Metal Gear Solid Actor David Hayter -- "I've Got No Particular Love for Kojima"

Wow. Someone is bitter.

Let's face it, as iconic as the voice was, I don't think he spoke in a natural sounding voice. I feel he overacted. No one speaks like that. I really think someone else would have done a better job all those years.

Not saying that that person is Kiefer Sutherland mind you.

I think James McAffery (Max Payne) would have been a good Solid Snake. He can be edgy and gritty, and just the way I imagined snake would be.

I get it, but I don't think David needs to be hung up on it. His career is bigger than just the voice of Solid Snake. I'd say that now is a good time for him to move on. The MGS boat has sailed in most respects.

I always felt David Hayter is solid snake and solid snake without David Hayter is not solid snake. I still do feel like that, he was the voice of a legendary character. All of you bitching and complaining about David Hayter saying this that, should be ashamed and if anything you all should be in his side with all of this. Kiefer did a ok job with solid snake but that is to be expected he's not the real voice of solid snake and his not David Hayter. He's trying to fill the shoes of a voice that we all love for all this years and is not gonna be an easy thing for anyone to do.

He didn't miss much in the new game anyway. BB was a friggen mute with no emotion for the most part. I was actually happy Keifer was voicing BB but the way he was written made it a disappointment.

Imagine that. A guy named Hayter having no love.

This article makes me sad. Ill leave it at that.

""The whole thing could have been handled better and a little more respectfully, but I'm not going to cry about it."

Except the last year's worth of his twitter account has been passive aggressive grumbling about losing the VA job.

Considering voice acting was very much a side project hobby job, it's surprising he took it so personally. It's not like he's been blacklisted from screenwriting, his actual job.

Omg get over it!

for all the stink people made about this game, it really lacked in many ways with some very irrational gameplay oddities. Though I did find the story imaginative, if not somewhat drugged induced...

Kojima has a bad rep with the American VA and translators. I guess love didn't really bloom on the battlefield.

The little known truth? (MGS, VA, & translation)

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/197909-metal-gear-solid/65857081

I have nothing but love for David Hayter. The man, in my eyes (and many fans' eyes) is the true voice of Snake. Kojima is a genius, but I think he's a bit too infatuated with Hollywood celebrities, which is why he wanted Kurt Russell and Keifer Sutherland to play Snake. Hayter said it makes him sick to hear someone else play Snake, and | personally share that feeling. Snake in MGS5 just didn't do it for me, and that's a damn shame.

While I can see many, including myself, are not happy with the game and the new approach taken for the series, MGSV is still getting super positive reviews and appreciates from game reviewers and casual gamers. In fact, what bothers me the most is that nobody cares about what people say in comment sections such as this one. In other words, our voice will not be heard by anyone and it is us talking and exchanging views among ourselves, which is a pity.

I can hear people talking about The Division being so repetitive and boring, and that it does not deserve the tribute paid by reviewers; yet its sales have gone through the roof and I still hear people like Greg Miller calling the game "fantastic".I understand that it's a matter of personal preferences to find a game either "fantastic'' or ''monotonous''; but when you know that your voice will be heard by many, and that the words you use may affect people's choices and as a result the future of game developing (high sale rates of a bad yet wrongly appreciated game results in other developers taking the same approach for their upcoming games), I think it's wise to be a little bit more careful about what you say.

Damn.... Kojima trying to save money or what?

Who cares

I thought Sutherland did pretty good.. MGS 5 was a lot of fun.

Well the game sucked, especially the unfinished story. Some good gameplay mechanics but a very uninteresting and lifeless open world. And some really boring missions. And Snake barely speaks anyways. I did not see anything in the MGSV Snake that Hayter could not have done just as well. Where they not going to have some amazing facial capture or something that somehow Hayter could not do, and thus they needed some higher ranked Hollywood actor to convey the emotion needed to reflect his state of mind? Well I can't remember any moments where there where any special scenes from Snake in MGSV that showed much character and emotion. He was the most boring character in the game imo. Most of his involvement in the story was standing in the background with that stupid confused look on his face while someone else was talking.

And just to be clear, I am not saying that Keifer did a bad job as Snake, but Snake in the game was lame and there was no real reason to change the actor. I felt more emotion and character from Snake in MGS4 than I ever did with Snake in MGSV.

I can certainly feel with Hayter. It was an ugly way to end things by Kojima and Konami respectively after he gave life to such a characer and created such a fan-base. His voice-acting was together with Snake Eater and MGS4, quite unmatched in gaming in terms of character/personality.

To my understanding it was friction early on when Hayter demanded they was to be paid and paid properly for their time and effort. I believe it was explained by one of the other voice-actors in an interview on IGN a few years back when they interviewed the voice-crew of MGS4, that they did MGS1 pro-bono and MGS2 very low-paid. Again I could be confusing things with some other game, but to my understanding David was quite clear on that they should be paid for their time and effort. I believe Kojima and Konami disagreed with this.

- Again, I am too lazy to google for this vid/s in order to support my arguement but this is my vivid memory of the development of the Hayter-Kojima/Konami-relation.

Though I can't help but wonder why David speaks out about this now. though I don't see the context. MGSV is "old" now and all but forgotten in the gaming-world.

I felt ill too, didn't even bother to finish it. I basically trow that disc away. MGS TPP is not real MGS, not even close.

Harrumph

Lol. Don't be insulted homes. Kurt Russell was the original SNAKE! Escape from NY was the whole premise of Metal Gear Solid anyways.

As gamers we become fans of the various actors who play the characters we love, but this is something I completely understand. To us, David Hayter may be the real Snake, but we've always known what Kojima was bringing to the table. He's trying to create these epic cinematic experiences. To him, he wants a higher level actor. I'm not hating on Hayter, because I was always a fan, but I just get Kojima's mentality.

When you can, why not work with the people you want to work with? You shouldn't work with the same guy forever just because some fans expect it. I would always rather have what the dev wants. I just hate pandering. Give me your vision and **** anybody else. Hayter doesn't need Kojima and Kojima shouldn't feel forced to work with him when he wants a bigger name/more accomplished actor.

With that being said, I would take Hayter over anybody to play Snake, but it shouldn't be up to fans IMO.

Hideo comes across to me as being a bit of a pompous douche-bag.

Well, as a MGS fan I can say that MGSV aside from the gameplay and graphics was the worst of all MGS. I love Sutherland but Hayter was and always will be how I'll remember Snake.

What either Kojima or Konami didn't realize is that Hayter is Snake, like it or not...and replacing him is just a big mistake like Phantom Pain proved to all of us...thankfully that game wasn't heavy on Voice Acting, hopefully if Konami decides to keep going with the franchise, they will bring back the original Snake.

"David Hayter... The voice of a generation!" -From MGS4, 2008

Sutherland, wanted Kurt Russell (before motion acting was a major thing in games), Kojima has a fetish for TV and Movies we all know it. English isn't his main language, he doesn't know or care that they aren't as good as proper Voice Actors. I like Sutherland in real life, he was a waste of money in Phantom Pain.