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    Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes

    Game » consists of 14 releases. Released Mar 18, 2014

    The stand-alone prelude to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, giving players a taste of the new open-world gameplay mechanics while setting up the main game's story, as Snake (Big Boss) must infiltrate a prison camp to rescue his comrades.

    This is almost certainly MGS5

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    #1  Edited By sodacat

    http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=45188910&postcount=5722

    https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/277239312049926144

    https://twitter.com/MikeMcWhertor/status/277249353461149697

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    #2  Edited By JZ

    No ground zeros is 5 My guess is this a spin off like revengeance.

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    #3  Edited By bicycleham

    @JZ said:

    No ground zeros is 5

    Go read the 5th paragraph of the Ground Zeroes page.

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    #4  Edited By Snail

    The wiki page talks about a "real time trailer".

    What the heck is one of those? And how could a developer that's not Kojima Productions do a "Metal Gear Solid 5"? Does anyone really see that happening?

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    #5  Edited By chaser324  Moderator

    My first reaction upon seeing the lead character was that it looked like Snake, and the Kojima anagram is interesting. The only confusing thing is that I don't recall Big Boss or Solid Snake ever losing an arm, but...Metal Gear.

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    #6  Edited By JZ

    It doesn't matter kojima himself said peace walker was mgs 5. So anything after it would be 6 anyways.

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    #7  Edited By sodacat

    But Liquid and Ocelot both lost arms, so it's a thematically consistent symbol.

    Alternatively, there's no reason Big Boss or Solidus couldn't have lost arms that were replaced with prosthetics.

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    #8  Edited By FilipHolm

    Don't even think this is Metal Gear

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    #9  Edited By Milkman

    It's clearly Arrested Development: The Game.

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    #10  Edited By probablytuna

    If this is MGS5 wouldn't it be developed by Kojima Productions themselves?

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    #11  Edited By EuanDewar

    Kojima is so fucking mental

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    #12  Edited By N7

    From XOF, two phantoms are born.

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    #13  Edited By csl316

    All this Joakim Noah talk makes me glad the Bulls won today.

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    #14  Edited By sodacat

    @N7 said:

    From XOF, two phantoms are born.

    OH SHIIIIIIIIIII

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    #15  Edited By deathfury

    The signs definitely point to this being a Metal Gear game. But even if it's not, I am on board!

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    #16  Edited By N7

    The phantom limb syndrome is when you feel your limbs even after you lose them. Maybe even so does this syndrome occur in twins who are separated at birth? From XOF, two phantoms are born.

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    #17  Edited By chaser324  Moderator

    @JZ said:

    It doesn't matter kojima himself said peace walker was mgs 5. So anything after it would be 6 anyways.

    Numbers in video game franchises are pretty much pointless now anyway.

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    #18  Edited By SlightConfuse

    looks like snake yep

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    #19  Edited By teeknuts

    @SlightConfuse: AND THE FLOORS ARE HEXIGONS JUST LIKE IN MGS 2!!!!.......ok, maybe I'm reading a bit too much into this.

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    #20  Edited By JZ

    That guys is waaay to young to be snake.

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    Whatever it is, I hope it is something fresh.

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    #22  Edited By sodacat

    @SlightConfuse said:

    looks like snake yep

    Same scar!

    http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=45193664&postcount=526

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    #23  Edited By RE_Player1

    @sodacat said:

    @SlightConfuse said:

    looks like snake yep

    Same scar!

    http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=45193664&postcount=526

    Yup. Kojima is playing us.

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    #24  Edited By GioVANNI
    @csl316 said:
    All this Joakim Noah talk makes me glad the Bulls won today.
    Yeah, against the 6-14 Pistons...
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    #25  Edited By JZ

    Oh I was thinking of soild snake nevermind

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    #26  Edited By chaser324  Moderator

    @SlightConfuse: It also definitely looks like it could be the same engine that Ground Zeroes is running on. The way the beards look in particular (especially the way those individual follicles stand out on the upper lip) seem very similar.

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    #27  Edited By csl316
    @GioVANNI said:
    @csl316 said:
    All this Joakim Noah talk makes me glad the Bulls won today.
    Yeah, against the 6-14 Pistons...
    W's a W!
     
    And hot damn, that's the same scar.  It just happened to pan to Kojima for a 25th anniversary shot at one point.  He wouldn't have gone there just to watch Mr. Jackson, would he?  Probably wanted to watch in person as everyone got bewildered.
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    #28  Edited By MildMolasses

    I'm guessing that thematically this is Kojima's white whale. The game he's been chasing his entire career, the toil of which has left him scarred and disfigured. Bonus points if the game contains extensive cutscenes detailing the physiology of various species of whales

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    #29  Edited By SlightConfuse

    @Chaser324: 2 phantoms = 2 games. this could be a parellel game

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    #30  Edited By N7

    Yo... Um. Dat doctor in the beginning was Madnar. It was certainly MG related. If you look at the crawl animation where he's flopping around, it's way too similar to the opening demo scene in Ground Zeroes of Big Boss crawling.

