Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5038094-20140721042428/@comment-1672596-20140906150956

Bluerock wrote: Paranoid Donkey wrote: I don't necessarily agree there, considering Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2 are 2D games and the rest are 3D. And I think that's the only reason anyone wants to see them remade to be honest. The only "remake" you could want from Metal Gear Solid is perhaps a graphical update (which we have had in the form of The Twin Snakes, but I'm talking about one not on Gamecube), and then it'd be uniform with the rest of the MGS games.

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. 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.