The Games That Got Away

[Dirty Duck]

How did this forum make it this many posts without bringing up the original version of Metal Gear Solid Rising?  It wouldn't have been as fun as Revengance, but I still want the story of Dr. Madnar turning Raiden into a cyborg in Area 51!

It has been discussed in the recesses of vaguely relevant topics (I think one about the future of the franchise). A lot of us were very active on the old forum around the time it was announced and then subsequently changed to Revengeance so we’ve done a good amount of lamenting it. I was so anti-Revengeance after that first trailer…until I played the demo and knew I had to pick it up on release LOL

I've always wondered what the approach to stealth would be like in a game like that, especially running on the FOX Engine if it did. Like, how do you present challenge in a stealth mission where the main playable character can literally cut through walls and redefine a new route through the map? Would have to take some mad vertical level design or really interesting AI parameters to make it so you have a chance of being caught out by guards.

I feel like the risk of cutting through the architecture would work much the same as leaving dead bodies around, except you can’t put a cut down wall in a locker to hide it. Sure, you’ve opened a new route, but the next guard that sees it will phone it in and then your life will be a lot harder. You’ve got to make it count. Will cutting that wall even help you? Or will it just put an eternal CAUTION phase on you?
I feel like if MGSV managed to make open world stealth work, MGSR would have done bits with destructible environment stealth. I’d have loved it if you had the choice between the HF Blade and more traditional MGS2 Raiden stealth with a SOCOM.