Yeah I find that so impressive. And it's well-written by the game's creators too. I'm glad I finally got around to reading it a couple years ago, I had always skipped past it before that. Thanks for listening!!
Just want to say I really appreciate all the kind words and support. It's nice to see so many Metal Gear fans, and I'm so glad to hear that so many of you enjoyed the audiobook 😀
Really appreciate the voices you making, especially Natasha's and Frank Yeager's, the last one in particular. Kinda sad that everyone remember him not even as a Gray Fox but as Cyber Ninja, the man was a legend, great character.
I had never in all my years of playing the MGS series got around to reading this. Thank you so much, like others have commented the voice acting was super.
I really appreciate that! I was the same, I've played MGS at least a half dozen times over the years but only recently did I sit down to fully read this book in MGS2. And I loved it! The story inspired me to try my hand at bringing it to life 😀
I'm glad you think about it the same way. That was a big decision for me when starting the project- I had to decide if I'd commit to an accent for essentially the entire book, and wanted to be sure I could do it justice
How cool would it be if nastacha's voice actress could read her own audiobook ^^ Also its amazing thinking back to her character in the game being only a minor side character and how you can play through it and never even meet her makes her account even that more impactful call coming from someone on the sidelines of the entire affair in the series but over seeing everything thats going on and being just as much in the line of fire as the main characters, both in the events of the games and in her early childhood years
I'd love to see that! Maybe in a MGS remaster? (fingers crossed) That's a good observation too. I was fascinated by the learning the process they go through to contact and monitor Snake in this book. It's a side we definitely never really get to see
Damn it's so fascinating to hear the perspective Nastasha got in all of this. You barely talk to her during MGS1 but now knowing she heard everything and the conversations you, the player, weren't privy to is mindblowing.
I agree. After first reading this book it shot up to become a major part of how I view the series. It reminds me of the cassettes you'd get in Peace Walker / MGSV, where they offer such a huge amount of insight into the character motivations, but they're totally separate from the gameplay
Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed! I'm very sorry to hear about your cousin though, it sounds like he had great taste ❤ I still remember the first time I was introduced to these games by my cousin as well. Special memories for sure.
Thanks for reading this out! I remember being a kid and straining the hell out of my eyes trying to read the small text of these books off my CRT TV back in the day. Pretty cool that they included 3 in-universe books of varying lengths in for mgs2. God I wish there was a way to increase the text size back in the day, but this is a great way to re-experience this. I know this must've taken you a hell of a long time to make, but I can't help but hope you'll get around to the other two one day! I remember the one about the peanut butter obsessed reporter to be surprisingly entertaining and nobody ever seems to talk about it (If I'm remembering correctly, he disguised himself as a fish to get onto Shadow Moses Island so no one would notice him, man it got weird lol)
Thank you for the kind words, it was a labor of love and I had a great time making this. But yes!! The peanut butter conspiracy theorist book is so much fun. That's definitely on my list of to-do books in the future 😀
Really enjoyed this!! Discovered at a perfect time- I happen to have spent the last week down n out with covid and decided to replay the metal gear series. Had this suggested on my recommended page. What a treat! And your voice acting was SUPERB and immersive. Thanks a ton for your work!
Thank you so much! Sorry to hear you were sick, I was just recently laid up with covid as well. Definitely not fun. Very glad I could help give you a distraction!!
@@BooksinGameshey I got a few questions about the shadow Moses incident 1. Why did the government hide the fact that nothing happened there? 2. When liquid snake threatened to launch a nuke was the public aware or was it kept secret? 3. What happened to the employees and guards working at Shadow Moses the genome soldiers what happened to them? 4. If solid snake was sent there to assassinate the foxhound members does that mean the mission was planned and we did all that for nothing?
Yes haha! He doesn't like the book because he's not mentioned 'favorably' in it 😅 That's one of my favorite things about this book, is that the book itself is canon within the universe, because it's written from a specific character's perspective
Yeah I'm interested to see what Jordan Vogt-Roberts does with the movie. I'd like to see the original Metal Gear 1/2 represented in there personally. But at the same time it would be cool to see them depict something that hasn't been in any of the games, like what Snake & Otacon did between MGS1/2 setting up Philanthropy and hunting other Metal Gears
Listening to you is a complete pleasure! А русский акцент, будто котик промурчал. I really liked the accent! it's not caricatured and similar to Natasha's accent, but more gentle. Thank you very much for your work!
