Metal Gear Solid 5

myp · **Posted:** Fri Mar 21, 2014 13:59

Curiosity wrote:

I think my 360 would die if I tried to play a game on it

Why, what have you done to it?

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14488

Saturnalian wrote:

£30 in real-life shops. I didn't bother.

£25 in Argos for all versions

£23 in game for PS3 / Xbox 360 (£28 for PS4 / Xbox one)

Its showing on Tesco's website as £22 for 360/ps3 and £24 for PS4/Xbox One versions I assume it will be the same in store

http://www.tesco.com/direct/search-resu ... metal+gear

Or if you are okay to wait - £19.75 for any version from Gameseek

http://www.gameseek.co.uk/search.php?c= ... metal+gear

I do also think it will drop in price quite quickly as people go through the game so if you are okay waiting i think it will be 1/2 that before the end of the year and is just the type of thing to go on PS+ before the launch of The Phantom Pain

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16557

£25 for the digital version too apparently.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14356

markg wrote:

£25 for the digital version too apparently.

Thanks Mark, I'll definitely check that out when I'm home (I'm assuming you mean on PSN, right?)

I can tell you now that in GAME it's £29.99 and Grainger Games it's £30. I've seen it with mine own eyes.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16557

Saturnalian wrote:

markg wrote:

£25 for the digital version too apparently.

Thanks Mark, I'll definitely check that out when I'm home (I'm assuming you mean on PSN, right?)

Yeah, £24.99 on there.

Really unusual for the PSN price to be lower than the street price.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Fri Mar 21, 2014 14:51

British Nervoso wrote:

Curiosity wrote:

I think my 360 would die if I tried to play a game on it

Why, what have you done to it?

It's just old and on the verge of going all RRoD on me. Won't even work unless in well ventilated area and stood up; often just stops outputting audio when it's been on for a while; sounds like a jumbo jet taking off etc.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14488

Curiosity wrote:

It's just old and on the verge of going all RRoD on me. Won't even work unless in well ventilated area and stood up; often just stops outputting audio when it's been on for a while; sounds like a jumbo jet taking off etc.

I know your probably not that interested but Game (and i assume others) will give you a big discount of a next gen console if you take it along and a selection of games (mainly see it advertised for the Xbox one) - so as long as its not red ringing right now it might be a good time to get rid of it while its still working (to some level)

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Fri Mar 21, 2014 15:00

Curiosity wrote:

British Nervoso wrote:

Curiosity wrote:

I think my 360 would die if I tried to play a game on it

Why, what have you done to it?

It's just old and on the verge of going all RRoD on me. Won't even work unless in well ventilated area and stood up; often just stops outputting audio when it's been on for a while; sounds like a jumbo jet taking off etc.

If you want, I have an old unused 360. Worked last time I used it, currently sitting in loft doing nothing.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Fri Mar 21, 2014 16:37

Cheers for the offer. I use the 360 so rarely for anything other than watching telly that I shall persevere with it until it dies.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Curiosity wrote:

Cheers for the offer. I use the 360 so rarely for anything other than watching telly that I shall persevere with it until it dies.

I've got a mate that does the same (i.e. only uses her Xbox for TV duties). The thing is that she's never really played games on it--she's only got about three games in her entire history and no more than a couple of early achievements for each--and yet she's been paying for a Gold level subscription for like the last six years just to watch the iPlayer and stream Sky stuff. Given whatever the 360 cost pretty early in it's life plus the constant Gold sub she's massively over-paid for just a streaming box. The tit.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16557

Really enjoyed the couple of hours I got to have playing this last night. I didn't encounter any of the frustrations I've had whenever I tried to play a MGS game before. Getting spotted isn't the end of the attempt for a start, you can kill a few baddies and then just hide for a bit before making another attempt.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14356

HOW DO I INVERT THE Y AXIS!?

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14356

Apparently it's on the main menu or click the lower left of the track pad. Weird.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16557

Yeah, that took me a while. For some unfathomable reason clicking the options button and the right half of the trackpad both do the same thing, bring up your in game map etc. The actual pause menu where the options are you get to by clicking the left half of the trackpad.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14356

To be fair, it was just me being a twat cause you walk no more than 5 feet and it tells you to press the track pad for options.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Mar 24, 2014 13:04

Mine still hasn't arrived.

Tempted to buy it on PSN and send it back when it finally comes.

GazChap · **Posted:** Mon Mar 24, 2014 13:06

Bought it for £22 from Asda the other night. Not played it yet. D'oh.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14356

I want to write things about this but I'm too busy at work.

