craggy wrote:I'm suggesting that since they seem only to be covering old ground
They never covered the '80s before.
craggy wrote:rather than introducing new characters
Like the XOF Commander or Bandage Man, or any of the dozens of new characters that are likely to be introduced in the game.
craggy wrote:or making whole new games, not moving on from the end of the story
Like Metal Gear Rising.
craggy wrote:in what's probably little more than a comfort zone of guaranteed income from fans of the franchise, then they'd probably be better to re-do the events of the original games using modern tech.
Which Kojima has stated he
really doesn't want to do. He doesn't like remaking games, and the only reason Twin Snakes exists is because he wanted to ensure Snake's position in Super Smash Bros.
craggy wrote:With the end of MGS 5 gamers who've played the entire series, or even just the main numbered MGS games will have spent more time playing as Big Boss than we will have Solid Snake.
With just the numbered games? Snake has five titles he's been playable in, (Including Sons of Liberty) while Big Boss only had two, Snake Eater and Phantom Pain. Including the PSP games? That still only brings Big Boss up to four, and if Ground Zeroes really is a separate game, five...and Snake up to seven, if you want to include Acid. And Snake's Revenge and Ghost Babel bring Snake up to nine.
If you don't include the original MSX games, or the PSP games or side games or what have you, it's still 3-to-2, or just 1:1 if you don't include Sons of Liberty. With the new game(s) on the way, Big Boss can only manage to tie with Snake.
craggy wrote:Re-making the original games and putting the points of views of both characters in there would bring things full-circle and could be the pinnacle of much of what the series core themes seem to be.
They already closed the circle with Big Boss having a heart-to-heart with Snake. Never mind the fact that Big Boss was, by the time Outer Heaven happened, a straight-up villain who planning to use Metal Gear in order to incite a constant state of world-wide war, and is actively trying to get Snake killed.