Batman Forever is a sequel to Batman Returns, and Batman And Robin(shudder) is a sequel to Batman Forever, they do continue.
Or how about the Arkham Games? There are different actors for both The Joker and Batman in Arkham Origins.

Whenever you watch a film or play a game, you are surrendering yourself to an illusion, you know its not real, you know that in a film you are just looking at a bunch of actors on a stage/set, and that they are reading from a script/have it memorized, you know that when you play a game that all it really is- is a bunch of computer generated polygons on a screen giving the illusion of movement… You accept these things/surrender to them, so its because of this that expecting a change of voice actor to make sense in a story is ridiculous, you’re not surrendering to the illusion at this point, you’re expecting too much… you’re expecting soo much that its ridiculous.

I get what you are trying to say. VAs are not permanent and never was.

Except you forget the fact that Batman or James Bond was never written as a continuous story at all. MGS was and still is. That’s the whole difference.

Both are pieces of entertainment, both have actors, both have replaced those actors. Are you telling me you don’t get the general idea that I put across? I could have use any number of examples from all of entertainment to illustrate my point. Batman would be another great example as many different actors have played him in both the films and even in the Arkham series, nobody was asking for these to make sense with the story. Ridiculous.
And, not that this matters, but MGS is heavily inspired by James Bond.

Except, James Bond movies are not connected at all.

And it didn’t make sense every time James Bond magically changed his appearance… He looked like Sean Connery at one point and then all of a sudden he looked like Pierce Brosnon and then, he looked like Daniel Craig!!!!!… They better explain this.

LOL sorry for the sarcasm 🙂

I think that Hayter as Snake is arguably the most iconic voice in gaming, it is such a shame to see him go out like this, but at the end of the day, Kojima Productions do not need David Hayter to make a great game.

At the same time though, if Kojima’s comments above are anything to go by, I think we’ll be playing as Solid Snake in the latter half of The Phantom Pain and if this is true- Hayter will be back as Solid Snake. I’m pretty convinced of this at this point, however, I’m trying my hardest not to go in to TPP expecting this just in case I am setting myself up for disappointment.

Never said Keifer was bad. I’m saying, why the voice change in GZ when the events in PW’s true ending didn’t happen too long before GZ’s story?

Voices can’t change in a matter of months.

Keifers voice just suits BB a lot more in MGS V because this is the game which will show how BB became the one of the main antagonists in the series and I think having Keifer do his voice is a lot more suitable because it sounds a lot more darker and a lot more deeper.

It provides a good distinction between Solid Snake (Which I think Hayter does the best) and BB (Which I think Keifer does a lot more better). Also who knows, maybe there will be a young Solid Snake voiced by Hayter.

Other than that, I actually like the change of voice actors, that’s only my opinion though.