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How do you remake a game like Snake Eater without a director like Hideo Kojima?

Even in an era of excellent remakes, Konami faces a big challenge revisiting a game covered in the fingerprints of its former golden boy.

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Immagaiden372d ago (Edited 372d ago )

The same way how

- Capcom remade RE2-4 without Hideki Kamiya, Kazuhiro Aoyama, & Shinji Mikami
- Activision remade Crash Bandicoot 1-3 without Jason Rubin
- Nintendo remade Kirby Super Star without Masahiro Sakurai
- EA remade Dead Space without Michael Condrey & Bret Robbins
- Konami will remake Silent Hill 2 without Masashi Tsuboyama

FallenAngel1984372d ago (Edited 372d ago )

Or how

- Square Enix remade FFIII & FFIV without Hironobu Sakaguchi
- Sony remade Shadow of the Colossus without Fumito Ueda
- Sega remade Sonic 1-3 & CD without Yuji Naka & the original directors
- Sony remade Demon’s Souls without Hidetaka Miyazaki

It’s not impossible to make a great remake without ther original director. It happens more than most people think

Konami has admittedly had a rocky history of Metal Gear without ang involvement from Kojima ,as was the case with Snake’s Revenge and Metal Gear Survive. However this time it’s a remake of an already great game and it’s being developed by an outsourced dedicated studios so there’s some hope.

I just don’t trust gem at all with any new Metal Gear

Flawlessmic372d ago

I take both your points and they are valid, but none of those games have those Kojima moments of brilliance to interpret.

MGS games are a different beast compared to anything listed above, if they remain almost fully faithful they will be fine, but id be cautious of changing to much.

I really hope konami smash it out of the park though, snake eater is my personal favorite of the series so im stoked those chose it to begin with, story wise it also makes sense to begin with snake eater

FallenAngel1984372d ago

Each game I listed has its own creator’s level of brilliance in its DNA. Let’s not diminish their importance just to prop up Kojima.

Rebel_Scum372d ago

"Sega remade Sonic 1-3 & CD without Yuji Naka & the original directors"

When the heck were those remade?

Knushwood Butt372d ago

Kojima produced Twin Snakes.

Flawlessmic372d ago

Didn't say they weren't brillant but kojima could make a brillant game and then also add his little spark's of genius in between.

The codec being on the actual box in mgs 1, psycho mantis? The end and the different ways you can beat him?

I mean I really could go on about the genius things kojima added to his games that were out of the normal which is what I was trying to say.

The other people are great but mgs and its genius is quintesential kojima

FallenAngel1984371d ago

@ Revel

Christian Whitehead remade those games on the Retro Engine

@ Flaw

And those other devs could do the same for their respective games in the Eid distinctive ways

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Cernunnos372d ago (Edited 372d ago )

> - Activision remade Crash Bandicoot 1-3 without Jason Rubin

And it did not really end up great... The jumping physics and the pill shaped hitbox for Crash really makes especially Crash 2 play a lot worse than in the original...

Crash 3 is plagued by terrible vehicle physics, and also affected by the same issues as Crash 2, but less significant.

CrimsonWing69372d ago (Edited 372d ago )

Lol, I know right? Great response, btw.

Silver_ShadoWolf372d ago

To be fair, resident evil story kinda spun off from there.

Crash… what story?

Kirby. What story?

Dead Space 1’s story is incredible. Everyone agrees it’s the best in the series and went downhill after 2.

Silent hill remake? Story was already there.

They will NEVER be able to continue the story without Hideo, and they know that. So remakes are all they can do.

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masterfox372d ago

no doubt it was a great surprise, but you can definitely tell Kojima direction was missing by only seeing the design of the trailer.

Rebel_Scum372d ago

Yeah it was missing at least 3 "Directed by Hideo Kojima" credits.

il-JumperMT371d ago

if kojima was directing the trailer 100% snake would said kept you waiting huh?

10000% if david is doing voice again

-Foxtrot372d ago

I mean the game is already there, they just need to follow it and remake what's in front of them.

If they somehow manage to f*** up such an amazing game then they'll never truly recover.

Magatsuhi372d ago

I don't think it's that simple. Mgs3 was made with that camera in mind so now they have to change things around if they want to implement mgs5 type gameplay. I would prefer if it was more like mgs4 than 5 but who knows if Konami can even pull this off without kojima.

Chocoburger371d ago

By camera, you mean the aiming mechanics? The 3DS port had mordernized aiming ripped directly from Peace Walker. So yeah it'll work fine for this remake.

