Kojima would have preferred Gray Fox over Raiden in Metal Gear Rising

i so wanted to see gray fox in the game. hearing that kojima wanted him also there makes me kinda mad

All of you losers whining about Raiden need to grow up seriously..... He's a sissy because he has emotions? So I guess everyone on Earth is a sissy, going by that stupid ass logic. Raiden is a bigger bad ass than Snake, he was killing since he was a kid. I would also love to see Old Snake in Rising, he would of died in the first fight. Don't take this wrong I love Snake, but I have COMMON sense.

Too bad Kojima Productions doesn't go with what Kojima wants. Wait... that doesn't seem too plausible. Hmm... go figure.

As, well, Gray Fox certainly would've been a better protagonist over Raiden, the infamous sissy, cliché anime character and he who ruined MGS2 for most of us.

And by the way... "they wanted to come up with a really cool hack-and-slash title with some Katana action and Raiden in it, and I thought ‘okay, that’s fine, I respect that’."

I'm somewhat speechless in the face of that. The best reaction to that, that I can put in text, is /facepalm. Just to not drag my comment out anymore, I've already posted my wall of text for today.

oh, I said something like that on the other article...I'll give myself a pat on the head, I think...

All this "whining" I keep reading about Raidens so called "whining" in MGS2 I fine pretty ironic. As if you guys would have dealt with that mission with no complaints. Yet alone survive it.

I think that they made the right choice picking Raiden, I mean they change nearly everything that made Metal Gear what it is today. Because of that reason, I would have gone with Raiden, as most of you know he "sucks", now let's say they used Grey Fox in this game and they messed up, everyone would have been pissed off at the team for making Fox look bad. Now, my point is, use whatever was broken (Raiden) in the previous MG game and use it in a completely different game (MGR:R) and then if people enjoyed what they played or what ever, then the next game use the best character (Grey Fox). Personally, it was a smart move not to pick Fox this time.

I found that Raiden was a big wuss in MGS2... all that whining he did. Gray Fox actually had a set of balls!

And thus the story of how MGRR was ruined, which I discovered in R-03 yesterday. Then broke my controller.

I enjoy MGR:R the way it is. Raiden totally has become his own man from MGS2 to MGS4 and MGR:R proves as much, and I still want to see what happened between the two games. I really hope that they do release something detailing his events in between those two games.

@SirWander @Kane04 The story starts off interesting (a rival PMC stealing children's brains) but quickly descends into awfulness. Just wait until you see the final mission.

But don't let that stop you from playing it -- I had a ball with it.

I hate how politically correct everyone is being about this. Kojima just told everyone that this isn't his game, he had other things to do and he didn't want to do a game about Raiden. It's one thing to tell people that you let your younger staff create the game, but he also had to say that he definitely would have preferred a Grey Fox game. The name of the game was even changed from Solid to Rising as to make the clear distinction between a Kojima game and his younger staff.

This tell me that he knows 100% that his younger staff and anyone who likes Raiden are a bunch of soft idiots. MGS2 was one cry away fro being a romance game. Laura Croft & Samus Aran have more testosterone than Raiden, and just because the creators try to darken him up, that doesn't change the fact that he was apart of the single worst character change in gaming history. No one with half a brain likes him or wants to play with him. He's a heavily tainted character because he sucks and was only created to appeal to homoerotic Japanese kids, who like long haired dainty, starry eyed boy men as the hero. I think Kojima secretly wants this game to fall flat so that he can come in and save the day with his own great game, but I could never know that and I hate when internet idiots proclaim to know what someone is going to do just so that the present situation doesn't seem as bad. This game should have never been made. MGS is a good series and I'm always tempted to play it because of the compelling story, but Raiden should die. The only way this game'll be any good is if Raiden admits that he used to be a sensitive sissy but now he has changed.

Leave it to a Japanese man to find the most tactful and polite way to say "I have absolutely nothing to do with the complete cluster fu*k that's soon to follow."

If anyone has played the demo please chime in: is it just me or does this game suffer BAD from not having a block or evade? there is a parry but it does not work like Vagrant Story or Paper Mario. you can't wait until the attack is flying. its hard to describe but you have to "throw the parry out there" before any attack is flying at you. in other words the parry animation has to "finish" before you're actually blocking anything, so you have to do it BEFORE the attack is executed by your enemy, unless its a slow one, which is bad since there are really no slow enemies in this game (so far). So what happens? you feel like youre just standing there getting smacked around. its good, fast paced, and i do feel like a ninja, but thats the thing: a ninja should know how to get the **** out of the way, and if Isaac Clarke can do a roll in a mining suit I sure as **** expect a cyborg ninja to either roll out of the way or hold up a sword to block for as long as I say, not parry for 2 secs. then just casually lower his sword. Its really not like it wouldve made the game easier the fucker's already balls to the wall as it is. Vanquish or Bayonetta this is not. Demo players, comments on this??

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull of Hideo Kojima.

Keep Frank Jaeger out of DLC. Develop a full game with him leading.

At least we still get to play as Gray fox in dlc.

yeah he wanted to make another prequel thats all Kojima cares about Prequels,Prequels and Prequels im glad he stayed away from Metal Gear Rising otherwise this would have been another prequel im an Ex-Fan of the MGS series and now i hate it because of too many prequels too many prequels just ruin the game for me. in a series of 6 games 1 or 2 prequels are okay but now there are like 3 or 5 in the whole series MGS3,MGS Portable Ops,MGS Peace Walker and now Ground Zeroes and quite possibly Phantom Pain (if its a MGS game that is) im done with MGS. R.I.P MGS 1998-2010

This is so not the Metal Gear Solid that I know of.

Who wouldn't prefer really?

this game is gonna be rated by gamespot under 5.0 you guys watch this shit is gonna suck .

This story basically confirms that Kojima will make a Gray Fox game, its not like raiden stole the game from gray fox, gray fox is just gonna have to wait lol

You know what makes me raise an eyebrow. Hideo doesn't have HIS name on the game, but approves is (sort of) and now he releases this bit of info. Maybe I am wrong, but that feels like discrediting the game. Before it even launches saying "I would have rather done Grey Fox."
Of course then again, it could just be him saying "This is the way I would have gone with it."

agreed.i prefer gray fox.he was amazing.

I can squint and pretend it's the cyborg ninja. It also helps that platinum have never made a bad game.

The game is looking pretty terrible specially in the latest trailer, I've played every MGS game that ever came out but I'm skipping this one.Can't believe Kojima is letting his name on the credits

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