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Metal Gear Solid V or The Phantom Pain or Whatever They'll Eventually Call It: Debut Trailer

Here is a trailer for a video game. What will the video game be called when it finally comes out?

Dec. 10 2012

Posted by: Jeff

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You're all wrong, this is the 3D reimagining of Hotline Miami.

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I was sure this was metal gear until I saw the FLAMING UNICORN and GIANT FIRE WHALE.

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Butt crack alert!

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What a fantastic way to convey a dream/nightmare like state with the limpness of the body (like not being able to run in dreams). Not to mention the hazy shadowy figures. Very unsettling and disturbing. Best trailer this year.

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Pause at the last second of the trailer - You can see a floating guy just above Boss; Is that The Sorrow or Psycho Mantis?

I love this trailer-

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AWESOME.

Now the line from MGS comes to mind "This is Snake. Colonel, can you hear me?"

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Bauer!

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Metal Gear: asscrack

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moby dick hates helicopters

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Speaking as someone with Night terrors (This is J, for those of you with Premium memberships/remember jar videos), this trailer hit a real cord with me... and I mean that in a good way. I'm a hard individual to creep out or scare, the last time I felt genuinely freaked out by a story or game was with Metro 2033... Don't really know why though... Anyway, this video managed to hit a real solid tone with me... I don't get very exited for games, but I am looking forward to this... May well be a system seller for me if it's an exclusive.

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Did someone hear my secret prayer for a take on F.E.A.R. written by Herman Melville, starring Solid Snake? No? Oh. That's probably because I didn't want it.

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That voice was Kiefer Sutherland, wasn't it?

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0:32, does anyone else hear "On your feet soldier" in Kiefer Sutherland AKA Jack Bauer's voice? That's totally Kief!?!!

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More than anything, I'm interested in a game that has a protagonist with an unreliable sense of perception. It's definitely a departure, especially with the next-gen graphics and writers who are free to do whatever the hell they want without being forced into a standard video game framework.

I think that one of the problems with current video game art design is simply fear that the gaming community isn't up for this sort of thing. Truth is, the visuals and tension are like water in a desert for us. We've been ready for this sort of thing for a long time. Let's just hope they can pull it off.

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@maverick_76 said:

The graphics look insane if that is in engine, holy shit!

It's probably next-gen stuff.

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I'd prefer it to be some random new original IP...

Either way: Looking neat!

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There's no way this is a trailer for a new Metal Gear. Uh, hello people? This isn't a 20 minute trailer! No way Kojima worked on this! :D

At any rate, it has giant flaming space whales that eat helicopters. I'm in! That's exactly what I want from my games, no joke. I'm so sick of hyper derivative, completely interchangeable (and completely disposable) shooters that all feel the same. You can do anything in a video game; do something interesting. THIS looks interesting! Metal Gear or not!

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Looks neat

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I really like the trailer. It's really unsettling. But if it really is a Kojima joint the gameplay will probably be shit and the game is comprised of 20 minute cutscenes with some stealthshootymans in between.

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@TheDeadComedian said:

@SSully said:

Well it's obviously metal gear.

I think the thing to talk about here is how fucking unsettling this trailer was. I got really uncomfortable when the hall of people were just getting mowed down.

That was an extremely effective use of violence. Made me fucking shiver.

i think that Chilling would be the best way to describe it for me, man freaking insane

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Metal....Whale?

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@TheBioLover said:

@VargasPrime: Man, it's tough to explain in a single post so I'll just link you here, it should explain everything: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=503254

So, after watching this trailer.. im confused as shit.. Then I clicked this link and read all the shit over there.. now Im SUPER excited about this...

Kojima Always fucks with our brains so hard.. that guy is the tits...

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so when are they gonna port MGS4 to 360?

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@Stonyman65 said:

IIRC, Liquid was missing his right left arm

Say what?

In any case, he was not missing either arm after the crash. His body was recovered and the arm then transfused onto Ocelot in the events between 1 and 2.

Liquid's remains since exchanged hands on a few occasions. Like Gray Fox, I think he's dead as Dillinger, even by MGS standards.

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Holy Fuck!

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His wife and Revolver Ocelot live in his arm. It is a new pilot for Three's Company.

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The graphics look insane if that is in engine, holy shit!

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@Danin@FearMyFlop: Either way I'm looking forward to seeing this game announced for real as the next game in the MGS series. 4 was crazy, had to replay the whole thing again recently to remind myself how nuts it really is.

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@Turambar said:

@MooseyMcMan said:

@Turambar said:

@MooseyMcMan said:

From Fox, two phantoms were born....

