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Agree 100%. I'm hoping for more Hayter as the series closes the gap to the first MGS. There's a lot of room for a young Solid Snake in that timeframe. And with MGS4 wrapping everything up so completely, it's the only direction I can see the series going.

This. It's not surprising that Kojima would want to differentiate the characters, especially as it looks like he's building up to a Solid retelling of the first two games.

Just give it up. You're not doing yourself any favours.

This is probably where the series is headed so a switch in Big Boss's VA needed to be made. I fully expect Hayter to make an epic return as younger Solid Snake in the near future.

Kojima should just come out and say that he wants to differentiate Solid Snake from Big Boss in preparation for the inevitable retelling of Metal Gear 1&2. It's so obvious that's where the series is headed.

I think there is a big difference between "most fans" and most casual players, which you seem to be talking about. Fans know the characters, the voices behind them, and they have a pretty good handle on the timeline and mythos.

Yeah. What's up with that?

I don't know what you're talking about. Along with FF fans, MGS fans are some of the most rabid and attentive I've ever seen.

Not all of them. My friend has a black Wii from last year that won't play them.

I think there was a mass exodus of top talent as well.

It's hard to believe the '90s gave us FF III-IX. That's seven quality titles in the series. And the past ten years have given us an online game, two proper numbers and a crappy knock-off.

When I first played FFX, I remember thoroughly enjoying it but also thinking it could have been so much better. Now looking at this remaster, it impresses more than anything out of Square in the past decade. How times have changed.

No doubt, the box is where he was meant to be. It's the key to true happiness.

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It was OUP America's word of the year last year. But yeah. It's really old, and I'm with you.

I'm afraid not. They got an older actor named Richard Doyle.

I was hoping for something way more exciting...

I've suspected from the beginning that this will be Big Boss/Naked Snake sometime late in life, perhaps after the events of Metal Gear 1&2. How cool would it be if the bandaged guy were Frank Jaeger?

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