Metal Gear Solid 4 intro talk show...WTF?

[Capitalizt]

I just installed MGS4 on the PS3 and was treated to some strange talk show video...and pressing L1 and R1 changed channels to a bunch of other weird programs. Why were these never mentioned in any reviews? I thought I was losing my mind when I started flipping through these trippy channels...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAeSVxS9w8c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vItktZ2bKk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-vOzO9h5Ik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RqCvF6BSZE

Honestly what is the point of including them in the game?

lol?

 

[zerocool84]

Yea I was like wtf also but Hideo Kojima has done some weird stuff in the older Metal Gears as well so it's not out of line.

 

[biggestmuff]

Yeah, I thought they were dumb. I think they're just on the disc to showcase high definition video. It's slightly story related, but doesn't add to the main story line.

 

[Shadow Conception]

^I don't think they're in full HD (720p/1080i/1080p). I thought they had to scale them down a bit so they could fit on the disc.

Supposedly the full HD versions are on the bonus disc that came with the limited edition.

 

[Insane3D]

IIRC, when that scene was on my TV it was in 1080P mode...

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Sexy girls and tentacles. WOO

 

[CKDragon]

That must be some of that 50 gigs of essential content that makes the game so impossible to distribute on the DVD format...

 

[biggestmuff]

Originally posted by: CKDragon
That must be some of that 50 gigs of essential content that makes the game so impossible to distribute on the DVD format...

Don't forget about the data striping.

 

[imported_Imp]

My first two play throughts, I didn't even know that you could change the channel. It was on my third that I started button mashing and found that you could. I thought it was based on difficulty or 'new game' options...

 

[herkulease]

had to include stupid, pointless shit to fill up 50gb so Sony can try and pimp blu-ray. Kojima reported said he didn't have enough space with 50gigs and had to cut and compress things, I believe it was language tracks or something to that.

 

[Sadaiyappan]

You are truly in the mind of Kojima when you see those channels.