The former English-speaking face of Metal Gear Solid 4 talks about his duties on the game, the real reason Japanese gamers aren't buying the Xbox 360, and more.
SEATTLE--When Konami makes the next Metal Gear Solid game, Hideo Kojima won't the only noticeable absence on the development team. Earlier this week, word arrived that Ryan Payton had left Konami's Kojima Productions after three years.
Best known for his English-language podcast, Payton worked his way up from handling international coordination on Metal Gear Acid 2 for the PlayStation Portable to working as an assistant producer on Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Along the way he also earned credits on Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, and Lunar Knights. He increasingly found his role drifting from marketing duties toward more hands-on development work with Portable Ops and Guns of the Patriots.......
-By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot


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