Metal Gear Solid 4 Remake Would Be 'Quite a Challenge,' Says Konami's MGS Series Producer

In a caller Japanese interrogation with Real Sound, Metal Gear bid shaper Noriaki Okamura discussed what’s adjacent for the franchise aft the Metal Gear Solid 3 remake, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater.

“Right now, we’re inactive reasoning astir what to marque next,” Okamura said. “Since we created an accidental (with MGS Delta) for caller players to acquisition the Metal Gear series, I bash privation to proceed with it.”

He continued: “It could beryllium a remake, oregon we mightiness situation ourselves by creating a marque caller game. The Metal Gear bid is portion of videogame history, spanning pixel creation to cinematic presentation, and truthful each rubric requires a antithetic attack to expressing and remaking it.

“We won’t use the methodology utilized to marque the caller MGS Delta to each different games successful the bid — alternatively we mean to find the champion attack for each circumstantial game.”

Okamura besides touched connected the magnitude of clip it took for the squad astatine Konami to beryllium successful a presumption to remake Metal Gear Solid 3. “Most of the archetypal unit members had near and the squad had been reorganized, nevertheless we gathered radical unneurotic and yet arrived astatine the constituent wherever we could marque MGS Delta. As a team, we are assured that we achieved a level of prime that not lone preserves the entreaty of the archetypal but besides that modern players could enjoy. We are presently moving retired factual plans for what we are going to bash next.”

However, erstwhile asked astir the anticipation of a Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots remake, Okamura remained cautious, saying: “the hardware backmost past required precise circumstantial designs to get the astir retired of the 3D exertion that was disposable astatine the time, truthful MGS4 ended up with immoderate beauteous unsocial code. It seems similar it would beryllium rather a situation to bring that into the contiguous day.”

At the moment, 2008’s Metal Gear Solid 4, which ties up each the escaped ends successful Solid Snake’s story, is lone playable connected PlayStation 3. Based connected the archetypal crippled merchandise bid and rumors, a remastered larboard of MGS4 is expected to beryllium included successful the upcoming Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 2, nevertheless Konami has yet to denote the authoritative line-up for this 2nd anthology of MGS games to beryllium released connected existent gen platforms.

While Okamoto’s comments code a remake alternatively than a remaster, his thoughts connected MGS4’s unsocial codification whitethorn explicate wherefore it is taking Konami truthful agelong to merchandise Volume 2. Okamura antecedently said that the squad are taking their clip connected Volume 2 to debar the show issues that dogged Volume 1 astatine launch: “we’re going to bash everything we tin not to repetition that, but we conscionable person to inquire for everyone to springiness america time.”

Verity Townsend is simply a Japan-based freelance writer who antecedently served arsenic editor, contributor and translator for the crippled quality tract Automaton West. She has besides written astir Japanese civilization and movies for assorted publications.