ScreenCritics Shaun asks what kind of a future the 'Metal Gear' series has, and what kind of options Konami has for continuing on.
In a new corporate update, Konami has revealed that since its launch in 1987, the Metal Gear series has sold over 60 million copies worldwide.
Well done Metal Gear, my second favourite gaming franchise behind Resident Evil, i still hope Bluepoint are working on a Metal Gear Solid remake for PS5, that would be my gaming dream.
When Bluepoint teased their next game at Christmas the unrevealed game was in a plain cardboard box with a upside down exclamation point........it surely could only mean one thing.......SNAAKKKKEEEEE.
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I've stared at the picture for a while and I don't see an upside down exclamation mark anywhere on that box. I'm more puzzled by the Leviathan axe than anything else to be honest.
The Metal Gear series has sold more than 56.9 million copies as of the end of December 2020.
It’s a hell of a series... except for V, but man I remember when Snake Eater came out. It really made me start looking at games differently like more than just being “gamey”. Awesome Intro and a hell of story. The end when the flowers turn from white to red, just mwah!
Oh, I won’t argue with you there and I’d say the beginning was pretty fantastic.
Problem is the game was unfinished and they rushed it out as such. I was not a fan of repeating missions and the ridiculous “open world” that was so barren and had me running for 5 minutes to get to an objection point.
There’s bits and parts I liked with V, but it pales in comparison to my experience with 1-4.
Depends on how you look at it, tbh. The first 4 games had far better and more memorable level design, boss fights and set pieces. MGS5 feels and plays a bit better than MGS4 but it's missing so much of what made the previous games fun to me. Even Peace Walker had lots of mech boss fights. I always thought they were saving the interesting boss designs for MGS5.
MGS5 feels like a series of side missions where almost EVERYTHING that can happen is system based. MGS4 was very system-based (particularly Act 1 and Act 2 where you can fight alongside the militia and gain their favour) but had lots of insane scripted events and distinct acts/chapters as well.
MGS5's open world was also quite hollow, and making your way to missions and repeatedly going back to Mother Base was a pain sometimes. I've never met anyone in real life who wasn't disappointed by MGS5, and I think that goes beyond the unfinished story.
They're pretty good.
Metal Gear will suffer the same fate as Castlevania and Silent Hill
Konami will never be able to make another great MGS title without kojima
I'd rather they remake MGS but tell an alternative story and create a new new timeline out of it. This way anything they do will not touch Kojimas games and won't ruin them.
MGS2 where Raiden died as a child soldier making Snake the main character and where Solidus Snake got away in the end not Ocelot. That right there would totally change future games
They should hold off making a game for a long time so all the heat and fandom dies down to nothing. That way they can do a reboot without the past holding back anything new nearly as much. Will it work? It has a better chance they anything at all they could possibly put out and expect to sell at the moment.