“Kept you waiting, huh?” David Hayter said upon taking the stage at New York Comic Con this weekend. The panel got off to a slightly late start, but host Trent Cannon had a number of people to wrangle. The panel, entitled “Beyond the Codec: The Voice Cast of Metal Gear Solid,” had a host of actors. Jennifer Hale (Dr. Naomi Hunter), Christopher Randolph (Otacon), Tasia Valenza (Sniper Wolf), and Cam Clarke (Liquid Snake) joined Hayter for the retrospective.
The panel immediately kicked off with fan questions. One person asked about the cast’s favorite moments from recording, and Hale definitely had one. She had Hayter tell the story of recording Metal Gear Solid 4. Hayter related that during the scene when Dr. Hunter sees how aged Snake has become during his medical exam, Hale had the line “Oh, Snake…” which she said pityingly. Hayter started to improvise that it wasn’t that bad, so Hale responded, “It’s so shriveled!”
If that wasn’t enough, the line nearly ended up in the game. The Japanese team just assumed they were reading the script. Solid Snake “narrowly avoided becoming Shriveled Snake,” Hayter said, to laughter from the crowd.
The entire cast seemed to have a...
