Metal Gear Solid 4

mca47

Anyone pick this up yet? I cannot wait!!!!!

According to many reviews, this may be one of the best games ever created.

According to IGN.com...
"Is it possible to give a game an 11? (out of 10, which only a couple games EVER have received) If so, this would be the game that would merit that score. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is a title that exceeds all of the hype that was attached to the title. Regardless of whether you've seen every trailer and screenshot, read every preview and heard every interview, you won't get a full sense of how phenomenal this title is unless you sit down and experience it for yourself.

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/881/881472p1.html

This weekend I will def. be picking this up!!! Can't wait!!

suns rival

wake up snake... snake??? snaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaakke!!

LikeAnOcean

I'm tempted to get it after the reviews, but I rarely use my PS3 to play games and rather as a blu-ray player.. the rest of my games are collecting dust.

Not sure of the exact reasons this wasn't released on 360, but I've heard the game fills up the 50 GB blu-ray disc.

Sorry Xbox, DVD is no longer cutting it.

HushBull

I saw a friend play a bit today. Old Snake is just that, old. It looked mighty fun!

Rygar

Got it, it's decent (keeping in mind I never got into any of the other ones...played yes, got into no...).
Better control than previous Metal Gears, obviously, and MGO is on the same disc so the entire BRD isn't used for the single player game.
I have been getting caught a lot but haven't died yet...
The MP is ok.

NOCODE#1

LikeAnOcean wrote:

I'm tempted to get it after the reviews, but I rarely use my PS3 to play games and rather as a blu-ray player.. the rest of my games are collecting dust.

Not sure of the exact reasons this wasn't released on 360, but I've heard the game fills up the 50 GB blu-ray disc.

Sorry Xbox, DVD is no longer cutting it.

with ps3 whippinh 360's butt this year in console sales (including the gtaiv launch)

its pretty much a forgone conclusion ps3 will beat the 360 when this gen is gone

mca47

I'm pretty sure I'm going to get it tonight. Can't wait!!

Between MGS4, GTA4, MLB The Show, and still playing COD4...I don't have enough time for all of them!! Hahahaha!

Trailer

That game looks sick!! Too bad I don't have PS3.. come to think about it, I haven't owned a game system since Nintendo 64:o So you guys are saying that PS3 is the way to go? Wii's pretty dope but gets kind of old playing the same games all the time.

Rygar

Trailer wrote:

That game looks sick!! Too bad I don't have PS3.. come to think about it, I haven't owned a game system since Nintendo 64:o So you guys are saying that PS3 is the way to go? Wii's pretty dope but gets kind of old playing the same games all the time.

Too much opinion for that question, not enough fact.
For example, I play my 360 much, much, much more often than my PS3.

mole1985

LikeAnOcean wrote:

I'm tempted to get it after the reviews, but I rarely use my PS3 to play games and rather as a blu-ray player.. the rest of my games are collecting dust.

Not sure of the exact reasons this wasn't released on 360, but I've heard the game fills up the 50 GB blu-ray disc.

Sorry Xbox, DVD is no longer cutting it.

Yeah but it takes longer installing the game on a PS3 then it would to swap a disc. A HELL of a lot longer. Someone told me you have to install each chapter as you go through MGS4! Is that true? PS3 instillation is a fooking joke!

PearlJamaholic

i want this game bad, but i dont have the money for a ps3....maybe ill buy one anyways, good ol' credit cards

Rygar

mole1985 wrote:

Yeah but it takes longer installing the game on a PS3 then it would to swap a disc. A HELL of a lot longer. Someone told me you have to install each chapter as you go through MGS4! Is that true? PS3 instillation is a fooking joke!

No that isn't true.
There's an approximately 8 minute install when you first fire the game up and then you're done with installations unless you delete that data.
And no, swapping discs doesn't take very long. For a brand that had tons of disc swapping for kick-ass games they sure like to talk, huh?

Jason P

I picked this game up today. It will be the first game I've bought for the PS3, as I use it mainly for a blu-ray player. I didn't have a PS2, but two of my favorite games are the original Metal Gear for the NES and the outstanding Metal Gear Solid for the original playstation.

I'm looking forward to getting reacquainted with an old friend this weekend.

mca47

mole1985 wrote:

Yeah but it takes longer installing the game on a PS3 then it would to swap a disc. A HELL of a lot longer. Someone told me you have to install each chapter as you go through MGS4! Is that true? PS3 instillation is a fooking joke!

I'm pretty sure it's similar to the GTA4 install. Install once and that's it.
That I have no problems with.

Rygar

mca47 wrote:

I'm pretty sure it's similar to the GTA4 install. Install once and that's it.
That I have no problems with.

I've never heard of an installation before every chapter. Maybe he meant "load time" before every chapter

aspoonfulweighsaton

I went out at midnight Wednesday to pick up the "new" 80 gig bundle w/MGS4. I also picked up The Show and up to this point it's all I played as MGS4 is still sealed. I hope to crack it open tonight but with over 30 (mostly superior) XBOX 360 games I think playing time is going to be limited.

I will probably trade in a good portion of my 360 games just because there are some I just don't hardly play anymore, and that way I can pay off some games coming out in the next few months.

Rygar

aspoonfulweighsaton wrote:

I went out at midnight Wednesday to pick up the "new" 80 gig bundle w/MGS4. I also picked up The Show and up to this point it's all I played as MGS4 is still sealed. I hope to crack it open tonight but with over 30 (mostly superior) XBOX 360 games I think playing time is going to be limited.

I will probably trade in a good portion of my 360 games just because there are some I just don't hardly play anymore, and that way I can pay off some games coming out in the next few months.

Isn't the MGS bundle a 40G model? -> Nevermind, my bad, 80 it is.
Most of the PS3 users on here love that Show (not me, but that ties in with my hatred of watching baseball anyway )

mca47

aspoonfulweighsaton wrote:

I went out at midnight Wednesday to pick up the "new" 80 gig bundle w/MGS4. I also picked up The Show and up to this point it's all I played as MGS4 is still sealed. I hope to crack it open tonight but with over 30 (mostly superior) XBOX 360 games I think playing time is going to be limited.

I will probably trade in a good portion of my 360 games just because there are some I just don't hardly play anymore, and that way I can pay off some games coming out in the next few months.

I love The Show '08!!! Probably play that more than anything else.

aspoonfulweighsaton

mca47 wrote:

I love The Show '08!!! Probably play that more than anything else.

Yeah, I'm a sucker for sports games and now I am able to see what all the talk was about and boy am I impressed. I was about 50 games into 2K8 on the 360 but that's getting traded in this evening

But I don't want to get off topic...

I really am excited to play MGS4, but is it true that the opening cutscene is 62 minutes long and that half the game consists of cutscenes?

StateOfLoveBoatCptn.

mca47 wrote:

I love The Show '08!!! Probably play that more than anything else.

great game! Go Halos!

Rygar

aspoonfulweighsaton wrote:

I really am excited to play MGS4, but is it true that the opening cutscene is 62 minutes long and that half the game consists of cutscenes?

No, and yes. Everyone was saying that there was a 90 minute cutscene in the game but whoever reviewed it for EGM or some magazine said they played it through twice and didn't see a 90 minute cutscene.
That said there's a lot of cutscene, as usual, much of it painfully long and unnecessary, other stuff exciting and informative...