That means a lot for you to say so! It was important for me to try and be true to the character in my own way, and I hoped the accent would work. Спасибо!
Thank you as well! And it's funny, I looked for it over the years too, and was surprised nobody made one. Then eventually when I started making audiobooks, I thought, "Why not me?" 😀
@@BooksinGames well you did a damn good job. Ames was always one I wish they went a little deeper with. With him being in 2 and then ITDOSM it always made me wonder what his real back story is. Maybe just maybe in MG6 we will get a story of him.
I’d give anything to become a voice actor. No clue where to start. Good at doing assorted voices as well as general acting in the sense of delivering lines in a convincing as well as engrossing manner. But don’t know what to do to apply that skill set to something.
If you really want to be a voice actor. Here you go. Get a good mic. I use a rode NT USB. Get a closet and clean it out. Go to Amazon get sound proofing foam, should be cheep. Open closet, get black out sound proof curtains also cheep. Use the free program audacity. Make a profile on casting call club. And get auditioning. This is your opportunity. Will you take it ?
@@Mattm182 I would also recommend becoming an audiobook narrator. Audible has a platform called ACX where you can get matched with books that are looking for narrators. I've been published 3 times so far as an audiobook narrator on Audible and it's been a great experience so far!
Nice! Thanks for this! I read this to my little brother years ago after unlocking the book after beating MGS2 Substance. I read it to him in one sitting which took hours lol. Been wanting to go back to this for years so thanks for doing this! Much more convenient😁👏🏾
Love that memory, thank you for sharing. You're a good sibling to do that for your little brother. My brother and I used to play MGS2 all the time together as well. We didn't have a memory card for our PS2 in the beginning so we just played the Tanker level over and over and over again haha
@@BooksinGames 😂That’s funny, cause when I had bought MGS3 knowing I was going to get the Fat PS3 that had PS1-3 backwards compatibility, I would give that to my brother to play. He just had a PS2 at the time so he could play his old PS1 classics, and get some games he wanted for PS2. He had a Xbox 360 at the time, so he mostly played that. Anyway since he just got the old PS2 Slim for his B-Day he yet to buy a memory card so one day it took him about 15 hours to beat MGS3 without turning off the system😂 Even worse we didn’t know about the cheats to beat The End, so my brother was telling me it took him like a couple hours to finally beat him😂 The MGS series is full of great memories, and that’s one of the reasons this franchise is my favorite of all time when it comes to games🏆
@@SuperMario1990 Oh wow the marathon playthrough! That's impressive haha. Yes definitely though, this series spans so many console generations and has grown up with us. I'm very thankful for all the amazing moments
Thank you for reading this! I never got around to reading it and I thought it would be a good idea it being the 18th anniversary of the Shadow Moses incident. March 1, 2005. The sons of the boss took over the weapons disposal facility. It gives me chills thinking about it. I love this storyline so much! Thank you again!
Haha good catch about Jaeger/Yeager. This transcription came from the game, where they probably got the American spellings mixed up. According to Wikipedia, Yeager is an alternate spelling of the German name Jaeger. Fun fact as well, Jaeger means "hunter" in German, so Naomi used the same origin as Jaeger when choosing her identity's last name, Hunter 😀
As for Dr. Clark, I've always wondered about that as well. The way I figure it, Naomi never actually saw her (Naomi only covered up the tracks of the incident), and so she just assumed Clark was a man. Of course, the real reason is that Kojima hadn't written Para-medic into the canon yet in 2001, but I like thinking of it as Naomi's error. Then it still fits in canon!
