Big Boss is watching us from Outer Heaven.

“I can promise you that we’re definitely not leaving Metal Gear behind or anything like that. I know some blogs were claiming that online this morning, but I’m not really sure where they’d be getting that from.

“We’re still definitely working on console games and franchises such as Metal Gear, Silent Hill, Castlevania, PES and all the rest.”

All hope is not lost. Looking forward to future projects.

Thoughts?

Next game in the MGS series

Metal Gear Slot

They'll still all be shit tbh

AngryJoe's friend made an interesting point that the developers might go back to doing the linear, story-focused games instead of the free-infiltration of TPP.

But yeah, probably.

Okay.

Where's my Silent Hills, though?

I want a game that

you left this bit out

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The statement came from Konami Customer Support rather than a member of the PR Team

I know that Konami isn't exactly a paragon of logic and reason, but it seems a little hasty to just DROP all AAA development at once. Especially since Kojima Productions is contracted until December.

Isn't MGS dead without Kojima?

You'd think so, but I'm of the opinion that it's ultimately a good thing.

If I look at Metal Gear's history, I can see that the only truly "bad" Metal Gear without Kojima's name on it was Snake's Revenge. The other main ones I'm thinking of, Portable Ops and Rising: Revengeance, were both good, or at least, passable in their own right. Portable Ops was very true to it's Metal Gear roots, with it's story feeling very at home in the canon. The problem was the gameplay. The team was assigned to create an entirely new kind of game for a new system (PSP) and was tasked with following up the INCREDIBLE Snake Eater.

If they can somehow get writers that know the lore, and the remnants of the KojiPro team to follow up the open world infiltration of The Phantom Pain, it's possible that we could a true "missing link" in the MG canon.

I mean, it's clear Kojima is one of two things:

• He's a poor creator incapable of delegating and organising people to meet deadlines

or

• He's a shit writer.

Either way, he's constantly disrespected the franchise that put him on the map. And while Peace Walker, Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain are all great games, they lack the imaginative flare of the original 3. His departure may be a blessing in disguise. And as a fan of his work, I hope he can find a studio where he can make more of what he really wants to -- stuff like Silent Hill.

I will remain cautiously optimistic about the future.

Quote from: Comet on September 22, 2015, 05:28:36 PM

Isn't MGS dead without Kojima?

You'd think so, but I remain optimistic about the situation.

If I look at Metal Gear's history, I can see that the only truly "bad" Metal Gear without Kojima's name on it was Snake's Revenge. The other main ones I'm thinking of, Portable Ops and Rising: Revengeance, were both good, or at least, passable in their own right. Portable Ops was very true to it's Metal Gear roots, with it's story feeling very at home in the canon. The problem was the gameplay. The team was assigned to create an entirely new kind of game for a new system (PSP) and was tasked with following up the INCREDIBLE Snake Eater.

If they can somehow get writers that know the lore, and the remnants of the KojiPro team to follow up the open world infiltration of The Phantom Pain, it's possible that we could a true "missing link" in the MG canon.

I mean, it's clear Kojima is one of two things:

• He's a poor creator incapable of delegating and organising people to meet deadlines

or

• He's a shit writer.

Either way, he's constantly disrespected the franchise that put him on the map. And while Peace Walker, Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain are all great games, they lack the imaginative flare of the original 3. His departure may be a blessing in disguise. And as a fan of his work, I hope he can find a studio where he can make more of what he really wants to -- stuff like Silent Hill.

I will remain cautiously optimistic about the future.

fixed. you had two Lists before my quotes, and it fucked with everything else in the post.

I want to see where they can take MGS without Kojima. People think he was the genius behind EVERYTHING but he had a team of writers and artists who probably convinced him to go in different directions, rather than let him have complete control. Like he wanted to make the fight with The End last 2 weeks but obviously that never happened, thank God. I also read that his original vision for Snake was a LOT different and Shinkawa was the one repsonsible for the badass we know and love.

Good. A company their size would have been batshit insane to go the mobile-gaming route.

Yeah, any Kojima-less MGS sequels would only be so bad at worst, unless Konami just up and drops the ball, because Kojima and the gang have been making the blueprints for a long time now.

Metal Gear remake plz

Good. A company their size would have been batshit insane to go the mobile-gaming route.

Yeah, any Kojima-less MGS sequels would only be so bad at worst, unless Konami just up and drops the ball, because Kojima and the gang have been making the blueprints for a long time now.

Literally anyone can take what TPP had and make it again. For them to fuck up the gameplay in any regard would be the most amateur thing ever.

The story is key. They need someone good.