VGA's Phantom Pain Trailer. Speculation It's Metal Gear Solid V

Looks bizarre enough.

And the main(?) does look like Snake, mullet-tastic haircut and all.

 

Posted about this a bit on Friday (a general "VGAs" thread), though there was less info (and no direct link to the trailer by itself) and I was being a little less direct about calling this MGS. So might have gotten missed.

But it is MGS.

I posted this link in the other thread:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=503254
NeoGAF users basically piecing together evidence that this is MGS.

I love this Twitter page (and think there was a similar Wiki, not sure if still up):
https://twitter.com/JNmogren

 

Whoever did the soundtrack for that trailer did an amazing job. THat was freaky. Excellent trailer. Wish I kept up with this franchise after the first one.

 

There were no other posts, so no point in merging (and I already posted the good stuff from that thread). Plus I had other, non-MGS stuff in there.

Back on-topic, good work by Kojima and crew. It was probably a little too obvious, but I loved what they did here.

Actually would be interesting if this was a brand new game (and I guess there's a 1% or so chance of that), but still an interesting way to promote MGS.

 

wait, i thought Ground Zero was MGS 5. so confused.

 

It isn't clear what's going on there. I believe they said Ground Zeroes is NOT MGS5. It is a "prologue" to another game in the series.

Whether that means Phantom Pain and Ground Zeroes are the same game (or 2 different ones) is unclear, as is what is MGS5 (could just be that Ground Zeroes is a prologue to the action in MGS5/Phantom Pain, maybe like the beginning of MGS2). Actually, MGS5 was Peace Walker, though I guess Kojima no longer refers to it as such.

It was also implied that Ground Zeroes was NOT "Project Ogre," which is a game Kojima is/was working on. I find it hard to believe they'd have so many (MGS) games being developed at once though (with public reveals), so I'm thinking some/all are actually the same thing.

I guess it doesn't really matter. Should get good results regardless (not like they're outsourcing any of this to another developer).

 

Whatever it is, I hope it doesnt come out on the PS3, or if it does, it comes out by next summer, and then they wait on the follow up to it for another few years to coincide with the release of a next gen system.

 

It looks comparable to Ground Zeroes, which already is confirmed for PS3/360. Don't think that game will be out before next summer. If this is a new game that will require another 2-3 years of dev beyond GZ, then maybe they'll push it to next-gen (but why reveal now?).

edit: Forgot that the webpage for the "studio" listed 360/PS3 IIRC, though that can be ignored I guess.

 

It's an official Next Gen Release.

 

What is?

 

Not official, but Moby Dick Games said it will be Next Gen.

 

Where? Their website lists PS3/360 (as does the Wiki for the game). Regardless, they're not a real studio (and next-gen consoles aren't out, so some devs just say PS3/360 anyway, so there's that too).

I've actually seen very few "official" comments from the "studio."

 

On their official twitter.

 

They don't have a Twitter. Probably a fake account.

http://www.mobydickstudio.se/en/

 

You're right, just read an interview where the main developer debunked all alleged twitter accounts.

Yung-T faints.

 

Sorry, probably didn't word that correctly. Devs have had a LOT of time with next-gen dev kits, but I was basically just saying that since they haven't been announced/revealed/released/etc., developers may not "officially" say their game is a next-gen game just yet. Hence "PS3/360 or maybe other platforms." Especially so if they don't have a PC release (or the PC isn't their target audience).