Konami Calls On Snake's OG Voice Actor To Promote New Metal Gear Solid Legacy Video Series

I don't care about him nor English voice-overs in Metal Gear Solid series. Would be better if KONAMI spent time and money on adding dual audio option support into that joke of collection!

@Vyacheslav333 I really could not tell that you have a preference from every post you make here, lol. I get it though. If an OST has lyrics, I have to silence it. With the visuals, sounds, and narrative all going on, for some reason lyrics feel pandering. Like someone is telling me how to feel about what's going on. Guiding the lily, overegging the pudding, etc.

That's neat. Would've been much cooler if he said no.

They should not have dropped him for 5, I like consistency across my series and from what I have heard it was a fairly unceremonious dropping too. Voice actors are better at voice acting than screen actors for the most part.

I'm surprised he accepted this, but I guess for him it's just some relatively easy money. Either that or he did it solely for the fans because he knows fans love Hayter Snake. He strikes me as the type to do that for the fans.

Kojima made a massive mistake by dropping Hayter for Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain.
Sutherland was fine but added nothing.

After he was treated like he was by Kojima (who never liked him apparently), it's surprising he wants to have anything to do with the series anymore

David Hayter needs to be voicing Big Boss in the MGS3 remake. I hope this is a sign that he is.

@Warioware I bet V would had been received better with David on board.

IIRC, didn't Konami get Hayter back to do lines for Snakes appearence in Bomberman R? Or at least used his voice clips for it. I think he also took a pay cut for recording the Twin Snakes so that Konami/Nintendo/SK could bring back as many of the original voice cast too.
Taking that and the fact he has tried to pitch a MGS movie (he wrote/co-wrote the first two Xmen movies and Watchmen) and was annoyed over the EVO prank, it seems like he still has a lot of affection for the series and Kojima was the main force behind recasting Snake rather than Konami

@Princess_Lilly I saw articles and videos how Kojima treated his coworkers. It seemed to me he was blinded by promised fame in the west, he seemed to have high ego because he had friends in the USA like G. Keighley and he wanted more by pushing a celebrity voice in his game instead of doing what’s best for the series and fans. I loved Kojima back then but after seeing some things I think he is not that great-just putting good cutscenes in his games and unappreciative how big talents he had in his team like Yoji Shinkawa. If he was such talent and experience-he would handle all the deadlines and budgets better, not having so multiple delays and going over budget multiple times and he was the Executive in Konami so it’s not like he couldn’t do what he wanted, so he failed as a director in my opinion. Love the games still, but I don’t mind his egocentric Kojima game/production on every screen when the game starts-another proof how self obsessed he was. I was also hyped for the collection but having no MGS game on a physical cartridge is a huge fail! This was one of my most expected rereleases. Kinda hope that Hayter would revoice MGSV and that they will finally finish MGSV connecting it to MG1 ending with Venom Snake fighting Solid Snake.

@Znake It's kinda weird for Kojima to try and push a "celebrity voice", though. I mean, he was a celebrity. Hayter was also a celebrity. Sutherland was not even their caliber, at least in the VG nor voice acting industry.

I can't decide between hating him for being such an a/hole and appreciating his games. I mean MGS 1 doesn't look THAT revolutionary, but back in a day, when most war games were just pew pew hurrah propaganda, having a character saying "but in reality, war is ugly" certainly did have some impact.

Not to mention when he made MGS2, everyone said he lost his mind, making such outlandish themes, AI disguising as a human being? Fake news? Controlling societies through filtering the information flow? Crazy.

It is happening now as we speak, 20 years later.

@Vyacheslav333 The collection includes Japanese and other languages as optional downloads.

That said I never liked to play or watch something and not understand what those talk say. As for Hayter it is good to have him back. I think Sutherland was very good but he only speaks very little. I kind of get it from a story perspective but most of time Snake just stands there and lets Ocelot or Kaz to talk.

@Znake for sure. I mean Shinkawa does not get enough credit at all. He created the whole MGS look and aesthetic that made it so unique and stand out. Shinkawa deserves as much credit as Kojima imo.

@martynstuff

Konami should let him co-direct a new mgs game. I'm tired of them being afraid of trying something new with it

I thought the OG Snake voice actor was Akio Otsuka.

@Znake yeah, people were quick to turn on Konami when they dropped him, and while there's A LOT you can criticize Konami for, Kojima wasn't exactly faultless. Specially with the constant going over budget, the problems with game scope, deadlines and the how he treated his coworkers.

@belmont I have asked @Olliemar28 in his MGS Master Collection review about multi audio option support, and he said:
«Sorry, you can use Japanese subtitles, but not voiceover.».

@LikelySatan I don't get what you wanted to say. Sorry.

@Tsuchinoko Well, he is the original Snake's seiyû since the first MGS game. You can take a look at Wikipedia, if you want it. David Hayter was a Snake's original voice actor in the English dubs 'till the Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

@Vyacheslav333 I don't know about that.
Steam clearly states that the Japanese voices are there:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2131630/METAL_GEAR_SOLID__Master_Collection_Version/

They are offered as free optional DLC but tbh I have not installed them.

@belmont Well, on Steam(on PC in general) you even can rename files' names. This trick helps to switch languages in some games, as far as I know.

@Vyacheslav333 The Metal Gear collection works differently. In local steam files you right click, go to the DLC tab and install the Japanese language pack.

Then when you boot the game you go to the "game" option and you can choose to play the Japanese version full voices et al.

@belmont But from what I've seen in users' comments/replies, you can't play games with the different language subtitles and voice-overs.

@Vyacheslav333 I haven't checked that sorry (according to Reddit it seems you can't), I thought you were interested in Japanese voices (that are definitely included) and not to mix voice overs and subtitles.

@belmont «I haven't checked that sorry (according to Reddit it seems you can't)»
Yeah, I found one useful thread on Reddit about this topic, finally. That sucks that you can't play the game with different language subtitles and voice-overs in 2023...

@smithyo I would dare to say that Shinkawa deserves more credit than Kojima, since that look was what made it so unique and made me really interested in getting into the series.

@Vyacheslav333 lyrics in videogame soundtracks bad.

@LikelySatan Oh. I remember that. You don't like Persona series' OST because of that reason, if I don't confuse.

@Vyacheslav333 yup. And embarrassing lyrics to boot, lol.

@LikelySatan Okay. 🙂

@WhiteUmbrella they actually aren’t recording any new dialog. they’re just going to use the same lines… which is fine tbh

@Olliemar28 @Alckemy I find the idea that no new dialogue would be recorded for the new game strange. For perspective, look at the dispute between Guy Cihi and Konami over the re-release of the PS2 game Silent Hill 2, in the HD Collection. A new voice actor was used for the role of James Sunderland, which would be an odd thing for Konami to do, if they could have just used the original performance, and that was just a remaster. Legally speaking, Metal Gear Delta will be a brand new game, which will need to go through certification again, and I doubt that Konami could just use the original performances without the agreement of all the original actors. They tend to want to get paid for their work.

@WhiteUmbrella Konami already stated they’re just going to use the same recordings. I’m no expert on the matter, just providing the info

@Znake I genuinely think so. I remember way back when talking to somebody about how it would be a bit of an issue. And at that time there were still rumours of Hayter voicing a younger version of SS in 5. I could have understood them using the voice actor of Solidus (Jihn Cygan.....?) since he is an aged clone, but I think Kojima just wanted a more famous Hollywood name.

Considering how bad this collection is, I'm surprised they wanted to add another "Hayter."