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Metal Gear Essentials: another reason to buy them all over again? photo

You may have set your sights on the upcoming MGS4 as the next item from Konami to satisfy your Metal Gear needs, but there's no reason why you can't revisit the great games of the past for a refresher course during the interim. Apparently Konami is banking on just that, as PlayAsia has an interesting pre-order listed on the PS2 section of their storefront: Metal Gear Solid: The Essential Collection

For the low price of $34.90 + $4.00 shipping and handling, you will get the play the three games you've waxed poetic about all over again: Metal Gear Solid, the director's cut of MGS2: Substance, and MGS3: Subsistance. That ought to keep your PlayStation 2 busy for a while. Not only does this seem like a reasonable price, but it looks to be the perfect excuse to retire those tired, old, blue disks form the first game that haunt your otherwise pristine collection. Besides, don't you want all the boxes to match?

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Scary Womanizing Pig Mask's Avatar
Scary Womanizing Pig Mask at 01/27/2008 11:40
Giving someone that as a gift seems like a great way to introduce them to the MGS series.
tazarthayoot's Avatar
tazarthayoot at 01/27/2008 11:42
Is this Japan only or is this for American systems? Because if its NTSC, I think I just might need to change my pants.
tazarthayoot's Avatar
tazarthayoot at 01/27/2008 11:43
OH SHI-! IT IS NTSC!

...excuse me a minute plz.
Neonie's Avatar
Neonie at 01/27/2008 11:43
I've never played MGS, as I've said before. And would LOVE if this came out for PC. Then I would FINALLY be able to play them.
Gameboi's Avatar
Gameboi at 01/27/2008 11:47
Sarcasm aside, I loves me some Metal Gear. I'll bite...
Gamechamp's Avatar
Gamechamp at 01/27/2008 11:48
^You have no PS2? WHAT GET ONE NOW PS2 PWNS YOUR SOUL

Also, I am totally going to buy this. I already have MGS and Subsistance, but Substance was stolen long ago, and this is the perfect excuse to get it back. FINALLY I SHALL MASTER THE VR MISSIONS!
Sam Spectre's Avatar
Sam Spectre at 01/27/2008 11:48
I've only played the MGS games at my friend's house so I might buy this.
Tino's Avatar
Tino at 01/27/2008 11:49
I know I'm buying.
Jim's Avatar
Jim at 01/27/2008 11:50
SOL(i)D!

Yes I already all the games, but for c'mon just 27 EUR!
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AgentMOO at 01/27/2008 12:02
Shit, I should get that. I haven't played the series except for the original metal gear on NES.
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brownkidd at 01/27/2008 12:05
Hopefully this has the original Metal Gear included and not that lame NES port.
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grrza at 01/27/2008 12:06
Well I for one wouldn't be caught dead playing these with my old discs. 9_9
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JonDarkwood at 01/27/2008 12:06
For the low price of something like $8 I bought MGS3 new at Best Buy, and for $3 I got MGS2 used at gamestop. Already had Twin Snakes for Gamecube at the time, which I probably paid $12 for.
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foxhound009 at 01/27/2008 12:12
Shit Fuck boob beered fucking sweet pannecackes...

niceeee..

I've got the mgs 2:sons of liberty, and the snake eater... lost my mgs 1 cd over those years :( ..
It's a [erfect excuse to get this :) .
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foxhound009 at 01/27/2008 12:14
fuck.. ntsc??? :/ ... now I need to get the ntsc version of ps2..
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13thDragon at 01/27/2008 12:36
I'll grab it. Is it going to be released in the US? Is MGS a PS1 port or a port of Twin Snakes?
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Gameboi at 01/27/2008 12:41
@13thDragon

PS1 port
Slick Icarus's Avatar
Slick Icarus at 01/27/2008 12:49
Sweet! I've been wanting a copy of Substance and Subsistence since, like, forever! Now come on and port Portable Ops to PS2 like we know you will.
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deiga-the-semivaliant at 01/27/2008 12:50
I have the games already, but I still want to buy them.

I'm a whore for anything Metal Gear. :(
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m3ds at 01/27/2008 12:51
I literally just bought MGS1 and MGS2 three days ago off of ebay for a total of $50. WHY!!!!???
frozenbabylon's Avatar
frozenbabylon at 01/27/2008 13:00
I think I just came a little.

Do want.
Gorelord's Avatar
Gorelord at 01/27/2008 13:00
they should update the graphics a bit and put these on PS3 and 360.
Takeshi's Avatar
Takeshi at 01/27/2008 13:01
@m3ds
I bought them for the full price years ago. But still I do want these. REAL BAD!!!
frozenbabylon's Avatar
frozenbabylon at 01/27/2008 13:03
@Gorelord

Why?
Wedge's Avatar
Wedge at 01/27/2008 13:10
Jeese you people are confused.

Firstly, Japan and the US both use NTSC, however the region flag is for US.

Secondly, I don't think this is going to replace your blue discs, because if you look at the box for MGS1, it shows a PS1 logo instead of a PS2 logo.

