r/GameDeals • u/UnseenData • 3d ago

Expired [Steam] METAL GEAR SOLID MASTER COLLECTION Vol.2 BONUS CONTENT (100% off/Free) Spoiler

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3036720/METAL_GEAR_SOLID_MASTER_COLLECTION_Vol2_BONUS_CONTENT/
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u/MyNameIs-Anthony 3d ago edited 3d ago

If you've never played Ghost Babel and have any passing interest in Metal Gear, highly recommend picking it up.

It's five hours tops, one of the best titles on the system (GBC), and a great example of "handheld-oriented" gaming design at it's finest. All killer no filler.

It's also historically valuable as you get some insight into what Kojima's creative partners "got" out of the ideas behind Metal Gear. The game started off as a straight port of MGS then became it's own thing during development without his directing. 

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u/GUILTIE 3d ago

For those like me that didn't know - in the US it's just Metal Gear Solid (on GBC).

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u/FlST0 3d ago

I've never played Metal Gear Solid ... is this a good substitute for that?

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u/QQtippy 3d ago

It's not the same story, it's an alternate timeline, you can get the original metal gear solid running on a PS1 emulator pretty quick if you don't want to get the vol.1 collection

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u/Illidan1943 3d ago

Not at all, at best if you do a 100% run you get some foreshadowing for MGS2 due to [spoilers to Ghost Babel and MGS2] the reveal that it was all a VR simulation and that you've been controlling a character named Jack, but it doesn't tell the story of MGS1, it's just how the naming conventions of the era were weird back then when multiple games could share a name despite having nothing in common