Metal Gear Solid story is 'ham-fisted,' says David Jaffe
- Posted March 17th, 2009 at 12:33 EDT by Mike Harradence
- 45 Comments
Eat, Sleep, Play co-founder David Jaffe has listed Konami’s venerable Metal Gear Solid franchise as one of his favourite series of all time, though couldn’t resist poking criticism at it's storyline, branding the narrative as ‘ham fisted.’
“Metal Gear's one of my favourite series of all time, but if you really just strip the gameplay and the graphics out of Metal Gear and you just look at it as a story, it's a really ham-fisted, kind of cheesy story,” said Jaffe, during an interview with LAGTV.
He went on to observe that videogames industry tends to be heavily influenced by Hollywood films, adding, “It works great for Metal Gear, it makes Metal Gear a AAA game, but a lot of what ends up happening is we're so influenced by Hollywood in our industry that we end up making games that are so influenced by movies that when you acquire the rights to a video game and you say, 'What's the meat on the bones of this thing to turn into a film?' there really isn't a lot, because all we've done is make a game... our gameplay is really fresh and innovative, but look at Gears of War 2, one of my favourite games of the year, it's such a rip-off of Aliens, and those kinds of Michael Bay films, that it's not funny, from a thematic standpoint.”
Despite this, Jaffe admitted there are a few exceptions – games that possess a strong narrative may in turn lead to a successful movie adaptation, though went on to state it’s unfair to assume a good film will come from games, as “we don't have the stories to begin with.”
In terms of a film adaptation of God of War, Jaffe said he would personally like to see the project directed by Paul Verhoeven, who has previously worked on the likes of Total Recall and Robocop.
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blu-fighter
- 8:43am EDT - March 17th, 2009
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5th!!! haha I am the greatest poster ever!
I WIN! 5th post!!!!!!!!!!!
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KZ3000
- 8:48am EDT - March 17th, 2009
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Metal Gear can really be well made for doing a decent hollywood movie. but it needs to be more focuced on main characters than some secondary ones also.
Its very hard to produce a decent film based on a game.
I know its true that this movies based on games turn to be very disapointing.
I just whant that this movies get done right and not some made up crap like Final Fantasy Spirits Within or Resident Evil movie Triology...
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ed_winchester
- 8:49am EDT - March 17th, 2009
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I think a movie would be good but very hard to pull off.
It'd need to be dumbed down enough to appeal to a wider audience but without losing too much of the game's storyline.
The difficulty is deciding which bits of the story are the most important bits to squeeze into 2 hours. Wouldnt be an easy task.
Oh and then cast Ice Cube to play Snake
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sithdarkess
- 9:02am EDT - March 17th, 2009
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I rather see gears of war movies over metal gear solid. even though I'm a PS fanboy.
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SillyHatMafia
- 9:05am EDT - March 17th, 2009
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And God of War's story is any better? I dont care for any characters in the game besides Kratos, and even than only because he's a badass
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Xdeth
- 9:11am EDT - March 17th, 2009
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@ 1 why even post if thats all your going to say.... you people who put that are fing retarded and usualy add nothign of worth to the topic please dont waist our time or yours.
While there are some parts of the MGS story that make me think hmmm.... I liked it and didnt think it was as bad as Jaffe makes it out to be. As far as a movie, I've yet to see a movie based off a video game that has worked or made the fans happy. With an epic title such as Metal Gear, I doubt they would be able to pull it off without pissing the fans off.
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Mo-green28
- 9:17am EDT - March 17th, 2009
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Im thirteenth YAYAYYYAYAYYYYYYY
Anyways Metal Gear Serious is better than most movie series I ever seen. Jaffe needs to lay off that "stuff"
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subwaydesign
- 9:24am EDT - March 17th, 2009
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every single person other than Kojima can, and WILL ruin MGS if they make a movie.
anyway, this comment form appearing on random, making me refresh the page 20 times to be able to use it is becoming a problem :( hope you can get it fixed! i'm on firefox 3
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Stevie
- 9:34am EDT - March 17th, 2009
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I disagree. Its complex and intricate. Everything fits into place. MGS is the kind of writing you'd be made to analyse in school for symbolism etc. A movie adaption should be CGI like Advent Children as live action would fail fail fail and it won't have to be an easy watch for new people to the series and include all plot points but still get enough attention from the fans to make it worthwhile. Just like FF7 Advent Children.
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ElPulga
- 10:07am EDT - March 17th, 2009
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The things is that the movie industry is slowing down and they want anything they can get their hands to make some profit. See all the comic book movies that are appearing or the remakes of all cartoons. And now videogames they still dont get it, transitions are really hard to make. The story works fine in the video games. Tho this things have been going for quite a while. He should and the other producers come up with original ideas instead of being lazy and try to grab anything already made.
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