Finally, the pre-order DVDs arrived to my local EBs today. Ahh, can't wait till beta for my first taste of MGS4 controls. But man, they couldn't have held it at an any worser time, right during my damn finals (21st to 30th, with my last one actually on the last day of exams). Gonna be so hard to focus...

http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/6519/dsc01283ke4.jpg

Interesting how under the terms and conditions they say that they'll accept entires till "11:59 PM PST on May 5, 2008." I mean what's the point in registering for one on the last day of the beta. Unless there's a hidden message there, eg. extended beta time like the PAL region is getting...

I heard a rumor that the beta is already available to download.

I heard another rumor that I will download it once I get off work.

The first part yes.
Second part.....maybe not. :p

What is it, a twenty minute long trailer or something?

New trailer! Apparently it's the one that came exclusively with the Japanese release of "I Am Legend" (which just happend to retail today).

Some old and some new spoilerish footage. Though, not as spoilerish as some might think, as it's something most of have expected to happen anyway. Oh, and the old footage, specifically the stuff from E3 2006, isn't rehash it's actually rendered in the current game engine (in otherwords slightly less pretty/ugly [take your pick] looking).

Biggest change I noticed was that Meryl's hair appears to be shorter now.

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/733/newmgs4t2hh0.png

YouTube - NEW Metal Gear Solid 4 Trailer April 2008
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That and they've tweaked Raiden's model to resemble how he looked in the E32006 trailer and the graveyard scene has been completely overhauled.

I mainly like how they got rid of the horrible filters that plagued the previous trailers making the game look much, much better.

Also looks like snakes beard will be changeable. The trailer is up on gametrailers but the image they used has snake with a full beard just like big boss and also I'm not sure but the first cemetery scene looks as if snake has no mustache at all.
Looks like they're going to change a ton of scenes from the trailers that were already revealed unless it going to happen like this:


Unless they just completely change the scenes from the trailers just to get it all hyped. Sorta like the trailers for advent children and in the end they didn't use or tweaked a lot of the scenes

or the whole snake-killing-himself is just a trick to make people confused, could just be a way to say something else... like snake is tired of it all and just wants the fight to end :(.

yeah I also think that the scene might be a trick thats why I said he "Tries".
Although the new scene in the trailer would be a very dramatic scene to do it but if he really does die, I'm betting it won't be the way he would want it (ie. shot through he head)

Snake has no beard in the game nor can you grow one. Gametrailers just took a user created wallpaper that was done around the time MGS4 was first revealed in 2005. He still does have the mustache during the graveyard scene which takes place near the beginning of the game.

Quick comparison collage of the new trailer compared to the old trailers found on the intaweb:
http://denshin.free.fr/junk/MGear.jpg

Does any one happen to know what language that theme of love song is in?

Ok, I just got a beta code for MGO. Is the beta no longer available for download from the Playstation Store? I can't seem to find it. Or, do you need the actual pre order DVD to be able to download it?

go into account management from the ps3 and redeem your code. the beta will then be added to your down load list. And make sure to make a konami ID

There's a whole other, dedicated, thread for discussing Metal Gear Online, I suggest you go post there with MGO related stuff.

Hebrew. Some of the lyrics go as..

YouTube Video

Fucking. Right.

That was a pretty cool video. I dont know if it was a joke or not but...if it wasn't...

I saw it earlier and it's interesting. I wonder if young snake will be controllable in a flashback or maybe it'll be a secret costume after the game is beat.
Anyways it was awesome to see shadow moses remade

It could be along the lines of what they did with:

yeah i was thinking about that too. All i know that once i play and theres a save option when he jumps in the helicopter i'm going to reset the game just in case

Well going from the TGS'07 trailer and the EDGE interview..


That sequence did look fucking excellent though.

Holy crap! That's pretty sweet!


EDIT:

BTW, anyone else kinda bothered by Meryl's new haircut? Maybe it's just the angles, but I liked it when her hair was longer. Can't help but think that this was their quick fix of the complaints about her hair being static.

Seems like alot of effort for just a dream sequence and Kojima mentioned in the EDGE interview that he wanted to take players back MGS1 or rather invoke strong memories of playing the game, which apparently was successful when he allowed former KCEJ members who worked on MGS1 to play MGS4.

I liked Meryl's longer hair too but in the new screenshots it doesn't look so bad:
http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/ar...2025214403.jpg

The screenshot and more new ones BTW came from IGN's new preview where 70 European journalists got to play a more newer and completed build of the game compared to the one that the US and Japanese journalists played in February:
IGN: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Preview

Also they're throwing out more PS3 bundles in Japan that come with MGS4 in regular black, white or silver colors:
http://i29.tinypic.com/2vk192h.jpg

http://i27.tinypic.com/20ho9yq.jpg

http://i25.tinypic.com/xaqn11.jpg

It looks like the regular JPN version gets the regular US boxart too.

Just incase this could be made out as a spoiler...





I'm ready for June 12th... like NOW.