Games Thirst – Amazing Life
As you may now by now, Konami introduced a Metal Gear Solid Collection which includes MGS 2 and 3 and the PSP’s Peace Walker, but not the first title. That’s because according to the studio’s creative producer Yoshikazu Matsuhana, both its gameplay and visuals are just too dated, but in the future they hope to do something special with it.
“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 to Eurogamer.
“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.”
He added: “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.”
