Kiefer Sutherland (left) having the Metal Gear plot explained to him. And my question is: If they were barely going to have Snake speak, then why not just bring back David Hayter-the voice actor who the fans already know, love, and whose voice has defined the character(s) for the last 17 years? After all, how much damage could his voice do to the plot if it's rarely even heard? And how much could Kiefer's voice have helped? However, I'm the one writing this so it's my questions that count. And I don't have much of a defense for it. Which probably leads the reader to ask: Then why do you seem so pee'd off? It wouldn't matter anyway if Hayter were there!
So, granted, even if Hayter had reprised his iconic part in the series (and the script were the same), we would've actually rarely heard him speak. ever (unless you count the MSX2 and NES days, when no one spoke).
The end result turns out to be that we have the first nearly mute Snake since, well.
The cutscenes in the game have been snipped to almost nothing, Snake hardly talks during the scenes that are there, and the codec is completely non-existent for the first time ever (there is a radio that you can call, but Snake never engages in conversations with it). With all this hoopla over Snakes voice, the buckets of money they must've spent on getting an A-list celebrity in to do it, we barely even hear the guy utter a peep. Speaking of Kiefer's Voice - Why Don't We Ever Hear It?