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A small part of me things Hayter really is doing the voice and it's going to be a surprise in the game. Fits with this whole language and word focused theme that is now being featured in this trailer. I normally wouldn't have any thoughts like this but just because Kojima has purposefully misrepresented his game before.

Anyways,

More I just think this game is trying to be different. As a big fan of the series, excited about that. There's room for Metal Gear to evolve. With some criticism I'm a little annoyed with criticisms of something like the codec. If you have to go back to base a lot, you can have more story there. Also, I think in this day and age that kind of storytelling has been used now in gameplay (things like audio logs on Bioshock). Obviously it's key to what Metal Gear has been but that doesn't mean this game doesn't adjust. I don't really want to be sitting on a Codec screen anymore. They could do a more limited version in the game world. The Codec was originally something that needed to be done technologically. You had to stop gameplay to make it work. It never has really fit with the game world (him chatting away any time he pleases with his finger to his ear has always been joked about, which is fine, but obviously joked about for a reason).

It seems like maybe a little less cutscenes but that can be just as good. Even a big fan of Metal Gear known there has been some bloat.

When we think of Snake's dialogue in past games, how much is him just saying what the other person said? Or just simple questions to get an info dump? Losing some of that isn't so key to getting Snake as a character as people say. The "Metal Gear!?!" joke people do with that response by Snake is representative of a lot of his dialogue when he's just being talked at. The game could do more to develop Snake besides dialogue (hopefully hallucinations and the experiences shown shape what we think of Big Boss as I expect them to). This game now apparently shows his twin sons even so a lot is going to be done with the character. I will be happy if it is shown more and told less. I love Kojima but his storytelling is not perfect, even fans have to see that. This feels like improvement to me.

But people saying this game isn't Metal Gear are crazy. Did they miss the hallucinations? The insect enemy they show here? The skull face guy? Mini metal gears, Fulton recovery, inflatable decoys for Snake. He has a horn! There's a child warlord and a ghostly sniper. This is Metal Gear. It looks like one of the crazier ones yet.

This does look great. I hope the missions are better and there's even more to do. The gameplay looks like a step up.

There are a lot of awesome looking new games coming out this year (or out right now). I am not worried about it at all. We want games to be available in a lot of different ways so who cares if they do re releases. Not saying they always do a great job or it's a great deal price wise but I just don't think the complaining about it is necessary.

They probably will not just do exactly the same music so I think you guys should care who does it.

Exactly. This can go badly. You can hear lots of bad updates in games all the time.

This is way better than Hearthfire so don't buy that. That was very limited, most customizing a house than actually building anything.

And not making an excuse by saying this, but it's a reality: modders will make this awesome even if it's not fully fleshed out here. I expect a lot to be done with building since it's integrated like this. It would be cool if the game could behave more like a State of Decay game, for example, building a base to protect a group. Maybe that's in there, but I think for sure mods like that will happen now.

I thought I was was right writing Hearthfire and then saw Hearthstone used like 4 times in this thread.

If they do a good job I would definitely play it. I really enjoyed 7 when it came out.

They would have to flesh out a lot and update it (seems to be what the idea is) so it would be interesting to see how that works out. Also a big undertaking and a lot of game.

Such a good trailer. Blew me away.

This. I get why some people dislike seeing streamlining (because it's easy to do poorly) but sometimes this works better and achieves the exact same effect.

Oh man. Am I out? I need to take some time.

Not sure I like much of what happened.

Good post. I guess we can see how it turned out for old Stannis so...

This looks pretty awesome from pictures but yeah people are right to I guess not expect it's necessarily as good as their other work. I hope it is though.