What if that guy is Major Zero, instead of Big Boss? There are UK flags there, right hand steering wheel in the vehicle. Just throwing another crazy theory out there.

I mean, I feel like the Big Boss angle is too obvious.

Someone already mentioned it, but we already have a Snake lookalike that was missing a left hand: Liquid.

Why would Liquid be missing his left hand? Ocelot's right hand was cut off, so Liquid's right arm was cut off.

Huh, my memory of Liquid Ocelot inside a Metal Gear Ray showing off his arm has him raising up his left arm. My mistake then.

IIRC, Liquid was missing his right left arm after the jeep crash at the end of MGS. Ocelot's hand wasn't cut off until Grey Fox did it during Shadow Moses. I think Big Boss lost one of his arms during the fight with snake in Metal Gear 1 or Metal Gear 2 also, but I could be wrong on that. It's been a while.

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There are some white flower petals floating in the air when he looks at his prosthetic arm, for me that's a pretty big hint that this is connected to Snake-Eater and Big Boss. Fire whale and fire pegasi/unicorn are obviously hallucinations, and I like the detail how the Snake-like character is so emaciated due to apparently having been in a coma for a long time.

The whole fake developer thing reminds of all those tv-ads that were in MGS4.

All in all, this looks pretty amazing to me on a graphical level and I hope the gameplay will deliver.

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Also, did anyone else notice the rider on the back of the unicorn/pegasus (at 2:29)?!?
Also, did anyone else notice the rider on the back of the unicorn/pegasus (at 2:29)?!?
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So wait, we have this game, Ground Zeros, and Rising: Revengeance or whatever that game is called coming out? That's kind of a lot of Metal Gear stuff. Although I suppose this game and Ground Zeros are probably years out at this point.

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@MooseyMcMan said:

@Turambar said:

@MooseyMcMan said:

From Fox, two phantoms were born....

What if that guy is Major Zero, instead of Big Boss? There are UK flags there, right hand steering wheel in the vehicle. Just throwing another crazy theory out there.

I mean, I feel like the Big Boss angle is too obvious.

Someone already mentioned it, but we already have a Snake lookalike that was missing a left hand: Liquid.

Why would Liquid be missing his left hand? Ocelot's right hand was cut off, so Liquid's right arm was cut off.

Huh, my memory of Liquid Ocelot inside a Metal Gear Ray showing off his arm has him raising up his left arm. My mistake then.

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@Turambar said:

@MooseyMcMan said:

From Fox, two phantoms were born....

What if that guy is Major Zero, instead of Big Boss? There are UK flags there, right hand steering wheel in the vehicle. Just throwing another crazy theory out there.

I mean, I feel like the Big Boss angle is too obvious.

Someone already mentioned it, but we already have a Snake lookalike that was missing a left hand: Liquid.

Why would Liquid be missing his left hand? Ocelot's right hand was cut off, so Liquid's right arm was cut off.

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@MooseyMcMan said:

From Fox, two phantoms were born....

What if that guy is Major Zero, instead of Big Boss? There are UK flags there, right hand steering wheel in the vehicle. Just throwing another crazy theory out there.

I mean, I feel like the Big Boss angle is too obvious.

Someone already mentioned it, but we already have a Snake lookalike that was missing a left hand: Liquid.

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@MordeaniisChaos: Not to point out the obvious, but there was no blonde girl narrating in the Dark Souls 2 trailer.

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That trailer maybe showing a dream sequence found within the game. It does make sense if it is a dream sequence since dreams tend to become bizarre at some point.

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Well I'd be lying if I said that I was actually looking forward to another Kojima outing. Truth is, IMO, Kojima is put up way too high on a pedestal for his MGS games. I've played and finished all the console Metal Gears and yes the stories are bat shit insane and the characters usually follow suit, but what really turns me off of Kojima's famous series are the endless cutscenes he puts into his games. Why he feels the need to have hour long movies in there is beyond me. You're not a movie director there Kojima, for the love of God stop acting as one.

As for this being MGS5, again I'd be lying if I said I was looking forward to it. That said I will be keeping my eyes on this game. Hopefully the 2 and 1/2 day long cutscenes are out as well I hope they get some new animators in there cause I'm sick to death of Snake moving and jumping like a popsicle stick. If all that comes to be and once the game hits $19.99 I may just have to check it out.

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@Tebbit said:

God I love Kojima.

Joakim.

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Whatever this is, it looks awesome.

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@crusader8463: I guess that makes more sense. I've only played a few hours of Metal Gear Solid 4 and I recognized the animation style, and I instantly recognized the face from seeing so much Metal Gear around in general. Plus the engine looked just like that gameplay bit they showed of the "new Metal Gear" game on the new engine.

