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Metal Gear Soild 4 Bluetooth Headset Review (GadgetMadness)

Gadget Madness has posted an incredibly helpful video review of the MGS4 Bluetooth Headset, and it highlights the rather poor audio quality produced by the device. The recordings are very fuzzy, to the point where words blur and become indecipherable.

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morganfell5795d ago

mine arrives tomorrow at gamestop along with the limited edition guide. glad to see it was money well spent.

vickers5005795d ago

Apparently you didn't actually read the article or watch the video.

gamesR4fun5795d ago (Edited 5795d ago )

lol

crying shame tho hope we get some user feedback here as Im sure some of us will get it...

Glad I didnt preorder tho lol

edit: just finished the vid and noticed a couple things. First the usb cord looked standard not proprietary. Second I wouldnt mind having a listen to it online myself before saying the sound quality was that bad. Tho honestly Im sure there are far better valued for your money headsets out there. Just that this guy didn't feel like an objective or even qualified critic.

GamerGirl4life5795d ago

Did u listen to way he sounded on the MGS4 headset? I agreed with the guy when he said he thought he sounded as if he had a sock in his mouth (lol). On the other hand, his voice was projected much clearer on the other one. I personally recommend the Jabra headset that comes with the game Warhawk. It's very lightweight, comfortable, and has long battery life. My online friends can hear me so well I have to turn the volume down to 3. No offense, but I do not recommend this headset unless you cannot live without a headset that says MetalGearSolid4 on it...

ErcsYou5795d ago

Mine is also supposed to arrive tomorrow but im having second thoughts about actually paying for it.... Sound quality is very important... I am happy to hear it has a mute function ... Ill have to sleep on this and decide tomorrow.... I don't really need another headset anyways.....

NegativeCreepWA5795d ago

Does the Jabra have a mute? I would buy Warhawk again if it does. Or can you buy it separate?

morganfell5795d ago (Edited 5795d ago )

uh, it's called sarcasm. how can any metal gear fan put an ounce of trust in anything that any journalist has to say when said item even remotely relates to metal gear.

sorry you don't get it but this is my way of giving the finger to every bag of crap writer that says something negative relating to mgs4. it doesn't mean that there isn't anything negative, rather i am tired of all these dirtbags just jumping on the trash mgs4 bandwagon.

look at what happened. we have that twerp adam sessler talking about 90 minute cutscenes and attacking konami. we have kotaku printing there are 90 minute cutscenes. personally i wish they were in the game. but they are not. yet everyone turned into a bunch of ms led zombies and laid into the attack. and not just the cutscene issues either.

so how can anyone put a shred of belief in what these guys say. this is a full on smear campaign and it is shifting into higher gear every day. i did order it and i am glad i did. if some idiot journalist says something related to mgs4 is bad then i know the chances are about 90-98% that the item in question is great. therefore by 2nd grade deduction, it was money well spent.

Besides, what kind of site is gadget madness? Here is ign with postive and negative:

http://gear.ign.com/article...

Once synced, we enjoyed a solid and clear connection to our iPhone and PS3. Though our unit's pre-production status does suggest its mic and speaker may change, so far as we can tell, they're pretty solid they way they are. We had to jack the volume up a bit via settings in the PS3 and iPhone, but once so adjusted, we were happy with the results. Incoming volume was enough to be heard over LA traffic with the windows down, and none of our connections complained about lacking quality from our mic side of things.

Pelican did not, however, incorporate any noise cancelling technology in the MGS4 Headset, so it is true that if you're dealing with a lot of ambient noise, the people you're talking to will hear it as well.

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BulletToothtony5795d ago

hopefully is not as bad as it sounded in that review.. i was gonna order mine tomorrow.. :( if someone gets theirs pm me and tell me if it's really that bad

sonarus5795d ago

Its a licensed product so didn't expect much. The voice quality was terrible but forgive me if i am not entirely convinced. Blutooth headsets aren't that hard to make so i doubt the manufacturers would have fvkd it up that bad. I will await for another review...regardless not buying anyway

morganfell5795d ago

well if you say something postive prepare to have every scab in here disagree with you. what a bunch of sissies. it cracks me the guy said "it's bad, here is the voice" and these bunch of no mind lemmings siad, "well alrighty mister reviewer that we never heard of with you slapped together review. youmust be right!"

to every clown that bought into that review, send me $1000 and i promise you will be a gazillionaire in a month."

vickers5005795d ago

D@mn, and I was looking forward to this one as well. Oh well.

