This whole doc is super cool and also funny as fuck.
My favorite bit is right at the beginning:
Title
Metal Gear Solid III
Written as MGSIII for short. The three Roman numerals symbolize the three tallest skyscrapers in Manhattan, the setting for the game.
Instead of proceeding on to MGS2, as one might expect, we are making MGS3. The question in peoples’ minds, ‘Why is it 3 and not 2?’ will have a big impact.
Konami did not let my man breathe. That would have been amazing though if they called it 3 in all the marketing without explaining why. He probably had a kooky idea to make a sequel to a game that never got made, or mess with the idea of sequels in general. MGS2 is already like that. It subverts the player's expectations by suddenly introducing Raiden, and purposefully reiterates the plot beats of the first game.
This whole doc is super cool and also funny as fuck.
My favorite bit is right at the beginning:
Konami did not let my man breathe. That would have been amazing though if they called it 3 in all the marketing without explaining why. He probably had a kooky idea to make a sequel to a game that never got made, or mess with the idea of sequels in general. MGS2 is already like that. It subverts the player's expectations by suddenly introducing Raiden, and purposefully reiterates the plot beats of the first game.