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02-10-2010, 03:46 PM
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There's no doubting it any longer -- Snake, hero of the Metal Gear Solid series, is the best character of all time. So said the readers of Famitsu magazine, who voted earlier this year on which video-game hero (or anti-hero) they liked the most. Snake beat out such noted video game icons as Mario, Link, and even Final Fantasy VII's Cloud Strife (gasp!) to take the top spot.
"Snake was completely silent until Metal Gear Solid, simply because the [8-bit platforms] didn't let you do speech," commented Hideo Kojima, producer of MGS and the "father" of Snake. "In MGS, Snake became this sharp-tongued, Lupin III-like guy who flirted with women and told lots of jokes; again, that was a side effect of the new speech technology we had. Once motion capture entered the picture, we were able to give Snake a lot more active ability, because the technology allowed it. Hardware has advanced by leaps and bounds over the past twenty years, and Snake's changed his look, personality, and even age to match what the platform could do. He's literally been raised within the battlefield inside your game console."
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There's no doubting it any longer -- Snake, hero of the Metal Gear Solid series, is the best character of all time. So said the readers of Famitsu magazine, who voted earlier this year on which video-game hero (or anti-hero) they liked the most. Snake beat out such noted video game icons as Mario, Link, and even Final Fantasy VII's Cloud Strife (gasp!) to take the top spot.
"Snake was completely silent until Metal Gear Solid, simply because the [8-bit platforms] didn't let you do speech," commented Hideo Kojima, producer of MGS and the "father" of Snake. "In MGS, Snake became this sharp-tongued, Lupin III-like guy who flirted with women and told lots of jokes; again, that was a side effect of the new speech technology we had. Once motion capture entered the picture, we were able to give Snake a lot more active ability, because the technology allowed it. Hardware has advanced by leaps and bounds over the past twenty years, and Snake's changed his look, personality, and even age to match what the platform could do. He's literally been raised within the battlefield inside your game console."
The top 50 finalists in the Famitsu character ranking are as follows:http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/t-w-whwXnkeL4FYIA4PdUjx9gZY/0/di (http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/t-w-whwXnkeL4FYIA4PdUjx9gZY/0/da)
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