Click To Unmute

Want us to remember this setting for all your devices?

Sign up or Sign in now!

Please use a html5 video capable browser to watch videos.
This video has an invalid file format.
00:00:00
Sorry, but you can't access this content!
Please enter your date of birth to view this video

By clicking 'enter', you agree to Giant Bomb's
Terms of Use and Privacy Policy

E3 2013: A Torturous Nine Minutes of Metal Gear Solid V

This is the "red band" version of the trailer shown at Microsoft's conference, which is three minutes longer.

Jun. 11 2013

Posted by: Marino

126 Comments

Avatar image for mrgetbonus
MrGetBonus

797

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

This is one Metal Gear-ass Metal Gear trailer.

Avatar image for laserbolts
laserbolts

5506

Forum Posts

4

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 1

@brighty said:

@laserbolts said:

Bring back Hayter.

No. He wouldn't fit. Not with the tone of this game.

This game looks phenomenal. So excited for the game. Eat your fucking heart out Giant Bomb bandwagoners, Kojima has done it again.

Why are the crew hating on it? Haven't bothered watching any of the E3 videos or listening to the podcasts...Either way I have played them all since MGS and it not being Hayter just seems like a pointless change to me..I will play this game though because for whatever reason I love MGS

Avatar image for brighty
Brighty

276

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

Bring back Hayter.

No. He wouldn't fit. Not with the tone of this game.

This game looks phenomenal. So excited for the game. Eat your fucking heart out Giant Bomb bandwagoners, Kojima has done it again.

Avatar image for pachtar_klepek
Pachtar_Klepek

91

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

Wonders if this will come to Xbone eventually?

Avatar image for truthtellah
TruthTellah

9827

Forum Posts

423

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 2

Was the trailer on the site replaced by a Japanese trailer? Because I don't remember all of the Japanese text being on it when I first watched it here.

Avatar image for nightfang
Nightfang

409

Forum Posts

4819

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 3

Edited By Nightfang

That was pretty good.

Avatar image for triumvir
triumvir

644

Forum Posts

103

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 5

Edited By triumvir

Odd-numbered Metal Gears, man. I'm back in.

Avatar image for chucklestyle
Chucklestyle

39

Forum Posts

1

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

Edited By Chucklestyle

Ugh, open world? Yawn.

This series lost me with MGS2...lots of great and clever ideas implemented in every MGS game, I love the way they break the 4th wall, for instance, but somewhere along the line I lost my patience with the gameplay. Ended up just watching LP's of MGS3 and rips of the cinematics for MGS4, couldn't be bothered to play them and I certainly can't follow the story anymore.

I really don't understand why Kojima gets death threats every time he says he wants to stop maing Metal Gear games. Let the man take his obvious flair for clever ideas and dramatic storytelling to a new series instead of continuing to bloat a story that was pretty much done with MGS3.

Of course this is just my opinion, your mileage may vary.

Avatar image for hurtfulmadmax
hurtfulmadmax

110

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 1

Eli has to be Liquid. If the twins were born in 1972, and Phantom Pain takes place in 1984, then Liquid would be in his early teens.

My biggest question is, will David make an appearance?

Avatar image for able
Able

89

Forum Posts

74

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 1

I keep thinking of Red Dead Redemption with stealth.

Avatar image for fozzyozzy
fozzyozzy

57

Forum Posts

22

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 1

I like the idea that shit idiotic writing is "different" and therefore worth keeping around. Seriously guys. Go defend a Michael Bay or Roland Emmerich movie then, or a Dan Brown novel, because that's the actual vault Kojima is yanking this baloney from.

He's a jackass pretending at being a serious auteur, undermining his own work every step of the way with yet more idiocy. This is a guy that wants to talk about child soldiers while he sticks a sniper chick in a bikini on screen, wants to talk about Guantanamo bay and torture, and does it side by side with Policenauts references, horse stealth, cybercowboys and hiding in cardboard boxes. This is a dude that genuinely thinks he has serious things to say about war and conflict. He doesn't. He has nothing to say about those things. He just farts for hours and hours and hours in HIGH DEFINITION.

