Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

[SMD]

BEES?

[Keyboard Koala]

[SMD]

[FSW]

[Chadruharazzeb]

Presumably the BIG ANNOUNCEMENT about this that was due in Famitsu never happened? Spooky.

[LionJS]

Oh, it's there. The world just doesn't know it yet. More of Kojima's genius on show.

[Spacehost]

Also, some Destrucoid fucktard did a plot-analysing article about the trailer. Needless to say he missed a lot of key stuff, the fucktard.

[NecroMorrius]

Gametrailers are doing an interview with Joakim Mogren of Moby Dick studios on Thursday night. Seeing as that's Hideo Kojima in a silly wig, it should be pretty fun.

https://twitter.com/JNMogren

https://twitter.com/geoffkeighley

[Spacehost]

Oh Kojima. Never change.

[Broker]

I assume https://twitter.com/oegreMAGAZINE is also Kojima. That Mogren Twitter is brilliant:

[Spacehost]

JN Mogren, circa 1988:

He's also hinted, quite interestingly, that Moby Dick have bought the Darksiders franchise.

[robdood]

Lol the maniac. Though specifics about prostate cancer was probably a bit unnecessary..

[Spacehost]

That Twitter account is gold, and I'm not sure how much of it is purely him taking the piss. Phantom Pain on Steam and WiiU this year?

It's okay, it's in remission.

Good news, my cancer is receding. The odds of it killing me are about as good as Half Life 3 coming out in the next 5 years.

[Broker]

I also enjoyed the "I'd like to announce that we're making a 3DS game", then about an hour later "The 3DS game has been cancelled".

[NecroMorrius]

What if they never do the MGS5 reveal, and the game itself actually comes out as 'The Phantom Pain'? With the entire game taking place in the dream-state mind of big boss/snake/someone else? Is Kojima that crazy/awesome? Would the publisher go for it?

[Spacehost]

The logo for The Phantom Pain has Metal Gear Solid V buried in the top of it, so it's definitely being called MGS V. A character refers to "V is coming" in the trailer, too.

I'd love it to be just called The Phantom Pain, though. Calling the games by their subtitles is far more awesome. Metal Gear Solid, Sons of Liberty, Snake Eater, Guns of the Patriots, Peace Walker, The Phantom Pain. Awesome naming.

[NecroMorrius]

Sorry, poor choice of words with 'never'. What I meant was, what if they don't reveal TPP to be MGSV, but rather The Phantom Pain could be a downloadable prologue or companion piece. Maybe Ground Zeroes is too. He talked about making "hour long pilots for games" in Edge the other day.

[Spacehost]

Ground Zeroes is definitely their small-scale "bridging game" to The Phantom Pain, I think they've even said as much.

[NecroMorrius]

Yeah, but Kojima.

Seems odd that they're doing a Phantom Pain interview on TV on Thursday, and a Ground Zeroes talk at GDC on the 25th. That's a lot of extremely expensive looking next-gen Metal Gear Solid to be cranking out at the same time! Plus Ground Zeroes is meant to be open-world, which doesn't seem to fit well with it being small scale. Something funny is going on I believe.

[Broker]

I love Kojima, as marketing has become mainly online he's created some excellent stuff, just relentlessly trolling everyone. This reveal is completely insane, whatever it's for.

[Alex W.]

I'm not really convinced that the JN Morgen twitter account is authentic, given that it seems to be linked to that Phantom-Pain-at-Sony-event teaser site. (Suffice to say, said reveal never happened and the site just existed to rake in Google Ads revenue.)

[Spacehost]

If it is fake it's the best parody account ever made.

[mushashi]

The Twitter account is about as real as Molydeux.

[DISCLAIMER] Moby Dick Studio and our representatives do not currently operate through any social medias such as Facebook or Twitter, except for YOUTUBE.

[NecroMorrius]

CVG doing a bit of page-filling on the subject:

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/395770/features/on-the-trail-of-the-phantom-pain/?page=1#top_banner

[Broker]

I'm not really convinced that the JN Morgen twitter account is authentic, given that it seems to be linked to that Phantom-Pain-at-Sony-event teaser site. (Suffice to say, said reveal never happened and the site just existed to rake in Google Ads revenue.)

I'm pretty sure it's all part of Kojima's hilarious joke. Early on in the posts it specifically says that the Mobydickstudio.se site isn't authentic, but I'm pretty sure that was confirmed as true. Kojima has retweeted it so if it's not him he knows about it. Is the picture of him in the wig a photo or is it an existing image of Kojima with stuff shopped over it?

[robotattack]

Is the picture of him in the wig a photo or is it an existing image of Kojima with stuff shopped over it?

[Broker]

Hideo Kojima, The Phantom Pain and the importance of misleading people

The speculation began from the moment The Phantom Pain trailer was revealed. Was this Metal Gear Solid 5? Neogaf’s 96 page thread is emblematic of the forensic analysis Kojima's output inspires, and it has lead to what is now a universally accepted assumption: The Phantom Pain is a Kojima project, and it is linked – somehow – to the Metal Gear universe.

As part of an interview with Hideo Kojima in which he discussed PS4, episodic games and more, we had to ask: is he involved with The Phantom Pain project? Frosty looks were exchanged, and he wouldn't answer. He did, however, respond to a broader question about leaving clues in trailers, and what they might mean.

“I do think it’s important to leave hints, but, in a sense, I think it’s important to mislead people with hints because I think if something’s too predictable then it’s no longer fun," he said. "I think that’s the problem with many Hollywood sequels, you get exactly what you expect. But what I want to do, is make people look forward to a game by watching the trailers and say “Hey, that looks great.” But then, when they actually play it, they have this sort of epiphany where they realise “Oh, so that’s what that was.” And it all kind of comes together and clicks in their head. I think that’s very important that you leave some sense of discovery for the player.”

Tomorrow, we’ll see another piece of this puzzle slot into place. GTTV will broadcast an interview with the apparent CEO of The Phantom Pain developer Moby Dick Studios, Joakim Mogren. We don't expect a complete reveal, but yet more teasing ahead of concrete details at Kojima's GDC 2013 talk. Until then, there are more details on Konami's next-gen game engine in the latest issue of Edge magazine.

Anyone know what UK time this will be on GTTV?

[Spacehost]

11pm.

[Broker]

Awesome, I'm excited.

[Kayin Amoh]

Hideo Kojima states misleading trailers are a good idea - can't help but think that Randy Pitchford agrees 100%.