[Krabjuice Gaiden]

[zombieman000]

[skelethulu]

Man, I forgot how pumped that VR Missions trailer makes me.



I only ever played it once, at a friend's house. Spent today hunting for a copy before I bought one now on ebay. Can't wait to load it up on my PSP and see if it's what I want out of life.

Are the VR missions in Substance the same ones or different?

[Krabjuice Gaiden]

[zombieman000]

Nah, as far as I know, MGS2 Substance has a completely different set of missions. The first few sneaking mode levels might be pretty similar, though.

[Krabjuice Gaiden]

The C4, I mean.

Do people still stick them to people's backs?
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[shnozlak]

[zombieman000]

Whoa man my message got posted late.

Well uh

no I never really did the C4 backpack thing. It doesn't seem like a good idea if you want to avoid alert mode.

(oh yeah, I can see the merit of doing that while playing online. heh heh. was never able to pull that off in singleplayer, don't see how I would do it with human players.)

[Krabjuice Gaiden]

I do it all the time in Brawl.

People are like, what?
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[zombieman000]

!!!! you can?!?!!!

holy shit

wow

that game has lots of stuff in it

[skelethulu]

Maybe the VR Missions are the REAL WORLD

[zombieman000]

no

then that means that Genola and Gurlugon are...

are...
*RRRARAAAARRRRRRR*



hh...help...me...

[unhappy days]

So did anyone play MGS portable ops? Is it really that necessary to play through? I think it chronicles the events following MGS3 and Big Boss' departure from the FOX unit and the founding of FOXHOUND, or something like that. I suppose it sounds relatively interesting

Though it would appear most people couldn't care less about it

[Rud31]

[Toptube]

[Greng]

I just got a new PSP and Portable Ops. I've really only played a few missions so far so I can't exactly speak with authority, yet the storyline seems worthy of following if you like that sort of thing.

Other than that, you can revisit areas. Perhaps more accurately, the game recycles areas. Not that I mind... I always liked the 'staged challenge' style of the VR missions and the extras in MGS3 and so far this is how the areas of Portable Ops are playing out. It's possible they expand a bit in later stages but I don't know.

The capture & recruit aspect is interesting, but I've only scratched the surface on that so far. Metal Gear Pokemon Ops?

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I'm down with this play all MGS games btw. So far cleared all challenges in the original VR missions. Will hit up MGS 1 & 2 after I'm done with portable ops. MGS3 may be a bit harder as I don't have a PS2 anymore.

I must be one of the few people in the thread who found some of the boss fights in Snake Eater to be really frustrating... The end particularly, I never got the 'flow' of that one :(
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[bleak]

[Lick Meth]

[Greng]

And there's the thing that is odd to me. I really appreciate the stealth element of the series, and yet with the End I just felt the area was so vast. In honesty I think my PS2 got traded in before I even finished this boss fight so maybe with more time I will get the hang of it. I just remember thinking I was close to him only to find he had moved on somewhere else.

I'd love to have a go at this again... If I finish MGS1 and 2 then I'll look at getting a PS2.


Yeah! Lunch time... off to put an hour into Portable Ops.
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[Hot Stott Bot]

[Lick Meth]

Really? Bah. I just spent most of the time trying to get his camo (hold him up).

[Hot Stott Bot]

oh i also do that

basically i run up to him, interrupt him with a cig gas, do my mad cqc/mk22 comboss on him, then i just follow him while he's running away and stay behind me so i'm right behind him the next time he goes into "hiding" mode, do a quick sneak up on him, hold him up for the shit, then cqc/mk22 combo his ass again and then blast his ass with the mk22 while he's running away, fight over.

[Hot Stott Bot]

fyi i used to do nokill speedruns of mgs3 o_O

[Bo 0]

I always kill The End when he's on his wheelchair at Ponizovje Warehouse. I actually didn't enjoy the sniper duel on my first play. I found it dull and confusing. I have honestly experienced much better sniper duels in Return to Castle Wolfenstein (PC). It's a lot of fun to have a hand against real players.

