I'm genuinely disturbed by your comment.

[doctorspakles]

To a rational mind your comment is genuinely more disturbing than GrimDragon's.

[FamilyGuy]

*awaiting rule 34 to commence*

I'm serious, can't wait to see the debauchery they subject her character model to. I love my PS4 but having games release on PC is great for this reason.

[Ol_G]

from wich anime or game is your avatar

[GrimDragon]

Queens blade.

[Yukonsbud]

Looks interesting

[Yukonsbud]

And I get marked as immature? Lol ok

[Ol_G]

Thanks

[adambomb969]

somenbody please tell me how thats possible i have a clip of it too

[Psychotica]

Doesn't naked imply no clothing, I see clothing..

[Mr Marvel]

Let the girl breathe ffs!

Yes, let her take in as much oxygen as possible. ;)

[Ogygian]

Anything that angers feminists makes me happy,

[Jaqen_Hghar]

and if it involves boobies it makes everyone whose not a feminist happy!

[Jaqen_Hghar]

A man is always in support of half naked hotties! Go ahead and have shirtless guys for the sake of sexual equality and all that but don't take away a man's fapping material. The many faced god forbids actual contact :(

[NinjaNick]

You fap to videogame characters?

[MilkMan]

LMFAO!

[SaveMeJebus]

If that parasitic infection is like some kind of poison, I'd suck it right out of her

[N4Geeing]

I was a Xbox guy.. so MGS is new to me.

[NinjaNick]

Wasn't there a MGS on the original xbox?

[Scatpants]

Umm, I'm pretty sure it's so that you can see her butt and boobs better. I wasn't born yesterday.

[CrowbaitBob]

This explanation isn't a new concept. Just google "let those puppies breathe."

[benji101]

I feel like this virus should become a world wide epidemic as soon as possible...

[N4Geeing]

She's naked cause she needs to breath due to parasite.. and she just happens to be beautiful and sexy,, Whew!!!,,lucky Snake didn't get that kind of infections.
Quite is probably a dirty whore.

[Featuring_Dante]

Its because she's of the Mist unit. They genetically enhanced humans/droids designed to kill. surprised no one figured that out.

[doctorspakles]

Is there some problem that I am not aware of? Is there a problem with finding a female (or male) body attractive? Do we need to make excuses for it? Who is pushing for this new shame of the human form? Why should I feel bad if I find Snakes bare chest attractive? What is wrong with this? I am serious with this question.

[CKPan]

Found her attire terrible.
Stupid excuse, why not design a man caught with the parasite?

[doctorspakles]

Would it look something...like...THIS?!
http://metalgearinformer.co...

OR THIS?
http://cache.gawkerassets.c...

[Spotie]

Get over it.

[Jag-T1000]

Its part of her strategy. It gives her an edge in combat. One split second you stare at her boobs and you're dead.

[Dunban67]

Why in the world is her charcters dress even an issue- that is how Kojima wanted her to look- thats all the reason needed- people can buy the gamme or not buy the game- that is how it works- why are other people insisting it is "bad" that the girl is dressed a certain way?

[UNKLE]

well Japanese people was always pervert.. they doing it even on train and everybody watch it... :) like animals.

[quaneylfc]

Because it makes Kojima's willy feel nice.

[MilkMan]

Its clever and somehow ties into her abilities. I like the explanation. I'm sure brain rattled on this one, when at the end of the day they made a story to fit cool design choices. Ill buy that for a dollar!

[CrowbaitBob]

The SJW views on women's rights.

"Don't blame women for dessing scantily in public, they have every right to wear whatever they want."

"Don't put scantily clad women in video games."

So what is it? Does it matter what a woman wears or not?

[UnHoly_One]

ridiculous

[feraldrgn]

Is this straight from Kojima's mouth?
If not, are they being sarcastic because they find the situation silly?

If neither, why are they scared to say what it is?
There's no problem in what she's wearing, this isn't a real life simulator.

[escarco]

Who is complaining about her outfit other then her mom.lol

[very normal guy]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wi... Lot of stuff in life is absurd already so any excuse dont surprise me https://en.wikipedia.org/wi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

[very normal guy]

So Eva din't do any trauma to feminist in Snake Eater?