You call it "quirky" or "weird". Swery's games are quirky and weird. Kojima's games are just stupid, and I don't understand why people aren't giving him a harder time. He should be better than this now and the only reason he's not getting better is because people keep letting him get away with garbage.

I wouldn't call anything Kojima Productions does "quirky" because that's a cop out of a description. It's more like a cognitive dissonance for the player: peppering in realistic traits with absurd juxtaposition. You either internalize what you see and move on or (in your case) spit it back out, and that's fine. People like Metal Gear games because they're one of the few AAA franchises left that actually exhibit a specific designer's personal style. So what if he wants to talk about the Cold War one minute and in the next show a dude whose battle cry is a "meow"?

Avatar image for artelinarose
artelinarose

1999

Forum Posts

470

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 1

User Lists: 0

I like the idea that shit idiotic writing is "different" and therefore worth keeping around. Seriously guys. Go defend a Michael Bay or Roland Emmerich movie then, or a Dan Brown novel, because that's the actual vault Kojima is yanking this baloney from.

He's a jackass pretending at being a serious auteur, undermining his own work every step of the way with yet more idiocy. This is a guy that wants to talk about child soldiers while he sticks a sniper chick in a bikini on screen, wants to talk about Guantanamo bay and torture, and does it side by side with Policenauts references, horse stealth, cybercowboys and hiding in cardboard boxes. This is a dude that genuinely thinks he has serious things to say about war and conflict. He doesn't. He has nothing to say about those things. He just farts for hours and hours and hours in HIGH DEFINITION.

You call it "quirky" or "weird". Swery's games are quirky and weird. Kojima's games are just stupid, and I don't understand why people aren't giving him a harder time. He should be better than this now and the only reason he's not getting better is because people keep letting him get away with garbage.

The heck are you so pissed about?

Avatar image for herbiebug
HerbieBug

4228

Forum Posts

43

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

Well... hope the video game part of this is good.

Avatar image for inquisitor
Inquisitor

240

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

That blonde kid Raiden? No.

Avatar image for sunjammer
Sunjammer

1177

Forum Posts

408

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 17

User Lists: 7

I like the idea that shit idiotic writing is "different" and therefore worth keeping around. Seriously guys. Go defend a Michael Bay or Roland Emmerich movie then, or a Dan Brown novel, because that's the actual vault Kojima is yanking this baloney from.

He's a jackass pretending at being a serious auteur, undermining his own work every step of the way with yet more idiocy. This is a guy that wants to talk about child soldiers while he sticks a sniper chick in a bikini on screen, wants to talk about Guantanamo bay and torture, and does it side by side with Policenauts references, horse stealth, cybercowboys and hiding in cardboard boxes. This is a dude that genuinely thinks he has serious things to say about war and conflict. He doesn't. He has nothing to say about those things. He just farts for hours and hours and hours in HIGH DEFINITION.

You call it "quirky" or "weird". Swery's games are quirky and weird. Kojima's games are just stupid, and I don't understand why people aren't giving him a harder time. He should be better than this now and the only reason he's not getting better is because people keep letting him get away with garbage.

Avatar image for redsandbluesky
RedSandBlueSky

2

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

Edited By RedSandBlueSky

I don't think Kojima is the person to be addressing the tragedy of child soldiers in a game.

The open world stuff could be cool.

Avatar image for laszlokovacs
LaszloKovacs

1272

Forum Posts

66

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 7

User Lists: 0

Edited By LaszloKovacs

This game looks even more fucking bananas than I thought was possible after 4.

Avatar image for lkpower
lkpower

466

Forum Posts

307

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 1

I actually like what I've heard so far of Kiefer Sutherland as Snake. I never liked any of David Hayter's performances. He would always leave me screaming at the TV yelling, "who talks like that?!" "Metal...Gear" I mean seriously. It got annoying for me by MGS2 I'm interested to what he brings to the role. He just has a more believable voice than Hayter does if that makes any sense

Avatar image for professork
ProfessorK

884

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 4

Looks like a new main VA and an open world was just the kick in the dick that this series needed. Looks fucking great, it's almost as if MGS has become that game that ushers in the next gen proper. 2, 4, and now this.

