Hello GOG.com team and representatives of Konami,
thank you for this contest!
(I know, that it is a promotional campaign, but it also has its merits, since neither crowd-funding nor crowd-sourcing is anything new.)
Here is my contribution:
I am a huge fan of the CQC and knife techniques introduced with MGS3: Snake Eater , and its utilization in the final hand-to-hand fight with the Boss. Likewise, I do have fond memories of the interesting and honorable relationship between Ocelot and Snake throughout the game.
After rewatching two movies with Steven Seagal recently, namely "Under Siege" (from 1992) and "Under Siege 2: Dark Territory", I got the idea of what I would like to see in an upcoming Metal Gear game:
A more elaborated hand-to-hand knife fight!
How fitting, since the combat knife already was included in early foxhound emblems!
Like those depicted in those movies between Casey Ryback (former Navy SEAL played by Steven Seagal) and William Strannix (a maniac well played by Tommy Lee Jones) in the first or between Casey Ryback and Marcus Penn (Mercenary leader played by Everett McGill).
The Metal Gear series already had confrontations on buildings, ships, towers, moving cars, as well as on Metal Gear itself.
Hence, I have something in mind like a mission on a long train (similar to "Under Siege 2") where "Snake" not only has to deal with military or mercenary men both inside the train wagons and on top of the train, but also has to survive a sniper duel on top of the fast moving train while passing through various terrain types rairoad sections, featuring both altitude changes and turns on a cliff side, passing high bridges or tunnel segments in a mountain range.
Then, Snake has to manage to get to the front section of the train where he confronts the villain in a multi-staged close quarter hand-to-hand knife fight starting inside of one of the wagons/cabins, continuing through a couple of interiors before finally climaxing on an open train carrier wagon that transports a new metal gear (ready to be deployed) covered either by cloth or a mechanism.
The knife fight should be more involved, including various types of attacks and counter-attacks which utilize the current environment, and allows for set backs and recoveries on both sides. It should NOT be reduced to quick-time events! (Take a clue from the Boss fight in the end of MGS3: Snake Eater. Or maybe it would be interesting to see it being played in Virtual Reality, handling the army knife more or less directly!)
Regarding the appearence and personality of the villain, I tend more to the lunatic maniac similar to William Strannix (played by Tommy Lee Jones in the first "Under Siege"). The knife fight against Mercenary leader Marcus Penn (played by Everett McGill) in the second movie was a bit longer and more elaborated, but Marcus Penn was too disciplined and well mannered. (Most interesting quote fromthe character Marcus Penn: "Assumption is the MOTHER of all f#¿k ups.")
The maniac, William Strannix (Tommy Lee Jones), on the other hand was largely unpredictable and somewhat stuck in a long gone era.
Just take a look at the final conversation between him and Casey Ryback (Steven Seagal) surrounding their climactic knife fight:
-
-
Ryback: What made you flip like this?
Strannix: I got tired of coming up with last-minute desperate solutions to impossible problems created by other f#¿king people.
Ryback: All of your ridiculous pitiful antics aren't gonna change a thing. You and me, we're puppets in the same sick game. We serve the same master, and he's a lunatic and he's ungrateful. But there's nothing we can do about it. You and me, we're the same.
Strannix: Oh, no. No, no, no. There's a difference, my man. You have faith. I don't!
[knife fight]
Ryback survives: Keep The Faith... Strannix
-
-
(Seems quite fitting to the themes of the Metal Gear series!)
Regarding thd villain's name, something hinting either to the steel blade of the knife or to his unpredictable and lunatic personality... what about "Lunar Blade" or "Lunatic Efge", and his insignia would be a howling wulf in front of a large full moon.
Kind regards,
foxgog