English version of MGS 4 tougher than Japanese release
- Posted October 23rd, 2007 at 05:31 EDT by Mike Harradence
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Konami has revealed that the English release of its PlayStation 3-exclusive title Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots will be noticeably more difficult than its Japanese counterpart.
Speaking during an interview at the inaugural E for All expo last weekend, Assistant Producer Ryan Payton explained that Japanese gamers are more reluctant to explore the uses of the games 3D camera; an aspect that he observes is more popular among western consumers.
“It's going to be harder than the Japanese version, I can say that right now. That over the shoulder view is going to be, I hope, the focal point!” said Payton. “I want to make that the default setting, and then people can turn on auto-aim later if they want to. I think that auto-aim takes away from the intimacy of the battle.”
“The reason we put that in there was because at TGS I noticed that when Japanese gamers would play, they would pick up the PS3 controller, and their right thumb would never go even go close to the right stick”, he continued.
“They would never manipulate the camera. It's still something that they need to learn about this full 3D camera system. Games like Onimusha and Resident Evil have always kind of held their hands through games with fixed cameras and things like that.”
Metal Gear Solid 4 is scheduled for simultaneous worldwide release in Q1 2008.
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alchemyuser1 |
alchemyuser1- 4:32pm BST - October 23rd, 2007
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by harder hope they mean A.I because from gameplay vids the enemy did not look like they would make it hard for you to shoot them in the head (RFOM) was a great example of next gen A.I. responsive enemies. the chimera made the extra effort by flanking and things like that. hope that Kojima goes beyond that and makes an even more difficult, fun game.
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InfernoReaper |
GrimDarkling- 2:38am BST - October 24th, 2007
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I like free roam cameras, but on a game like this, you almost have to have one.
I'll say though that God of War had a great fixed camera system.
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GreyFox666 |
GreyFox666- 4:24pm GMT - December 31st, 2007
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if it's true what they say, June 18th is too far away... the suspense is killing me...
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FlameDragoon |
delikaizer01- 4:58pm BST - June 5th, 2008
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Ka1ser, you obviously play nothing but FPS. You sound like such an xbot.
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