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@tameshiyaku Power consumption is the same - if we're comparing it to the most recent revision of the original model. There's the launch model, then two revisions in 2021 and 2022, the slim apparently uses the same board as 2022.

"They're the same games as before!"
Good! 😁
Too remake obsessed these days, remakes can be fun, looking forward to Delta, but I don't appreciate them coming at the expense of the original """outdated""" versions.

Imagine if you couldn't watch classic movies on blu-ray or streaming, because remakes exist for them, and who would ever want to watch those old yucky versions?

Why the hell can I not play all the PS1 Resident Evil games on modern platforms?

@ralphdibny MGS Mobile is a great shout. Always wanted to play that one.

@LifeGirl I know it's important, I just meant as in it wasn't Kojima directed. Portable Ops is unfairly considered non canon despite being alluded to in Peace Walker, but that's not what I was suggesting. It deserves a second chance.

I'm wondering how MGSV would differ at all here, other than Switch it's already readily available everywhere. They could adjust some of the grinding for late game equipment? Would they keep the licenced tracks?

I want a Volume 3 that includes all of the side games. First one had Snake's Revenge, so no reason to go all out. Give us Ghost Babel, give us the Acid duology, Portable Ops, Rising, and yes, give us Survive. The purpose of this collection is preservation, having a version of Survive that doesn't require a constant internet connection would be dope.

Edit: Actually that leak mentions Acid (MGA) for Volume 2, so dope.

"switch between windowed and full-screen mode" these sound PC version specific lol.

@saffeqwe People aren't considering the bonus content either, the master books and digital screenplays. You may not consider them valuable, but the already existing Japanese physical screenplay books can be pretty expensive, here you can read them fully translated for the first time, for no extra cost. It's a nice feature for hard-core fans. Most of the major issues have been addressed, but because of a few remaining minor issues, they're releasing "broken and wrecked" versions. Funny.

@Maddie47 You can switch controller ports in a pause menu. The collection has a 3D model of the boxes of each game to examine for Meryl's codec. If you have the physical copy, the screenshot is also on the back of that case.

@Geep I would assume that if the US and JP versions are separate downloads for European players, that would resolve the 50Hz problem, same as you being able to select between PAL and NTSC for the PS Plus Premium games.

@Ken_Kaniff A clarification. Metal Gear 1 and 2 now have trophies, but Snake's Revenge and the NES version of Metal Gear 1 do not.

Horrible attempt at clickbait.

They didn't include Kojima's name in a collection he did not work on!?!?!? WTF!!!!!! 🤬🤬🤬

(He's still credited within the actual games). Yeah, yeah, you put that detail in the article, but headlines and tweets are all people need to get baited, and you left that out there. Of course, there would be no need for an article either if you did include that clarification in the headline, because there is nothing newsworthy in this.

This collection has fixed many issues present in the HD Collection versions, so it's easily the best modern way to play these titles (PS2 versions win out slightly when it comes to a few bonus features, but in terms of the core titles, they're at their best here.

The End screenshot says it all really. Completely broken visuals on the HD Collection, now it looks correct on PS5 as it was on PS2. Personally, I find these fixes more important in faithfully preserving the games on modern platforms than anything else, and shows the opposite of a cash grab. Usually technical issues in ports get carried over to future ports, and are joined by new ones. Sonic Adventure DX says hello.

https://twitter.com/MGSMGN/status/1716219038341468575?t=IaZWFOwmaikF6FfmlKZ59A&s=19

https://www.reddit.com/r/metalgearsolid/s/pMD40Rtbkl

The different launchers is weird, but there's a reasoning for the decision, because you can choose to buy the games individually, so they count as separate titles. Could've handled it slightly better on PS5 though, with them all occupying one space on the home screen, like how you could switch between PS4 and PS5 versions of the same game.

@Ken_Kaniff I don't believe so, they're specified as bonus content for buying the full bundle.

@GamingFan4Lyf It doesn't specifically target me so it shouldn't exist.

Wasn't expecting it to frankly. They've settled on the protagonists having a specific weapon type since 2008, and it'll probably stay that way for Persona 6 as well.

This is unforgivable.

@get2sammyb based.

@MrSensical She's great.

We've come a long way since the days of Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie... unfortunately we've been going in the wrong direction this whole time!

More like Stupei, Ace Defective...

@Matroska @Fight_Teza_Fight You should look into who funds them. Definitely a big oil psyop.

Can't say I'm too big on these DLCs that launch several years after the base game. Just make it a standalone product at that point.

@Texan_Survivor The thing is though, Sony have never officially called the previous Slim consoles slim, that was consumers and media who used that terminology.

Curious timing that they announced this right after pulling Pac-Man 99 offline. Was that just some kind of test run or something?

Funny seeing that leaked animation pop up in this trailer. And the new battle theme is the same music from that leak too, but now with vocals.

Surprising that this one was delayed for a while to improve the quality.

Anime tie ins don't often have tremendous quality, but there's some gems like One Piece Odyssey. Surely a Dragon Quest title should have been a standout? The next Monsters game should hopefully be a step up.

@RawnDawn @thefourfoldroot1 The bundle will also go on sale at some point, however.

@SavoyPrime Reload doesn't make Portable worthless or anything, they're very distinct games. Like how you can play FF7, or it's Remake trilogy.

@KilloWertz Your timeline's a bit off, Part 2 came out 3 years ago, not 6.

@Neverwild Yep. People are being a little dramatic over this, I think it's only fair. The first game has a native PS5 version, so it's now a bit of a downgrade to go from Part 1 to Part 2. It most likely won't be a major project for them either, it'll be along the lines of the Director's Cut versions of Ghost of Tsushima and Death Stranding, backport the newer features amd functionality of Part 1 to 2 with slightly nicer visuals (Horizon's rumoured "remake" is probably similar too).