And @m3ds
WHAT. THE. FUCK? Those are two of the cheapest games in existence, are you daft? Every standard version of MGS 1-3 is worth about $5, this compilation is only worthwhile because it has the Special Editions of MGS2 & 3.
h3lios's Avatar
h3lios at 01/27/2008 13:12
Saw this on the c-blogs yesterday. Already pre-ordered. And yes these are for US consoles. They've got the NTSC U/C mark on them.
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XL1ska at 01/27/2008 13:19
I'm in this entirely for MGS1. I have MGS2 Substance and both versions of Snake Eater, and I have the Twin Snakes, but I need me a good copy of the original MGS. AND HERE WE HAVE IT!! Awesome.
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tgammet at 01/27/2008 13:35
I have 1 & 2 on PC, so I'm kinda thinking about it. Still, that's a lot of money considering I JUST bought Subsistence for PS3. Maybe if I could get $20 for it, would I "upgrade" to this set.
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Gamechamp at 01/27/2008 13:41
Everyone, this DOES have the original 2 games. Subsistence has them.
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king3vbo at 01/27/2008 13:45
I will be buying it for sure, I lost my MGS2 disc a long time ago, and I only own Twin Snakes
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ViolentMike at 01/27/2008 13:53
I heard the Japanese version of this set was MGS2 (not Substance) and MGS3 (not Subsistence). Is it confirmed that we're getting the "director's cut" versions and not the basic ones? I don't see the subtitles on that box, anywhere.
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sirpalee at 01/27/2008 14:01
If it's for europe too, I want to buy it ^^.
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tsunamikitsune at 01/27/2008 14:02
@Wedge

I dunno why he paid so much for MGS1, but MGS2 Substance can be a little on the expensive side (if that's the one he bought). You can get Sons of Liberty for less than $5, but Substance is harder to find an a lot more expensive (on the PS2, anyway.....I bought the Xbox version for $5 and the PC version for $10, but they both suck).

This news sucks for me, though......I just got Substance for $25. I've been looking for another copy for years, because I love that game so damn much. I dropped 70 hours into the VR missions alone when I first had it.
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arktherobot at 01/27/2008 14:03
Wow, this is spooky. I had just gotten MGS2 and MGS3 used, but I really wanted the director's cut editions, and I wanted them new. So I sold them hoping that something like this would come out.

Thank you, Kojima-san. :D
DOOM's Avatar
DOOM at 01/27/2008 14:07
No thanks, been there done that... Next!
Black Sheep's Avatar
Black Sheep at 01/27/2008 14:17
If you ask me I think they screwed the pooch a bit here. If they had included the twin snakes version it would have probably doubled the sales, since it would offer an exclusive value that MGS diehards would snap up, the fact is a lot of people already own all those 3 games. Id be first in line if it included a ps2 port of twin snakes.. oh well. :(
F Whipple's Avatar
F Whipple at 01/27/2008 14:25
I don't see why this is a big deal. I could go buy all of these separately for cheaper
RAB's Avatar
RAB at 01/27/2008 14:29
I wonder if Meryl's codec number will be on the back of the cd case..

I hope they dont gip us and put it on the back of the instruction manual or something.





Snake? SNAKE? SNAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!!!!!!
RAB's Avatar
RAB at 01/27/2008 14:30
!!!111!!one!
Gorelord's Avatar
Gorelord at 01/27/2008 14:40
@ frozenbabylon

Why not?
h3lios's Avatar
h3lios at 01/27/2008 14:42
lol @ blindRAGINGfury.


It's a sweet buy though i wish they'd include Portable Ops too. Guess they're waiting for MGS5 to do that.
Hamsizzla's Avatar
Hamsizzla at 01/27/2008 14:54
@neonie MGS 1 & 2 came out on PC
Dexter345's Avatar
Dexter345 at 01/27/2008 14:58
Honestly, I've never really gotten into the MGS games, but this seems like a good opportunity to do it. Or would it be better to play the Twin Snakes on the GameCube for the first game?
Kyousuke Nanbu's Avatar
Kyousuke Nanbu at 01/27/2008 15:23
Twin snakes was a horrid remake.

And only the first MGS is really worth it(the PS1 original), MGS2 was complete shit and MGS3 was mediocre at best, good story though.
maxio098ui's Avatar
maxio098ui at 01/27/2008 15:33
mgs 2 is great. raiden is not a reason for a game to suck
FinalFist's Avatar
FinalFist at 01/27/2008 15:43
Well, this is a good way to get the original Metal Gear cheaper than the inflated prices on Amazon and ebay.
Knives's Avatar
Knives at 01/27/2008 15:55
I never really got into MGS =/, I probably was to young when 1 and 2 came out, i might get this just to give them another chance.
KamikazeTutor's Avatar
KamikazeTutor at 01/27/2008 16:24
Copy pasta from CypherVR's blog:

Cool! Let's all get this pack and play Subsistence onlin... oooooooooooooooooooooohh
atheistium's Avatar
atheistium at 01/27/2008 16:26
*crosses fingers* please come to england, please come to england, please come to england *cries* omfg come to england!
greks224's Avatar
greks224 at 01/27/2008 16:35
I NEED twin snakes; it's so impossible to find for gamecube for a price i'm willing to pay!
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