Tom geranTechnology reporter
Metal gear is one of the best -selling video game series in history, transferring more than 60 million copies.
The series made cinematics in gaming by combining state -of -the -art cuts, voice acting and dynamic camera angles that looked more at home on the big screen at that time.
Metal gear -tackling subjects are usually not seen in sports, such as nuclear disarmament and child soldiers, and philosophical questions, even taking advantage of offbeat humor.
The games often broke the fourth wall and asked the players to find solutions to the riddles in unusual ways – such as looking at the back cover of the physical box of the game.
The important place of the series in gaming history meant that the fans were shocked when its creator Hideo Kojima left a game publisher conami in a sharp partition in 2015.
One of the biggest titles of gaming was left directionless – and has not since the best selling series since then.
But now, a decade later, Conmi has released a remake of the third game in the series: Metal Gear Solid Delta.
So what happened between Conmi and Kojima, and how does the new game catch without its original manufacturer?
Why did Kojima leave the concomitant?
Industry expert Christopher Dring told the BBC, “Metal Gear has influenced game-making, which makes it one of the most manipulative entertainment franchises in the world, and makes Hideo Kojima one of the most famous creators in the industry.”
With such success, you may think that it was a match built in heaven, but there were issues bubbling below the surface.
While nothing is publicly said, the principle behind a generally divided theory is related to the spring cost of the 2015 metal gear solid V, Estimated by some More than $ 80m (£ 59m) – a very important growth cost at that time.
It is not really known what happened between Conmi and Kojima, but the studio was clearly fed up with the amount of money spent to create the same game – Kojima’s internal studios actually removed from the promotional material for metal gear solid V at that time.
Conmi turned the game out of the door, but it returned from its original point of view despite the high cost, repeatedly with the level and a third chapter that never emerged.
Nevertheless, the game still received excellent reviews and won several awards, but the cracks between the company and the manufacturer seemed incomplete.
And in an act that proved to be highly controversial – and perhaps show how hot things were made behind the curtain – when metal gear solid V won an award, Conmi informed the developer that it was not allowed to gather it,
A few months later, Kojima went away, and in the later years, his former studios published.
“Konami shifted his strategy for some time away from the console game, and focused on things such as entertainment markets, Pachinko machines,” Mr. Dring said.
“He also focused fast on mobile.”
This meant that other classic franchises of Conmi such as Castlevenia and Silent Hill also went without new games for a decade.
Meanwhile, Kojima’s new studio signed a blockbuster deal with Sony, which was a sequel this year to develop the Monster Hit Dath Stranding for Playstation.
Why remake now?
Gaming has turned to remake in recent years.
High -profile games such as resident Evil 4, final fantasy VIIs and demon souls, have been remade with great pomp with the benefits of all classics, modern graphics and game design in their day – and with strong sales figures.
“This is a very attractive and growing field,” said Mr. Dring.
“Industry is getting older, gamers are entering a middle age and are indifferent to classic titles.
Mr. Dring says that one of the best-selling sports so far Elder Scrolls V: Oblavian Remastard, a remake of the Classic Roll-Playing Game (RPG) since 2007, has been selling millions of copies since its release in April.
Conmi has started returning to publish the games by focusing in the region, with a silent hill remake last year and a new survival is a new survival children’s game last year.
So this is a possible attractive trick – but is the metal gear solid 3: is the right game for snake eater remake?
The fans of the series reported that the BBC Metal Gear Solid 3 was selected for a good reason.
YouTuber Zak Ras said that there was “great importance” behind the game.
“Most people would say that their favorite entry in the series is either metal gear solid 1 or 3,” he said.
“Story-wise, given that it is the first prequal set at the beginning of the series time-outline, it is one of the few entries you can go completely blind with absolutely necessary knowledge of the series, in addition to the metal gear long before 1987.”
Ras said that Metal Gear Solid 3 created a good balance between gameplay and cinematic storytelling, making it a good option for those who have never played the game in the first series.
For example, the game opens up with an introduction, which is very impressed with James Bond films, which means that new fans are relaxed in the irritable elements of the series.
And the brothers behind the Pythonsalan Studios – Known as Python and Celconn for their 122,000 YouTube customers – agree.
“Completing the game was an incredible experience in itself,” he said. “The end of the intestines of the snake eater, which stood the most, except an impact on us that no other game had ever left before.”
“This game holds a special place in our hearts,” he said.
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The brothers said, as the lifelong fans of the series, they were “incredibly excited” from the declaration.
The pair is currently playing the remake, and its better graphics and audio have been “very impressed”.
He described the game as “actually a loyal entertainment”, stating that it improves the original of the origin without changing its original structure without changing its original structure “.
So far, the metal gear without hideo kojima is good for solids – which the juice kept in the game to be right for the original.
An example he reveals that the performance of the voice is kept equal, and the players can choose whether to use the original control plan or use more modern tech.
“There is no doubt that it is ‘Jean’ directed by Kojima that are being expressed prominently,” he said.
“Kojima expressed the desire to quickly move beyond the metal gear as MGS2 and left the series in the hands of others to continue.
“Maybe it took him another 14 years and five directors credits to happen, but this is now reality.”
And although the remake fare with fans, a house won’t pick up a new copy – Kojima is itself Suggestion closed That he will play a new game.