I totally agree now. I don't know what got into me before, I somehow forgot my roots of MG and MG2 and was living in the world of MGS3. I'm back home now.Ghost wrote:Many people don't seem to get that the whole "Foxdie competing with Foxdie" is a contrived game concept, giving Snake a cure and making him young again wouldn't even be more absurd than this.
Especially if people wanted more games with Solid Snake.
I shall be honest, Metal Gear Solid 4 feels like a load of fanwank, especially geared towards those who were all over the MGS series.
Don't me wrong, I liked the Solid series but that doesn't mean that I consider everything of it genius, let alone not open for improvement.
I don't get the whole "Big Boss" love and adoration, sure I liked playing the character but people seem to forget that this guy wanted to trap the world in perpetual warfare.
"No he didn't, he created Outer Heaven and later Zanzibar Land to oppose the <B><B>Patriots</B></B>." Some of you might say.
May I remind you that this plot twist was invented years after Hideo Kojima made Metal Gear 1 and 2?
In his original take Big Boss, Gray Fox and the others were simply soldiers who were addicted to war, they weren't out to fight some Illuminati like conspiracy group and create a nation free of them, they wanted a world in which they would always be important.
Having Big Boss back is definitely the fantasy of the people who played Metal Gear Solid 3 and Portable Ops but not the people who started from the beginning with the series.
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Commander_AK-47 wrote:I totally agree now. I don't know what got into me before, I somehow forgot my roots of MG and MG2 and was living in the world of MGS3. I'm back home now.Ghost wrote:Many people don't seem to get that the whole "Foxdie competing with Foxdie" is a contrived game concept, giving Snake a cure and making him young again wouldn't even be more absurd than this.
Especially if people wanted more games with Solid Snake.
I shall be honest, Metal Gear Solid 4 feels like a load of fanwank, especially geared towards those who were all over the MGS series.
Don't me wrong, I liked the Solid series but that doesn't mean that I consider everything of it genius, let alone not open for improvement.
I don't get the whole "Big Boss" love and adoration, sure I liked playing the character but people seem to forget that this guy wanted to trap the world in perpetual warfare.
"No he didn't, he created Outer Heaven and later Zanzibar Land to oppose the <B><B><B>Patriots</B></B></B>." Some of you might say.
May I remind you that this plot twist was invented years after Hideo Kojima made Metal Gear 1 and 2?
In his original take Big Boss, Gray Fox and the others were simply soldiers who were addicted to war, they weren't out to fight some Illuminati like conspiracy group and create a nation free of them, they wanted a world in which they would always be important.
Having Big Boss back is definitely the fantasy of the people who played Metal Gear Solid 3 and Portable Ops but not the people who started from the beginning with the series.
I find it silly to disregard the adoration for Big Boss based on the fact that the backstory behind Big Boss' motivations wasn't fully explained just yet. I remember MGS4's ending, it was said Big Boss & Zero both mis-interpreted The Boss' intentions & what she said, and that BB in the end of MGS4, right before dying , realized that they were both wrong.
Of course, any game, like MGS3, that touches MG's backstory, is a lie, and violates fandom authority. We can't have that happen now, can we ?
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I completely agree with everything you said there (and it was a lot), in some ways Kojima had no choice but to choose the path he did in MGS4 and it DID save us a few games of meaningless game play just to point out the back story. However, if any of you remember this, MGS2 was supposed to be the end of the series. It was supposed to be the story of MGS4, more or less, and they were going to leave it at that. No Raiden, no Solidus and no Metal Gear Ray. Because of 9/11 however, Kojima had to change it. Now that is dramatically important. Because he changed it, he damned the story to an inevitable crash and burn. If he had gone as planned he would never have made a prequel, therefor never raising the problems of connecting MGS3 to MGS1 (Which the root of some of the MGS4 story problems is) and making the story fit. That is what caused the story issues in MGS4 and I believe that if he had just made MGS2 like he intended to the series would have turned out much better. He was forced into a corner and he knew that if he continued he would be crucified and he did anyway. He had no choice unless he went back and re-made MG, MG2 and MGS1, which is completely illogical, but an interesting possibility however.
