The Next Generation of MGS is here (Pachinko)

Sorry. Konami has finally fucking done it.

This trailer made me realise that MGS had never used CG cutscenes in any of their games before. Seeing Snake, The Boss and Cobra Unit rendered in CG is real weird. Also, did they reuse Sutherland's Big Boss for the render?

A movie? I'm confused.

Pachinko.

Man, I kind've don't want to see them in CG, as you said that's real weird.

It hurts to see one of the best moments in gaming be turned into a damn gambling machine too...

This is the first Metal Gear Solid "game" to make me shed a tear.

Still not as bad as the Silent Hill 2 pachinko machine. Though for what little it's worth CG The Boss looks pretty fackin' awesome. Always wished we could have gotten a prequel (to a prequel...) following The Boss.

But what if this all some big Kojima esq twist and when you get 200,000 points or whatever you do in pachinko MGS5 unlocks?!

@yummylee: I.. kind of enjoyed the abstract madness of that Silent Hill machine. I wish the MGS one was that crazy. I mean if you're going to butcher a franchise dont be subtle about it.

This has to be more than just a pachinko machine right? Like they release another HD collection for current gen on top of this right? No way this is ONLY a pachinko machine... I need to believe.

Now that Steam sale makes perfect sense.

They were buttering people up for the real deal: a pachinko machine.

Now I'm sad, what a waste of a great franchise :(

This was Kojima's vision all along.

Seriously though, I guess MGS is truly dead now. Least we got a good run out of it.

Finally, the definitive edition of MGS3 is here. Remember Snake, all groceries are OSP.

You got undeserving laughs out of me.

@baronsamedi: Hey I'll take it.

i know youtube comments are bad all of the time

but yeesh

That's a real dramatic trailer to flinging some balls.

Nice to see the fox engine put to good use.

Jokes aside, i actually really like how they did the Boss's face she looks like she's seen some shit

Featuring: Robotic Violence

Man, looking at that CG, more than anything else, I'm just depressed knowing we'll never get a proper version of MGS3 that looks that good. Or any actual MGS game, for that matter.

That CG looks really good.

Would it be better if it was a trailer for flipping some sticks on a gamepad? ;)

@teddie said:

Me too. Having it start with the old Kojima logo only made it worst...

I knew this was coming under the current leadership, but still...fuck.

Holy shit that looks amazing for a terrible thing this is.

I'm a little shocked that people still hold out hope for an actual game either made or contracted from Konami. It is never going to happens, nobody is ever going to make a full size Metal Gear game with Snake in it until Konami either sells of ist IP or is dismantled because of some sort of shady legal action.

Watching videos of Metal Gear products being shown off now is about as interesting as watching chain made in a factory - a soulless endeavor.

He says that Cipher is working on something down in Japan. A weapon to even surpass Metal Gear...

@monkeyking1969 said:

I'm a little shocked that people still hold out hope for an actual game either made or contracted from Konami. It is never going to happens, nobody is ever going to make a full size Metal Gear game with Snake in it until Konami either sells of ist IP or is dismantled because of some sort of shady legal action.

Watching videos of Metal Gear products being shown off now is about as interesting as watching chain made in a factory - a soulless endeavor.

I get and agree with your point but I have to say I find that chain making processing actually kind of mesmerizing.

And now I want remakes of all the games in the FOX engine, which I know will never happen. Thanks, Konami!

@maluvin: Me too. I must have stared at that GIF for 2 minutes before I realized I had.

@maluvin said:

@monkeyking1969 said:

I'm a little shocked that people still hold out hope for an actual game either made or contracted from Konami. It is never going to happens, nobody is ever going to make a full size Metal Gear game with Snake in it until Konami either sells of ist IP or is dismantled because of some sort of shady legal action.

Watching videos of Metal Gear products being shown off now is about as interesting as watching chain made in a factory - a soulless endeavor.

I get and agree with your point but I have to say I find that chain making processing actually kind of mesmerizing.

But my point works even better that way. ;-) That CG might me mesmerizing, but it is essentially non-substantive. But, I agree its is mesmerizing like all industrial process.

Sorry....

Hold me, I want to cry.

How is pachinko legislation going in Japan? I heard some companies were getting out because the government was cracking down on that stuff.

It can sit next to the Castlevania and Virtua Fighter machines. Yeah...

Rendering Boss to look 'older' is a real nice touch, even if it is a colossal waste of time.

Did anybody really think Konami was going to make another MGS game? Get real.

Also I'd much rather Konami just made pachinko machines, than deal with the possibility of them making an actual Metal Gear game and what the fuck that would even be.

This is the real MGS5.

I give my franchise

Not for honor, but for you (Pachinko)

In my time there'll be no sequels

Crime, what Konami did to Snake (Pachinko)

Rebuilt MGS3... for Pachinko...

Edit: Drew and Dan clearly need to get one of these machines for Metal Gear Scanlon, right?

It's a great engine at least..

i looooove them balls

I hold on to a small hope (okay, very small) that those assets are actually from a remake of Snake Eater in the FOX Engine...

So they made this high quality trailer for this thing, but how much of that translates to the pachinko machine? Like i always imagined Pachinko is a bit like Plinko or something. Do you get a ball in a hole to make a cutscene play out or something? Or is it just going to be a cabinet with a background image of The Boss and Snake in a flowerfield, and a ball-game with sound effects and blinking lights on top of it?

And do pachinko customers actually roam the internet looking for trailers of pachinko machines or is it more like 'oh i found myself in front of this weird cold war cabinet, i don't care, let's pachinko.'

It looks like they took the motion capture data and just remade the models. This whole thing made me feel a little dirty.

This is what you deserve, MGS fans. Hahahaha!

No, I honestly feel bad for you.

This isnt a pachinko machine it dosnt have balls its a small fruit machine or slot machine called pachislo. They are quite good i have a street fighter and devilman one.

Edit : this is what a pachislo is

It will be amazing if the unstable pachinko regulations go south with Konami pigeonholing themselves.

@ninjahunter: Yeah, the mouth movements look exactly that same as the original.

Did they redo the cutscenes from MGS3 for this? Cause it sure likes they did and that just makes very angry, annoyed, etc.

@christoffer said:

They played us like a damn fiddle.

They used CG at least in the MGS4. Basically parts that look like in-game but you don't have the camera control like you would normally have. Big canal shoot out is one of the clearest examples because the video artifacts are visible on the darker colors.

That said, HD-versions should have looked like this.