In the latest video from DidYouKnowGaming, David Hayter, the voice of Solid Snake himself, narrates a 40-minute long documentary-style video of the craziest cut content from the Metal Gear Solid series... and depending on your level of fandom for that particular franchise, it may or may not be the best thing you see today.
Interactive torture scenes, cut VR missions, poop jokes, and a versus mode that never came to fruition is just the tip of the iceberg. The video goes into exhaustive detail, compiling snippets from old interviews both in video and in print, and the team at DidYouKnowGaming even combed through Hideo Kojima's frankly ludicrous Twitter feed to find some of these tantalising tidbits.
If you've got an hour to kill, it's the perfect way to pick up a few morsels to impress your gaming friends with some legendary lore they are unlikely to know. Everyone loves a know-it-all, and it's a fantastically produced video all around.
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His voice was missed from the last game and he’s one of a kind
@Luigia Agreed. Snake without David Hayter is like Optimus Prime without Peter Cullen. He IS the voice of Snake.
MGS is one game that i would love to see get a "from the groud up" remake. One of the finest games ever made imo. Whilst your at it bring the rest over too.
They wanted a "more well known actor" for Big Boss in MGS5 and then the guy barely spoke. Utterly ridiculous.
MGS5 was a fantastic game in many ways but the story was absolutely rubbish and the lack of storyline cut scenes was a let down.
Anyone who said MGS had "too long cutscenes" wasn't really a fan and shouldn't have been listened to.
Metal Gear was one of my favorite game series. Played all games, discussed the lore in foruns to no end. Still sad the franchise ended when Kojima was fired from Konami. I will watch this video soon.
@MattBoothDev Yeah that annoyed the hell outta me. Brought Keifer on for some lines and alot ot grunting and huh'ing. Lack of story/cutscenes was also a letdown. Great gameplay like ya say but that's it. Was very disappointed. Could of atleast brought David back at the very end for that scene, as awful as a twist it was
@MattBoothDev Yeah the gameplay aspect of V was fantastic. It's a shame, like you said, the story is absolutely in tatters and Venom being reduced to a grunting nincompoop is such a shame, especially with how much Big Boss and Snake talk in codecs and cutscenes throughout the series.
Man V is such a disappointing game to me, it makes me depressed just thinking about it.
@Deadlyblack
I agree.
90% of the voice work in that game was between Ocelot and Miller.
To this day I wonder why they paid Keifer so much money for his like ten lines of actual dialogue. He barely spoke. And Big Boss was always a chatty nanny. It was a disappointment for me.
Plus they got Ocelot so wrong in that game. He had none of his mannerisms. None of his holier than thou attitude that made him so interesting in other games.
Troy Baker clearly phoned it in.
@OrtadragoonX I get Kojima likes working with big names and stars, it works with Death Stranding since the game's lore was established with aforementioned stars as their characters.
But it doesn't work with something like MGS since we've known some of these characters, and their respective voice actors, for years. Sometimes V feels like a Hollywood spin off with how they handled some of the characters.
i like Kiefer sutherlands movies but i couldnt listen to him as snake, david hayter is snake. never much cared for the fifth game. the episodic credits roll before each mission wrecked it for me.
metal gear 1-4 i love mgs5 total let down.
Bio Booster Armour Guyver, he’s coming to get you!
Here I thought he’d be narrating as solid snake, voice and all haha
This is really cool! Man I hope we get those remakes and Hayter is on board or whatever.
They can just be remasters… I’m not even going to get greedy/needy. I just want to play them on current consoles 😩
@OrtadragoonX i don't think Baker particularly phoned it in, they just changed ocelot's character entirely. Baker did a decent job, imho.
Also, like 70% of the exposition in the game happens in the tapes you find and the place in the game where it reminds you about the tapes in the the helicopter. I'll be damned if I can actually hear what's going on in those tapes for the rotor on the chopper.
It's got the DNA of a metal gear game, put together by someone who was sick to the back of his teeth of making metal gear games and took the criticism of non-fans to heart.
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