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Remaking MG & MG II, however, seems logical, but I would like for them to provide the old versions along with the remade versions ala how they did with MGS3: Subsistence. Even if old school fans bitch about it, the remake would help drastically in the aid of retconning the games together, and it wouldn't magically make the old versions dissapear. I think the inclusion of the old versions of the game would be a nice nod to them, if not for the additional challenge of playing an MGS game without the bells & whistles of 3D graphics & physics.
Personally, I think remaking MG & MGII into something that resembles Ghost Babel would be choice, as it retains the old-school feel while being complex enough to be in the style of "2D gaming just before MGS1". GB, for a gameboy game, is incredible, and while they're at it, they should include Ghost Babel with any said modern remakes of MG1 & MG II that include, as mentioned above, the old versions as well.
An interesting thought just crept into my mind, though: what if they could go back and provide of at the very least, a non-playable version of MGS2's story as it was originally meant to be, where the series ends & wasn't changed due 9/11? I think if they even had footage of it, giving it to fans for a fan-edit of say "MGS2: The Original Cut (How The MGS Series Was Supposed To End)" would really be excellent. Does anyone know if they've decided to explore what could've been in alternative media / projects?
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Commander_AK-47,
I am not accusing you of anything, you should not take it as a personal attack on your person.
This is simply me saying my own opinion of some of the fandom in general.
I have nothing against you, and I have nothing against your opinion.
For the same sake the newly made Prequels would really have taken well with the fans, they would have been over it and see it as a sort of new start to the saga.
Yes, Kojima does have the highest authority when it comes to adding or modifying his games as he sees fit, I won't deny that.
Does that mean we all have to go with it whenever an alteration is made that pretty much contradicts what has been established before, simply making it something like "I actually just lied, this is the real truth".
I see this happen a lot in various media not just Metal Gear, writers who suddenly write elements that contradict earlier events or plot developments just so that they can add something they feel makes it better or makes room for even more material they can come up with because it really hit a note with the fans (think Final Fantasy 7 in which we got needless prequels and sequels because the fans were gaga about it).
It would be interesting to know how the plot of Metal Gear Solid 2 would have been without all the pressure from fans and higher ups.
Going to take a brake to think about how to comment on the rest otherwise it would end up in an insult fest.
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In effect they become more like a comic book villain, once their current scheme has been stopped by the hero they retreat to their doom fortress and coming up with a new plan.
(yes I know Sephiroth died at the end of FF7 but they brought him back in that movie)
Again, why should a cure be even more contrived.
So in order to fill the holes a lot of new characters needed to be created.
That diminishes MGS3 role in the Metal Gear series.
I think it was pretty well explained in MGS1 that Big Boss’ remains served as the prototype for the soldier gene experiments, the US government wasn’t just going to hand that over to a bunch of former Special Forces turned traitors and terrorists.
Plus the US has a policy of not giving in to terrorist demands.
Heck they send in Snake because they wanted to recover Metal Gear REX and the launch data, they didn’t care much for the rest; soldiers, DARPA chief, Armstech president.
Had that not been on their agenda they would already have send in B2’s with Bunker Busters and simply started over again.
I am not accusing you of anything, you should not take it as a personal attack on your person.
This is simply me saying my own opinion of some of the fandom in general.
Read closely what I just saidYou accuse me of being a Naked Snake Lover!? Fuck that! I truly adore the Big Boss of the MG Series, the true bad guy of the good old days, even before the <B><B>Patriots</B></B>. I played from the very beginning dude I didn't start with MGS3 or Portable Ops, it was not my fantasy to see the 'Good Guy' Big Boss return, don't mistake me for one of those nubs.
I have nothing against you, and I have nothing against your opinion.
I don't know if you are sarcastic now, for now I take it you are not, but everyone has the right to change his or her opinion during the years.I totally agree now. I don't know what got into me before, I somehow forgot my roots of MG and MG2 and was living in the world of MGS3. I'm back home now.
For the same sake the newly made Prequels would really have taken well with the fans, they would have been over it and see it as a sort of new start to the saga.
