METAL GEAR & METAL GEAR 2: Solid Snake Walkthrough Discussion

Please use this thread to discuss the METAL GEAR & METAL GEAR 2: Solid Snake walkthrough.

The walkthrough has now been published.

You can find it here: METAL GEAR & METAL GEAR 2: Solid Snake Walkthrough

Congrats—very nice. I feel compelled to play these out of a sense of nostalgia. Am I correct in assuming these are ports of the MSX2 games?

Allgorhythm said:They're actually the ports of the versions included with MGS3: Subsistence on the PS2. The only real differences from the MSX versions are that some character portraits are changed, some bosses have different names, there's an Easy mode, and the Infinity Bandana which unlocks after beating each game. If you played the versions from the PS2 or the HD collections, though, these versions are the same as those.

Mathmaster333 said:I only played the first two games. That was on a Toshiba Pasopia IQ MSX2 computer. I have three versions of the PS2 Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. They're all for the JP PS2 and two of them have the bonus games.

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater was such an advance over the previous titles in the series that I did not feel the inclination to replay the earliest games. The only Metal Gear games I've played on the XBox are the 360 and XBox One versions of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. I played them for a TA community event well after playing the PS4 Ground Zeroes and the PS4 Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

I am a big fan of stealth games. Although I enjoyed Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake; my interest in the Metal Gear series really started with Metal Gear Solid on the PS1.

Modern stealth games trace their lineage to three games: Tenchu: Stealth Assassins, Metal Gear Solid, & Thief: The Dark Project released in that order all in the same year (1998). The three games were developed at the same time. Even though they worked for competing companies, there was significant collaboration between the three developers who were deliberately definitizing stealth conventions.

In the 8 years between Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake and Metal Gear Solid, technology had improved drastically. The MSX2 Metal Gear saved on a tape cassette. The MSX2 Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake saved via a separate Konami cartridge that was designed to work with a wide variety of MSX2 games. That's the nostalgia I referred to earlier and the reason I guess I have to play METAL GEAR & METAL GEAR 2: Solid Snake.