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Metal Gear Solid V announced (PS360, open world)

I'm just dying for more insight into the lives of Dirty Duck and Machinegun Kid


If Kojima does produce remakes of MG1 & 2, he's probably going to omit those characters altogether in favor of the prototypical squad archetypes that have been the predictable hallmarks of the current series. The old series is well over 20 years ago. He can get away with taking creative liberties at this point.
 
If Kojima does produce remakes of MG1 & 2, he's probably going to omit those characters altogether in favor of the prototypical squad archetypes that have been the predictable hallmarks of the current series. The old series is well over 20 years ago. He can get away with taking creative liberties at this point.

You don't think Dirty Duck and Machinegun Kid fit right into the lineage of Fox Hound, Dead Cell, Cobra Unit or the B&Bs?

Give em a tragic backstory and a cutscene monologue and I have no doubt they would fit right into a modern day Kojima story... even in 2013.
 
They wouldn't, outside of diehard fans. He'll probably stick with the main story points established in MGS1, and then branch out from there with his more familiar tropes and ideas. I don't think that "Dirty Duck" would resonate well with today's gamers in any context. And again, the 8 bit games were done well before Kojima had solidified his creative formula.

I could see the Metal Gear 1 & 2 remake being done in a similar vein to the recent Mortal Kombat remake a couple of years ago, where Netherealm basically retold the first 3 MK games through the story mode.

He would split the 2 games into separate acts, similar to MGS2 and 3, with Metal Gear 2's backstory being the meat of the plot. Big Boss and Grey Fox would be the main villains, and would be backed with a new team of meta operatives in the tradition of FOX-HOUND, Dead Cell, Cobra, etc.. Instead of the Metal Gears being 2 separate models in the first and second game, it would instead follow along a similar narrative path as the Shagohod in MGS3, where Solid Snake damages it in his first encounter in Outer Heaven, and later destroys it outright by the end of the game in Zanzibar, or Outer Heaven 2.0.
 
I really who the "over 100 years old" guy is (the head from the keynote). They didn't want to show the final look. Normally I would have guessed Zero in MGS4, but maybe it's another one. How old would Zero be in 1980-something?

Even before the make-up applications, he looks similar to the way Zero looked at the end of MGS4. That'd be off, though, because he was born in 1909. He was only over 100-years old in MGS4.
 
I see a young Snake wearing a bandana. Just saying...

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and the project ogre pics he released a long time ago.

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Yes but those were tech demos. A lot of things changed since those were shown and you can easily tell because of the left arm in the first picture. Not prosthetic and looks normal. Anything in those tech demos could have been changed and altered with in the final game. If the arm was normal in the tech demo and then amputated in the game then the same thing could have happened with the ponytail and the rest of the things we saw in the tech demos. Tech demos should be taken with a grain of salt and they are only demonstrating the engine and not what the final game would actually be like. Left arm and ponytail from the tech demos were absent in TPP.
 
That's fine and all, but I'm willing to bet that isn't a young solid snake with a bandana, that's a ponytail. I don't see a young face nor a bandana, but I do see a ponytail.
 
And bone wouldn't be considered a horn?

I thought the conversation was about whether or not the horn was a result of his coma.

Its definitely a horn. Im going to guess that the Mother Base accident resulted in shrapel getting lodged in his skull and thats pretty much how it got there.
 
The imagery of a horn is too powerful and potentially meaningful for it just to be dismissed as a result of an accident. There's obviously more to it.
 
You can't really just call it so "matter of fact" at this point.

Also,

I agree that that art looks like BB with a pony tail, and not a bandanna.
I'm quoting Kojima. He said it was shrapnel/debris. Though, now that you mention it, I don't remember where he stated that. Maybe twitter? Could have been that interview with Geoff.
 
why are you so sure? I was not aware that t-shirt was sold anywhere..and don't tell me he made it..it looks too perfect for it to be fan made shirt.

That's the old version of the logo before the reveal, so my totally expert theory is they ordered it from one of those t-shirt pressing companies in late march, but didn't expect the reveal to actually be a reveal, so they figured "why not" and are doing it now.
 
That's the old version of the logo before the reveal, so my totally expert theory is they ordered it from one of those t-shirt pressing companies in late march, but didn't expect the reveal to actually be a reveal, so they figured "why not" and are doing it now.

who's "they"?
 
That's the old version of the logo before the reveal, so my totally expert theory is they ordered it from one of those t-shirt pressing companies in late march, but didn't expect the reveal to actually be a reveal, so they figured "why not" and are doing it now.

The things is,Kojima also wear the same shirt during the interview with geoff keightley at gttv.
hmmm
 
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