The future of the series

[NateDog]

Actually - i'm gonna go serial hater for a second: when you look past performance and relative fidelity, the FOX engine has a lot of limitations that could be improved upon.

1. Its physics left quite a bit to be desired. I'm replaying MGS V at the moment and you'll find the game can sometimes really struggle with certain slopes/angles and interactions with Snake's various movement modes (standing, sprinting, walking, crouching, prone, etc). Might seem minor - but it can be painful when a perfect run is ruined because Snake froze at a perfectly normal 30 degrees angle.

2. Pop in is pretty atrocious. The game circumvents this with the binoculars to some extent, but its clear the game had to take a lot of shortcuts with draw distance to maintain performance. Where this becomes a real problem is how it impacts enemy density and your ability to properly plan with marking.

3. Speaking of density, this places heavy limitation on how alive the world can be. It's a crime that we didn't get to sneak around active battlefields like we did in MGS 4 - or vibrant towns, etc.

4. Visually there were a lot of flat textures, low poly shortcuts, etc. It had a great lighting system which hid a lot of flaws.

I guess the point i'm trying to make here is game engines aren't the be all end all of an experience

I mean to be fair here we're talking about a game made on PS3 that's 10 years old Gorny.