METAL GEAR SOLID 4: Guns of the Patriots - Master Collection Version

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MGS4 on PC. Finally. Still insane. Still peak Kojima. Still one of the best MGS games.

not finishing the game already beat it on emulator. IDGAF

tried playing it for about an hour. couldnt get any audio at all. cool. still played the game. settings were 1080P. i could see every pixel like it was 8 bit. i know its a ps3 game. but whatever they did to try and make this work. it didnt work.

Life isn't about passing yout genes. It's about how many messages you send in WhatsApp and how fun you will have while using it.

"You are as beautiful as the day I lost you."

Let's get this out of the way: MGS4 on PS3 was already a masterpiece wrapped in a fifteen minute unskippable cutscene wrapped in another cutscene. It was the game that made "just one more codec call" a lifestyle choice. So when I heard Konami was bringing Old Snake back for the Master Collection, my first thought was "please, for the love of Big Boss, let me skip the Wii-era menu screens this time." Good news. They mostly did. The visual bump is the real headline here. Snake's wrinkles now have wrinkles, and Shadow Moses looks less like a PS3 launch title and more like something that could give you a legitimate emotional reaction. Load times, once long enough to microwave a burrito, have been trimmed down to something resembling patience-friendly. And the frame rate no longer chugs like Snake himself during a Microwave Room crawl. What hasn't changed, thankfully, is the absolute unhinged genius of the game itself. This is still a title where you fight a psychic vampire twins, ride a robot horse through a warzone, and then sit through forty five minutes of Colonel exposition explaining why none of it mattered because it was all a conspiracy about memes before memes existed (seriously, the Patriots basically invented information warfare). It's ridiculous. It's beautiful. It's peak Kojima, unfiltered and unapologetic. Is it a full remake? No. Don't go in expecting Metal Gear Solid Remake energy. This is a lovingly remastered classic, not a reinvention. But if you want to relive one of gaming's most bizarre, brilliant, and emotionally exhausting swan songs without dusting off a fifteen year old PS3 and praying the disc still reads, this is the definitive way to do it. Highly recommend. Ten out of ten. Would crawl through a microwave hallway again.

Back during the PS3 era, this was my favorite game, hands-down. I lost count of how many time I played through this game using New Game+, and I was almost certain I would never see the likes of it again, either as a port or a new entry that could recapture that feeling from the time. I'm amazed at how well this port runs. Not a frame of stutter that I've been able to notice, no bugs, no errors, and visually it looks almost exactly like how I remember it looking way back when. I'm not a fan of Konami after many of the decisions they've made the past several years, but I couldn't resist picking this up. It feels hypocritical to admit, but I don't regret my purchase. This time, at least.