I'm ready Snake, bring it on!

Avatar image for rebgav
rebgav

1442

Forum Posts

335

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

I called it! Thanks to Kony 2012 and that Invisible Children bullshit it's the year of the child soldier.

Black Ops 2 teased at it but the new Beyond Souls had it and so does the new Metal Gear.

As did the old Metal Gears. It's been a theme of the series since at least MGS2, if not MG2.

Avatar image for stonyman65
stonyman65

3818

Forum Posts

1

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 4

Edited By stonyman65

Fuck.............

Avatar image for divergence
divergence

513

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

well this game seems really dark.

Avatar image for blacklab
blacklab

2025

Forum Posts

22

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 1

Edited By blacklab

Kojima is Swery with more resources.

Avatar image for laserbolts
laserbolts

5506

Forum Posts

4

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 1

Edited By laserbolts

Bring back Hayter.

Avatar image for def
DeF

5450

Forum Posts

208181

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 4

Edited By DeF

@nethlem said:

I love the controversy around this trailer, that shows Kojima hitting the pulse of the current times with some of these topics.

But that trailer is maybe a little bit too spoilerish to me, with all those cast introductions going on or seeing that snake gets an decent robo arm/leg as replacement. Especially after that rather disturbing reveal trailer that's maybe a little bit too much "reveal". I rather don't know stuff like that in advance, as to dive into the game without as little knowledge as possible.

You will have forgotten everything by the time the game comes out and you can bet it's gonna all be some big ol' chaotic mess again anyway. It's a Metal Gear game after all ;)

That said, now I desperately NEED to hear Snake at some point yell "We're running out of time!!!"

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1rklfnU311r011tlo1_400.gif

Avatar image for the_vein
The_Vein

329

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

Edited By The_Vein

Okay so I know a lot of people are like "OMG KOJIMA U SO CRAY I LOVE THAT CRAZY SHIT YEAH FIRE WHALE!" and they act like the storyline of MGS is absolutely inscrutable, but I've always enjoyed the overarching plot of the MGS series, and I like how it all fits together (even if they have to use some pretty clanky deus ex machinas to tie up all the loose ends), but this game seems like it isn't paying any attention to continuity at all, I mean, its obviously going to be some kind of prequel to the original Metal Gear, but I'm pretty sure Big Boss didn't have a robot hand and fucking horns. Is Kojima throwing out his plot just to have crazy shit going on? I hope not.

Avatar image for sleepydoughnut
SleepyDoughnut

1269

Forum Posts

133

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 5

Edited By SleepyDoughnut

@spitznock said:

I always get a chuckle out of how much Giantbomb seems to hate Metal Gear Solid.

I for one and looking forward to MGS5 quite a bit.

Giantbomb who? If you mean the crew they did a very positive spoiler-cast for MGS4.

http://www.giantbomb.com/podcasts/giant-spoiler-snakecast-06-19-2008/1600-17/

Yes Patrick is the only one who said he didn't like MGS4, and then they all started getting cynical about Metal Gear in recent years for some reason. But Brad stated on the livestream he is back on board MGSV, and I think the rest of the crew will be soon. This looks pretty damn stellar, and also for the moment something I can barely wrap my head around. Kojima plots are always so crazy.

Avatar image for billyhoush
billyhoush

1273

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 3

User Lists: 4

I called it! Thanks to Kony 2012 and that Invisible Children bullshit it's the year of the child soldier.

Black Ops 2 teased at it but the new Beyond Souls had it and so does the new Metal Gear.

Avatar image for mithhunter55
mithhunter55

1104

Forum Posts

709

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 1

User Lists: 1

Edited By mithhunter55
Avatar image for donmfjohnson
DonMFJohnson

184

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

Edited By DonMFJohnson

So... guy ponytails are back?

