Media Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain & Ground Zeroes

[pturtle]

Probably going to start watching it tonight, thanks!

 

[Jameson Rook]

I should be receiving the game by Monday or Tuesday.

 

[pturtle]

Just saw this on yahoo news

https://news.yahoo.com/hideo-kojima-metal-gear-solid-v-cultural-exchange-150025203.html

With "Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes" out this week, we asked director Hideo Kojima to expand on the game's hot potato topic of diversity by picking from his favorite aspects of international culture.

If there's been a concerted effort to make the "Metal Gear Solid" series more accessible to international audiences since 94's "MGS 3", then "Ground Zeroes" supporting character Kazuhira Miller represents that fusion.

Present right from the start of the "MGS" series, Miller is a half-Japanese US special forces operative, and "represents certain cultural aspects of Japan" in "Metal Gear Solid V," Kojima told Relaxnews during a round-table interview in Paris.

Service and Japanese culture
So what's the best cultural aspect of Japan, in Kojima's view? One thing that other cultures might benefit from?

"What I love about Japanese culture -- and this comes through in Japanese video games -- is the culture of service."

"We don't have the custom of tipping. We always make sure to serve the person we are working for without ulterior motives."

"If Nintendo consoles became popular in the 1980s, it's because Japanese developers had this culture. They did everything to satisfy the player -- it isn't just a developer's ego-trip."

Service and video games
"Video games are an interactive media and so I always make sure, when I create my games, to ask myself the question: 'What kind of service can I provide to the player so that he or she will be as satisfied as possible with my work?'"

"This is an aspect of Japanese culture that I would really like players to understand when they are playing a game."

Parties in the global melting pot
And how about the other way around -- if Japan could adopt one aspect from other cultures, what would it be?

"In spite of [Japanese] being close to one another ethnologically, without any great cultural diversity, we have a hard time creating friendships, notwithstanding our similarities," he said. "What I would like to bring [to Japan] is the culture of parties, you know?"

"I have been in Paris for several days. In the evenings we get together -- people of different origins, nationalities and backgrounds. But we are able to have fun together because parties are opportunities to communicate and make friends, despite any differences."

Metal Gear and multiplayer
That, too, has a gaming application for Kojima, with his studio's Los Angeles branch tasked with building a multiplayer mode for the "Ground Zeroes" sequel "Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain."

"I'd like the Japanese people to take on this culture of exchange through the medium of video games, so I've asked all my teams in LA to work from within their own culture -- a culture of parties, of exchange, and of communication."

"Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes" is out on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 this week internationally, and the next week in Australasia. It acts as prologue to "Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain," TBA.

 

[Snake Plissken]

I should be receiving the game by Monday or Tuesday.

Looking forward to your impression.

 

[WellCQCaboutthat]

its kinda desolate in here, feels great.

 

[FSLAR]

I need to find my Toys R Us coupon and then head down there later for a copy >.> I bought DMC HD and have been loving it, so that slowed me down

Also on MGS4 and MGSV/TPP, I'm guessing that MGS4 was pretty much built around the PS3's hardware and optimized, along with what Ryan said. Times change with technology in a sense, with what they can do. Ground Zeroes takes up less space probably so that's an excuse, but TPP does make me wonder.

 

[Henry Morgan*]

I just played the Jamais Vu mission, and replayed it with white Raiden

its beautiful lots of action and good music

 

[Snake Plissken]

Raiden gets multiple colors in that?

 

[WellCQCaboutthat]

i guess so. i would have liked to see it like lbp. if you got certain outfits you get them in future games too. then again, after we paid for the outfits they just gave em away after.

 

[krec9]

guess im the only who has the game that doesnt really give a **** about i turned it off twice last night maybe its not for me.

 

[Snake Plissken]

What didn't you like?

 

[krec9]

What didn't you like?

the gameplay is the same old **** the story i dont really care for dont the switching of the weapons system the codec is gone turned into somthing else.

 

[Frank Jaeger]

What you mean this isn't the most innovative MGS game you've ever played?

That can't be right! Come back when you have something good to say about it

 

[pturtle]

I have a question, was Metal Gear Solid V developed mainly for last-gen and being ported over to PS4/xone, or vice versa?

 

[Frank Jaeger]

By the sounds of what people are saying about the difference In the 2 consoles, I would say it was developed for next gen (PS4)

 

[krec9]

By the sounds of what people are saying about the difference In the 2 consoles, I would say it was developed for next gen (PS4)

i guess driving vehicles was developed for next gen.everything else is the same ****.

 

[pturtle]

I don’t know how The Phantom Pain is going to work being on last gen also. They should have just made it for the PS4/XBONE.

 

[krec9]

What you mean this isn't the most innovative MGS game you've ever played?

That can't be right! Come back when you have something good to say about it

the good thing ill say is im glad i didnt pay full price for the game like some hardcore big boss fans did.

 

[Frank Jaeger]

It came out here today. Not gonna pick it up though

I don't think TPP will be for the last gen by the time it's released

 

[pturtle]

It came out here today. Not gonna pick it up though

I don't think TPP will be for the last gen by the time it's released

I can’t remember, but I think the trailer that comes with the game said it was, but I could be wrong, I have to watch it again.