#3419

Metal Gear is about as serious a story as Austin Powers tbf.

#3420

Yeah, I think that’s what I mean by saying I was enjoying it in a “so bad, it’s good” way at first. The story is so daft at times that you can’t help but laugh.

#3421

The camp factor of metal gear often tows a very narrow line between hilarious and goofy espionage and really irritating 4th wall breaking knowing wink wink winks. It has done its whole series. Apart from 5 which never had the chance really

I think 1 and 2 do the best in that regard. Everything after 3 becomes way more hit n miss

#3422

All fair comments. The gamecube twin snakes version is by far the best way to play the game, albeit with some matrix-esque bullet time additions to ramp up the cheesiness. The gameplay is vastly updated and it doesn’t feel like it’s pushing the system to its limits anymore.

I played it when it came out. I must have been 13 or 14 and I missed all of the corny and camp aspects to it, taking it all completely seriously. Now I look back, the mgs storyline is a bit daft eh.

I also took resident evil totally seriously too and part of me still does, although my current slog through resi 6 is testing that to its absokute limits

#3423

the save systems in MGS always put me off a little bit

never know where I’ll end up when I load it up again

#3424

I lent it to a friend when we were about 18. I was 8 or 9 when I first played it. He’d only got into the series when MGS3 came out.
He was somehow in a position at the time where he only had a ps1, with no memory card. So I went round one day and he was having another attempt at completing it in one go.
Seeing him blast through 90% of the game in about 2 hours was something of a shock. 8-year-old me had experienced it as some epic saga. I swear it took me months to complete. God, I must have been proper shit at it.

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#3425

greatest demo disc ever made

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#3426

PSYCHO MANTIS:
Ah I see you like… nothing at all

NOTHING AT ALL

NOTHING AT ALL

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#3427

i know i’ve said it loads before on here but net yaroze was so cool

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#3428

this was me when I got a PS1 - I overlooked this when I got my PS1 as I came from having a Saturn which had built in memory for saves, and it took me a while to save up for a memory card. not a massive problem for playing Formula 1 '97 as I could just do each race as a single race and manually record the results to do a championship, but more of an issue with Resident Evil 2 - basically meant I had to play it without saves, in one sitting. the B scenarios were off limits too for me.

got one of those shite 8 in 1 jobs in the end that kept corrupting and lost my saves half the time :man_facepalming:

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#3429

Stupid sexy Mantis!

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#3430

RE2 in one sitting. That’s hardcore. Though it’s probably a similar deal and you could also fly through that in about 45 minutes. Bastard speedruns, ruining childhood memories. Beautiful idyllic memories with hordes of zombies and silenced SOCOMs.

#3431

it took me a long time to actually be good enough to finish it in one sitting, but then given i only had two games and would have just played it and F1 97 constantly then i got there in the end.

plus i remember having to do RE1 really quick on the Saturn to unlock stuff like the rocket launcher or the key to get alternate costumes, so guess i was used to speed running it a bit before i even knew what speed running was!

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#3432

It’s probably the origin of speed running tbh. People without memory cards.

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#3433

Honestly think I’d prefer it if in Fallen Order when you find a crate with a cosmetic item in it, instead you got nothing and it did “FUCK YOU” onscreen like the Dark Souls death thing.

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#3434

Championship Manager 01/02 demo that came in cereal boxes would like a word

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#3435

I think I saved a lot just so I didn’t have to do parts of the game over again. And to get all of those inspirational quotes from Mei Ling as well of course.

#3436

Haha, I love this! :grinning:

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#3437

Exquisite reference!

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#3438

Cyberpunk delayed until November 19th