Summary
The developers behindMetal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eaterhave suggested that the first and secondMetal Gear Solidgames can’t get the same treatment as they would need a complete reworking.
Before Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater was officially revealed last year, it wasrumoured to be in the works for quite some time. While Snake Eater is one of the more popular games in the series and takes place before Solid Snake’s missions,many fans wondered why it had been picked as the first game to get remade.
That became a lot clearer whenDelta: Snake Eater’s first gameplay was shown off, which confirmed that the general workings of the original game are still intact here and that it’s much more of agraphical improvement with smaller quality-of-life improvements and features added. That’s a lot easier to do withMetal Gear Solid3, but it did get fans wondering if previous games would get their own Delta re-release.
Metal Gear Solid 1 And 2 Likely Won’t Get Delta Remakes
As pointed out by GamesRadar+,Famitsu recently had the chance to speak with two of the lead developerson Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, including production producer Noriaki Okamura and creative producer Yuji Korekado. The interview contains a lot of details about the game, but the pair also talked about the possibility of remaking other Metal Gear Solid games in the future.
When asked if any other games in the series could get the Delta treatment next, Okamura (as translated by Google) pointed out that remaking the original Metal Gear Solid or the first two Metal Gear games would be difficult because there are some parts that wouldn’t work with how they developed Delta. Okamaura notes that more parts of those games would need to be remade and that it’d be a lot more work than Snake Eater.
Before everyone who was involved in the original is gone, we need to create a path to preserve the Metal Gear series for 10 or 50 years into the future. I think this is something we have to do. - Noriaki Okamura
This leads Okumura to wonder whether the team will be allowed to make the next Metal Gear Solid and how far they’d be able to go with it. The main goal for the team now is to “preserve the Metal Gear series for 10 or 50 years into the future”, something that Korekado says will be easier with the games on PC.
From the sounds of it, the original Metal Gear Solid might require too much work to get the same sort of enhancement that Snake Eater has and would require a full remake instead of just an overhaul. That doesn’t make it impossible, but it does make it a lot less likely than it previously seemed.
