Metal Gear Acid 3
Metal Gear Spin-Offs We’d Actually Want to Play
Now you may be asking “why would anyone ever want this?” And the clear answer is: the other two were fun. Yes, they completely ignored the entire series formula of stealth games, but they were well made card-based strategy games which pre-dated modern mobile titles and their microtransactions. There are very few card-based strategy games available which don’t require hundreds of dollars in microtransactions, so why not set a precedent? The Acid games were very well-balanced and provided a great challenge, while also leaving the series’ canon be. Metal Gear Acid is one of the few high-quality card-based strategy games and revitalizing it as a series could potentially put Konami at the forefront of a genre’s revival.
Plenty of great card games have released in the past few years, like Hearthstone, Gwent, Duelyst and many more, but those are predominantly Collectable Card Games. Metal Gear Acid is its own beast, using cards to control characters rather than using cards to create characters who fight. This almost became a very popular style of gameplay in the early 2000s, with games like Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories using a similar system.
Just as a Portable Ops 2 doesn’t need to be canon in the series, Acid 3 could be complete nonsense, which is perfectly fine because this series is renowned for its complex and brain-melting narrative anyways. Plenty of people would welcome the fun, campy insanity the series is known for.
