SGDQ started today but none of the games interested me. Too much classic Nintendo. That's an era I missed out on. Give me some PSX classics and I'll tune in for sure.
I left the stream running in the background and beat MGS3 again. I really like the game, but all the issues that bothered me the first time around still bother me now. It's the small things like The End's dentures popping out before exploding, Ocelot's yowls, or Volgin conveniently explaining everything about the Philosopher's Legacy when trying to find out exactly how much Snake knows about it. Nice going there, Colonel.
Some of the exposition is just so transparent and I think The Boss's VA is pretty bad. Some of her lines are delivered much too quickly, as if Lori Alan was trying to match the Japanese lip sync--not to mention, her writing is overloaded with exposition. We get it. The times dictate the battlefield.
The most noticeable thing about the conversion to 60 fps is the fluttering clothes effect in the final cutscenes. It pretty much ruins my favorite cinematic in the game, when Ocelot jumps in the Wig for one last showdown. The clothes fluttering was keyframed at 30fps and looked quite natural in the original, but in 60fps, it looks like their clothes are dancing. It looks awful, but I'm sure there was nothing Bluepoint could do about it. I also noticed the fire effects running at 30fps too, among other particle effects like the flower petals in the final battleground. That, in addition to the fps plummeting whenever lightning shows up in Volgin's cutscenes, are the only flaws in an otherwise impeccable presentation. I was also able to create ultra slowdown during an alert phase in Groznyj Grad, but those are rare spots of performance drag.
Of course, what else do I do but replay the game after beating it? I stopped at the torture scene and then watched a Foxhound Rank European Extreme playthrough on YouTube. It took me about 11 hours to beat the game so it's deflating to see someone else do it in one hour and a half on the hardest difficulty. I spotted some crazy tricks in the video. Afterward, I watched about an hour of a MGS2 Extreme run. I stopped because it was way too late and I wanted to shut off all my electronics. The city of Anaheim is turning off power for whatever reason so I don't want any my devices to get short-circuited.
Even though I consider MGS one of my favorite franchises, I never dug into the game hardcore. I never beat any of the MGS's on the hardest difficulty even though I regularly do it for other games I like--Uncharted, God of War, Resident Evil 4, etc. Maybe I should do it before The Phantom Pain comes out!
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