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  1. Duke Togo
    Ocelot took Liquid's right arm, not his left. That's not Liquid.
  2. Duke Togo
    Even more confusing: Contrary to what Kojima said during the GDC panel today, Konami has confirmed with Joystiq that Ground Zeroes and Phantom Pain are indeed separate games from Metal Gear Solid V. Which I'm fairly certain means they are both a part of MGSV; however, they are sold as separate games.
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    So, just for conversation: Peace Walker takes place in 1974. Metal Gear takes place in 1995. Outer Heaven was set up in the 1980's. Given that Big Boss is apparently in a coma for 9 years (according to the new trailers), we can assume The Phantom Pain takes place during the 1980's. This would obviously mean it leads up to the founding of Outer Heaven.
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    Oh, no, my post wasn't aimed at you, Mog. I was just using it as a convenient example of some of the discussion being had out there. J.J. didn't take The Holy Trilogy and turn out a turd like The Phantom Menace; he took a dead in the water franchise and raised its visibility and popularity to a height it had never seen before. Even if you want more out of Trek than what J.J. is bringing to the table, this new-found interest is going to bring new investment and new opportunities for further Trek productions.
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    I'd be completely ok if Kojima's reasoning is "This is a much older Big Boss, so we have to go with another actor to differentiate him from Solid Snake." You can hear the "new" Big Boss voice actor in this gameplay video from today. And yes, that certainly sounds like Kiefer Southerland as Ishmael.
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    Geoff Keighley from GameTrailers is posting up a 1 hour interview with Kojima later this week. In it Kojima confirms that Hayter is NOT in MGSV, and that there is a reason for it. Keighley won't spill what that reason is.
  7. Duke Togo
    Some of the gaming news sites are picking up on the oddities of the Hayter story now, and wondering if this isn't a ruse. From Hater's FB page: "Hey...David personally sends a gigantic thank you to everyone who is on his side concerning the possible decision to not include him in the next MGS. You guys are simply amazing." Bolded for effect, obviously.
  8. Duke Togo
    How typical.
  9. Duke Togo
    Hayter seems to be implying on Twitter that he wasnt asked to do MGSV. Though, this point is not exactly clear. 3 weeks ago be fan an informal poll on Twitter asking fans what they would think about him not playing Snake in the next Metal Gear, while sharing it with @konami and @hideo_kojima_en. I don't know what this means. Kojima has been playing so many games with the fans it's hard to know which way is up right now. Is Hayter out for good? Is Hayter out just for Big Boss so he isn't voicing two characters in one game (whether it's this game or a future one)? Is Hayter actually in the game, and they're just dicking with us? Man, this feels like the original Mass Effect 3 ending fiasco. Someone needs to tell us plainly WTF is going on, lol.
  10. Duke Togo
    Note, it's not confirmed that David Hayter is not coming back to voice Big Boss. He's simply not featured in the trailer, and no where in it do we see Big Boss actually speaking. I believe they are saying "no David Hayter" because of the last shot of the trailer, which in actuality doesn't make clear who is talking.
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    Trailer
  12. Duke Togo
    It's official Joystiq -- The Phantom Pain is Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Today at a panel during the Game Developers Conference, developer Hideo Kojima confirmed that both The Phantom Pain and Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes make up Metal Gear Solid 5. We also learned that The Phantom Pain is an open-world game. Says Kojima, "The tutorial itself is a sequence where Snake wakes up from a coma after nine years." A gameplay demo showed Snake escaping a facility and avoiding unknown enemies. David Haytor is not reprising his role as snake -- the new actor is unknown at this time. That's because it's not Solid Snake. Just sayin'.
  13. Duke Togo
    And utterly surpassed it.
  14. Duke Togo
    I really dig the opening scene of the trailer where they find the plans for the Crucible in those old Prothean ruins.
  15. Duke Togo
    Do a little digging, Taks, the info is out there. Much like Lucas with Star Wars, Roddenberry became a deteriment to the franchise he created. Star Wars could weather it because of the size of the fanbase and the variety of media is spread out into; it's possible Trek would not have recovered from Roddenberry's meddling. J.J. Abrams has breathed new life into a stalled franchise, and a portion of its fanbase wants to lynch him for it. I just don't get it. He made Star Trek relevant, and the response is "BLARGH, DEEP SPACE NINE, HARUMPH HARUMPH HARUMPH!" No one has heard of Deep Space Nine. Just sayin'. Just because I am not a "fan" does not mean I am totally disconnected from the franchise. I really like Khan. I dig the whales movie. I even watched some TNG back in the day. The franchise needs to widen its audiance and keep people like me coming to see the movies to continue to succeed in the future.
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    Oh, so short memories. Gene Roddenberry almost killed the franchise--perhaps permanently--with his handling of TNG before he died. Roddenberry was a tone-def idealist whose ideas reached a limited audiance. The franchise hit its peak with TNG after he died, and likely would have faded again had J.J. not come along.
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    Supposed to be a moral tale? Who says? I'd wager there are a thousand interpretations of the franchise, which yours is just one of many. As far as new characters goes, I think the answer is rather obvious: people are attached to these particular characters. Of course, there is also that they've tried new characters several times and fallen flat on their face. The franchise has always had a limited appeal--that is, until J.J. Abrams and his merry bunch came along and turned it on its head (and injected a healthy dose of Star Wars into it... just sayin').
  18. Duke Togo
    LOL, I'm going to be sticking with the remake.
  19. Duke Togo
    You're right, she doesn't. That's because she's dead.
  20. Duke Togo
    I spent the last two days watching the first 14 episodes of Yamato 2199. This is my first exposure to Yamato, and I must say I'm rather enjoying it so far. The first episode (and maybe two) was a little rough, but the series has won me over. I eagerly await the next release.
  21. Duke Togo
    I'm sorry, but no. There's nothing mature about a character that bounces between boob monster to over the top lolicon. She's certainly a low point in an otherwise good series.
  22. Duke Togo
    Basara doesn't love anyone but himself, and I like Frontier. Hell, I watched it streaming--live--from Japan every morning a new episode was on.Anyway, I like Plus--a lot. But II really has no place in a Macross viewing marathon. The Metal Siren is pretty kick ass, though.
  23. Duke Togo
    So, it's certainly starting to sound like Abrams made Khan film without Khan.
  24. Duke Togo
    Sketchly is right: Macross 7 is better than Frontier because 7 doesn't have any fan service and is a far more serious and mature production.
  25. Duke Togo
    And it was bloody brilliant to watch on IMAX
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