OMG METAL GEAR!

You Like Konami Games!

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Took to my Steam Deck during another hot day, and decided to enjoy some Metal Gear Solid in the shade. Calling it quits tonight just before starting the Psycho Mantis battle. Managed a good couple of hours on Steam Deck, By the time I depleted the battery it was cool enough for me to switch over to the desktop.

As glad as I am that Konami did an official PC release – I do wish Konami added better graphic features for their emulator. In epsxe I had it looking a lot smoother and clearer, worthy of a 4K TV. Since I’m mostly playing this on Steam Deck though, it isn’t that big of a deal.

My Chariot Awaits

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Today was a “Fuck it I’m not feeling well” kind of day. So, instead of working on my current video project I installed this little beauty.

This is a model(s) replacement for D-Horse. Why ride around on a normal looking horse when you can let these guys cart you around?

Huey really is a horse’s ass.

Well, that’s enough for one weekend I guess. I’m just glad to have played this without any issues, and even with mods!

Beware Of Dummy Thicc Ice

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All posed and ready for animation! I did a little work on the mouth tonight, will probably do more after work tonight. I’m on my final vampire shift… thank fuck. I don’t mind graveyards but the job they’re making me do is way out of my element, stressful, and the people I work around are absolute drama queens.

MGS1 And MGS2 Are Being Re-Released On PC!

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I did a double take when going through my RSS feed this morning. After all these years the PC versions of MGS1 and MGS2 will finally reappear, along with other older classic titles from Konami’s catalog.

This ‘re-release’ is in all likelihood intended to make older Konami games playable on next-gen consoles. Given the somewhat limited backwards compatibility of the PS5, we can expect this practice of re-releasing to become more commonplace, and hopefully PC gamers can also reap the benefits!

The first PC releases for both games were pretty buggy (though thanks to a fan patch improves the port immensely). The cutscenes in MGS1 were broken, and MGS2 had some graphical issues when running vanilla. It would also be nice to have more modern resolutions, the highest resolution I could achieve in MGS1’s PC port to go was 1024×768 with no patches or tweaks like I can find for MGS2. Perhaps in the future we might even see MGS3 and 4 officially come to PC! Think of the possibilities!

I wonder what modding would be like, if at all.

OMG Metal Gear Movie

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It was recently announced that a Metal Gear movie was being planned. With no surprise I have mixed feelings on the subject, just as I did when Ghost in the Shell’s live adaptation hit theaters and completely fucked the story. I could be wrong, perhaps the movie will be a shining example of how to adapt a video game into a good movie as the Metal Gear series is cinematic in its own right going as far back as Metal Gear Solid. At the same time that presents another problem. Each game is like a movie on its own, how are you going to take elements from each title in the series and make something coherent? Dune the movie was based on the Dune book series, and it is known for being notoriously bad due to trying to cram as much of the series into one film, and if they’re not careful this title could meet a similar fate.

Despite that I do like the concept art that was released. It looks like they’re mostly referencing MGS3 and MGS with some MGSV thrown into the mix. This also makes me wonder who they’ll bring in to play what characters? and what characters will appear in the movie? I can only think of this particular character chart someone did:

If he were still alive it would have been fun to watch him play every single character, including the women. :meeseeks: At that point it wouldn’t even matter if it were a terrible movie, people would be talking about how he played every fucking character.

In all seriousness though, I can sum up my feelings like this: You know that one episode of Futurama where the Amazonian women sentenced all of the men to death by snoo snoo? and all of them switched between faces of happiness and absolute horror?

Yeah, that’s how I feel right now.

When life gives you melons

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GOTY

You cut them up and realize you need fresher melons. I think I’ve done enough MGR for now.; I beat the game on Normal with a surprise, wigs… Fucking wigs, and all they do is slightly change the color of your hair and give you a bonus depending on which one. I think next time I’ll give the game a go on hard. Each time I play I understand parrying a little bit more.

The look of a bad hombre and the face of a nasty woman.

Meanwhile in MGSV I’ve been having a great time sneaking around and trolling Soviets… the games I played today feel too much like current tines. :zorak:

OMG METAL GEAR MODS

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I’ve mainly been looking at mods for MGSV today. It’s been awhile since I last looked into the modding scene but browsing the Nexus gives me some fun results to play with, as well as useful. Like removing the parade of splash screens you have to skip through before getting to the menu. :zorak: Sadly I haven’t found any watermelon based mods yet, but I think I’m off to a good start. I also installed a really brutal CQC mod that causes your enemies to explode blood upon punching them, and of course a particular model swap.

This was brought to my attention by a certain someone (you know who you are :trollface: ) and of course by law I am required to install these types of mods. For the melons told me so. :melon: That said I’ve progressed a bit lately, already on my first mission after being re-introduced to Mother Base. My mission: Kill a guy. I’ve already done it a couple times, but I keep having to start over because I keep getting sighted and I want to do it as perfectly as I can. I did find a mod that lets you fulton recover basically every person you mark on a base, but that seems a bit overkill for my first playthrough. :v:

I’ve also found some mods for Metal Gear Rising, including a weaponless mod and a tweak to run the game above 1080p. So at some point I’ll have to replay it, I’ve contemplated it for awhile now. Considering MGR takes place in the year 2018 and features someone who wants to Make America Great Again I feel that I’m required to partake once again… eventually. :melon: