Metal Gear Solid as a series becomes much more tolerable if you treat it as a case study into the mind of a Japanese man obsessed with Hollywood movies and stop trying to take it seriously. I'm sure such people exist but even the hardcore fans I know aren't worshipping Kojima but treating him almost like a minor lolcow. Except with a really talented team working under him making sure the gameplay is solid.
I would not be surprised if the "S3" plan was tacked-on at the end of development; like Square Enix did with the Shinra character. They had to do something to acknowledge that 10 keeps circling back to 7 in terms of archetypes.
I wouldn't blame even blame Konami and Kojima for MGS2. Blame the Taliban. a lot of MGS2 was cut because of 9/11
Arsenal was supposed to crash into the Statue of Liberty, along with most of lower Manhattan. Ironically, the WTC is untouched. Wild.
Because Solidus want the nuclear bomb to detonate at New York Stock Exchange, which depends on who you talk to, it is either where the Patroits AI computers are hidden, or because the symbolic gesture that the bankers controlled USA.
We should be using Kojima and Charlie Brooker to predict the future
Snake was originally going to fight Liquid at the same time Raiden is battling Solidus, as a crowd of rooting spectators and mounted police look on.
I think the other side strut (as playable Snake) which is semi restored to Snake Tales. Most of the cut stuff is alot of ideas Kojima had implemented to succeeding games.
If that was the intent, it fell short: it's all contained to Shell 1. More of an Arrange Mode than an actual B-side. I know the VR Missions held my interest a lot better than Snake Tales.
The source for the Goof Troop claim is a retarded Kotaku article about FF7 that mentions it offhand. There's no proof of it that I'm aware of and with the amount of platform specific code(lots of assembly on the SNES), it wouldn't even work on the PS1.
OK, fine. Who's to blame for actor who uses video game character as a leverage in signed contract or Konami/Kojima who agreed to write a contract with Hayter? I think the latter one. From the very beginning Konami/Kojima had advantage in talks with Hayter during 1st MGS and could include or write-off many things from contract. Like Hayter voice will be used for MGS1 but Konami reserves right to change actor in following games of series simply because Konami is the owner of video game character - not Hayter.
I don't mind technology behind MGS4. The story is ridiculous. Everything Liquid Ocelot said prior to MGS4 goes to null because... ha ha? The amount of dogshit level twists is unbearable without any logical explanation at all. Take for example the Fortune from MGS2 and explanation of Liquid Ocelot giving why bullets cannot reach her and compare it to Vamp from MGS4. Until MGS4 no one really touched "nanomachines" theme but it becomes a meme through entire MGS4. Raiden with techno skeleton in MGR:R makes more sense than "truth" behind Vamps abilities. The forced background is jarring because everything beyond comprehension from this point can be stamped with "nanomachines" label and this should be sufficient for gamers in mind of Kojima and his crew.
Big Boss' support team were the OG Patriots?
The music is in line GoldenEye, which made use of those pipe-hitting sounds.
One thing I'll say for Raiden, he's no Mary Sue.
But everyone loves timed underwater hurt NPC escort missions.
M9 gets more OP in each passing game.