Mathmaster333 said:Allgorhythm said:Congrats—very nice. I feel compelled to play these out of a sense of nostalgia. Am I correct in assuming these are ports of the MSX2 games?
They're actually the ports of the versions included with MGS3: Subsistence on the PS2. The only real differences from the MSX versions are that some character portraits are changed, some bosses have different names, there's an Easy mode, and the Infinity Bandana which unlocks after beating each game. If you played the versions from the PS2 or the HD collections, though, these versions are the same as those.
I only played the first two games. That was on a Toshiba Pasopia IQ MSX2 computer. I have three versions of the PS2
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. They're all for the JP PS2 and two of them have the bonus games.
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater was such an advance over the previous titles in the series that I did not feel the inclination to replay the earliest games. The only Metal Gear games I've played on the XBox are the 360 and XBox One versions of
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. I played them for a TA community event well after playing the PS4
Ground Zeroes and the PS4
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
I am a big fan of stealth games. Although I enjoyed
Metal Gear and
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake; my interest in the
Metal Gear series really started with
Metal Gear Solid on the PS1.
Modern stealth games trace their lineage to three games:
Tenchu: Stealth Assassins,
Metal Gear Solid, &
Thief: The Dark Project released in that order all in the same year (1998). The three games were developed at the same time. Even though they worked for competing companies, there was significant collaboration between the three developers who were deliberately definitizing stealth conventions.
In the 8 years between
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake and
Metal Gear Solid, technology had improved drastically. The MSX2
Metal Gear saved on a tape cassette. The MSX2
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake saved via a separate Konami cartridge that was designed to work with a wide variety of MSX2 games. That's the nostalgia I referred to earlier and the reason I guess I have to play
METAL GEAR & METAL GEAR 2: Solid Snake.