Dealspwn writes: "I usually try to maintain professional, clinical detachment when approaching a preview build or developer walkthrough (with mixed success, admittedly), but demos are fair game. They're designed to showcase a game's potential and give gamers a taste of what to expect in the final version, and I'm duty bound to call it as I see it. Put simply: I am concerned to the point of being outright worried. Snake Eater 3D is probably going to be an incredibly hard sell for a number of reasons, not least because the HD trilogy is already going to be cheaper."
Konami will temporarily remove Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3 from digital storefronts starting November 8 as it works to renew the licenses for select historical archive footage used in each game, the company announced.
To be honest, I’m surprised Konami are even considering re-listing this given how they’ve abandoned their franchises and fans.
Maybe temporarily will become permanently.
Just started MGS 3 over the weekend.
Wouldn't have affected me since I bought the collection a long time ago.
I'm more interested in the fact that they have to re-license historical footage constantly. At what point is it not worth it anymore? I can't imagine a lot of people are buying MGS Collection.
How to get engaged with 2s story ? , can't get through the ship without quiting the game literally since forever.
Metal Gear Solid 3 is one of the greatest games of all time, and Konami is giving it a remaster with the FOX Engine! Sort of....with Pachinko. RGT 85 isn't too pleased with this decision!
I still can't believe Konami is doing all this. It's like they're intentionally trolling us at this point.
It looks so beautiful too...not that the original MGS3 looks bad (seriously go emulate that shit it's still a damn good looking game) but these remastered parts look phenomenal!
They are testing to see how angry fans are then offer It on consoles.
I am done with Konami for the way they have behaved.
Rich Stanton:
"Metal Gear Solid 2 ended with an explosion of questions. In creating a game that questioned its own status as a game, Kojima had opened countless essentially insoluble plot threads. The most pressing one was: what next? Hideo Kojima initially tried to avoid directing Metal Gear Solid 3, or so the talk goes. He did not."
This is a well thought out piece. The only thing I question is that the author's "hard sell" argument really only applies to Metal Gear fans that own both handhelds and consoles. People who game on handheld's frequent do so exclusively. Some don't. So to say that the game won't sell because people will "prefer the HD collection" focuses on a very slim part of the market. Well, of course the HD collection will be a better value. But for people that only own handhelds, or want their MGS to be portable, this will be attractive.