Metal Gear Solid 3 Remake

There shall be a Steel Gear Strong 3 Remake. And whereas it follows the collection’ custom of getting a really stupid-sounding identify, I ain’t joyful, and right here is why.

Ever since rumors of a Steel Gear Strong 3 Remake began making the rounds I’ve had an uneasy feeling in my abdomen. Partly as a result of I am depressing about one in every of my favourite franchises however largely as a result of I do not belief Konami.

Seeing some of us getting all enthusiastic about it and the Silent Hill 2 remake by Bloober Workforce simply makes this sense worse.

And it actually will get to me that every one it takes to stoke the joy for avid gamers are fairly however inferior recreations of some iconic visuals. Critically, is an HD render of Bare Snake’s face mud-smeared sufficient to persuade you all?

Who’s the Steel Gear Strong 3 Remake for?

I’ve not forgotten the MGS3 Pachinko Machine, Steel Gear Survive or once they scrubbed Hideo Kojima’s identify from all subsequent releases.

Or simply the complete factor that result in Kojima being fired from Konami in 2015 simply days after the discharge of Steel Gear Strong V.

Since then, “followers of the collection” had an advanced relationship with its creator. He’s both the neatest man in gaming with a library to again up that declare or a pretentious hack who lived on the laurels of his crew.

His first sport after the ousting from Konami, Dying Stranding was as divisive as a sport may ever be and possibly the explanation why “true followers of Steel Gear” have been clamming for this remake or a return of the franchise in an enormous means.

Particularly Steel Gear Strong 3, the one Remake everybody wished. The sport so explicitly gave up on the broader imaginative and prescient of its predecessors and was determined to be cherished by its followers after the perceived failure of MGS2

It is the crowd-pleaser. And that is the explanation why it is again.

Steel Gear Strong, The Collection That Hates You

The explanation for this prolonged rant will not be that I do not need individuals to be proud of their humorous online game. It’s simply that out of all of the video games to choose, all of the collection’ to revive. It’s Steel Gear Strong.

A franchise that had turned from a heartfelt try to make some grandiose statements about society, video games as artwork, and the best way we eat media right into a self-deprecating horrorshow.

Everyone knows from interviews that the collection’ creators’ relationship with the franchise had slowly become distress by the point manufacturing on MGS3 wrapped. You solely have to play Weapons of the Patriots to get a way of it.

The Steel Gear Strong franchise is a collection of video games which have become a silent scream of agony from its creator. However followers wished extra Steel Gear and the writer wished to squeeze that money cow as laborious as they may.

It was not all unhealthy, however trying again on the collection now after studying numerous interviews and tales about their improvement there’s a form of guilt that comes from having fun with them.

If in case you have ever preferred these video games however by no means understood the messages they tried to convey, that is nice. You’ll be able to nonetheless like the enduring characters and moments that make the collection what it’s.

However I’ll ask you to a minimum of reevaluate Steel Gear Strong as a product, bought by Konami in 2023. So here’s a good little thread by twitter-user @WeAreJoel that paperwork their sins (solely those across the MGSV launch).

Only a reminder for anybody excited in regards to the Steel Gear 3 Remake announcement:

Always remember that Konami stripped Hideo Kojima of his govt position and tried to erase him from their historical past🧵 pic.twitter.com/Rwi0beXcd7

— Joël 🇩🇴 (@WeAreJoel) May 24, 2023

So about Steel Gear Strong Delta: Snake Eater

Even when all of this does not curiosity you as a result of let’s be actual I am only a weirdo on the web being weirdly passionate in regards to the humorous sport with the Snakeman sporting an alligator head. I need to discuss what was proven in the present day.

We noticed a pre-rendered trailer which means mainly nothing and simply confirmed off a bunch of pre-rendered property with a hen flying by way of, in addition to a title drop, and later Konami confirmed some screenshots.

Whereas there’s the thinly veiled promise of the “unique voice characters” returning, which may imply something from re-recording all of the strains or simply reusing the unique recording.

The screenshots themselves are additionally a bit icky. Whereas the 4 screenshots proven are 1-1 replicas of the unique areas there’s simply one thing off about them.

For instance, the bizarre conflict of PS2 period degree design and (in all probability) photo-scanned property within the picture above.

How simply bizarre the reflections are rendered on this one.

The inconsistency in textures and fashions right here. Simply have a look at the tree to the appropriate and the stones and dirt subsequent to it. They do not actually appear to be they share the identical manufacturing values.

Or the truth that the troopers proven in 3 of the 4 photos look precisely the identical and strike the identical pose. I am depressing, so do not take me overanalyzing these items for the gospel.

However paired with a lackluster trailer that you can technically cobble collectively in Unreal Engine given a while and finances. I hope you perceive my warning. I have been damage earlier than and I do not need you to undergo the identical factor.

All of those screenshots look awfully staged and extra “proof of idea” than precise in-game materials. I do not belief it as a result of, up to now the complete sport provides me The Day Earlier than vibes, however possibly I am simply seeing issues.

And the truth that they have not introduced but who’s liable for this remake, rumors say that this remake is produced by Virtuos who’ve been aiding on every thing from Name of Responsibility to League of Legends.

But it surely’s odd they would not announce such an enormous mission. It is extra probably that the sport is being produced in-house at Konami as an alternative.

Konami promised the same old nebulous buzz-words reminiscent of “trustworthy to the unique” and “evolving the gameplay”. Which may imply something at this level.

So earlier than you pre-order or act like that is the best factor ever, look forward to a demo or some gameplay that is not some extremely curated trailer by an organization that has no points digging up the corpses of beloved IPs.

And earlier than a few of you now begin demanding that they will remake Castlevania (once more) as some type of God of Conflict rip-off (once more) let me go away you with one nugget of knowledge:

All of the individuals who made all of the video video games you liked from Konami have gone elsewhere. Firms do not make video games, individuals do.

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