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Konami wants to "re-imagine" MGS in HD
Kojima Productions wants to remake the first Metal Gear Solid title in full HD, so says the studio's creative producer Yoshikazu Matsuhana.
Speaking with Eurogamer at E3 in Los Angeles this week, Matsuhana explained that the studio had decided against including the 1998 PSone classic in the forthcoming Metal Gear Solid HD Collection as both its gameplay and visuals are just too dated.
"Obviously, we wanted to include it and make it a complete collection. However, as you know, Metal Gear Solid 1 was for the PSone. It has a very, very low polygon count," he explained.
"While at the time the game was something new and refreshing, just bringing it as is into HD probably wouldn't have that much meaning to us. We're doing two and three with a certain work flow where the goal is to take that game, preserve it and introduce it to a new generation. We can't really take that approach with Metal Gear Solid 1 because it's very dated at this point."
However, Matsuhana then added that the studio hopes to return to the game at some point and give it some special attention above and beyond a new HD lick of paint.
"If we were going to do Metal Gear Solid 1 we'd want to take more time with it. Not just up-res the textures, not just make things look pretty and polished, but go back and tweak some of the gameplay, tweak the story to update things and do it properly. Not just a re-master but a re-imagining almost.
"We do want to do that sometime down the road but it will take more time. It's not something we're looking at doing right now."
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Vor einigen Tagen (oder sind es jetzt schon Wochen?) gab es das Gerücht, dass Metal Gear Rising den Entwickler gewechselt hätte. Laut den Gerüchten wäre der neue Entwickler Platinum Games, die Entwickler von Action Games wie Bayonetta und Vanquish, und insbesondere Hideki Kamiya. Ein paar Tage darauf haben Kamiya und Kojima Twitter Nachrichten ausgetauscht, "But it would be nice if it were true.", wobei das IMO weder das Gerücht stärkt noch entkräftet.
