Quote Originally Posted by kotora View Post
Shouldn't it be about time for Kojima to do something new? He's been bitching for over a decade how he wanted the series to end with the first MGS, and MGS2 after that.
This comes up a lot in the community that's been following MGS for a while, but Kojima has publicly said he says that about every game in the same way that they do Final Fantasy, as if it was their last chance to make the best game possible. He also said at the GDC Keynote in 2009 that his goal every time is to make the ULTIMATE stealth action game, but every time they have to compromise and miss that mark. So he may say that at the beginning of production, but by the time they're done making the game they've already put in a few scenes prepping you for the next one. If Metal Gear Solid 2 was really supposed to be the last game, he wouldn't have ended it with Liquid taking off in a Metal Gear Ray to "bury the patriots" at the end of the game.

That, the fact that every Metal Gear Solid has drastically improved from the last one. MGS2 took the series into the PS2 era with so many new mechanics, MGS3 completely destroyed that formula, and MGS4 expanded it so far it's ridiculous. Now that we have co-op that's fun as hell the series can literally go anywhere. I would love to see them make a game that gives Splinter Cell Conviction's excellent co-op a run for its money. If this is what Kojima does every time he makes a new Metal Gear, he can keep making them till I get arthritis and they'll still probably be the best games in the medium.

Quote Originally Posted by Wolf
As for an actual HD remake of the trilogy. I wouldn't mind but I would probably watch MGS1 carefully. I don't know what it is but some PS1 graphics feel like analog sound compared to digital. The remakes are definetly better looking and cleaner but they lose something very valuable with the transition. The VII compilation and Twin Snakes have never been able to capture the original games visual styles. They just feel too clean and fake for me.
This is a pretty important factor, I think MGS2 and 3 could get away with it since they were pretty clear games but idk, there's just something about MGS1 that's indescribable, a particular aesthetic that's a result of the limitations of the hardware as opposed to its strengths. However, if you watch something like The Godfather on Blu Ray, there's all kinds of techniques they can use in order to get that feel. In the special features describing the process, they said they wanted to make it more true to the negative than the negative itself; I know that's an utterly preposterous thing to say but if you watch it, it actually makes a lot of sense.