NegativeCreepWA5795d ago

I hope the socom one is better. Sony needs to step up and make a quality first party mic.

avacadosnorkel5795d ago

maybe it will help the kid with marbles in his mouth

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PlayStation 3 Games That Desperately Need a PS5 Remaster

The PlayStation 3 may not have been the strongest generation for Sony, but there were still some diamonds in the rough that deserve a revisit as PS5 remasters.

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OtterX40d ago (Edited 40d ago )

Even if they could just remaster and put on PSVR2, some would still look great as VR titles and could do a whole lot to bolster the headset w these exclusives! I'd imagine the investment of reworking these titles into VR would be way less than building new games from the ground up, and they could be amazing experiences, and VR often makes flat games feel fresh again. The Resistance and Killzone games are particularly what I want to see!!

Rude-ro40d ago

I played killzone 3 in 3d and it really changed the game per being immersive.
In vr, that would be even more awesome.

darthv7240d ago

Funny you mention that... my son wanted to play some PS3 games in 3d on my PS tv and he was blown away by how good KZ3 was. It really was a great addition to the game. Im surprised there have not been more 3d games from that era being ported to the PSVR/VR2.

_SilverHawk_40d ago

resistance 1-3, killzone 1-3, uncharted 1-3, uncharted golden abyss, folklore, socom 4 , motorstorm, twisted metal, MAG, heavenly sword

Cacabunga40d ago

Killzone 2+3
Sly Thieves in Time
Crack in Time
God of War Ascension
Motorstorm
Modnation racer
Infamous 1+2

Profchaos40d ago (Edited 40d ago )

Killzone trilogy in VR would be amazing bonus points if they offer shadow fall.

There was a psvr1 Killzone project that supermassive was working on at one stage which wasn't up to scratch and Sony brand it back in house I was hoping we would see that on psvr2 eventually.

Personally I'd love to see some more love or acknowledgement of psvr2 from Sony in general it was a expensive headset and Sony barely acknowledge it's existence

seanpitt2340d ago

The amount of work needed to remaster these games wouldn't be beneficial on a financial and business sense.. MGS4 would probably be the best bet as it would need the least amount of work!

Iceball200040d ago

YEAAASSSSS! I miss this franchise and wanna play it so bad again.

Father__Merrin40d ago

The time is perfect for a resistance fall of man game campaign coop multiplayer

InUrFoxHole40d ago

The resistance series is str8 trash to me. Socom 3 I would welcome. Or killzone MP.

Marcus Fenix40d ago

A Resistance reboot will be awesome

Michiel198940d ago

That's what Bungie should make, Ill keep saying it until it happens

1Victor40d ago (Edited 40d ago )

Resistance was ok but Warhawk and Starhawk was better and kept me coming back for almost a decade of fun and petty revenge on the loud mouth unskilled players 🤣
Edit I loved capture the flag dropping the pot on the flag carrier was extremely satisfying as well as transforming your plane in bot form and stumping them to death 😱

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Michiel198940d ago

Resistance was the best co-op fps I ever played after L4D2

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One Last Smoke - The significance of Snake's cigarettes in Metal Gear Solid 4

An article looking at the symbolic meaning behind the cigarettes in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.

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Hideo Kojima laments that Metal Gear Solid 4's digital battlefield 'is no longer science fiction'

Game creator Hideo Kojima is and probably will always be best-known for his creation and stewardship of the Metal Gear series at Konami, which since his departure has been more-or-less on permanent hiatus (don't mention Survive). In his almost three decades these games evolved to the point where they predicted certain problems of the information age (MGS 2), took aim at contemporary topics like Guantanamo Bay (MGS: Ground Zeroes), and ended on a profound sense of sadness about our species' inability to break the cycles of global conflict (MGS V).

It's not clear what sparked this reflection, but Kojima's been thinking about Metal Gear Solid 4, an entry that was (and unfortunately still remains) a PlayStation 3 exclusive. In that entry the player controls an aged Solid Snake in the year 2014, caught up in a civil war being fought between Private Military Companies (PMCs).

Dirty_Lemons350d ago

That was a great fucking game/ movie.

DarXyde350d ago

To this day, it's one of those games where I refuse to skip the cutscenes, no matter how many playthroughs I've done.

