Peter Vaughn @ Addicted-Gamers writes:
"There’s usually little reason to be anything but excited and perhaps a little curious whenever Hideo Kojima, a man now regarded as one of the most prolific game designers of all time, announces a plan to release a new project. I would be lying if that excitement were blunted a little when the next bout of games pouring forth from Kojima Productions would be joining the growing wave of HD collections and 3D re-imaginings. Metal Gear Solid HD Collection has been in stores for a few months, and the Zone of the Enders collection is on its way. Most recently, MGS 3: Snake Eater had been released as a 3D game on Nintendo’s 3DS. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have many problems with seeing some of my favorite games re-mastered for HD or even 3D, but it would be yet another lie if I said I wouldn’t be more excited to see those series continued in new releases, with fresh characters and narratives."
Konami will temporarily remove Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3 from digital storefronts starting November 8 as it works to renew the licenses for select historical archive footage used in each game, the company announced.
To be honest, I’m surprised Konami are even considering re-listing this given how they’ve abandoned their franchises and fans.
Maybe temporarily will become permanently.
They definitely won't relist the games on the pretty much dead platforms they were on. If they go through hassle of changing all the cutscenes it will be to release a PS/Xbox/Switch collection on current systems.
Out of curioisity, why isn't historical footage a part of the public domain?
According to Google anything before 1924 and anything that wasn't copyrighted 5 years after being publised is fair game.
Maybe the historical footage used in the MGS games might have new copyright owners and they are knocking on the doors of whoever is using that footage for a paycheck.
Maybe that's what happened because of what happened with writers suing Movie studios for rights to old IP like terminator, Beetlejuice and Friday the 13th due to an old copyright law that grants authors rights to their work after 35 years. Maybe that's what happened to the copyright of the old footage as well?
Or they are just negotiating with the original copyright owners? Maybe this is a ploy to get it for cheaper? Bluff that they will just take the games down for a cheaper licence price?
Who knows...
If they didn’t have plans to rerelease them they would just say they aren’t coming back . They may not release them again if whoever owns the copyrights are greedy but it would seem they are putting some effort into it otherwise they would say buy it now or else that would make them more $ now . I could be wrong but that makes sense to me .
Well, in this case, describing it as a digital vs physical problem may not be too accurate.
If you already purchased it digitally, you'll still be able to download it and play any time - and if I want to go buy it digitally, I still can today, whereas I probably can't find a physical copy of it in Walmart or wherever.
True as long as you bought something before it get delisted you'll still be able to play them. All the physical vs digital is nonesense now and getting old. You get screwed from both at the end of the day if everything goes down. Physical will have all the bugs because they need the 1st day patches and then some. About most dlc needs downloading so you screwed outta complete edition. I still dont see Sony or MS going anywhere in the next 100 years.
People on here find literally every excuse they can to state just how much better and future proof physical games are over digital.
Funny, being I can play every single one of my almost 1000 steam games with no issue. And, even when the store eventually shutters, they have systems in place I can still back up all my games.
What am I supposed to do when my console, and even the discs it runs, break down? I mean, I can rebuy them, but that just means I had to pay twice for a game, and probably now at collector prices. Doesn't sound very future proof to me.
@TheRealTedCruz
That already happened to me on ps2. My stuff got stolen, I had to rebuy some of the games with allowances. Some games were nich I couldnt find them again.
@blackblades
We don't even need to loose the games in anyway for physical media reliability to be put to test, disc rot is a thing.
Just started MGS 3 over the weekend.
Wouldn't have affected me since I bought the collection a long time ago.
I'm more interested in the fact that they have to re-license historical footage constantly. At what point is it not worth it anymore? I can't imagine a lot of people are buying MGS Collection.
What? You got it you can still play it just like if you got a physical copy of the game ...
How to get engaged with 2s story ? , can't get through the ship without quiting the game literally since forever.
Metal Gear Solid 3 is one of the greatest games of all time, and Konami is giving it a remaster with the FOX Engine! Sort of....with Pachinko. RGT 85 isn't too pleased with this decision!
I still can't believe Konami is doing all this. It's like they're intentionally trolling us at this point.
You don't have to buy it every game is not meant for you just maybe I'm just saying They may not be targeting you so relax bruh
@fox I don't care what it is I'm not the target for whatever it is so I can give 2 fukcs about it
What a dumbass comment. Why bother commenting in the article when you didn't even make an effort or care to make effort to find out what the article is about. You're just another headline reader, aren't you? Jesus
@Dabigkahuna76
Perhaps it's a wise thing to NOT post at all then if you're not contributing / bothering to read the article.
Are they? The reality is those pachinko machines are probably going to give them a greater return then the actual Metal Gear Solid games consider they're probably not spending 100 million or more on such the game
I don't believe it's a remaster. Pachinko machines just have scripted cut scenes typically. You win and you see a next cut scene. You lose and you lose. In this case they probably had some animation studio model these cutscenes for their new machine.
It looks so beautiful too...not that the original MGS3 looks bad (seriously go emulate that shit it's still a damn good looking game) but these remastered parts look phenomenal!
classic show, wonder which was better, the american version or the british version with sir bruce forsyth?
They are testing to see how angry fans are then offer It on consoles.
I am done with Konami for the way they have behaved.
Rich Stanton:
"Metal Gear Solid 2 ended with an explosion of questions. In creating a game that questioned its own status as a game, Kojima had opened countless essentially insoluble plot threads. The most pressing one was: what next? Hideo Kojima initially tried to avoid directing Metal Gear Solid 3, or so the talk goes. He did not."
