Snake Actor David Hayter Doesn't Understand All Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid Story Either

Have you ever sat done a Metal Gear cut-scene and not understood what the hellhole conscionable happened? Turns retired you're successful bully institution — the eventual company, successful fact.

In an interrogation connected Fall Damage, David Hayter — the dependable of Snake from the archetypal Metal Gear Solid up to Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, on with the series' galore offshoots and spinoffs — revealed that, possibly similar astir of us, helium excessively has struggled to support up with bid creator Hideo Kojima's analyzable storylines.

"Do I recognize the communicative of Metal Gear Solid?" helium said erstwhile asked (thanks, FRVR). "Uh, basically, I do. Do I recognize each of it? Absolutely not.

"I’d beryllium like, ‘What does this mean?’" helium joked. "And they’d say, ‘Just accidental it.'"

That said, Hayter admitted that portion the stories tin beryllium hard to travel astatine times, they are what "makes Metal Gear, Metal Gear."

“There’s much information," helium added. "There’s much quality development. There’s much item to the communicative than you tin ever perchance absorb, nary substance however galore times you play it. That's what makes the satellite consciousness existent and affluent and lovable."

Hayter revealed past twelvemonth that helium had yet "forgiven" bid creator Hideo Kojima for not casting him successful 2015's Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain aft playing the "amazing" game.

At the clip helium was jettisoned for Hollywood movie prima Kiefer Sutherland, Hayter admitted that playing the crippled astatine the clip would've felt similar "60 hours of humiliation," adding: "I've got nary peculiar emotion for Kojima. I don't consciousness immoderate request to spell backmost and enactment with him again."

Now, with much distance, Hayer said: "There was reluctance. I didn't privation to play the crippled due to the fact that I figured it would wounded my feelings. Then, you know, 10 years went by and I was like, 'Ah, to hellhole with my feelings. What bash I care?' [...] I'm a screenwriter, truthful I get fired for a living, similar I literally, eventually, get fired from each azygous gig that I've got, and I'm not a child. "I was like, 'Stop being a babe and play the game.' So I played it. It's amazing."

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.