But if you ask me...MGS2 was bloody prophetic and has aged like fine wine. That game was blasted as the weakest entry, and yet it's so enduring. I replayed it some time last year and it was remarkable.

sadraiden350d ago

Heed not the lamentations of people that say that MGS2 is bad because of the Snake/Raiden bait and switch. Every MGS game has its own merits, and while most people consider 3 to be the best, they all shine equally in my opinion.

porkChop350d ago

@sad

I would generally agree but with the exception of MGSV. It had truly excellent gameplay/combat, but dull and largely empty open world(s), and a narrative that is literally only half finished.

I really wish Kojima hadn't tried to go open world with MGS. It just wasn't right for the series. But I get it. He didn't want to make MG anymore but he wasn't allowed to make anything else. So he had to experiment within that franchise. Still, it was the wrong direction.

Santouryuu350d ago

I have been thinking about this a lot, MGS2 being the weakest and getting blasted.
My conclusion, for some years now, it's my favorite game of the series.
Going from MGS1 to MGS2 was such a big leap, in graphics, mechanics, etc.
And now it's even more relevant for being 'bloody prophetic' as you stated.

Maybe dust of my vita and play it again...

porkChop350d ago

It's a shame we never got a remaster of MGS4. The original game only rendered at 1024x768, and it ran anywhere from like 20fps to 60fps depending on the area. A remaster could have very easily cleaned up the visuals and performance. It's such a great game. I just want to play it again but in its best possible state.

MIDGETonSTILTS17350d ago

I agree, but they did all sorts of tricks to make use of the ps3’s cell processor….they’d probably have to rebuild the game in order to make it run on another machine. And, if that involves remaking those cutscenes somehow, then itll never happen, unfortunately.

porkChop350d ago

Nah. There have been plenty of remasters of PS3 games and they've turned out fine. It can be done.

ANIALATOR136349d ago (Edited 349d ago )

You can get near enough 4k 60 with it on RPCS3 these days

FallenAngel1984350d ago

War... war never changes. Or does it? The war has changed ...did it? The answer is no! Unless it is yes! No, of course it is! Is war! Yes! No! Yes?

PitbullMonster349d ago

Ah a man of culture. Duty calls

cell989350d ago

He was always ahead with this series. MSG1 taught me about the importance of passing on our genes into future generations but in a responsible way, for they are bound to what we experienced in our lifetime. Sons of liberty taught me about global control and simulation runs to test society in a grand scale, the importance and dangers of control of information. MGS3 taught me about patriotism and how that can blind you into doing things you never would have otherwise, all for the sake of politicians who only see you as another pawn in their grand scheme of things. MSG4 taught me war is inevitable and always orchestrated because it's great for the economy. Soon simulation systems will start dictating who goes to war and why, all run through proxies. Privatization of military company are already here. We already started to see how a small group of elites dictates everything that happens. Nothing is done, nothing happens without strings being pulled.

Eidolon350d ago

You learned all this from MGS?

Tody_ZA350d ago

All that was literally the themes and core story of each game, so not surprising he learned that from MGS. Metal Gear Solid 2 in particular is so relevant today, it was more than a decade ahead of its time and a work of genius. Kojima saw what the digital future was going to become when it was in its infancy. Even MGS 5 despite being unfinished and less of a traditional Metal Gear Solid game with regards to story, had a fair bit to say about language and control over it that is relevant today.

It's a highly acclaimed series for a reason, and one of my favourite.

Eidolon350d ago

I've watched my brother play the MGS games, but I only beat MGS1 myself on the PSP in 2014, and MGSV in 2016. I took the themes and plots as lore, tbh.. trying to piece together the story of MGS rather than relating them to our current times.

Tody_ZA350d ago

It's definitely social commentary, Eidolon. You should read the "themes and analysis" section of the Wikipedia page for MGS2: Sons of Liberty for a start! Game was heavy on this.

Eidolon350d ago

I'll take a look, thanks. Actually might pick up MGS2 again (PS Vita), It's been years since I last played. Might start a new game tbh.

sadraiden350d ago

MGS2 literally predicted digital manipulation of information that we see today all the way back in 2001. MGS2 became Zucc's playbook.

Knushwood Butt350d ago

MGS taught me not to pee my pants.

cell989350d ago

Yes back in 1998 when I was 13. Throughout the years more information has been shown on this subject matters, but go back to early 2000s and information wasn't as prominent. Kojima was ahead of the game

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MaxiPower90350d ago

He was on the ball about many things. A true visionary.

sadraiden350d ago

If it wasn't for the retconning of how FOXDIE works, including clunky scenes with Naomi and Liquid, MGS4 would be a perfect game. There are so many gameplay options. It felt like us PS3 owners got something truly unique and special.

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