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From Fox, two phantoms were born....

What if that guy is Major Zero, instead of Big Boss? There are UK flags there, right hand steering wheel in the vehicle. Just throwing another crazy theory out there.

I mean, I feel like the Big Boss angle is too obvious.

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@Rexman64 said:

For all the "hidden" clues, it just took one thing to convince me that it's a Metal Gear game:

The dude's butt through the hospital gown.

KOJIMAAAAAAAAA

Can't argue with that!

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@SomeJerk: The fuck, man.

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@MordeaniisChaos said:

@crusader8463 said:

I wondered what this was during the VGA's.

I was in a skype call with the gang watching it with all of them, and I got home from work a bit late, not having seen it. They talked about it being a cool new IP, and just as I started watching it it started to come out that it might be Metal Gear. As I watched it I was constantly just thinking "Hey, this is Metal Gear, why is it not called that?" No doubt in my mind. I don't know how it wasn't obvious to people! But then, the Dark Souls 2 thing was the same. Hell, I knew when the ugly blonde girl was talking about it being dark and unforgiving and put tons of emphasis on dark. I had some "It's probably Dark Souls, but isn't that the dragon from Dragon Age?" moments but everyone else was like "Oh man what is this?" and then they all freaked out because they are huge fans. One of the guys in our group in particular is probably in the top 10 fans of the game, he is insane. Even he didn't get it, but it was obvious all along to me. *shrugs* I guess I'm just supernaturally smart.

I don't like the metal gear games nor have I really played one for more then an hour or two. The way the lighting was being done at the start made me think it was a new Kane and Lynch game, but when it went supernatural I had no idea. The mullet and facial hair made me think of snake, but I have no history with the series beyond hearing people talk about it over the years so it made no sense to me.

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Well there are a few things here that point towards it being MGS related. The most obvious points being, he looks like snake, it looks like the new Fox engine and Psychomantis was floating in the background at the end (pretty significant last point).

Then I looked at the Ground Zeroes trailer again, In that Snake has an eye patch on, Solid Snake never loses his eye, he just gets an eye patch in MGS4 that is used to give us the HUD, his eye still works fine but he has clearly lost his eye in the ground zeroes trailer - in this the same eye has a bandage over it.

Also the guy who is helping you has clearly had his face burned up hence the bandages all over his head - in the Ground Zeroes trailer the guy you see at the start with the "XOF" badge looks a lot like he has had his face burned badly. I'm fairly certain there is a link here..

Edit: I didnt really pay attention to the time lines.. this could easily not be Solid snake and be big boss given the age of the guns.. Also Psychomantis burned down a village or something, this is possibly a reference to that?

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@VargasPrime said:

So... I haven't played a Metal Gear game since MGS2. Can anyone explain why people are convinced this is another Metal Gear game?

That would take forEVER.

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@crusader8463 said:

I wondered what this was during the VGA's.

I was in a skype call with the gang watching it with all of them, and I got home from work a bit late, not having seen it. They talked about it being a cool new IP, and just as I started watching it it started to come out that it might be Metal Gear. As I watched it I was constantly just thinking "Hey, this is Metal Gear, why is it not called that?" No doubt in my mind. I don't know how it wasn't obvious to people! But then, the Dark Souls 2 thing was the same. Hell, I knew when the ugly blonde girl was talking about it being dark and unforgiving and put tons of emphasis on dark. I had some "It's probably Dark Souls, but isn't that the dragon from Dragon Age?" moments but everyone else was like "Oh man what is this?" and then they all freaked out because they are huge fans. One of the guys in our group in particular is probably in the top 10 fans of the game, he is insane. Even he didn't get it, but it was obvious all along to me. *shrugs* I guess I'm just supernaturally smart.

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@VargasPrime said:

So... I haven't played a Metal Gear game since MGS2. Can anyone explain why people are convinced this is another Metal Gear game?

Because it's obviously a Metal Gear game...

The shadowing on the title hides "Metal Gear Solid 5"

It has Volgin in it.

It has Snake in it.

There's quite obviously a Psycho Mantis esque-character.

The studio doesn't exist.

The studio head's name is an anagram of Kojima.

@TheBioLover said:

@VargasPrime: Man, it's tough to explain in a single post so I'll just link you here, it should explain everything: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=503254

Damn....

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@Korolev said:

FIRE WHALE!

I am betting it's Liquid. He's missing an arm. He is in a Hospital with a UK flag, and we know that he was in the SAS. So, I am betting that somehow Liquid survived the end of MGS1 and now he's back in this game.

i buy that, since the baddies are carrying uspct and uzi so its in the 90s or later