Ah, Metal Gear Solid and Soul Reaver were the reasons I bought a PS.
Good memories.
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the company has become more willing to contract outside studios
How about Kojima Productions... 😉
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If Kojima isn't involved just let Metal Gear stay dead.
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Remakes of games that aren't old are, normaly, only small, cheap to make, "better" versions that should grab in your money purse because of "your memories".
The should bring remakes of games that are 20 years+ and milestones in the genres.
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Hmm not quite agree with you. Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes released 6 years after original MGS . And it was an awesome remake. Demon’s Souls Remake released something around 10 years after original, and it was quite good too. Yes, MGS and Demon’s Souls were milestones in some way. Also do not mix up remakes and remasters. Remakes are made on new game engines entirely from scratch, and it's not a small deal.
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Ok a few Remakes are good (i don't know the two mentioned ones).
And yes, it give a difference between remaster and remake but new game engines don't make automatic all better.
Mostly only the graphic get a "update" but old weak stuff are still in the game.
I will not list separate titles because i don't want to dig so deep into the discussion about it.
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Many times it gets quite hard to accurately separate between remasters and remakes, so it's not so clear cut sadly. Sometimes the whole game gets ported to a new engine but it's called a remaster because they keep the same assets. Other times they refer to a game as a remake despite the fact that it's more of a reinterpretation of the original or a whole new game that just happens to share a name and story.
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Not quite true, Konami isn't totally garbage. Like many other big companies they make either very shitty or quite good games. We all know shitty games , it's MGS Survive and Contra Rogue Corps. Konami also makes GetsuFumaDen: Undying Moon, it's very good 2d action roguelite even in its current state in early access. Also Yu-Gi-Oh! games are popular and good for its genre. Yes, Konami fucked up many times, like Electronic Arts and Blizzard, but it's not a reason to close the door on this company.
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Yeah, agree to disagree.. They just fucked up my favorite franchise, PES, these past years. It got worse every year, so yeah Konami is garbage.. As you said, "Konami isn't totally garbage." Yeah, one man's trash is another man's treasure.
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I don't give a damn about PES series and GetsuFumaDen is one of the best games of this year for me, so yeah, you're right here.
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This is certainly gonna be AnotWnotEnotSnotOnotMnotE
Sorry for the pessimism... maybe we´ll be pleasently surprised.
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Konami is set to ruin Metal Gear, Castlevania and Silent Hill
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I will believe it, when i see it. Also give me that damn Symphony Of The Night on PC.
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I'm not interested in a Metal Gear without Kojima's involvement. What's the point?
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My brain is fried. I read "Kokomi is set to revive metal gear..."
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"Konami is set to ramp up its premium game development with new instalments and remakes for its biggest franchises, including Metal Gear and Castlevania.
That’s according to publishing sources who spoke to VGC anonymously, because they did not have permission to discuss their projects publicly.
Konami’s premium games output has slowed down significantly in recent years. The last new Metal Gear game was 2018’s critically panned Metal Gear Survive, while the last mainline Castlevania release was 2014’s Lord of Shadow 2.
In the past decade, the company has arguably grown a bigger reputation for its Pachinko gambling games, than for its premium PC and console releases.
However, following a restructure to the company’s game development divisions earlier this year, Konami is now focused on bringing back its biggest brands to the premium games space, VGC was told.
The first of these titles will be a new Castlevania game, which sources described as a “reimagining” of the series currently in development internally at Konami in Japan, with support from local external studios.
There’s been much speculation that Demon’s Souls studio Bluepoint could be working on a remake of Metal Gear Solid. However, VGC was told the series is actually being worked on by an external studio, Virtuos.
Established in 2004, Virtuos is one of the largest game developers in the world and focuses on supporting the development of major triple-A games or bringing existing games to new platforms.
Recently it worked on the Switch ports of Dark Souls Remastered, The Outer Worlds and The BioShock Collection, as well as contributing art and content to blockbusters such as Battlefield 1, Uncharted 4 and Horizon Zero Dawn.
However, following the disappointing performance of recent in-house titles Metal Gear Survive and Contra: Rogue Corps, VGC’s sources said the company has become more willing to contract outside studios for its major franchises.
VGC first reported Konami’s softening of its stance over licensing its game properties earlier this year, in a report revealing that the company has outsourced a new Silent Hill game.
Last year, Konami ramped up its game efforts with the creation of a new external publishing programme, with which it hoped to sign more Western-developed titles."
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/konami-is-set-to-revive-metal-gear-castlevania-and-silent-hill/
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