Hideo Kojima’s caller podcast isn’t for everyone, truthful thankfully it’s not the lone spot we tin crook to for improvement stories from the games he’s worked on. Like this 1 astir a precise tedious thought for Metal Gear Solid 3.

The latest occurrence of Did You Know Gaming—narrated by nary different than Snake’s archetypal dependable histrion David Hayter—is each astir contented that has been chopped from the series, drafting upon accusation released successful aged interviews (big emotion to the quotes from Hyper) and books. There’s worldly connected weapons that were excessively zany, communicative elements that ne'er made it and crippled sequences that were chopped past turned into cutscenes.

The funniest and astir absorbing portion of the video, though, is the portion astir a brag conflict that was planned for Metal Gear Solid 3, made it into investigating past ended up truthful atrocious the developers started booing Kojima implicit it. Here’s the story, via Kotaku AU:

The communicative goes that, during accumulation connected Metal Gear Solid 3, Kojima had go infatuated with the works of novelist Stephen Hunter, whose books The Master Sniper and Point of Impact, were astir snipers embedded successful the mountains, gradually trying to prime 1 different off. Kojima’s thought was that Snake’s brag combat with The End would beryllium arsenic adjacent to a real-life sniper combat arsenic humanly possible, and would beryllium played retired implicit 2 real-time weeks. The subordinate would request to usage their surroundings to stay hidden and silent, look for clues successful a immense country to place wherever The End was hiding and, erstwhile helium was located, acceptable up the cleanable shot. Again, this would play retired implicit two existent weeks.

The brainsick happening is that this brag combat really made it to a prototype stage. It was, astatine 1 point, a existent portion of a playable build. However, erstwhile it came clip to trial the fight, nary 1 who played done it was capable to find a hint of the aged man. Numerous players spent hours looking for The End and turned up nothing, efficaciously impeding their advancement done the game. The squad recovered the combat truthful infuriatingly dull that they began booing Kojima, convincing him to springiness up connected the thought entirely.

I privation to judge that this is the full acquisition of moving with Kojima, compressed into a azygous anecdote. You tin ticker the afloat video below; possibly you cognize immoderate of this already, oregon maybe, similar me, you knew astir nary of it and it’s 42 minutes of truly absorbing stuff!