I don't get it.

tentaclesex

Yeah, Big Boss is a B.A.

tripleripus

yep that was pretty lame

rustingmiller

@spite_nihilo:
Alright.
I'll admit, I've never made a movie as like that one, but I've made this [benspants.com] and this [benspants.com] using After Effects (and another particle generator called Particle Illusion). I didn't write music or a script, but I'm also not trying to dump on this movie - it's pretty cool. The MGS music at the end and the shot of him in front of the moon gave me shivers like everyone else. I'm just saying that, from a visual/animation perspective, it's not terribly impressive.

tuesday

@Phoenicks: Are you being...sarcastic? If anything Dead Fantasy is the epitome of "nothing happening" and storylines thrown into whack for the sake of fan-service crossovers. Sure, the cinematography and choreography are top-notch (especially for the work of one person), but story telling is definitely not one of the series' strong suits.

Datheron

this was great, reminded me of portable ops

Zerglingrush

Nice graphical presentation, but it was written by a 12 year old.

Vodun

@tlozwarlock: Six years?

superbabyproject

MGS fans are already trained to nitpick. They really needed a MGS historian and proof reader.

nou_phabmixay

I know I'm the first to say this, but...awesome.

mackincheese

Awesome

laughingmangits

I think the sound was well done, but the art was kind of lazy. Voice acting was pretty decent. idk, looked a bit "amateurish" to me.

Jacob Pellegren

@tuesday: then you do it.

spite_nihilo

This was incredibly entertaining. All it did was showcase how cool Big Boss was, but thats just fine for a fan video. I really liked the art style here.

TheCleaningGuy

@worksintheory:

Irony's great, isn't it?

dunetiger reads kotaku, seems pleased

sex-target

It's possible to take out a tank even with grenades. Tank isn't that agile like in MGS! :D

You can destroy the track and wheels and then you can throw the grenade inside the tank. Then you have basically "destroyed" it.

I think that it's possible to destroy the engine too. It's not that well protected.

Al87

@Phoenicks:

Eh, you're not alone. The effort and work is definitely there, but I'm not so sure what they were trying to accomplish. The out-of-canon stuff doesn't bother me so much (I was much more restless about the super-Snake moments of Twin Snakes) but in general, I think it just needed a better writer. Even the comic by Ashley Wood wasn't so great, but the art was fantastic.

dunetiger reads kotaku, seems pleased

That was very well done, very metal gear like. Better than metalgear digital comics. Infact, better than most digital comics I've seen. This really reminds me that snake eater has the best soundtrack of all metal gear. I didn't think the music is that great in mgs4. Of course I never turn on the ingame ipod either.

karateka

@FightingChance: That's exactly what I thought when I saw them. Still, it's a fun story in the Metal Gear world.

madshrew

This post seems some proofreading.

worksintheory

Also; going in as Snake, with the risk of being captured and surviving, is still better than being shot in the crotch.

Jonn

Very nice, really good work.

Zeouterlimits

Mission Impossible 2 much?

Heitz

Reminds me of Mission Impossible II.

M

@Phoenicks: So you not only compare this to another subject entirely, you then claim that one of the most Epic bits of fanfiction is better? Please tell me you were joking.

Jonn

@sex-target:
"You're the shit Snake!"

buxton

I got goosebumps when the MGS theme kicked in. And i've never played any of the games. Maybe i should, despite my loathing for stealth games.

Stefanten

Does it bother any one else that all these places are using the MGS4 logo photoshopped into their own "projects" (game trailers did this for their MG retrospective as well).

The Ls in the logo are clearly 4s, it just seems silly to be using it everywhere and anywhere when it was so specifically designed.

Maybe I'm just nitpicky about typography.

Spenze

To nitpick further, the guard at the beginning of the short is carrying a FAMAS, a French assault rifle developed in 1978, six years after this "event."

tlozwarlock

It was ok, I guess. Not too exciting.

tenguman

wow. this is very very good. hope duogroup gets supported like how rooster teeth gets supported by bungie.

maraxusofk

@Hauler: I'll bet you dollars to donuts that snow was done using a simple particle emitter (or several) in Adobe After Effects or a similar program. In fact, the whole short could easily have been made in After Effects or pretty much any other motion graphics program, and I imagine it was. With a little research and a copy of After Effects you could probably do the same thing they've done here. All you need to know is how to set keyframes.

tuesday

well done. liked the twist at the end.

brooklynwolf

Best thing I've seen in a while, epic is the only word that comes to mind.

Fallible

Wow, that was very well done. Hope to see more!

exkon

@hemlock_martini: Lol I was gonna say Tony Danza myself....

MightyKAC

Wow, that was pretty damn good. Would love to see more.

JohAE86

@hemlock_martini: He was saving Max Weinberg from the post-WWII super-secret Jewish internment camps. Not even the soviets knew they were there.

Or fighting the corpse of Lenin with his bare hands.

