The future of the series

[Dirty Duck]

MGS seemingly does actually have a future for the first time in a long time which is exciting. It will be good for Vol. 2 to put a lot of games newer fans may not have played in front of them. I'm personally not loving how Delta looks but maybe they'll develop more of an art style in future original/remake projects. That being said I'm not really into the idea of remakes of any of the Solid games. They all hold up well imo and from what we've seen with Delta they're not really doing much to shake the games up. Like sure they could remake MGS1 but I'd rather have something 'new,' MG1+MG2 remakes fall more into that territory obviously as they'd have to really expand on everything to make even the two together fill a modern AAA game. It's an obvious idea and it's crossed everyone's minds but whether or not it would actually make for anything interesting is still up in the air.

I personally worry they'd take a cowards route and retcon the retcons of MGSV out if they remade Metal Gear + Metal Gear 2. I was surprised to see that FF7 remake included stuff from all of the Compilation of FF7 content but I really respected it not just ditching stuff from projects that were received worse. If you're going to remake them find a way to make them work with the latest canon imo. Doesn't have to be too invasive but don't just ditch it altogether. Venom's gotta be there somewhere!

Time has gone on and they've obviously abandoned the Fox Engine(?) so this idea isn't as cost effective as when I first proposed it after MGSV but I do still think a Philanthropy game set between MGS1 and MGS2 as well as between MGS2 and MGS4 would have worked so well with the framework set up by V. Mission based gameplay involving Snake and Otacon tracking down and destroying Metal Gears all over the world. Doesn't need too intricate of a story, plot already set up and canon, lots of free reign to do what any writer wants to do with it within that smaller scope. Multiple Ground Zero sized areas that feel totally different from one another. Heck if KONAMI wanted a games as service type thing they could even have this work like Hitman and gradually add a new Metal Gear to deal with in a different location every couple of months for years. It's non invasive to the established canon of the saga, while still using a fan favourite character during a period we know happened but haven't seen, and gives lots of opportunity for marketable mech designs and to keep players on it for years without having to reinvent the wheel too much. You could have used so much of what TPP already developed and just expand on that. Anyway enough fanfiction about a fake game!