originally posted in:Outer Heaven
[quote]Metal Gear Solid V’s story will adapt to the choices of the player. In an interview Kojima shed some light on how the freedom in the game works.
The player can play missions, serving as kind of episodes in the story, in the order he wants, and the story will adapt naturally to that. Within these episodes, choices can be made. At certain moments, the player will be able to decide between life and death for certain characters, and what follows depends on his actions. But, when developing this system they need to be careful not to create time paradoxes in the story, since there are games before and after this one and the story needs to stay coherent to the overall storyline.
The E3 trailer focused mainly on ways for Snake to move through the environment, but there will also be plenty of new gadgets and items in the game that Snake can use during his missions. He will have to use them if he wants to become even better.
The themes of race and vengeance are at the heart of the game. Kojima has been discussing child soldiers since MGS2, but this time he wanted to go further. He doesn’t ask himself if these topics are taboo, because they are part of the story, so he has to talk about it. With PS4 and Xbox One, he can advance the story and better convey his messages. He hopes that there is a place for games with topics such as these.
Kojima always creates installments in the series with the idea that it will be the last one, and he closes of the story arc of the character, wether it’s about Solid Snake or Big Boss. He has been saying that it will be his last game for a while, but it seems that he can’t abandon Metal Gear. But even if he did, he will be certain Konami will continue the series.[/quote]
Thoughts? It seems he's taken a bit of Mass Effect inspiration in there. It should lead to some interesting and possibly heartbreaking outcomes o_o
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I hate games that do this. Why? Because in the inevitable sequel there needs to be a "real" story that the sequel follows. This means that many players choices are invalidated or disregarded for a "true" story. I just hope that if you let the "wrong" person die a giant TIME PARADOX logo pops up and you have to start over at the last checkpoint.
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Sort of like with Meryl, then, I guess.
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Really excited for V.
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Wow, that's really interesting. Can't wait to see that happen.
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That's awesome. God MGS is hands down one of the best series I've ever seen.
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Good, but I hope this doesn't make it an escort game.
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Awesome, I will fight for everyone to survive. Big Boss may be a dick in general but he respects his comrades.
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[quote]Kojima has been discussing child soldiers since MGS2, but this time he wanted to go further. He doesn’t ask himself if these topics are taboo, because they are part of the story, so he has to talk about it.[/quote] I'm glad he's a developer that thinks about things that effects the story and doesn't think about how the idiots IRL feel about it. I like that he's making the game the way he wants.
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Hopefully it won't turn out like that piece of shit system in BO2.