Troy Baker: Metal Gear Solid V "May Be the Biggest Game I've Ever Seen;" Compares it Against Skyrim

Actor extraordinaire Troy Baker plays Ocelot in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, and he commented in an interview that the game is very, very big.

[DarkOcelet]

I am going to spend 100s of hours in this masterpiece. Fulton everything for the win!

" Skyrim looks like an afternoon playpen next to it. It’s massive. It’s absolutely massive in what you can do."

This is going to be crazy. Kojima san is the best troll dev in the industry. I can't wait for Silent hills.

I can't believe we almost didn't get MGS1 back when i was younger. So glad we bought it. I wonder what my life would have been without this gaming masterpiece. I am really glad we have people like Kojima in the industry.

[Yi-Long]

I'm still hoping we'll get the option for the Japanese voices on the console-versions, so I can buy and enjoy this on PS4.

If not, I'll probably wait for a PC-version, if that does offer that option, like Ground Zeroes.

[Feralkitsune]

It seems weird to even want JPN voices in a series like Metal Gear. It's so westernized it would be strange to hear Japanese coming from everyone.

[Yi-Long]

It's a Japanese game, made by Japanese studio, in Japan, written by a Japanese Kojima, who doesn't speak a word of English.

I don't think it's so weird to prefer a movie, a tv-show, a cartoon, a game, or whatever, in it's original language.

[blackbeld]

Oh Yeah.. Japanese voice or not, this game I must buy.

[DarkOcelet]

Japanese original VA is not always the best look for instance at Dragon Ball Z. It was fkn horrible lol. One Piece and Naruto were amazing in their orginal VA too. And offcourse MGSV Japanese VA will be phenomenal too.

[zeuanimals]

MGSV is being worked on directly with Western actors like Kiefer Sutherland and Troy Baker for a reason. Hell, David Hayter is considered the voice of Solid Snake even for Kojima. And he can speak English, he's just not very good at it, he can understand it pretty well though.

The Silent Hill series was originally developed by Japanese devs only (recent entries have been developed by western teams), but the series was always very good at portraying American characters and a small American town. They didn't go overboard with the American-ness like some anime do by making the Americans fat, loud, and prone to violence. The writing and VA was even very good for the Western releases, even as far back as the first entry in the 90s. And there was nothing especially "Japanese" about the series, besides the joke endings.

[BiggerBoss]

Although the game is Japanese, Kiefer and Troy Baker etc are doing motion capture so it doesn't matter.

I actually can't wait to see how Kiefer handles being Snake.

Besides, I don't speak Japanese so Id rather listen to the voices than read subtitles.

On the topic of the size, I didn't expect for it to be that big, looks like MGSV will exceed my expectations.:)

[cooksauce]

its a very westernized game, JPN voicing would be very odd

[Yi-Long]

I find it amazing that people even oppose the idea of the OPTION for getting the original voices in the game.

And those who say the game is set in a western world with western characters: Please be consistent with that, and demand a show like Vikings to only have Scandinavian languages, or to play Assassin's Creed 2 in Italian, or AC4 in French, etc etc.

[Kumomeme]

i dont worry much for this game,since metal gear is one of few japanese title that had very good english voice over aside from kingdom hearts and persona
other than that,like recent ffxv,really suck

[InactiveUser]

I'm personally just having worries about the balloons shooting people up into the air.. how that doesn't alert other enemies.. and similar game 'features' like that, that don't seem all that realistic.

I didn't like that about Peace Walker either, which is one reason I couldn't find the urge to play it among other reasons. So admittedly, I haven't played with the 'balloons shooting people into the air to capture them and have them join your base' feature, but it still doesn't look appealing to me.

And disclosure before blind 'I'm just a hater' disagrees; I platinumed MGS2, MGS3, MGS4, and 100%ed Ground Zeroes:
http://psnprofiles.com/JLP-...

I'm a big fan. I just think using the Fulton surface to air recovery system on every enemy is too unrealistic, again, how it wouldn't alert the other enemies; not only from people randomly flying into the air, but also the planes that need to pass overhead to pick them up..

I remember it was in Battlefield 4 too, but that was a one time occurrence, not every 30 seconds:
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[strauser360]

We just want Hayter back. Nothing more nothing less.

[Ogygian]

1). Snake is American. Almost everyone in the game is American and natively speak English. And no we do not need to fit your arbitrary standard of "consistency". Most people want to play a game in their own language; voice packs are good when they're not much extra effort and are native to the characters, but in this case, they fall down on the latter point.

2). A Japanese VP might delay release a bit and would take up many gigabytes of extra space.