    And, Liquid Snake lost his arm. They used his body as a substitute for Solid Snake after the tanker went down, but, as quoted by the doctor in the beginning, "You've been in a coma for... quite some time." HOW'S 10 YEARS SOUND? Also his hair is blonde that is starting to grey. It's the same mullet as Liquid Snake. British flag in the background? His arm is gone so there's no tattoo, seeing as how Ocelot was the temp owner of it.

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    #31  Edited By wjb

    Joakim = Kojima

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    #32  Edited By JZ

    Liquid boss my god

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    It's Metal Gear. Now, whether it is Ground Zeroes or not...

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    #34  Edited By sodacat

    There's also 20 years between Metal Gear (1995) and Metal Gear Solid 4 (2014) where Big Boss is still alive, but in hiding. I mean that's unlikely due to his age, but still, it's there.

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    #35  Edited By Kerned

    @MildMolasses said:

    Bonus points if the game contains extensive cutscenes detailing the physiology of various species of whales

    That would be more interesting than any of the 900 hours of cutscenes in the Metal Gear series to date.

    /troll

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    #36  Edited By N7

    @sodacat: There's also the fact that Kojima was working on getting Liquid Snake's side of the story into Peace Walker too. They originally planned that game to span from the 70's to the 90's, and hey, who's to say not even further?

    Could it be that this is that side of the story? Liquid Snake was with the British SAS when he was captured in Afghanistan during the Gulf War, and went AWOL after that, turning up later to take hold of Shadow Moses Island. He was a good guy before MGS1, and Kojima wanted to include what made him go bad.

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    #37  Edited By SlightConfuse
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    #38  Edited By TheHT

    @N7 said:

    And, Liquid Snake lost his arm. They used his body as a substitute for Solid Snake after the tanker went down, but, as quoted by the doctor in the beginning, "You've been in a coma for... quite some time." HOW'S 10 YEARS SOUND? Also his hair is blonde that is starting to grey. It's the same mullet as Liquid Snake. British flag in the background? His arm is gone so there's no tattoo, seeing as how Ocelot was the temp owner of it.

    ...Kojima you devil you.

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    @rebgav: Oh, I know. I wasn't thinking about the thread title when I wrote that. I meant it's either Ground Zeroes or a MG game we hadn't seen anything from yet. Seems like it's MGS V, though!
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    At first I was skeptical, but after seeing the trailer, it REALLY looks like it could be MGS

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    #41  Edited By Phatmac

    Kojima is fucking with us again, aye?

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    @rebgav: It is Kojima, after all!  
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    #43  Edited By SethPhotopoulos

    @sodacat said:

    There's also 20 years between Metal Gear (1995) and Metal Gear Solid 4 (2014) where Big Boss is still alive, but in hiding. I mean that's unlikely due to his age, but still, it's there.

    Big Boss was also forced into a perpetual coma until Solidus was "killed" in MGS2 which takes place in 2009. Then they used the body parts of Liquid and Solidus to reconstruct his body. So it would be possible for this to take place between 2010 and 2014 except for the fact that Big Boss looked really different at the end of MGS4 and also had both arms. Which to be fair he could have gotten another one after the ordeal finished. This could be when Big Boss is put back together and he was transported out for safe keeping from the Patriots but obviously not too safe.

    @N7 said:

    @sodacat: There's also the fact that Kojima was working on getting Liquid Snake's side of the story into Peace Walker too. They originally planned that game to span from the 70's to the 90's, and hey, who's to say not even further?

    Could it be that this is that side of the story? Liquid Snake was with the British SAS when he was captured in Afghanistan during the Gulf War, and went AWOL after that, turning up later to take hold of Shadow Moses Island. He was a good guy before MGS1, and Kojima wanted to include what made him go bad.

    Your forgetting that Liquid had both limbs in MGS1, and even if it takes place after it would have been the wrong arm if I'm not mistaken.

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    Yep: 
     

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    #45  Edited By theveej

    Yep its MGS alright. The arm leads me to believe its Liquid but who knows with Kojima. KOJIMA BE TROLLIN

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    #46  Edited By SethPhotopoulos

    @theveej said:

    Yep its MGS alright. The arm leads me to believe its Liquid but who knows with Kojima. KOJIMA BE TROLLIN

    It's the wrong arm though. Ocelot used Liquid's right arm.

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    #47  Edited By impostle

    Did the voice of the fully bandaged guy sound like Kiefer Sutherland to anyone else.

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    #48  Edited By Quarters

    @impostle: Totally. Also, another possible reference: the petals falling on the main dude when he's looking at his arm in first person. You know, exactly like the petals from the field in MGS3. Dude.

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    #49  Edited By WalkerD

    @impostle: You aren't the first person I've heard say that. So I suppose so.

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    #50  Edited By MiniPato

    I really hope they spin this out into a game instead of some viral marketing demo for another MGS game. I mean, I'm excited for the new Metal Gear and I think this is a cool way to tease it with all the clues, but at the same time, the trailer sold me on a game where the protagonists are a one armed man and a man whose head is veiled under bandages in a F.E.A.R. like environment. I mean, a troop of armed, voiceless soldiers acting with the single determination of eliminating helpless rehabilitating soldiers in a hospital was genuinely frightening.

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