Tell me, are you being a prick on purpose?Of course, any game, like MGS3, that touches MG's backstory, is a lie, and violates fandom authority. We can't have that happen now, can we ?
Yes, Kojima does have the highest authority when it comes to adding or modifying his games as he sees fit, I won't deny that.
Does that mean we all have to go with it whenever an alteration is made that pretty much contradicts what has been established before, simply making it something like "I actually just lied, this is the real truth".
I see this happen a lot in various media not just Metal Gear, writers who suddenly write elements that contradict earlier events or plot developments just so that they can add something they feel makes it better or makes room for even more material they can come up with because it really hit a note with the fans (think Final Fantasy 7 in which we got needless prequels and sequels because the fans were gaga about it).
It would be interesting to know how the plot of Metal Gear Solid 2 would have been without all the pressure from fans and higher ups.
Going to take a brake to think about how to comment on the rest otherwise it would end up in an insult fest.
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Liquid was most likely brought back for the same reason why we still see Sephiroth and Albert Wesker return time after time after time even, some of the fans love these characters so much that they expected writers and producers to jump through hoops to find ways to bring them back or explain how they keep surviving a possible demise.I say legit since Kojima obviously felt Liquid being somehow alive despite dying from foxdie was ridiculous to do (thankfully this was explained as well, but further reinforced by the Database too), and it's logical to conclude if anyone else died from FoxDie, it's safe to say that they are dead period. I also thought that Ocelot carrying on the personality of Liquid fully reinforced some central concepts with memetics & the meme, and would've been a lot more appropriate than Ocelot having mystical powers, and yet, never used such abilities in previous outings in the MGS saga (despite his father being The Sorrow & supposedly having those abilities
In effect they become more like a comic book villain, once their current scheme has been stopped by the hero they retreat to their doom fortress and coming up with a new plan.
(yes I know Sephiroth died at the end of FF7 but they brought him back in that movie)
It still serves as a plot device of why Snake shouldn’t commit suicide in the end, thus cheapening the sacrifice if he would have done it.Regarding how snake getting a cure would've been less absurd than FoxDie competing with FoxDie, it depends on how you look at it: if there was a foxdie vaccination, why didn't Big Boss use it? Or anyone else for that matter? The FoxDie vs. FoxDie concept, while can viewed as an "easy" fix, does fit with MGS1's theme of gene's competing with one another to be expressed, as well as natural selection.
Again, why should a cure be even more contrived.
In a way you just said it yourself, MGS3 was made in order to explain plotholes in the earlier games that at the time now solution had been invented for yet.MGS3 was almost required in order to help make sense with some of MGS' backstory, which still had plenty of holes & questionable things to it, where some make it seem as if MGS4 is the only game that has this while they feign outrage & lolz.
So in order to fill the holes a lot of new characters needed to be created.
That diminishes MGS3 role in the Metal Gear series.
This was a question for you that needed to be answered?If Big Boss handn't showed up, confirming the questionable nature of his remains that shadowed MGS1 & MGS2, and also explains why his remains couldn't just be "handed over" (a fairly big annoyance with MGS1 to this day, for me), and then they used some other character, you would hear countless bitching about "What? Otacon/Drebin/Naomi's Video/Liquid/ explains everything? Whtf, this doesn't fit into my previous assumptions, this sucks!".
I think it was pretty well explained in MGS1 that Big Boss’ remains served as the prototype for the soldier gene experiments, the US government wasn’t just going to hand that over to a bunch of former Special Forces turned traitors and terrorists.
Plus the US has a policy of not giving in to terrorist demands.
Heck they send in Snake because they wanted to recover Metal Gear REX and the launch data, they didn’t care much for the rest; soldiers, DARPA chief, Armstech president.
Had that not been on their agenda they would already have send in B2’s with Bunker Busters and simply started over again.
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For what' worth, I wasn't intentionally trying to be a prick, I just felt like my opinions / comments probably wouldn't fare well, so I figured I'd go ahead and break the ice anyway, although I might've overdone it a bit, lol.
I apologize if I made anyone (mainly the mods) nervous :O.
