Who is going to be watching the Ground Zeroes/Fox Engine/BandagedSwedishBloke presentation later today? Is anyone excited about this or do you think its just a load of marketing hype for series past its sell by date? Where will people be watching it?

Myself, I am very interested to see what Kojima has got up his sleeve not because the games look so revolutionary, although I always look forward to a new Metal Gear, but because Kojima seems to be such a master at whipping the internet into seething frenzy of crazy conspiracy theories and wild speculation.

I look forward to the debate about whether Kojima is just a sentinet AI controlling an army of identical Kojima androids which it uses to go to conferences and tweet pictures of lunch.

I'm excited about everything to do with Phantom Zeroes and Ground Pain.

@yummylee:Any plans on where to watch it? It would be cool if they streamed it at GB so people could type mad cynical shit while it was going on.

Don't be so cynical...

It will be streamed here

Yeah, that.

Guess I will be watching it there then. Really wonder what he has seeing as it is an hour and a half presentation. I imagine it is going to be much more technical and developer focused than an E3 presentation. Is this going to be a big push to sell the engine? Are they the type of studio like Epic that sells their tech?

Do you think we will get an answer to the CG or not debate? I am not even sure that is one that they meant to start, I get the impression it might have just grown up organically from the community.

#TeamCG

I have faith in ''Joakim's'' word that all of our questions will be answered come GDC. My theory as to what they'll announce is that Zeroes and Pain will be the same game. Ground Zeroes is of course the ''prologue'' to MGS5, being Phantom Pain. So chances are it may be like Snake Eater, or Sons of Liberty too actually, where there are two separate missions. Ground Zeroes will act as the intro mission ala the Tanker Mission in MGS2 and the Virtuous Mission in Snake Eater, and the Phantom Pain will act as the main course.

Knowing Kojima, though, that idea is most likely completely off-base and couldn't be more wrong.

Can't wait for this!

http://www.twitch.tv/gamespot is where the cool cats will be hanging out.

I'm so fucking hyped, almost 5 long years since the release of MGS4 and now we're going to get a whole hour of Kojima goodness that no doubt hundreds will frame by frame for weeks to come.

For those wanting to watch it, as mentioned in this thread go to http://gamespot.com/shows/gamespot-live/?event=the-core-of-mgs-ground-zeroes-20130327 and the gamespot twitch also.

Will watch some of it, maybe all of it.

#TeamNotCG

Maybe he will show us something that isn't Metal Gear. Maybe then my dark heart would begin to brighten.

Not expecting that though...

Hell Yeah I want to see this.

I'm at work, so I will try to watch what I can. If it's supposed to be 90 minutes long then hopefully that means Kojima will go really in-depth on the FOX engine's technical aspects.

gaf has been providing me with hours of entertainment since Bandagegate. my conviction since the trailer reveal that PP is a part of the MGS universe remains well documented on Giant Bomb. havent slept properly, and have been up all night (other side of Earth) to see this, as well. after this panel on 'photorealism,' i will have to go back to the doldrums of every day life...

@pleasedaddyno said:

#teamreal & #teamcg all in one post. :P

every day im #realmcgyving.

......................phantom <br>
..................................metal<br>
(joakim<->kojima) m(OGRE)n <br>
..........................................gear <br>
..............................................pain

Less than half an hour to go. Can't wait!

i think ground zeroes and phantom pain are the same game !!! call me crazy but i think it really is!

Starting in 2 minutes!

My snake is ready.

AWWWWW SHIIIIT

Oh shit! Just in time.

what have I missed? what have I missed? what have I missed?

Aaaaaaand it's just what everyone figured out immediately. Phantom Pain and Ground Zeroes are just MGS5.

Nope, it's a 24 game.

Well that certainly doesn't sound like David Hayter.

@yummylee: yep... can't tell if I'm happy about it yet.

REALISTIC ASS CRACKS CONFIRMED

it is about 99% as we, detective gafs, sussed out within 20 minutes of the Phantom Pain reveal. it's all on record.

(especially the bit where i pledged my allegiance to #teamreal and #nevernoeatingofcrows)

did gamespot crash for anyone else?

Well, Kojima left so the interest rate has dropped 99%.

"did you rike it?"

Fuck you gamespot, you just gave everyone an ultimate case of blue balls.

Little disappointing that after all of the speculation, the most obvious possibility happens to be the truth. I guess the Ground Zeroes segments are flashbacks or something. Still, I'm pretty damn excited! Miller's back, which got me pumped a lot more than I figured it would. So many damned callbacks, though. Which I guess is old hat for MGS, but yet another Psycho Mantis derivative?

(no, i rlly did not rike DAT powerpoint FONT)

I WAS RIGHT lol

yeah can't get it to work at all

That masked dude was such a dick, why wouldn't he help Snake up or support him. So basically Ground Zeros = Phantom Pain?

ive been watching it fine. on the twitch stream.

I'm pretty fucking stoked for anything Metal Gear but I'm pretty bummed that David Hayter doesn't seem to be voicing Snake. If that is Snake? I don't know man.

Not david hayter, oh dear! The game looks fucking crazy but there's no context for any of it, wonder if any of that info will be revealed.

This is cool, but I still kind of wish MGS4 stayed "the end." It worked so absurdly and ridiculously well as a series closer.

I wonder if Snake'll be going through some sort of PTSD or something, hence all of the trippy craziness like the whale. As for Hayter, it could just be a temporary placeholder; though it's definitely weird why they'd ever use one considering how iconic David's voice is for Snake.

Missed the first 25mins!@*~# Did we get any important news??

@superwristbands: @yummylee: Wasn't someone else playing the older Big Boss in MGS4? Could it be the same guy as that?

Damn I missed it. They only have up to the end of the trailer recorded on twitch so far :(

Edit: Oh you can rewind on gamespot

Didn't the duders mentioned one time in a bombcast that David was tweeting something like "what if I didn't voice Snake in the next MGS"?

@crosstheatlantic: Yeah, Richard Doyle. I think it'd be cool if they did get a new voice actor for Snake, if only because we're getting close to Big Boss and Solid Snake coexisting in MGS5. Plus I'm of the mind that Big Boss should have had a different voice actor to begin with in MGS3.

@superwristbands: it's probably richard doyle who voiced big boss in mgs4