Umm AcTuAlLy Nastasha is Ukrainian which means she has a Ukrainian accent. Therefore he's doing a Ukranian accent. Show some respect for Ukraine👀 I'm mostly being light hearted here haha or am I?👀👀👀👀👀
I've read this a few times on the game and I'm so happy someone took the time to record it. Thank you so much! The accents are a great addition, although I must admit the Russian/Ukrainian accent got a little bit much for me. Would of been great to only have Natasha's voice when she was talking to Richard Ames, as opposed to the narrator as well, but that's just me. My favourite part is in chapter 46, only because when the speculate about Dr Hunter, that she could be working for another organisation..... Now I always interpret that as being the La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo (dam nanomachines 😄) but what's I like more is this conversation was also in the game, it makes me wonder if Kojma had planned the La.. Patriots 🙃 even before the sequels began. It shows a man really at the top of his game (pun not intended) and shows how much depth there was to this story.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed! And I appreciate the feedback. The foreshadowing is definitely interesting, it's so impressive to see how these games manage to fit together.
@@BooksinGames Since 1997 MGS is my favorite game ... I still have a copys on black and white from a magazine talking about the history of the game 😗. Regards .
I always thought this was a cool way to handle the 'Previous Story' section in MGS2. Instead of a normal summary, they wrote a whole novel. Now that's going the extra mile! 😅
If you can get a Russian copy of Metal Gear Solid 2, it should have this entire story written in Russian. I'm not sure if it's transcribed anywhere online though. Если вы можете получить русскую копию Metal Gear Solid 2, вся эта история должна быть написана на русском языке. Хотя я не уверен, есть ли он где-нибудь в сети.
I listened to this audiobook during my work recently (I work in a office and audiobooks help me not pass out from sheer boredom) and I really like this perspective of the first MGS game! I love hearing the outsiders view of the adventures of solid snake and hearing the political nature of the world building in the background still in full force and having it build up to the other games and outright reference them! I really like it! Amazing job!
Loved all of this the fact that they literally created a book a real life published book to go hand in hand with Metal Gear Solid is so bad ass
Yeah I find that so impressive. And it's well-written by the game's creators too. I'm glad I finally got around to reading it a couple years ago, I had always skipped past it before that. Thanks for listening!!
They even reference the book in MGS2, so it is actually Canon to the games
Man if you think this is impressive, just qait until you see Harry Potter or assassins creed
Entire series of books to accompany the games and movies
Just want to say I really appreciate all the kind words and support. It's nice to see so many Metal Gear fans, and I'm so glad to hear that so many of you enjoyed the audiobook 😀
Really appreciate the voices you making, especially Natasha's and Frank Yeager's, the last one in particular. Kinda sad that everyone remember him not even as a Gray Fox but as Cyber Ninja, the man was a legend, great character.
I had never in all my years of playing the MGS series got around to reading this. Thank you so much, like others have commented the voice acting was super.
I really appreciate that! I was the same, I've played MGS at least a half dozen times over the years but only recently did I sit down to fully read this book in MGS2. And I loved it! The story inspired me to try my hand at bringing it to life 😀
In times past when I read this I would try to read it in Nastasha's voice. Glad to hear this in audiobook form.
I'm glad you think about it the same way. That was a big decision for me when starting the project- I had to decide if I'd commit to an accent for essentially the entire book, and wanted to be sure I could do it justice
How cool would it be if nastacha's voice actress could read her own audiobook ^^
Also its amazing thinking back to her character in the game being only a minor side character and how you can play through it and never even meet her makes her account even that more impactful call coming from someone on the sidelines of the entire affair in the series but over seeing everything thats going on and being just as much in the line of fire as the main characters, both in the events of the games and in her early childhood years
I'd love to see that! Maybe in a MGS remaster? (fingers crossed) That's a good observation too. I was fascinated by the learning the process they go through to contact and monitor Snake in this book. It's a side we definitely never really get to see
"YOU'RE PRETTY GOOD!"
I can't take all the credit - nanomachines, son!
Damn it's so fascinating to hear the perspective Nastasha got in all of this. You barely talk to her during MGS1 but now knowing she heard everything and the conversations you, the player, weren't privy to is mindblowing.
I agree. After first reading this book it shot up to become a major part of how I view the series. It reminds me of the cassettes you'd get in Peace Walker / MGSV, where they offer such a huge amount of insight into the character motivations, but they're totally separate from the gameplay
Amazing job! Wish my cousin was alive to experience this! He’s why I fell in love w the MGS series!
💪🏾🙏🏾✊🏾
Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed! I'm very sorry to hear about your cousin though, it sounds like he had great taste ❤ I still remember the first time I was introduced to these games by my cousin as well. Special memories for sure.