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Ach never mind, sorry I overreacted.
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Here is my official opinion. I think that making the prequel (MGS3) Raised a lot of problems. For instance, CQC was in MGS3 and not in the previous games, so they had to make an excuse for that. They said that Solid Snake disliked it and purposely banned it from his own use. However they wanted him to use it in MGS4, so the official story is (according to the MGS4 Database) that in 2011 the US government released the techniques to the public and at that time Solid Snake lifted his ban on it. This works as explaining why he suddenly started to use it in MGS4 and not in MGS and MGS2. We, the fans, can clearly see that it was a disparate move to fill in a gap that can otherwise be explained by "We hadn't invented CQC until MGS3 and we didn't know to put it in MGS and MGS2". That is one example and in my opinion I think it would have came out a hell of a lot better if they made MGS2 the final game in the series like they had planned. None of the problems we see today would be in existence. However, all of that aside I do think MGS4 was an awesome game and had a beautiful story non the less, even though Kojima took a few wrong turns i believe it came out well and I loved it.
As for what you guys said.
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I was referring to Dick Motorman. Also, I was not being sarcastic somehow I said the opposite of what I believe. I really did like how the story turned out like I said but I shouldn't have disagreed with you guys because my feelings about the story are the same.
I think bringing Liquid back as Liquid Ocelot was a valuable plot device because in MGS3 ocelot was a good guy and in MGS4 he is a bad guy? doesn't mix, they had to come up with a way to make him a believable bad guy.
I agree, Twin Snakes was a bit over the top. That is why I favor the original MGS1 for PS1. When I said 'Re-Make' them I meant Konami re-makes them exactly the same way but with better graphics and for the PS3. MG and MG2 remakes would be truly awesome, i really hope they decide to do that. About the your final paragraph. Rumor has it that a full playable demo version of the original MGS2 is floating around the internet. If you could find it there you go. I doubt that it is easy to find though. Its almost exactly like MGS4, Liquid Ocelot, The Haven (Its actually a massive aircraft in the original MGS2, not a submarine/ship) and in the end after snake is finished he makes a daring jump off of the Haven and I guess parachutes down to earth. Anyway if you do manage to find the demo version let me know, I would like to play it as well.
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Ghost wrote:Commander_AK-47,
I am not accusing you of anything, you should not take it as a personal attack on your person.
This is simply me saying my own opinion of some of the fandom in general.
Read closely what I just saidYou accuse me of being a Naked Snake Lover!? Fuck that! I truly adore the Big Boss of the MG Series, the true bad guy of the good old days, even before the <B><B><B>Patriots</B></B></B>. I played from the very beginning dude I didn't start with MGS3 or Portable Ops, it was not my fantasy to see the 'Good Guy' Big Boss return, don't mistake me for one of those nubs.
I have nothing against you, and I have nothing against your opinion.
I don't know if you are sarcastic now, for now I take it you are not, but everyone has the right to change his or her opinion during the years.I totally agree now. I don't know what got into me before, I somehow forgot my roots of MG and MG2 and was living in the world of MGS3. I'm back home now.
For the same sake the newly made Prequels would really have taken well with the fans, they would have been over it and see it as a sort of new start to the saga.
I was referring to Dick Motorman. Also, I was not being sarcastic somehow I said the opposite of what I believe. I really did like how the story turned out like I said but I shouldn't have disagreed with you guys because my feelings about the story are the same.
Ghost wrote:Liquid was most likely brought back for the same reason why we still see Sephiroth and Albert Wesker return time after time after time even, some of the fans love these characters so much that they expected writers and producers to jump through hoops to find ways to bring them back or explain how they keep surviving a possible demise.I say legit since Kojima obviously felt Liquid being somehow alive despite dying from foxdie was ridiculous to do (thankfully this was explained as well, but further reinforced by the Database too), and it's logical to conclude if anyone else died from FoxDie, it's safe to say that they are dead period. I also thought that Ocelot carrying on the personality of Liquid fully reinforced some central concepts with memetics & the meme, and would've been a lot more appropriate than Ocelot having mystical powers, and yet, never used such abilities in previous outings in the MGS saga (despite his father being The Sorrow & supposedly having those abilities
In effect they become more like a comic book villain, once their current scheme has been stopped by the hero they retreat to their doom fortress and coming up with a new plan.
