At IndyCon, voice actor Troy Baker asked Metal Gear Solid fans to “reserve judgement” on Kiefer Sutherland as Big Boss in The Phantom Pain.
“I love David Hayter, I love David, he’s a good dude and he’s Snake, but so is Kiefer,” Baker said. “And that guy showed up, rolled up his sleeves and got dirty on this game. So reserve judgement until you play it. You only have like two more months left and trust me it’ll be worth it.”
Baker — who also said at IndyCon that he wasn’t aware that The Last of Us 2 was in development — also defended Game Director Hideo Kojima.
“I can say this because he never will of himself. I look at Neil Druckmann as another Hideo Kojima, as another Ken Levine, as another Cliff Bleszinski, as another one of these guys that we will look back and go those guys are the reasons why I wanted to make a game, and I want to make a game like they did,” Baker said of Kojima.
“I respect him as a game maker, as really one of the first cinematic game makers that we had, someone that really understood in a very Sergio Leone spaghetti western way of making film in a game, and for giving us one of the greatest video game characters ever in the multiple iterations of Snake.”
Baker voices Revolver Ocelot in the upcoming game.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain will be available from 1 September on PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
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