Uncharted 4

[A.G.]

What a send off! It felt just like MGS4, a naustalgic ride to end a 9 year journey. It's hard to believe I played the first game in 2007... While not without flaws, I can say it's my second favorite game in the series (after Uncharted 2) and is the most visually stunning game I've ever seen!

Oh, and after seeing the facial animations here I can say Kojima is full of crap with the whole David Hayter thing. This game used original voice actors and the facial emotions are FAR above what we see in MGS5. It's not even a comparison. Actually, in all visuals this game blows MGS5 out of the water.

[Cerberus_0408]

Dude... EVERYTHING blows MGS5 out of the water these days. Whether it's survival horror like Last of Us or third-person action/shooter like Uncharted... Kojima is struggling to keep up with the game industry. Even Watchdogs allows you to hack into sh*t, GTA and Saints Row have sh*tLOADS of activities as compared to GZ/ PP...

[fgdj2000]

Can't afford it right now, but I will check it out, soon. Looks pretty great.
Just give Kojima a break... he hasn't had one in like 17 years (ever since MGS1) and for at least 15 years he was developing games for a series, he didn't want to develope. Sure it's easy to say, he didn't have to, no one forced him to, he still made a lot of money. But really? Konami was his home for more than half his life; it's hard to walk away from that. Just give him a break, man.

@cerberus: really? Watch Dogs? The boring forgettable GTA clone with the outstanding feature of "press-one-button-and-some-sh*t-happens"-hacking feature? Saints Row? The GTA clone that makes everything so over the top, that it becomes boring? Seriously? And The Last of Us, with the admittedly great character interaction and great environments, which suffers from a sometimes outright broken A.I. and every Zombie movie klishee ever?
Well, on GTA we seem to agree at least. If you want to play some truly amazing Open World games, get The Witcher 3 or Yakuza 5.

[fgdj2000]

Also on the David Hayter issue. It's part of the business. I mean, I agree, it would have been prudent for Kojima to give some sort of "Thank You, Good Bye" to Hayter after all these years, but it does happen that actors get replaced and Hayter should not be whining so much about it. And in retrospect, I think Kiefer did a great job both for Big Boss' cockiness and Venom Snake's vulnerability. And even though UC4 did it much better, MGSV's facial animations are still among the best in the industry right now.

[Cerberus_0408]

May 25, 2016 10:03:35 GMT -5 fgdj2000 said:

Can't afford it right now, but I will check it out, soon. Looks pretty great.
Just give Kojima a break... he hasn't had one in like 17 years (ever since MGS1) and for at least 15 years he was developing games for a series, he didn't want to develope. Sure it's easy to say, he didn't have to, no one forced him to, he still made a lot of money. But really? Konami was his home for more than half his life; it's hard to walk away from that. Just give him a break, man.

@cerberus: really? Watch Dogs? The boring forgettable GTA clone with the outstanding feature of "press-one-button-and-some-sh*t-happens"-hacking feature? Saints Row? The GTA clone that makes everything so over the top, that it becomes boring? Seriously? And The Last of Us, with the admittedly great character interaction and great environments, which suffers from a sometimes outright broken A.I. and every Zombie movie klishee ever?
Well, on GTA we seem to agree at least. If you want to play some truly amazing Open World games, get The Witcher 3 or Yakuza 5.

I actually do not comprehend why you keep bashing me on the basis of liking open-world games... But nevermind. I guess I'm entitled to my opinion and you have yours. To each his own.

[fgdj2000]

I wasn't actually bashing you, but those games. Sorry, don't take it personally. If you like those games and have fun with it, I'm happy for you and in the end that is all that really matters. I for instance had a great time with the various Assassin's Creed games (some more than others), but overall, they are easy as hell and aren't really good games, because they run on semi-autopilot and the character doesn't do half the time what you want him to. That said, I don't think some of the games you have mentioned are particularly good, just like AC, but if you have fun with it - like I did with AC - that's fine and really all that matters in the end.

[Cerberus_0408]

May 25, 2016 10:08:49 GMT -5 fgdj2000 said:

Also on the David Hayter issue. It's part of the business. I mean, I agree, it would have been prudent for Kojima to give some sort of "Thank You, Good Bye" to Hayter after all these years, but it does happen that actors get replaced and Hayter should not be whining so much about it. And in retrospect, I think Kiefer did a great job both for Big Boss' cockiness and Venom Snake's vulnerability. And even though UC4 did it much better, MGSV's facial animations are still among the best in the industry right now.

You see, here's why I personally believe that Hayter was recast. Hayter (I think jokingly, but I'm not sure) recently said something about casting a celebrity being "cheaper", but that sounds like bullsh*t. There's internet speculation that Sutherland is being cast in the Metal Gear movie, thus an attempt to connect the two mediums. Kojima himself claimed that it was because Big Boss is nearly 50, and Sutherland has the chops necessary to play a nearly 50 year old man, whereas Hayter, being the younger man, wouldn't be able to, but that rings of pure Kojima bullsh*t.

