Hopefully they hire someone compitent this time who can reverse engineer the original PS1/PS2 code. The SH HD Collection and the recent Metal Gear Solid Master Collection both turned out terribly.
Konami famously lost the original source code for the original Silent Hill games, which is a big reason why the HD Collection turned out so terribly, along with hiring Hijinx, who was an unproven development company.
Historically, Konami has shown that they care more about money rather than art. I don’t trust their efforts are going to be any better this time around.
Also, I’m pretty sure PS4 and PS5 both have PS1 and PS2 emulators included in their OS, so they could just release the original versions on those consoles if they so chose. It would leave out Xbox and PC users, though (although PC users can already play these games in HD with emulation and/or fan-made mods to the PC versions).
I’m OOTL, what’s wrong with the new MGS re-release? I played MGS3 a couple of years ago on Xbox1, and it was okay.
It includes a shitty PS1 emulator compared to unofficial PS1 emulation, and they took the Bluepoint HD Collection and directly ported it without any new options, not even the option to render at a higher resolution.
Just lazy, more than anything else. With the PC version specifically, fans made quite a few improvements to it with mods very shortly after it was released. The fact that Konami couldn’t implement these same improvements to begin with is just sad.
Sad that they can’t afford to make new stories anymore, another dying company festering in the wound of the dead horse beating industry.
It saddens me to know that if everyone who went out and kept blindly pre-ordering games from Konami, Blizzard (or any formerly great studio that is now just trading on their name and pushing out the jankiest titles); instead put that money towards shares of that company - they’d have enough of a voice to dictate that companies future, and have them produce something other than the microtransaction ridden, poorly thought out, barely put together, live service garbage we’ve been getting for the past 2+ console generations.
Ideally they’d just buy indie and AA games, which generally have a lot more innovation than AAA.
On the other hand, preserving old games by making sure they’re playable on modern hardware is something I wish more companies cared about.
But that’s what emulators are for. I’d agree completely with remasters if they weren’t usually shit