Avatar image for samjaz
SamJaz

5

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

Edited By SamJaz

I am getting this game. Know nothing of the franchise, started playing MGS3 on 3DS, that's it. Don't care. I will have this game.

Avatar image for wonloong
Wonloong

407

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 1

Edited By Wonloong

@humanity said:

@truthtellah: I noticed as I grow older I've started to recoil a lot more from straight up gore while resonating positively with the emotional aspect of "torture" I suppose. By positively I don't mean I get enjoyment out of watching it of course, but rather that I can get behind that as a concept of making me feel something for these polygons on my screen whereas pure gore and blood is slowly making me turn my head away.

Are we then slowly turning into the nagging parents that back then cried in terror for their children's exposure to violence in media, especially in video games?

Edit: I'd like to add that maybe what they're trying to showcase here is how horrifying and uncomfortable it is to be at the receiving end of these tortures in the name of peace and freedom.

Given what the media has exposed to us regarding wars of this and that, and detention camps, maybe they're attempting to let us empathise us on how horrible those people under those circumstances might be in.

If you take it at face value, sure it's violent. But there might be undertones to it that the creators wish to impart to us. Heck, maybe I'm just reading it all too much from a storytelling/interactive medium.

Avatar image for tebbit
tebbit

4659

Forum Posts

861

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 3

User Lists: 6

Edited By tebbit

That was damn effective.

Avatar image for tiangou
Tiangou

6

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

Hold on a minute. Why does ocelot look older than big boss?

Avatar image for humanity
Humanity

21858

Forum Posts

5738

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 40

User Lists: 16

@truthtellah: I noticed as I grow older I've started to recoil a lot more from straight up gore while resonating positively with the emotional aspect of "torture" I suppose. By positively I don't mean I get enjoyment out of watching it of course, but rather that I can get behind that as a concept of making me feel something for these polygons on my screen whereas pure gore and blood is slowly making me turn my head away.

Avatar image for nethlem
Nethlem

828

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

Edited By Nethlem

I love the controversy around this trailer, that shows Kojima hitting the pulse of the current times with some of these topics.

But that trailer is maybe a little bit too spoilerish to me, with all those cast introductions going on or seeing that snake gets an decent robo arm/leg as replacement. Especially after that rather disturbing reveal trailer that's maybe a little bit too much "reveal". I rather don't know stuff like that in advance, as to dive into the game without as little knowledge as possible.

Avatar image for truthtellah
TruthTellah

9827

Forum Posts

423

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 2

Edited By TruthTellah

@somejerk said:

Hate to say it but welcome to what's going on in the world. People kill puppies. If you're a person with a difficult time killing dogs in games even if they're zombified enemies, well - what are you doing having no problem killing humans?

Take pleasure in it instead.

He did those kids a favor.

Just because things are happening in the world doesn't mean people have to be okay with it. I can still feel uncomfortable with depictions of abhorrent things. Isn't that part of the point of having them in the game? If everyone is just jaded and desensitized to what the content is, doesn't that remove the intended impact?

Elements of this make me feel uncomfortable because you're meant to feel uncomfortable. When a horror game makes someone feel scared, it isn't a bad thing which calls for someone to point out that people should get over what scares them because scary things happen all the time. They're scared because they're meant to be scared. And with scenes like these, you feel uncomfortable because you're meant to feel uncomfortable. In a tense situation, the player is meant to feel tense. Some people can just laugh off any scene, but the developer means for there to be that tension as part of the overall experience.

It isn't bad that people recoil at content like this. It's just the intended effect. And if it doesn't hit you, then it didn't achieve what it set out to do. For me personally, parts of the trailer bothered me. And that's alright. Because I came into it with the willingness to be made uncomfortable for the sake of a larger experience.

Avatar image for somejerk
SomeJerk

4077

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

Edited By SomeJerk

Hate to say it but welcome to what's going on in the world. People kill puppies. If you're a person with a difficult time killing dogs in games even if they're zombified enemies, well - what are you doing having no problem killing humans?

