Is Metal Gear Solid Remake Really Happening?

There are some video game series’ who share big place in our hearts. Even though they end pretty early or do not make it’s return in current times, we still wait and hope one day, that video game series will make it’s return. Metal Gear Solid Remake is the return we all hope for.

Metal Gear Solid is one of these video game series. The legendary video game series who unfortunately ended after Hideo Kojima’s leave with Konami. The last game developed by Hideo Kojima was Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain.

What Happened between Hideo Kojima and Konami?

Konami did not have the funds required to finish development section of the game. However, Hideo Kojima was making a big project. A whole new world, different characters and most importantly, Hideo Kojima made expensive actor choices for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Konami couldn’t afford it. That’s were the conflict started.

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain was not a finished game. There were still some rooms to improve. Sadly Hideo Kojima couldn’t finish developing process due some conflict. The game did not have a proper ending. Some things about ending was not clear.  All Metal Gear Solid fans wished for a proper ending for series. Sadly that did not happened ever.

Even though Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain was not a finished game, it still awarded and nomineeted for different categories. In 2015, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain earned Best Music and Best Action/Adventure game award.

After Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain’s launch, Metal Gear Solid Survive released in 2018. Metal Gear Solid Survive was a disaster game. All Metal Gear Solid fans hated this game and never played it. We still don’t know what Konami were thinking while making this game.

Metal Gear Solid Survive incident was the end of Metal Gear Solid series.

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Does Metal Gear Solid remake possible?

Video game indistury is full of Remake’s in these days. Almost all old games is Remaked or Remastered. It’s a way to make easy money for game developers. They don’t need to think for new story, gameplay. They can just Remake old one and make some adjustments.

After seeing many Remake’s in current time, everyone think about one thing: Why Metal Gear Solid Remake is not happening? What is the thing that prevents this event happening?

Recently, this thought got stronger after the picture that published by Donna Burke, who is the singer behind famous Snake Eater song. She were recording in a studio while holding a folder emblazoned with Snake Eater. After many messages sent by fans, she said that this record is just for fun and it got nothing to do with Metal Gear Solid Remake.

While this thing turned into a false alarm, we heared multiple rumors regarding Metal Gear Solid 3 Remake. In October 2021, VGC reported that Konami was planning to reboot Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater with taking help from Virtuos Studio, a studio mostly focused on supporting AAA development.

This news brings us a big hope for new Metal Gear Solid game. Especially Remake for Metal Gear Solid 3. We will wait and see what future brings to us but one thing is certain. Silent Hill 2 Remake is happening, maybe it’s time for Metal Gear Solid to make it’s return with Remake game as well.

We hope to see more news about Metal Gear Solid Remake very soon. Hopefully, we will get what we wanted after many years.