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

Hayter was what made Snake great, he played it light, he made inside jokes, and he didn't take Kojima's nonsense script of US presidents dressing like octopuses seriously. Sutherland played it straight and more or less does what Sutherland always does which is fall back to his Jack Bauer character from 24.

There was little to no endearing factor to Sutherland's snake, aside from it being a straight Jack Bauer rip off, without the great Jack Bauer lines. Hayter made the role, cause Snake and MGS is a cheesy B-Movie written by a cheesy Japanese B-movie director, and Hayter understood this so he gave you a role that matched the cheesy source material. As soon as you put a serious no nonsense actor into a role where grown men ride fire unicorns, it all goes to shit.

The fact is Kojima is a low brow b-movie director, and Hayter understood this so he played it that way, and it worked.

It all falls apart when Kojima starts to try to be high brow, and starts trying make a serious game about serious issues with serious actors. Yet you still have men riding fire unicorns.

Hayter was the best Snake, cause he played it as a joke.

Kojima is a David Hayter.

Konami =/= Kojima.

The way this article is written makes it sound like he hates Konami and is confused with Kojima.

If so.. that's the biggest damn shame I've ever seen.

Hayter IS Snake. He, or any voice actor for an iconic character, can't be replaced; it utterly ruins the character. I haven't played MGS5 for (mostly) that reason.

While I believe Kurt Russel would have been awesome to have as snake considering Snakes persona was based off Snake Plissken from the Escape series. I thought that David Hayter did a phenomenal job as Solid Snake and Big Boss.

I'm really glad that David Hayter got to 'reprise' his role in Deponia: Doomsday.

This guy is so salty, he's running salt mines out of business.

Screw this..give us another Guyver!

Wow this is bulls, Hayter never even spoke with Kojima directly, and we all know there was internal strife in Konami, it could have dated back to MGS3 for all we know, and all of this is on hearsay, it could had just as well been someone trying to mess with both of them.

The curious thing is we hear about this now? This is propaganda against Kojima, gamespot journalists should be ashamed, now they are selling themselves not for scores but for trashing people.

I've never been a huge fan of Metal Gear Solid. I've played a couple of the games in the series casually, but he always did bring that iconic voice to his character and I can understand why that was hard on longtime fans of the series. I was the same way with Splinter Cell: Blacklist. Despite the game itself being amazing, their replacing Michael Ironside as Fisher's voice just ruined the entire experience for me. Like Marvel movies, their original casting was impeccable and you simply can't re-cast a character like that. If you're going to do away with your original actors, you need to retire their characters and introduce new ones.

Mr Hayter please don't leave the metal gear franchise I am a fan of yours and believe solid snake will return bigger and better remade or new mgs please dont leave.

Respect to Mr Kojima for a great game.

Kiefer hoenstly did nothing for me. I would have rather ended with Hayter, I don't care if Big Boss is a different person. Snake is a damn clone. Kojima obviously doesn't realise how much Hayter added to the role. It's the same like replacing Nolan for Drake in the last game.

Metal Gear would and could never be the same without David Hayter. He is such a nice classy guy and he carried the series vibe on his shoulders.

What Kojima did was disrespectful b.s from the start! Turns out it was going on for many years and games.

Kojima was ungrateful, disrespectful and self-centered (ego-maniac might add). He disregarded and went against the cries of MGS fans, with that dirty move.

His behavior and bad egocentric decisions had cost him - he got what's coming for him. I respected Kojima and supported him through the whole "A Hideo Kojima game" saga, but I never forgave nor forgot what he did with Hayter...

I wish the best of luck for David and hope to hear his VA work in future games.. Hopefully someone will pick him up to voice a main protagonist of a good Solid game.

If memory is correct Kojima stated exactly why he didn't want the same VA to do Big Boss who did Solid Snake. The only reason he let him do it in Snake Eater was due not having any other choice. Kojima's reasons made sense and are understandable. Not sure why Hayter seems to think this is some slight against him.

Kojima pushed him out without as much as a "See you later." Then Hayter was standing on the edge of a crater.

I can sympathize. Hayter, and I assume most of us, felt he had as much claim to ownership of the characters(s) of Snake as Kojima. He has been Snake for over a decade. So to just quietly drop him was a bit...tacky.

It's a shame those two didn't really seem to get to build a professional relationship, despite having worked on the same thing for over a decade. That's language barriers and an ocean to cross for you, I guess. I wonder if they ever actually even met?

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Or wait, never mind, just remembered Hayter speaks Japanese.

No wonder Kojima wanted to get rid of Hayter if he is this obnoxious.

"To hear anyone else's voice coming from Snake's battered throat, makes me a little ill, to be honest." Dat ego.

It is all correct and makes sense - replacing Hayter WAS the right thing, he was simply too over the top. But maybe just ask Hayter to make a different voice? He was able to.

What is wrong here, is how Kojima handled the matter - the guy has no heart, no manners, no honor, if Hayter is to be believed.