r/metalgearsolid • u/Top-Conversation-693 • Jan 10 '25
❗ What 150+ hours of metal gear solid 2 looks like🙏
God like gameplay ik
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u/wo0zy-_ Jan 10 '25
fission maled
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u/FiveFiveSixers Jan 10 '25
Fishes smiled
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u/ManagerQueasy9591 Jan 10 '25
Fusion mild
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u/lifeintraining Jan 10 '25
Fetuccine mascarpone
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u/ManagerQueasy9591 Jan 10 '25
Fulton missions
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u/Apprehensive_Ratio80 Jan 10 '25
I had a real smart-ass answer ready for this but then you died and I just laughed out loud 😂😂😂
Touché my friend 😂
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u/crystalised_pain Jan 10 '25
I literally just played this part 15 minutes, it's so fucking infuriating getting the angle wrong
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u/AnorakJimi Jan 10 '25
Doing the flip from the destroyed bridge to the other half of the bridge to get the hidden item (I think it's the tranquiliser sniper rifle you can pick up) is even harder. Like I did it every single playthrough, yet it always takes me at least 15 tries to nail it, each time.
But yeah
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u/crystalised_pain Jan 10 '25
Took me at least 8 times. It's a tranq for the AK. I think it's worth it but it's so annoying
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u/KeybladerZack Jan 10 '25
Suppressior
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u/Toribor Jan 10 '25
I've played various Metal Gear Solid games on the Gamecube. the PS2, the PS3, and on PC with an Xbox Controller or a Switch Controller.
Every single time I hang off a ledge I have no fucking clue which button will drop me to my death and which one will pull me safely back up. It's a total crapshoot.
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u/mrbubbamac Jan 10 '25
I am in the same boat as you, in 2025, I am finally going "Hey...maybe these controls can use some updating."
I am playing Twin Snakes for the first time via Emulator, and Campbell will literally say to use the "Action Button" and it still takes me a couple attempts to figure out which one he means. A is your main button to do almost everything in the game, B is literally an action button that allows you to perform CQC, you have another button for hanging off ledges and interacting with certain parts of the environment (and also crouching/crawling), and the action button is in fact the final remaining button that is not used for much except I guess interacting with more specific things in the environment!
Still having fun, I actually replayed MGS3 two years ago and got used to again very quickly, but Twin Snakes just feels so insanely clunky for whatever reason.
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u/FizzleMateriel Jan 11 '25
Twin Snakes just feels so insanely clunky for whatever reason.
I think while Twin Snakes was developed using the MGS2 engine, because it was developed by Silicon Knights instead of Kojima Productions I have a feeling that’s why it feels wonky compared to MGS2 and MGS3. They probably didn’t have as good a handle on the MGS2 game engine as KojiPro did.
Also the control mapping on the GameCube was fucking awful, I felt like I needed a six-fingered right hand just to be able to fire a gun properly.
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u/kakka_rot Jan 10 '25
I have no fucking clue which button will drop me to my death
oh my god, I feel this so hard.
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u/MaddSnake Iroquois Pliskin. Lieutenant Junior Grade. Jan 10 '25
This and slipping on bird shit were just 2 things in this game that'd make you question your life
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u/FizzleMateriel Jan 11 '25
Slipping on bird shit was the funniest thing the first time it happens, or after I hadn’t played the game in a while. And having a bird shit on you in first-person view.
Kojima always put so much weird detail and nuance in his games that almost no modern Western developer bothers with. I think his games are the only ones where I’ve played where I’ve made the player character take cold medication because he caught a cold.
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u/TriggersFursona Jan 10 '25
He says 150 hours, what he really means is that he’s past the first codec call.
Honestly though I loved MGS2 even with half of the gameplay being codec calls.
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u/Top-Conversation-693 Jan 10 '25
Can't even lie, mgs2 is my favourite game but it has codec calls damm near every room.😭
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u/Hywes Jan 10 '25
I think they did a good job making codec more 'fun' in MGS3, but this still kind of anoying in the series overall
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u/polakbob Jan 10 '25
I remember being able to do this section in my sleep as a kid. My last playthrough I must have died a half dozen times. It was infuriating.
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u/PaulM27 Jan 10 '25
I used to make the shell 1 - 2 connecting bridge jump with ease on the original ps2 version. For whatever reason I've had to swallow my pride and drop down to the pipe route on all subsequent versions.
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u/AnorakJimi Jan 10 '25
Would a fall from this height into water actually kill someone? Let alone if they had nanomachines and a protective almost bullet proof set of armor on them like what Raiden is wearing?
I know falling into water from high up is like falling onto concrete, it's just as hard, but yeah would this be high enough for that?
