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MGS: Twin Snakes - Possible for Switch says Former Silicon Knights President
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Jack The Nipper
Banned
I think he says yes to everything hoping they can do something
Transistor
Banned
Maybe that's the secret of the Switch version.
Imagine the scene. You start the game. The Twin Snakes title screen appears. All of a sudden
A BRIGHT FLASH AND A VOICE YELLING "SWITCH!"
The Twin Snakes fades away and only the original MGS title screen remains. The original MGS is playable, interrupted every now and then with a voice apologizing for the Twin Snake's existence
Risk Breaker
Member
I know the Switch urgently needs games, but Dyack and Twin Snakes is definitely not the way.
amdb00mer
Member
Dennis Dyack is not a very trustworthy guy these days. I still hate how he ticked off Epic and got Too Human delisted and it's sequels basically canned.
LFMartins86
Member
Who the hell still believes Dyack's word? I want to meet that person, I have some magic beans to sell to them.
SolidChamp
Banned
How awful that a game got more people into the series.
Seriously, the MGS setting and original gameplay mechanics are perfect the way they are on PS1. Adding the MGS2 style of gameplay mechanics adds nothing to it, in fact it down right breaks the game at some point.
I'm sure if you take out all the guards but one in the helipad area, shoot his radio out, cripple him so he can hardly walk and can't fire his weapon he will literally stagger to the corner and stand there. He can't escape the map because the doors do not open (you sneak in through an air vent) and he will stand there until you put him out of his misery.
That partly-developed and published one of the launch titles on the Nintendo Switch? I don't think it's impossible to imagine Konami being behind this.
Unless TTS belonged to Silicon Knights, if you mean that, then yeah...
JigglesBunny
Banned
If only Dyack wasn't a total bullshit artist. He knows nothing about this - or much else for that matter.
That being said, I would love a TS port. I'm one of the few that love it.
That being said, I would love a TS port. I'm one of the few that love it.
tkscz
Member
Snarfington
Member
... I'd buy it.
Skipped it due to all the weird reactions around launch but I'd definitely be down to see just how dumb it is.
Skipped it due to all the weird reactions around launch but I'd definitely be down to see just how dumb it is.
Discotheque
Banned
what exactly was wrong with this game? wasn't it just a remake of the first game using MGS2's engine?
See my post above for a good example of why it doesn't work.
DrBillRiverman
Member
LFMartins86
Member
Different cut-scene that changed the tone of the game quite a bit.
He's not wrong, but he's also playing coy with the truth. Silicon Knights has no say in the matter, which is to say that a port is possible insofar that there are no barriers that render it impossible, but Dyack's word carries as much weight as anyone else's -- none at all.
In fewer words: Move along, nothing to see here.
In fewer words: Move along, nothing to see here.
Someone asks dyack a direct question and he responds and people chime in stuff like "he's just trying to be relevant again."
That seems kind of a weird response. I know it's cool to hate the dude but he was literally asked a question and responded to it.
Y'all can chill the fuck out on your hate. It's kind of weirding me out. He has done some stuff that makes him unlikable but this doesn't seem like one of those things. It's toxic in here
That seems kind of a weird response. I know it's cool to hate the dude but he was literally asked a question and responded to it.
Y'all can chill the fuck out on your hate. It's kind of weirding me out. He has done some stuff that makes him unlikable but this doesn't seem like one of those things. It's toxic in here
That's not really something that I thought about at all when I first played it. TTS was my first MGS game and I just thought it was a really cool game with lots of VA and cutscenes at the time.
thepenguin55
Member
This is a Nintendo and Konami game that SK worked on. I think Silicon Knights involvement with Twin Snakes is a totally unimportant part of the equation for any kind of re-release/remaster. I think the real reason Nintendo and Konami haven't pursued this is purely due to lack of interest. This remake isn't held in high regard like the REmake. Dyack probably answered the way he did because:
A. He's tired of questions like that.
B. Legally speaking, there's no reason it couldn't be done.
But also brought the tone more in line with the rest of the series
A. He's tired of questions like that.
B. Legally speaking, there's no reason it couldn't be done.
But also brought the tone more in line with the rest of the series
RadioJoNES64
Banned
Do we really want twin snakes though?
Mechanized
Member
It was at that moment MGS fans were confronted with the fact that the game was just anime all along. And instead of accepting it they rejected it. That wasn't their metal gear. "I see you like... Castlevania!"
Smooth Operator
Member
Yeah let's act like the cheesy cutscenes are the only reason why TTS is a shitty game.
MAX PAYMENT
Member
Gimme more MGS.
Cutscenes were re-done with ridiculous choreography, bullet time, and inexplicable oddities.
Voice overs were re-recorded with same scripting but inferior delivery.
Soundtrack is different and inferior.
It's a remake but translated/interpreted by parties that arent the original creator(s) and inferior for it. This is in stark contrast to something like the Resident Evil remake produced Mikami.
thepenguin55
Member
I like Twin Snakes but it definitely has problems. Namely, the soundtrack is painfully generic (especially compared to the original game) and some of the boss fights just aren't as good and it's mostly the ones you wouldn't expect to be negatively impacted. Like, both Sniper Wolf fights just suck on anything below some of the higher difficulties. I would say most of the other fights are at least fine on any difficulty. Most would point to the Ocelot fight and say that it's worse but I would argue that fight is dumb no matter which version of the game you're playing.
Vampirolol
Member
Loved Twin Snakes, and I would definitely double dip on Switch, but I don't see why anyone would bother porting it.
Nothing. It's an improvement over the original in every conceivable way.
Smooth Operator
Member
There's not much of anything in the way of news here.
"Is there a chance this game can get ported to this system?"
Guy that would probably sell a limb to be involved: "Yes"
Why would there be any legal issues? Unless konami just went brain dead they wouldn't have given silicon knights an iota of ownership and if Nintendo subsidized it in any way the question is in regards to another Nintendo system so no problems there either. Why would twin snakes be any different from konami deciding to bring any other game to the switch?
"Is there a chance this game can get ported to this system?"
Guy that would probably sell a limb to be involved: "Yes"
Why would there be any legal issues? Unless konami just went brain dead they wouldn't have given silicon knights an iota of ownership and if Nintendo subsidized it in any way the question is in regards to another Nintendo system so no problems there either. Why would twin snakes be any different from konami deciding to bring any other game to the switch?
Okay, I'll give you that one.
I don't even think Denis Dyack believes that.
Stiflers Mom
Banned
smh at the hate this guy gets here..
