Metal Gear Online fans will be able to pre-purchase the SCENE Expansion from March 10th. Those who pre-order will receive an exclusive 'Cardboard Box Man' head gear for use in the game. The new Expansion Pack can be purchased from the game's built-in MGO Shop.
TheGamingLiberty.com:
"Metal Gear Online will cease to function tomorrow (Tuesday), with Kojima Productions terminating the online service on June 12th at 23:59 (JST). That gives you about 24 hours (give or take a few hours wherever you are in the world) to jump back into MGO and appreciate the service before it goes away forever."
If only it wasn't so backwards to actually log in, it could have been the most popular online game on the console. Please, bring it back but just use PSN to log in!
It wasn't going to be the "most" popular game on PSN, with or without the Konami ID. It just helped the community take a nosedive not to long after release.
I went through the headache of patching that game and remembering what my Konami ID info was about a year ago and the community was pretty much gone.
Konami I'd lmao what a joke
I forgot my username and password so many times till I finally gave up
Thom is dead on. The gameplay was entirely unique all the while requiring squad and individual tactics beyond other titles that have such rapid contact.
Seriously, f**k you Konami, give the online to Sony. They will happily handle it...
@PirateThom
"it could have been the most popular online game on the console"
what??????
i think you forgot to add
", in my world."
Yea his and plenty of other gamers. Sorry if you don't that way.
I remember spending countless amounts of hours playing MGO...that's if i ever made it past that damn Konami ID code nonsense.
Basically, they made you create a separate profile with the konami website, called a konami ID. The fact that you had to create that wasn't the problem though, the problem was that the konami site that you tried to create your ID on was down like 90% of the time you tried to create one. It was clear they didn't prepare at all for the amount of traffic they had.
Then, when you did actually get an id created (which also had pain in the ass syntax rules), you had to deal with a bunch of patches. Again, this doesn't sound like it would be too bad, but the problem is that the patches weren't delivered through standard psn server channels, they were downloads that were served through http servers that you had to sit there and wait to download at the actual menu, so no background downloading while waiting, just waiting. And the downloading process was unbelievably slow. Even if you had a GREAT internet connection, a patch that was say about 500mb, would take like 3+ hours to download, because so many people were downloading them at once. Then there were instances where the game forgot your konami id details, and you forget them as well since you expect the game to remember for you, so you have to go to the site again (which was probably offline) and spend a lot of time attempting to do a password reset.
It was just a big pain in the ass all around, something that could have easily been avoided by using the standard psn account. I never understood why they made it like that. And I have to admit, that MGO was genuinely pretty damned good. I would have played it A LOT more than I did if not for the konami ID crap.
It had its own unique feel, even among todays vast amount of multiplayer experiences, it felt unique and awesome. The maps were really great as well.
It's a shame that the konami ID thing ruined it though. It would be awesome if they were to sell the mp as a separate mode, remove the konami ID, add some new maps and weapons and maybe some new features, and then put it up on the psn store for like 15-30 bucks.
Yeah, actually now I'm coming back to it to play it one last time and it's even more of a pain in the ass than I remember. In addition to all that, the "konami ID" you create isn't even used to log into the game, oh no, you need to create a "game ID" in addition to the konami ID". You create that "game ID" within the konami ID page though, so it's much more confusing, AND, the game ID CANNOT be the same as the konami ID.
So say for instance my konami ID was vickers500, well I wouldn't be able to use vickers500, I'd have to make it something different, which made things so much more confusing.
edit* Even more annoyingly, you have to create a game id AND a BRAND NEW password that's separate from your konami password. Also it HAS to be numbers only, no letters. Yay.
Also I remember something else. It used to take litterally 10-20 minutes for matchmaking to actually find you a match.
Lol, god this "service" was/is terrible.
MGO is a great game, so many new features that no game has had.
The konami id login is a hassle, but.. once yoru logged in and save your settings you don't have to enter your passwords again.
Still it sucks because they lost out on trophy support, proper psn store support etc.
Hopefully they are working on MGO 3
Brandon Thompson writes: "Gamers can debate all day about which video game character is the hottest; but there is no debate as to which console has the hottest exclusive game babes. The Playstation 3 has some of the best exclusive titles and among those are some of the hottest babes. We run down out top five ps3 babes.
Sure we could have run down the usual list of fighters and Ninja Gaiden babes, but those aren't exclusives. These women are only from games found on the Playstation this generation. As usual, we don't number our top fives, but you're welcome to. Have a suggestion or better PS3 exclusive babe? Let us know."
They did a pretty broad "honorable mention" by including as the GoW III gals. I guess naming Aphrodite is against the rules since she's a Goddess who appeared in tons of games before.
... Chloe, Meryl and Elena are nothing special. Nariko is by far the hottest chick on the list, and Chloe is very attractive as well, but not really 'sexy'.
Where are the girls from Valkyria Chronicles!? Doesn't Yakuza 3 have a couple of pretty girls? Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 has the gorgeous Momiji (also the gorgeous Ayane, but she was also in the 360 version of NG2). Does Ridge Racer 7 still have that pretty short haired babe!?
And what about Fat Princess!?!?!?
Totally agree. Nariko and Madison are the only girls on that list that should actually be there.
Personally, I think the girls in their alternate DLC costumes are the hottest on the PS3. Rachel in her business suit rocks. Momiji in her blue coloured outfit is just plain sexy. Leave us not forget to speak about Ayane. She's hot in anything. Chloe Frazer from Uncharted 2 is pretty damned good and voiced by the equally hot Claudia Black. God knows, she was sexy on Farscape, possibly one of the best sci-fi shows of all time. Not to mention some great quotes from just about every character.
If Big Mutha Truckers ever comes to the PS3 we will be able to add Ma Jackson to the list...
I was wondering the entire list where Selvaria from Valkyria Chronicles was.
Pretty bad list. Personally I think only Elena and Nariko should be on it the others are meh at best and horrifying at worst.
Bubbles for the "Farscape" comment. Agreed Chloe Frazer/Claudia Black is a hottie. Strong women with British accents are one of my personal weaknesses.
@1.8 Absolut_Turkey
Haha, no problem. Technically, Claudia Black and the majority of the Farscape crew were all from Australia, as the show was largely shot there, but I agree; a strong female presence is always very nice, and Claudia Black certainly has one. :)
Even though I love the MGS series I would put Regina from Dino Crisis above Meryl, but Nariko is definitely the hottest.
No but I was replying to what Ceekay said about them being the hottest in video game history.
Craig Hasselback writes: "While the women in fighting games tend to get the most attention for being considered "sexy", their cousins in the action genre are out shooting it up and exploring boundaries well beyond the confines of a ring. Just because these characters are rendered in more than bikinis doesn't mean they're not sexy.
The action genre has been dominated by male characters since the creation of gaming. But there have been a few exceptions to the rule of sexes. And of course, these female exceptions have received a gentlemanly touch in the design department. We have haven't only come to accept that designers intentionally create female characters to be attractive; we've decided to celebrate it with our top five sexiest females of the action genre. While we're not allowed to number our top five lists anymore, we'll leave that responsibility to our readers."
I feel your pain to lol but one female character I thought was a hottie was Joana Dark from Perfect Dark. Sniper wolf and Eva are just gorgeous who agrees? lmao. I want to see them on the big screen damnit.
Oh dear... even more of these lame brain articles (y did i click on it? coz im REALLY bored)
These articles can actually stop fanboys from nagging on each other. Women are indeed a marvelous thing to behold.
ninja gaiden sigma 2 girls are hot :)
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