Take pleasure in it instead.

He did those kids a favor.

And I was going to take one shot for every "waaaaaaa hayter-sama" post but I ran out of scotch..

Avatar image for darji
Darji

5412

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

Edited By Darji

This trailer and the FFXV alone convinced me that we are finally starting a next generation of games. So good!!!

Avatar image for truthtellah
TruthTellah

9827

Forum Posts

423

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 2

@dooley said:

Also what the hell was that an electronic cigar?

Sure looks like it. There are indeed electronic cigars. And they even look similar to what he's using. Check it out.

Loading Video...

Avatar image for humanity
Humanity

21858

Forum Posts

5738

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 40

User Lists: 16

Edited By Humanity

It is definitely one of, if not THE, best game shown at E3 thus far. It has gotten me excited to the point where I don't want to even see anymore, I just want to play it.

Avatar image for truthtellah
TruthTellah

9827

Forum Posts

423

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 2

They weren't kidding about the oddity of adding that torture into the trailer. And that bomb in that person's abdomen. Just kind of creepy.

Other than those aspects of it, it's still my favorite trailer out of E3. I'm starting to get hyped about this game.

Avatar image for deactivated-630479c20dfaa
deactivated-630479c20dfaa

1683

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

Wow, I find myself actually pumped for a metal gear game again. This could end up bad if I get dissapointed. No David Hayter though =/ well, one can hope he returns someday to play the actual solid snake.

Avatar image for posh
posh

682

Forum Posts

879

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 11

kinda wish people would stop referring to MGS games as nonsense. if you don't get it then don't even comment

Avatar image for dooley
Dooley

374

Forum Posts

22

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 1

Also what the hell was that an electronic cigar?

Avatar image for obcdexter
obcdexter

999

Forum Posts

3

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 17

@korolev said:

That scene with the kids holding guns almost as big as they are, is scarily accurate. You have to wonder why the guerrilla forces even use child soldiers - they're not effective at all. Yes, yes, we've all heard the "wonder" stories of 13 year old german kids taking out Russian tanks, but the truth of the matter is that most of those hitler youth soldiers near the end of WWII performed terribly. Children, for the most part, make bad soldiers.Honestly, they'd just be a liability on a battlefield - you couldn't really trust them to do anything right. So why use them? They just take up ammo, take up food, and are virtually useless for any serious assault.

Psychological warfare, mostly. A lot of these kids are sent into battles against their own families/relatives and generally people who would more likely hesitate to open fire on young children. Also, as young as they are, they can be indoctrinated with whatever bogus world-view their new "owners" follow much more effectively. Best case gets you a loyal servant, morally immature, not doubting the atrocities he commits, as long as he's got the approval of his new "father". Worst case? Well cannon-fodder and another "baby-killer" in the ranks of your enemies. :/

Avatar image for dooley
Dooley

374

Forum Posts

22

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 1

Damn. I'm all for mature games and graphic content but this is just too much. It's just unnecessary. Also it not being David Hayter is a deal breaker for me. I dunno if I even want this game to succeed really. Just don't care anymore after watching this trailer.

Avatar image for mcghee
McGhee

6128

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 2

Edited By McGhee

When this game comes out and someone can tell me that the story is not a steaming pile of blithering nonsense, then I might be interested.

But you know it will be complete nonsense. Oh yes you do.

Avatar image for korolev
korolev

1800

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 17

User Lists: 8

That scene with the kids holding guns almost as big as they are, is scarily accurate. You have to wonder why the guerrilla forces even use child soldiers - they're not effective at all. Yes, yes, we've all heard the "wonder" stories of 13 year old german kids taking out Russian tanks, but the truth of the matter is that most of those hitler youth soldiers near the end of WWII performed terribly. Children, for the most part, make bad soldiers.Honestly, they'd just be a liability on a battlefield - you couldn't really trust them to do anything right. So why use them? They just take up ammo, take up food, and are virtually useless for any serious assault.