Y ahora, la dura elección:

Pequeño resumen de la conferencia de Kojima en GO3, desgraciadamente no se ha visto nada nuevo de MGS 4.


3:06pm - We're running 35 minutes late. Lot's of late-minute tinkering with the AV. He's a stickler for perfection. But we're underway, and I think he brought his own translator. Best translator of the weekend? Yes!

3:08pm - Looking at the evolution of video games, and how Metal Gear shaped that. In the 80's, everything was about shooting. So Metal Gear was born. I feel another life story coming on, so settle in for the long haul.

3:16pm - Lots of footage of Metal Gear. "It's very boring, isn't it?". Lots of laughter, lots of nodding heads. "What a big duct that is!", "it's a lot like new Metal Gear, isn't it?". Funny stuff, he's in fine form.



3:25pm - Time marches on. We're at Metal Gear Solid now, and he's demoing the intro. "His face is made of dots!". For a game that's nine years old, it's still looking pretty good. Kojima runs, he's discovered, he runs away and...we have first box-hiding gag. It goes as expected, laughs all round.

3:30pm - The timeline stuff continues, and we're at MGS2. Another demo, another intro. "Can I skip this dialogue" jokes are swimming through my mind. He's not too happy with some of the tanker sequence, thinks it looks glitchy, but it looks fine to me.

3:36pm - Talking about how they came up with the setting for MGS3. "Where should I hide my snake this time?". I am the only person who chortles, which is a little embarrassing. Snakes are in the jungle, so the game should be in the jungle. Now he's demoing MGS3, and apologising for not being able to eat Koala in the game.

3:43pm - Alright, time for MGS4. He's talking up the psychological warfare stuff, where you freak out the warring soldiers. He runs the trailer that ends with Snake holding a gun in his mouth. Not new. Sorry.

3:49pm - Shows a screen of the systems Metal Gear has appeared on (or at least developed primarily for). Sorry kids, no 360 there.

3:50pm - And we're done. No new trailer, no announcments. Let down? Yeahh, but probably shouldn't have been expecting too much.