Well, technically that's the incorrect way to say it, because Cait Sith is based on the gaelic fairytale creature of the same name, and there you pronounce it as "Ket Shi".

But hey, it is BASED on it so I guess they can change it if they really want to.

Edit: It appears the Japanese version uses a similar pronunciation to the gaelic one too, so it's a localisation change.

I'm in the middle of playing it right now, it's pretty good. It's also really hard compared to the base game.

@Kanji-Tatsumi some extra context, he confirmed the SF recast wasn't about his tweets.
https://twitter.com/ReubenLangdon/status/1707447248257483100?t=NvbhqstsJqej5_kNnW_QiQ&s=19

@Sergo Give this "muh lazy devs" crap a rest

@Kanji-Tatsumi It's pretty silly because Reuben has always been known as that type of guy, being involved with other types of conspiracy posting like aliens and stuff. Covid has been very politiced and it seems the presumption is that you're on the right wing for being against lockdowns and such, but Reuben's always struck me a left wing guy if anything. More of a new age hippie type though, as opposed to a neolib US Democrat party type.

All this said, I'm not entirely sure if the recast is because of his views, a decent chunk of other VAs from SF4/5 were replaced too. Hideaki Itsuno seems to have a personal friendship with the guy so I think we'll find out whenever the next DMC game comes out. The anime could go either way since it's been licensed out.

We already knew this when the first one came out.

@naruball @durxll123 some of the people who get mad about 30fps can't even tell the difference actually. This one guy on Instagram was insistent that you could run MGS on a phone via Duckstation. Told him that's not possible and he DM'd me a video where the framerate counter clearly showed it was at 30, but there was a separate counter next to it displaying the refresh rate being 60. Literally thought a 30fps game was 60fps because he believed the number in the corner of the screen told him it was.

@InsaneWade It's just been confirmed that the Psycho Mantis memory card reading WILL be in this collection, in a roundabout way.
https://twitter.com/MGSMGN/status/1705465153708593490?t=3h-TG2oFuUP2qNtSP60xCQ&s=19

@AdamNovice I think the only genuine issue that we've seen is MGS2 on Switch being 30fps, which doesn't register if you get it on PS5. That aside, it's largely what the community was asking for over the last several years, competent faithful conversations of the classics that preserve the original intent as much as possible on all modern platforms. They've invited both journalists and fans who know the games inside out to try preview builds and the reception on both ends has been positive.

It's a far cry from say... Silent Hill HD Collection, or the pre patched version of ZOE HD Collection. It's more comparable to some of Konami's other recent compilations like the Cowabunga Collection when it comes to the bonus content, alternate versions of games, etc.

Well yeah. It's always been capped at 30, even on PC (no mods for it either). Just how the game was designed back then, and the version in the collection is a basic emulation. I'd rather they keep it at 30 as opposed to going in and somehow unlocking the framecap and breaking some part of the game, which happens often for these old Japanese games.

See RE4's animations and QTEs being sped up in the 60fps versions, or better yet, the boss fights in MGS3 (namely the Fury becoming more difficult the higher the framerate gets - the flames last longer).

@Netret0120 I would prefer Sony didn't, but comparing Insomniac to Bethesda or Activision is crazy when they almost exclusively made PS exclusives when they were independent.

And God of War was PS first party from the day the first game was greenlit, obviously not the same as something like Fallout or Dishonored.

Finally. I was wondering if they'd ever bring this out internationally.

@__jamiie The title being Volume 1 also strongly implies that MGS4 will be coming back in a Volume 2 or even 3. Even back in the day, MGS4 would have been easy to port to Xbox. There's a meme about needing 9 DVDs, but the file size is only about 25GB, enough to fit on 3 discs without even needing to compress the audio and video files. With some optimisation MGS4 could've been an easy 2 disc 360 game.

@itsfoz Maybe that's going to happen, but I don't think a retro game collection needs a heavy marketing cycle far in advance. We have a couple of trailers, probably another around launch, a press preview event. And you'll see online ads probably at the same time.

@GloriosaDaisy Not having the Answer for FeMC in a complete remake of an 80 hour PS2 game (without that content) isn't laziness or greed).

@Steelhead Holding out hope for a Muramasa Rebirth port. It was so good on the Vita.

@Tecinthebrain What happened to sour it?

@ApostateMage Growl FM, Impulse and Darkstar Radio were added. I haven't heard much of the new tracks but I'll recommend Let It Go As If You Wander by Haru Nemuri.

@Deljo I'm not getting that impression from either article on the sister sites, there's a few who say they'd like to see a merger, but most, even on Pure Xbox aren't positive about the email.

@Nei Extremely depressing that the industry basically swapped Sega for Microsoft.

Not surprising at all from a Microsoft exec, but still horrible to read. I hate Phil's "nice guy" persona, and how much it's worked. Seeing many people react to this saying things like "I like Phil but this makes me think a bit less of him"

He is NOT your gaming buddy, guy!

I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you!

@Netret0120 FF16. That was the last time they were happy with sales figures.

"Announced at the just-finished Nintendo Direct, Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft (yes, that's the official title) is also coming to PS5 and PS4."

I actually love the title, they did that Starring Lara Croft thing in the original games.

Contrary to some commenters, I hope they do NOT change the controls. These games were designed to be played with tank controls, like it or not. The level design is designed completely around them.

@naruball I thought the upgrade looked really odd with the high resolution textures paired with the blocky geometry, the reveal of the switching to original graphics feature explained it, but I think I'll stick mostly to those original graphics as a consequence. There's some charm to it I suppose, it looks a bit like the CGI renders you'd get from the era.