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Fan-Made 'Metal Gear Solid' Remake Cancelled; Gamers Blame Konami (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: Fans of the popular Metal Gear Solid series are ticked off at Konami over the cancellation of an unofficial, fan-built remake of the very first title that shipped for the original PlayStation way back in 1998. The remake's cancellation was announced on the project's Facebook page, which immediately prompted backlash aimed at Konami for presumably having a hand in it. The project, dubbed Shadow Moses, was the brainchild of indie game designer Airam Hernandez. It appears he may have assembled a small team to remake the original Metal Gear Solid using Unreal Engine 4. While it hasn't been confirmed that Konami shut the project down, it wouldn't be surprising to find out that it did. This wouldn't be the first fan project to be cancelled, and it likely won't be the last— Metal Gear Solid is Konami's property, and even Hernandez acknowledged at one point that he would eventually need Konami's permission to publish it.
Well yeah, that's kind of the core of the system. And you nailed it. The indie devs could EASILY have made their own game paying homage to metal gear. From the sounds of it, they wanted to do a direct remake in a new engine. That's a pretty shitty idea for a bunch of reasons. Firstly, every damn game company is doing "classic" remakes of everything in their catalog so it is pretty stupid to assume this company wouldn't be thinking forwards like that. Second, who the hell wants to trace? That's what this would have been, tracing. The game is already completed, they would be redoing it, reworking the assets. I'm not discounting the skill for those actually revamping the models and such. But for the designer, this is a cheap cop out. That goes against everything I would put into an indie developers pocket. Seriously, you want to be a indie developer so you go ahead and decide to illegally remake one of the biggest games of all time from one of the larger publishers? Clearly this whole deal was done to get them to stop the project and get these unoriginal asshats some publicity.
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