Anyone See The GC MGS4 Trailer?

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2007-08-30 03:05pm

I've been away sorting out my life for a month, so haven't had the 'net, which meant listening to my bro go on about this new trailer. I just downloaded it and I can't help but think each trailer is a wargasm exercise in how to deal with insurgents in Iraq.

It's funny how everyone thought the game would be too easy, then they see the Beauty and Beast unit (the latest freaks modelled on the original FOXHOUND unit before Dead Cell and The Cobras/Sons of Big Boss) and complain it looks too hard. It definitely looks disturbing, but original bizarre fighting teams are Kojima-san's speciality.

I, for one, hail our new supermodel-scarred-inside-wearing-exoskeletons-of-death overlords.

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2007-08-30 05:25pm

A link to the trailer would be nice. I might have already seen it but I can't be sure because there've been a few MGS4 trailers and I have no idea what the hell "GC" is supposed to mean in this context.

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2007-08-30 07:23pm

My first thought, "They're putting MGS4 on the Game Cube?"

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2007-08-30 09:28pm

Spyder wrote:My first thought, "They're putting MGS4 on the Game Cube?"

I was thinking the exact same thing. It was either that or it had something to do with GenCon.

Pelranius · Post by **Pelranius** » 2007-08-30 10:03pm

Personally, the MSG series looks more and more loopy with each successive installation.

Haruko · Post by **Haruko** » 2007-08-30 10:19pm

Drooling Iguana wrote:A link to the trailer would be nice. I might have already seen it but I can't be sure because there've been a few MGS4 trailers and I have no idea what the hell "GC" is supposed to mean in this context.

Ye receives:

Game Trailers

Edit: corrected the link.

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2007-08-30 11:30pm

Pelranius wrote:Personally, the MSG series looks more and more loopy with each successive installation.

I know. That's what's so great about it.

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2007-08-31 02:53am

"Show me your raaage!"

Classic.

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2007-08-31 02:59am

Pelranius wrote:Personally, the MSG series looks more and more loopy with each successive installation.

Monosodium glutamate IS bad for you.

Post by **weemadando** » 2007-08-31 05:00am

Ford Prefect wrote:"Show me your raaage!"

Classic. :)

All I could think of was the classic late night music show opening credits.

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2007-08-31 05:22am

weemadando wrote:
Ford Prefect wrote:"Show me your raaage!"

Classic.
All I could think of was the classic late night music show opening credits.

Yeah, I thought you would. That's what I thought of as well.

I mean, wow, Raging Raven really does sound like that.

TheMuffinKing · Post by **TheMuffinKing** » 2007-08-31 05:52am

Holy crap, that's the direction this series is taking? MGS4 seemslike a SciFi channel crapfest. Oh well. What really lost me was that mecha wolf thing holding back a D9 dozer... my SOD went out the window on that one.

Was this stuff fan driven or has Kojima finally taken the red pill?

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2007-08-31 06:26am

TheMuffinKing wrote:Holy crap, that's the direction this series is taking? MGS4 seemslike a SciFi channel crapfest. Oh well. What really lost me was that mecha wolf thing holding back a D9 dozer... my SOD went out the window on that one.

Was this stuff fan driven or has Kojima finally taken the red pill?

Have you never played a Metal Gear Solid game before? They have giant robots and men wielding 20mm Vulcan cannons and cybernetic super ninjas that slice bullets out of the air and the thing that broke your suspension of disbelief was Crying Wolf digging in and pushing back against an armoured dozer?

That's what lost you? That?

TheMuffinKing · Post by **TheMuffinKing** » 2007-08-31 06:39am

Ford Prefect wrote:
TheMuffinKing wrote:Holy crap, that's the direction this series is taking? MGS4 seemslike a SciFi channel crapfest. Oh well. What really lost me was that mecha wolf thing holding back a D9 dozer... my SOD went out the window on that one.

Was this stuff fan driven or has Kojima finally taken the red pill?
Have you never played a Metal Gear Solid game before? They have giant robots and men wielding 20mm Vulcan cannons and cybernetic super ninjas that slice bullets out of the air and the thing that broke your suspension of disbelief was Crying Wolf digging in and pushing back against an armoured dozer?