TheEnigma313372d ago

Follow the source material to a t.

jambola372d ago

Update gameplay
don't censor to appeal to oversensitive modern audiences
don't change any big story moments
done

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Days Gone Director Says Bend's Project Costs Over $250M; Says PS Co-CEO Doesn't Want 2 Zombies Games

Days Gone director claims Sony has already poured in at least a $250M in Bend's project; says Days Gone sold more than Death Stranding.

shinoff218319h ago

Well that sucks. Seems they want more online trash. I'd rather of had the sequel if it was single player

MrNinosan5h ago

What online trash games did PS Studios release last 10 years?

Notellin3h ago

The past has nothing to do with the future. This is such a terrible argument. Everyone knows about their current live service push.

_SilverHawk_1h ago

It's so tragic what happened to days gone. It is such an amazing game but bandwagoners trashed it and it underperformed in it's launch year. Days gone is the best open world zombie game released in the past five years. I was recently playing it on pc and I'm still amazed by it.

Games are very expensive to make and it seems like it's normal for a AAA game to cost over a quarter billion to make so if a quality game like days gone greatly underperforms then people shouldn't be upset when they see a lot of GAAS. I still remember a lot of bandwagoners calling days gone trash but years later it's now amazing when it's considered a failure by sony.

If a game isn't the best thing seen since hats with pockets then a lot of gamers who haven't played it automatically calls it rubbish and whoever made it should be incarcerated

Cacabunga37m ago(Edited 36m ago)

Co CEO prefers gamers to boycott.. so be it. I’ll never buy a gaas.
Just imagine buying a game you cannot replay in some years.. this shit must stop.

Days Gone did zombies in a very original way. The story was also so engaging. You actually only meet Zombie hordes later in the game. There are many more enemy groups to deal with.

-Foxtrot19h ago

It would be a shame if it was true that Hermen never gave the franchise a chance simply because he didn't like it and they already had a "Zombie" game with TLOU.

NaughtyDog are most likely moving onto a new IP next so it would have been the perfect time to do it.

ThinkThink11h ago

Here's where xbox steps in and releases state of decay 3 day and date on ps5.

Grilla4h ago

Days gone 2 was canceled before Herman was in charge. That happened like 4 years ago.

vfl5233h ago

4 years ago he was head of Playstation Studios. He would've probably had a hand in the cancelation.

Notellin3h ago

Man two seconds of research could have saved you from this comment. Amazing work Grilla you fit in with the uniformed N4G community who speaks before verifying anything that they say.

Redemption-641h ago

Maybe encourage people to buy the game at full price and not when it's heavily discounted or go on plus. If this game had sold well when it was full priced a sequel would have been in the works. They made a single-player game that most people didn't support until they dropped the price.

Cacabunga17m ago

The guy’s just a moron.. he should have stayed within game development. His choices will have a terrible impact on the brand in the long run.

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excaliburps5h ago

Yep. Kind of weird since it wasn't a sales flop, no?

I know we have to take what Ross says with a grain of salt since we're hearing just one side of the story, but even so, the game wasn't bad at all. Heck, it's my brother's favorite last-gen game from what I recall.

The amount of zombies on screen, imagine that with the PS5 and SSD? That would be insanely fun!

Grilla4h ago

Most copies were sold on sale. Not enough ppl bought it at full price. I paid 20$ for it 6 -7 months after release.

Notellin3h ago(Edited 3h ago)

Yeah we should never believe the creators side until we hear the corporate/big business side as history has shown we should always believe billion dollar corporations.

What a bootlicker statement.

P_Bomb5h ago

Well I don’t want 10 live service games, but they have no problem doing that lol. Ugh.

CrimsonWing694h ago(Edited 4h ago)

Oh great so we only get what the big wigs want… y’know, the people that really have their fingers on the pulse of what their consumers want. Faaaaantastic!

rippermcrip1h ago

Well consider they know the sales... they do know what the consumer wants.

It sold shit.

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Greetings from the newly minted CEO - Shams Jorjani

Operating under the username BigKahuna_AGS, Jorjani created a lengthy thread on the Helldivers subreddit to introduce himself to the community following his appointment as CEO in early May.

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Frostpunk 2 Dev Talks Creative Risks, Supply and Demand, and More

Game Rant speaks with Frostpunk 2 co-game director and design director Jakub Stokalski about everything 11 bit poured into the sequel.

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