*sigh* I want to play Metal Gear so badly.

I'll take this opportunity to damn amazon.com to hell for that MGS4 80GB PS3 pre-order BS. I was so close to owning a non-gimped, backwards compatible PS3 with a dualshock controller and MSG4 packed in.

Count me in as someone who is incredibly intrigued by the whole MGS series, but without the means to play it. Actually, I did try the first level on the PSP version and was decidedly underwhelmed, but it's by no means fair to judge a series by it's portable offshoots.
Many are the days that I regret selling my PS2.

Can't wait for my friend to finish this so I can borrow his ps 3 and play it.

Maybe the reason is that they made the letter L look like the number 4?

That pic of Snake reminds me of Valant Magnifi (Apollo Justice character).

Agreed. Sam Fisher doesn't have a moustache.

Yet.

I can't think of a 'stacheless piece of cover art that wouldn't be improved by adding one.

I would've made My Fashion Studio game of the week in obstinate protest. It would have been awesome!

I guess Certis took over handing out Game of the Week so Elysium didn't give it to My Fashion Studio for the DS.

*edit* for the record I was totally typing this out when Elysium was doing his post.

As usual, the Japanese box art is far more interesting.

And even cooler still is the European box art.

And the limited edition box is pretty cool too, but I don't think it is worth $15 more, even if you do get a making-of documentary with it.

I just finished Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops last night, and I must say I really enjoyed it. It starts incredibly slow and boring, however, which made me put the game down for a very long time. I picked it back up again only because it's part of the actual Metal Gear canon (as opposed to the Metal Gear Acid games), and once I started playing and it started to give me more direction and I was opening up new areas, I really, really enjoyed it. The boss battles are all terrible, though. Especially the battles against Null.

The final sneaking mission was an exercise in ridiculous frustration, but it was pretty cool at the same time. Except for the part where if you jump down from a walkway before going into a room to grab a key, you essentially have to go through the entire level again. And there's only one way through the level. And if you fail, you have to start over from the very beginning. It took me something like an hour and a half or two hours to beat the stupid thing, but that's counting going through it twice. In that time, I got spotted by the guards like 8 or 9 times. Thankfully, HQ can't send any reinforcements. Unfortunately, when you go into alert status, all the people you originally killed respawn for some reason. Sort of makes tranqing them and then dropping them off very high ledges a waste of time.

It would've been a lot easier with a silenced lethal gun. The only silenced weapon I had was the tranq gun, which was fine until this mission. The enemy placement at times is brutal, so tranqing one guy just means the other wanders over and wakes him up before you can do anything else. If I wasn't such a huge Metal Gear fan and if I didn't know there was some important story stuff at the end, I would have probably quit right there. As it is, unlike the rest of the Metal Gear Solid series, I doubt I'll ever play through the game again.

See, that sounds like somebody interviewed me at great length and then decided to make the game most likely to irritate me.

Well, you are a spaz...

Sad fact is, no. But you are in company with my elder daughter and two of her unwashed mancub friends.