Blade Posted October 25, 2016 Posted October 25, 2016 Thanks Hero Could anyone confirm whether the past games are on PS Now? It probably is quicker watching some kind of recap on youtube. I have Ground Zeroes sitting on my PS+
Hero-of-Time Posted October 25, 2016 Author Posted October 25, 2016 Thanks Hero Could anyone confirm whether the past games are on PS Now? It probably is quicker watching some kind of recap on youtube. I have Ground Zeroes sitting on my PS+ According to this LINK from IGN the HD collection and MGS4 and available. To be fair, you can just get away with watching/playing MGS3 & Peace Walker as these are the games that contain the story of Big Boss. Highly recommend you at least play through 3 though. It's one of my favourite games of all time. @drahkon and @killthenet you guys also rate MGS3 highly, yes?
drahkon Posted October 25, 2016 Posted October 25, 2016 @drahkon and @killthenet you guys also rate MGS3 highly, yes? To me, it's the perfect video game. Impeccable gameplay (them boss fights...that one boss fight!), great setting, engrossing story, amazing characters, incredible music...everything just works. So yes, I rate it very highly
drahkon Posted October 25, 2016 Posted October 25, 2016 Worth seeing if I can get it cheap for 3DS? Never played the 3DS version but I recommend playing it on a big screen with good headphones or a great soundsystem. The graphics are a bit dated but it's still an incredible audiovisual journey.
Hero-of-Time Posted October 25, 2016 Author Posted October 25, 2016 To me, it's the perfect video game. Impeccable gameplay (them boss fights...that one boss fight!), great setting, engrossing story, amazing characters, incredible music...everything just works. So yes, I rate it very highly Dat ending. One of the GOAT, IMO. Worth seeing if I can get it cheap for 3DS? Nah. The 3DS version is a mess compared to the console one.
Happenstance Posted October 25, 2016 Posted October 25, 2016 I'm still waiting for MGSV to go on sale on Steam again. I've been in the mood to replay it on PC for months now but it hasnt been on sale for a while. Amazing game. The incredible gameplay makes up for the lackluster story. Now I just need Konami to release a full collection on Steam!
Blade Posted October 25, 2016 Posted October 25, 2016 Damn it. I'm going to have to subscribe to PS Now aren't I.
Fierce_LiNk Posted October 25, 2016 Posted October 25, 2016 Damn it. I'm going to have to subscribe to PS Now aren't I. I had a positive experience with PSNow and can only say good things about it. It was easy to sign up, straightforward to use and simple to cancel when I didn't need it at that time. I found the whole thing quite impressive and exciting that the technology worked at all. I don't remember seeing the MGS games on there, but that was months ago and might have changed. I stream music (Spotify), I stream film and TV (Netflix, NowTV), so I have no problem streaming games.
Shorty Posted October 25, 2016 Posted October 25, 2016 There's a 7 day trial right? Just have to knuckle down
Blade Posted October 28, 2016 Posted October 28, 2016 I just wish they would re-release the HD Collection on PS4 to be honest.
nekunando Posted August 12, 2019 Posted August 12, 2019 I finally started Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain after all this time and finished it at the weekend on PS4 after what felt like about 50 hours.. ..oh wait, that was just the prologue..?! For me, the series has been on a downward spiral since the wonderful beginning on PS1. You can obviously see that the scope, flexibility and level of control has unquestionably increased over the years but the franchise has kept drifiting so far away from what I enjoyed about the first entry that it really isn't for me any more. I think I actually hate The Phantom Pain The intro went on forever but I crawled slowly around that hospital and finished the prologue in the hope that maybe I'd start having fun when the real missions finally begin. So, I rode along, scoped out the area, sneaked up on a couple of guards, rode a little more and didn't even want to scope out the next area so just tried to sneak around without planning as I followed the waypoint and.. I really just don't want to do it I think I already knew I wouldn't like it, hence why I've waited so long to finally give it a go, but it's even less appealing than I ever imagined! 1
RedShell Posted April 1, 2020 Posted April 1, 2020 Wasn’t sure where to post this, but it’s ending up in here: So good. And that title... genius. I totally just did a Marge from that episode of the Simpsons with Cypress Hill. 1
Hero-of-Time Posted April 1, 2020 Author Posted April 1, 2020 Sounds like some kind of 70's porn music. Clearly I have zero appreciation for jazz...except when Ron Burgundy unleashes. Speaking of Metal Gear, as soon as I was able to make my island tune in AC I made it this... 1
Julius Posted September 2, 2024 Posted September 2, 2024 (edited) Kojima has taken up comedy classes since leaving Konami or is this Liquid Kojima..? Edited September 2, 2024 by Julius 1
