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The motion capture excuse would hold more water if they didn't go for an actor only two years younger than David Hayter.

He wanted out for a _long_ time, IIRC as early as MGS 2. 4 was originally planned to end with Snake and Otacon being captured and executed for terrorism to put the final nail in the franchise's coffin, with him only folding on the idea after his entire writing staff protested. I think you hit the nail on the head for his dissatisfaction being why 5 felt so different. It barely feels like a Metal Gear game even if the stealth is at its all-time best, but you can definitely see some proto-Death Stranding DNA in it in retrospect. He was clearly experimenting heavily, which might explain why the game went so far over budget and ended up unfinished.

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler And it would have worked perfectly with Hayter as both parts. He's a voice actor; he can do a second voice. As for Venom sounding the same, well, hypnosis/mind control and plastic surgery are basically magic in this universe anyway (see Decoy Octopus, Liquid Ocelot, or hell just Ocelot in this same game). Though that'd be torpedoed by Kojima's feud with Konami over crediting and its result of every scene in MGS5 listing (spoiling) its participants with a credit byline. In that case, the intro could have used a different voice for Ishmael and then the forced replay later that shows what _actually_ happened could switch to Hayter. :::

I do, but I also know he'd been trying to get rid of Hayter for a while by then even though he was _the_ voice of Snake, so the excuse rings hollow.

Remember when he got rid of the iconic long-time voice actor of his most popular series so he could replace him with some Hollywood actor doing a generic gruff guy impression? Then said actor ended up being so expensive that there was barely any dialogue... in a _Metal Gear_ game?

> Added the new feature: looting of mutant parts. I look forward to ignoring the main storyline and roleplaying a wandering monster hunter instead. Hopefully the new mod support can flesh this out even further!

How often do consoles get the kind of deep discounts that games get on PC, though? Or even the price drops over time? It's not really a great deal when a $60 title drops to $30 on PSN, but the same game costs $30 as its _base price_ on Steam and is currently discounted to $8.

"M-O-O-N, that spells 'sword!'"

"Yeah, but neither does the damage I take!" _\*proceeds to do nothing but play on his phone for the session\*_ - The Hypothetical Fighter I Now Hate Also, you have an incredibly appropriate username for this conversation. Have you taken steps along the Path of the Muscle Wizard? (Swipe typing autocorrect turned "steps" into "steroids" three times in a row. I think my phone is becoming sentient.)

The joke's on you: thanks to min-maxing, the fighter can't count in the first place!