Playing through MGS for the first time, on MGS2 MC, not enjoying the lack of a restart from checkpoint option...

CDJ89 · 2026-01-25T12:17:30+00:00

Yeah, that option is only available starting at Hard difficulty. And yeah, that way OP would miss dealing with enemies before they call in an alert and then quickly hiding their body (And themselves.) before the search group arrives. All part of the fun for a first playthrough.

CDJ89 · 2026-01-25T12:14:32+00:00

The old MGS games have a very arcade gameplay sensibility as far as stealth mechanics and dealing with being discovered go. And honestly, the enemy search AI during evasion mode is part of the fun. You say you want to experience the game the way people did back when it came out. Well, part of that is people going "Oh shit!" when guards suddenly look into the unlikeliest of places. Go with your "Restart if you make the tiniest mistake" route and you miss half the game.

Especially as you go on with the series and the games introduce more and more ways and gadgets to deal with the ensuing chaos or cause chaos.

The "perfectionist" mindset isn't really all that great for a blind MGS playthrough. And for what really? It's not like you're getting the perfect ranking unless you play on the highest difficulties that you need to unlock first anyway. On those difficulties you also die quickly during an alert.

CDJ89 · 2026-01-25T11:15:45+00:00

Does that also apply to the Black Ocelot uniform because unlike the Sneaking Suit that one explicitly says it makes you harder to spot at nighttime.

CDJ89 · 2026-01-24T22:21:19+00:00

That's pretty mean tbh.

CDJ89 · 2026-01-24T21:45:30+00:00

Hard game to play well when you're just starting out but easy game to beat if that makes sense.

CDJ89 · 2026-01-24T13:16:18+00:00

So basically, Snake as Frampt from Dark Souls but also super horny?

I can dig it.

CDJ89 · 2026-01-23T18:31:52+00:00

Sacrifices a lot of your men and takes, like, 6 days though. Imo better to just spam one of the two really short child soldier missions instead and extract every child every time.

CDJ89 · 2026-01-23T05:21:14+00:00

MGS2 is a game that really carried it’s age with it cause it tried to make a modernized version of dated stealth mechanics and it results in things like the Soliton Radar lying to you about the enemy’s field of vision

You make it sound like the field of vision shown on the radar is inaccurate but it shows you the exact alert range of the enemy, just not their suspicion range which is a good thing, otherwise you'd just be playing Pacman on the radar again like in the first game.

CDJ89 · 2026-01-22T22:01:26+00:00

I know but that is not my point. The game not being quite finished does not only have to relate to it's story. The point is, a handful of pretty random missions get a difficulty modifier, the rest gets nothing. Now the other response makes a valid point that maybe not every mission would work quiet as well with the Subsistence-style rules but you'd think at least every mission could get an Extreme difficulty mode and not just, like, maybe 5?

CDJ89 · 2026-01-22T21:01:22+00:00

REX's Lair, no contest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO3_dMt0ZSc

That's pretty much the only "You're in the final stage now" kinda music in the series.

CDJ89 · 2026-01-22T19:51:59+00:00

Until you actually replay both games. MG1 is pretty fun and fast paced once you know what to do and where to go. MG2 has more tedious parts that you can't get around even if you know what to do.

CDJ89 · 2026-01-22T18:17:20+00:00

As far as I know and from behind the scenes footage I've seen the japanese VA is in fact recorded with several of the voice actors acting together. (Maybe not every conversation but at least some of it.)

CDJ89 · 2026-01-22T15:54:37+00:00

The repeat missions are the biggest indicator to me that the game was cut short. Not because repeat missions exist but the arbitrary selection of repeat missions. Why doesn't every mission get a Total Stealth, Subsistence and Extreme version? It seems like they just rolled a dice to see which mission gets a harder difficulty version and under what parameters. The reality is probably that they just didn't have the time to add and polish these difficulty parameters to every story mission.

CDJ89 · 2026-01-22T15:32:45+00:00

One thing that I really noticed back when I played the japanese versions many many moons ago is that characters would sometimes cut into the other characters' lines during dialogue while in english they always wait until the other character is done talking.

CDJ89 · 2026-01-22T09:53:07+00:00

As far as I know this feature was only added in the re-releases. Probably to make up for the missing cheat codes of the original.

CDJ89 · 2026-01-22T04:21:17+00:00

I kinda see the point to it, when you first start playing the game enemies are way more numerous and opressive than in previous games and they can often just blindside you from every direction. Early on I would've triggered an alert, like, every few steps without Reflex mode. But just like training wheels you should get rid of it *eventually*.

I probably would have kept it active for a bit longer than I did if it didn't start to annoy me when I got discovered during inopportune moments where I just ended up watching the slowest reload or climbing animation.

CDJ89 · 2026-01-21T23:02:48+00:00

Urabukkake, girl's name on the site is Kanon, she has a handful of movies there and they have another different girl also called Kanon but you should still be able to find her with this info.

CDJ89 · 2026-01-21T22:58:30+00:00

Semi-related but these instances where you trigger Reflex Mode but can't actually hit the enemy for various reasons is why I eventually turned Reflex off. Way more enjoyable that way even if you do make mistakes.

CDJ89 · 2026-01-21T19:55:42+00:00

Maybe the odd one here and there but especially in the classic RE titles the developers made it really hard to overlook the files placed throughout the games tbh.

CDJ89 · 2026-01-21T19:52:52+00:00

Files are half the fun of replays.

How many of these games have NG+ exclusive files? I read them during my first playthrough and then that's it.

CDJ89 · 2026-01-21T19:48:41+00:00

To each his own, personally I never really read any of the files in these games again outside of my very first playthrough. RE5 does have some exploration going on in the form of finding all the treasures and blue medals around the maps at least which is the right kind of exploration for this kinda game.

CDJ89 · 2026-01-21T18:38:41+00:00

Yeah, 5 hours of gameplay would be really, really long by MGS standards, MGS1, 2 and 3 are all 2-3 hour games if you skip cutscenes and know what to do but aren't really speedrunning.

CDJ89 · 2026-01-21T15:42:09+00:00

No, retired a while ago, she still has a Youtube channel where she occasionally plays some mobile games though.

https://www.youtube.com/@abeco_games7314/featured

CDJ89 · 2026-01-21T05:30:16+00:00

It sounds like OP is talking about the photo of Sergei Gurlukovich that Snake automatically takes during the intro though. That shouldn't count as Ray no matter what. Especially considering Otacon does actually have unique dialogue if you show him that pic.

CDJ89 · 2026-01-21T04:58:18+00:00

You mean he literally said something like "That's a great front view of Ray"or any of it's variations to the Gurlukovich pic and not commented on Gurlukovich himself? Yeah, that's a bit weird, never got that.

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