(yes I know Sephiroth died at the end of FF7 but they brought him back in that movie)
I think bringing Liquid back as Liquid Ocelot was a valuable plot device because in MGS3 ocelot was a good guy and in MGS4 he is a bad guy? doesn't mix, they had to come up with a way to make him a believable bad guy.
Nitroadict wrote: I would view it logical if they flesh out connections between the games (necessary, and they've already got a good start with the MGS4 Database), but a bit un-necessary to remake MGS1 (this is partially why I did not like Twin Snakes, other than the re-recorded dialouge, the gamecube controller for the game being worse than the inital xbox1 controllers, and the over-done cinematics). I think if they did do anything new to MGS1, the cheapest way (relatively speaking) to do it would be a graphical port of the PSone version to PS2, without changing anything else (even dialouge). A PS2 port for Twin Snakes might be even cheaper, but methinks Nintendo wouldn't appreciate that much as TS is probably contract bound to be a GameCube exclusive.
Remaking MG & MG II, however, seems logical, but I would like for them to provide the old versions along with the remade versions ala how they did with MGS3: Subsistence. Even if old school fans bitch about it, the remake would help drastically in the aid of retconning the games together, and it wouldn't magically make the old versions dissapear. I think the inclusion of the old versions of the game would be a nice nod to them, if not for the additional challenge of playing an MGS game without the bells & whistles of 3D graphics & physics.
Personally, I think remaking MG & MGII into something that resembles Ghost Babel would be choice, as it retains the old-school feel while being complex enough to be in the style of "2D gaming just before MGS1". GB, for a gameboy game, is incredible, and while they're at it, they should include Ghost Babel with any said modern remakes of MG1 & MG II that include, as mentioned above, the old versions as well.
An interesting thought just crept into my mind, though: what if they could go back and provide of at the very least, a non-playable version of MGS2's story as it was originally meant to be, where the series ends & wasn't changed due 9/11? I think if they even had footage of it, giving it to fans for a fan-edit of say "MGS2: The Original Cut (How The MGS Series Was Supposed To End)" would really be excellent. Does anyone know if they've decided to explore what could've been in alternative media / projects?
I agree, Twin Snakes was a bit over the top. That is why I favor the original MGS1 for PS1. When I said 'Re-Make' them I meant Konami re-makes them exactly the same way but with better graphics and for the PS3. MG and MG2 remakes would be truly awesome, i really hope they decide to do that. About the your final paragraph. Rumor has it that a full playable demo version of the original MGS2 is floating around the internet. If you could find it there you go. I doubt that it is easy to find though. Its almost exactly like MGS4, Liquid Ocelot, The Haven (Its actually a massive aircraft in the original MGS2, not a submarine/ship) and in the end after snake is finished he makes a daring jump off of the Haven and I guess parachutes down to earth. Anyway if you do manage to find the demo version let me know, I would like to play it as well.
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What do I want to see in a new Metal Gear title?
Hideo Kojima. Period.
Hideo Kojima. Period.
Big Boss: Snake's my brother. (Slap) My son. (Slap) My brother. (Slap) My son. (Slap) My brother. (Slap) My son. (Slap) He's my brother and my son!
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there's so much I want to say but it'd just be pointless.
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Re: What I'd like in a new Metal Gear title.
Hm. Isn't it funny how the MGS fans who think MGS4 was too much of a fan-fic game are the fans who think MGS4 wasn't enough like what they wanted?
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Re: What I'd like in a new Metal Gear title.
Well the fan-fic theory is not my opinion. I believe, like I said above, that MGS3 made a LOT of complications and messed up the story possibilities a little. The fan-fic theory is true though.
