Speaking with 1UP, MGS4 Assistant Producer Ryan Payton reminded the world of a very important lesson: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots isn’t the end of the Metal Gear Solid franchise — only the end of Solid Snake’s story.
Wait, what? If it’s the end of Solid Snake’s story, then how in the world could you continue the Metal Gear Solid franchise? Well, according to Payton, “[there's] still a lot of room for filling in the gaps as far as Big Boss is concerned”.
Hmm… Big Boss, you say? Interesting. While I would be on board for a new chapter starring Big Boss (voiced by David Hayter), I do have a request for Konami: Remake the original Metal Gear Solid! You already have (SPOILER ALERT!) Shadow Moses rendered for the PlayStation 3, for Christ sake! Oh, sure, there was a remake for the GameCube, but I don’t care.
Or better yet: A remake of Metal Gear. The original. It’d be perfect. The first story of Solid Snake, where he first meets Big Boss in Outer Heaven.
Go on, Konami. Do it while the Metal Gear stove is still pipin’ hot.
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You hit my thoughts right on the head.
I went back and played MGS3 Subsistence after I finished MGS4, and I just bought a PSP to get MGS Digital Graphic Novel and Portable Ops (haven’t played yet).
I think there’s a lot of opportunity to fill in the Big Boss story. In my opinion, the whole MG saga has sort of backed into Big Boss as a good guy, so now we’re left with a huge gap as far as how the hell he got from (morally) a Solid Snake type character in MGS3 and Portable Ops into an (apparently) uber bad guy prior to Metal Gear Solid (PS1).
I didn’t consider myself a huge fan even though I bought a PS1 and PS2 for the MGS games, but MGS4 has made me one, and now I want to re-play earlier games. However, I’m not going near that now-awful-looking PS1 Metal Gear Solid game, or the original MG games (that also came on Disk 2 of MGS3 Subsistence). Playing MGS3 has reminded me just how much the controls just annoyed the crap out of me at times, and I can’t imagine putting myself through the graphic awfulness of the 3 earliest games.
At the very least, I say if Kojima is going to remake one thing, then pleae remake Metal Gear Solid for the PS3. I’d buy that game in a heartbeat.
Wow, you’d be really missing out if you can’t look past dated graphics. Those are some of the greatest games of all time, and you don’t want to play them because the graphics are dated?
Your loss, I can only imagine how many other great games you’re missing because you think the game experience is in the graphics.
1 thing i’ll say is that johnny looks like snake and how about taking it from there? i’ve not copmpleted msg4 yet but when he took his mask off to help meryl…OMG!