Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-25230536-20141113043358/@comment-25017623-20141125092807

OK, for all the "Metal Gear Movie" threats out there...

I honestly don't think that a MGS Movie can ever work. Even if they put the Stroyplots of each game in single movies and shooting a bunch of it, like X-Men. There is just too many sidestory, too many backround and too many charakters to handle in a 90min movie without cutting too much information. This leads to a movie that covers just a main tenor like "stop the terrorists" and will probably look like a mix out of a 80th action movie and maybe something like lockout, or escape plan or something like that. It would be flat, without the beloved depth of story, charakter and relationships and becomes boring as hell. And I am just talking about the Metal Gear Solid series. Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2 could propably be fillt with storytelling and depth via movies. But than it will be hard to avoid retcons.

It maybe could be done, if they do trillogies out of each game. Like a Shadow Moses Trillogy, a Big Shell Trillogy, Snake Eater Trillogy (especially Snake Eater). But this will never happen. And even if, it will have the quallity of a television produced movie. Like it has been done with Stephen King's IT. Sad. Just sad.

What I think can serve the hughe and complex story of all Metal Gears, without leaving anything out, is a TV-Show. With a high quality PayTV Show like The Walking Dead, Dexter, Ray Donovan, Breaking Bad, Californication e.g. MGS can be brought to a nongamer audience. One game can be put into a seasson. It can be told chronological. And most importand, they can put everything we know, love, dicuss in forums and wikis can be put together in a straight tone.

e.g.:

We experienced the story through the evolution of videogames. With this evolution the storytelling of each game evolved eather. That is why there probably wont be a remake of MGS1 from 1998. The way the facility was build, and the way we had to work our path through it was designed with and for the gameplay mechanics of that time. Try to imagine playing MGS1 with all the full 3D perspectives we know from current games, were we can look around in every spot. The game would be way too simple that it is no fun at all anymore. It had to be rather overworked to fit in todays gameplay possibilities.

In a TV Show everything processes smoothly. And the appearence of charakters dosn't change like it does in games, owing to the evolution of engines. Not to mention the disproportionate amount of profit that can be made with a show (to look at terms in an economic way). Of course, a MGS TV Show could be rather expensive. But I assume that it could be worth it.

I know, I know, this opinion stands quiet alone and can set an own threat. But honestly...

What do you guys think?

Movie? Or series?