GameOnDaily's Seif takes a look at Kiefer Sutherland's performance as Big Boss, and whether or not the break from tradition, and the absence of David Hayter, will negatively affect the game.
"I’m not exactly defending Sutherland. With all due respect to him, he’s coming into this with little or no background. Hayter knows the MGS Universe better than most. "
Silent Hill and Metal Gear Solid publisher Konami has reported record profits this year, driven largely by its video games and amusements.
Interesting that Konami is releasing nothing of note and still enjoying high profits. I guess this is the allure to companies.
It was probably due to the half-hearted release of the Metal Gear Solid Collection v1.
Imagine the extra sales Konami could’ve made if it had put some effort into it.
Half hearted? MGS: MC is the best collection of Metal Gear games you can get with tons of bonus content.
Why are you mad? Because they didn't make the games 4K so you can see the low resolution textures and warping better? Most of you cry babies never even touched the MSX Metal Gears.
Of course, they rereleased MGS series on modern platforms. Thank You Mr. Kojima.
Hanzala from eXputer: "Contra: Operation Galuga is a classic revival done right, but why hasn't Konami done the same yet for the bigger and more popular Castlevania?"
Slowdown. Let them get these suikoden games done first. Alot of us are still waiting for those
well, the new C ontra was made by Wayforward, who have been taking sooooo many of these classic franchises and making new iterations of them. Imo they aren't very good at it. And I don't see operation galuga being a large enough success to possibly give them Castlevania.
Hideo Kojima is widely known as a video games auteur, but what are his best games outside the Metal Gear franchise?
I was neither against nor for it. I just knew I hated him as Raistlin in that awful attempt at Dragonlance.
He was neither bad nor great as Boss. Just different/passable.
I miss David
I, like others, question the need to remove David Harter (and feel there's still something we're missing here) but the fact remains it's way too premature to write off Sutherland's performance as we only heard him say one or two lines. The guy is an accomplished actor and performer, so I have no doubt his work in MGS5 will be equally as solid (Excuse the pun)
He is pretty bad from what I played in ground zeroes and heard so far in gameplay/trailers.
Just seems incredibly flat etc
Even the guy at the end of MGSIV who did Big Boss would have been a far better choice.
And lets be honest, they didn't get kiefer for his talents, they got him for his name and brand.
I still say all these radical changes in the gameplay, actors and such are to instill a sense of hate in the gamers/audience. A theme which lies central in MGS5. Seems weird, but let's face it, we're dealing with Kojima here. We all know deep down that the game will be phenomenal.