WTMG's Leo Faria: "Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1 is, admittedly, a somewhat lazy remaster collection. It includes two copied and pasted efforts by Bluepoint released a decade ago, and a shoddy port of Metal Gear Solid, most likely taken straight out of the guts of the PS1 Classic. With that being said, those are still phenomenal games (well, Metal Gear Solid has aged like spoiled milk, but the point stands), and well worth your time. While I do lament the lack of a remaster of The Twin Snakes, I still had a lot of fun replaying these timeless classics, and I surely cannot wait for the second volume of the collection."
Konami have apologised for Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection's performance, and have asked fans to decide on the series' fate.
Release it again properly on disc or a two disc set with the second volume which you should do correctly this time. That also doesn't mean bundling the old disc release with volume 2 either. Proper release with all the patched data on disc and no region locked versions of MGS1 only available via download.
I like their spirit tbh.. looks like they want to get closer to the fans, which is nice..
a big patch to begin with and i would buy it.
Or how about MGS: Rising remaster/remake/sequel… anyone?
If only they listed to kojima let him use the fox engine to enhance the games bring them up to new consoles.
Right now performance is nothing compared to no keyboard/mouse support the digital extras need internet as they are online pdf's and the game itself has has stuff taken out nothing story just over time they lost the right to non story related Easter eggs material.
Oh also lets not forget mgs2 is on pc via gog has mouse/keyboard support with all content then you got mgs1 via duckstation running awesome on pc.
I mean dam only thing better was the mgs4 hd map upgrade
https://youtu.be/aetsSOfMRq...
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Oh i forgot the games do not even have widescreen support heck not even a proper graphics settings menu.
I'm actually starting to question if it is even worth it for Konami to do a volume 2. I know they are desperate these days but my impression is the first collection didn't sell well and got a bruising. Second volume would require more work and as with all these volume releases the second and third always sell less.
@jin
Good point they hate doing real work for video games and its been so long wonder if they kept the source material.
Remember silent hill they tossed the collection to there singstar dev team with no source code no support and the notes were still in japanese.
So far they just copied/pasted kojima and his teams work for a real remake of the older titles heck mgs4 that would be years of work.
Everything on disc and Japanese audio plus English subs would be nice. It's nice that they apologize and state an intent to do better, but honestly this kind of quality-control should have been done in-house during the decision-making process, before release.
Get back to the drawing board and either remaster properly or just remake it it.
Remaster every game yourself. Don't just port the Bluepoint versions of MGS2/3. Because even those weren't 100% perfect. They were still missing some effects in cutscenes for example. Just take absolute care with them and take your time to make sure you release something that pays reverence.
Honestly, what's the point of a PS5 physical disc, while restricting the PS4 edition only to Europe?
Since the PS4 ver. upgrades for free to the PS5 ver, only PS4 copies should be made available.
If you're replaying MGS1 in any of its available forms, you'll want to know how to unlock all the best items in the game!
More Snake than you can handle.
While I do lament the lack of a remaster of The Twin Snakes, I still had a lot of fun replaying these timeless classics
And how far did you get into these exactly? I bet you spent more time writing this review than you did playing any of the games in this collection.
Reviews these days: It exists, it's kinda cool. = 8.0
The games are debatibly 10/10 but these port are TERRIBLE.
Worse, literally lower quality, than the PS360 versions and lower framerate than the PS2 releases.