Official PlayStation 3 Thread 3: Rise of the Machines

[Rumpy]

That must be from some kind of mental disease.

[Compass]

Confirmed.

[Melf]

Kojima speaks at TGS! Check out the "plot" for MGS 4:

The latest Metal Gear saga takes place five years after MGS2, but the world has dramatically changed in that short time period. After the Big Shell incident in Manhattan, the US government required all soldiers working for Private Military Companies (PMCs) to be injected by nanomachines called the SOP (Sons Of the Patriots), which control their physical capabilities and emotions. The new technology allowed war zones to be completely controlled by PMCs. As a result, wars expanded, and PMCs grew larger and larger. By the time the game starts, warfare has become a vital part of the world's economy.

Roy Campbell now works for a subsidiary organ under the United Nations and reviews PMCs. According to his research, the total combined PMC military forces have grown to a size equivalent to that of the US Army. What's more, the top five PMCs are all operated by a single mother company named Outer Haven, commanded by Liquid Ocelot.

In order to assassinate his brother, Solid Snake--who's aged into an old, gray-haired man due to defects in his DNA--makes his way into the war zone in the Middle East.

The new trailer shown at TGS hinted that Liquid has kidnapped doctor Naomi Hunter to hijack the SOP system and to lead an insurrection, although his motives aren't explained yet. It can only be assumed that he's trying to create the Outer Haven that Big Boss attempted to make; a utopia for soldiers, where they can battle forever without interference from forces such as politics.

LAWL, Kojima is such a hack. I'm still going to play the shit out of this though.

[Razor Ramon]

What is that bullshit?

[Port]

Par for the course.

[Compass]

More Boktai. pls.

[StriderKyo]

It can only be assumed that he's trying to create the Outer Haven that Big Boss attempted to make; a utopia for soldiers, where they can battle forever without interference from forces such as politics.

Is that seriously the motivation for the villains in this series!?

[AaronChance]

Is that seriously the motivation for the villains in this series!?

Fatman wanted to start a socialist state where free healthcare and roller skates would be available for all, but no one ever listens to Fatman. Poor Fatman.

[Andy]

And the answer is revealed. Notice the sticker on the bottom right...

So you paid six hundred dollars to sit on a system that you wouldn't play for a year, while feigning disinterest in it and losing out on one hundred dollars and like fifteen Blu-Ray movies? Nice job!

Then again, you did get a shiny copy of Talladega Nights.

[Schlep]

I bought 2 systems on launch day. One was sold immediately for $2100. The other I was holding onto until xmas, because the bottom dropped out fast. It never ended up going back up, and it just sat there in my closet for a long time. I was going to sell it, but then when I realized that I'd only be getting $350 or so for it off of eBay, I decided to keep it.