And besides that, I find it much more interesting to face a huge swarm of Ocelot Unit members if you do this.

[parker]

For portable ops, it was like they took all the things I didn't like about MGS3 and made an entire game around them, with some bonus new things I don't like included as well. The story just seems like it was written by someone trying their hardest to make it sound like a Metal Gear game.

Why do these terrorist guys go to the trouble of capturing Big Boss, the greatest living soldier at the time, stick him in an unguarded cell next to a badass Green Beret and oh yeah, let's leave an experimental sneaking suit out here in the hallway for him. Also, before this game existed it made perfect sense for The Boss to have never been mentioned in the games prior to MGS3, now we had to fuck that up by having Big Boss talk on and on about her around Cambell.

The story just rings false, makes me feel like I'm being bullshitted constantly. Reminds me of this buddy of mine always telling these tall tales, "Yeah man, I got high with the Police Comssioner on the water tower last night!" and I just listen and play along because he's entertaining. He's a lot funnier than portable ops though, which is completely humorless and just over complicates the back story needlessly.

The missions are all these little dinky things, all in really small areas with 5 guards or so at most. You usually just have to get to an area, and the mission is won, whether you are being chased by a small platoon or not. In at least one mission the goal area is right next to where you start. Truly Big Boss is the greatest living soldier, to pull of these feats.

The only thing great about it is that the basic idea of the game is Big Boss and Colonel Campbell driving around in a truck together, going on adventures, throwing people in the back and taking turns beating them until they see the error of their terrorist ways and join up with you in killing their former comrades. This is the thread that holds the crap gameplay and fanfiction story together and makes them tolerable. And when you select a new mission on the map, a silhouette of the truck flies at the screen, 60's Batman style. I love that truck.
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[Toptube]

[shnozlak]

I found hunting the end to be one of the most fun part of my first play through. Did any one here kill/capture his bird? hes kind of useless once you take that from him. Also you can make him run to certain spots based on how you sneak up on him (If you get in close) figure that out and hes a cake walk.

Can you claymore his hiding spots? Ive never tried it but it seems plausible.
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[!=]

Yeah, hunted the parrot. (did I really eat it?) You can see him in the sorrow fight when this is done.

[The Troops]

I just found out I'm going to have my (four impacted) wisdom teeth out on June 12th. Life-wrecking scheduling conflict / codeine-enhanced blogging opportunity.

[Krabjuice Gaiden]

A viable strategy is to drop claymores at a bottleneck leading up to one of his spots and hold him up. When he drops his stun grenade and flees from you, he blows up and lands on his back. On one of the paths, it's possible to do this five or even six times before he gets out into the open.
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[Krabjuice Gaiden]

[Hot Stott Bot]

[winkerwatson]

shut up bott
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[Hot Stott Bot]

fork orf wornker

[Bo 0]

I checked the name ranking system in MGS2. I won't achieve Big Boss rank any time soon.

[Krabjuice Gaiden]

[Toptube]

[Cossix]

I think what I didn't like about the fight with The End is just that the area he's in is just too goddamn HUGE.

[Krabjuice Gaiden]

But, it's a sniper battle. There's no excitement in a sniper duel unless the bullet takes half a second to get to the other guy.

Frankly, the map is a bit small I think. The map is still large, comparably, but still small enough to allow for all sorts of encounters. It's the right size to still close in with the enemy, to snipe, to use grenades, to use an assault rifle, to chase and to hide.

Something as big and as barren as the mountain map would have made for a pure sniper battle. But, then we've got the Sniper Wolf boss battle remade.
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[Cossix]

If it were just huge that would be okay but it's simultaneously huge and three separate maps. I mean maybe it's neat that The End can shoot you from another map and you can't do anything about it but I thought it was kind of lame, really. If it were as big as it is but entirely self-contained I think I would've been less irritated.

[Krabjuice Gaiden]

He couldn't shoot you from a different map, per-say. But he did need to move out of map in order to get to some of those spots.

But yeah, that three map split is annoying.
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