Random Gaming Thoughts (Read OP Before Posting)

[Shibiryo]

This game has 4 discs like Shenmue and is on 360, whaaat?

[Sonikku]

Dem textures...

Wait til it's 4 Bluray.

[Crimson Ryan]

I swear Blue Dragon was 3-4 discs, too.

[amiga1200]

^^ star ocean - the last hope for the three-shitz-ty is three disks too.
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despite the money hungry shit the three top runners are, at least $ony had the right idea by consolidating media. (BDROM)
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got the 360 version, ps3 not found yet. (got the ps3 dump, just takes the piss out of the 360 one for fluidity.)
ff13 is another split-disk OPTIMUM FUCKUP! (three disk)
oh well...

[Shibiryo]

three-shitz-ty

[amiga1200]

^^ wasn't intended.
i was dead serious, ad-lib, as it were.

[Crimson Ryan]

phpBB [video]

[Monkei]

^ Whoa. Haven't heard Hayter growl in a while.. such a good thing they replaced him with Sutherland.

[OL]

You're dead to me.

[ys]

^ Whoa. Haven't heard Hayter growl in a while.. such a good thing they replaced him with Sutherland.

Blasphemy.

[Thief]

The longer it goes on, the more I'm convinced that replacing Hayter was the dumbest thing ever, so much so that I'm not even convinced it was Kojima's choice.

[Monkei]

[sand4fish]

The longer it goes on, the more I'm convinced that replacing Hayter was the dumbest thing ever, so much so that I'm not even convinced it was Kojima's choice.

I gotta agree to that. Anyone remember the reason he was replaced in the first place?

Don't tell me it was to discern Solid from Big Boss 'cause that would miss the entire point of cloning.

[Henry Spencer]

If that's the case, then why do Liquid and Solidus sound so different, then?

It sounds to me like you guys aren't going to give Sutherland a chance anyway, since you've already made up your minds.

EDIT: Guillermo Del Toro has been put off working on video games 4 lyf.

Shacknews spoke with Del Toro at San Diego Comic Con a few weeks ago about his upcoming projects: the second season of The Strain and Pacific Rim 2. During our interview, we spoke to him about his ambitions in the video game space. “I have proven to be the albatross of video games,” he says. “I joined THQ, and THQ goes broke. I join Kojima, and Kojima leaves Konami. I have decided, in order not to destroy anyone else’s life, I have decided I will never again get involved in video games. Otherwise, I’ll join someone and his house will explode, or something.”

When pressed further, del Toro says, “I was in an apprenticeship. I learned a lot from Kojima-san, of course, and I learned a lot from my experience at THQ. I did. It changed the way I see narrative. We put two years of work in THQ. It was insane. We mapped it out, we did the viable, we did the outlines, we did the screenplay. We did a bunch of stuff. I know some of the tricks, or the stuff that I wanted to learn, I learned. Then I went to the side of Kojima-san, because he’s a master, and I can gladly say that we are friends and I love his work and I will continue learning from him as a friend. But I am not… if I join another video game, World War III will start.”

http://www.shacknews.com/article/90801/ ... ideo-games

[Monkei]

If that's the case, then why do Liquid and Solidus sound so different, then?

It sounds to me like you guys aren't going to give Sutherland a chance anyway, since you've already made up your minds.

Right, the clones aren't exactly alike, with Solidus being the most similar to Big Boss. From a logical point of view, Big Boss/(Naked) Snake should have never had the same voice as Solid Snake. They meet and fight in Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake - Solid Snake never notices Big Boss sounding exactly like himself though. Because he didn't in those games, I guess (I know, they weren't voiced and that wasn't planned through). Of course, after all the hate that Raiden had gotten for being in MGS2, they wanted to give the fans Snake again, so they just put Hayter-Snake into MGS3, even though it's not the Snake fans grew to love at all.

The thing is, Hayter might be iconic to Metal Gear fans and to many his interpretation is inextricably linked with the character, but his performance never really was gripping or even good, if you're honest. It's overacted, maybe even to the point of being laughable by nowadays' standarts. The franchise has evolved, The Phantom Pain is going to be a huge game. Hayter's performance doesn't really suit the overall production values of it, so he was replaced. And I doubt that Konami forced that decision upon Kojima. Sutherland did a great job with Ground Zeroes, he's giving more depth to the character and overall atmosphere in my opinion. I'm looking forward to seeing him as Snake in MGS5.