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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain announced

Metal Gear Solid V is both The Phantom Pain and Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes combined.

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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain has been announced at GDC.

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Speaking on stage during Kojima Productions' presentation on its new Fox engine, director Hideo Kojima says Metal Gear Solid V is both Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain combined. Snake has been in a coma for nine years, and awakens in hospital at the start of the game alongside Ishmael, the figure from The Phantom Pain whose face is in covered in bandages.

During the gameplay demo, which is set in the Metal Gear Solid V's tutorial level, Snake can't walk or move properly due to his comatose state. When he regains his mobility Metal Gear Solid V will become an open-world game, says Kojima.

Showing the first trailer for Metal Gear Solid V, footage from previous Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain trailers were spliced together alongside a handful of new scenes. Longtime series character Kazuhira Miller is also seen in the trailer.

It is currently unclear if David Hayter is reprising his role as Snake.

Kojima Productions first teased The Phantom Pain at the Spike VGA awards, saying the game was in development at Moby Dick Studios. Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes was announced in August 2012 during the Metal Gear Solid 25th Anniversary event in Tokyo.

The game was shown running on PC using Kojima's new FOX Engine, but the trailer showed logos for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

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so this game is after mgs 4? or before? also who is the main character? is the same from 4?

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@husaberg2 Before. It begins 10 days after Peace Walker so is after MGS 3. The main character is Big Boss.

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@lowdan666 @freckledballsac My take on this would be that this is around the time of the first and second original metal gear games. The reason for this would be that the original speculation was something about playing as both snakes and this fits the time perfectly , also we are sure that this is Big Boss. Another reason is that the guy on the horse definetally looks like ocelot and the age fits pretty wel. Then we can analyse the titles which are "Ground Zeroes" and "The Phantom Pain" i'd say ground zeroes because it is the start of Solid Snakes great missions . The Phantom Pain in my eyes refers to Big Boss who is suffering because of his past missions , the trailer makes you feel haunted by "phantoms" like the fiery man which really looks like Volgin . Also Phantom Pain means feeling pain in a limb you have lost , thus referring to his lost arm.

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And after I spent all that time building up Mother Base and stopping Peace Walker, it just gets destroyed anyway...oh well.

I do like how despite everyone knowing that The Phantom Pain was an MGS thing all along, I'm still kind of surprised as to exactly HOW it related.

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Un saludos a todos los Kojimeros desde España!

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@agucatrod Un saludo a ti también, no desde España pero si en nuestro mismo idioma. XD.

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Saludos a todos los Kojimeros desde España! Una hora y empieza!

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Hm... I'm still undecided on this. From first look I thought it was pretty amazing. Then I saw something that made me go 'what?'. That thing was that the game is going to be 'Open World'. This is definitely a new addition to the game franchise and definitely a new step for Kojima Productions. All it comes down to at this point, is how they intend to implement it, and how well they do. I'm hoping for a Demo before release, because that will be the ultimate decider for me, seeing how they implement the open world aspect. Here's to hoping that the game will be as amazing as the others.

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@Semjax I'm sure they will implement it well, I have never been disappointed in a Metal Gear game and they probably wouldn't release it unless they are fully confident that it will be good, I'm curious to how it goes as well but I don't think there will be a demo for this.

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Edited By Folkathen

The demo was run on PC, so its very weird if this game will not come to PC..

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@Folkathen It was run on a PC with PS3/360 equivalent specs.... basically a console in a PC tower. Doesn't mean it was running on Windows or a "PC".

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@mr_azim @Folkathen do u understand wht U r saying ? :S
'Doesn't mean it was running on Windows or a "PC".' ??


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they had me at the 360 logo

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@freckledballsac @lowdan666 nevermind^^

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@freckledballsac @lowdan666 also reasonable but isn´t that car accident after he breaks out from the hospital ?

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now i hope they release mgs4 on xbox360 i still havent played it yet..

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@hahamanin 360 would not be able to handle MGS4.

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@Nickolaz666 @hahamanin The only thing the 360 can't handle regards MGS4 is the size because of it's hour long uncompressed movies.

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@Nickolaz666 @hahamanin yes it would the only problem is the size it would have to be on like 6 discs. which means it would play like the ps3 version with all the installing man i hated that.

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@deathblow3 @Nickolaz666 @hahamanin All you have to do is install the whole game onto the XBox 360 and play it off the drive. Wouldn't even need to change discs. Once you beat it, delete it.

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@hahamanin co - hope

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@hahamanin I hope they'll do that, too. I've beated it up many times, though, but my PS3 is broken, and I don't want to buy new one - waiting for PS4... It will requre a lot of work, however, game wasn't optimised for multiplutform from the start, and if they do that, they'll need to split it on 2 or even 3 discs...

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@ioshilee @hahamanin Total game is 46GBs compressed BD data....... good luck getting that on HD DVD compression lol

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@mr_azim @ioshilee @hahamanin check the internet they have created both blu ray and hd dvd of over 500 gigs but you point is moot as the xbox doesnt do hd dvd games at all only movies with the now defunct hd player

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@hahamanin good luck with that^^

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@freckledballsaci don´t konw if it could be the same hand tough haven´t played peace walker yet but i will before this comes out ! maybe a copy ?

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@freckledballsac @lowdan666 oha really my mistake then then lets say the results of the project and the events that led big boss into leaving the patriots then would also explain the different voice acting maybe solid snake will be in there too as a young man or child ?

wait maybe just maybe the guy on the horse isn´t ocelot but solid snake would that be possible ? nah forget it he would be like 10 year old or so but then his genes where altered into ageing faster oh shit there is so much room for speculation damn you hideo you teaser^^

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@freckledballsac the story takes place after the events of peace walker so as you said this could in fact be the coma he was in when zero took his DNA and we would get to see the les enfant terrible project think about that ! that would be great in my opinion and would fit

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*throwing my cash, wallet, and mgr at kojima*


Want....it.....now..... along with MGO3.

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@sfkm2 You should at least keep your wallet. Don't give it all a way. =P

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@soulless4now @sfkm2 - Oh no. Need that game. Big fan of the series.

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I'm somewhat nitpicking here...but did anyone else think it was odd that Snake didn't have his headband on at any ooint in the trailer? I know that he threw it away at the end of Peace Walker....but a Snake without a headband is like peanut butter without jelly...there's just something missing :p

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any speculation on who that flaming devil head guy in the gameplay demo is ???

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@lowdan666 Emma Emmerich

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@HAZCHEM88 @lowdan666 STOP TROLLING !!! and leave it to the people that are good at it like hideo^^

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@lowdan666 Volgin?

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@ImmersioNw0w @lowdan666 the converstion is in the other threat dude !!! you gotta be faster than that !

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Flaming. Pegasus. Unicorn.

Sold. XD

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Watch Dogs also showed current gen logos in the end but turned out to be both current gen and next gen title , it was also running on PC .

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What I love the most about the stuff Kojima gives us is that he doesn't tell us anything clearly. Recently I've been staying away from reading too much about games I'm interested in because we get too much information. But with Kojima its just like here's a bunch of really crazy ass, cool looking shit, I dare you to try and figure out what the hell is going on.


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@SSJMonkey He is the best of teases haha.

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