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Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection delayed

Sony pushes PlayStation3-exclusive bundle from June to July, reveals $50 price tag for comprehensive compilation pack.

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Gamers looking to pick up the comprehensive Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection are going to have to wait a little longer.

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Sony announced today the PlayStation 3-exclusive bundle will launch July 9 for $50. Previously, the collection was scheduled to launch in June. No reason for the delay was provided.

The Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection will be released to mark the franchise's 25th anniversary. The bundle includes Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2: HD Edition, Metal Gear Solid 3: HD Edition (including the original MSX versions of the first two games), Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD Edition, Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions, and Metal Gear Solid 4: Trophy Edition.

On top of the games, the compilation pack will also include two Ashley Wood digital graphic novels for Metal Gear Solid and Metal Gear Solid 2.

Upcoming Metal Gear Solid games include Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes. Release dates for both games have not been announced.

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stop the pc trolling aghhhh!

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@mikemaj82 eh?

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I won't be able to resist. This is so beautifully packaged. I already all of the games.

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Sometimes I like to think Sony is murdering the PS4 by offering so much PS3 goodness close to its launch

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@hoplayletsplay I agree. The big thing that bothers me is that with all this good stuff coming out for PS3, it won't be BC with PS4. I Really want this collection, but it won't transfer to my PS4 later on. Yes, I'll still have my PS3, but it's nice to have everything on one console. It's why I still have my Fat 60GB.

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@hoplayletsplay Totally. I'm so psyched about all the upcoming stuff on my PS3. To be honest, I can only imagine the graphics being better on the PS4 nothing else. It's not like the switch from ps1-2 and then ps2-3. The machines we have are already powerful enough as it is to do everything in terms of game mechanics.

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wish they'd do a metal gear compilation for the pc...

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@Crush_Project Keep wishing. Last time a Metal Gear game was released on PC was with the 2nd one.

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I think it would be great if they incorporated the 3DS version's crouch-walking and shoulder-aiming in this version of MGS3. At least that would truly make it the definitive version. Right now the 3DS version has the best gameplay, and is the only one with a stereoscopic 3D mode- but it has the worst framerate (especially compared to the silky-smooth PS3/Vita HD versions) and even with the Circle Pad Pro, has the worst controls. It's to the point that when a buddy of mine asked which version he should get for his first play-through (between 3DS and Vita) I really didn't know what to tell him. So konami, if you're listening, want to patch crouch-walking, shoulder-aiming and 3D into the PS3 version?

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@grey_fox1984 What the heck are you talking about? You can play in 3rd person view and I never had a single issue.

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I'm talking about TARGETING in over-the-shoukder 3rd person, Peacewalker/MGS4 style, which you can only do in the 3DS version. Aiming in 1st person is fine, but it would be nice to have the option. The crouch walk actually does have a profound affect on the gameplay though. In the PS3/Vita versions, you can only run or crawl- thus allowing for fewer stealth strategies than in the 3DS version. That being said, the PS3/Vita framerate is WAY better

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@Dnaisinmybody @grey_fox1984 Yeah, I played Vanilla MGS 3, it played fine to me. Didnt care the camera was fixed or any of that. Game played fine.

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@Dnaisinmybody @Dienheart @grey_fox1984 you mean with the camera following you? Mean the game has always been third person.

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@Dienheart @Dnaisinmybody @grey_fox1984 It kinda feels weird to play it in 3rd person Tbh since I originally started playing MGS3 when it came out.

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MGS1 is awesome, remake or not. prefer the original over the twin snakes actually..

Twin Snakes cutscenes are over the top.. And the soundtrack was changed, that takes away the nostalgia

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@brainiac1988 I was around the same age when I first played it and what scared me the most was going through that cave with the wolves. Those red eyes...

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@Iciban After you go through the cave for the first time... at the end where you meet Meryl..

If you hide in a cardboard box at that point, Meryl will say: "What are you doing?"

Then a wolf will piss over the box..

Next time you go through the cave, move while hiding in the box and no wolves will harm you :)

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@brainiac1988 @KiriharaZro

yeah, because is some kind of revenge of Mery, when you punch her she chases you and punch back, but if you hide in the box she whistle and the wolf do the rest

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@KiriharaZro youre supposed to punch her first? forgot about that

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@brainiac1988

You´re wrong, you must punch Meryl and then hide in the box, then Meryl will whistle and a wolf piss the box.

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@brainiac1988 I actually played MGS1 for the first time a few weeks ago (PC version). I played through the entire thing in one day.. I just couldn't stop. I've never done that before with any game, ever.

I can safely say that even by today's standards, that game rocks. And that's coming from an unbiased, non-nostalgic point of view.

