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Kiefer Sutherland is the new Snake
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RyanardoDaVinci
Member
It would obviously have to be a flash-forward to 1995, Old Biggy fighting a no-win battle against a 23 year old Solid Snake with THE REAL MGS THEME playing.
That = automatic best game ever. Even with the stupid fucking horn.
Supreme Stephan
Member
Makes sense. Guess I'm really mainstream then
Yeah and we get to play it from Big Boss' perspective. Best game ever.
I remember watching 24 and thinking, Jack is the real life Snake! I honestly thought it was too weird that Big Boss had the exact same voice as Solid, and Old Snake sounds exactly the same as his old days. As much as I like Hayter, they should've switched it for each of those roles.
Needs to happen so badly.
Dick Justice
Banned
Even though the series is easily one of my favourites, Kojima has always come across as a failed movie director. Now he's got the opportunity to break into Hollywood, with the MGS movie supposedly in the works. Explains why he'd jump at the chance to cast Jack Bauer as Snake.
Answering Codec Calls for 12 hours, and 1 fight? Interesting.
The REAL question is: Who will be voicing Frank Jaeger? the best character in the entire series.
..Oh wait, it'll probably be Kiefer doing that as well.
Yeah well someone has to manage Outer Heaven.
..Oh wait, it'll probably be Kiefer doing that as well.
Yeah well someone has to manage Outer Heaven.
Squirts Macintosh
Member
I get serious MGS2 vibes from this whole situation and it's making me very excited.
We will all buy the game to find that Kiefer Sutherland has voiced every character in the entire game including the females, and Kojima will find a way to explain it all and make it a gaming masterpiece.
plutoknight
Member
The thing about having a celebrity voice actor... I mean..MGS has always been a AAA BIG BUDGET Series, and the closest they've ever come to Hollywood thus far is hiring Harry-Gregson Williams (...and arguably Lee Meriwether).
If it were just a case of "OOOH CELEBRITY!!111" this would've happened way, way before now.
Steve Youngblood
Member
I hope we get to fight another fat man on roller skates.
matrix-cat
Member
Zoe
Member
Everybody knew he was Ishmael. Snake himself was a little more ambiguous.
Because he was what.. only 12 in MGS3?
keltickennedy
Member
I made that point, and nobody has come up with a response yet.
scytherage
Member
Wow. Fantastic.
This E3 is nuts and it hasn't even started.
This E3 is nuts and it hasn't even started.
HoodWinked
Gold Member
kojima knows what hes doing hes going for a tone change in mgs so recasting makes perfect sense.
Early 20's
matrix-cat
Member
I definitely remember some butthurt, but remember that in the early days of MGS3's marketing we were all too busy arguing about whether or not it was actually a VR mission. People were making all kinds of insane theories about who the red-gloved guy with the revolvers could possibly be, and by the time common sense prevailed the anger over the voice actor change had blown over.
Simply put, people love Snake and he's the voice you hear throughout that majority of the time your playing through any Metal Gear game. People are more attached to his voice actor.
Squirts Macintosh
Member
He said something at one point about how he wasn't confronted about the situation at all and that nobody told him anything about what was going on with the game so he couldn't comment.. and that's what makes me more confident that it's a troll.. he's been doing that character for a decade and a half, there's no way they'd just shut him out like that without a word.
scoobidoo112
Member
I'm also pretty much ok with this. Sutherland was quite awesome in 24, which has plenty of similarities to Metal Gear Solid, so I can really see him doing a great snake.
I really liked hayter and he definitely gave it his all, but him being replaced with a great actor doesn't bother me all that much. Would be cool if he could still voice some other character though...
I hope MGS5 goes back to its stealth roots. While 4 was a lot of fun, it felt too much like a shooter at times. A well made shooter, sure, but not the kind of game I expected from the franchise. Heh, and then they throw a whole stealth chapter at you... and it sucks!
And most of all, I hope the story does something genuinely new, a story where I don't HAVE to have played like several hundreds of hours of MGS to understand the story. I've played all the console ones so far and even I had trouble following all of it, mostly because half the story segments were a snoozefest.
I guess we'll find out soon enough...
I really liked hayter and he definitely gave it his all, but him being replaced with a great actor doesn't bother me all that much. Would be cool if he could still voice some other character though...
I hope MGS5 goes back to its stealth roots. While 4 was a lot of fun, it felt too much like a shooter at times. A well made shooter, sure, but not the kind of game I expected from the franchise. Heh, and then they throw a whole stealth chapter at you... and it sucks!
And most of all, I hope the story does something genuinely new, a story where I don't HAVE to have played like several hundreds of hours of MGS to understand the story. I've played all the console ones so far and even I had trouble following all of it, mostly because half the story segments were a snoozefest.
I guess we'll find out soon enough...
biggersmaller
Banned
I don't like the lack of Hayter, however I hate the Snake facial animation on model way more.
Some nightmarish Polar Express shit.
Some nightmarish Polar Express shit.
I was taking the mick.
I think the reason nobody had any major complaints about Ocelot's voice in MGS3 was mainly because it made sense. He was much younger than in MGS1/2. It would have weird if Zimmerman, who was around 50 at the time, did the voice of a young Ocelot.
Shadow Ranger
Member
The video reeks of "Troll" for some reason. I don't know what it is, but everything about it just seems really strange. As if the complete truth is not quite as it seems. I'm quite sure Hayter is involved in some capacity. Or maybe I'm in denial...
Dictator93
Member
I do not see that at all. I think the facial modeling is really great
Duane Cunningham
Member
THAT needs to be MGS6. THE FINAL CHAPTER. You play half the game as badass, grey bearded Big Boss (voiced by Kiefer) and half as SS in his prime (Hayter). The game spans 4 years and retells the events of Mozambique and Zanzibar Land. Miller and Campbell are heavily involved. In the end, the CQC fight between Grey Fox and Solid in the middle of a minefield is GLORIOUS and goes down as one of the best video game fights of all time. Just as iconic as the flowers at the end of MGS3. Then comes the final boss fight. SS vs BB.
In the end, Solid kills BB, although the latter's remains are stolen. Solid disappears, and the final post credits scene shows where he went: he's shaken, despondent and drunk, hiding out in a little cabin in Alaska.
Lambda Pie
Banned
best fuckin news ever, might get me to play the games.
Oh my.. can it be..is it possible... everyone in the video was CG?
keltickennedy
Member
You are in denial. Sorry man.
Frankenstrat
Member
Now that sounds like the best game ever made.
But really MGS6 is about The Boss during WW2, which means that's the real best game ever made.