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Re: What I'd like in a new Metal Gear title.
what I wanted was for Kojima to shut his ears and make a game without listening to what everyone else wanted, and or no game at all, that's the beauty of mgs2's ending is that it's a perfect fit for making a sequel but it's also perfect as a true ending. Also, I'm an MG fan, not a MGS fan.Skycladiana wrote:Hm. Isn't it funny how the MGS fans who think MGS4 was too much of a fan-fic game are the fans who think MGS4 wasn't enough like what they wanted?
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Re: What I'd like in a new Metal Gear title.
That's actually why I like MGS3 & played it more often than MGS2; MGS2 can function as an ending easily, as whatever loose ends there is have implied closure in the ending, but could be easily fleshed out anyway.
MGS3 then comes in with something almost completely new, and took the stealth gameplay to a significantly higher level, and the story is much different than MGS2, which felt more or less finished. Some may view it (MGS3) as introducing messy complications or whatever, but you always risk this whenever fleshing out backstory; this is especially true when considering MGs2 as a (good ) possible ending to MGS1. In this light, MGS3 can be view as a "stand alone legend" or what-if telling of what could've occurred.
However, w/ MGS4 considered, MGS3 becomes canon; without MPO & MGS4 it doesn't really. This is why I view MGS4 as more of a coda to the series, rather than another entry. MGS2 could been seen as the ending of MGS1 (they are the two games in the series that have the most blunt inter-connections, more so than MGII and MGs1 I would think), MGS3 could be seen as a Prolouge, and MGS4 as an Epilouge; in both cases, the games can be said to have many tangential connections to the two main games that definitely connected to one another.
Referring back to the use of music terminology (coda), I also tend to view each MGS game as sort of a transposition of the earlier MG games, as each MGS games have many similar events (history repeating itself) that tend to influence the next transposition or next game. In ways we are always in the same song with each game, just in different keys.
Hmm, in hindsight, I'm not sure if the above would make sense to anyone else lols.
MGS3 then comes in with something almost completely new, and took the stealth gameplay to a significantly higher level, and the story is much different than MGS2, which felt more or less finished. Some may view it (MGS3) as introducing messy complications or whatever, but you always risk this whenever fleshing out backstory; this is especially true when considering MGs2 as a (good ) possible ending to MGS1. In this light, MGS3 can be view as a "stand alone legend" or what-if telling of what could've occurred.
However, w/ MGS4 considered, MGS3 becomes canon; without MPO & MGS4 it doesn't really. This is why I view MGS4 as more of a coda to the series, rather than another entry. MGS2 could been seen as the ending of MGS1 (they are the two games in the series that have the most blunt inter-connections, more so than MGII and MGs1 I would think), MGS3 could be seen as a Prolouge, and MGS4 as an Epilouge; in both cases, the games can be said to have many tangential connections to the two main games that definitely connected to one another.
Referring back to the use of music terminology (coda), I also tend to view each MGS game as sort of a transposition of the earlier MG games, as each MGS games have many similar events (history repeating itself) that tend to influence the next transposition or next game. In ways we are always in the same song with each game, just in different keys.
Hmm, in hindsight, I'm not sure if the above would make sense to anyone else lols.
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Re: What I'd like in a new Metal Gear title.
Well I might have been curious about Ocelot and the <B>Patriots</B> but yeah.Dick Motorman wrote:what I wanted was for Kojima to shut his ears and make a game without listening to what everyone else wanted, and or no game at all, that's the beauty of mgs2's ending is that it's a perfect fit for making a sequel but it's also perfect as a true ending. Also, I'm an MG fan, not a MGS fan.
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Re: What I'd like in a new Metal Gear title.
I understand. That is exactly what he needed to do. I am one of those who got what we wanted in MGS4 and I still would have preferred it to be an object of his creation and not of what the fans wanted. MG and MG2, That was where the real story was at. If they do anything I want them to remake MG and MG2 with modern technology. Also, I think they should make a PS3 version of Portable Ops but they're probably not going to do that.Dick Motorman wrote:what I wanted was for Kojima to shut his ears and make a game without listening to what everyone else wanted, and or no game at all, that's the beauty of mgs2's ending is that it's a perfect fit for making a sequel but it's also perfect as a true ending. Also, I'm an MG fan, not a MGS fan.
