Should the next MGS project be a remake or a new entry?

[Dirty Duck]

The way I see it - Delta, while certainly good, had rough edges when it came to gameplay balance, character movement, etc. Until there is a dedicated team in place to make new Metal Gear content, the best way forward is to build them up on remakes. Let them really get a feel for how the series works within the framework of what already existed before putting in the time and money on something new altogether.

I'm not sure if making reskins and adding modern gameplay mechanics without too much consideration for the original intention or balance of the game is necessarily the best preparation for making a new Metal Gear. Delta was largely built on 3's code, it's not as if they redid all the code to get a better handle on it. Any appreciation for MGS's design philosophy they got from making Delta could probably also have been gleaned by just playing 3.

But there's also a question - what "new" Metal Gear Solid games could be made within the existing canon? There's only so much Big Boss / Venom stuff to still fill in, and even then, would any of that be satisfying? Solid Snake only has a few years of undocumented Philanthropy missions, would any of them be compelling?

The mention of Venom is proof enough that there can always be something new-I think getting bogged down in the lore and timeline is something that creatives really shouldn't be put off by. But if they did want to respect it then the idea of a Philanthropy mission where something significant happened really isn't all that farfetched. Raiden rescuing Sunny from the Patriots could also be expanded into a game length story-I know it was the planned Metal Gear Rising story but Raiden wasn't actually a cyborg until afterwards, and it would be fun to play as non-cyborg Raiden again honestly. I do agree that more Big Boss interquels aren't necessarily what I want to see going forward.

Also I think The Boss WW2 game is something I thought sounded cool as a teenager that now I find utterly unappealing. The Cobras work as a boss unit but aren't interesting or nuanced enough to be a supporting cast. What, we're gonna have a touching human moment from the bee man?