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Most of them acknowledge that directly, and are specifically lamenting the fact that this is all it is. That the opportunity wasn’t taken to do more.
That’s not an entirely invalid criticism either if you take a look at older MGS rereleases and how much some of them added to the originals (MGS2 got an entire skating game mode, MGS3 got a short parody campaign plus the first official english releases of Metal Gear 1 and 2 for the MSX with updated character art), and especially if you consider how many rereleases most of these have had already.
It wasn’t very long ago that game rereleases were generally expected to be more than straight ports. Hell, now it doesn’t even need to be a port (making the original code work on a different device), sometimes they can just slap the old game in an emulator and sell it as a rerelease.
For the high regard the series is held in and the fact that Konami doesn’t have much else going on in the video game scene, it’s not ridiculous that some people see this as a basic cash grab.
Most of them acknowledge that directly, and are specifically lamenting the fact that this is all it is. That the opportunity wasn’t taken to do more.
That’s not an entirely invalid criticism either if you take a look at older MGS rereleases and how much some of them added to the originals (MGS2 got an entire skating game mode, MGS3 got a short parody campaign plus the first official english releases of Metal Gear 1 and 2 for the MSX with updated character art), and especially if you consider how many rereleases most of these have had already.
It wasn’t very long ago that game rereleases were generally expected to be more than straight ports. Hell, now it doesn’t even need to be a port (making the original code work on a different device), sometimes they can just slap the old game in an emulator and sell it as a rerelease.
For the high regard the series is held in and the fact that Konami doesn’t have much else going on in the video game scene, it’s not ridiculous that some people see this as a basic cash grab.
Yeah, I’m guessing people were hoping for something like Mass Effect Legendary and instead got a simple repackage.