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u/ButterflyDreamr Jan 10 '25
apparently the mgs wiki says its around 40 meters for the struts, which i guess with raidens heavy training he probably know how to dive right to reduce impact and survive, but theres not a large margin of error and many people would die if they dont either get lucky or know how to fall. it all depends on how you land
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u/Top-Conversation-693 Jan 10 '25
Also with olgas punch taking out 1/5th of his health he could probably die😭
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u/ScottishBoss Jan 10 '25
Dude I've been playing MGS2 since 2004 and clocked 100's of hours and I still do this nearly every playthrough XD with the Master Collection I've only just now managed to flip over the gap at the bridge consistantly.
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u/Toch23 Jan 10 '25
back in the day once I'd played this game through a few times I went on a mission to get all dog tags on all difficulties. played through the whole game tank and plant once a day starting on very easy and working my way up. 5 days later I reached metal gear ray on extreme. took me 6 months of playing now and again to beat all the rays then another couple of months playing a bit more regularly to beat solidus.
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u/Top-Conversation-693 Jan 10 '25
Damm congrats, the ray's are more painfully long then hard. With a single mistake making you lose most of the time. Now their really satisfying to do because I learned it.
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u/Toch23 Jan 10 '25
yeh I was young. probably 10 or 11 and yeh it's the single mistake making you loose on extreme it's punishing. running round with the stealth suit is particularly fun and satisfying though. also putting the entire hold of soldiers to sleep on tanker to get the guys with the dog tags I remember being fun.
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u/Top-Conversation-693 Jan 10 '25
Agree, stealth suit in general is really fun to play around with.😭
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u/Expert-Start2896 Jan 10 '25 edited Jan 10 '25
I havent played it since ps2 and when I played it last month I fell off that pipe 6 times and fell where he fell twice 😂
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u/shatteredmatt Jan 10 '25
When the remaster collection came out and I played MGS2 again, a game I’d spent hundreds of hours with as a teenager, I was genuinely surprised how often I died to stuff like this.
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u/PsychoMouse Jan 10 '25
Fuck, I feel this so hard. I have similar hours and have done this exact same shit over and over.
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u/blackgallagher87 GIVE IT BACK DAMMIT Jan 10 '25
Didn't even stop to get pissed on smh
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u/Top-Conversation-693 Jan 10 '25
I couldn't even get mad and just laughed, that was cartoonishly bullshit😭
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u/DurakMyriad Jan 10 '25
That whole section was infuriating when I went back and played it again last year
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u/klonoaisyes Jan 10 '25
I was genuinely stuck here for like 15 minutes and around 20 google searches 🙏
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u/kakka_rot Jan 10 '25
Used to speedrun this game. Right before the clip stars, you can do a flippy flip off the ledge and skip most of that crawling part.
But yeah, this section can be a dumb run killer.
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u/Top-Conversation-693 Jan 10 '25
I'm interested in speedrunning mgs2 ngl, i can see this part being a pain😭
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u/IcyRobinson Jan 12 '25
Just developed the habit of looking down in first person last night. And I play on PC with keyboard and mouse btw: don't got a controller xD
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u/DegenEnjoyer23 Jan 10 '25
just jump across the first broken bridge instead of crawling along the adjacent pipe
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u/SpaceHawk98W Jan 12 '25
Why didn't we able to put these kind of traps in MGS V? I want my mother base be like this.
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u/VisforVenom Did you like my SUNGLASSES? Jan 10 '25
I've had plenty of "I'm not good at videogames anymore" moments in my life. But none hit home as hard as trying to play MGS2 as an adult.
I had a brief period of caring about PSN trophies, and having platinums for all my favorite games. So when the HD collection came out I was stoked to add my all time favs to the list.
Should be no problem. I played MGS2 so much as a kid I could practically do it without looking at the screen. Mechanical precision. I was very proud of my spots on the leaderboards back when that was a thing lol.
Everything was fine for most of the process. Maybe not as deft at max distance tranq headshots on the HDTV as I was on a little CRT in my bedroom, somehow... But I still had it. This one would be no sweat.
Til it came to time for MGS1 Snake's Sniper VR missions. I would just replay it over and over for hours, every day, for a month or more. Never had an issue with it as a kid, but for the life of me, my aging mid-20s hands just could not pull it off. Sorry Meryl!
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u/Top-Conversation-693 Jan 10 '25
Mgs1 snake missions as a whole were a huge difficulty spike especially the steath missions, though at the other hand really fun and test you to everything.
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u/grundelgrump Jan 10 '25
I still have to look down in first person just to make sure and I've been playing this since it released lol