This is (sadly) a "woke are more correct than the mainstream" moment.
Watch a lot of media from the late 90s/early 00s, and something feels "off" compared to today. And it's doubly weird because the aesthetics still feel somewhat contemporary since our culture is largely "stuck". But there's certain themes in shows and games made in that era that are simply off-limits today, and it's so obvious even the normie shitlibs pick up on it.
I recently rewatched Buffy (1997-2003), which was an extremely girl power heavy show for 20 years ago, and there are characters who call people retarded and make gay jokes. One of the ways you can tell a certain character is a really dangerous bad girl rebel is she has a single small tattoo on one arm.
I'm rewatching a show that ran from 08-13 (Fringe), and I keep having to recheck when the show ran. I will watch a scene and forget that the show is over a decade old, because the clothing and cars haven't changed styles.
>Warning: Several of the conspiracy theories depicted turned out to be true.
But seriously, they're probably just upset at Mei Ling's chinese accent again. They even removed it for the Twin Snakes remake in 2004. It's not even played for laughs or anything, she just has an accent.
They could have just used the same audio from the PS1 game for Twin Snakes, but here's the thing...
The PS1 game's audio was all recorded in a rush, in a bare-bones apartment building that had barely any soundproofing.
Were they to just reuse the same raw audio files, the GameCube's superior audio hardware meant the player would have been able to hear the traffic outside.
So EVERYTHING had to be re-recorded.
Hayter, to his credit, cut his own usual rate in half so they could afford to bring back every single actor to reprise their roles--yes, even Mei Ling was voiced by the same woman, she just chose not to do the accent for whatever reason.
The one exception was the Cyborg Ninja voice, who was now being done by the legendary Rob Paulsen, though the original actor still kept his other role of the DARPA Chief.
And besides, the Mei Ling character was born and raised in America. There is no reason she should have a Chinese accent.
Given that most of the voice acting in the game was supposed to have taken place over covert radio comms, perhaps they should have kept the poor quality audio to add to the realism.
Briefly listening to the CODEC calls from both games, the PS1 calls sound like what you'd hear from a radio, and the TS calls...don't.
The PS1 CODEC calls sound comparable to what I get from my modern cell phone, which is pretty good considering the game was supposed to have taken place in the early 00s.
she just chose not to do the accent for whatever reason
Can't say you're wrong but I find it hard to believe they'd leave that up to the actress. Surely they had a director? At the very least I'm blaming at least two people.
That at least tracks with a Japanese company doing Japanese things. Multiple of my favorite franchises have all their best shit as Japanese only arcade games.
Pretty sure The Patriots as outlined by Fake Colonel are more relevant than ever. And I've never even played Metal Gear.
This. Metal Gear Solid isn't outdated, it's fucking prophetic.
This is (sadly) a "woke are more correct than the mainstream" moment.
Watch a lot of media from the late 90s/early 00s, and something feels "off" compared to today. And it's doubly weird because the aesthetics still feel somewhat contemporary since our culture is largely "stuck". But there's certain themes in shows and games made in that era that are simply off-limits today, and it's so obvious even the normie shitlibs pick up on it.
I recently rewatched Buffy (1997-2003), which was an extremely girl power heavy show for 20 years ago, and there are characters who call people retarded and make gay jokes. One of the ways you can tell a certain character is a really dangerous bad girl rebel is she has a single small tattoo on one arm.
I'm rewatching a show that ran from 08-13 (Fringe), and I keep having to recheck when the show ran. I will watch a scene and forget that the show is over a decade old, because the clothing and cars haven't changed styles.
The most significant style change in probably 15 years is the mainstreaming of skinny jeans/khakis. Those are an immediate tell something is modern.
>Warning: Several of the conspiracy theories depicted turned out to be true.
But seriously, they're probably just upset at Mei Ling's chinese accent again. They even removed it for the Twin Snakes remake in 2004. It's not even played for laughs or anything, she just has an accent.
David Hayter talked about this.
They could have just used the same audio from the PS1 game for Twin Snakes, but here's the thing...
The PS1 game's audio was all recorded in a rush, in a bare-bones apartment building that had barely any soundproofing.
Were they to just reuse the same raw audio files, the GameCube's superior audio hardware meant the player would have been able to hear the traffic outside.
So EVERYTHING had to be re-recorded.
Hayter, to his credit, cut his own usual rate in half so they could afford to bring back every single actor to reprise their roles--yes, even Mei Ling was voiced by the same woman, she just chose not to do the accent for whatever reason.
The one exception was the Cyborg Ninja voice, who was now being done by the legendary Rob Paulsen, though the original actor still kept his other role of the DARPA Chief.
And besides, the Mei Ling character was born and raised in America. There is no reason she should have a Chinese accent.
Given that most of the voice acting in the game was supposed to have taken place over covert radio comms, perhaps they should have kept the poor quality audio to add to the realism.
Briefly listening to the CODEC calls from both games, the PS1 calls sound like what you'd hear from a radio, and the TS calls...don't.
The PS1 CODEC calls sound comparable to what I get from my modern cell phone, which is pretty good considering the game was supposed to have taken place in the early 00s.
In the industry, these are what are known as lies. Up there with the "we accidentally made Lara's boobs to big" story from Tomb Raider 1.
"You lie" is not an argument.
Here's the David Hayter interview. Still calling me a liar?
I am not calling you a liar. I am saying that you have been told lies.
And you provide no evidence to counter. Just accusations.
I backed mine up. You?
He didn't call you a liar you retard.
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it was mean, but I think the real problem here is on the communication.
Can't say you're wrong but I find it hard to believe they'd leave that up to the actress. Surely they had a director? At the very least I'm blaming at least two people.
Kris Zimmerman Salter
How many more re-releases until she's replaced with a sassy black voice actress?
That will be in the Netflix edition.
Its Konami. The literal first thing they did with Metal Gear once Kojima was kicked was rape its corpse before it even went cold with MG Survive.
Anyone who still even remotely gives them money for the series deserves to get shit on like this.
Do not forget the pachinko remake for Snake Eater. Probably an even bigger punch in the face of you ask me.
That at least tracks with a Japanese company doing Japanese things. Multiple of my favorite franchises have all their best shit as Japanese only arcade games.
Carddass can suck my card ass