Metal gear is no just a game...is something more ... Your cousin has a great taste 😉👍
Thanks for reading this out! I remember being a kid and straining the hell out of my eyes trying to read the small text of these books off my CRT TV back in the day. Pretty cool that they included 3 in-universe books of varying lengths in for mgs2. God I wish there was a way to increase the text size back in the day, but this is a great way to re-experience this. I know this must've taken you a hell of a long time to make, but I can't help but hope you'll get around to the other two one day! I remember the one about the peanut butter obsessed reporter to be surprisingly entertaining and nobody ever seems to talk about it (If I'm remembering correctly, he disguised himself as a fish to get onto Shadow Moses Island so no one would notice him, man it got weird lol)
Thank you for the kind words, it was a labor of love and I had a great time making this. But yes!! The peanut butter conspiracy theorist book is so much fun. That's definitely on my list of to-do books in the future 😀
I just read the peanut butter one, the guy was unhinged lol
Really enjoyed this!!
Discovered at a perfect time- I happen to have spent the last week down n out with covid and decided to replay the metal gear series. Had this suggested on my recommended page.
What a treat! And your voice acting was SUPERB and immersive.
Thanks a ton for your work!
Thank you so much! Sorry to hear you were sick, I was just recently laid up with covid as well. Definitely not fun. Very glad I could help give you a distraction!!
Lol I think I got covid rn but I won't make a test haha.. I got headaches a lot of cough and weak muscles also nausea
@@jucote6068 Hang in there!
@@BooksinGameshey I got a few questions about the shadow Moses incident
1. Why did the government hide the fact that nothing happened there?
2. When liquid snake threatened to launch a nuke was the public aware or was it kept secret?
3. What happened to the employees and guards working at Shadow Moses the genome soldiers what happened to them?
4. If solid snake was sent there to assassinate the foxhound members does that mean the mission was planned and we did all that for nothing?
Really appreciate this Nick whoever you are! Thank you!
I appreciate you!
I never knew there was an mgs audiobook. If this isn't a professional recording, it's very good! Kudos!
Thank you! Very glad you like it.
You're Ames, aren't you?
Get that directional mic ready! 🎤 🎧
You must be Ames
Harasho! Always wanted to read this in its entirety, but never had the attention span. Excellent work. You've done the series and Kojima proud.
My favorite metal gear game and now a audiobook that is very nicely narrated great work.
Thank you!! Strong choice for favorite in the series too 😎
Just finished reading/listening to this. It was fantastic.
Thank you so much! 😀
Is this that book that Raiden mentioned in MGS2? The one that the Colonel (AI) said was trash (implying a degree of disdain for the book)?
Yes haha! He doesn't like the book because he's not mentioned 'favorably' in it 😅 That's one of my favorite things about this book, is that the book itself is canon within the universe, because it's written from a specific character's perspective
The movie should just be about MGS1 and that's it.
Yeah I'm interested to see what Jordan Vogt-Roberts does with the movie. I'd like to see the original Metal Gear 1/2 represented in there personally. But at the same time it would be cool to see them depict something that hasn't been in any of the games, like what Snake & Otacon did between MGS1/2 setting up Philanthropy and hunting other Metal Gears
Listening to you is a complete pleasure!
А русский акцент, будто котик промурчал.
I really liked the accent! it's not caricatured and similar to Natasha's accent, but more gentle. Thank you very much for your work!
That means a lot for you to say so! It was important for me to try and be true to the character in my own way, and I hoped the accent would work. Спасибо!
I was seriously just thinking about this just this morning!!! Thanx for uplaoding this man! Subbed! ^_^
Thanks for listening and subscribing! If there are ever any games you'd want me to narrate, let me know and I can add them to the list 😀
Thank you. I’ve looked for this over the years. Thank you:)
Thank you as well! And it's funny, I looked for it over the years too, and was surprised nobody made one. Then eventually when I started making audiobooks, I thought, "Why not me?" 😀
@@BooksinGames well you did a damn good job. Ames was always one I wish they went a little deeper with. With him being in 2 and then ITDOSM it always made me wonder what his real back story is. Maybe just maybe in MG6 we will get a story of him.