That's what lost you? That?

Honestly, I love the giant robots, cyborg ninjas, and vulcan wielding maniacs. I just love bulldozers more!

Just something about the characters shown in this video get to me, over all I like being "glossed" over by all the other cool stuff in the games.

So yeah, I had an extreme reaction to this minor incident, I let my emotions take control! Please forgive me!!!!!!!

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2007-08-31 07:04am

TheMuffinKing wrote:Honestly, I love the giant robots, cyborg ninjas, and vulcan wielding maniacs. I just love bulldozers more! Just something about the characters shown in this video get to me, over all I like being "glossed" over by all the other cool stuff in the games.

So yeah, I had an extreme reaction to this minor incident, I let my emotions take control! Please forgive me!!!!!!!

No, no, it's fine. I was just astounded that pushing against a D9 would get you ... considering that later in the same trailer 'she' (they're all women, but it's difficult to think of them as such) flips it over like it's a toy.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2007-08-31 08:10am

GC is the Games Convention in Leipzig. Besides the Tokyo Game Show it´s the most important game event in the world.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-08-31 08:16am

Three minutes of pre-rendered scenes with some of the most ridiculously pretentious dialogue I've ever heard, followed by ninjawank and biorobots of some sort.

I feel asleep indeed. Maybe Kojima needs to find himself an MSX2 and try to figure out where he went wrong.

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2007-08-31 08:23am

Bounty wrote:Three minutes of pre-rendered scenes

Cutscenes in the Metal Gear Solid series are not pre-rendered.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2007-08-31 03:09pm

Bounty wrote:Three minutes of pre-rendered scenes

Wrong.

with some of the most ridiculously pretentious dialogue I've ever heard,

Oh? How? I love how anti-war comments are always preachy. Maybe if they chose the Michael Bay method of praising the glory of war, it'd be better, yes?

followed by ninjawank and biorobots of some sort.

I feel asleep indeed. Maybe Kojima needs to find himself an MSX2 and try to figure out where he went wrong.

I think you watched the wrong trailer. Bio-robots? Ninjas? There were none in that trailer, sir.

And where he went wrong? It's the same fucking formula as every other MGS and MG game! Oh no, a Cat D9 is stopped by a mechanical wolf. My SOD is dead and buried, but I can still accept psychic gimps, a man who carries and fires an M61 Vulcan and a corny Brit who doesn't stay dead for more than five minutes! This would be funny if I didn't hear it every time MGS was ever mentioned.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-08-31 03:46pm

I think you watched the wrong trailer.

Turns out, that's exactly what I did - the preachy shit is in the 2007 E3 trailer. I thought the GC trailer was the same footage, guess it's something different... and a bit better.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2007-08-31 03:51pm

One trailer has over-long dialogue and little else, most the others are insurgent-esque guys being butchered horribly by many great near-future military toys.

Frankly, it's worth playing just to see how you can kill MG-Gekkous without being stomped on.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2007-08-31 04:26pm

Pfft, it was special forces stuff. And Volgin did have Hinds six years before they entered service in our time-line. If you can have Granin seriously talking about bipedal robots of practical ability, a few gadgets like personal SODAR and NVGs aren't beyond reason.

That hundred billion in 1964 dollars obviously paved the way for a lot of cool stuff in the MGS-verse we've yet to get.

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2007-08-31 04:27pm

I think I just caused a TIME PARADOX!

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2007-08-31 06:34pm

Argh! Don't fuck my mind like that!

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2007-09-01 02:05am

Admiral Valdemar wrote:If you can have Granin seriously talking about bipedal robots of practical ability

Bizarrely, Granin's whole 'tanks need legs son!' sounded remarkably reasonable compared to jet engines on a tank.

Though SIGINT does not agree. I got a chuckle out of him deriding the Metal Gear idea after meeting with Granin. And speaking of SIGINT, does anyone else think that it might have been him talking in the new trailer? Albeit really old.