Kojima: Next Metal Gear is Like Pokémon

[Grey_Focks]

not that all these puns aren't great, but I'm not excited for this. PSP in general was kinda a disappointment, but I don't blame the guy for trying to validate it. Shame he seems to have forgotten about that OTHER MGS game he's supposed to be making.

Oh, and the connection to pokemon is, I'm assuming, the same as what it was from Portable Ops. Instead of killing enemy guards, you can knock them out, capture them, and recruit them as soldiers to your army. That's all.

 

[Brotherofwill]

Holy shit, I just watched a review of it and now I get what he's talking about.

Spoiler: It's German

The game looks fking phenomenal. The Pokemon references come from being able to catch enemy soldiers and using them to train on your base. The game has coop which lets you play with friends, which supposedly makes the game a lot more fun and a whole lot easier.

The game has a good batch of silly side missions, which are like an extra and they include hunting monsters (that's why he referenced monster hunter) and other little gameplay types. You can customize a Metal Gear and use him to fight on a battlefield. Metal Gear can also talk and SING now....well this is a Japanese game afterall hahah.

Looks awesome, if this hits the PSN and is playable for PS3 at one point I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

 

[Jaebird]

A wild BIG BOSS has appeared!
Go! SOLID SNAKE!
BIG BOSS used STEALTH BOX!
SOLID SNAKE used CQC!
It missed!
BIG BOSS used METALGEAR TRAMPLE!
It's super-effective!

Okay, I'll stop now =P

 

[Danpascooch]

"You won't 'get' it until you play it," he says. "It's part MGS, part Monster Hunter and part Pokémon - and it's even got a bit of SimCity to it."

Either these are complete lies, or they might as well just take a dump in a UMD shell for all the success this will have.

 

[imaloony]

Pikachu? Pikachu! PIKACHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!

Sorry, couldn't resist.
I really doubt this statement is accurate, but we'll see when it comes around, eh?

 

[gibboss28]

Ok so a bit of Pokemon...

A wild Solid Snake appeared!

And a bit of Sim City...

The Wild Solid Snake has put up a low residential area

Haven't played a monster hunter game so I can't really comment, but I might be borrowing my friends PSP to play this.

 

[sabbat]

Yay, my most favourite game is about to be just like my... least... favourite. Yay?

 

[Outright Villainy]

BIG BOSS used METALGEAR TRAMPLE!
It's super-effective!

GRAY FOX used STAND UNDER IT LIKE A PLANK.
It's super-effective!
GRAY FOX has evolved into PULPY MESS.
PULPY MESS used TRAUMATISE YOUR FRIEND WITH YOUR MESSY DEATH.
SOLID SNAKE is now stunned [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeroicBSOD]!

 

[Carlston]

Yu-gi-oh to!
I play the Ocelot card!
I then add the Liqud snake card...

Play polyermization to get!

Lame ass plot twist!

Oh yeah I counter with pointless Otocon Green peace cut scene speech card!
Combo with Nuclear war fear speach that's been over for twenty years on top of!!! Over Fish the worlds oceans rant!

Have at you!

 

[tehweave]

*Flips Hat Back*

READY!!!! GO, OCELOT!!!!!

"The Colonel will be joining you soon. Comrade."

Oh, wait. Whats Happening??!?!?

....

....

.....

Ocelot has evolved into Liquid Ocelot!!!

O_O

But seriously... From what it sounds like, they've described peace walker as more of an RTS if you're controlling Big Boss' army. Plus, if it's really like Pokemon, then the enemies won't 'faint' as much as they will 'die a horrible and gruesome death' in each battle.
Which frankly, 'die a horrible and gruesome death' would make Pokemon a lot more interesting...

 

[AwesomeFerret]

Kojima's not far off. When I was in Tokyo a few weeks ago I saw a playable demo of Peace Walker with Snake and a couple others fighting a dragon.


A DRAGON.

Me thinks what you daw was the monster hunter part, a dragon called a rathian

 

[Flying-Emu]

Is it really appropriate to "catch" a soldier?

 

[kinky257]

So it'll be just like portable ops then... you know where you captured soldiers and added them to your team, now with base building added as well if the sim-city comment is to be interpreted.

 

[Flishiz]

I actually felt like portable ops was rather like Pokemon in a way, kidnapping and murder aside. Going around and stealing anyone who might matter only to return them to a dark and dank truck to cart them away to hypnotizing/faction propaganda cellblock D was actually a fun addition to the game and the series itself. If Kojima is going to keep giving us worse and worse characters to play as (from Raiden to old snake), we may as well have the choice to pump up our ranks.

 

[samsonguy920]

Whenever this guy talks anymore, I wonder why he hasn't been committed yet, or at the very least laughed out of the industry.

Or put out of our misery. Overlong cutscenes in games would stop being popular among companies if MGS suddenly disappeared.
As well as stupid comparisons between military fps's and pocket monsters.
Next we'll see Calumon with an eyepatch complaining about Werner's Syndrome.

 

[IrrelevantTangent]

The man's nuttier than a bag of Peanut Chews. But at least he's devoted to his vision.

 

[MysticnFm]

Ahh I love news updates by Tom Goldman. They always have a subtle-or not to subtle- pretext of humour behind them. Keep up the good work mate!

 

[Cryo84R]

Someone loan this man their marbles. He's lost his.

 

[Decabo]

If this isn't proof of how stupid the Metal Gear games have been since MGS 1, (And Snake Eater was okay, I guess)I don't know what is.