In a nutshell: lovely, reminds me of MGS3, very good in its own Metal Gear-spazzy way and I've been enjoying it. Mind you, Dark Souls has been taking up too much of my time but I'd like to play some more.

Dark Souls.

2.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14356

I love Keifer's voice as Snake an' all. I can pretend that I'm not playing MGS but rather a silly episode of 24 (read: most episodes of 24 from season 2 onwards).

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16557

Well I finished it but true to my usual form with these sorts of games I did my best but kept getting spotted and so everyone in the entire map ended up dead. I'll try again and see if I can keep the body count down a bit.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16557

Tried one of the side-ops, the one where you have to disable the AA guns. I was surprised to see that it was all in daylight. Anyway loads of fun and I was like a ghost this time. An angry, murderous ghost with a massive machine gun and an RPG thing.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14356

I suppose that's the good thing about the decent MGS' since they'll let you play however you like without penalty.

myp · **Posted:** Tue Mar 25, 2014 21:51

I had time to watch the opening cutscene earlier.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14356

I was astonished how brief it was.

I played a couple of hours and didn't see another one. And the Codec stuff is in-game and not a rambling mess. *jaw drops*

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16557

I tried to read the backstory. It was so badly written that I just couldn't seem to make sense of it. It was like as I was reading the words all the ones from the previous sentence were being erased from my brain. So I'm still none the wiser.

myp · **Posted:** Tue Mar 25, 2014 22:10

markg wrote:

I tried to read the backstory. It was so badly written that I just couldn't seem to make sense of it. It was like as I was reading the words all the ones from the previous sentence were being erased from my brain. So I'm still none the wiser.

Glad it wasn't just me!

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14356

I read 3 pages and jacked it in. I'm sure most of it relates to the PSP games, Portable Ops, far as I know.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16557

The mission to extract the agent is brilliant. If the full game keeps up this sort of quality I think it will be my favourite stealth shooter thing of all time. Possibly favourite shooter.

myp · **Posted:** Wed Mar 26, 2014 7:25

Saturnalian wrote:

I read 3 pages and jacked it in. I'm sure most of it relates to the PSP games, Portable Ops, far as I know.

Peace Walker was the chronological predecessor.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16557

Played another mission last night after which I got:

"That was a lot of trouble just for a tape, Snake! Are you feeling okay?"

Grade E

Everybody was killed.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14356

markg wrote:

Everybody was killed.

Well done. :DD

myp · **Posted:** Sat Mar 29, 2014 1:52

Rank B first try. Could be stealthier.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Mar 31, 2014 9:58

This game is rock solid, isn't it? I've tried the side-op where you have to kill the two US Marines without being detected, but I just can't seem to do it.

Then I tried the one where you gun everyone down from the chopper. Near the end but it was hard as nails too. Nice variety though.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16557

Killing the two marines was one of my better efforts. I managed to waste them both and get a "B". I got detected but managed to do it with no collateral damage. I can't quite recall how I killed the first one but the second one I chased down his jeep and rammed it after I'd snuck around the back and stolen an APC. Then just drove on out of the base.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Mar 31, 2014 10:11

markg wrote:

Killing the two marines was one of my better efforts. I managed to waste them both and get a "B". I got detected but managed to do it with no collateral damage. I can't quite recall how I killed the first one but the second one I chased down his jeep and rammed it after I'd snuck around the back and stolen an APC. Then just drove on out of the base.

I'm going to try the other target first this time, I think. I reckon I'm going after the jeep guy first.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Mar 31, 2014 18:23

This has really clicked with me now - loving it! There is so much to do - well worth £20.

myp · **Posted:** Wed Apr 02, 2014 20:44

Completed all Side and Extra Ops now, and collected all XOF badges Still only 24% complete!

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14356

Completed the main story and all side ops on normal and just collected the XOF patches. 25% complete.

Just the Extra Op to do now.

Very good this but it needed more interior areas. I think the base is actually quite small without them. Well done on the variety of the missions though.

sdg · **Posted:** Tue Aug 18, 2015 13:43

I downloaded the free MGS game on Xbox One the other day and started playing it last night. It's great and has reminded me how much I loved the original but sadly I never played any more. Anyway, I did a wee search on amazon on the off chance I could get them now and look!

So, has anyone played this? If so, does it have the first one in it? Some of the reviews seem to suggest it does but it isn't mentioned in the product description. Also, is there any perceptible difference between the 360 and PS3 versions?

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14356

Looking directly at the box art with my eyes suggests that it doesn't.

I swear there was a HD Collection with 1-3 but without Peace Walker in it.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

sdg wrote:

If so, does it have the first one in it?

