Snake's Voice Actor Says New Codecs Have Not Been Recorded For Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

As a non-MG fan,

Please happen at some point.
Please.
PLEASE.
DEAR GOD PLLEEEEEEEAAAAASSEE.

With a game with so much content, I hope they don't drop such a fun Easter Egg, I do want to hear the codecs once again, and not only the codecs, but I wanna hear the Palutena's guidance as well. We need new ones as well so no one is left out.

If he's wanting to do more he probably shouldn't have said anything.

He might be under an NDA tbh. Just like how the VA for Xenoblade 2 were on an NDA for Torna: The Golden Country between the base game and development for that.

Plus, almost every bit of Ultimate's trailers have absolutely no voices. There's only a few like Ike's voices from Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn, Simon yelling "Grand Cross" during the last Direct, and maybe a few I can't remember, but perhaps they're still finalizing things for the final release.

Regardless I am desperately hoping for a replacement that's like the codecs or Palutena's Guidance.

I’m sure they’re working on some or will add more soon; they’d be stupid not to.

Bring MGS to Switch!

''Octagon! This foe has a large mouth and an insatiable hunger for ghosts!''

I know Sakurai and his team don't tend to leave stones unturned, and having codecs for only a certain few (the Brawl characters), seems off. I think they'd want to do codecs for everyone... and I hope they even re-do the old ones.

Anyway... the game is a few months from release... surely they'd have contacted him by now if they were going to? We'll see I guess.

If they were going to use him he would have at least been contacted about it by now if not months ago to schedule something just in case he's going to be busy with other projects. This is odd news.

@EvilLucario If he were under an NDA, I don't believe he would have said anything.

Would be nice to have it again but oh well Sakurai already put all that he could to the game and there's still more that he had yet to include so no codecs or Palutena's lessons are okay.

He didn't record any new stuff for MGSV either... Too soon..?

I don't really care about the codecs and Palutena Guidancr, so I don't mind if they are gone. It was a nice easter egg in Sm4sh, but no need to reuse them.

But isn't voice acting done at a very late stage of a game? So perhaps the recording is still going to be planned, for those hoping for it.

The Codec-esque features have been tied to a different character in each game. It was Fox in Melee, Snake in Brawl, and Pit in WiiU. I assume a different character will be used in Ultimate.

Konami shoul Just Sell Castlevania and MGS to Nintendo and then get hit by a truck :3

First they make him skip butt day, now they won't record new lines?

Pre-order cancelled.

@EvilLucario If he's under an NDA, he not allowed to say anything about it in any way, shape or form. You'd get a ''I don't know anything about that at this moment'', or a ''I am not allowed to talk about that''.

@Mrkim Would be nice if they use Fire Emblem this time (perhaps with Marth, Roy, Lucina, or Robin) considering there are a lot of them in Smash now and FE is a conversation heavy franchise (meaning they talk a lot).

Its a shame but it could just be that they haven't finished all of the voice recordings.

Maybe Sakurai would rather focus on recording 21+ Palutena's Guidances instead of 40+ codecs, if not record new guidances/codecs for the entire cast.

Of course he would love to record new lines, he'll need to pay his bills somehow

Shame, I’d love to see codecs for characters like Duck Hunt or Pichu.

Ok yea but what exactly is a codec????

Snake's Codecs, Palutena's Guidance, the Starfox communications. They're all just easter eggs. Sakurai should rather focus on a good single player, more characters, the level editor, and fluid online, before putting any time into the tiny bits that only 1% will ever see.

@mattcam84
co·dec
ˈkōdek
noun
a device or program that compresses data to enable faster transmission and decompresses received data.

Maybe their excuse for excluding this (if they're not going to add it beyond this point) is the same as excluding a story mode for SSB4, in that people will just watch it on Youtube anyway. Makes me wonder why they bothered with the Palutena's Guidance in SSB4 in the first place.

Man, Konami already screwed everyone -that mattered- attached to MGS at this point. Hope Nintendo ain't doin' the same.

I'd love to have both back in the game, especially the latter. As a huge of Kid Icarus Uprising I had a lot of fun going through all the dialog for each fighter.

Dont believe him. I'm pretty sure he admitted that he had fun recorded a bunch of new lines that "fans should really enjoy". I doubt that's just a bunch of grunts and victory lines. If you dont believe me look up his original quote when he confirms he came back. And also why bring him back if they aren't recording new lines?? I'm sure they dont need him to redo simple grunts.

@HobbitGamer Also used in video as well, compression/decompression

@Bizzyb Story Mode. I still want Codecs back.

as a MGS fanatic its a little disappointing but im just ecstatic snakes back in the game in the first place

Hoping they'll make some good use out of David. I'm playing through the Phantom Pain now and Snake's current VA just doesn't seem natural. He sounds like a thirty year old dude, not a guy who spent half a week in the woods eating snakes and shooting Russians.

Doc Lewis should be the new codec

All I want is his buttocks back.

@Mrkim I can't speak for Smash 4, but Brawl had unique Fox codecs as well

Don’t worry. They got Kiefer to do them.

EVERYONE is HERE! (Except Snake's butt)

A real shame considering this is definitely Nintendo's heavy-hitter for this year. Given all the budget it gets now that the Smash franchise is being taken seriously by Nintendo themselves. Could have asked the VAs to record some extra lines.

A new Codec discussion between Snake and Colonel about Mother 3 needing to get released in the west would be funny.

I want to hear Snake with the stereotypical yet realistic smarmy, pervy Italian accent.

"It's a me trouser Snake" would be a great line.

"touch my snake", "dolla dolla" and "snake bite" would be good lines too.

Snake.....Snake?.........SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!

Either there aren't any codecs in this game, or they are all recorded by Kiefer Sutherland (he's the new voice, right?).

I like how the image is labeled as "Snek"