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@brainiac1988 Original MGS1 was more challenging as well. The addition of the MGS2 gameplay was awesome but it made the game a bit too easy. The original was actually very challenging. Or maybe I just remember it that way cause I was 8 at the time. 1 thing I do kno is that game used to scare the crap out of me when the soldiers spotted me "!". I remember getting the demo on a disk in the mail and spending like 3 months playing that first snow area. Remember the days where games were simple and we played them just to mess around and laugh at how terrible the graphics were compared to the cutscenes.lol I miss those days. Metal gear was actually consistant with its graphics and cutscenes, but the graphics were still terrible hahaha. But its was still more immersive because it was consistant, Unlike Resident evil where the cutscenes looked real and then the gameplay looked like paper mache (thats french for "chewed paper"). That was such a letdown. ironically enough it was MGS2 where I finally said to myself "Yes now the gameplay looks as real as the Cutscenes". Great job Kojima + Team and MGS4 is probably the most realistic game I have played this gen. This is $50 of pure gold right here in this collection

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@liononzion The non-Kojima cutscenes were the biggest drawback (though GI Joe: Retaliation recently stole a shot from it - Storm Shadow does the Grey Fox "cutting a bullet in half" thing). The only fight that the first-person aiming nerf'd was the Ocelot fight.

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@liononzionI had the demo of MGS1 as wel :) Could play until the point where the Darpa Chief (decoy octopus) had his heart attack, then it stopped. I was like "I want this game NOW!" :P Thats when I fell in love with Metal Gear.

I actually though this game looked pretty good back in the day.. Had no PC back then and I just got my N64 and PSX.

Before that was the 2D era of Sega and SNES so the switch to 3D was just awesome. It was a good time to be a gamer. Will never forget games like MGS1, RE 1-3, Final Fantasy 8 and Ocarina of Time.

Resident Evil and Final Fantasy had those static backgrounds back then.. Made the environments looked really sweet. The characters that moved were indeed terribly pixelated compared to the environments. :)

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@brainiac1988 ya i prefer snes ps and n64 because they just had fun games it seams lately only nintendo and a handful of devs still make fun games the biggest developer ea only cares about a monopoly which is sad because in the snes era developers made games for the entire spectrum not just the ones they wanted

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if this collection remake on the fox engins that goins to be great

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Its not. its just the HD collection with MGS4 and MGS1 thrown in.

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@karloss01 @MGS45tbGaming oh. thats bad

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@MGS45tbGaming @Dienheart @karloss01 They have to change voices music ect. for licensing, there is always something for a remake, look at Twin snakes. Remake of MGS1. Some of the OG voice cast not even in it.

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@Dienheart @MGS45tbGaming @karloss01 but if do the remake for MGS1 without chage everything only the graphique ? what you think.


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@MGS45tbGaming @karloss01 Why because its the perfect collection for a fan of the Solid series? OG Voice Work for MGS1 was the best. Remakes are over rated.

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This collection seems silly, celebrating the anniversary of the series but doesn't include any of the original Metal Gear games.

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@rhenom Read carefully, man :) They packed ALL MG games there, exept MG Rising and MGS Portable Ops. The original MSX ones comes embeded into MGS 3.

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@rhenom Are you serious? You should have actually read the article. They come with MGS3.

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@BladeStrike1234 @rhenom he meant metal gear and metal gear 2: solid snake, not metal gear SOLID

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@Burning_Ham yeah they are. Fact


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@karloss01 @Gamer_4_Fun @danvar249 @rhenom metal gear ghost babel for gameboy color and the acids for psp. and metal gear touch for ios..

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@Gamer_4_Fun @danvar249 @rhenom

the only canon game its missing is Portable Ops. Ac!d doesn't count.

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@danvar249 @rhenom MGS 3 comes with the original 2 MG games.

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The two original games are packaged in the menu of MGS3.

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Not bad at all tho with the amount of games for $50, especially if you are one of the rare people who has never played MGS4/Peace walker etc.

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@LukeWesty I'm one of them.I've only played MGS2 and that was when it first

came out.I just got MGS (first one) for pc so I could play the series from the beginning.This edition is such a deal that I will buy a PS3 just for this.I bought a X box last year for Red Dead Redemption.Wish I got a PS3.

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ugh every time I see new MGS packaging I think OH YAY PC VERSION. nope.

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@Kickable Whenever i hear someone say PC is better then console i read these messages.

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@Dienheart @Kickable it has been far better for me in recent years since so many games are multiplatform now. still a handful that are out of reach though. the funniest part is MGS is still my favorite series to this day. i'll likely get a PS4 eventually though and catch up, barring any disasters

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@Dienheart @Kickable yea I'm sure consoles will always be successful if they're good, and I can see why PC gaming can turn a lot of people off. not talking about you specifically but for the average person who doesn't play as many games as I do it's probably a choice of drop a lot of money on an over-priced prebuilt gaming PC, or buy parts and risk putting one together for the first time. even then it could easily be double the price of 1 console. then comes the fear of it being outdated in a few months lol

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@Kickable @Dienheart Yeah, i mean im about to actually get a PC, but gaming is only 50% of why I want one. I need one for many other reasons. But have used consoles as my main source of gaming, seeing how there are really good games that don't make it to PC deters me from ever saying to drop console gaming and go straight to PC. But to never have played MGS4, I loved it, so good imo.

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