@@brydauer Sorry!
Thank you for taking the time to read this for us!
It's my pleasure 😀 Thanks for giving it a listen!
My god, this is awesome!, thank you so much for reviving such memories of this game
Thanks for listening! I'm really glad you liked it 😀
"A cornered fox is more dangerous than a jackal."
Thank you so much for doing this.
No thank you for listening! 😀
Im a voice actor. I enjoyed this alot! You got potential friend! Give casting call club a try!
Thank you, that means a lot! And I hadn't heard of Casting Call Club, I'll check it out. Appreciate the recommend
I’d give anything to become a voice actor.
No clue where to start.
Good at doing assorted voices as well as general acting in the sense of delivering lines in a convincing as well as engrossing manner.
But don’t know what to do to apply that skill set to something.
If you really want to be a voice actor. Here you go. Get a good mic. I use a rode NT USB. Get a closet and clean it out. Go to Amazon get sound proofing foam, should be cheep. Open closet, get black out sound proof curtains also cheep. Use the free program audacity. Make a profile on casting call club. And get auditioning. This is your opportunity. Will you take it ?
@@Mattm182 I would also recommend becoming an audiobook narrator. Audible has a platform called ACX where you can get matched with books that are looking for narrators. I've been published 3 times so far as an audiobook narrator on Audible and it's been a great experience so far!
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Great job!
Nice! Thanks for this! I read this to my little brother years ago after unlocking the book after beating MGS2 Substance. I read it to him in one sitting which took hours lol. Been wanting to go back to this for years so thanks for doing this! Much more convenient😁👏🏾
Love that memory, thank you for sharing. You're a good sibling to do that for your little brother. My brother and I used to play MGS2 all the time together as well. We didn't have a memory card for our PS2 in the beginning so we just played the Tanker level over and over and over again haha
@@BooksinGames 😂That’s funny, cause when I had bought MGS3 knowing I was going to get the Fat PS3 that had PS1-3 backwards compatibility, I would give that to my brother to play. He just had a PS2 at the time so he could play his old PS1 classics, and get some games he wanted for PS2.
He had a Xbox 360 at the time, so he mostly played that. Anyway since he just got the old PS2 Slim for his B-Day he yet to buy a memory card so one day it took him about 15 hours to beat MGS3 without turning off the system😂 Even worse we didn’t know about the cheats to beat The End, so my brother was telling me it took him like a couple hours to finally beat him😂 The MGS series is full of great memories, and that’s one of the reasons this franchise is my favorite of all time when it comes to games🏆
@@SuperMario1990 Oh wow the marathon playthrough! That's impressive haha. Yes definitely though, this series spans so many console generations and has grown up with us. I'm very thankful for all the amazing moments
Thank you for reading this! I never got around to reading it and I thought it would be a good idea it being the 18th anniversary of the Shadow Moses incident. March 1, 2005. The sons of the boss took over the weapons disposal facility. It gives me chills thinking about it. I love this storyline so much! Thank you again!
I enjoyed it a lot! Thanks for making the video
Thank you for listening!
Any else notice how Gray Fox last name is spelled incorrectly. Plus "Dr Clark" aka Paramedic is referred to as him and he
Haha good catch about Jaeger/Yeager. This transcription came from the game, where they probably got the American spellings mixed up. According to Wikipedia, Yeager is an alternate spelling of the German name Jaeger. Fun fact as well, Jaeger means "hunter" in German, so Naomi used the same origin as Jaeger when choosing her identity's last name, Hunter 😀
As for Dr. Clark, I've always wondered about that as well. The way I figure it, Naomi never actually saw her (Naomi only covered up the tracks of the incident), and so she just assumed Clark was a man.
Of course, the real reason is that Kojima hadn't written Para-medic into the canon yet in 2001, but I like thinking of it as Naomi's error. Then it still fits in canon!
I like you put a Russian accent while reading this book, as if Nastasha is actually reading it to us
Thank you! I did a lot of preparing for that aspect, because when I first read the book that's how I imagined it. Really glad you liked it!
@@BooksinGames
Now if only you can do a female Russian accent, it would be....
Pretty good!!!!