Nitroadict wrote: Some may view it (MGS3) as introducing messy complications or whatever, but you always risk this whenever fleshing out backstory; this is especially true when considering MGs2 as a (good ) possible ending to MGS1. In this light, MGS3 can be view as a "stand alone legend" or what-if telling of what could've occurred.
I never thought of it that way, it actually makes a lot of sense.
Konami didn't start kissing the fans asses until MGS4. That was the only one that I felt was a fan creation. The others were totally fine. I still stand by what I said, it would have been a LOT better if they made MGS2 like Kojima intended and ended it there. Ah well, its done and there is nothing we can do about it so I don't even know why we are carrying on this thread.
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Re: What I'd like in a new Metal Gear title.
I get what your saying, that's definetly an interesting way of viewing it. That's actually kind of the way I look at MGS3 and 4, I see them as almost "what-if" kind of story's like the marvel what if comics, it's just to bad they do have to be canon.Nitroadict wrote:That's actually why I like MGS3 & played it more often than MGS2; MGS2 can function as an ending easily, as whatever loose ends there is have implied closure in the ending, but could be easily fleshed out anyway.
MGS3 then comes in with something almost completely new, and took the stealth gameplay to a significantly higher level, and the story is much different than MGS2, which felt more or less finished. Some may view it (MGS3) as introducing messy complications or whatever, but you always risk this whenever fleshing out backstory; this is especially true when considering MGs2 as a (good ) possible ending to MGS1. In this light, MGS3 can be view as a "stand alone legend" or what-if telling of what could've occurred.
However, w/ MGS4 considered, MGS3 becomes canon; without MPO & MGS4 it doesn't really. This is why I view MGS4 as more of a coda to the series, rather than another entry. MGS2 could been seen as the ending of MGS1 (they are the two games in the series that have the most blunt inter-connections, more so than MGII and MGs1 I would think), MGS3 could be seen as a Prolouge, and MGS4 as an Epilouge; in both cases, the games can be said to have many tangential connections to the two main games that definitely connected to one another.
Referring back to the use of music terminology (coda), I also tend to view each MGS game as sort of a transposition of the earlier MG games, as each MGS games have many similar events (history repeating itself) that tend to influence the next transposition or next game. In ways we are always in the same song with each game, just in different keys.
Hmm, in hindsight, I'm not sure if the above would make sense to anyone else lols.
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Re: What I'd like in a new Metal Gear title.
At one point I would like to see a Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake remake in 3D but at the other hand I am really worried what they would do if they would make one.
I honestly don't want any ret cons in favor of the MGS series.
I honestly don't want any ret cons in favor of the MGS series.
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I actually would like to go to school for video game design, I'm looking at two colleges right now, and one of my dreams was to remake it, but with zero retcons, the same game but updated... that being said, it doesn't really need it, it's a great game, and thats it, great games don't need to be reinvented... that being said (again) it would be a cool project.Ghost wrote:At one point I would like to see a Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake remake in 3D but at the other hand I am really worried what they would do if they would make one.
I honestly don't want any ret cons in favor of the MGS series.
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Re: What I'd like in a new Metal Gear title.
I honest to God would like to join you on such a course and such a project.Dick Motorman wrote:I actually would like to go to school for video game design, I'm looking at two colleges right now, and one of my dreams was to remake it, but with zero retcons, the same game but updated... that being said, it doesn't really need it, it's a great game, and thats it, great games don't need to be reinvented... that being said (again) it would be a cool project.
There are but two things I would like to add; Metal Gear G (Gustav) and a tank fight with one of the tanks.
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haha maybe someday... I still gotta figure out what college to go too.
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Re: What I'd like in a new Metal Gear title.
Dick Motorman wrote: I actually would like to go to school for video game design, I'm looking at two colleges right now, and one of my dreams was to remake it, but with zero retcons, the same game but updated... that being said, it doesn't really need it, it's a great game, and thats it, great games don't need to be reinvented... that being said (again) it would be a cool project.
What I meant when I said remake MG and MG2 was that they don't touch the story, just make a 3D version of the game. Also where are you located? I can suggest a good college.