P3nnst8r

What a remarkable piece of fan fiction! I really enjoyed it. The set up and presentation was amazing. I really stopped breathing when Tarasov shot what appeared to be Snake. Then the curtain was lifted. Definitely makes you think of MGS: Portable Ops doesn't it. Big Boss could afford such a loss... or many more. *wink*

-oG-ShAdY

@hemlock_martini: Glory Days!

superbabyproject

That was pretty cool. I liked the story and the animation of the snow was fantastic and I'm wondering what they used to animate it. The only thing I didn't care for was the character animation, or lack thereof. I can appreciate what they were going for, but the lack of movement takes away from it.

Hauler

I really love animation especially this well done. For a moment, I thought I was watching a trailer for Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops. Truly well done!!

mikes_stalker

**SPOILER**

Anyone else heard the codec call from Otacon to Snake where Snake is talking about taking out the tank with nothing but grenades? Otacon calls him something like the ultimate bad ass.

sex-target

@FightingChance: lol, dude.

Still, I thought it was awesome despite the flaws already mentioned.

Cigol

Completely awesome. Loved it.

bstarter29

Really awesome short. I had a smile on my face at the end :)

mfwahwah

Awesome! not Metal Gear Awesome, mind, thats a chapter for another day, but very well done. It's stuff liek this that make THE BOSS live forever.

Shiryu

Beautiful, just beautiful.

Let's hope no lawyers get cranky over it.

Daizzy

@Phoenicks: I agree, the art style was nice and all, but nothing really happened.

I'm not too concerned with canon, but I just felt like it was building up to something bigger than that ending. This is what I'd expect of a trailer at most :P

Schmatz

@Astrofox: I recommend, they are awesome.

riqued

A++ for effort. But for such a large project, some research is in order; the helicopters shown in the middle are clearly Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawks, which entered US service in 1979.

A nitpick I know but Metal Gear is pretty tightly intertwined with military detail.

FightingChance

Excellent! Very good!

freemonk

@Akmed: ooooh yeah shame about that little slip up :/

Can anyone recommend the digital graphic novels? Are they like this?

Astrofox

Somehow I feel like I'm the only person in the world who DIDN'T enjoy this short.
I mean, nothing happened, and the time this occurs directly conflicts with Les Enfants Terribles.
It's like web comics: what do people find enjoyable about this?

Now, Dead Fantasy... that's quality!

Phoenicks

Very well done.

gokieks

Please tell me this is cannon. For the love of all that is Hideo and Big Boss that this video is cannon.

sm_twinz

That was badass.

kumuasata

Wait...what was Bruce Springsteen doing in Russia in 1972?

hemlock_martini

@Akmed: I agree. This is a very nice fan film. I hope to see more like it!

Spoony Bard

i really liked this. but i think they mean the BIG BOSS. because it's 1972 and, well snake eater is in the 60's. soo yeah.....

really really well done. loved it.

Akmed

That was pretty awesome, it'd be nice if they made a series.

Deaf Mute

"that was COLD BLOOODED" - Chappelle voice

SnakeEyez

Nice. Am I the only one that hears Chappelle's Rick James "Cold Blooooded!" everytime I see/read phrase?

dabu

Completely awesome.

Alaron

Personally, I think the Boss is 10x cooler and more baddass than Snake, MGS3 remains my all time favorite game.. Tho mgs4 still rules its my 2nd fav :P

spargo_1

geez, that was amazing.

arkitex

That was cool. Well done.

Mav

I remember seeing this on Game Trailers website, it is really well done.

DranzerKire

@rustingmiller: Agreed.

Rorschach2112

Well that was def one of the coolet things I've watched in a while.

Green-clad Gamer Dude

@CaveHonkey: Funny, you sure troll like an 8 yr old.

CHU BOI

@spargo_1: /seconded.

@Phoenicks: which one was dead fantasy?

that was really cool & well done, but uh, what happened? big boss wanted something in there, so he forced a guy to skillfully infiltrate it, just to be shot so he could watch & laugh from a distance? man, that felt like kojima's writing, heh. still, awesomely done.

TheIrishNinja

This kind of crap was cool when i was 8 years old and still played with G.I. Joes. All I can say is that the whole MGS series is very cheezy. It is kind of embarrassing to see grown men getting all crazy about the "story line" in MGS. B-Movie stuff if you ask me, Just a notch above Uwe Boll.

It will be really interesting when someone can step in and make a real serious Cinematic Game. Hopefully Peter Jackson won't let us down.

CaveHonkey

Wow. That was spot on perfect. It was on par with Portable Ops, and that, in my opnion, is gold.

Karisu-Zero

Nice, it should be Big Boss, even if it's not canon, I still enjoyed it. You don't see many other fanfic for game characters.

zerokoolpsx

So, I guess Big Boss escaped through the chimney. How... badass?

Xiedo

Let me get this straight: in a game that features SUCCESSFUL HUMAN CLONING in the 1970s and GIANT WALKING ROBOT NUCLEAR LAUNCH PLATFORMS, we're arguing that they couldn't possibly have guns or helicopter designs (looks like a Soviet MI-8, to me) a few years earlier than they were rolled into service?

That seems a little odd, to me.

WizarDru

This is officially very bad ass. This makes me want to see a really well done anime for each entry in the Metal Gear Series, not a love action movie.

