Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5038094-20140721042428/@comment-25366375-20140906153822

Bluerock wrote:

The endless cycle is more to do with people wanting remakes for the sake of rectifying perceived inconsistencies in the canon. Look hard enough and you will find them everywhere. How long until somebody requests a remake of MGS2, simply to acknowledge later plot points made in MGS3? I'm all for a spruced up 2D remake with a tidier script, but changing it to 3D is just making an entirely different game, with massive story filler to replace the couple of paragraphs in MG1, so it seems kinda pointless to me. But hey, to each their own. Well, updating to 3D wouldn't necessarily have to make it a longer game. (It's fairly obvious that we disagree about 3D remakes of MG and MG2, but even so, discussion is entertaining, I'm sure you agree).

As I've said elsewhere on the forums (and earlier in this thread), they already have pretty much all the resources they'd need to make a 3D remake of the two games. And because of this, it'd be pretty easy to tack on Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2 as playable in the release of something like The Phantom Pain.

[Side note: A release I'd be interested in seeing is a Ground Zeroes + Phantom Pain release bundle (in a release similar to Integral, Substance and Subsistence) - and if one existed I think MG and MG2 would work well placed in there]

I don't think people want remakes to correct inconsistencies in the story, or that's at least not the main reason from the way I see it. People want to play the first two stories rather than correct them, from conversations I've had with friends on the matter. Of course a re-release would require a touch-up here and there to get some facts straight, but I can't see it as being anything other than well received by most. I may just be crazy optimistic, who knows?

Weedle McHairybug wrote:

I'm not sure how MGS3 would make MGS2 remakes necessary, as there isn't anything contradicted there. I can handle minor inconsistencies, but not major ones that actually do require rewrites to fix, which is the case with the MSX2 games. I happen to agree here. I mean, true fans of the series can overlook some minor details that don't add up, such as (which will probably be addressed in TPP) the fact that McDonell Miller's birth name is Kazuhira. I'm not sure of an issue that Weedle is referring to here, because I don't really remember Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2 very well, but if they're that bad, a rewrite would be nice.

I'd definitely like to know what you guys think about my GZ+TPP bundle desire though. Agree, disagree? I personally kind of dislike the fact that the two were released seperately but are the same "game", but maybe that's just me.