Osiris wrote:Nah, it's just because they had a lot more disc space and Kojima wrote the game without any constraints. The program and graphic data was only about 18MB combined. The rest was devoted to sound, and even after that they still had half the disc left. When it came time to port it, they realized it could never fit with all the added cut-scenes, plus I think Kojima realized he rambled on in parts (which is totally unlike him, I must say).
Totally unlike him to ramble, or totally unlike him to realize it....?
A sarcastic "yes" for the former, a serious "yes" for the latter.
In all honesty, though, I don't think he rambles in Policenauts. I think he could have kept all the original dialogue and text (provided he had unlimited space) and it still would've been fine. The details of its world and character interactions are all so interesting and entertaining that at no point did I feel frustrated. I'll be interested to see what you guys think.
snatcher1988 wrote:Yeah, the original version had the largest amount of dialog. Even wikipedia acknowledges that. It also had a few scenes not in any of the home console versions, although from what I read, one of the missing scenes was brought back in the Saturn version.
Henry Spencer wrote:
Spoiler:
Where Karen points a gun at Jonathan whilst he's on the phone, right?
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Charlie Johnson wrote:
Yeah, they even use Jonathans old PC98 character design in this scene and not the one from the 3DO and PSX versions.
shidoni wrote:
Objection! I want proof.
Charlie Johnson wrote:Sure.
Unfortunatly I don't have a screen of the PC98 at hand, but anyway, I guess that'll do.
That's Jonathan and Ed in the PSX and 3DO versions.
They both looked different in the PC98 version.
And that's the same scene from the Saturn version.
Ed looks the same as in the other console versions but Jonathan looks the same as he did in the PC98 version.
Osiris wrote:
I don't know if I'd say they use the old character design. It actually looks like the new one to me, apart from no cigarette in his mouth. But his jaw is still pointed, whereas it's rounded in the PC version.
Ahahaha! It took a while but finally here's the proof.
Okay, his mouth is a little bit different, but otherwise Jonathan looks almost identical in the Saturn and PC98 version.
Kojima games owned: Zone of The Enders Anubis: Zone of The Enders Metal Gear Solid Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Policenauts (PS)
Awesome How many people catch themselves holding a phone reciever like that, because after my first sight of it, I began to notice that I do it too. Maybe it's just the pic's effect on my subconcious, I dunno...
Favorite Game: Shenmue I, MGS, Snatcher, Zelda: Ocarina Of Time.
Kojima games owned: Metal Gear (NES) Metal Gear: Ghost Babel (GB) Metal Gear Solid (PSX) Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance (PS2) Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (PS2) Policenauts (Saturn/PSX/3DO) Snatcher (PC Engine/Mega CD) Zone Of The Enders (PS2) Zone Of The Enders 2: Special Edition (PS2) Super Smash Bros. Brawl; it counts, right? ;P
Kojima games owned: Zone of The Enders Anubis: Zone of The Enders Metal Gear Solid Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Policenauts (PS)