[Mr. Mechanical]

Guys you know I have a 99.5% save file for VR Missions. I think the only one I'm missing is the one where you have to destroy a wall at the end of the course to get to the checkpoint but it's snowing so the enemy patrol can easily follow you and spot you before you have a chance to do it.
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[Schwere Viper]

[skelethulu]

So I never finished MGS3 when it came out, or when I picked up Subsistence. I'm right near the end now, though, and my opinion for the game has drastically improved! I think that after the fight with The Fear the game constantly improves itself.

I've also been playing MGS1 and VR Missions on my PSP on and off the past couple weeks. I still prefer the way those games worked, with huge boxy environments and more of a puzzle feel to the level design.

I might actually manager to finish off MGS2 in time at this rate.

[Toptube]

[CubaLibre]

[Schwere Viper]

Main story arc all done.

hooooo boy, old konami games make swear like a sailor
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[unhappy days]

I'm playing mgs: portable ops at the moment. Well, I kind of am, when I have enough time. I've technically made no progress so far because I've been caught about three times in the prologue-esque part of the game (After breaking out of jail and talking to Roy Campbell).

It's really, really hard. Mainly because of the controls.

[sam]

i didn't get on with portable ops at all. the controls & camera are shocking and this does not endear its grinding structure to me one bit.

i started a game of twin snakes tonight and just stopped after vulcan raven because i can't be dealing with the backtracking keycard bit right now. i know i defended the game earlier in this thread but man i don't remember the voice acting being this bad? it's really stilted and weird, the original sounds a lot more natural for some reason.

plus, yeah, the cutscenes are dumb.

i hope i haven't had blind nostalgic feelings for a remake, that'd be really depressing.
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[Toups]

sam you've played the OG, right?
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[sam]

yeah i got it around when it came out, though i was only 13 or so.

i got twin snakes with my gamecube and thought it was awesome, probably because i hadn't played the original in a while.

i don't know, metal gear solid is easily one of my favourite games of all time whatever the version, but this playthrough of twin snakes was sortof disheartening. i think i've conflated the better qualities of each in my mind.
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[Toups]

man the original game is still great.
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[idle]

I'm replaying the PSX original at the moment as a matter of fact, and yes, it is amazing.

The PS2's texture smoothing option makes the game look real nice. Just don't turn on faster loading (not that you really need to) or the graphics glitch up at spots.

I'm going for the Otacon ending this time around, since I've never gotten it and wouldn't mind screwing around with the stealth camo anyway. I feel like a jerk for letting Meryl die though. :(

[zombieman000]

I can never get the Meryl ending without help, because I've got gimp hands/digits that are useless for surviving prolonged periods of virtual electro-shock torture :(

[Swimmy]

I used to finish that segment with full health both times. These days I can't button-mash as well. I consider this a good thing.
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[skelethulu]

Played a bit more of the first game on my PSP last night. I must have played this game way too many times because I remember every room, every hiding spot, and every sentence-becomes-a-question in the dialog.

[unhappy days]

skelethulu I am currently in the process of getting the custom firmware on my psp, and mgs will be the first game I play! Oh, and mgs: portable ops isn't too bad at all. I'm actually having a lot of fun with it.

I have been listening to some interviews with the voice-actors, lately! This podcast with david hayter was pretty interesting (the distracting music at the start goes away eventually! Also, listen as his voice slowly becomes more snake-like throughout the second video). This sort of thing might be old news, though, but I'm really excited by it. After playing so much mgs and attaching hayter's voice to the video-game persona of snake only, well, I guess it's just kind of surreal for me. Can anyone direct me in the way of more of this kind of stuff? Hayter seems to be the only voice-actor from the game who is truly involved in his character, let alone the actual game.

Also, I suppose this is sort of cool:

[skelethulu]

[sam]

[bloody heartland]

[Hot Stott Bot]

guys, i am speedrunning mgs3 again this week

[Bo 0]

[bleak]

I could only ever beat that game in 8 hours.
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[Toups]

hsb do you do your speedrun with no alerts/no kills?
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[spinach]

I just played VR Missions for the first time over the weekend. It's pretty fucking great. I replayed the final Nikita mission a couple of times (~250 rounds) and it was frustrating in an almost good way. The rest wasn't nearly as hard, but it was all very satisfying. It's really interesting to see a game that takes an older game's mechanics to the limits.

[Schwere Viper]

Some of my fondest memories were the Variety missions where you created chain reactions with guards.

OOF! HUAH-OOF-HUAH-OOF-HUAH-OOF-HUAH-OOF-HUAH-OOF-HUAH-OOF
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[Hot Stott Bot]

i do a no kill extreme difficulty mgs3 speedrun, my best segmented time was 2 hours, and 3 hours non-segmented. i find no alerts and/or european extreme to be not nearly as fun. i'm shooting for around 3 hours segmented right now (saving a bit more than my old best), just for fun, not too serious. currently at 23 minutes saved at the pain. the pain is really really hard to beat fast though, i will probably save again right after when i do it. :(

[Toups]

[cowboykim]

Hey guys, I havent posted in a while, but have been lurking and wanted to chime in on MGS here.

I dont own a PS3, but totally plan on enjoying 4 over at Booji's place. Anyways, Booji has been saying that we need to play through at least MGS 2 and 3 since I have never finished them, so we have been playing through 3, which I think so far I think this game is absolutely hilarious.

So my wife is a vegan, and usually when she watches me play games, she doesnt want me to kill animals if it can be avoided(like the dogs and birds in the Resident Evil games), and since we are playing MGS3 at my place, we are playing 'Vegan Gear Solid', which is pretty funny since we have subsisted mainly on mushrooms of different sorts, most of which Snake thinks are nasty, or they are poisonous. Its my first time with this game, but its hilarious how often Snakes growling stomach alerts the enemy. Its tough being a vegan spy.

So I hope MGS4 is as mock serious as the rest.

[Toptube]

[BIGJ420COOLDUDE]

[Adilegian]

Guys I highly recommend this blog:

http://metalgear.hardcoregamer.com
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[Lick Meth]

[unhappy days]

So guys, a question if I may; what do you actually think mgs4 will be like? It might seem like a bit of a berated question, but it's only like a week away now, and I don't remember the last time I have genuinely been looking forward to a new release this much.

Will it live up to the expectations?

[bleak]

[Hot Stott Bot]

guys who needs to eat food you should be at the next cutscene where stamina gets restored before needing to eat lol or use the end's camo here and there like on the ladder

just kidding guys, it is cool

[Ratoslov]

I am kind of disappointed in Kojima that there wasn't a VR Missions for MGS4. I saw the swamp area with the ropes and the water and the gator hat and I knew: MGS4's VR Missions were going to be epic.

[cowboykim]

[Lick Meth]

[Toptube]

[zombieman000]

I think an [insert mainstream press source here] preview mentioned that the in-game menu has some kind of "virtual range" mode that allows you to test weapons in a VR training-style environment. Going to find that now. (of course this isn't a very good substitute for hundreds of distinct VR missions, but they might do something cool with it, like put in a boss rush mode or one of those "Zako Survival" levels.)

edit: ;_;

[diplo]

out of the blue, but i haven't seen it discussed in the thread yet. what did people think of metal gear solid 3 making them pull the trigger on the boss? i hope this hasn't been glorified enough to have turned it into the "companion cube" of snake eater, or whatever. mostly curious because i finished writing an article, and had a harder time dissecting that part than any other. odd, with how simple of a design decision it is. still, it's interesting how it causes players to halt an action they were doing moments before with wild abandon. i can't think of too many other games that invoke such a switch of consciousness on the player.