Julius Posted Sunday at 10:48 PM Posted Sunday at 10:48 PM Towards the end of March 2020 I bought a PS3 as lockdown started to help me finally get into a series I'd wanted to for the longest time, because it wasn't available on modern platforms as its publisher decided to pop out and get milk. Fitting, then, that almost exactly five years later I find myself picking up the fifth and final numbered Metal Gear Solid game in the form of MGSV. This was actually the first Metal Gear Solid game I put some decent time into, checking it out back in 2016 and getting a couple of chapters in purely because of the hype, critical acclaim, and the fact it was the only MGS game I had access to on a relatively modern system (no, we aren't going to count the possibility of playing Twin Snakes through backwards compatibility on the Wii). I've heard good things and bad things about MGSV over the years - the good being the quality of the gameplay, and the bad generally being the story - but I figured it was time to return now that I have the other MGS games under my belt and see how I end up feeling about it; this was actually a game I very strongly considered putting on my Pledge List for the year, but instead I decided to go with The Witcher 3 because this always seemed like a locked in playthrough. I probably should've just stuck this on there anyways...ahem So far I've dusted off the hour-long prologue to open the game, the first few missions of Chapter 1, and a couple of Side-Ops. I just Fulton'd some puppies out. Yeah that prologue was...interesting. I think it's pretty astounding how much of it stuck from my first time around with the game nearly a decade ago, my favourite part probably being the customisation fakeout. That seems about as Kojima as it can get. It's less a tutorial and more the world's longest interactive cutscene. No complaints here, obviously. The game is simply stunning so far, in its visuals, sure, but especially in its audio design. I love the ability to mark something through your binoculars like you do in BOTW/TOTK, guess this is where the Zelda team might've got their inspiration from? Loving the variety of music so far. Kids In America and The Man Who Sold The World? Perfection! Mother Base has me...nervous. Obviously I already knew it was in the game but after the grating nightmare that was unlocking the true ending in Peace Walker? I'll probably need to look up if there's anything particular I should be investing in or know before getting too far in. Love the return of the Fulton system, of course. The guys screaming as they launch up into the sky. It popping if used indoors. Enemies noticing their buddy flying up to the moon....good stuff Already so many minor details I feel like I've uncovered, simple things such as doing something different to what Ocelot asks of you the first time you're at Mother Base, or doing it a different way, prompting what is clearly a unique response. And I thought MGS4 went a bit wild with Kojima's name being everywhere. Credits after everything is probably going to get annoying at some point, but it's fine for now! There's just this great tension and dynamism to every task I've attempted in the game so far which feels perfectly balanced. I'm really looking forward to seeing how far I can push things. So far I've just been doing the main objectives for missions and things I've stumbled across naturally, not sure how much replaying of missions I'll do just yet, think I'll need to see how much I gel with it all first. No doubt I'll be back with more thoughts as the playthrough goes on I do feel like there has been a hint or two story-wise about a certain character maybe not being a certain character, but I'll just need to see how that plays out. 1
Julius Posted 8 hours ago Posted 8 hours ago Just spent last night doing Side-Ops, one of which involved bailing out a sheep, another of which went pretty sideways and so I went against my preferred stealth method to Kratos-level deliverance of death. Yeah...I think I'm just going to go back to the main Missions for now and tackle Side-Ops as and when I feel like I've got something to actually gain from them, or am open to the distraction. They're good fun but already feel just a little bit repetitive, also not helped by the fact that they just keep adding more every time I complete a pair of Side-Ops. The potential for emergent gameplay feels great, but yeah, these early Side-Ops all feel pretty similar, and honestly while I'm impressed with the world visually, there's a lack of interconnectedness to the rest of the open world as soon as you take out their relays/radios and the game feels incredibly narrowed in scope. They feel like Peace Walker Side-Ops spread across an open world, but without much to connect them besides a continuous open space – again, at least so far. Also, have me a good chuckle being referred to during recon for one mission as "the Head Hunter" (funnier yet as at that point I was just putting the guys on a snooze rather than on ice) and hearing that they're considering starting to wear helmets 1
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