I achieved the emblem a few days ago.

My time was 4:17 hours, so I still had plenty of time left and I also had plenty of ammo left. Overall, I thought the run was pretty easy, the only part that gave me trouble was Crying Wolf, as I kept getting an alert however, a combination of offence (searching for her and sniping her) and defence (sitting under the truck waiting for her to come by) got me a victory. The battle took 20 minutes too, my longest part of the game.

The Bike Chase was more luck than anything, so I guess I was lucky it didn't cause me trouble. Also, the final fight with Liquid at the end was pretty hard, but it was fun, so I enjoyed fighting him each time, unlike Crying Wolf (I really dislike her Boss Battle).

My rewards for getting the Big Boss emblem were:

Big Boss Face Camo (Solidus Corpse)
The Patriot
Big Boss Theme
Liquid's Gun (Thor)
Meryl's Gun (Desert Eagle)
Eva's Gun (Type 17)
Bandana
Stealth Camouflage

So I pretty much saved myself alot of time as most of those rewards are achieved with the emblems before Big Boss. I now have also have the first row of emblems completed.

I will be having a break of MGS4 now, I've really enjoyed it. And if anyone needs help with the Emblem, please do comment below and I'll help you the best I can. I did my run without a guide, so I used my own strategies to get through, which I personally think is the best way.

Today, I started my BBE Run on MGS4!

I'm just after finishing the first boss fight, which gave me trouble and took an hour to complete, mainly due to me dying or one of RAT PT01 dying.

Before that, I had no problems, and did the rest of the game perfectly. I only refer to guides whenever I get stuck but to be honest: There really is no need to, as your weapons are limited and most of it is luck. I did the same routine several times during the first boss fight, I sometimes died at the start, during the middle or the end.

Strangely, the last time I did it I took no damage at all. O_o Didn't think that'd be possible.

Anyway, for those of you who are thinking of doing a BBE Run, I suggest doing so as it's very fun and epic, going through each area during a warzone without killing anyone or being seen, like before meeting up with RAT PT01, a very scary moment for me was sneaking through the trench, while a helicopter was taking down the rebels and there was PMCs just a few feet away, if it wasn't for the trench, I'd be dead.

I'll be sure to keep everyone updated for the run and I'll provide any help that's requested.

My Current Time is: 00:33:01

I think that's pretty good, as people have told me as long as you meet up with RAT PT01 within 40 minutes, you'll be fine, so I'm definitely way ahead and I think the next part I'll have done in another 10 minutes.

For me, it's quite alot. I got sick on Thursday and I'm still quite bad even today with the Cold/Flu. It's irked me because I now can't play MGS4 as I won't enjoy it. I can't wait until I get better so I can play it, as I've been looking forward to it.

Also, GameSpot's MGS4 review will be up very soon, according to Kevin Vanord.

I'd imagine it'd score a 10/10.

Here are My Games on GameFAQs!

Currently, it's just been set up and there is more work to be done with it, however I'm very pleased to see this on GameFAQs, although I hope I can get both of the My Games pages to be linked so I will only have to update it once on any site.

I suggested the idea here if you're interested and also directly contacted Sailor Bacon about it:

"I have a suggestion for a new feature or change to an existing feature on GameFAQs.
Message From michaelP4 on 06/05/2008

http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=7&topic=43492698 I'm very happy to see GameFAQs has a My Games page, I will definitely make use of it and I do thank GameFAQs for creating it. However, My Games also exists on GameSpot, and works nearly exactly the same as GameFAQ's. Would it be possible to have both of the My Games pages linked so then when I come to update them, I only need to update one of the My Games pages once and have the other automatically updated for me? I made a topic about the idea on the Site Suggestions board, the link at the start of this message shows my topic (I currently have no replies to it, but I'm pretty sure this is a very good idea and it wouldn't hurt to have it). Thank you michaelP4o
Feedback Status: Open

Your feedback has been sent but not yet responded to by GameFAQs."

I originally had the message like this:

"http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=7&topic=43492698

I'm very happy to see GameFAQs has a My Games page, I will definitely make use of it and I do thank GameFAQs for creating it.

However, My Games also exists on GameSpot, and works nearly exactly the same as GameFAQ's. Would it be possible to have both of the My Games pages linked so then when I come to update them, I only need to update one of the My Games pages once and have the other automatically updated for me?

I made a topic about the idea on the Site Suggestions board, the link at the start of this message shows my topic (I currently have no replies to it, but I'm pretty sure this is a very good idea and it wouldn't hurt to have it). Thank you

michaelP4o"

Although, I didn't realise it'd turn out like that as there was no preview button unfortunately, but it'll do.

Last night, I was trying to get PSN on my PS3 by trying different things on my computer, which I ended up locking myself out of my own connection without realising (I was just following instructions from other people who had the same problem as me at my ISP's Site).

I spent three hours this morning trying to get my computer working again, and I spent an hour on the phone to a Customer Service Representive, who gave me suggestions on what to do. Nothing worked and the only way I could get it working was to have a wired connection to un-do what I did.

However, strangely, tonight my old computer was working, which it wasn't before, and even more stranger, my new computer still wasn't working.

I changed the settings back to the recommended settings and now my new computer is working.

I find this very strange as I only use and have one connection, my old computer could not have been connected to the internet while my new computer could not.

However, in the end, I'm very happy and I think I will do without PSN now, due to the events I expericenced.

Haze will be coming out for me at Wednesday, I am looking forward to it as it's going to be my first next gen FPS that has split screen multiplayer with bots, as an offline gamer, this is brilliant news to me.

However, something hit me today, thinking about how online is taking over from the traditional splitscreen multiplayer: Could you imagine a Fighter being tooken to online play and the developers forgetting about offline multiplayer?

Sounds very unlikely and illogical, but after more thinking, it's actually very possible: Some people would play online multiplayer simply so the other players cannot cheat, by looking at his screen or what he's doing on the controller... isn't this the same for fighters too? Although it doesn't matter about the screen part, the controller part does pose a problem, as you can predict the movements of how the opposite player will fight by simply looking at his/her controller.

There's not much to say, but it's quite interesting thinking about it. It probably won't happen, as I could never imagine it, and I really hope it doesn't matter, but I guess we can wait and see what happens...