I haven't played it but not according to the review:

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This HD collection brings together definitive editions of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, 3: Snake Eater and the previously PSP-exclusive Peace Walker.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Aug 18, 2015 14:03

The first MGS was Playstation exclusive, wasn't it?

sdg · **Posted:** Tue Aug 18, 2015 14:04

That's what I took from it but there's a few reviews like this:

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Brilliant game, comes with Metal Gear 1&2 which isn't mentioned in the description, the graphics are sooo so nice, very crisp, controls are perfect just like the originals but on the bigger more comfortable Xbox controller, loading times are good and audio is also very good. For the games, mgs2 camera angles are something to get used to but once you do it's brilliant, MGS 3 snake eater is actually the subsistence version and has the improved fully controllable 3D camera angle stuff, Peace walker is brilliant works great on the Xbox, game comes with 2 disks, 1 for MGS 2&3 and 1 for peace walker. The manual is also really good with loaaaddddssss of content (all 3 full manuals for all 3 games with possibly a bit of extra content) I believe there's also some extra content on the disks that you can look at too. altogether no experienced glitches, brilliant purchase and great value for money

Quote:

it is actually slightly misleading as it does not have 3 games. it has 5. it also inculds metal gear 1 and 2. people who don't know about this go onto the metal gear 3 part of the disk and they are at the menu screen.

Was hoiping someone here owned it or had played it and could let me know. I'm moving in with the inlaws next weekend for a few weeks so I need games to play

sdg · **Posted:** Tue Aug 18, 2015 14:05

Grim... wrote:

The first MGS was Playstation exclusive, wasn't it?

Yeah, but surely the PSP game was a playstation exclusive as well?

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4299

I have the Vita version and there's no MGS, just MGS 2 and 3. And the title screen seems to suggest you should play 3 before 2, because the story is earlier in the chronology. Which I guess makes sense, but as I started playing 3 I had this nagging doubt in my mind that I was about to embark on a 30-hour waste of time because I hadn't played 2 already.

Confused, I decided to give up and play neither.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Tue Aug 18, 2015 14:29

sdg wrote:

I downloaded the free MGS game on Xbox One the other day and started playing it last night. It's great and has reminded me how much I loved the original but sadly I never played any more. Anyway, I did a wee search on amazon on the off chance I could get them now and look!

So, has anyone played this? If so, does it have the first one in it? Some of the reviews seem to suggest it does but it isn't mentioned in the product description. Also, is there any perceptible difference between the 360 and PS3 versions?

I own it on t'xbox. It does indeed not have MGS1 in it, but you can get the PS1 version on PS3 separately.

sdg · **Posted:** Tue Aug 18, 2015 14:34

Mr Dave wrote:

sdg wrote:

I downloaded the free MGS game on Xbox One the other day and started playing it last night. It's great and has reminded me how much I loved the original but sadly I never played any more. Anyway, I did a wee search on amazon on the off chance I could get them now and look!

So, has anyone played this? If so, does it have the first one in it? Some of the reviews seem to suggest it does but it isn't mentioned in the product description. Also, is there any perceptible difference between the 360 and PS3 versions?

I own it on t'xbox. It does indeed not have MGS1 in it, but you can get the PS1 version on PS3 separately.

Ok cool. So is MGS1 the only thing missing in this collection then if I wanted to get up to date?

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Aug 18, 2015 14:36

No, MGS 4 isn't there either.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Interestingly the Wikipedia page claims that there are two extra games on there as well (albeit not in HD):

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The MSX2 versions of Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake are also included on all three versions.

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The American and European console versions of the collection include HD versions of Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Gear Solid 3 and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker in one package, as well with the MSX2 versions of Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Tue Aug 18, 2015 14:50

sdg wrote:

Mr Dave wrote:

sdg wrote:

I downloaded the free MGS game on Xbox One the other day and started playing it last night. It's great and has reminded me how much I loved the original but sadly I never played any more. Anyway, I did a wee search on amazon on the off chance I could get them now and look!

So, has anyone played this? If so, does it have the first one in it? Some of the reviews seem to suggest it does but it isn't mentioned in the product description. Also, is there any perceptible difference between the 360 and PS3 versions?

I own it on t'xbox. It does indeed not have MGS1 in it, but you can get the PS1 version on PS3 separately.

Ok cool. So is MGS1 the only thing missing in this collection then if I wanted to get up to date?

Nothing Post PS2/PSP era (So MGS4 and Rising).
No MGS1.
I believe the Metal Gear Not-Solids are the original MSX versions, not the different NES versions. Supposedly better, but I can't really comment having never played any of the 8 bit games.

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