Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6747658-20130625170430/@comment-175.159.163.39-20130626060213

Bluerock wrote: Ugh, an MGS1 remake with all the convoluted Patriot backstory crammed in? No thanks. MGS1's story worked fine without all that baggage, and was fine the way it was. Update the graphics and gameplay sure, but leave the writing. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Weedle McHairybug wrote: I honestly didn't see how TTS was even that bad. It's not like Snake didn't pull similar stunts in MGS1 or MGS2 (his dodging a tank shell with little time, as well as his dodging a spetsnaz ballistic knife round with little time certainly was similar to TTS). There's a difference between narrowly avoiding a gunshot/tank shell after anticipating them, and backflip-surfing on a missile. You can argue realism all you want, but TTS cutscenes were OTT. Besides, that's only one of many criticisms.

Weedle McHairybug wrote: I often feel that MPW was basically the Metal Gear equivalent of Return of the Jedi, and not in a good way (basically, in Return of the Jedi, George Lucas basically made some of the heroic characters, the Ewoks, beatified versions of the Vietcong, who were terrible individuals to say the very least. Kojima seemed to do something similar: By making Che Guevara almost like a Big Good when he was more like a monster. Ewoks used guerrilla tactics to take down a technologically superior foe; that was the idea from Vietnam that Lucas used in ROTJ. Che Guevara is regarded by many as the ultimate guerrilla soldier, admired by the militant guerrilla group MSF. Big Boss became a "monster" too. It's really not that difficult to understand. Agree that the story just works best without mentioning the Patriots. MGS1 itself has got the balance and its own credits on the story side.

As for character vocing, My preference is Hayter as Snake and the TTS, more arrogant version of Liquid and Raven plus the original MGS1 Campbell and others. That said, it's just my own preference.

Game mechanics side, MGS4 map of Shadow Mosses with PW weapons mechanics would be good (i.e. you need to load the weapon, including that stinger missle). A TPP open world is even better.

On Miller, I'd rather they start referring him to Miller from TPP on so to get things in line.