IMO, they should have kept Hayter around for Ground Zeroes, and THEN used Kiefer Sutherland in The Phantom Pain, to show that Big Boss's voice had changed due to his coma, but I understand why that isn't the case. It's extremely obvious that GZ and PP should have been released like MGS2; they should NOT have been released separately! GZ is the Tanker Incident to PP's Big Shell chapter, hence why most of it was spoiled in the trailers, just like the Tanker chapter.

[fgdj2000]

I think, Kojima once said, the main reason was, that he wanted to do less voice acting and more actual acting. Instead of talking, (Not-)Big Boss was supposed to convey more of his emptions via facial expression. So it made sense to hire an actual high profile actor and capture his performance.

[Cerberus_0408]

Yeah, I guess so.. But this reminds me of the fanmade Metal Gear 1 remake, which was endorsed by Konami no less, still being cease and desisted by said company. They were literally given the greenlight by Konami to work on it, then the moment Konami found out that David Hayter was helping by providing voice work and with script-writing/story, they hit the team with a cease & desist. Complete bullsh*t because Kojima and Konami, for whatever f...cking reason they have, just don't want Hayter to come back and do the voices, regardless of whatever the blazing hell Kojima's reason is ('huhuh I wanted a new actor to facilitate change, even though I'm using the same actor as the past games for the Japanese version herp derp.')

[fgdj2000]

Well. In the end, Hayter could have done a "better job", but I think Kojima wanted in part to alienate fans in order to set up the twist that Venom isn't the actual Big Boss. In the end, we'll never really know who was responsible for what and so on, but I like to give people the benefit of a doubt and that leaves us with an eccentric director with a hugely ambitious and radical vision of a new game in an established series and long development time periods due to perfectionism on the one hand and a company that wanted to play it safe, release a more traditional sequel fairly quickly and was also in the middle of leaving the video game market behind in favor of the gambling/pachislot marked on the other hand. MGSV and KojiPro were caught in the crossfire and ultimately became the victims.

Well, I'm really curious what Kojima will do withoutt the Metal Gear name to back him up. Come to think of it, this will actually be the first Hideo Kojima directed game since 1994's Policenauts, which is not a Metal Gear game.

[Cerberus_0408]

Y'know something, if Norman Reedus becomes a hit in the Silent Hill (or Hills) scene, Kojima will replace him in Silent Hills IV: The Phantom Ghost (or whatever the f...ck it ends up being called) because Reedus will be like six years younger than he wants the character to be, and Jonah Hill (or Hills, in this case) will be just the perfect age.

[fgdj2000]

Dude, no offense, but I don't think this senseless bashing is funny. Really, no thinking at all, just bashing... without actually having played some of the games you're talking about. With A.G. at least he is actually making clear where he's coming from.

Also, we know there will be no Silent Hills IV.... but there'll be an awesome remake of Silent Hill 2... for pachislot-casinos!

[Cerberus_0408]

Also, we know there will be no Silent Hills IV.... but there'll be an awesome remake of Silent Hill 2... for pachislot-casinos!

What DO you mean by 'pachislot'?! No disrespect, but you seem to spam this word in almost every post I see.

That said, I don't think some of the games you have mentioned are particularly good, just like AC, but if you have fun with it - like I did with AC - that's fine and really all that matters in the end.

I dunno, I guess you're right, but I really don't see why you need to be so anti-everything I mention in terms of games. But this is a discussion, so I won't flame or whatever, just saying for the record that you seem to be countering what I enjoy rather strongly.

[fgdj2000]

Pachislot is basically the japanese version of a slot machine. It works similar to a regular slot machine, but also has some mild gameplay elements like an arcade machine. Konami has been investing in this market for years. They have made several Castlevania themed pachislots and maybe you have heard, their first new thing they announced for Metal Gear since Kojima left is an MGS3 themed pachislot!
Basically they are currently turning all their great games into gambling machines rather than making great games which is really a shame.

Sorry, if I came across that way. Didn't want to hurt your feelings or anything.

[Cerberus_0408]

It works similar to a regular slot machine, but also has some mild gameplay elements like an arcade machine. Konami has been investing in this market for years.

The sad thing is, Konami doesn't market some games, for instance, the SH series being a notable example. And when they DID finally decide to market it (which was very little nowadays), they did it HORRIBLY. It's the main reason why Downpour didn't sell so well (and Vatra sadly went out of business as well), same with Book of Memories. Their terrible marketing "campaigns" is also the main reason why the HD Collection was botched and such a POS.