The thing about the Metal Gear games is that you really have no idea what's going on until you're actually playing the game. And even then it's still a bit difficult to understand. Sorry, Kojima. We still love you.
We haven't fully explored the whole four character thing for the upcoming PSP game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker yet. What was the deal with the four Snakes? Is that four Big Bosses? Clones?
The slightly different clothing we saw in trailers and screens could just be Kojima telling us that there's slightly different clothing. But I'd like to think of this as a clear indicator of four-player cooperative play. If it was four-player, how would it work?
And what kind of game is this? I loved the Portable Ops and the Acid! games, but the screenshots we've seen seem to point to something different. Full on portable MGS action? Yes, please! Kojima calls Peace Walker a "true sequel of the Metal Gear franchise," but what the hell is that supposed to mean.
We were looking forward to the release of some new screenshots or details to tell us more, but the newest batch that hit today tell us nothing other than there might be big boss battles. Are we to guess at huge co-op boss battles? Are you done teasing us, Kojima?
Give us your best guess in the comments below.
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3:40 PM on 06.15.2009
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Sorry, couldn't resist. And no, luniux guy, you aren't I too am looking forward to this far more.
No, I'm in the same boat as you.
Also, Komjima.
I would keep it at two max.
One of the bosses will be a mongoose.
Well, the thing is that Big Boss hated the idea that he was cloned, so I seriously doubt he'd work with his own clones.
All of the clones got their eye fucked up, the same eye no less? A clone wouldn't carry ones physical abnormalities if they made after birth, see: Solid, Liquid, Solidus.
Pedrovay - Big Boss is motivated by his personal ideologies, and wouldn't turn down assistance from clones simply 'cause he was pissed at the folks what made 'em. Put another way, somebody offers him a gun and a capable hand to wield it, he's gonna' accept. 'Cause he's a f***in' man.
Two - I find your name appropriate to my response. You see, there are a pair of solutions. If you can accept clones somehow being fully-matured (as though from the head of Zeus), then you can accept that they come equipped with abnormalities (and the aforementioned smokes and bandanna). Why? Because of SCIENCE, that's why. Or you could just chalk it up to somebody in the lab being hardcore enough to stab 'em in the eye himself, just out of homage to Big Boss, or perhaps even in some psychological imprinting grand design intended to recreate, as best as possible, Big Boss' experiences.
I like my weird with a side a clones, some nuclear death tank, and a nice tall glass of WTF.
.. and the Rough, Gruff, Sneak, and Perverted inside ALL of us.
(Unsure if someone said it all ready)
That the 3 others aren't clones but rather soldiers who disguuised themselves as big boss
Anyhow, I think it's a first attempt at "cloning" Big Boss by splicing Big Boss's DNA into top notch soldiers in order to give them Big Boss like abilities. The three "clones" die by the end of the game because they just aren't Big Boss.
Also, looks like it's what the original Portable Ops footage was suppose to be where all your team members move and interact about the field in real time. Maybe this one will have some real-time strategy elements to it for commanding the other three in single-player, but in multiplayer co-op all of them are controlled by a player. Could be real awesome if I am correct.
Buuuuuuuut, the idea of having 3 other clones of BB as part of the canon storyline it's just too confusing or convuluted for my taste. In fact, I do think it has to do a little bit with time travel or maybe a rift in the space-time line. Has anyone noticed in the trailer that the unknown soldiers that are passing through a wall, next to the tank, look a little bit like the PMC's from MGS4? That kind of military suit is way too advanced for the time period this game is suppossed to take place (1970's)
Then again, Kojima is known for screwing up with our brains prior to launch a new MGS title. He did it with MGS2, so he will do it again for Peace Walker.