26th October 2023, 5:03 AM
Dear lord this trailer is AGGRESSIVELY dull. The loss of all the talent that made Metal Gear stand out before is painfully noticed here. Where's the grandness, the opening "tease"? The 'kept ya' of it all? The bizarre jokes? It plays it way too safe. Further, what happened to the Fox engine?! That engine was specially designed for Metal Gear and had all the GAMEPLAY elements already figured out! I think we were all very much hoping for a complete gameplay reimagining using modern "open world" emergent gameplay mechanics in the original storyline. Phantom Pain probably had one of the worst actual "narratives" of the series, but I played it more than any other because of the crazy gameplay shenanigans I could get up to, tackling every single outpost in unique ways.
So, we're getting Unreal. The suspicions online are that everyone who actually knew how to code for the Fox engine is gone, so rather than hire new people to retrain on the engine, Konami just figured it would be cheaper and easier to hire a new group that knows the Unreal engine and do that. They're right, in that they created the circumstances where this is true with their horrible mismanagement of their own company.
For my part, I'm content to flat out ignore this game. Did you SEE the modern Metal Gear collection? It's a buggy mess without a single update that somehow manages to be worse than the MGS collection on PS3 of all things, and the games perform terribly on Switch even though they're all ancient PS2 and earlier games. Even if it IS a competent remake, I'm not sure I want to give Konami a single thin dime ever again.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)