Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5038094-20140721042428/@comment-1504072-20140906123858

Paranoid Donkey wrote: And just think how nostalgic it would be for the older fans of Metal Gear to be able to roam around Outer Heaven and Zanzibar Land in a fully realised 3D world. Of course there would be the usual complaints but I think newer fans to the series would really appreciate the "grandfather" games getting touched up. As I've said in earlier posts, they totally have all the resources for it in other games anyway, and the ones they don't would be easy enough to make. I myself would LOVE to see an updated MG1 and MG2 bundled with The Phantom Pain but I can almost guarantee that's impossible.

Touching up is one thing, i.e. updated artwork, minor script changes. But a full blown 3D remake would create a completely different game, with a heavily altered storyline, seeing as they would have to come up with a ton of filler to bulk up the bare bones script. Such a drastic overhaul is likely to create more contradictions in the already complex continuity, negating some of the so-called reasons for a remake in the first place. A recent article on the Snake Soup sums up my thoughts perfectly.

Newer fans should appreciate the older game presentation and style as it is, and if not, they can skip over the classic games and start with MGS1, as the majority of us older fans did. Beyond the world situation (total nuclear disarmament, continuation of Soviet Union), which is already acknowledged in MGS1's Previous Operations summaries, I really can't understand why some people think the older games are non-canon in some way, other than just nitpicking minor stuff, which is ridiculous in my opinion.