Konami has revealed that one in all the causes it greenlit the Metal Gear Solid 3 remake is as a result of youthful players aren’t aware of the sequence anymore.
Talking to Play and shared by GamesRadar, sequence producer Noriaki Okamura admitted Konami is seeking to seize a brand new viewers with the remake, which arrives 20 years after the authentic Metal Gear Solid 3 and 9 years after the final mainline entry.
“One in all the issues that actually sparked us to do the remake in normal is as a result of we realized that loads of the newer, youthful technology of players aren’t aware of the Metal Gear sequence anymore,” he stated.
“It was mainly our mission, our obligation, to type of proceed ensuring that the sequence lives on for future generations. In spite of everything, we depart behind rather more than simply DNA, as Solid Snake would say — however once more, who’s Solid Snake?”
In reality, that is one in all the causes Konami selected the Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater title for the remake, versus merely calling it Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Timeline smart, Snake Eater is the first recreation in the sequence, so going with the Greek letter ‘delta’ helped get this new starting throughout.
Thr franchise started in 1987 with Hideo Kojima’s Metal Gear, and final noticed a mainline entry with Kojima’s Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Ache, launched in 2015. Spin-off Metal Gear Survive launched in 2018, with solely collections of older video games popping out in the subsequent years.
So, it’s simple to know the place Konami is coming from right here. Metal Gear is well-known by followers of a sure age and has monumental nostalgia potential, however with no model new mainline entry in practically a decade, curiosity amongst youthful players in all probability isn’t the place Konami desires it to be.
The query now could be, after Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater comes out, the place will Konami take the sequence subsequent? We all know MGS: Grasp Assortment Vol. 2 is in the works, however may Konami be set to remake Kojima’s seminal Metal Gear Solid subsequent? After that, may followers lastly get a model new Metal Gear Solid recreation? If that’s the case, would Konami proceed the story as set out by Kojima, or begin contemporary?
As for Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Konami is but to announce a launch date, but it surely’s due out on
PS5, Xbox Series X and S, and PC in some unspecified time in the future in 2025.
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