Here's That Crazy Ass Metal Gear Solid V Trailer Everyone's Talking About

@chose: You sound like a pretentious cunt. MGS' previous sales prove that it has more than just a niche fanbase outside of Japan.

It's funny to see how much people are into the whole Metal Gear storyline and lore. Snake might be a cool character to some, but beyond that it's not worth thinking about it, less caring about it. Maybe it's the Japanese childish anime culture, but it probably doesn't resonate to many gamers over sixteen. Kojima should mature along its audience if he wants to remain relevant, unless Konami is satisfied with not having success outside their small island.

Bring on that crazy, Kojima!

And yet gets you so much more in terms of a response. What do you think that says about the BF4 trailer?

@raikoh05: They're are the same game.

Well that was mighty impressive. And it looks like they're trying to do something crazy and ridiculous which i'm all for!

Words can not describe just how on board I am for this.

Woo! I'm so ready for this!

"The Phantom Pain" and "Ground Zeroes" sound like chapter titles.

...and hopefully, not including David Hayter in the pre-release footage is just Kojima's kind of joke.

I don't think so. "Wie hast komm du?" is not a valid sentence in German. "Why have you come?" would be "Warum bist du gekommen?". As a German I can say that it doesn't sound German at all.

The trailer is completely nuts though. I played MGS4 and enjoyed it but I don't really give a shit about the fiction so if they take it in some weird fun direction I'm totally okay with that.

Jaw-dropping trailer, I can't remember anticipating a game this much.

I can't decide if the song choice is really bad or genius...

Best trailer for a brand new game, ever.. ever ever ever ever ever

I've been on board the Metal Gear train since the beginning, I should just buy a sleeper car at this point, I fucking love this train.

Ground Zeroes and Phantom Pain are Tanker/Big Shell.

Insanity is easy.

I'm In! Fuck it this is the right kinda crazy for me especially coming off an Infinite high.

Story arc then. Chronologically it's all in the same universe (as far as we know). It's MGS3, Portable Ops, Peace Walker, MGS5, Metal Gear 1, MG2, MGS1, MGS2, MGS4. And you can tack MG Rising in at the end if you're feeling hospitable.

It's not an issue of should or shouldn't really. It seem's that it's implied that they want them to sound the same since they have listed snake's japanes VA for the game. So it's more of a Hayter problem.

I'd like to think that they're just trolling because pretty much everything up to this point about this game has been misleading but that could be just wishful thinking.

@zevvion said:

You're right, MGS 1 is after MGS3. But he's saying that If a lot of time has passed from MGS3 we might re-live the moment of Metal Gear 1-2 but as Big Boss (not MGS, but MG)

Woke up at 4:30am to watch this, no regrets.

One clue I've spotted is toward the end, but don't know how it relates. When the female voice reads the title "V has come to." it sounds slightly German, as in "Wie hast komm du?", which I think means "Why have you come?". My German is pretty rubbish, though.

@yummylee:

or maybe the hospital is actually on fire from the attack in the phantom pain thing and he incorporates this into his coma dream?

Ahhh . . . All this talk of Big Boss

Timelines? Wait, am I missing something? I was always under the impression that MGS3 happened before MGS1, MGS2 happened after that and MGS4 after that. I mean, MGS3 was a prequel wasn't it? Not a spin-off in an alternate timeline?

Maybe I misread what you said though.

I think all of the fiery madness is implied to be related to the coma or something... some sort of violent after effect or PTSD ect. That, or they're illusions created by the little Psycho Mantis-esque character.

@wiqidbritt: He's on drugs in that bit. In the extended game play thing Bandage Face gives him some sort of something.

At least that's the theory I'm going by.

Big Boss SHOULD have quite frankly had a different voice actor from the very start. And even if he had to be voiced by one of the Snakes, John Cygan should have been the one to take the role considering Solidus is the closest to a perfect clone of Big Boss.

A little surprised there isn't a PS4 placeholder at the end

So... there's just straight up magic happening in MGS now, right?

Looked almost normal. Then the flaming unicorn-pegasus and the flying fire whale showed up. Whole lotta WTF going on here. Then again, "making sense" was never a hallmark of the MGS games ;P

This trailer already seems to be tripping balls, but there's another thing to take in mind. The Big Boss / MGS3 timeline ends in MG1 and 2. If they're time skipping 9 years here, and he was already getting old to begin with, we're fast approaching the plot arc where Solid Snake fights Big Boss. It's going to be really crazy if we play as Big Boss when the story catches up with the first games.

Big Boss SHOULD sound different from Snake IMO. He did at the end of MGS4. MANY years have passed since he was the young Naked Snake.

That's what I assumed initially before all of this, but it certainly didn't sound like him during the gameplay trailer. Plus, that guy is old. He's at least in his 70s by now, so I wonder if he'd be the right fit for voicing an early 50s Big Boss. Guess it's possible... there's currently so much room for speculation overall, though, concerning Big Boss' voice actor and the why behind it all. It gets to be exhausting when you try to run down all of the possibilities.

Now this seems like a Kojima game! Also, is David Hayter not doing the voice? or did big boss get a voice change operation? or maybe he just dreams he has a different voice while he's in the coma? like some sort of residual self image thing, or maybe it a result of the braindamage he suffered after being in a coma for nine years?

Anyway this seems to have the right brand of crazy so I'm in

Einhorn is Finkle!

@yummylee: I hypothesize that he'll be voiced by Richard Doyle, he's voiced the older Big Boss before, so it would make sense. I'd be surprised if Hayter was completely out, but who knows.

that fire whale was pretty cool, I'm just going to watch the videos on youtube and also I've never played a metal gear game unless u count the one on nes :D

Ground zeros is the tanker part and the phantom pain is the big shell part.

The whole thing is mgs5

Ground Zeroes is either an unnumbered PS3 game between 4 and 5. Or it's the first mission in MGS5. It was phrased oddly, so it's hard to tell which is the case.

No! Quite the opposite. I said that because a change in voice actor can raise concerns that the quality might not be up to the same standards as in previous games.

Brad will be so bummed....

Jeff, on the other hand,will be totally pumped to give the finger to metal gear fans who take its fiction seriously.

I swear, it's actually kinda silly to see Miller still wearing his shades despite the current situation he's in. He's reaching Albert Wesker levels of 'never not be wearing shades'.

And yes, of all the stuff that happens in that trailer, it's the shades thing that actually stood out to me. That's kind of silly in itself, I know.

I think that's Garbage!!

Great music, great trailer, and woo-hoo no David Hayter!

His performance was crap in Peace Walker, and I'm glad they finally made a switch.

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Maybe it's because I've never played a Metal Gear game before but... that was one of the most confusing trailers I've ever watched.

I have no idea what was going on at any moment.

What a fantastic trailer! I am so excited for this game and so glad Kojima is still making MGS games.

This whole stuff with The Phantom Pain has also been a lot of fun. Reminds me how great all the craziness is in the MGS games.

It's an odd numbered Metal Gear Solid game, that means that it's going to be amazing, I hope.

My face when the music credits came up: O.O

So Garbage is making crazy weird ambient electronica music now?