MGS4?!?

[Girkon]

Here it is folks. Kojima has announced MGS4 coming for next gen consoles. Love em or hate em, the Metal Gear series has been a part of gaming history. I for one am looking very forward to see where the new producer will take it.

http://www.gamesarefun.com/news.php?newsid=4456

[Zane]

Sweetness, sounds like there'll be plenty of reason to get me a PS3 once it comes out, presuming MGS will be on it.

[GAAZ]

MGS4 is only produced by Kojima he is no longer developing the MGS series.

So chances are we're going to be getting a whole new hero along with a new story.

I for one wouldn't mind playing as a side character from the MGS series or something. Like be Grey Fox for the whole MGS game. Then after you beat it you can play as Grey Fox in MG 2 I think it was, with newer graphics.

[Faye]

Hrm... I dont know how I feel about that. Kojima is a genius, I just hope Imaizumi doesnt fuck it up.

I have no doubt the game will be on PS3, that I am not worried about. I'll wait until more info comes in the comming months, but my personal feelings are mixed atm.

[GAAZ]

Well, from what Kojima said the next branch is going to be Snake (I Was at work during my last post and couldn't read the article) stories after the Solid timeline.

I just hope they go back to MGS1. There was a lot of story but if you played straight through it took about 2.5 hours...With Story about 4-6 or something. MGS2 was 2.5 hours of play and 8 hours of story. MGS 3 I dunno cause I suck and haven't beaten it..Damn you WoW coupled with a mediocre Life!

[Faye]

I beat the crap out of MGS 3 and out of the 20 hours it took, I would say it was about 10 hours of each. It takes a lot to keep me hooked during 30 minute cut scenes, but I have never had a problem with the MGS series. I dont think Kojima would let the game go down hill.... but how do you follow a game like MGS3??

[Girkon]

Thats the funny thing about Kojima. It has been proven and he has even admitted it. That some of the things he put into his games were never meant to have a point or make sense. He put em in just for the fun of it. The Raiden character in MGS2, the long cutscenes, everything he did for a reason. To get a definite reaction out of people. It makes him one of the most mischievous game designers in the biz. One fact I learned is that he originally made MGS3 to have NO, thats right NO continues. If you died all your saving would be erased and you would start over again from the beginning. But of course the Konami people wouldn't have it. It makes ya think a bit. How would you play if you knew you couldn't continue if you died?

[GAAZ]

Actually the Japanese MGS2 did that in hard mode. If you died it erased your saved game and didn't allow you to continue.

The there was the fabled "Big Boss" mode where you don't kill anyone in the entire game on Hard and basically if you're ever even SEEN in MGS2 the game ends and you lose your file.

[RivaOni]

we got european extreme over here, which is supposed to be the hardest mode in any of the MGS games so far, they put that in as a gift to EU gamers because of it taking so long to be released here.

and yeah, average game length of mgs1 without watching the cut-scenes is 2 and a half hours, but you can cut it down to 2 on the dot if your clever

oh also another fact about mgs2 is pretty obvious, all the teaser trailers featured solid snake, but alot of the scenes that were kept in the game had raiden in them instead, and also kojima wanted you to be able to try and escape from the boat at the end of snakes part in mgs2, you were supposed to run from the water flooding into the tanker, but in the end you ultimately died and he was gonna do his little game over screen trick that he used later on there too.

[GAAZ]

That's why I bought MGS2 Substance...You can play through the Shel as Snake. And it's just about as hard as it gets seeing as they take your radar away and you still have to fight Fatman.