Umm AcTuAlLy Nastasha is Ukrainian which means she has a Ukrainian accent. Therefore he's doing a Ukranian accent. Show some respect for Ukraine👀 I'm mostly being light hearted here haha or am I?👀👀👀👀👀
@@nicholasheal5925 I did not actually know that. Thank you for pointing it out though. I hope my narration still works despite that aspect!
@@BooksinGames All g dude
I've read this a few times on the game and I'm so happy someone took the time to record it. Thank you so much! The accents are a great addition, although I must admit the Russian/Ukrainian accent got a little bit much for me. Would of been great to only have Natasha's voice when she was talking to Richard Ames, as opposed to the narrator as well, but that's just me.
My favourite part is in chapter 46, only because when the speculate about Dr Hunter, that she could be working for another organisation..... Now I always interpret that as being the La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo (dam nanomachines 😄) but what's I like more is this conversation was also in the game, it makes me wonder if Kojma had planned the La.. Patriots 🙃 even before the sequels began.
It shows a man really at the top of his game (pun not intended) and shows how much depth there was to this story.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed! And I appreciate the feedback. The foreshadowing is definitely interesting, it's so impressive to see how these games manage to fit together.
Campbell even alludes to the Patriots “it couldnt be…”
@@HistoryandReviews yeah it’s brilliant
Thanks a lot
Thank you!!
Can you do an audiobook of the Metal Gear Solid 1 & 2 Books by Raymond Benson?
After this I went straight to Shell 1 and popped Ames in the head 😊
It's got to be the longest ever Metal Gear Solid Audiobook ever been produced! But it's not actually Sons of Liberty.
This adds so much to the lore!! Richard Ames, what a prick
SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!!!
LIQUIIIIIIIIIIDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!
Wow ... Nice to see this work ...I speak spanish ...i Will listen carefully ...thanks. febrary 2022 😉👍
Bienvenidos! Thank you for the kind words. Always great to meet another MGS fan 😀
@@BooksinGames
Since 1997 MGS is my favorite game ... I still have a copys on black and white from a magazine talking about the history of the game 😗. Regards .
@@lejoc8707 That's awesome! Collector's Items 🔥 Make sure to hold onto those!
Really enjoyed skimming through it - Jack (5/5 rating)
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for the accent changes. found it humorous you decided to keep it from Natasha's POV But, made sense.
Dang, I didn't know J'zargo did audiobooks too.
Read very well. thankyou
So have you read the Metal Gear Solid 4 book so it was written from octagons point of view and ends with with the reader marrying sunny
No I hadn't heard of that one before. Is that the novelization by Project Itoh? MGS4 is my fave of the series though so I'd love to read it 😀
@@BooksinGames yes it is and you're pretty good
Hermoso!! Otra manera de aprender o reforzar el inglés!!
¡Gracias por su atención!
Thr ballad of David and Eli
Never knew what happened to her in mgs4
Why does she say Housman was NSA director? He was SecDef in the game
Previous story
I always thought this was a cool way to handle the 'Previous Story' section in MGS2. Instead of a normal summary, they wrote a whole novel. Now that's going the extra mile! 😅
I don't give a damn what that peice of trash said. Do you get me?
In all seriousness here, I loved it! Nice job
А есть текстовый вариант на русском или в оригинале?)
If you can get a Russian copy of Metal Gear Solid 2, it should have this entire story written in Russian. I'm not sure if it's transcribed anywhere online though.
Если вы можете получить русскую копию Metal Gear Solid 2, вся эта история должна быть написана на русском языке. Хотя я не уверен, есть ли он где-нибудь в сети.
0:20 why is the book dedicated to Ames?
Wasn’t he a minor character in MGS2?
Just like Nashtasha was minor in MGS1
Ames is Natasha's husband
Its hard to say whether Ames is a scumbag or not. But he does have his motives for doing the stuff he does.
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I listened to this audiobook during my work recently (I work in a office and audiobooks help me not pass out from sheer boredom) and I really like this perspective of the first MGS game! I love hearing the outsiders view of the adventures of solid snake and hearing the political nature of the world building in the background still in full force and having it build up to the other games and outright reference them! I really like it! Amazing job!
This is great I got to page 41 but I’m too night to keep going