Sammo21

@WizarDru: You can, but it requires a 90 minute codec scene explaining the development of the weapons and how the Patriots/Syndicate forced Fox Hound Mulder to look for the Colonists in Soviet Russia, who were developing a hybrid alien vaccine which would eventually lead to the creation of Black Oil and FoxDie. The UH-60 was developed from secret alien technology that was found in UFO crashes which is why UH-60 kind of looks like UFO. The FAMAS was actually a secret research project of DARPA until Charles DeGaulle (The Boss's Boss) infiltrated the Pentagon with a magnetic tape containing an alien transmission containing the plans for the FAMAS assault rifle. Due to the inadequacies of French computer analysis, they sent it to the Soviets who decoded the message and then began using the prototypes in cold weather units.

sovietspartan

Lame, there's no animation in it other than the snow. Too many still frames and no actual movement. WeakSauce. Do some real animation instead of the art substitute, afterEFx milking, trash.

Striderhayasa - Phillyyakk on PSN and Live.

@tuesday: i dunno, i don't think it's really impressive from any perspective. bad animation, poor artwork, nonsensical narrative. it was just kinda bad.

adaorardor

@Astrofox: The digital novel is fucking awesome. Also you should get it in Hardcover format while its still available (its expensive but worth it if you into the mythos). I have the second book in paperback, but never recieved the first book before they started reprinting it as one hard cover book.

One word of warning, Ashley Woods style is very um watercolorish? Its not as sharp a drawing style as you might be used to.

[www.beadesigngroup.com]

sovietspartan

I absolutely hate all forms of fan fiction and fan art. I'll keep my opinion short. I didn't like it.

GunSavior

Yeah the animation/art is bad but the story is good. As long as the story is solid, that's all that matters.

HoxtonHero

"Did you ever stop to think about how the enemies that Big Boss and Solid Snake see their nemesis?"

wat?

yflow

that was a horrible decision to slowly truck in and truck out quickly. it's unneeded, confusing and it just looks tacky.

that's a storyboard No-no.

ruba-dub-dub

@CHU BOI:
That doesn't make sense. We need to get rid of this word "troll". It seems like the default comeback to post if you don't agree with someones comment. You have therefore validated my comment. If it was invalid then you would have proven me wrong.

CaveHonkey

Epic. I REALLY hope another MGS game is made w/ Big Boss as the protagonist.

argh

Eeh. It was alright, but it felt like something I could have done, if I was given an artist and sat down with the guy in front of after effects and premiere for a couple of weeks.

D:

TheLAG

Feels a little like those commissioned Penny Arcade comics. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

eoaa

@TheLAG

could have, would have. but did not. so shut the trap.

mypetridish

awesome...
pure awesome

mastergamer1213

@mypetridish: Well said.

XeroKool

@CaveHonkey: Shiet man...if you don't call mgs the most cinematic game ever created so far, you won't ever see one. Seriously. I have yet to see a game that deep. If they can make the transformer into a movie, they can do a lot with MGS for sure.

karateka

Thanks a lot Kotaku! Now I have to go change my pants! I hope you're happy!

lightweaponx

Mission Impossible II.

:D

xCruciaLx

So this is basically a tribute to MGS? Cool.

Maybe Hideo Kojima should go have a talk with the folks at Square Enix about how to treat fans who put in long hours to pay tribute to their work, and maybe we can have our Chrono Trigger Resurrection back.

Draylorn

@karateka:
I didn't say it wasn't cinematic. I am implying that the story is completely ridiculous. If someone is going to spend that much time creating a cinematic gaming experience, then maybe they should have a script that isn't written by a 12 year old. The nemesis is called "Big Boss" the main character is called Snake. Pa-lease! The extremely long cut scenes are painful to sit through. If my girlfriend walked in on me while I was playing it, I would feel very embarrassed.

I usually give a lot of slack to goofy story lines in games but I am tired of sony fan boys posting about how epic this is. I am not very far into the game but from what I've seen so far and heard of what is to come, I cringe.

CaveHonkey

@tuesday: Yeah that's what I assumed. I'm actually a part time animator and have focused mostly on Adobe Flash. I've dabbled with After Effects, but I haven't set down to learn the program.

Hauler

@CaveHonkey: first up, you gotta give that snake & big boss come from the 80's. it was a more forgivable time for such things. see: american ninja, the body of dolph lundgren's work, etc.

second up, yes, its melodramatic, hokey sci-fi that goes batshit crazy at times, but honestly, have you played any MGS past 1? that's how it goes, you either love kojima's insanity or you dont, long-ass-cutscenes-badly-in-need-of-editing be damned. but by god, you shouldnt let your girl shame the fun out of it. totally going on a limb here, but id put a dollar on her liking something much crazier that doenst have nearly as much fun with its plot.

TheIrishNinja

Pure Amazing.

Raziel Dune

jesus christ that is boring. Do you guys really think this crap is awesome or are you just saying that because it's supposed to be Metal Gear? Because let me tell you, I've played Metal Gear and this is no Metal Gear.

stfufools

That was really good! Great job :D

Reetesh

Epic goosebumps from the mgs theme. As always :}.

Jilkon