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Metal Gear Solid Solid: Master Collection Vol.2 | What game are you playing first?

What game are you playing first?

  • MGS4: Guns of the Patriots

    Votes: 66 83.5%

  • Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker

    Votes: 8 10.1%

  • Metal Gear: Ghost Babel

    Votes: 5 6.3%
  • Total voters
    79
This is why I dislike posting polls. 6 votes and no posts.

Edit: and of course, as soon as I post, others do too, lol.
 
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Probably Peacewalker depending on how much work gets put into it, because I didn't play much of it back in the day.

MGS4 I'm sure I'll play again at some point, but I'm more likely to get this after release whenever a whim to play the older games hits me.
 
It would be nice if Konami mapped moves in the GBC game to be similar to the PS1 game. They did alot to the msx game so a slight remaster would be nice.
 
MSG4 as it's the one I've never played. I might do a replay of the previous three before that, since I haven't played them in like 15 years.
 
Peace Walker was such an overrated turd at the time. You're gonna play MGS4 first. That's the reason you're buying this.

Ghost Babel is better than it has any right to be, but you're a liar if you say that's what you bought this for.
 
Danny Dudekisser said:
Peace Walker was such an overrated turd at the time. You're gonna play MGS4 first. That's the reason you're buying this.

Ghost Babel is better than it has any right to be, but you're a liar if you say that's what you bought this for.
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How do you figure? It was an incredible game. Probably the best PSP game ever made.
 
FoxMcChief said:
How do you figure? It was an incredible game. Probably the best PSP game ever made.
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Being pared down to bite-sized levels with overly simplistic design really dragged the game down. The shooting felt comparatively limp, and paired with the lack violence, it was really unsatisfying. And the presentation took a massive hit, which is to be expected from a low-budget game on the PSP. Every single thing I enjoy about an MGS game was just completely substandard. Beyond the novelty of it being on a portable, there's just not much there.
 
Danny Dudekisser said:
Being pared down to bite-sized levels with overly simplistic design really dragged the game down. The shooting felt comparatively limp, and paired with the lack violence, it was really unsatisfying. And the presentation took a massive hit, which is to be expected from a low-budget game on the PSP. Every single thing I enjoy about an MGS game was just completely substandard. Beyond the novelty of it being on a portable, there's just not much there.
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That might be the most coherent explanation against Peace Walker I've ever read.

Thank you for taking the time and actually explaining it.

I still loved it, but I do respect your point of view. I think as I've gotten older, I just prefer portable gaming. I remember leaving my psp on when driving home from work, in hopes of getting great recruits.
 
I'm hoping I can just get mgs4 on its own. I do not wish to replay peace walker. Game was fine at the time but looking back on replaying it sounds like torture.
 
FoxMcChief said:
That might be the most coherent explanation against Peace Walker I've ever read.

Thank you for taking the time and actually explaining it.

I still loved it, but I do respect your point of view. I think as I've gotten older, I just prefer portable gaming. I remember leaving my psp on when driving home from work, in hopes of getting great recruits.
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Yeah, that's fair. Personally, I've never been a fan of the "downsized console games" type of thing on portables. PSP was such a good system for random JRPGs and SRPGs, but any time I tried to get something like Portable Ops or Syphon Filter, it just never clicked.
 
Danny Dudekisser said:
Yeah, that's fair. Personally, I've never been a fan of the "downsized console games" type of thing on portables. PSP was such a good system for random JRPGs and SRPGs, but any time I tried to get something like Portable Ops or Syphon Filter, it just never clicked.
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I get that. You weren't one of us that played Monster Hunter on the PSP I take it then, lol.
 
Honest answer, Ghost Babel, I want to see how 2026 era Konami handles porting a Gameboy game onto a current gen release. Like...is it gonna be like a tamagachi size screen offset in the corner with bullshit art under a light color filter behind it? Is it gonna be full screen and just stretched the fuck out and butt ugly? (like your mom, or something)

I DON'T KNOW.

And that's the exciting part!

I know Peace Walker is gonna be the reliable title that everyone gravitates toward automatically for the multi-player aspect and the fact that the lesser graphical capabilities make it run better than flashier stuff by default. I know MGS4 is gonna look fantastic but have one or two ridiculous graphical glitches, and it's probably going to perform as well as the pianist (ha) without hands. Until it gets day one or seven patched, or some shit.

So fuck yeah, Ghost Babel.
 
FoxMcChief said:
You missed out brother. It's the best in the series, imo. It nailed gameplay and nailed cutscenes. Put it scratched the nostalgia itch from MGS1.
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Had no idea people felt this way. I disliked MGS 4 so much on launch that I never played another game in the series after that. Maybe will give it another run on sale and reevaluate it.
 
My favourite part of MGS4 was the bit where you follow the guy through the city streets. It was really atmospheric.

MGS4 is a weird game, probably one of the weirdest AAA games I've ever played. :] The entire game feels like a bunch of different small games put into one package, basically. I didn't hate it or anything, but I haven't really felt the need to replay it yet anyway.
 
Badlucktroll said:
I still cant believe it. MGS4 HATH BEEN LIBERATED FROM ITS PS3 PRISON
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Finna gon play it on Xbox!

Kids Dancing GIF
 
MGS4 , I only played it once because the thought of dealing with the installs between acts was really annoying , great game though . It's a shame we probably won't get MGO2 as it was so fun , I still play MGO3(mgs5) to this day although I never played the story past the character creator lol
 
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