How do you do a Metal Gear Solid game as anything more than

The PC's are a quirky miniboss squad, duh.

I think we had a thread about this some time ago, check the archives.

>>53416516
I don't think you can, outside turning it into basically XCOM with the Metal Gear campaign slapped on.

I once ripped off the Mass Effect campaign word for word and adapted it to fantasy when I was feeling really lazy, and it only worked because none of my players had played it before.

>>53416516

Stick to the themes, not the details.

Do it Shadowrun style. The PCs are a team of specialists in various fields, employed by a covert agency to undertake various missions. Each mission is planned like a Shadowrun heist. Recon, planning preparation, a lot of buildup before you execute the job, everyone playing their role as you try to achieve the objectives with maximum efficiency.

>>53416530
This. Did the same thing with a megaman campaign once.

>>53416843
Mind sharing?

>>53416541
There have been many threads about it.

>>53416691

This.
Shadowrun feels very MGSy already, it's not really that hard.

Yeah, do it Shadowrun/Commandos style. Everyone has their own big bag of tricks and they all need to survive to make it.

>>53422044
>>53416691
Shadowrun even has the bullshit magic and stuff MGS has

>>53416530
PCs could be more like a group of MSF commandos instead. Minibosses tend to all die separately in specific places.