Metal Gear/ Metal Gear Solid

Is today the day that Raiden killed George?

Speaking of dictators, is anyone else counting the days until the Konami heads start singing this:

So, I might know someone that actually turned off his game console right now, and now his disc isn't working anymore.

And I might be giving him lots of shit for it.

Big Boss really needs to remember not to leave the speaker function of his I-Droid on when listening to his tapes. It might lead to some rather... ''unpleasant'' assumptions.

It's not 100% Metal Gear related, but there's a new animated talk show online that talks about Metal Gear Solid... with Solid (Old) Snake being the first guest.

It's a bit cheesy, but it's worth checking out, just for a few laughs and the amount of inside jokes the show's aware of.

edited 3rd May '16 5:54:45 AM by SgtRicko

Hideo Kojima is a really creative man with a idea on what he wants.

I wonder what his next game will be like.

Del Toro just posted something looking suspiciously like Silent Hills.

I'm hoping for Quiet Mountains staring Norman Reedus.

For some baffling reason, the picture coming to my mind is that of Reedus getting lost in Quiet's cleavage and trying to find a way out.

oh Lordy, do I have a warped mind...

It would work for a trip sequence, though. Might as well make it unwinnable for good measure...

...and the option to tell Quiet about that weird trip you had.

Where did he post? I'm not seeing anything like that on twitter.

The link below is to some images uploaded from an artbook of Yoji Shinkawa's work on the first Metal Gear Solid game. Some pretty neat stuff inside there. Keep in mind that it was released in 1999 though, so it doesn't contain information about the sequels.

CLOSE UP: THE ART OF METAL GEAR SOLID BOOK

edited 8th May '16 3:54:41 PM by SgtRicko

Found that he posted this on his Twitter on April 29 with the message "Buenas noches."

A lot of the responses are ranging from "SAY WHAAAAAAAAAT?" to "Don't tease us like that."

It's the optimist in me talking, but... Silent Hills re-announcement at E3 2016.

It's just a screenshot from P.T., people.

Given the state of Konami today, I'm not sure I even want Silent Hills back.

It would probably be full of microtransactions and have a pointless, tacked-on PVP mode.

If Konami cleans up their act, should they reboot the series since Kojima is gone?

God, no. Metal Gear is a crazy series with continuity so thick you could actually bludgeon someone with it, a ton of complex ideas, loads of research into every given thing, and a heartfelt deconstruction of what it means to be a soldier and how the portrayal in fiction conflicts with the reality.

It's a tightly-packed ball of features each of which couldn't really work without the others. With a little bit of gameplay attached.

There are just so many points of failure that a reboot could trip over. It's more or less guaranteed to run into at least half.

You don't think a reboot could do the series justice without Kojima?

I don't think a reboot could do the series justice with Kojima. It's so complex that some things are guaranteed to get lost in adaptation.

It's a big tangled ball of continuity. Attempting to recreate it from scratch would just leave you with a bunch of spare rubber bands and a ball that kinda looks like it if you turn your head and squint.

edited 9th May '16 10:54:10 AM by TobiasDrake

I dunno, I feel like it could've worked if KojiPro were still a thing and Kojima's proteges were in charge. That looks exceptionally unlikely at this juncture, however.

Like, given the limitations of the system it was on, Ghost Babel was actually quite good, and I'm under the impression Kojima was considerably less involved with it.

edited 9th May '16 10:59:16 AM by Pulse

Hmm...

Note to self, if I ever make a game, make 'Metal Gear Series Continuity' a weapon...

Still, I don't think the series would be quite the same if it was rebooted. There's just way too much that some stuff will get lost eventually.

I mean, I'd be all for a reboot if it just started as the crumpled ball of paper and the first few rubber bands in a new rubber band ball, with full intent to continue adding rubber bands to it with more entries, to borrow the prior metaphor.

edited 9th May '16 11:10:53 AM by Pulse

Ghost Babel is one of the better Metal Gears so I'm all for more games like it, and I also enjoyed most of the Snake Tales missions despite their limited storytelling and budget.

As long as Outer Heaven Uprising + Zanzibar Land Disturbance are still Things That Happened, I really don't care if they just wipe the slate clean.

When I meant "reboot", I didn't mean it like Mortal Kombat 9, I meant in terms of redoing the franchise to get a new generation of fans that necessarily don't have to play the original games with everything I mentioned here.

It might be better to just continue with a spiritual successor at this point, even on Konami's end. It'll free them from much of the continuity snarls and allow the creators much more freedom in how to treat the characters, or even if they want it to be as philosophically deep and complex, or just another shallow action game plot that only exists to justify the setting.

edited 9th May '16 4:05:09 PM by SgtRicko

New interview with Kojima. Time for a Kojima Productions thread?