Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Is Underwhelming

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Already bought the collection 10 years ago, still holds up.

I feel like over time people have forgotten the type of company Konami is.

I believe that the master collection uses linear scaling which is why mgs1 looks like blurry sheeet, they should have used nearest neighbour for the cleanest piexels. I have heard that they may be addressing this in a coming patch, but still shows the minimal effort made for these repackaged ports

Konami never fails to disappoint

The blurriness in the MGS1 emulation is due to the default configuration of the emulators, which has the bilinear filter enabled, so they didn't even configure it.

What i really want is MGS4 Remastered

The Disc change in MGS1 is iconic, I'm glad they kept it.

MGS2 and MGS3 absolutely had content removed from their PS2 versions. MGS2 had a skateboarding mode where you could play as Snake or Raiden in a Tony Hawk Pro Skater style game mode, complete with a punk rock rendition of the MGS main theme. Removed from the HD collection and still absent here. MGS3 had a lot of content removed, including two game modes (online multiplayer and Snake vs Monkey mode) as well as all of the associated items and extras that came with those modes, such as Banana camo and Monkey Mask. The nightmare sequence was also removed, along with the radio conversations that referenced it.

One thing I would push back on is that I like that they left in the disc swap animation. It reminds me a bit of the intermission built in to films like Lawrence of Arabia. Yeah, you could just cut that out of the home video releases, but it would take away from the context around the film.

The coolant spray being on the right stick was part of the Xbox HD collection too. It’s intended to replace the pressure sensitive control of the spray. It never made sense anyway considering spraying lightly with the coolant spray doesn’t actually have any function in gameplay besides maybe waking guards up slower

I know Twin Snakes gets alot of flak but I wish it was included in this collection.

Options for both integer scaling and a texture smoothing option on MGS1 to get rid of warping would be appreciated. Both are available in the Duckstation PS1 emulator, and make the game look a lot better, sharper and stable.

IMPORTANT -You can get each game for 20 bucks instead to buy all of them -PC apparently has been confirmed to have mouse and keyboard from people who went in the Tokyo games show -Master books and screen play books apparently are extremely expensive by their own -Also they fixed bugs from the bluepoint hd collection -MGS1 allow you to create saves from Konami games for psychomantis

I've been watching footage of MGS from this collection, and I kept thinking "this look WAAAAAY too slow." Then it dawned on me that those fuckers are using the PAL version. Yours is the only review I've seen that mentions this. That's why you're the best.

The Legacy Collection was the ideal way to play these games (to include 4 and Peace Walker ), though that's two generations removed now. Licensing is definitely holding it back. 4 had Apple and Sony licensing imbedded into the game itself. The Twin Snakes was licensed to Nintendo and Silicon Knights; legal litigation still surrounds this one. The later will probably never get a re-release.

Never played a MGS game in my life. Been waiting for a way to play the entire franchise on one console (and ideally a modern console, I really dont like digging up old units). Was really stoked to see the announcement of this collection and that there would seemingly be more collections to fill out the rest of the series. That said, even if this collection was perfect with all the features diehard fans wanted, I'd never drop full price on a collection of 20 year old games. I'll be picking this up when it hits $20 or if it goes to PS+ for free.

I can't wait to see how awful all the new silent hill games are gonna be

Just as a correction, the games in PAL were not capped at 30, it was 25fps. However, I never realized PAL came out in Australia too, so I've learnt something new haha

I'm just happy that Konami remembers Metal Gear exists, and I hope they don't spoil this opportunity