metal gear solid

[Dracarys]

I loathe Raiden.

[Gambit]

Peace Walker playing on the PS3

God that player is horrible. I have yet to play Peace Walker, so I'm excited for this release. That box art to the right of the article is gorgeous

Johnny the only good thing? Give Raiden some credit here.

[Dracarys]

Johnny was about the only good thing in MGS4.

[Gambit]

Y'know, because of that whole Meryl/Johhny fiasco...I wish she had died in MGS1 >.>

[aris13]

Spoiler:

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and 9 years later he got the girl

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And he had to propose on the battlefield because that's her fetish.

[Vito]

Spoiler:

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and 9 years later he got the girl

[GuardhouseMusic]

C-c-caught a damn cold. . .I hate Alaska.

. . .

Boy oh boy, that woman is built all right!

SHUT UP IN THERE, WILLYA?!

[valentinesdead?]

Is there any cold medicine on this base?

C-c-caught a damn cold. . .I hate Alaska.

. . .

Boy oh boy, that woman is built all right!

[Mr. Spencer]

Also, David Hayter had a cold at the time of the original game's recording according to Jeremy Blaustein. That's why he sounds better in the original compared to any other game in the series.

Is there any cold medicine on this base?

[Canas Renvall]

totally love the game, let a literal crack head borrow it (unbeknownst to me< he was working with me and seemed fine at the time) never saw it again, regret it to this day, same guy even robbed my truck after he got fired, took my piece and some poker winnings.

Anyway really liked the game and hope that it comes to the psn psone classics soon

Wow, that sucks. D: I have VG Missions I got at a garage sale for like $5, it was a steal.

Also, your piece? Why did you have a gun in your truck?

[jimmyjoejangles]

Has anyone else played MGS: VR Missions? I found my copy earlier today and have been playing it off and on all day. Its fun to pass the time and you get to play as Gray Fox.

totally love the game, let a literal crack head borrow it (unbeknownst to me< he was working with me and seemed fine at the time) never saw it again, regret it to this day, same guy even robbed my truck after he got fired, took my piece and some poker winnings.

Anyway really liked the game and hope that it comes to the psn psone classics soon

[Rombie]

I'm not sure if Dr. Clark was also referenced to in that aformentioned podcast (Payton should have said that both MGS and MGS2 had issues when in reflection upon the then upcoming MGS4, but he only mentioned MGS2), but you're right about the reasons behind the gender for sure. They did mention in Sunny's case it was a point of the fact a gender had clearly needed to be decided for the translation to work in English for MGS2, I would expect that is the same with MGS's translation as well.

It's not that originally they were planned wrong, it's just that later decisions contradicted the decision in both cases. I think this is made even more clear by the fact that both the PS and GC editions of MGS still make Clark sound male.

Re: VR Mission - Yeah, I used to play it over and over. I was really dissapointed by the VR missions added into MGS2S, they just didn't have the scope or the flair that that VR Missions pack had. Grey Fox is awesome, sadly limited in use though... but I'm hoping Raiden's gameplay in Rising will be more like his and less like how Raiden was in MGS2 as well for control.

[nemesiswontdie]

Has anyone else played MGS: VR Missions? I found my copy earlier today and have been playing it off and on all day. Its fun to pass the time and you get to play as Gray Fox.

[valentinesdead?]

Original:

Fox: Every time I look at her, I saw her parents eyes staring back at me

TTS:

Fox: Every time I looked into her eyes, I trembled with fear.

Hah--that's an even better example. Can't believe I'd forgotten about that. Yeah, "I trembled with fear" is extremely silly. Makes zero sense why Gray Fox would tremble at the sight of a young girl. the TTS line has zero indication of the obvious guilt implied in the original.

Thanks Rombie for digging up that info. I gotta say, I think Kojima is a little headstrong about the whole translation bit. I mean, the entire point of translating something into an english dub isn't to translate literally, but rewrite while retaining the original intent. I really don't get why Kojima didn't like Jeremy's work. Now, if MGS had no english dub, then a direct translation would be the better option, as more plain dialogue can be read well given the inflictions and acting skill of the Japanese VA, but that's not something you want to do with an English dub, simply because literal translations aren't exactly the smoothest scripting wise.

But oh well--all I can say is--if there totally thinking about remaking MGS yet again in whatever forum--they need to re-record the stuff again, and hopefully, pay the VA's decently so we don't get any half-assed performances. And hopefully keep the script more toward the original.

Also, about the Sunny mis-translation, that happened in MGS1 as well with Dr. Clark. Alot of fans in MGS4 thought that Paramedic being Dr. Clark was a retcon, when in fact, it never was stated in the original japanese version because there are no gender pronouns in japanese. Dr. Clark was simply Dr. Clark. Fun little trivia none-the-less.

[nemesiswontdie]

I think I can provide one example of this off the top of my head.

[REX squashes Gray Fox]

Original:

Liquid: He prayed for death, and it found him!

TTS:

Liquid: When death is entreated, the battlefield is decided!

Original:

Fox: Every time I look at her, I saw her parents eyes staring back at me

TTS:

Fox: Every time I looked into her eyes, I trembled with fear.