Honestly, there is zero point in including the voice pack to make five people happy.

[XBLSkull]

Pretty sure ARMA 3's main island of Altis clocking in at 270 square kilometers dwarfs this game in size.

[hay]

Yup, I hoped for original voices with MGS4(teh powarz of blurays and everything in the universe on a single set of multilayered discs), you can't always expect the reasonable.

With all respect to Troy, why comparing it to Skyrim? A game none of people I know managed to finish due to atrocious bugfest and overwhelming boredom?
This doesn't do MGS any justice.

[Gatsu]

OMFG I'm so hyped for TPP ;D and it is awesome to hear Troy say stuff like this!!!

[geddesmond]

The game is huge however from what i have seen and played of ground zeros the game is a big step back from MGS4.

[DarkOcelet]

Ground zeroes was a small fraction of the game. There was no fulton, weapons were limited, areas was limited, no allies to help, no motherbase to build, no one to recruit. You will see how amazing this game is once you play it.

[geddesmond]

Ah make no mistake I will play and buy it day one but your right, thats my main concern. I don't like the way you can only carry a certain number of weapons in ground zeros and the way camouflage works

[LightDiego]

It's difficult to control the hype after articles like this, lol.

[DarkOcelet]

It was different to control the hype when it was announced lol. So glad he didn't reveal the name right away and made it a mystery, even though that made me hyped even more when we knew it was MGSV XD .

[stragomccloud]

Apparently neither have played Xenoblade which makes all of the Elder Scroll games combined look tiny.

[DarkOcelet]

Since you run like a snail in Skyrim, it feels way bigger lol but in terms of huge, Xenoblade is bigger but you dont feel it because you are really fast so you cover a huge amount of distance fast. In term of content, i really cant tell.

[Magicite]

huge areas doesnt mean a thing if they are empty

[Ogygian]

Biggest game ever: EVE Online. All that space...

[chrissx]

MgsV. The Hype is real

[daBUSHwhaka]

Didn't for a second think the game was this big.Happy days.This will be a masterpiece as usual.

[MeliMel]

Day One since '87.

[Apocalypze]

To be honest , the mgs series made me pay attention to the story and read instead of just fast forwarding everything because the smallest thing in the game can be the key to understand this rather complex story . Kojima also is focusing on replay value which few devs do these days. So i really see why this game deserves the hype is getting so far.

[PlayableGamez]

Can't wait to play this on my PC.

[SUCKxITxEZ]

This is it guys, this is the game we've always wanted.

[RSKnight]

I just played MGSV Ground Zeroes yesterday, and I was very dissapointed after finishing it in less than 2 hours. I really hope that The Phantom Pain is long enough to compensate for Ground Zeroes.

[TheOneWhoIsTornApart]

Dude that is just prologue of the game. It's just a mere particle sized piece of a giant gaming experience. Did you not just read what Troy Baker said in this article?.

[ExPresident]

Ground Zeroes was intentionally short.

[Tankbusta40]

Ground zeroes wasn't intentionally short... It's intent was money for the development of tpp

[ExPresident]

@Tankbusta40

I'd agree it was a way to earn money, but it was intentionally short. They were going to give you a bunch of stuff from TPP in a prologue of the game. Its a teaser, a taste of whats to come, for an entry fee of course.

Not arguing whether it was right or not, as thats subjective, but it was intentionally short for a reason.

[MisfitsInc]

so excited to completely become a social outcast for this game

[pelida]

I dont care about massiveness, (unless the game is a scam like GZ was)
I want a master piece! Perfection like MGS3 snake eater

[Paul85]

The best is yet to come! So many franchises recycle the same boring gimmicks over and over again. MGS keeps getting better with each installment, the hype is real people!

[Gatsu]

Love Kojima, MGS, Troy, Kiefer and everyone ;)! This is the game I've been waiting for my whole life...and it's almost here. So happy and hyped ;D !

MGS games always change to the better with each title, always resulting in a masterpiece!!!

[kenwonobi]

I have a great feeling about this game. There is just something when you know a game is gonna be good before it even releases. This has that "it" factor. I am buying this one. I love masterpieces by Kojima. They are not only games but works of art.

[o-Sunny-o]

The only good about that 30$ demo was its trailer for MGSV Phantom Pain. The game play was pretty good but an 10 minute game wasn't good. Cash grab demo is what I thought. I'm a big fan of MGS. I hope Hayter is back because there was no difference between Kiefers voice and the helicopter pilot. I didn't even know Snake was talking. I will say Phantom pain looks really good.