22nd March 2004, 5:52 PM
(This post was last modified: 22nd March 2004, 11:51 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
Honestly, it wasn't a problem before, because at the time it was very good voice acting, and still is. It's just that honestly the Mei Ling thing didn't sound all that good, and her without it is better to me. Now to listen to it I much prefer the GCN one. I still have a problem with Grey Fox (The missing our "Grey Fox" :D, name that quote!), and a little with Naomi, but that's not the accent there, it's the lack of the emotion they had in the original.
Anyway, what sucks is how we Americans missed out on that disk that contained, reportedly, the NES version of the original Metal Gear game. I think that the report, which was copied by the rest of the news sites, got it wrong though. The ORIGINAL version of the original Metal Gear was on MSX (actually, the MSX2), not NES, and many consider it to be far superior (I've been reading reviews at various fan sites like this one) to the NES one. Also, the translation apparently sucked. Hideo apparently doesn't even consider the NES version to "count". For that matter, Snake's Revenge, the NES sequel, had a terrible story written by crack heads and had nothing to do with Hideo, who hated that attempt at a sequel so much he decided to make a REAL one exclusively for MSX, called Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. He refuses to acknowledge the NES sequel. With Hideo's own feelings about those two games rather widely known, I would be surprised for him to package the lesser NES version of the original MSX game in that promotional disk. I have a feeling that the MSX version was on there and the reporters, thinking they got a bad translation or something (likely not knowledgable enough about the game series) assumed they MEANT Famicom.
Anyway, I still bet that Konami plans on releasing an updated "substance" style release of Twin Snakes in the future. They have done it for all their major games as of late, on PS2 anyway. I imagine that like Substance it'll pack in about a million VR missions (specially tooled to the updated gameplay) some side stories, and maybe even the first two MSX Metal Gear games (or at least the very first one). Namely though, I'm hoping they either rerecord the speech of Meryl when she is shot (seriously, that's the only MAJOR beef I had with the script, but it's such a big one that in any remake I demand it be fixed), or just take the old one off the original PS version.
Anyway, what sucks is how we Americans missed out on that disk that contained, reportedly, the NES version of the original Metal Gear game. I think that the report, which was copied by the rest of the news sites, got it wrong though. The ORIGINAL version of the original Metal Gear was on MSX (actually, the MSX2), not NES, and many consider it to be far superior (I've been reading reviews at various fan sites like this one) to the NES one. Also, the translation apparently sucked. Hideo apparently doesn't even consider the NES version to "count". For that matter, Snake's Revenge, the NES sequel, had a terrible story written by crack heads and had nothing to do with Hideo, who hated that attempt at a sequel so much he decided to make a REAL one exclusively for MSX, called Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. He refuses to acknowledge the NES sequel. With Hideo's own feelings about those two games rather widely known, I would be surprised for him to package the lesser NES version of the original MSX game in that promotional disk. I have a feeling that the MSX version was on there and the reporters, thinking they got a bad translation or something (likely not knowledgable enough about the game series) assumed they MEANT Famicom.
Anyway, I still bet that Konami plans on releasing an updated "substance" style release of Twin Snakes in the future. They have done it for all their major games as of late, on PS2 anyway. I imagine that like Substance it'll pack in about a million VR missions (specially tooled to the updated gameplay) some side stories, and maybe even the first two MSX Metal Gear games (or at least the very first one). Namely though, I'm hoping they either rerecord the speech of Meryl when she is shot (seriously, that's the only MAJOR beef I had with the script, but it's such a big one that in any remake I demand it be fixed), or just take the old one off the original PS version.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)