Right on Thursday 12th June 2008 I will do 5 news post on that day to celebrate the game comeing out.
Monday, 9 June 2008
More Metal Gear Solid Retrospective
Here's the fourth part of GameTrailers Metal Gear Solid retrospective, which focuses on Metal Gear Solid 3 and touches on Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops—two of the less successful MGS games.
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Meeting Kojima (Only Signing Sleeves, No Pics Allowed)
Whilst he was waiting, he readied his Metal Gear Solid collection to get signed.
He went up on the platform where it was his turn to get his sleeve signed. He get his collection out, only to be told by some random HMV employee who was supervising the signing that he was only allowed to get the sleeve signed. He didn't know how to take it. So he just took out his sleeve, got it signed and shook Hideo Kojima, Yoji Shinkawa and Yumi Kikuchi (Raging Raven) hands. Which kind of made it better.
He wanted to take a quick picture of him with Hideo Kojima, so he shook Hideo's hand whilst his brother who came with him took a picture. For some reason, the man supervising the singing on the platform tried to stop his brother taking the picture, saying that no pictures allowed. But luckily his brother managed to take the picture before he could stop him. So now he couldn't take a picture of his brother and Hideo, which could be the first and last time they meet
Very disappointing. He traveled such a long way, carried a very heavy bag of MGS games for nothing? It could be the last time he meets the man, and he has already gone through a long process of waiting, might as well sign all the games and let him at least take a decent picture.
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Metal Gear Solid 4 World Tour Autographing Info
The MGS4 PR machine shifts into high gear as the Metal Gear Solid 4 World Tour 2008 kicked off in London on Monday 2nd June 2008. As they mentioned earlier, Hideo Kojima and Yoji Shinkawa will be signing game sleeves. The most recent (and final?) Kojima Productions Report podcast reports that actress Yumi Kikuchi and MGS4 producer Ken Imaizumi will be on hand as well. For those living in the States, Hideo and co. will appear at the New York City launch, while Kojima Pro's Ryan Payton and Solid Snake voice actor David Hayter will be at the Los Angeles one. The official MGS4 website has schedule info about the World Tour as well. There's a map, too. With flags.
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Sunday, 8 June 2008
Metal Gear Solid 4 Shibuya Billboards
Pictures taken by Kotakuite Jonathan in Kichijoji.
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EGM Refuse To Review MGS4 Because Konami Imposed "Limitations"
To recap: Konami are imposing restrictions on what publications can and cannot talk about when reviewing Metal Gear Solid 4. No mention of 90-minute cutscenes please, and while you're at it, no talky-talky about install sizes either, K? IGN are cool with that. EGM, refreshingly, are not. Due to "limitations Konami wanted to impose on our comments", the editorial team decided to refrain from giving the game a score, and in lieu of a "review" posted a lengthy roundtable discussion about the game instead. It's hardly a gloved fist on an Olympic dias, but it is nice seeing somebody do something about such an...unsavoury practice.
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Pre-release MGS4 Reviewers Got "Pretty Long" List of Forbidden Topics
We had this up as a rumor and he said IGN UK's review of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots pretty much confirms it. "In return for letting them play Metal Gear Solid 4 before its release, Konami issued them with a list of things that there not allowed to discuss. This list of prohibited topics is pretty long, and even extends as far as several facts that the company itself has already made public." Might that be the length of the cutscenes (upwards of 90 -gasp- minutes)?
IGN doesn't say in a strongly positive review, but for that icky first paragraph. They wanted to do the write-up as spoiler-free as possible, which makes a lot of the verboten stuff something IGN wasn't going to mention anyway. Still, they acknowledge Konami's heavy-handedness, apparently beyond the pale of normal pre-release review requests.
By the by, IGN calls it "the ultimate Metal game. Without question," but it's only ranked by IGN UK so far, at 9.9. He thinks it's safe to say the US ranking will conform. This is one of those games that's pretty much review proof. Konami's micromanagement might piss off only the writers, but that doesn't mean it isn't also unnecessary.
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